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“I knew that this was a role that I had to go to crazy extreme lengths,” Haze said in an interview Saturday ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition at the Ven-ice Film Festival.

Haze’s Lester Ballard descends into violence after being kicked off his fam-ily’s land and losing his parents, moving outside the social order into caves where he abandons himself to extreme degradation. McCarthy’s character was inspired by real-life killer and body snatcher Ed Gein, who also was the basis for the Norman Bates character in “Psycho,” and Leatherface of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

To prepare for the Ballard role, Haze said he dropped from 195 pounds to 150 pounds (88 kilograms to 68 kilograms) on the apple-and-fish diet while living in a cabin in the Tennessee mountains, sleeping at times in caves, often without a sleeping bag, until the December temperatures

dropped too low.“I slept in caves many nights with bats

all around. It was crazy,” Haze said. “I let everything go, just hung out with the hill-billies and stayed as isolated as possible.” The only thing he took with him “from society”: an iPod loaded with Eminem music.

Director James Franco said Haze took off for the hills without consulting the director and showed up to shoot not only looking the part — undernourished, ratty beard and disheveled — but acting it. Haze “didn’t really talk to anyone, stayed to him-self, and was like that for the whole shoot,” Franco told reporters.

The director said au-diences may think he “found some maniac in the woods and shot him.

But it is Scott giving the performance of a lifetime.”

Haze said he managed to stay “in the mind-state” while filming, conceding he was “not in this world.” He didn’t check his phone, text messages or even how his beloved Lakers were doing.

“I thought, at the end of the day, we’d have a great movie and James and I would hug each other and say we did it.” Haze said. He hopes people will look back on “Child of God” as film as pivotal as “Taxi Driver,” ‘’which was really shocking back in the day. And we get to say, ‘Hey, we did something special, and I think we did.’”

Haze and Franco, longtime collabora-tors, are part of a clutch of young per-formers in Los Angeles who are not just acting, but writing and directing films and theater.

Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA — Beyonce closed the first day of her husband Jay-Z’s second annual music festival with a 90-minute set that featured hits like “Single Ladies” and “Crazy In Love.”

Beyonce was the headline performer Saturday at the “Budweiser Made In America” festival in Philadelphia at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway that included 50,000 fans. She was excited and energetic as she as sang and danced to songs that satisfied the crowd. She

closed with the pop ballad “Halo.”Deadmau5, Phoenix, Imagine Dragons,

2 Chainz, Emeli Sande, HAIM and oth-ers performed Saturday. Nine Inch Nails, Calvin Harris, Queens of the Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar, Miguel and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will perform Sunday.

‘Child of God’ star slept in caves preparing roleAssociated Press Writer

VENICE, Italy — Scott Haze says he spent three cold months living in the mountains of Tennessee, subsisting on one piece of fish and one apple a day, and sleeping in caves to prepare for the role of deranged killer Lester Ballard in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “Child of God.”

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Actors Scott Haze and James Franco pose for photographers during a photo call to promote the film Child Of God at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival held from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7, in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013.

Beyonce closes first day of Jay-Z’s Philly fest

Singer Beyonce Knowles-Carter walks on the boardwalk while filming a video at Coney Island in New York, August 29, 2013.

REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Obama to seek congressional OK for Syria action

An economist from the War-madewa University, I Wayan Ar-jana, said the MSMEs in Bali only became an imaging object of the politicians in political campaigns. Meanwhile, the problems faced such as the quality of products, market and capital were never resolved until today by the leaders elected by the MSMEs.

“When making a campaign, all social visits to the markets were

filled with sweet promises that they would struggle and promote the MSMEs, but after serving they forget their promises,” complained Arjana in Denpasar.

According to him, the govern-ment had not maximally assisted the MSME entrepreneurs. The government should help the absorp-tion of the products yielded by the MSMEs, so that they could survive and thrive.

He hoped the government could pay attention to the smallest busi-ness people namely the producers of raw materials, producers, products yielded by local entrepreneurs to the distribution to the hands of con-sumers. “The government should not only work behind the desk, but should go down to resolve the prob-lems of local businessmen from the upstream to downstream,” he said.

The Dean of the Faculty of Eco-

nomics, Warmadewa University, I Gusti Ngurah Sanjaya, formerly recognized that Bali government should pay more attention to the MSMEs that so far got minimal at-tention. Such attention was very im-portant in order the MSMEs could have competitiveness. Moreover, the current competition was getting tougher after the enactment of the free trade with some countries.

“Indeed, the government has given the attention, but less maxi-mal. As a result, our MSMEs remain weak in terms of manage-ment in a broad sense. Likewise, the government has not been maximal in handling the MSMEs as a whole such as in terms of its human re-

sources, materials and other capi-tal,” he said.

He said the government should be able to provide favorable busi-ness climate, easy and inexpensive licensing, open markets and others because the contribution of the Bali’s MSME sector to the econo-my was huge. At the moment, the sector absorbed the greatest labor force. Low unemployment rate in Bali was one of the contributions given by the MSME sector.

“The attention of other parties such as investors should also help the MSMEs. So far, they helped the local MSMEs half-heartedly so they ultimately stick around the sector only,” he said. (kmb27)

A man finishing a handicraft product that using shell for accesories in his workshop. A number of lineups judged the leadership of Governor Mangku Pastika over the past five years has not been in favor of the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) So far, the government is considered to only roll out many programs without overseeing the development of the MSMEs ranging from the upstream to downstream to keep them strong.

Five years leadership of Bali’s Governor

MSMEs just made an object of campaign

Bali Post

DENPASAR - A number of lineups judged the leadership of Governor Mangku Pastika over the past five years has not been in favor of the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) So far, the government is considered to only roll out many programs without overseeing the development of the MSMEs ranging from the upstream to downstream to keep them strong.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih

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

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

25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

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

The favehotel Gatot Subroto will soft open on September 6th and bring highly anticipated budget accommodation to the otherwise ex-pensive hotel scene around Mega Kuningan, offering 150 super-clean and stylish guest rooms equipped with LCD TV’s, high quality King Koil beds, individual air conditioners, en-suite bathrooms with stand-ing showers ands complimentary high-speed WiFi.

Given its outstanding location in the heart of the capital, this latest favehotel allows for fast and easy access to Pacific Place, Planet Hol-lywood, Mega Kuningan’s famous wining and dining hotspots, and the multiple corporate headquarters and embassies.

Archipelago International’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Norbert Vas, said: “We are thrilled to be at the heart of Jakarta deliver-ing a great new hotel that is a true alternative to the many expensive offerings in the area. The favehotel group won this year’s “Indonesian Best Economy Hotel Chain Award” and we expect that the favehotel Gatot Subroto will measure up to this reputation, matching this success and emerging as a favourite amongst savy travellers.”

Archipelago Intenational to open Favehotel in Jakarta

IBP JAKArTA – After last May’s opening of the favehotel Ke-

lapa Gading , Archipelago International is now gearing up to open its 6th favehotel in Jakarta in Gatot Subroto near Mega Kuningan.

IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Existence of toilet in Gianyar denot-

ing a tourism region remains to reap a lot of complaints. Even, the results of questionnaires on the toilet sanitation conducted by the Gianyar Tourism Office indicated that 60 percent of respondents expressed their dissatis-faction because the existing toilet was less clean.

The data revealed in the Toilet Cleaning Technique (TPT) training performed by the Gianyar Tourism Office, Friday (Aug 30) indicated there were 300 public toilets in Gianyar. Of that amount, the Gianyar government managed 25 public toilets and only 15 toilets had met the international standards. In 2013, the Gianyar govern-ment allocated budget for toilet repairs and at the moment some repairs were still under progress, said the Head of Gianyar Tourism Office, Anak Agung Ari Brahmanta.

With such toilet conditions, the Gianyar Tourism Office provided train-ing to 198 toilet cleaners throughout

Gianyar County. They were from toilet cleaners in the regional working units (SKPD) of Gianyar County, tourist attractions, public market and the art market, terminals, stadiums and enter-tainment stage.

The training was also given for the readiness in supporting great events like the Miss World and APEC Summit. “Gianyar needs to make an arrange-ment so that the potential tourists are satisfied, come again and recommend Gianyar,” he said.

Meanwhile, the instructor of the training, I Gede Darmawijaya, a lec-turer from the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali, said that based on the study, during the lifetime people used toilet for 2,500 times or were in the toilet for 3 years. At least, 2.6 billion people worldwide did not have access to toilets and 2 million died each year due to diarrhea. Then, 62 percent of the public toilets in Indonesia were consid-ered dirty, and Indonesia ranked 12th out of 18 countries in Asia in the matter of toilet sanitation. (kmb16)

Existence of many broken sidewalks is moderately rea-sonable because local gov-ernment allocates minimal budget for sidewalk repair. In the Regional Budget 2013, the budget allocated for sidewalk only values at IDR 500 million. “The infrastructure develop-ment program initiated by the county government is only high-flown. As evidence, the broken sidewalks have been known, but are not prioritized in the budget,” criticized a member of Commission II of the Tabanan House, Nyoman Wirama Putra, Saturday (Aug 31). Supposedly, said Wirama, the county government did not leave the broken sidewalks to be dormant. Public facility should get top priority. More regrettably, the budget was even allocated for renovation of the Sri Wedari Park dis-mantled by investor.

This Golkar politician also insinuated the other infrastruc-ture that seemed to have been worked on haphazardly like the road pavement without paying attention to quality. “Just have a look at the Apuan, Baturiti. When the road is damaged, it is paved immediately. Then, why is the culvert not addressed first?” criticized the man from Baturiti. According to Wirama, it even wasted the budget. He hoped the incident claiming a fatality of student on the bro-ken sidewalk would be the last incident. In order words, the Tabanan County should seri-ously repair the infrastructure

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Conditions of the Ngurah Rai Air-

port suddenly turned chaotic due to passengers whacked the table because the flight of Lion Air and Wings Air was delayed on Saturday (Aug 31). They could not accept the act of the airlines that did not provide any clear informa-tion related to such delay.

“The flight of Lion Air and Wings Air is chaotic, Sir. Meanwhile, the gate attendant left its duty post so that passengers got angry and whacked the table,” said Faruq, one of the pas-sengers.

Faruq who would go to Malang said the commotion occurred at gate 18 of the domestic departure. The flight supposed to take off at 10:00 a.m. with destination to Surabaya was just departed around 2:00 p.m.

“The delay was without notice. On the airport information screen was not indicated if there was a flight delay. Similarly, the flight to Malang had no confirmation from the airline,” he complained.

The authority of Angkasa Pura (AP) I, when asked for its confirmation, justi-

fied the delayed flight for both airlines. However, the management had not known the cause of the delay that led the passengers to commotion.

“Our officer in the field reported if the Lion Air and Wings Air delayed their flight. However, we have got information regarding the delay of the Lion Air,” said Sherly Yunita, Public Relations Officer of the AP I Ngurah Rai Airport.

She explained the flight of Wings Air to Surabaya was delayed from the flight schedule at 1:50 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Similarly, the flight delay also occurred to the airline flying to Bima from the scheduled flight at 12:40 a.m., and the Lion Air flying to Cengkareng at 3:00 p.m.

“Lion Air has not provided any infor-mation on the causes of the delay. At the moment (Aug 31), it is still handled by the Lion Air. For further details about the cause, I suggest you contacting the Lion Air or Wings Air,” she added.

Meanwhile, until the news was re-ported the airline could not be contacted. The airline staff did not want to answer the calls from media crews. (kmb27)

Toilet sanitation in Gianyar unsatisfactory

Passengers of Lion Air and Wings Air chaotic

IBP/File

The broken sidewalk that killed a teenager in Tabanan

Criticized by the House, Tabanan neglects many broken sidewalks Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The death of a vocational school student due to falling into a broken sidewalk contin-ues to reap criticism. Even, the Tabanan House criticized the Tabanan government that neglected a lot of broken sidewalks. Many broken sidewalks are encountered at some points in the town of Tabanan. More regrettably, the location is precisely at the center of people’s activity. One of them is around the Alit Saputra Square at Dangin Carik and some corners of the town.

pursuant to priority.Similar criticism was re-

vealed by a member of the Budgetary Board (Banggar) of the Tabanan House, Ketut Loka Antara. This Golkar politician accused, other than having minimal budget, the infrastructure construction in Tabanan was often sluggish. Even, i t claimed casualty. “Later, we will sharpen it again in the budgetary meeting, es-pecially about the sidewalk,” criticized Loka. The man from Bantas village, East Selama-deg, also regretted the many broken sidewalks seemed to be neglected.

Up to Saturday afternoon, the Tabanan Public Works in charge of the sidewalk infra-structure could not be asked for

its confirmation. Additionally, the Division Head of Settle-ment of the Tabanan Public Works, Nyoman Sudana, could not be contacted, either. When contacting his cell phone, it was not replied.

As reported previously, a tourism vocational school stu-dent died from plunging into the Pangkung River at Tegal Belodan hamlet, Dauh Peken village, Tabanan, on Thursday night (Aug 29) because the a broken sidewalk was neglect-ed. The fateful student was Gusti Putu Agung Pratama, 14, a local resident. The victim was found dead just below the bridge. Allegedly, the victim hit the base of the cliff. Since he did not get immediate help, he finally died. (kmb30)

3Monday, September 2, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLifestyle Monday, September 2, 2013

But President Jose Mujica says Uruguay’s long experience at the center of the nation’s liquor business makes it more than capable of domi-nating another substance: marijuana.

Final Senate approval of Uruguay’s marijuana law is expected by late September, and the government plans to license growers, sellers and users as quickly as possible thereafter to protect them from criminal drug traffickers, ruling party Sen. Lucia Topolansky, who is also Uruguay’s first lady, told The Associated Press in an interview.

The law specifically creates a legal marijuana monopoly, making the gov-ernment alone responsible for importing, producing, obtaining, storing, commer-cializing, and distributing a drug still

considered illegal around the world.A state entity will license producers

and control marijuana’s distribution and sale through the same neighbor-hood pharmacies that sell prescription medicines and toothpaste. Purchases by licensed users will be limited to 40 grams (1.4 ounces) a month. Pot-growing cooperatives will be encour-aged, using government-approved seeds, and people registered with the state will be able to grow up to six plants at home for personal use, as long as they harvest no more than 480 grams (17 ounces) a year.

The project passed the House by just one vote, and while the ruling Broad Front coalition has an easier majority in the Senate, Mujica has

been campaigning actively for its passage, reminding Uruguayans that their government has been controlling the market for addictive substances ever since the beginning of the 20th century, when President Jose Batlle y Ordonez wanted the state to monopo-lize alcohol production.

“Don Jose Batlle y Ordonez had courage,” Mujica said in one of his folksy nationwide radio talks, which sound much like the “fireside chats” that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used to broadcast to Ameri-cans. “The state grabbed it and made a monopoly of alcohol, because it couldn’t stop the booze, and he said “at least don’t poison the people — the booze should be good.”


LOS ANGELES — When Char-lie Annenberg adopted an abandoned golden retriever named Lucky, a new breed of philanthropy was born. Lucky was 4 in 2001 when he teamed up with Annenberg, scion to a wealthy family known for giving money away.

The 46-year-old Annenberg incor-porated Lucky into all his projects. They were on the road more than they were home as they traveled around making documentaries about people who were making a difference.

Lucky became Annenberg’s side-kick and soul mate and would eventu-ally inspire donations to dog-focused causes from the as much as $8 million the philanthropist controls annually.

Whether it was a chef at The White House or coal miners 100 feet (30 meters) underground in West Virginia, Lucky made documentary interviews easy because he made everyone so comfortable. In each small town and big city, the man and dog would make unannounced stops at a retirement home, where Lucky would steal the show.

The workload for both grew with explore.org. Using state-of-the-art cameras, Annenberg brought wildlife (bears and bees and beluga whales) to stunning life for millions of web

watchers. He and Lucky traveled to every installation in North America and everywhere they went, Annen-berg filmed Lucky interacting with people and places.

At the Delta Blues Museum in Mississippi, Annenberg cut a har-monica-backed, spontaneous free-style jazz tribute to Lucky. “It doesn’t matter what color your skin, man or woman, fat or thin. He loves them all, every day. His name is Lucky and he’s my friend.”

In 2010, Annenberg decided to use his Lucky photos and films for a travel journal on Facebook, telling the story of their trips.

Annenberg called the journal Dog Bless You, he said, because several years earlier Lucky had befriended a homeless man in San Francisco. They shared time and a sandwich with the man. As they were leaving, the man said: “Dog bless you.”

The Facebook page was all about Lucky, but it captured the fervor for pets that was growing around the country. “Today we have an audi-ence of 505,000 fans,” said Courtney Johnson, explore.org’s community relations manager.

When an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011, killing more than 18,000 people, Annenberg used Dog Bless You to send six search dogs.


LONDON — A green Daim-ler owned and driven by Queen Elizabeth II has been sold at

auct ion for 40,500 pounds ($62,755.)

Auction house Historics said the queen used the vehicle from 2001 to 2004 to travel around

Windsor Castle and to go to and from Buckingham Palace. It says the monarch at times drove the car herself, and sometimes was driven in it.

The auction house says the car comes with several modifica-tions, including an adapted arm rest with a sliding space designed to hold the queen’s handbag. It

added that the interior features lambs’ wool rugs and other extra fittings. The car was sold to an unnamed buyer in Surrey, near London, on Saturday.

Regulate Pot? Uruguay’s been there, with whiskyAssociated Press Writer

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — The government of Uruguay makes Scotch whisky. It also makes and sells rum, vodka and cognac, and has done so for nearly a century. Many people consider this sideline of the state to be an historical accident — a wasteful and even eccentric contradiction.

AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico

In this Aug. 21, 2013 photo, a man sits with a drink in hand at a downtown bar in Montevideo, Uruguay. The government of Uruguay makes Scotch whisky.

AP Photo/Explore.org

In this 2010 photo provided by Explore.org, philanthropist Charlie Annenberg, left, nuzzles his golden retriever, Lucky, at the Pipeline Beach in Ehukai Beach Park, Haleiwa, Hawaii. For 16 years, Lucky has been his sidekick, soul mate and in-spiration, said Annenberg.

Man, dog join forces for new breed of philanthropy

Royal ride: Queen’s Daimler sells for $63K

Bali PostDENPASAR - The ‘Bali

Community Forum Rejecting Reclamation’ launched an anti-reclamation video, Wednesday (Aug 27). The event was at-tended by various elements of the Indie musicians in Bali. The video launched was held in one of the cafés on Jalan Hayam Wuruk, Denpasar.

Day after day, the reclama-tion was increasingly criticized by Balinese community. The reclamation plan covering 838 hectares of land by the Governor of Bali was rejected in a creative way by the Indie music artists. They made a video and song on the strong desire of the governor that did not respond to the aspira-

tions of Balinese people.The video entitled ‘Bali Re-

jects Reclamation’ uploaded to YouTube social media had got many responses from 19,650 liked viewers. Public had been aware and were not wanted to be deceived by conspiracy of the officials who just wanted to sup-pressed the small community.

According to one of the initiators of the video launch, Jerinx from Superman Is Dead group, it was initially just a song. Then, he got an idea to make the video and disseminate it to the public, he said.

The song, said Jerinx, was sung by vocalist Guna Kupit from Nosstress band group and accompanied by vocalists

from some other Indie bands like Gold Voice, Gede Roby Supriyanto, Made Navicula, Sari Nymphea, Copok The Bullhead, Boby SID, the Jerinx SID and other musicians.

Jerinx added that the song ‘Reject Benoa Bay Reclama-tion’ was a creative way to reject the plan of the governor. “It is not just a matter of recla-mation, but it is also a problem for Bali,” he said.

An excerpt of the song en-titled ‘Bali Rejects Reclama-tion’ narrated “Develop Bali reject reclamation, Love Bali reject reclamation, Develop Bali reject to be deceived.” The public did not want to be deceived again. (dgk)

“So far, there has been no member of the Organda Bali involved to sup-port the needs of the APEC transport. Not only in the APEC, all vehicles need in every major event from the past time to support the activities are brought in from outside. Meanwhile, local businesses in the area can only fill in the additional request,” said the Secretary of the Organda Bali, Yus Suhartana.

Yus claimed to be surprised that the quality of vehicles and service had always been the reason for the event organizer (EO) to bring in vehicles from outside Bali. Actually, in terms of quality, the operational vehicles in Bali were not less good than the vehicles from outside.

“The manufacturer and brand are the same, why is the quality claimed dif-ferent? It’s ridiculous and there should be no reason for the EO not to involve the local transportation company in the event. Moreover, the vehicles brought in to Bali do not give contribution to the government because they pay their taxes outside,” he said.

He hoped the Asia Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation (APEC) Summit 2013 event could involve local en-

Organda Bali does not get “pie” of APEC SummitBali Post

DENPASAR - Next October, the Island of the Gods will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. The event involving 21 APEC economic leaders, about 42 ministers and 1,500 delegates is estimated to require 3,000 transportation means. Unfortunately, the high demand for transport is not felt by the transport entrepreneurs. Those coalesced into the mem-ber of the Land Transportation Organization (Organda) of Bali admitted not to get any portion of pie of the APEC.

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Tourists vacationing in Kuta Beach, Bali Island. The APEC summit meeting that will taking place at Bali on October will not benefited transportation sector in Bali. The high demand for transport is not felt by the transport entrepreneurs. Those coalesced into the member of the Land transportation Organization (Organda) of Bali admitted not to get any portion of pie of the APEC.

trepreneurs, particularly those in the tourism sector. So, the pie would not only benefit the entrepreneurs from outside Bali that were not the natives to Bali.

“Involvement of the local entre-preneurs will encourage the regional economic growth. Do not let all the APEC opportunities be worked on by the entrepreneurs of tourism transport providers from outside without involv-ing the local entrepreneurs,” said the Head of Bali Tourism Transport Asso-ciation (Pawiba), Bagus Soediana.

According to him, so far the Meet-ing, Incentives, Conference and Ex-hibition (MICE) events in Bali were dominantly handled by the entrepre-neurs from outside Bali. As a result, the involvement of local entrepreneurs was considered minimal. “We expect the APEC activities could involve more local businessmen. Hopefully, as the host we could enjoy the pie of the event,” he said.

An economist, Viraguna Bagus Oka, judged the role of Bali as the host of the APEC would indeed be able to lift the image of Bali as a leading tourist destination and MICE destina-tion worth visiting. But, he judged that

economically Bali was not too much benefited directly by the event.

“How many benefits can be ob-tained by local residents from the APEC Summit largely depends on the opportunities given by the policy makers to local residents. There must be a good will of the policy makers by giving the local communities as maximal opportunities as possible from the APEC Summit, not just as a

spectator,” he said.According to him, the local gov-

ernment should be able to make a breakthrough so the activities would not just be concentrated on Southern Badung and positive impacts of the APEC Summit could be evenly en-joyed. “They must be encouraged to the Eastern or Northern Bali by featur-ing local genius of each region. Thus, the participants can see the entire local

genius spreading throughout Bali,” he affirmed.

Earlier, Minister of Trade, Gita Wirjawan, in his visit to BaliTV pledged to use the services of local transportation for the delegates of the APEC to be held on the island. “We’re going to note it (the complaint of Organda Bali—Ed). Utilizing the local businesses will advance the local entrepreneurship,” he said. (kmb27)

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An organization that call ForBali launched a video clip in YouTube recently. The organization oppose the reclamation plan on Benoa Bay because it will be use to business development and will harm environment in Bali.

ForBali launches video on rejection to reclamation

The incident began when the eyewitness and victim of burns, Made Ariani, first entered the room at 1:00 p.m. because Mrs. Englan could not walk so Ariani had to first serve her mother. Previously, Ariani said that Mrs. Englan suf-fered herpes. She cleansed her body and wounds and then replaced the diapers of her mother. Then at 5:00 p.m., she was out of her house to wash hands with warm water and boiled water by electric water heater. Then, Mrs. Ariani served tea and cake for her mother. After feeding, the power suddenly went out, she said.

Ariani thought the outage hap-pened in the central operator. She continued to feed her mother until completing. Such unexpected inci-dent occurred when she came out and saw a great fire was burning her warehouse right in the gro-cery warehouse. Ariani suddenly shocked and came back into the room to rescue her mother by car-rying her out of the alley. Ariani had fallen due to weak legs to hold

his mother.Since the enlarging fire was un-

stoppable, she was helped by local residents around the house to uplift Mrs. Englan. She did not know ex-actly where the fire originated from. She saw the fire suddenly enlarging in the warehouses containing goods such as rice, noodles and coffee. When the fire occurred, she was in the room after washing hands. The incident was estimated to occur after 5:00 p.m.

When the incident occurred, Ariani was only at home with her mother Mrs. Englan. Her child be-ing in the first grade of high school was still attending school and had not come home yet. No one knew where the fire originated from. She had one shop attendant and was in charge of her shop in the market. Ariani was confused and rushed to ask for people around to help bolster Mrs. Englan.

Subdistrict head of Kuta, I Gede Rai Wijaya, was present at the scene. He said with the alacrity of the firefighters along

with the community leaders, including chief of customary village, hamlet chief, headman, customary security task force and all components of Kuta Police, the homeowners in the fire could be saved, he said.

Wijaya added that at that time Ariani was rescuing Mrs. Englan

from the fire. She got minor burns on right hands and on the feet. Therefore, she was rushed by local community to Graha Asih Hospital to get treatment for her burns. It was the mutual help made by local people. The scene belonged to the territory of Temacun hamlet, Kuta village, Kuta subdistrict. Dozens

of firefighters were employed to put out the fire. The fire trucks were brought in from the Angkasa Pura, the Ngurah Rai International Airport, the Badung Fire Brigade and the Denpasar Fire Brigade. The fire could finally be extinguished by firefighters around two hours later, he said. (dgk)

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With Navy ships on standby in the Mediterranean Sea ready to launch their cruise missiles, Obama said he had decided the United States should take military action and that he believes that as commander in chief, he has “the authority to carry out this military action without spe-cific congressional authorization.”

At the same time, he said, “I know that the country will be stronger if we take this course and our actions will be even more effective.” His remarks were televised live in the United States as well as on Syrian state television with translation.

Congress is scheduled to return from a summer vacation on Sept.

9, and in anticipation of the coming debate, Obama challenged lawmak-ers to consider “what message will we send if a dictator can gas hun-dreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price.”

The president didn’t say so, but his strategy carries enormous risks to his and the nation’s credibility, which the administration has argued forcefully is on the line in Syria. Obama long ago said the use of chemical weapons was a “red line” that Assad would not be allowed to cross with impunity.

Nor would the White House say what options would still be open to the president if he fails to win the backing

of the House and Senate for the mili-tary measures he has threatened.

Only this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a humiliating defeat when the House of Commons refused to support his call for military action against Syria.

Halfway around the world, Syri-ans awoke Saturday to state television broadcasts of tanks, planes and other weapons of war, and troops training, all to a soundtrack of martial music. Assad’s government blames rebels in the Aug. 21 attack, and has threatened retaliation if it is attacked.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he was appealing to a Nobel Peace laureate rather than to a president, urged Obama to reconsider. A group that monitors casualties in the long Syrian civil war challenged the United States to substantiate its claim that 1,429 died in a chemical weapons attack, including more than 400 children.


CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made his final major campaign pitch to revive his Labor Party’s chances at elections this week, promising tax breaks for small businesses and more work for lo-cal contractors on infrastructure projects if his government is re-elected for a third term.

Rudd officially launched his center-left party’s campaign in his hometown of Brisbane on Sunday. It is the capital of Queensland, a battle-ground state for swing seats that will decide the election Sept. 7.

Rudd - who was dumped as prime minister by his own gov-ernment colleagues in 2010, only to regain the top job in a similar leadership wrangle in June - dis-missed opinion polls that show opposition leader Tony Abbott’s conservative coalition is headed for a clear victory.

“I’ve been in tougher spots than this and have come from behind before,” Rudd told his audience of party faithful. “For those who say the fight is up, I say: ‘You haven’t seen anything yet,’” he added.

The opposition has framed the election as a referendum on the carbon tax paid by Australia’s worst greenhouse-gas polluters, which Abbot has promised to abolish.

Rudd’s government argues the election is about the “wrong priorities” a conservative govern-

ment would implement, includ-ing a policy of paying mothers up to 75,000 Australian dollars ($67,000) for six months’ ma-ternity leave regardless of how wealthy they are.

Labor has ruled for almost six years under the leaderships of Rudd and the deputy who replaced him for three years, Julia Gillard. He said the end of an Australian mining boom, bankrolled by China, demands new policies that only Labor can provide to diversify the slowing economy.

Among election promises an-nounced Sunday, Rudd said a Labor government would increase tax deductions that 3.2 million small businesses could claim on equipment investment. The pledge would cost the government AU$200 million over four years in lost tax revenue. The government would also create between AU$156 million and AU$624 million in ad-ditional work for Australian indus-try a year by legislating to ensure that infrastructure projects worth more than AU$300 million engage more local contractors.

The government is under fire over debt left created by stimulus spending that kept Australia out of recession during the global economic crisis. The government’s efforts to deliver a surplus budget have been frustrated by the Chi-nese industrial slowdown, which has hurt the mining sector, slow-ing the economy and dampening company tax revenues.


BEIJING - At least 15 people were killed Saturday after liquid ammonia leaked from a refrigeration unit at a cold storage plant in China’s financial hub of Shanghai, the local

government said.Twenty-five people were injured in the

accident, which happened at a plant in the Baoshan district of the east coast city, the Shanghai government Information Office said. Five of the injured were in serious

condition.The government identified the plant as

Weng’s Cold Storage Industrial Co. Ltd., but gave no further details. The cause of the leak was not immediately known and investigations led by the city’s work safety

bureau were under way, it said.The Information Office said an environ-

mental monitoring station in the district did not detect any negative impact from the leak. Industrial accidents are common in China due to lax safety and building standards.

Liquid ammonia leak kills 15 people in Shanghai

AP Photo/Lukas Coch, PoolPrime Minister Kevin Rudd, right, shakes hands with former Prime Minister Bob Hawke during the Australian Labor Party campaign launch in Brisbane, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013.

Australian PM makes final major campaign pitch

AP Photo/Charles DharapakPresident Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement about the crisis in Syria in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013.

Obama to seek congressional OK for Syria actionAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Short on support at home and allies abroad, President Barack Obama unexpectedly stepped back from a missile attack against Syria on Saturday and instead asked Congress to support a strike punishing Bashar Assad’s regime for the alleged use of chemical weapons.

ACTIvITIeS of the Miss World will be held in Indonesia precisely in Nusa Dua, Bali, on September 8, 2013. Such international event is expected to become the promotion of culture, since Bali has a natural beauty, hospitality of its people and cultural preservation becoming a tourist attraction.

“We expect the appearance of Miss World participants can be adjusted to Balinese cul-ture such as in the matter of beach fashion by wearing Balinese sarong,” said the Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, while receiving the Organizing Committee of the Miss World, Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, Tuesday (Jun 25).

Regent Gde Agung said that aside from serving as a tourism promotion event, the Miss World was also a part of the Meet-ing, Incentive, Conference, and Exhibition (MICE) tourism. “On that account, the Ba-dung County government strongly supports the Miss World event,” he said.

Badung government and the society were very dependent on tourism sector. Of course, of the Badung regional budget worth IDR 2.8 trillion this year, with the regionally generated revenue (PAD) valued at IDR 1.8 trillion, as much as IDR 2.3 trillion sourced

from the hotel and restaurant tax. “Tourism has provided such a great contribution to the Badung revenue,” he added.

Meanwhile, Adjie S. Soeratmadjie said that Miss World would be followed by 142 countries including Indonesia as the host. The participants began arriving on Sep-tember 2-5, staying at Bali Nirwana Resort (BNR) Tabanan. On September 6, the Miss World participants would move to Westin Resort and then on September 7-8 all the participants would attend a golf tournament at the BNR, while the opening ceremony would be held on September 8 night.

Miss World participants would stay in Bali until September 14 and continue to Yogyakarta for visiting Borobudur and Yogyakarta Palace. For the selection, there would be some assessments conducted as social concerns of the participants in their respective countries, skill contest in the field of sports and beach fashion. “In this beach fashion, we oblige the participants to put on Balinese sarong, so that it denies if the event is synonymous with the use of beach bikini,” he said while adding that the event would be broadcast live and relayed by 140 countries.

Gianyar (Bali Post)—

To anticipate the occurrence of subsequent victims in the case of poisoning that afflicted dozens of children at the Bali Global Foun-dation, the Gianyar Health Office opened a health post in the Bali Global Foundation on Jalan Raya Mas, Ubud. The health post involved a team of the Public Community Health and the Matra health unit. The post is also equipped with ambulance from the Matra unit of the Gianyar Health Office.

Based on the observation on Friday morning (Aug 30), the situation at the Bali Global Foundation looked normal. The ash-ram children of the Bali Global Foundation attending the Bali Global tourism vocational school learning activities seemed to run as usual. At the hospital, some poisoned stu-dents had been let go home after an observa-tion. Only two students were allowed to go home on Friday around 10:00 a.m.

Meanwhile, the Gianyar Health Office taking the sample of some foods, water and others were still awaiting the results of the laboratory in Denpasar. The Head of Gianyar Health Office, Ida Ayu Cahyani, could not ensure when the examination results could be presented as remaining

under examination in laboratory.The Head of Gianyar Education Agency,

Dewa Alit Mudiarta, said that after the incident the management of (SMK) Bali Global tourism vocational school had been asked for the information on the existence of the school.

According to the Principal, Ida Ayu Putri Purnadewi, her school was established in 2008 in accordance with the decree of oper-ation. “Further, the Agency will come down to check the location,” she explained.

As reported previously, the Emergency Unit of Sanjiwani Hospital, Gianyar, was made panic on Thursday night (Aug 29) by the arrival of dozens of children from the Bali Global Ash-ram getting nausea and dizzy alleged to have been caused by food poisoning. Meanwhile, some others were in normal condition but cry-ing and screaming hysterically.

A number of ambulances were back and forth from the student ashram of the Bali Global Foundation to hospital around 8:30 p.m., to convey the students. A total of 37 people got medical treatment during two days of the incident. The Gianyar Health Office also had to go down to location to investigate and take some samples of the food and water in the ashram. (kmb16)

Groceries warehouse in Kuta catches fireMangupura (Bali Post)—

A fire occurred on the back of the Kuta Market Unit I, Kuta subdistrict, Badung County, Friday (Aug 30). Precisely, it afflicted one of the grocery warehouses owned by Ni Made Ariani, 47, hav-ing a profession as a grocery trader in Kuta Market. She stayed at home with her mother Mrs. englan, 75. The fire incident against the warehouse occurred at 5:00 p.m. It caused traffic congestion around the road section to Kuta and surrounding areas.

IBP/FileThe firefighter is trying to put out the fire which happen in Kuta

Miss World 2013Beach Fashion Featuring Balinese Sarong

Anticipation of poisoning continues, Health Office opens a post

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GENEVA - As Roberto Azevedo takes the helm of the World Trade Organiza-tion Sunday, observers say he must move swiftly to revive deadlocked trade talks and restore confidence in the body.

“The new director general faces a big job. He needs to move rather quickly and assertively. He must be bold,” Sergio Marchi, Canada’s former trade minister and WTO ambassador, told AFP.

Brazilian career diplomat Azevedo replaces Frenchman Pascal Lamy, who spent eight years at the head of the or-ganisation that sets the rules for global commerce.

Reached by AFP three days before the handover, Azevedo said he would not be talking to reporters before he heads to St Petersburg next week for a G20 summit.

Lamy meanwhile told Swiss public radio last week that he planned to return home to Normandy in northern France on his first day off the job and “take the time to think.”

It’s understandable that the 66-year-old might need to catch his breath: he says he has logged some 450,000 kilometres (280,000 miles) of travel on average each year as head of the WTO -- equivalent to 10 trips around the world -- in his bid to bring the world’s decision makers to the table and unlock stalled global trade talks.

Lamy, a former European Union trade commissioner, has overseen a vast expan-sion of the world trade body to 159 mem-ber countries -- 11 more than eight years ago, with Russia a notable addition.

And it was under his leadership that the organisation was granted the right to take part in G20 summits.

However, little progress has been made towards reviving the so-called “Doha Round” of talks, launched in 2001 to craft a global accord on opening markets and removing trade barriers such as subsidies, excessive taxes and regulations, in order to harness international commerce to develop poorer economies.

But differences over the give and take needed have fuelled clashes notably be-tween China, the European Union, India and the United States, and left the talks stalled for years, leading many countries to shift focus to bilateral and regional deals.

“Not much to show for his eight years, unfortunately,” Marchi said, lamenting that “the institution’s credibility has taken a heavy hit.”

At the same time, global trade has shifted over the past eight years to reflect the growing importance of developing economies.

The official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 51.0 last month from 50.3 in July, according to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The index tracks manufacturing activity in China’s factories and workshops and is a closely watched gauge of the health of the economy. A reading below 50 indicates contraction, while anything above signals expansion.

The PMI strengthened for the second straight month and comes as other recent data has spurred optimism a slowdown in the economy may have been stemmed.

Zhao Qinghe, a statistician with the NBS, said in a report on the bureau’s website that the result marked the highest this year and “shows that China’s manufacturing industry

as a force for economic development has strengthened to some extent and makes ob-vious that a return to corporate stability has quickened further”.

In July, generally upbeat economic data, including a jump in industrial production to a five-month high, helped spur optimism that China’s economic weakness may have hit bottom. And British banking giant HSBC said last month that the initial reading of its PMI survey for August came in at 50.1, re-bounding from an 11-month low and marking the first time since April the indicator had expanded.

HSBC is due to release its closely watched final PMI index for August on Monday.

The first half of this year saw a spike in analyst concerns about China’s economy

after an expected rebound from the worst growth performance in 13 years failed to materialise.

China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7.8 percent in 2012, the weakest result since 1999. Growth in the first quarter of this year dipped to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in the final three months of last year and slowed further to 7.5 percent in the three months through June.

ANZ bank economists Liu Li-Gang and Zhou Hao said in a report that the August PMI figure shows China’s “growth momentum has accelerated thanks to faster implementation of the fiscal programme and ‘mini stimulus’ initiated by the new government”.

Authorities have been loathe to introduce large-scale stimulus measures such as the four trillion yuan ($650 billion) package thrown at the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but in late July did announce some steps to boost growth, such as reducing taxes on small companies and encouraging railway development.

Azevedo takes WTO helm Trade dead-lock awaits

AP PhotoAn investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 in Shanghai, China. China’s manufacturing activity strengthened in August, official figures showed Sunday, the latest data to suggest that the world’s second-largest economy is picking up steam after two quarters of slower growth.

China data shows economy picking up momentumAgence France-Presse

BEIJING - China’s manufacturing activity strengthened in August, official figures showed Sunday, the latest data to suggest that the world’s second-largest economy is picking up steam after two quarters of slower growth.

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DENPASAR - A second UK visa application centre has opened in Indonesia, in Bali. British Am-bassador Mark Canning joined his Australian and New Zealand counterparts to officially open a new shared visa application centre in Bali.

The new facility means custom-ers from Bali and surrounding areas, applying for a UK visa, no longer have to travel to Jakarta to lodge their UK Visa application and is in response to continued growth in tourism and business visitor demand.

The initiative is part of the UK’s commitment to enhance the cus-tomer experience of applying for a UK visa in Indonesia and follows the introduction of a Priority Visa Service for eligible visitors in 2012 which has proved very popular with customers.

A growing number of Indone-sians are choosing to visit, study and do business in the UK. In 2012 we received over 37,000 visa ap-plications from Indonesians, a 6% increase on 2011 and 27% increase on 2010. The new visa application centre in Bali will help cater for this increase in demand.

British Ambassador, Mark Can-ning said the new Bali visa applica-tion centre reflects the increasing strength of the relationship between Indonesia and the UK. “We wel-come the growing interest from Indonesia in the UK as a destination for travel, business and study, and I am very pleased to open this new visa application centre to help sup-port this growth,” he explained.

The new centre will be a more convenient and accessible service to those in Bali and the surround-ing region and will make the start of their journey to the UK an easier one. He hope that it will lead to an increase in visitors to the UK from the Bali region.

The new visa application centre is a Five Country Conference (FCC) initiative under an agreement to share a global network of visa ap-plication centres and will be run by the UK’s commercial partner in Asia Pacific, VFS Global.

The use of shared visa applica-tion facilities with 5CC partners aims to improve services for cli-ents of each country and achieve greater efficiencies through shared infrastructure and staffing. The new visa application centre is located at Benoa Square. (kmb18)

Lindsay Sandiford now only has two more chances to avoid execution, a judicial review of the top court’s decision or a presidential pardon. Death row convicts in Indonesia rarely have their sentences reduced.

The 57-year-old was sentenced to death in January after a large stash of cocaine was found in her suitcase as she arrived on a flight from Bangkok in May last year . Prosecutors had recommended 15 years’ imprisonment.

Police said she was at the centre of a drugs-importing ring involving three other Britons. Sandiford said she was forced to transport the drugs to protect her children whose safety was at stake.

At a closed hearing at the Supreme Court in Jakarta on Thursday, a three-judge panel rejected Sandiford’s appeal, said the panel’s chief judge Artidjo Alkostar.

“Her appeal has been rejected,” he said in a text message after the closed hearing. “The decision is unanimous.”

He said the judges agreed with the decision taken by the Denpasar district court in Bali, which sentenced her to death, and the island’s high court, which rejected her first appeal.

Most people sentenced to death for drugs offences fail to have their sentences reduced on appeal. They face a long wait in jail before being taken to a remote, undisclosed location at night and executed by firing squad.

Some have succeeded, such as Scott Rush, a member of the Australian drug smuggling gang known as the “Bali Nine”. His death sentence was reduced to life after a judicial review by the Supreme Court in 2011.

And last year President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pardoned two Indonesians con-victed of drug smuggling, reducing their death sentences to life in prison.

Britain has previously raised concerns about Sandiford’s treatment in the island’s notorious Kerobokan jail, alleging in papers submitted to Denpasar district court that officials threatened

her with a gun and deprived her of sleep.When they handed down the death sentence,

the Bali court rejected arguments she was transporting the 4.79 kilos (10.6 pounds) of cocaine to protect her children.

It noted she had not admitted her crime and ruled she had damaged Indonesia’s hardline stance on drugs as well as Bali’s reputation as a tourism destination. Three other Britons arrested in connection with the case received lighter sentences.

Julian Ponder was sentenced in January to six years in jail after being found guilty of pos-sessing 23.04 grams (0.8 ounces) of cocaine with a street value of $6,000, found in the bedroom of his luxury Bali villa.

He was arrested after receiving a package from Sandiford in a police sting mounted after she was caught. Rachel Dougall was sentenced to 12 months for failing to report Sandiford’s crime. Paul Beales received four years for possession of 3.6 grams of hashish but was cleared of drug trafficking. They were sentenced in December.

Two members of the “Bali Nine” who were arrested in 2005 are currently on death row, while the seven others face lengthy jail terms. A Frenchman has also been on death row since May 2007 for drug trafficking.

UK visa application centre opens in Bali

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, FileLindsay Sandiford

Top court rejects Bali death-row Briton’s appealAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A British grandmother sentenced to death for trafficking drugs worth $2.4 million into the resort island of Bali moved a step nearer the firing squad Thursday after Indonesia’s top court rejected her appeal.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s religious affairs minister has called for the Miss World beauty pageant to be cancelled, as opposition in the Muslim-majority country mounts the week before the contest opens in Bali.

Suryadharma Ali said that the or-ganisers should follow the advice of the nation’s top Islamic clerical body, which last week called for the contest to be scrapped even after organisers agreed to axe the bikini round.

“The Indonesian Ulema Council has expressed strong opposition to Miss World because it doesn’t fit with Islamic teachings that say Muslim women should cover immodest parts of their bodies,” the minister said in a statement late Thursday.

The minister is the first government official to publicly voice opposition to the pageant, dealing a fresh blow to the Britain-based organisers.

His statement came the same day a commissioner from the country’s Na-tional Human Rights Commission said he opposed an event that “put women’s bodies on display”.

The local organisers were not fazed by the minister’s comments however, saying the issue was not his domain and that “the show must go on”.

“This is not an Islamic country

and this event is an issue of culture, not religion,” Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, corporate secretary of broadcaster and local organiser RCTI, told AFP, add-ing several other ministers supported Miss World.

While Indonesia is a Muslim-major-ity nation, its constitution is not Islamic and recognises several religions.

The organisers revealed in June that the famed bikini round was be-ing axed for the pageant in Indonesia in a bid to avoid causing offence, and contestants would instead wear Bali-nese sarongs.

Nevertheless, hardline group Is-lamic Defenders Front has not been appeased and still plans to hold protests on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, where the pageant’s final will be held on September 28.

The competition opens on Septem-ber 8 in Bali, a Hindu-majority island known for its many beaches where female tourists from around the world sunbathe in skimpy bikinis with few problems.

Hardline groups in Indonesia have forced the cancellation of events deemed “un-Islamic” in the past.

Last year pop star Lady Gaga pulled out of the Indonesian leg of her tour af-ter hardliners threatened to burn down the venue and criticised her for wearing only “a bra and panties”.

Yudhoyono’s visit to Ka-zakhstan is on invitation of Pres ident Nursul tan Naz-arbayev, and it is a return visit of one made earlier to the country by Nazarbayev.

The two presidents will discuss bilateral issues includ-ing trade and investment, food and energy security, cultural and education cooperation, presidential spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said earlier.

During Yudhoyono’s stay in Astana, the capital of Ka-zakhstan, the two countries will sign five memorandums of understanding on economic co-operation, and cooperation in battling terrorism and money laundering, culture and educa-tion and diplomat training.

Yudhoyono is also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister

Serik Akhmetov and Kazakhs business leaders.

From Kazakhstan, Yud-hoyono and his entourage will proceed to Poland at the invitation of Polish President Bronis¿aw Komorowski.

The visit to Poland will be the third by Indonesian presi-dents to that country with the first by President Soekarno in 1959 and the second by Presi-dent Megawati in 2003.

During his stay in Poland Yudhoyono will hold talks with his Polish counterpart, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and Senate Chairman Bogdan Borusewicz.

He will discuss bilateral issues with the Polish leaders including cooperation in trade and investment in the mining sector, energy, defense and

security issues. The two countries will sign

memorandums of understand-ing on cooperation in a number of sectors including fishery, agriculture, trade, investment, mining and education.

The two countries will also sign an agreement on visa free visits for holders of official and diplomat passports be-tween the two countries.

His itinerary will end in Russia where he will attend the 8th summit meeting of G-20 in St. Petersburg.

The G-20 summit meeting will discuss a number of issues -- financial stability, sustain-able development for all, jobs, investment and trade.

The Indonesian president is expected to arrive back on Sept 7.


JAKARTA - A new species of shark that “walks” along the seabed using its fins as tiny legs has been discovered in eastern Indonesia, an environmental group said Friday.

The brown and white bamboo shark pushes itself along the ocean floor as it forages for small fish and crustaceans at night, said Conserva-tion International, whose scientists were involved in its discovery.

The shark, which grows to a maximum length of just 80 centi-metres (30 inches) and is harmless to humans, was discovered off Hal-mahera, one of the Maluku Islands that lie west of New Guinea.

Bamboo sharks, also known as longtail carpet sharks, are relatively small compared to their larger cous-ins, with the largest adult reaching only about 120 centimetres (47 inches) in length.

They have unusually long tails

that are bigger than the rest of their bodies and are found in tropical waters around Indonesia, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Conservation International said the discovery of the shark, which was first disclosed in the Inter-national Journal of Ichthyology, “should help draw diver interest to this mega-diverse but largely undis-covered region”.

Ketut Sarjana Putra, Indonesia country director for the group, said the Hemiscyllium halmahera shark could “serve as an excellent ambas-sador to call public attention to the fact that most sharks are harmless to humans and are worthy of our conservation attention”.

Conservation International, whose scientists discovered the shark along with colleagues from the Western Australian Museum, added it came at a time when Indonesia was increas-ing its efforts to protect shark and ray species.

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Indonesian job seekers gather during a job fair in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Indonesia’s central bank hiked interest rates for the third time in three months at an unscheduled meeting to calm investors after a plunge in the rupiah and stocks. Indonesia has been particularly badly hit with investors also fretting about its domestic problems, such as a widening current account deficit, slowing growth and high inflation.

President Yudhoyono to attend G-20 meetingAntara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Mrs Yudhoyono will leave here on Sunday for a week long tour of East Europe that will bring him to Kazakhstan, Poland and Russia.

‘Walking’ shark discovered in Indonesia

Religious Affairs Minister calls for Miss World to be cancelled

Ocean simulations showed that the plume of radioactive cesium-137 released by the Fukushima di-saster in 2011 could begin flowing into U.S. coastal waters starting in early 2014 and peak in 2016. Luckily, two ocean currents off the eastern coast of Japan — the Kuroshio Current and the Kurosh-io Extension — would have dilut-ed the radioactive material so that its concentration fell well below the World Health Organization’s safety levels within four months of the Fukushima incident. But it could have been a different story if nuclear disaster struck on the other side of Japan.

“The environmental impact could have been worse if the contaminated water would have been released in another oceanic

environment in which the cir-culation was less energetic and turbulent,” said Vincent Rossi, an oceanographer and postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems in Spain.

Fukushima’s radioactive water release has taken its time journey-ing across the Pacific. By com-parison, atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima plant began reaching the U.S. West Coast within just days of the disaster back in 2011.

Tracking radioactivity’s path

The radioactive plume has three different sources: radioac-tive particles falling out from the

atmosphere into the ocean, con-taminated water directly released from the plant, and water that became contaminated by leach-ing radioactive particles from tainted soil.

The release of cesium-137 from Fukushima in Japan’s more turbulent eastern currents means the radioactive material is diluted to the point of posing little threat to humans by the time it leaves Japan’s coastal waters. Rossi worked with former colleagues at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Australia to simu-late the spread of Fukushima’s radioactivity in the oceans — a study detailed in the October issue of the journal Deep-Sea Research Part 1.


PRAGUE - An official says a passenger train in eastern Czech Re-public smashed into a herd of cattle, killing 17 of them. No people were injured. Martin Drapal, spokesman for Czech Rail Safety Inspection, says the train heading from the town of Krnov to the city of Olomouc hit the animals two hours before midnight

on Friday.The damage to the train is esti-

mated at about $5,000. Drapal said in a statement Saturday that the train track had to be closed for almost five hours after the incident.

Trains in the country collide with animals from time to time but such a massive crash is exceptional. Au-thorities are investigating why the cows were on the track.


HAVANA - The Florida Strait, a dangerous stretch of sea that is home to sharks, jellyfish, fickle currents and sudden, violent storms, has stubbornly resisted Diana Nyad’s repeated at-tempts to conquer it.

Yet the Florida-raised endurance athlete was back in the water once again Saturday, launching her fourth bid in three years to become the first person to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys without a protective shark cage.

“I admit there’s an ego rush,” Nyad said. “If I - three days from now, four days from now - am still somehow bringing the arms up and I see the shore ... I am going to have a feeling that no one yet on this planet has ever had.”

She expects to take about 80 hours to arrive somewhere between Key West and Marathon, more than 110 miles (177 kilometers) from Havana.

Nyad, who recently turned 64, tried three times in 2011 and 2012. Her last attempt was cut short amid boat trouble, storms, unfavorable currents and box jellyfish stings that left her face puffy and swollen.

She says this will be her final try. She has vowed not to come back after previous defeats, but likened those statements to the rash promises of a heartbroken spouse.

“Every person who’s married, the day after they get the divorce they say, Never again!” Nyad said. “But you need to heal, your heart needs to heal, and pretty soon not all men are bad again.”

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In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 aerial photo, workers stand on storage tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan.


A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, according to a new study. The long journey of the radioactive particles could help researchers better understand how the ocean’s currents circulate around the world.

Czech train collides with cows, killing 17 of them

Nyad tries daunting Cuba-Florida swim again


YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — For the first time since a wildfire broke out around Yosemite National Park, dense smoke has begun to obscure the region’s majestic mountain views, park of-ficials say.

The smoke from the two-week-old fire that shrouded parts of Yosemite Valley Saturday also hampered fire-fighting efforts.

“I’m in Yosemite Valley right now, and I cannot see the cliffs around me,” spokeswoman Kari Cobb said. “The wind has shifted and smoke is impacting the entire park. We have been lucky until now.”

All the campgrounds in the Valley still were full as of Saturday morning, despite the thick blanket and burning smell that permeated the area and was expected to linger until at least Monday, she said.

As a health precaution, visitors were being asked to scale back their outdoor recreation plans and avoid

strenuous activities or even stay indoors.

Meanwhile, firefighting aircraft were grounded most of the morn-ing because of low visibility caused by the smoke, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Mark Healey said. The blaze had scorched 348 square miles of brush, oaks and pines and 11 homes, as of Saturday, an area larger than the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose combined.

Of that total, 94 square miles of wilderness have burned in the northern section of Yosemite, up from 75 square miles a day earlier. The fire was 40 percent contained.

Although containment efforts pro-ceeded on a positive note overnight, officials became concerned Saturday about a 150-acre spot fire that crossed a road and prompted an evacuation order for homes near the west entrance of Yosemite, Healey said. Once planes and water-dropping helicopters were cleared to take off again, the worry lifted some along with the evacuation order.

Wildfire sends dense smoke into Yosemite Valley

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Rarely, if ever, has so much been on the line at a single Olympic meeting. When International Olympic Com-mittee members gather next week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, they will be faced with three decisions that will shape the direction of the Olympic movement for the next decade.

At stake: Choosing the host city of the 2020 Olympics, electing a new IOC president to succeed Jacques Rogge and selecting one sport to add to the 2020 program. The favorites: Tokyo, Thomas Bach

and wrestling.Prime ministers, royalty, sports

stars and celebrities will be part of the election extravaganza at the IOC session. The weeklong meetings will have the flavor of a political carnival replete with last-minute campaign-ing, backstage vote-chasing and round-the-clock lobbying by spin doctors, consultants and strategists.

While most IOC members are primarily interested in the Sept. 10 presidential election, the first big vote comes on Sept. 7 with a secret ballot on the 2020 host city. It’s a three-way contest between Tokyo,

Madrid and Istanbul.All three are repeat candidates:

Istanbul is making its fifth overall bid, Madrid a third straight attempt and Tokyo a second try in a row.

Tokyo has been seen as a slight front-runner, though the leak of radioactive water from the Fu-kushima nuclear plant is causing concern. Madrid — once counted out because of Spain’s economic crisis — has picked up momen-tum recently and now looks like a legitimate challenger. Istanbul has slipped following the anti-govern-ment protests and doping scandals

in Turkey and the escalating war in neighboring Syria.

With each bid facing political, economic or other drawbacks, the winner could be determined not for its positive attributes but for having fewer weaknesses than its rivals.

“There’s no obvious choice,” senior Canadian IOC member Dick Pound told The Associated Press. “Where do you go? None of the three is risk free. Probably somebody ends up backing into it this time.”

Each city offers a different narra-tive. Istanbul would bring the games to a new part of the world, to a pre-

dominantly Muslim country for the first time, to a city linking Europe and Asia. Madrid has most of the venues ready and would spend the least. Tokyo offers safety and reliability at a time of global uncertainty.

In the end, the decision could center on which city offers the least risk. After taking gambles by sending the 2014 Winter Games to Sochi, Russia, and 2016 Olympics to Rio de Janeiro, some members feel it’s time to opt for certainty. Delays in Rio are causing serious concerns and the IOC is eager to avoid more headaches.

Nadal beat Ivan Dodig 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, affirming his favoritism to win this tournament. The second-seeded Spaniard has lost just 21 games across three matches and has faced only five break points, saving each one of them. Federer then emerged on Arthur Ashe Stadium and notched an even more imperious victory, dominating Frenchman Adrian Man-narino in a 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 victory that came in just 81 minutes.

The five games conceded brought Federer’s tournament tally to 21 — the same as Nadal — and the Swiss has spent only 4-1/2 hours on court, making a mockery of fears that his career was on the wane after an early exit at Wimbledon and patchy form since.

“There’s always a lot of pressure coming out here on this court to perform, because you never know if you’re going to play well,” said Federer, who compiled a 34-8 edge in winners, “but tonight was one of those nights.”

The 38th-ranked Dodig beat

Nadal at the hard-court tournament in Montreal two years ago. But Na-dal is looking like the king of hard courts these days, with an 18-match winning streak on the surface.

“I am winning because I am playing well from the baseline and I am making the right decisions in the right moments,” Nadal said. Before they can play each other in the quar-terfinals — in what would be their first ever match at a U.S. Open — Nadal and Federer must negotiate tricky fourth-round matches.

Federer will face Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo, who ended the run of 179th-ranked qualifier Daniel Evans of Britain 7-6 (6), 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, while Nadal will take on Ger-man Phillip Kohlschreiber, who eliminated big-serving American John Isner.

“I don’t look ahead,” Federer said when asked about the loom-ing Nadal clash, “even though I understand the urge of the press to try to go there already. I have gone through that my entire career, peo-

ple talking about our matches even before the tournament started.

“We’re used to it. We know how to handle it. Clearly I think we both hope it’s going to happen this time, for the first time in New York.”

Fourth-seeded David Ferrer needed nearly three hours to down 172nd-ranked qualifier Mikhail Ku-kushkin 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. His next opponent is No. 18-seeded Janko Tipsarevic, who also took four sets to knock off 20-year-old American Jack Sock 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-1, 6-2.

Eighth-seeded Richard Gasquet and No. 10 Milos Raonic set up another fourth-round matchup with victories. The losses by Isner and Sock meant wild card Tim Smyczek was the only American man left in the singles draw.

Unless Smyczek manages to beat Marcel Granollers on Sunday, there will be no Americans in the men’s singles round-of-16; the first time that has ever happened in the U.S. Open, dating back to 1881.

In the women’s draw, second-seeded Victoria Azarenka took 2 hours, 40 minutes to close out Alize Cornet 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-2.

Serving on game point at 5-3 in the second, Azarenka pumped her fist and started walking off the court after the

26th-seeded Cornet hit a backhand into the net. The chair umpire had to get her attention to inform her that the line judge had called Azarenka’s previous shot out — replays showed it landed inside the baseline. The umpire overruled the call, but they

still had to replay the point.“Are you freaking kidding me?”

Azarenka howled to the chair ump. “What the hell are you doing?” After the match, she put it this way: “That was the most ridiculous thing there is.”

AP Photo/FileFILE - The six International Olympic Committee presidential candidates are shown in these file photos. They are, from left, Thomas Bach of Germany, Ng Ser Miang of Singapore, finance commission chairman Richard Carrion of Puerto Rico, amateur boxing association head C.K. Wu of Taiwan, former pole vaulter Sergei Bubka of Ukraine and rowing federation chief Denis Oswald of Switzerland.

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Nadal, Federer in cruise control again at US OpenAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Rafael Nadal crushed another opponent at the U.S. Open on Saturday, only to see his title rival and likely quarterfinal op-ponent Roger Federer later record an even more convincing victory.

AP Photo/Mike GrollRafael Nadal, of Spain, reacts after defeating Ivan Dodig, of Croatia, during the third round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sat-urday, Aug. 31, 2013, in New York.

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DENPASAR - The name of Ta-man Puputan Badung is a dedication to memorize of the war on 20th September 1906 in which the Bali-nese people King Badung/Denpasar fought bravely against the Dutch who invaded theh land. That date is always commemorated every year,

and a monument called Taman Pu-putan Monument has been erected for the important event.

This monument stands of north-ern part of the Puputan Square. This Square is visited by many local people every afternoon for recreation; and every Sunday there activities particularly organized for children.

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PSG scraped a 2-0 home win after netting twice in injury time as Rabiot came off the bench to grab his first goal for the club, and then Zlatan Ibrahimovic ended his scoring drought mo-ments later with his first goal of a frustrating season.

“It was a laborious first half, we were asleep,” PSG coach Laurent Blanc said. “It should be pointed out that the players didn’t give up, even with a few minutes left.”

It was PSG’s second straight win after last weekend’s equally difficult 2-1 win at Nantes, an-other promoted club, and under-lined how Blanc’s team has yet to play with fluidity and teamwork despite having unlimited funds to recruit top talents. “We would like to be more calm and sure of ourselves, but that’s not the case,” he said.

Leader Marseille, which has won all three games, can restore its four-point lead over PSG if it beats visiting Monaco on Sunday

night.PSG needed a handling error

from visiting goalkeeper Mama-dou Samassa to break the dead-lock in the first minute of injury time, when Rabiot kneed the ball over the line after Samassa palmed a shot into his path. “It’s my first goal for PSG,” Rabiot said. “I’m happy the coach gave me my chance.”

Two minutes later, Ibrahimov-ic ran onto a long pass, muscled defender Jeremy Sorbon off the ball and slotted it past Samassa for his first goal in five games this season. The win moved PSG provisionally up to second place with eight points.

Earlier, seventh-placed Lyon’s losing streak increased to four matches after being defeated 2-1 at Evian.

Striker Edinson Cavani and center half Thiago Silva both hit the crossbar with headers from corners in the first half. Ibrahi-movic had almost scored in the fourth minute with a curling free

kick that hit the post, and winger Ezequiel Lavezzi missed an open goal as the rebound landed at his feet.

Despite fielding three players each costing more than 40 mil-lion euros ($52.5 million), PSG failed to show any attacking flair for most of a drab first half.

Rabiot pounced when Samassa tried to pat the ball down after saving a header from a corner, rather than just pushing it wide, and it slipped out of his grasp.

“You have to try and give (homegrown players) some play-ing time,” Blanc said. “If they respond well, I won’t hesitate to pick them.”

The fact PSG threaten most from corners is indicative that its buildup play remains fairly redundant and one-paced.

Guingamp has nothing like the sort of money being pumped into PSG by Qatari investors but was mostly untroubled until the 36th when Samassa was called into action.


M I L A N - J u v e n t u s cruised to a 4-1 victory over 10-man Lazio in Serie A on Saturday as the capital club fell to another hefty defeat at the hands of the defending champion. Lazio was look-ing to avenge its 4-0 Super Cup loss to Juventus two weeks ago, but two world-class finishes from Arturo Vidal sent Juventus on its way to another victory.

Miroslav Klose reduced the deficit with his first goal against Juventus but Mirko Vucinic restored the home side’s two-goal advantage shortly after halftime.

Lazio was forced to play nearly half an hour with 10 men after Hernanes was sent off for a second yellow card. And Carlos Tevez - who had earlier hit the crossbar - scored his third goal in as many games.

Earlier, last year’s run-ner-up Napoli beat Chievo Verona 4-2 in another enter-taining game. Both Napoli and Juventus have won their opening two matches but this was a lot more convincing a

result from Antonio Conte’s team than last week’s nar-row 1-0 win over Sampdoria and will serve as a warning sign of just how difficult it will be to prevent Juve from claiming a third successive league title.

“Winning again and put-ting another four goals past Lazio is a sign of our grow-ing form, both as a collective and as individuals,” Conte said. “We have won all three of our official matches. To-day we were facing a tough opponent who always made us suffer. It’s a victory that gives us confidence, but we must never let our concentra-tion slip.

“We started very strong, particularly the spectacular opening 25 minutes in terms of intensity and organization. We still need to improve, as in some stages there wasn’t enough pressure from the midfielders and we went too deep.”

Juventus took the lead in the 14th minute, with Vidal controlling a lovely chipped pass from Paul Pogba and slotting the ball home. The Chilean doubled his tally in

the 26th, beating the offside trap again to latch on to Leonardo Bonucci’s delight-ful ball over the defense and fire into the bottom left corner.

Klose immediat ly got Lazio back into the game. Juventus goalkeeper Gian-luigi Buffon failed to hold on to Hernanes’ powerful 30-meter effort and the Ger-many striker was on hand to follow up.

Juventus extended its lead after the break thanks to another wonderful Bonucci assist. The Italy defender lifted the ball from his own half into the area for Vu-cinic to finish past Federico Marchetti.

Hernanes was needlessly sent off in the 63rd minute after he was shown a second yellow card for batting the ball down with his hand in the penalty area.

Tevez curled a 20-meter effort off the bar in the 72nd minute before scoring a first home goal. The Argentine feinted round his marker be-fore driving into the bottom left corner from just outside the penalty area.

Reuters

LISBON - Sporting’s Colombian striker Fredy Montero and Benfica’s Serbian teenager Lazar Markovic scored a goal apiece as the Portuguese Premier League’s Lisbon derby ended in a 1-1 draw on Saturday.

The pair, who arrived in Portugal during the close season, stole the show at a packed Alvalade stadium on a warm summer evening with two stun-ning goals.

The 26-year-old Montero, signed on loan from Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders, headed the opener after 10 minutes, finishing off some neat flowing passing to take his tally to five goals at the top of league’s scoring chart.

Sporting lead the standings with seven points from three matches while Benfica are sixth on four. Champions Porto, who

won their first two matches, visit Pacos de Ferreira on Sunday.

Sporting controlled the first-half pos-session while Benfica looked some way off the commanding performances that led them to last season’s Europa League final, which they lost to Chelsea.

But Markovic, who came on for the injured Eduardo Salvio, managed to pull Benfica level in the second half.

The 19-year-old’s first mazy run end-ed with Spanish striker Rodrigo wasting a chance but Markovic made no mistake when he dashed past three defenders and slotted home after 65 minutes.

Sporting endured one of their worst campaigns last season but arrived at the derby in fine form, having won their first two league matches 5-1 and 4-0.

In contrast, title candidates Benfica lost their opener and scraped a 2-1 win at home to Gil Vicente last weekend with two stoppage time goals.

Reuters

MADRID - Promoted Villarreal sent another signal they are unlikely to drop straight back into the second division when a 3-0 success at Osasuna made it three straight La Liga wins this season for the team known as “yellow submarine”.

In a match that started in August and finished in September due to the kickoff at 11 p.m. local time (2100 GMT), Villarreal were far more threatening than their Pam-plona-based hosts and took the lead through Jeremy Perbet in the 23rd minute.

Javier Aquino added a second in his canary-coloured shirt seven minutes later and substitute Ikechukwu Uche made it 3-0 in the 75th with a clinical finish to a sweeping move.

It was the first time Villarreal had won their opening three games of a top-flight

season and lifted them to the top of the standings on nine points.

Celta Vigo failed to make their superior-ity count in a 1-1 draw at home to Granada, while Real Valladolid earned their first points of the campaign with a 1-0 victory against visiting Getafe in earlier games.

Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino has rested Xavi and Alexis Sanchez for the Span-ish champions’ game at Valencia on Sunday (1900 GMT) but Lionel Messi is back in the squad after missing last weekend’s 1-0 win at Malaga with a bruised thigh.

Real Madrid host Athletic Bilbao in Sun-day’s early kickoff (1000) before Atletico Madrid visit fellow Champions League participants Real Sociedad at San Sebastian (1700).

Barca, Atletico, Bilbao and Real were the only other teams apart from Villarreal to win their opening two games.


LONDON — With crucial World Cup qualifiers approaching, England coach Roy Hodgson has complained that his talent pool is severely limited by foreign players packing Premier League teams.

Barely 30 percent of the players in action in the Premier League are English, according to Hodgson, who is unhappy that overseas imports are used as quick-fix solution by managers, blocking the paths of homegrown prospects into the teams.

None of last season’s top seven sides — Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Ar-senal, Tottenham, Everton and Liverpool — has so far signed

an Englishman in the summer transfer window after collectively spending hundreds of millions of dollars on imports.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, though, said recently that there were more than 200 English players in the topflight last season. That statistic, which Hodgson heard repeated during a television discussion, is disputed by the veteran manager, who said he “can’t name that many”

“I would defy anyone to come up with 240 (English) names in the Premier League,” the former Liverpool, West Bromwich Albion and Fulham manager said. “I don’t think quite frankly you would be able to come up to 30 or 40.”

That’s a problem when Hodg-

son has to pick a squad that can qualify for the World Cup, and is then capable of competing with the leading nations in Brazil next year. England is second in its qualifying group, two points behind Montenegro with four games remaining. England hosts Moldova at Wembley Stadium on Friday and travels to Kiev to play Ukraine on Sept. 10.

Hodgson is concerned that, although the leading clubs have English players on their books, they aren’t always first-team regu-lars because “their way is blocked by extremely talented players.”

Hodgson even doubts whether David Beckham would have been given an opportunity to shine had he been breaking into football today.

AP Photo/Christophe Ena

Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Paris Saint Germain, right, and Reynald Lemaitre of Guingamp jump for the ball during their French League One soccer match in Paris, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013.

PSG fails to impress in 2-0 home win vs. GuingampAssociated Press Writer

PARIS - Paris Saint-Germain’s expensive stars again failed to deliver the flair to match the club’s huge financial outlay, so it was left to 18-year-old homegrown player Adrien Rabiot to break newly-promoted Guingamp’s resistance in the French league on Saturday.

Villarreal beat Osasuna to maintain perfect start

Hodgson concern about EPL’s lack of English stars

AP Photo/Massimo Pinca

Juventus forward Arturo Vidal, of Chile, celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Lazio at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013.

Champion Juventus beats Lazio 4-1 in Serie A

New signings shine as Lisbon derby ends in 1-1 draw

AP Photo/Armando Franca

Benfica’s Oscar Cardozo, from Paraguay, right, falls on top of Sporting’s Rojo, from Argentina, while attempting a shot at goal during their Portu-guese league soccer match Saturday, Aug. 31 2013, at Sporting’s Alvalade stadium in Lisbon.

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Rarely, if ever, has so much been on the line at a single Olympic meeting. When International Olympic Com-mittee members gather next week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, they will be faced with three decisions that will shape the direction of the Olympic movement for the next decade.

At stake: Choosing the host city of the 2020 Olympics, electing a new IOC president to succeed Jacques Rogge and selecting one sport to add to the 2020 program. The favorites: Tokyo, Thomas Bach

and wrestling.Prime ministers, royalty, sports

stars and celebrities will be part of the election extravaganza at the IOC session. The weeklong meetings will have the flavor of a political carnival replete with last-minute campaign-ing, backstage vote-chasing and round-the-clock lobbying by spin doctors, consultants and strategists.

While most IOC members are primarily interested in the Sept. 10 presidential election, the first big vote comes on Sept. 7 with a secret ballot on the 2020 host city. It’s a three-way contest between Tokyo,

Madrid and Istanbul.All three are repeat candidates:

Istanbul is making its fifth overall bid, Madrid a third straight attempt and Tokyo a second try in a row.

Tokyo has been seen as a slight front-runner, though the leak of radioactive water from the Fu-kushima nuclear plant is causing concern. Madrid — once counted out because of Spain’s economic crisis — has picked up momen-tum recently and now looks like a legitimate challenger. Istanbul has slipped following the anti-govern-ment protests and doping scandals

in Turkey and the escalating war in neighboring Syria.

With each bid facing political, economic or other drawbacks, the winner could be determined not for its positive attributes but for having fewer weaknesses than its rivals.

“There’s no obvious choice,” senior Canadian IOC member Dick Pound told The Associated Press. “Where do you go? None of the three is risk free. Probably somebody ends up backing into it this time.”

Each city offers a different narra-tive. Istanbul would bring the games to a new part of the world, to a pre-

dominantly Muslim country for the first time, to a city linking Europe and Asia. Madrid has most of the venues ready and would spend the least. Tokyo offers safety and reliability at a time of global uncertainty.

In the end, the decision could center on which city offers the least risk. After taking gambles by sending the 2014 Winter Games to Sochi, Russia, and 2016 Olympics to Rio de Janeiro, some members feel it’s time to opt for certainty. Delays in Rio are causing serious concerns and the IOC is eager to avoid more headaches.

Nadal beat Ivan Dodig 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, affirming his favoritism to win this tournament. The second-seeded Spaniard has lost just 21 games across three matches and has faced only five break points, saving each one of them. Federer then emerged on Arthur Ashe Stadium and notched an even more imperious victory, dominating Frenchman Adrian Man-narino in a 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 victory that came in just 81 minutes.

The five games conceded brought Federer’s tournament tally to 21 — the same as Nadal — and the Swiss has spent only 4-1/2 hours on court, making a mockery of fears that his career was on the wane after an early exit at Wimbledon and patchy form since.

“There’s always a lot of pressure coming out here on this court to perform, because you never know if you’re going to play well,” said Federer, who compiled a 34-8 edge in winners, “but tonight was one of those nights.”

The 38th-ranked Dodig beat

Nadal at the hard-court tournament in Montreal two years ago. But Na-dal is looking like the king of hard courts these days, with an 18-match winning streak on the surface.

“I am winning because I am playing well from the baseline and I am making the right decisions in the right moments,” Nadal said. Before they can play each other in the quar-terfinals — in what would be their first ever match at a U.S. Open — Nadal and Federer must negotiate tricky fourth-round matches.

Federer will face Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo, who ended the run of 179th-ranked qualifier Daniel Evans of Britain 7-6 (6), 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, while Nadal will take on Ger-man Phillip Kohlschreiber, who eliminated big-serving American John Isner.

“I don’t look ahead,” Federer said when asked about the loom-ing Nadal clash, “even though I understand the urge of the press to try to go there already. I have gone through that my entire career, peo-

ple talking about our matches even before the tournament started.

“We’re used to it. We know how to handle it. Clearly I think we both hope it’s going to happen this time, for the first time in New York.”

Fourth-seeded David Ferrer needed nearly three hours to down 172nd-ranked qualifier Mikhail Ku-kushkin 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. His next opponent is No. 18-seeded Janko Tipsarevic, who also took four sets to knock off 20-year-old American Jack Sock 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-1, 6-2.

Eighth-seeded Richard Gasquet and No. 10 Milos Raonic set up another fourth-round matchup with victories. The losses by Isner and Sock meant wild card Tim Smyczek was the only American man left in the singles draw.

Unless Smyczek manages to beat Marcel Granollers on Sunday, there will be no Americans in the men’s singles round-of-16; the first time that has ever happened in the U.S. Open, dating back to 1881.

In the women’s draw, second-seeded Victoria Azarenka took 2 hours, 40 minutes to close out Alize Cornet 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-2.

Serving on game point at 5-3 in the second, Azarenka pumped her fist and started walking off the court after the

26th-seeded Cornet hit a backhand into the net. The chair umpire had to get her attention to inform her that the line judge had called Azarenka’s previous shot out — replays showed it landed inside the baseline. The umpire overruled the call, but they

still had to replay the point.“Are you freaking kidding me?”

Azarenka howled to the chair ump. “What the hell are you doing?” After the match, she put it this way: “That was the most ridiculous thing there is.”

AP Photo/FileFILE - The six International Olympic Committee presidential candidates are shown in these file photos. They are, from left, Thomas Bach of Germany, Ng Ser Miang of Singapore, finance commission chairman Richard Carrion of Puerto Rico, amateur boxing association head C.K. Wu of Taiwan, former pole vaulter Sergei Bubka of Ukraine and rowing federation chief Denis Oswald of Switzerland.

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Nadal, Federer in cruise control again at US OpenAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Rafael Nadal crushed another opponent at the U.S. Open on Saturday, only to see his title rival and likely quarterfinal op-ponent Roger Federer later record an even more convincing victory.

AP Photo/Mike GrollRafael Nadal, of Spain, reacts after defeating Ivan Dodig, of Croatia, during the third round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sat-urday, Aug. 31, 2013, in New York.

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DENPASAR - The name of Ta-man Puputan Badung is a dedication to memorize of the war on 20th September 1906 in which the Bali-nese people King Badung/Denpasar fought bravely against the Dutch who invaded theh land. That date is always commemorated every year,

and a monument called Taman Pu-putan Monument has been erected for the important event.

This monument stands of north-ern part of the Puputan Square. This Square is visited by many local people every afternoon for recreation; and every Sunday there activities particularly organized for children.

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Puputan Badung Square

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s religious affairs minister has called for the Miss World beauty pageant to be cancelled, as opposition in the Muslim-majority country mounts the week before the contest opens in Bali.

Suryadharma Ali said that the or-ganisers should follow the advice of the nation’s top Islamic clerical body, which last week called for the contest to be scrapped even after organisers agreed to axe the bikini round.

“The Indonesian Ulema Council has expressed strong opposition to Miss World because it doesn’t fit with Islamic teachings that say Muslim women should cover immodest parts of their bodies,” the minister said in a statement late Thursday.

The minister is the first government official to publicly voice opposition to the pageant, dealing a fresh blow to the Britain-based organisers.

His statement came the same day a commissioner from the country’s Na-tional Human Rights Commission said he opposed an event that “put women’s bodies on display”.

The local organisers were not fazed by the minister’s comments however, saying the issue was not his domain and that “the show must go on”.

“This is not an Islamic country

and this event is an issue of culture, not religion,” Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, corporate secretary of broadcaster and local organiser RCTI, told AFP, add-ing several other ministers supported Miss World.

While Indonesia is a Muslim-major-ity nation, its constitution is not Islamic and recognises several religions.

The organisers revealed in June that the famed bikini round was be-ing axed for the pageant in Indonesia in a bid to avoid causing offence, and contestants would instead wear Bali-nese sarongs.

Nevertheless, hardline group Is-lamic Defenders Front has not been appeased and still plans to hold protests on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, where the pageant’s final will be held on September 28.

The competition opens on Septem-ber 8 in Bali, a Hindu-majority island known for its many beaches where female tourists from around the world sunbathe in skimpy bikinis with few problems.

Hardline groups in Indonesia have forced the cancellation of events deemed “un-Islamic” in the past.

Last year pop star Lady Gaga pulled out of the Indonesian leg of her tour af-ter hardliners threatened to burn down the venue and criticised her for wearing only “a bra and panties”.

Yudhoyono’s visit to Ka-zakhstan is on invitation of Pres ident Nursul tan Naz-arbayev, and it is a return visit of one made earlier to the country by Nazarbayev.

The two presidents will discuss bilateral issues includ-ing trade and investment, food and energy security, cultural and education cooperation, presidential spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said earlier.

During Yudhoyono’s stay in Astana, the capital of Ka-zakhstan, the two countries will sign five memorandums of understanding on economic co-operation, and cooperation in battling terrorism and money laundering, culture and educa-tion and diplomat training.

Yudhoyono is also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister

Serik Akhmetov and Kazakhs business leaders.

From Kazakhstan, Yud-hoyono and his entourage will proceed to Poland at the invitation of Polish President Bronis¿aw Komorowski.

The visit to Poland will be the third by Indonesian presi-dents to that country with the first by President Soekarno in 1959 and the second by Presi-dent Megawati in 2003.

During his stay in Poland Yudhoyono will hold talks with his Polish counterpart, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and Senate Chairman Bogdan Borusewicz.

He will discuss bilateral issues with the Polish leaders including cooperation in trade and investment in the mining sector, energy, defense and

security issues. The two countries will sign

memorandums of understand-ing on cooperation in a number of sectors including fishery, agriculture, trade, investment, mining and education.

The two countries will also sign an agreement on visa free visits for holders of official and diplomat passports be-tween the two countries.

His itinerary will end in Russia where he will attend the 8th summit meeting of G-20 in St. Petersburg.

The G-20 summit meeting will discuss a number of issues -- financial stability, sustain-able development for all, jobs, investment and trade.

The Indonesian president is expected to arrive back on Sept 7.


JAKARTA - A new species of shark that “walks” along the seabed using its fins as tiny legs has been discovered in eastern Indonesia, an environmental group said Friday.

The brown and white bamboo shark pushes itself along the ocean floor as it forages for small fish and crustaceans at night, said Conserva-tion International, whose scientists were involved in its discovery.

The shark, which grows to a maximum length of just 80 centi-metres (30 inches) and is harmless to humans, was discovered off Hal-mahera, one of the Maluku Islands that lie west of New Guinea.

Bamboo sharks, also known as longtail carpet sharks, are relatively small compared to their larger cous-ins, with the largest adult reaching only about 120 centimetres (47 inches) in length.

They have unusually long tails

that are bigger than the rest of their bodies and are found in tropical waters around Indonesia, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Conservation International said the discovery of the shark, which was first disclosed in the Inter-national Journal of Ichthyology, “should help draw diver interest to this mega-diverse but largely undis-covered region”.

Ketut Sarjana Putra, Indonesia country director for the group, said the Hemiscyllium halmahera shark could “serve as an excellent ambas-sador to call public attention to the fact that most sharks are harmless to humans and are worthy of our conservation attention”.

Conservation International, whose scientists discovered the shark along with colleagues from the Western Australian Museum, added it came at a time when Indonesia was increas-ing its efforts to protect shark and ray species.

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Indonesian job seekers gather during a job fair in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Indonesia’s central bank hiked interest rates for the third time in three months at an unscheduled meeting to calm investors after a plunge in the rupiah and stocks. Indonesia has been particularly badly hit with investors also fretting about its domestic problems, such as a widening current account deficit, slowing growth and high inflation.

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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Mrs Yudhoyono will leave here on Sunday for a week long tour of East Europe that will bring him to Kazakhstan, Poland and Russia.

‘Walking’ shark discovered in Indonesia

Religious Affairs Minister calls for Miss World to be cancelled

Ocean simulations showed that the plume of radioactive cesium-137 released by the Fukushima di-saster in 2011 could begin flowing into U.S. coastal waters starting in early 2014 and peak in 2016. Luckily, two ocean currents off the eastern coast of Japan — the Kuroshio Current and the Kurosh-io Extension — would have dilut-ed the radioactive material so that its concentration fell well below the World Health Organization’s safety levels within four months of the Fukushima incident. But it could have been a different story if nuclear disaster struck on the other side of Japan.

“The environmental impact could have been worse if the contaminated water would have been released in another oceanic

environment in which the cir-culation was less energetic and turbulent,” said Vincent Rossi, an oceanographer and postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems in Spain.

Fukushima’s radioactive water release has taken its time journey-ing across the Pacific. By com-parison, atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima plant began reaching the U.S. West Coast within just days of the disaster back in 2011.

Tracking radioactivity’s path

The radioactive plume has three different sources: radioac-tive particles falling out from the

atmosphere into the ocean, con-taminated water directly released from the plant, and water that became contaminated by leach-ing radioactive particles from tainted soil.

The release of cesium-137 from Fukushima in Japan’s more turbulent eastern currents means the radioactive material is diluted to the point of posing little threat to humans by the time it leaves Japan’s coastal waters. Rossi worked with former colleagues at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Australia to simu-late the spread of Fukushima’s radioactivity in the oceans — a study detailed in the October issue of the journal Deep-Sea Research Part 1.


PRAGUE - An official says a passenger train in eastern Czech Re-public smashed into a herd of cattle, killing 17 of them. No people were injured. Martin Drapal, spokesman for Czech Rail Safety Inspection, says the train heading from the town of Krnov to the city of Olomouc hit the animals two hours before midnight

on Friday.The damage to the train is esti-

mated at about $5,000. Drapal said in a statement Saturday that the train track had to be closed for almost five hours after the incident.

Trains in the country collide with animals from time to time but such a massive crash is exceptional. Au-thorities are investigating why the cows were on the track.


HAVANA - The Florida Strait, a dangerous stretch of sea that is home to sharks, jellyfish, fickle currents and sudden, violent storms, has stubbornly resisted Diana Nyad’s repeated at-tempts to conquer it.

Yet the Florida-raised endurance athlete was back in the water once again Saturday, launching her fourth bid in three years to become the first person to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys without a protective shark cage.

“I admit there’s an ego rush,” Nyad said. “If I - three days from now, four days from now - am still somehow bringing the arms up and I see the shore ... I am going to have a feeling that no one yet on this planet has ever had.”

She expects to take about 80 hours to arrive somewhere between Key West and Marathon, more than 110 miles (177 kilometers) from Havana.

Nyad, who recently turned 64, tried three times in 2011 and 2012. Her last attempt was cut short amid boat trouble, storms, unfavorable currents and box jellyfish stings that left her face puffy and swollen.

She says this will be her final try. She has vowed not to come back after previous defeats, but likened those statements to the rash promises of a heartbroken spouse.

“Every person who’s married, the day after they get the divorce they say, Never again!” Nyad said. “But you need to heal, your heart needs to heal, and pretty soon not all men are bad again.”

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In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 aerial photo, workers stand on storage tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan.


A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, according to a new study. The long journey of the radioactive particles could help researchers better understand how the ocean’s currents circulate around the world.

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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — For the first time since a wildfire broke out around Yosemite National Park, dense smoke has begun to obscure the region’s majestic mountain views, park of-ficials say.

The smoke from the two-week-old fire that shrouded parts of Yosemite Valley Saturday also hampered fire-fighting efforts.

“I’m in Yosemite Valley right now, and I cannot see the cliffs around me,” spokeswoman Kari Cobb said. “The wind has shifted and smoke is impacting the entire park. We have been lucky until now.”

All the campgrounds in the Valley still were full as of Saturday morning, despite the thick blanket and burning smell that permeated the area and was expected to linger until at least Monday, she said.

As a health precaution, visitors were being asked to scale back their outdoor recreation plans and avoid

strenuous activities or even stay indoors.

Meanwhile, firefighting aircraft were grounded most of the morn-ing because of low visibility caused by the smoke, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Mark Healey said. The blaze had scorched 348 square miles of brush, oaks and pines and 11 homes, as of Saturday, an area larger than the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose combined.

Of that total, 94 square miles of wilderness have burned in the northern section of Yosemite, up from 75 square miles a day earlier. The fire was 40 percent contained.

Although containment efforts pro-ceeded on a positive note overnight, officials became concerned Saturday about a 150-acre spot fire that crossed a road and prompted an evacuation order for homes near the west entrance of Yosemite, Healey said. Once planes and water-dropping helicopters were cleared to take off again, the worry lifted some along with the evacuation order.

Wildfire sends dense smoke into Yosemite Valley

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GENEVA - As Roberto Azevedo takes the helm of the World Trade Organiza-tion Sunday, observers say he must move swiftly to revive deadlocked trade talks and restore confidence in the body.

“The new director general faces a big job. He needs to move rather quickly and assertively. He must be bold,” Sergio Marchi, Canada’s former trade minister and WTO ambassador, told AFP.

Brazilian career diplomat Azevedo replaces Frenchman Pascal Lamy, who spent eight years at the head of the or-ganisation that sets the rules for global commerce.

Reached by AFP three days before the handover, Azevedo said he would not be talking to reporters before he heads to St Petersburg next week for a G20 summit.

Lamy meanwhile told Swiss public radio last week that he planned to return home to Normandy in northern France on his first day off the job and “take the time to think.”

It’s understandable that the 66-year-old might need to catch his breath: he says he has logged some 450,000 kilometres (280,000 miles) of travel on average each year as head of the WTO -- equivalent to 10 trips around the world -- in his bid to bring the world’s decision makers to the table and unlock stalled global trade talks.

Lamy, a former European Union trade commissioner, has overseen a vast expan-sion of the world trade body to 159 mem-ber countries -- 11 more than eight years ago, with Russia a notable addition.

And it was under his leadership that the organisation was granted the right to take part in G20 summits.

However, little progress has been made towards reviving the so-called “Doha Round” of talks, launched in 2001 to craft a global accord on opening markets and removing trade barriers such as subsidies, excessive taxes and regulations, in order to harness international commerce to develop poorer economies.

But differences over the give and take needed have fuelled clashes notably be-tween China, the European Union, India and the United States, and left the talks stalled for years, leading many countries to shift focus to bilateral and regional deals.

“Not much to show for his eight years, unfortunately,” Marchi said, lamenting that “the institution’s credibility has taken a heavy hit.”

At the same time, global trade has shifted over the past eight years to reflect the growing importance of developing economies.

The official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 51.0 last month from 50.3 in July, according to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The index tracks manufacturing activity in China’s factories and workshops and is a closely watched gauge of the health of the economy. A reading below 50 indicates contraction, while anything above signals expansion.

The PMI strengthened for the second straight month and comes as other recent data has spurred optimism a slowdown in the economy may have been stemmed.

Zhao Qinghe, a statistician with the NBS, said in a report on the bureau’s website that the result marked the highest this year and “shows that China’s manufacturing industry

as a force for economic development has strengthened to some extent and makes ob-vious that a return to corporate stability has quickened further”.

In July, generally upbeat economic data, including a jump in industrial production to a five-month high, helped spur optimism that China’s economic weakness may have hit bottom. And British banking giant HSBC said last month that the initial reading of its PMI survey for August came in at 50.1, re-bounding from an 11-month low and marking the first time since April the indicator had expanded.

HSBC is due to release its closely watched final PMI index for August on Monday.

The first half of this year saw a spike in analyst concerns about China’s economy

after an expected rebound from the worst growth performance in 13 years failed to materialise.

China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7.8 percent in 2012, the weakest result since 1999. Growth in the first quarter of this year dipped to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in the final three months of last year and slowed further to 7.5 percent in the three months through June.

ANZ bank economists Liu Li-Gang and Zhou Hao said in a report that the August PMI figure shows China’s “growth momentum has accelerated thanks to faster implementation of the fiscal programme and ‘mini stimulus’ initiated by the new government”.

Authorities have been loathe to introduce large-scale stimulus measures such as the four trillion yuan ($650 billion) package thrown at the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but in late July did announce some steps to boost growth, such as reducing taxes on small companies and encouraging railway development.

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AP PhotoAn investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 in Shanghai, China. China’s manufacturing activity strengthened in August, official figures showed Sunday, the latest data to suggest that the world’s second-largest economy is picking up steam after two quarters of slower growth.

China data shows economy picking up momentumAgence France-Presse

BEIJING - China’s manufacturing activity strengthened in August, official figures showed Sunday, the latest data to suggest that the world’s second-largest economy is picking up steam after two quarters of slower growth.

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DENPASAR - A second UK visa application centre has opened in Indonesia, in Bali. British Am-bassador Mark Canning joined his Australian and New Zealand counterparts to officially open a new shared visa application centre in Bali.

The new facility means custom-ers from Bali and surrounding areas, applying for a UK visa, no longer have to travel to Jakarta to lodge their UK Visa application and is in response to continued growth in tourism and business visitor demand.

The initiative is part of the UK’s commitment to enhance the cus-tomer experience of applying for a UK visa in Indonesia and follows the introduction of a Priority Visa Service for eligible visitors in 2012 which has proved very popular with customers.

A growing number of Indone-sians are choosing to visit, study and do business in the UK. In 2012 we received over 37,000 visa ap-plications from Indonesians, a 6% increase on 2011 and 27% increase on 2010. The new visa application centre in Bali will help cater for this increase in demand.

British Ambassador, Mark Can-ning said the new Bali visa applica-tion centre reflects the increasing strength of the relationship between Indonesia and the UK. “We wel-come the growing interest from Indonesia in the UK as a destination for travel, business and study, and I am very pleased to open this new visa application centre to help sup-port this growth,” he explained.

The new centre will be a more convenient and accessible service to those in Bali and the surround-ing region and will make the start of their journey to the UK an easier one. He hope that it will lead to an increase in visitors to the UK from the Bali region.

The new visa application centre is a Five Country Conference (FCC) initiative under an agreement to share a global network of visa ap-plication centres and will be run by the UK’s commercial partner in Asia Pacific, VFS Global.

The use of shared visa applica-tion facilities with 5CC partners aims to improve services for cli-ents of each country and achieve greater efficiencies through shared infrastructure and staffing. The new visa application centre is located at Benoa Square. (kmb18)

Lindsay Sandiford now only has two more chances to avoid execution, a judicial review of the top court’s decision or a presidential pardon. Death row convicts in Indonesia rarely have their sentences reduced.

The 57-year-old was sentenced to death in January after a large stash of cocaine was found in her suitcase as she arrived on a flight from Bangkok in May last year . Prosecutors had recommended 15 years’ imprisonment.

Police said she was at the centre of a drugs-importing ring involving three other Britons. Sandiford said she was forced to transport the drugs to protect her children whose safety was at stake.

At a closed hearing at the Supreme Court in Jakarta on Thursday, a three-judge panel rejected Sandiford’s appeal, said the panel’s chief judge Artidjo Alkostar.

“Her appeal has been rejected,” he said in a text message after the closed hearing. “The decision is unanimous.”

He said the judges agreed with the decision taken by the Denpasar district court in Bali, which sentenced her to death, and the island’s high court, which rejected her first appeal.

Most people sentenced to death for drugs offences fail to have their sentences reduced on appeal. They face a long wait in jail before being taken to a remote, undisclosed location at night and executed by firing squad.

Some have succeeded, such as Scott Rush, a member of the Australian drug smuggling gang known as the “Bali Nine”. His death sentence was reduced to life after a judicial review by the Supreme Court in 2011.

And last year President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pardoned two Indonesians con-victed of drug smuggling, reducing their death sentences to life in prison.

Britain has previously raised concerns about Sandiford’s treatment in the island’s notorious Kerobokan jail, alleging in papers submitted to Denpasar district court that officials threatened

her with a gun and deprived her of sleep.When they handed down the death sentence,

the Bali court rejected arguments she was transporting the 4.79 kilos (10.6 pounds) of cocaine to protect her children.

It noted she had not admitted her crime and ruled she had damaged Indonesia’s hardline stance on drugs as well as Bali’s reputation as a tourism destination. Three other Britons arrested in connection with the case received lighter sentences.

Julian Ponder was sentenced in January to six years in jail after being found guilty of pos-sessing 23.04 grams (0.8 ounces) of cocaine with a street value of $6,000, found in the bedroom of his luxury Bali villa.

He was arrested after receiving a package from Sandiford in a police sting mounted after she was caught. Rachel Dougall was sentenced to 12 months for failing to report Sandiford’s crime. Paul Beales received four years for possession of 3.6 grams of hashish but was cleared of drug trafficking. They were sentenced in December.

Two members of the “Bali Nine” who were arrested in 2005 are currently on death row, while the seven others face lengthy jail terms. A Frenchman has also been on death row since May 2007 for drug trafficking.

UK visa application centre opens in Bali

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, FileLindsay Sandiford

Top court rejects Bali death-row Briton’s appealAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A British grandmother sentenced to death for trafficking drugs worth $2.4 million into the resort island of Bali moved a step nearer the firing squad Thursday after Indonesia’s top court rejected her appeal.

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The incident began when the eyewitness and victim of burns, Made Ariani, first entered the room at 1:00 p.m. because Mrs. Englan could not walk so Ariani had to first serve her mother. Previously, Ariani said that Mrs. Englan suf-fered herpes. She cleansed her body and wounds and then replaced the diapers of her mother. Then at 5:00 p.m., she was out of her house to wash hands with warm water and boiled water by electric water heater. Then, Mrs. Ariani served tea and cake for her mother. After feeding, the power suddenly went out, she said.

Ariani thought the outage hap-pened in the central operator. She continued to feed her mother until completing. Such unexpected inci-dent occurred when she came out and saw a great fire was burning her warehouse right in the gro-cery warehouse. Ariani suddenly shocked and came back into the room to rescue her mother by car-rying her out of the alley. Ariani had fallen due to weak legs to hold

his mother.Since the enlarging fire was un-

stoppable, she was helped by local residents around the house to uplift Mrs. Englan. She did not know ex-actly where the fire originated from. She saw the fire suddenly enlarging in the warehouses containing goods such as rice, noodles and coffee. When the fire occurred, she was in the room after washing hands. The incident was estimated to occur after 5:00 p.m.

When the incident occurred, Ariani was only at home with her mother Mrs. Englan. Her child be-ing in the first grade of high school was still attending school and had not come home yet. No one knew where the fire originated from. She had one shop attendant and was in charge of her shop in the market. Ariani was confused and rushed to ask for people around to help bolster Mrs. Englan.

Subdistrict head of Kuta, I Gede Rai Wijaya, was present at the scene. He said with the alacrity of the firefighters along

with the community leaders, including chief of customary village, hamlet chief, headman, customary security task force and all components of Kuta Police, the homeowners in the fire could be saved, he said.

Wijaya added that at that time Ariani was rescuing Mrs. Englan

from the fire. She got minor burns on right hands and on the feet. Therefore, she was rushed by local community to Graha Asih Hospital to get treatment for her burns. It was the mutual help made by local people. The scene belonged to the territory of Temacun hamlet, Kuta village, Kuta subdistrict. Dozens

of firefighters were employed to put out the fire. The fire trucks were brought in from the Angkasa Pura, the Ngurah Rai International Airport, the Badung Fire Brigade and the Denpasar Fire Brigade. The fire could finally be extinguished by firefighters around two hours later, he said. (dgk)

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With Navy ships on standby in the Mediterranean Sea ready to launch their cruise missiles, Obama said he had decided the United States should take military action and that he believes that as commander in chief, he has “the authority to carry out this military action without spe-cific congressional authorization.”

At the same time, he said, “I know that the country will be stronger if we take this course and our actions will be even more effective.” His remarks were televised live in the United States as well as on Syrian state television with translation.

Congress is scheduled to return from a summer vacation on Sept.

9, and in anticipation of the coming debate, Obama challenged lawmak-ers to consider “what message will we send if a dictator can gas hun-dreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price.”

The president didn’t say so, but his strategy carries enormous risks to his and the nation’s credibility, which the administration has argued forcefully is on the line in Syria. Obama long ago said the use of chemical weapons was a “red line” that Assad would not be allowed to cross with impunity.

Nor would the White House say what options would still be open to the president if he fails to win the backing

of the House and Senate for the mili-tary measures he has threatened.

Only this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a humiliating defeat when the House of Commons refused to support his call for military action against Syria.

Halfway around the world, Syri-ans awoke Saturday to state television broadcasts of tanks, planes and other weapons of war, and troops training, all to a soundtrack of martial music. Assad’s government blames rebels in the Aug. 21 attack, and has threatened retaliation if it is attacked.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he was appealing to a Nobel Peace laureate rather than to a president, urged Obama to reconsider. A group that monitors casualties in the long Syrian civil war challenged the United States to substantiate its claim that 1,429 died in a chemical weapons attack, including more than 400 children.


CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made his final major campaign pitch to revive his Labor Party’s chances at elections this week, promising tax breaks for small businesses and more work for lo-cal contractors on infrastructure projects if his government is re-elected for a third term.

Rudd officially launched his center-left party’s campaign in his hometown of Brisbane on Sunday. It is the capital of Queensland, a battle-ground state for swing seats that will decide the election Sept. 7.

Rudd - who was dumped as prime minister by his own gov-ernment colleagues in 2010, only to regain the top job in a similar leadership wrangle in June - dis-missed opinion polls that show opposition leader Tony Abbott’s conservative coalition is headed for a clear victory.

“I’ve been in tougher spots than this and have come from behind before,” Rudd told his audience of party faithful. “For those who say the fight is up, I say: ‘You haven’t seen anything yet,’” he added.

The opposition has framed the election as a referendum on the carbon tax paid by Australia’s worst greenhouse-gas polluters, which Abbot has promised to abolish.

Rudd’s government argues the election is about the “wrong priorities” a conservative govern-

ment would implement, includ-ing a policy of paying mothers up to 75,000 Australian dollars ($67,000) for six months’ ma-ternity leave regardless of how wealthy they are.

Labor has ruled for almost six years under the leaderships of Rudd and the deputy who replaced him for three years, Julia Gillard. He said the end of an Australian mining boom, bankrolled by China, demands new policies that only Labor can provide to diversify the slowing economy.

Among election promises an-nounced Sunday, Rudd said a Labor government would increase tax deductions that 3.2 million small businesses could claim on equipment investment. The pledge would cost the government AU$200 million over four years in lost tax revenue. The government would also create between AU$156 million and AU$624 million in ad-ditional work for Australian indus-try a year by legislating to ensure that infrastructure projects worth more than AU$300 million engage more local contractors.

The government is under fire over debt left created by stimulus spending that kept Australia out of recession during the global economic crisis. The government’s efforts to deliver a surplus budget have been frustrated by the Chi-nese industrial slowdown, which has hurt the mining sector, slow-ing the economy and dampening company tax revenues.


BEIJING - At least 15 people were killed Saturday after liquid ammonia leaked from a refrigeration unit at a cold storage plant in China’s financial hub of Shanghai, the local

government said.Twenty-five people were injured in the

accident, which happened at a plant in the Baoshan district of the east coast city, the Shanghai government Information Office said. Five of the injured were in serious

condition.The government identified the plant as

Weng’s Cold Storage Industrial Co. Ltd., but gave no further details. The cause of the leak was not immediately known and investigations led by the city’s work safety

bureau were under way, it said.The Information Office said an environ-

mental monitoring station in the district did not detect any negative impact from the leak. Industrial accidents are common in China due to lax safety and building standards.

Liquid ammonia leak kills 15 people in Shanghai

AP Photo/Lukas Coch, PoolPrime Minister Kevin Rudd, right, shakes hands with former Prime Minister Bob Hawke during the Australian Labor Party campaign launch in Brisbane, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013.

Australian PM makes final major campaign pitch

AP Photo/Charles DharapakPresident Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement about the crisis in Syria in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013.

Obama to seek congressional OK for Syria actionAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Short on support at home and allies abroad, President Barack Obama unexpectedly stepped back from a missile attack against Syria on Saturday and instead asked Congress to support a strike punishing Bashar Assad’s regime for the alleged use of chemical weapons.

ACTIvITIeS of the Miss World will be held in Indonesia precisely in Nusa Dua, Bali, on September 8, 2013. Such international event is expected to become the promotion of culture, since Bali has a natural beauty, hospitality of its people and cultural preservation becoming a tourist attraction.

“We expect the appearance of Miss World participants can be adjusted to Balinese cul-ture such as in the matter of beach fashion by wearing Balinese sarong,” said the Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, while receiving the Organizing Committee of the Miss World, Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, Tuesday (Jun 25).

Regent Gde Agung said that aside from serving as a tourism promotion event, the Miss World was also a part of the Meet-ing, Incentive, Conference, and Exhibition (MICE) tourism. “On that account, the Ba-dung County government strongly supports the Miss World event,” he said.

Badung government and the society were very dependent on tourism sector. Of course, of the Badung regional budget worth IDR 2.8 trillion this year, with the regionally generated revenue (PAD) valued at IDR 1.8 trillion, as much as IDR 2.3 trillion sourced

from the hotel and restaurant tax. “Tourism has provided such a great contribution to the Badung revenue,” he added.

Meanwhile, Adjie S. Soeratmadjie said that Miss World would be followed by 142 countries including Indonesia as the host. The participants began arriving on Sep-tember 2-5, staying at Bali Nirwana Resort (BNR) Tabanan. On September 6, the Miss World participants would move to Westin Resort and then on September 7-8 all the participants would attend a golf tournament at the BNR, while the opening ceremony would be held on September 8 night.

Miss World participants would stay in Bali until September 14 and continue to Yogyakarta for visiting Borobudur and Yogyakarta Palace. For the selection, there would be some assessments conducted as social concerns of the participants in their respective countries, skill contest in the field of sports and beach fashion. “In this beach fashion, we oblige the participants to put on Balinese sarong, so that it denies if the event is synonymous with the use of beach bikini,” he said while adding that the event would be broadcast live and relayed by 140 countries.

Gianyar (Bali Post)—

To anticipate the occurrence of subsequent victims in the case of poisoning that afflicted dozens of children at the Bali Global Foun-dation, the Gianyar Health Office opened a health post in the Bali Global Foundation on Jalan Raya Mas, Ubud. The health post involved a team of the Public Community Health and the Matra health unit. The post is also equipped with ambulance from the Matra unit of the Gianyar Health Office.

Based on the observation on Friday morning (Aug 30), the situation at the Bali Global Foundation looked normal. The ash-ram children of the Bali Global Foundation attending the Bali Global tourism vocational school learning activities seemed to run as usual. At the hospital, some poisoned stu-dents had been let go home after an observa-tion. Only two students were allowed to go home on Friday around 10:00 a.m.

Meanwhile, the Gianyar Health Office taking the sample of some foods, water and others were still awaiting the results of the laboratory in Denpasar. The Head of Gianyar Health Office, Ida Ayu Cahyani, could not ensure when the examination results could be presented as remaining

under examination in laboratory.The Head of Gianyar Education Agency,

Dewa Alit Mudiarta, said that after the incident the management of (SMK) Bali Global tourism vocational school had been asked for the information on the existence of the school.

According to the Principal, Ida Ayu Putri Purnadewi, her school was established in 2008 in accordance with the decree of oper-ation. “Further, the Agency will come down to check the location,” she explained.

As reported previously, the Emergency Unit of Sanjiwani Hospital, Gianyar, was made panic on Thursday night (Aug 29) by the arrival of dozens of children from the Bali Global Ash-ram getting nausea and dizzy alleged to have been caused by food poisoning. Meanwhile, some others were in normal condition but cry-ing and screaming hysterically.

A number of ambulances were back and forth from the student ashram of the Bali Global Foundation to hospital around 8:30 p.m., to convey the students. A total of 37 people got medical treatment during two days of the incident. The Gianyar Health Office also had to go down to location to investigate and take some samples of the food and water in the ashram. (kmb16)

Groceries warehouse in Kuta catches fireMangupura (Bali Post)—

A fire occurred on the back of the Kuta Market Unit I, Kuta subdistrict, Badung County, Friday (Aug 30). Precisely, it afflicted one of the grocery warehouses owned by Ni Made Ariani, 47, hav-ing a profession as a grocery trader in Kuta Market. She stayed at home with her mother Mrs. englan, 75. The fire incident against the warehouse occurred at 5:00 p.m. It caused traffic congestion around the road section to Kuta and surrounding areas.

IBP/FileThe firefighter is trying to put out the fire which happen in Kuta

Miss World 2013Beach Fashion Featuring Balinese Sarong

Anticipation of poisoning continues, Health Office opens a post

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But President Jose Mujica says Uruguay’s long experience at the center of the nation’s liquor business makes it more than capable of domi-nating another substance: marijuana.

Final Senate approval of Uruguay’s marijuana law is expected by late September, and the government plans to license growers, sellers and users as quickly as possible thereafter to protect them from criminal drug traffickers, ruling party Sen. Lucia Topolansky, who is also Uruguay’s first lady, told The Associated Press in an interview.

The law specifically creates a legal marijuana monopoly, making the gov-ernment alone responsible for importing, producing, obtaining, storing, commer-cializing, and distributing a drug still

considered illegal around the world.A state entity will license producers

and control marijuana’s distribution and sale through the same neighbor-hood pharmacies that sell prescription medicines and toothpaste. Purchases by licensed users will be limited to 40 grams (1.4 ounces) a month. Pot-growing cooperatives will be encour-aged, using government-approved seeds, and people registered with the state will be able to grow up to six plants at home for personal use, as long as they harvest no more than 480 grams (17 ounces) a year.

The project passed the House by just one vote, and while the ruling Broad Front coalition has an easier majority in the Senate, Mujica has

been campaigning actively for its passage, reminding Uruguayans that their government has been controlling the market for addictive substances ever since the beginning of the 20th century, when President Jose Batlle y Ordonez wanted the state to monopo-lize alcohol production.

“Don Jose Batlle y Ordonez had courage,” Mujica said in one of his folksy nationwide radio talks, which sound much like the “fireside chats” that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used to broadcast to Ameri-cans. “The state grabbed it and made a monopoly of alcohol, because it couldn’t stop the booze, and he said “at least don’t poison the people — the booze should be good.”


LOS ANGELES — When Char-lie Annenberg adopted an abandoned golden retriever named Lucky, a new breed of philanthropy was born. Lucky was 4 in 2001 when he teamed up with Annenberg, scion to a wealthy family known for giving money away.

The 46-year-old Annenberg incor-porated Lucky into all his projects. They were on the road more than they were home as they traveled around making documentaries about people who were making a difference.

Lucky became Annenberg’s side-kick and soul mate and would eventu-ally inspire donations to dog-focused causes from the as much as $8 million the philanthropist controls annually.

Whether it was a chef at The White House or coal miners 100 feet (30 meters) underground in West Virginia, Lucky made documentary interviews easy because he made everyone so comfortable. In each small town and big city, the man and dog would make unannounced stops at a retirement home, where Lucky would steal the show.

The workload for both grew with explore.org. Using state-of-the-art cameras, Annenberg brought wildlife (bears and bees and beluga whales) to stunning life for millions of web

watchers. He and Lucky traveled to every installation in North America and everywhere they went, Annen-berg filmed Lucky interacting with people and places.

At the Delta Blues Museum in Mississippi, Annenberg cut a har-monica-backed, spontaneous free-style jazz tribute to Lucky. “It doesn’t matter what color your skin, man or woman, fat or thin. He loves them all, every day. His name is Lucky and he’s my friend.”

In 2010, Annenberg decided to use his Lucky photos and films for a travel journal on Facebook, telling the story of their trips.

Annenberg called the journal Dog Bless You, he said, because several years earlier Lucky had befriended a homeless man in San Francisco. They shared time and a sandwich with the man. As they were leaving, the man said: “Dog bless you.”

The Facebook page was all about Lucky, but it captured the fervor for pets that was growing around the country. “Today we have an audi-ence of 505,000 fans,” said Courtney Johnson, explore.org’s community relations manager.

When an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011, killing more than 18,000 people, Annenberg used Dog Bless You to send six search dogs.


LONDON — A green Daim-ler owned and driven by Queen Elizabeth II has been sold at

auct ion for 40,500 pounds ($62,755.)

Auction house Historics said the queen used the vehicle from 2001 to 2004 to travel around

Windsor Castle and to go to and from Buckingham Palace. It says the monarch at times drove the car herself, and sometimes was driven in it.

The auction house says the car comes with several modifica-tions, including an adapted arm rest with a sliding space designed to hold the queen’s handbag. It

added that the interior features lambs’ wool rugs and other extra fittings. The car was sold to an unnamed buyer in Surrey, near London, on Saturday.

Regulate Pot? Uruguay’s been there, with whiskyAssociated Press Writer

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — The government of Uruguay makes Scotch whisky. It also makes and sells rum, vodka and cognac, and has done so for nearly a century. Many people consider this sideline of the state to be an historical accident — a wasteful and even eccentric contradiction.

AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico

In this Aug. 21, 2013 photo, a man sits with a drink in hand at a downtown bar in Montevideo, Uruguay. The government of Uruguay makes Scotch whisky.

AP Photo/Explore.org

In this 2010 photo provided by Explore.org, philanthropist Charlie Annenberg, left, nuzzles his golden retriever, Lucky, at the Pipeline Beach in Ehukai Beach Park, Haleiwa, Hawaii. For 16 years, Lucky has been his sidekick, soul mate and in-spiration, said Annenberg.

Man, dog join forces for new breed of philanthropy

Royal ride: Queen’s Daimler sells for $63K

Bali PostDENPASAR - The ‘Bali

Community Forum Rejecting Reclamation’ launched an anti-reclamation video, Wednesday (Aug 27). The event was at-tended by various elements of the Indie musicians in Bali. The video launched was held in one of the cafés on Jalan Hayam Wuruk, Denpasar.

Day after day, the reclama-tion was increasingly criticized by Balinese community. The reclamation plan covering 838 hectares of land by the Governor of Bali was rejected in a creative way by the Indie music artists. They made a video and song on the strong desire of the governor that did not respond to the aspira-

tions of Balinese people.The video entitled ‘Bali Re-

jects Reclamation’ uploaded to YouTube social media had got many responses from 19,650 liked viewers. Public had been aware and were not wanted to be deceived by conspiracy of the officials who just wanted to sup-pressed the small community.

According to one of the initiators of the video launch, Jerinx from Superman Is Dead group, it was initially just a song. Then, he got an idea to make the video and disseminate it to the public, he said.

The song, said Jerinx, was sung by vocalist Guna Kupit from Nosstress band group and accompanied by vocalists

from some other Indie bands like Gold Voice, Gede Roby Supriyanto, Made Navicula, Sari Nymphea, Copok The Bullhead, Boby SID, the Jerinx SID and other musicians.

Jerinx added that the song ‘Reject Benoa Bay Reclama-tion’ was a creative way to reject the plan of the governor. “It is not just a matter of recla-mation, but it is also a problem for Bali,” he said.

An excerpt of the song en-titled ‘Bali Rejects Reclama-tion’ narrated “Develop Bali reject reclamation, Love Bali reject reclamation, Develop Bali reject to be deceived.” The public did not want to be deceived again. (dgk)

“So far, there has been no member of the Organda Bali involved to sup-port the needs of the APEC transport. Not only in the APEC, all vehicles need in every major event from the past time to support the activities are brought in from outside. Meanwhile, local businesses in the area can only fill in the additional request,” said the Secretary of the Organda Bali, Yus Suhartana.

Yus claimed to be surprised that the quality of vehicles and service had always been the reason for the event organizer (EO) to bring in vehicles from outside Bali. Actually, in terms of quality, the operational vehicles in Bali were not less good than the vehicles from outside.

“The manufacturer and brand are the same, why is the quality claimed dif-ferent? It’s ridiculous and there should be no reason for the EO not to involve the local transportation company in the event. Moreover, the vehicles brought in to Bali do not give contribution to the government because they pay their taxes outside,” he said.

He hoped the Asia Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation (APEC) Summit 2013 event could involve local en-

Organda Bali does not get “pie” of APEC SummitBali Post

DENPASAR - Next October, the Island of the Gods will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. The event involving 21 APEC economic leaders, about 42 ministers and 1,500 delegates is estimated to require 3,000 transportation means. Unfortunately, the high demand for transport is not felt by the transport entrepreneurs. Those coalesced into the mem-ber of the Land Transportation Organization (Organda) of Bali admitted not to get any portion of pie of the APEC.

IBP/File Photo

Tourists vacationing in Kuta Beach, Bali Island. The APEC summit meeting that will taking place at Bali on October will not benefited transportation sector in Bali. The high demand for transport is not felt by the transport entrepreneurs. Those coalesced into the member of the Land transportation Organization (Organda) of Bali admitted not to get any portion of pie of the APEC.

trepreneurs, particularly those in the tourism sector. So, the pie would not only benefit the entrepreneurs from outside Bali that were not the natives to Bali.

“Involvement of the local entre-preneurs will encourage the regional economic growth. Do not let all the APEC opportunities be worked on by the entrepreneurs of tourism transport providers from outside without involv-ing the local entrepreneurs,” said the Head of Bali Tourism Transport Asso-ciation (Pawiba), Bagus Soediana.

According to him, so far the Meet-ing, Incentives, Conference and Ex-hibition (MICE) events in Bali were dominantly handled by the entrepre-neurs from outside Bali. As a result, the involvement of local entrepreneurs was considered minimal. “We expect the APEC activities could involve more local businessmen. Hopefully, as the host we could enjoy the pie of the event,” he said.

An economist, Viraguna Bagus Oka, judged the role of Bali as the host of the APEC would indeed be able to lift the image of Bali as a leading tourist destination and MICE destina-tion worth visiting. But, he judged that

economically Bali was not too much benefited directly by the event.

“How many benefits can be ob-tained by local residents from the APEC Summit largely depends on the opportunities given by the policy makers to local residents. There must be a good will of the policy makers by giving the local communities as maximal opportunities as possible from the APEC Summit, not just as a

spectator,” he said.According to him, the local gov-

ernment should be able to make a breakthrough so the activities would not just be concentrated on Southern Badung and positive impacts of the APEC Summit could be evenly en-joyed. “They must be encouraged to the Eastern or Northern Bali by featur-ing local genius of each region. Thus, the participants can see the entire local

genius spreading throughout Bali,” he affirmed.

Earlier, Minister of Trade, Gita Wirjawan, in his visit to BaliTV pledged to use the services of local transportation for the delegates of the APEC to be held on the island. “We’re going to note it (the complaint of Organda Bali—Ed). Utilizing the local businesses will advance the local entrepreneurship,” he said. (kmb27)

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

An organization that call ForBali launched a video clip in YouTube recently. The organization oppose the reclamation plan on Benoa Bay because it will be use to business development and will harm environment in Bali.

ForBali launches video on rejection to reclamation

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih

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

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

25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

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

The favehotel Gatot Subroto will soft open on September 6th and bring highly anticipated budget accommodation to the otherwise ex-pensive hotel scene around Mega Kuningan, offering 150 super-clean and stylish guest rooms equipped with LCD TV’s, high quality King Koil beds, individual air conditioners, en-suite bathrooms with stand-ing showers ands complimentary high-speed WiFi.

Given its outstanding location in the heart of the capital, this latest favehotel allows for fast and easy access to Pacific Place, Planet Hol-lywood, Mega Kuningan’s famous wining and dining hotspots, and the multiple corporate headquarters and embassies.

Archipelago International’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Norbert Vas, said: “We are thrilled to be at the heart of Jakarta deliver-ing a great new hotel that is a true alternative to the many expensive offerings in the area. The favehotel group won this year’s “Indonesian Best Economy Hotel Chain Award” and we expect that the favehotel Gatot Subroto will measure up to this reputation, matching this success and emerging as a favourite amongst savy travellers.”

Archipelago Intenational to open Favehotel in Jakarta

IBP JAKArTA – After last May’s opening of the favehotel Ke-

lapa Gading , Archipelago International is now gearing up to open its 6th favehotel in Jakarta in Gatot Subroto near Mega Kuningan.

IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Existence of toilet in Gianyar denot-

ing a tourism region remains to reap a lot of complaints. Even, the results of questionnaires on the toilet sanitation conducted by the Gianyar Tourism Office indicated that 60 percent of respondents expressed their dissatis-faction because the existing toilet was less clean.

The data revealed in the Toilet Cleaning Technique (TPT) training performed by the Gianyar Tourism Office, Friday (Aug 30) indicated there were 300 public toilets in Gianyar. Of that amount, the Gianyar government managed 25 public toilets and only 15 toilets had met the international standards. In 2013, the Gianyar govern-ment allocated budget for toilet repairs and at the moment some repairs were still under progress, said the Head of Gianyar Tourism Office, Anak Agung Ari Brahmanta.

With such toilet conditions, the Gianyar Tourism Office provided train-ing to 198 toilet cleaners throughout

Gianyar County. They were from toilet cleaners in the regional working units (SKPD) of Gianyar County, tourist attractions, public market and the art market, terminals, stadiums and enter-tainment stage.

The training was also given for the readiness in supporting great events like the Miss World and APEC Summit. “Gianyar needs to make an arrange-ment so that the potential tourists are satisfied, come again and recommend Gianyar,” he said.

Meanwhile, the instructor of the training, I Gede Darmawijaya, a lec-turer from the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali, said that based on the study, during the lifetime people used toilet for 2,500 times or were in the toilet for 3 years. At least, 2.6 billion people worldwide did not have access to toilets and 2 million died each year due to diarrhea. Then, 62 percent of the public toilets in Indonesia were consid-ered dirty, and Indonesia ranked 12th out of 18 countries in Asia in the matter of toilet sanitation. (kmb16)

Existence of many broken sidewalks is moderately rea-sonable because local gov-ernment allocates minimal budget for sidewalk repair. In the Regional Budget 2013, the budget allocated for sidewalk only values at IDR 500 million. “The infrastructure develop-ment program initiated by the county government is only high-flown. As evidence, the broken sidewalks have been known, but are not prioritized in the budget,” criticized a member of Commission II of the Tabanan House, Nyoman Wirama Putra, Saturday (Aug 31). Supposedly, said Wirama, the county government did not leave the broken sidewalks to be dormant. Public facility should get top priority. More regrettably, the budget was even allocated for renovation of the Sri Wedari Park dis-mantled by investor.

This Golkar politician also insinuated the other infrastruc-ture that seemed to have been worked on haphazardly like the road pavement without paying attention to quality. “Just have a look at the Apuan, Baturiti. When the road is damaged, it is paved immediately. Then, why is the culvert not addressed first?” criticized the man from Baturiti. According to Wirama, it even wasted the budget. He hoped the incident claiming a fatality of student on the bro-ken sidewalk would be the last incident. In order words, the Tabanan County should seri-ously repair the infrastructure

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Conditions of the Ngurah Rai Air-

port suddenly turned chaotic due to passengers whacked the table because the flight of Lion Air and Wings Air was delayed on Saturday (Aug 31). They could not accept the act of the airlines that did not provide any clear informa-tion related to such delay.

“The flight of Lion Air and Wings Air is chaotic, Sir. Meanwhile, the gate attendant left its duty post so that passengers got angry and whacked the table,” said Faruq, one of the pas-sengers.

Faruq who would go to Malang said the commotion occurred at gate 18 of the domestic departure. The flight supposed to take off at 10:00 a.m. with destination to Surabaya was just departed around 2:00 p.m.

“The delay was without notice. On the airport information screen was not indicated if there was a flight delay. Similarly, the flight to Malang had no confirmation from the airline,” he complained.

The authority of Angkasa Pura (AP) I, when asked for its confirmation, justi-

fied the delayed flight for both airlines. However, the management had not known the cause of the delay that led the passengers to commotion.

“Our officer in the field reported if the Lion Air and Wings Air delayed their flight. However, we have got information regarding the delay of the Lion Air,” said Sherly Yunita, Public Relations Officer of the AP I Ngurah Rai Airport.

She explained the flight of Wings Air to Surabaya was delayed from the flight schedule at 1:50 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Similarly, the flight delay also occurred to the airline flying to Bima from the scheduled flight at 12:40 a.m., and the Lion Air flying to Cengkareng at 3:00 p.m.

“Lion Air has not provided any infor-mation on the causes of the delay. At the moment (Aug 31), it is still handled by the Lion Air. For further details about the cause, I suggest you contacting the Lion Air or Wings Air,” she added.

Meanwhile, until the news was re-ported the airline could not be contacted. The airline staff did not want to answer the calls from media crews. (kmb27)

Toilet sanitation in Gianyar unsatisfactory

Passengers of Lion Air and Wings Air chaotic

IBP/File

The broken sidewalk that killed a teenager in Tabanan

Criticized by the House, Tabanan neglects many broken sidewalks Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The death of a vocational school student due to falling into a broken sidewalk contin-ues to reap criticism. Even, the Tabanan House criticized the Tabanan government that neglected a lot of broken sidewalks. Many broken sidewalks are encountered at some points in the town of Tabanan. More regrettably, the location is precisely at the center of people’s activity. One of them is around the Alit Saputra Square at Dangin Carik and some corners of the town.

pursuant to priority.Similar criticism was re-

vealed by a member of the Budgetary Board (Banggar) of the Tabanan House, Ketut Loka Antara. This Golkar politician accused, other than having minimal budget, the infrastructure construction in Tabanan was often sluggish. Even, i t claimed casualty. “Later, we will sharpen it again in the budgetary meeting, es-pecially about the sidewalk,” criticized Loka. The man from Bantas village, East Selama-deg, also regretted the many broken sidewalks seemed to be neglected.

Up to Saturday afternoon, the Tabanan Public Works in charge of the sidewalk infra-structure could not be asked for

its confirmation. Additionally, the Division Head of Settle-ment of the Tabanan Public Works, Nyoman Sudana, could not be contacted, either. When contacting his cell phone, it was not replied.

As reported previously, a tourism vocational school stu-dent died from plunging into the Pangkung River at Tegal Belodan hamlet, Dauh Peken village, Tabanan, on Thursday night (Aug 29) because the a broken sidewalk was neglect-ed. The fateful student was Gusti Putu Agung Pratama, 14, a local resident. The victim was found dead just below the bridge. Allegedly, the victim hit the base of the cliff. Since he did not get immediate help, he finally died. (kmb30)


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“I knew that this was a role that I had to go to crazy extreme lengths,” Haze said in an interview Saturday ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition at the Ven-ice Film Festival.

Haze’s Lester Ballard descends into violence after being kicked off his fam-ily’s land and losing his parents, moving outside the social order into caves where he abandons himself to extreme degradation. McCarthy’s character was inspired by real-life killer and body snatcher Ed Gein, who also was the basis for the Norman Bates character in “Psycho,” and Leatherface of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

To prepare for the Ballard role, Haze said he dropped from 195 pounds to 150 pounds (88 kilograms to 68 kilograms) on the apple-and-fish diet while living in a cabin in the Tennessee mountains, sleeping at times in caves, often without a sleeping bag, until the December temperatures

dropped too low.“I slept in caves many nights with bats

all around. It was crazy,” Haze said. “I let everything go, just hung out with the hill-billies and stayed as isolated as possible.” The only thing he took with him “from society”: an iPod loaded with Eminem music.

Director James Franco said Haze took off for the hills without consulting the director and showed up to shoot not only looking the part — undernourished, ratty beard and disheveled — but acting it. Haze “didn’t really talk to anyone, stayed to him-self, and was like that for the whole shoot,” Franco told reporters.

The director said au-diences may think he “found some maniac in the woods and shot him.

But it is Scott giving the performance of a lifetime.”

Haze said he managed to stay “in the mind-state” while filming, conceding he was “not in this world.” He didn’t check his phone, text messages or even how his beloved Lakers were doing.

“I thought, at the end of the day, we’d have a great movie and James and I would hug each other and say we did it.” Haze said. He hopes people will look back on “Child of God” as film as pivotal as “Taxi Driver,” ‘’which was really shocking back in the day. And we get to say, ‘Hey, we did something special, and I think we did.’”

Haze and Franco, longtime collabora-tors, are part of a clutch of young per-formers in Los Angeles who are not just acting, but writing and directing films and theater.


PHILADELPHIA — Beyonce closed the first day of her husband Jay-Z’s second annual music festival with a 90-minute set that featured hits like “Single Ladies” and “Crazy In Love.”

Beyonce was the headline performer Saturday at the “Budweiser Made In America” festival in Philadelphia at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway that included 50,000 fans. She was excited and energetic as she as sang and danced to songs that satisfied the crowd. She

closed with the pop ballad “Halo.”Deadmau5, Phoenix, Imagine Dragons,

2 Chainz, Emeli Sande, HAIM and oth-ers performed Saturday. Nine Inch Nails, Calvin Harris, Queens of the Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar, Miguel and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will perform Sunday.

‘Child of God’ star slept in caves preparing roleAssociated Press Writer

VENICE, Italy — Scott Haze says he spent three cold months living in the mountains of Tennessee, subsisting on one piece of fish and one apple a day, and sleeping in caves to prepare for the role of deranged killer Lester Ballard in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “Child of God.”

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Actors Scott Haze and James Franco pose for photographers during a photo call to promote the film Child Of God at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival held from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7, in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013.

Beyonce closes first day of Jay-Z’s Philly fest

Singer Beyonce Knowles-Carter walks on the boardwalk while filming a video at Coney Island in New York, August 29, 2013.

REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

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An economist from the War-madewa University, I Wayan Ar-jana, said the MSMEs in Bali only became an imaging object of the politicians in political campaigns. Meanwhile, the problems faced such as the quality of products, market and capital were never resolved until today by the leaders elected by the MSMEs.

“When making a campaign, all social visits to the markets were

filled with sweet promises that they would struggle and promote the MSMEs, but after serving they forget their promises,” complained Arjana in Denpasar.

According to him, the govern-ment had not maximally assisted the MSME entrepreneurs. The government should help the absorp-tion of the products yielded by the MSMEs, so that they could survive and thrive.

He hoped the government could pay attention to the smallest busi-ness people namely the producers of raw materials, producers, products yielded by local entrepreneurs to the distribution to the hands of con-sumers. “The government should not only work behind the desk, but should go down to resolve the prob-lems of local businessmen from the upstream to downstream,” he said.

The Dean of the Faculty of Eco-

nomics, Warmadewa University, I Gusti Ngurah Sanjaya, formerly recognized that Bali government should pay more attention to the MSMEs that so far got minimal at-tention. Such attention was very im-portant in order the MSMEs could have competitiveness. Moreover, the current competition was getting tougher after the enactment of the free trade with some countries.

“Indeed, the government has given the attention, but less maxi-mal. As a result, our MSMEs remain weak in terms of manage-ment in a broad sense. Likewise, the government has not been maximal in handling the MSMEs as a whole such as in terms of its human re-

sources, materials and other capi-tal,” he said.

He said the government should be able to provide favorable busi-ness climate, easy and inexpensive licensing, open markets and others because the contribution of the Bali’s MSME sector to the econo-my was huge. At the moment, the sector absorbed the greatest labor force. Low unemployment rate in Bali was one of the contributions given by the MSME sector.

“The attention of other parties such as investors should also help the MSMEs. So far, they helped the local MSMEs half-heartedly so they ultimately stick around the sector only,” he said. (kmb27)

A man finishing a handicraft product that using shell for accesories in his workshop. A number of lineups judged the leadership of Governor Mangku Pastika over the past five years has not been in favor of the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) So far, the government is considered to only roll out many programs without overseeing the development of the MSMEs ranging from the upstream to downstream to keep them strong.

Five years leadership of Bali’s Governor

MSMEs just made an object of campaign

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DENPASAR - A number of lineups judged the leadership of Governor Mangku Pastika over the past five years has not been in favor of the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) So far, the government is considered to only roll out many programs without overseeing the development of the MSMEs ranging from the upstream to downstream to keep them strong.


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