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“Taking a love for yoga and breathing ... not looking at it as an exercise, but just feeling more one with the Earth and everyone being connected, it’ll definitely have a reflection on the new record,” Agu-ilera said in a recent interview.

She has “loosely been working on my record for a couple years now,” even when she was pregnant with her daughter, who is 1.

And now, “it’s like really down to business and I’ve made a lot of headway and progress on the record, and you will see sort of the difference between this record and others in the past.”

Aguilera, 34, said she wants to release a new album next year. It would be the follow-up to 2012’s “Lotus.”

“I am hoping for it to be next year and maybe around the time ...

I return for (live episodes of) ‘The Voice’ season 10,” she said.

This month she is pre-taping the beginning of season 10 of NBC’s “The Voice,” which will air next year. Season nine, with Gwen Ste-fani in Aguilera’s chair, premiered last month. The Grammy winner said because two seasons of the show tape simultaneously, she has had to take breaks from the Emmy-winning series.

“I absolutely need those breaks,” she said, laughing. “I will whole-heartedly, openly be honest about it and just say that. I think it’s a little easier for Blake (Shelton) and Adam (Levine) — the show has definitely catapulted their careers to new heights and it’s awesome — but they’re not parents yet. ...I love being a mom and I think life is all about balance and to me it’s

really important to take time off from the show.”

“It also keeps things fresh,” she continued. “They pump it out twice a year so for me personally, I feel like I’m better at my position on the show and being a coach to people if I’m not juggling two teams at once while one season is being pre-taped and the other’s airing ... which is what ends up happening.”

Aguilera says she’s been keep-ing her big voice intact in between albums and tours, and she’s learned to care less about being a technical singer and has learned to develop a “signature style.”

“Maybe when I was younger and very green ... to the business and just wanting to emulate my idols, I would try probably harder to cross T’s and dot I’s and hit cer-tain notes,” she said. “But music is such an emotion to me and it’s so felt from the heart, that at this point in my life it’s really not about the image of a great singer, but the emo-tion of a great singer.” (ap)

LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Lopez is taking on hosting duties at next month’s American Music Awards.

Producers say Lopez will host and perform at the Nov. 22 show, to air live on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los

Angeles.This will be her first time hosting an

awards show. Dick clark productions said Wednesday the 46-year-old entertainer will also perform material from her upcoming Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

Singers Joe Jonas and Charlie Puth are set to announce AMA nominees on Oct. 13. Nominees are chosen based on album sales, radio airplay, touring and social media. The show recognizes artists with fan-voted awards in such categories as pop/rock, rap/hip-hop, country, Latin and adult contemporary. (ap)

Yoga serving as inspiration for Aguilera’s new music

NEW YORK — Yoga is serving as inspiration for Christina Aguilera’s upcoming album. The pop star says that the physical and mental exercise is helping her find inner peace, and that’s influencing her music-making process.

Jennifer Lopez to host the 2015 American Music Awards

Jennifer Lopez (C) performs with dancers during the second night of the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada Sep-tember 19, 2015.

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Britain urges EU to speed migrant deportation

Syrian general lauds Russian strikes amid ground offensive

With Rooney injured, Walcott eyes England striker role

“In the next three years, Bali will be transformed into an island largely utilizing clean sources of energy,” ESDM Minister Sudirman Said noted after signing a memo-randum of understanding (MoU) with Asian Development Bank on Thursday.

The reason for selecting Bali Is-land for the project is its landmass.

Bali is considered to be vast enough to be developed as a clean energy technology center.

In addition, Bali is an island that receives the highest number of foreign tourists, so it can serve as a role model for other nations.

“Three years from now, Bali must be the first province having the required capability to produce

clean energy, which has low emis-sion,” Sudirman noted. In other parts of the country, clean energy projects are going to be maximized in the eastern region due to the wide availability of land spaces.

“Why Eastern Indonesia? Be-cause it is important to introduce gas as the main fuel to the people in that part of the country, so that the gas would be distributed across the country,” he added.

The ESDM has signed an MoU with Asian Development Bank on

the development of clean energy technology and research center in Indonesia.

“This is an effort to achieve the target of using up to 25 percent renewable energy by the end of 2025,” Sudirman explained.

A loan of up to US$6 billion and also grants that were not mentioned in detail will be offered as part of the cooperation.

This loan amount would not be disbursed at once, but it will be a four-year medium-term loan.

“We hope it can serve as a trig-ger for foreign investors to support clean energy technology,” he added. (ant)

LEGISLATOR of the Gianyar House of representatives fear that the modern stores and markets that are popping all over Gianyar will eliminate traditional markets. The legislators are planning to to monitor the situation by looking

into the licences held by these modern establishments.

“We will be looking into tourist accommodations as well as stores and markets to see if they have required licenses. We will then summon relevant agencies to ask for clarification regarding the establishment of modern markets and stores,” said Chairman of the Gianyar House of Representatives, I Wayan Tagel Winarta.

According to Winarta, rules governing the establish-ment of modern stores or modern markets in Gianyar are clearly set forth in a regional bylaw. These regulations clearly specify the number of modern stores and markets that are allowed in each subdistrict. Despite this, there seem to be modern stores and markets are every corner. It is estimated that there hundreds of such shops in Gianyar.

“There are so many of these shops and they have cropped up in every nook and cranny, one village even has three such stores. How many should be allowed? There must be firmness and control on the part of the government,” said this PDI-P politician.

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Two units panel of solar power plants (PLTS) in Hamlet Bangklet, Kayubihi village, Bangli Regency, part of clean energy power plant alternatives, can no longer be used. The Indonesian government, through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), plans to make Bali Island as the first clean energy center in the country.

Government to make Bali a clean energy center

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government, through the Min-istry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), plans to make Bali Island as the first clean energy center in the country.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Winarta said that he suspects that the proliferation of modern stores and markets is Gianyar has been allowed to happen because of weak government supervi-sion. “Have these shops gone up without requesting the required permits? Why is it so easy to es-tablish a modern store? We need to find out what is going on with permits, because if stores are op-erating without permits, Gianyar is obviously suffering looses in terms of revenue,” he said.

The establishment of modern stores or modern markets must be strictly supervised by the govern-ment. The government must be able to monitor and control such developments to make sure it is

happening according to the rules. If nothing is done, the commu-nity will be harmed, especially small merchants in traditional markets. Traditional markets will be increasingly squeezed out, and in fact conditions are already alarming. “This is clearly contrary to the commitment of the government of Gianyar to advance traditional markets,” said Tagel. (ded)

THE PrOLIFErATION of modern stores in Gianyar is a phenomenon that needs to be addressed by local governments, be-cause clearly rules are being broken. Head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba recently stated that a regional bylaw (Perda) governing traditional markets and modern markets has already been established but has recently been elaborated on in a regent regulations that is to take effect immediately. “The regent regulation has just been finalized as the results of verifications were finally issued by the provincial government,” he said.

The regent regulation specifies the requirements for distance between such stores and includes the licensing mechanism that must be complied with before a store can be established in each subdistrict. The number of modern stores has been adjusted ac-cording to the results of the study related to such conditions as population, per capita income and the general shopping rhythm of the community. “For instance, Payangan and Ubud clearly have different conditions,” he said.

When asked about how many modern stores and markets have gone up in Gianyar, Suamba said that he did not know exactly and argued that the authority to issue licenses for such stores or markets lies with the Integrated Licensing Office (BPPT). Simi-larly, the quota for modern store licenses was also not available. “There must be some quotas left but I do not remember the exact number,” he added.

Suamba also said that in order to slow down the rate at which modern stores are opening, will require more than just government efforts. Many local people have invited investors to open up such markets in their region arguing that they provide goods that are not offered by traditional markets.

“At Sayan and Bitra customary villages, modern stores have not been able to grab a foot hold because of local customary rules. If the community is strict, efforts to curb the number of stores opening will be more effective. If it is all in the hands of the government it will be difficult to manage, everyone must work together,” he said.

Suamba added that his institution continues to empower tradi-tional markets as an effort to ‘compete’ against modern markets. One way is by renovating traditional markets so that they have more modern facilities. “Currently traditional markets must be promoted in such a way so as not to lose competitiveness against modern markets. For example, in terms of cleanliness and completeness of facilities, people need to feel comfortable shopping in traditional markets,” said Suamba. (ded)

Tourists walked in Ubud, Gianyar during their

holiday in Bali Island. Legislator of the Gianyar

House of representa-tives fear that the mod-ern stores and markets

that are popping all over Gianyar will eliminate

traditional markets.

Trade Agency admits it’s hard to control increase of modern storeIBP/File Photo

IBP/File Photo

A man stand in front of wines selection that’s sold in one of modern markets in Gianyar. The prolifera-tion of modern stores in Gianyar is a phenomenon that needs to be addressed by local governments, because clearly rules are being broken.

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The show caused many a drop-ping jaw even among Chanel’s VIP travelers, including model Cara Delevingne, singer Van-essa Paradis and tennis star Maria Sharapova — who to ld The Associated Press just what she thinks of fashion’s cur-rent sportswear mania.

G u e s t s couldn’t quite b e l i e v e t h e i r eyes as t h e y e n -t e r e d

one of Lagerfeld’s most ambitious fashion shows yet.

Young Japanese fashionistas bumped in to each other to take selfies beneath a giant electronic passenger information table. Host-esses sat at check-in desks plastered in “Chanel Airlines” — with depar-ture lounge chairs sprawling for hundreds of meters (yards).

Destinations on the board — Shanghai, Dallas, Salzburg, Dubai, Tokyo — were a showy check list of all the cities in which Chanel has recently presented collections,

highlighting the global nature of one of the world’s most lucra-tive luxury brands.

But the show itself, bien sur, was in Terminal No. 5, a reference

to the brand’s famous perfume.“The inspiration is travel, long-

distance travel to every destina-tion,” Lagerfeld said, sipping min-eral water from a silver platter.

The 95 diverse ready-to-wear looks riffed off the voyaging theme — with blue, red and white sweat-ers slung around shoulders, dresses printed with electronic passenger data in long, loose A-line shapes, comfy check sandals, and bejew-eled Chanel suitcases that will — literally — fly off the shelves.

There were even comfy ‘70s flared jeans that Lagerfeld later acknowledged were made from exorbitantly-priced soft crepe.

“I like the idea of beautifully made clothes, used and worn like street wear,” he explained.

Some of the looks in swirling blue, white and red check suffered from their pure exuberance. But the collection had a little bit for every woman from every country in the world. (ap)

Model wear creation for Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collec-tion presented during the Paris Fashion Week, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 in Paris, France. AP Photo/Francois Mori AP Photo/Francois Mori

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Chanel hosts airport show amid Paris aviation protest

PARIS — The sky was the limit for Karl Lagerfeld, who re-created an entire airport under Paris’ Grand Palais in Chanel’s blockbuster aviation-themed show at Paris Fashion Week — just as violent protests by real-life aviation workers were taking place elsewhere in the capital.

Since the past few years, the land conversion in North Bali has been increasingly widespread. Pro-ductive land is not only converted into a means of tourism supporting facilities, but many lands are also converted into land plotting busi-ness. Actually, the irrigated field can still produce rice, but in fact it is so easily converted into plotting land. Following the difficulty to control the increasing rate of land conversion, it has been handled by arranging it into zones in the county spatial planning.

Moreover, the county govern-ment is now re-drafting a special regional bylaw regarding the land plotting activity. The draft of regu-lation has been prepared and just waits for an academic study to be submitted to the Buleleng House of Representatives. The draft has set various requirements to be followed when opening new land plot at par-ticular location. The requirements involve a minimum road width of six meters. Developer shall prepare the and for public facilities, at least 20 percent of the total land area.

The Division Head of the Eco-nomic and Development Affairs

at the Regional Secretary of Bule-leng, Ketut Suparto, said that the county government has so far taken measures to anticipate the rate of land conversion in this area. The measure is ranging from the provi-sion of assistance in the form of facilities and infrastructures to the management of subak and groups of farmers as well as policy regarding the reduction of land and property tax (PBB).

In terms of regulations, the coun-ty government has governed the land conversion through regional bylaw on regional spatial planning (RTRW). In the regulation, several zones have been set up and the land conversion is allowed for develop-ment of new residential areas. “The land conversion is rampant and the government has controlled it. Land conversion is only allowed for the land with minimal irrigation water and categorized into unproductive area,” he said.

Though having been controlled, Suparto admitted that the rate of land conversion of productive land is still found at a number of locations in urban to rural areas. Besides, many people getting

involved in this land plotting business are without submitting a license. Actually based on the existing regulations, any applica-tion for land conversion must be preceded with studies, both in terms of designation and technical matters. For the designation, the

study refers to the regional bylaw regarding the regional spatial plan-ning (RTRW) that mentions the permitted area for new residential development. Its technical studies will have something to do with borderline of the road or river if the location developed is near a

road or river.“If the land is possible for land

conversion, the process is continued such as by splitting the certificate to the National Land Agency (BPN). Obviously, the land conversion is the authority of the BPN,” he ex-plained. (kmb38)

DENPASAR - There are so-cial impacts resulting form the increasingly urban atmosphere of Denpasar. A number of social prob-lems affecting the the daily lives of people in this city are not easily overcome. These include: waste, congestion, over population and critical ecological issues like the rampant conversion of agricultural land. These challenges need to be understood well in order to improve things in the future. This was stated by former Denpasar Mayor, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra.

Rai Mantra along with IGN Jaya Negara who is running for his second term, is well aware of the problems faced by this city that covers an area of 127.78 square kilometers. This incumbent candidate recognized that some of the achievements made dur-ing his seven years of service as

the mayor still needs improving. For example, the achievement of human development index (HDI) that now reaches 79.41 percent still has to be increased to at least 80 percent in order to meet inter-national standard, and to make facilitate cooperation with other regions, either regionally nation-ally or internationally. “This is also required for participation with the Organization of Word Heritage Cities (OWHC),” he said.

Rai Mantra also understands that Denpasar is a gateway into Bali and as such must be managed properly, especially in terms of its human resources. The government’s aim to improve people’s welfare highly depends on the quality of its human resources that affect the development of other fields, such as infrastructure. Empowering the existing human resources is an

effective measure for tackling this issue. In terms of people’s revenue, for instance, Rai Mantra has revital-ized traditional markets in several places, allowing local merchants to prosper. “This indicates that there is an increase and strengthening of community-based economy amid the onslaught of modern markets,” said Rai Mantra.

Rai Mantra also said that creat-ing urban harmony does not hap-pen overnight and that creative programs are required in order to encourage public participation,like for example the national human development program. Rai Man-tra’s vision of a, ‘Culture-based Creative Denpasar in Balance towards Harmony,’ has a quite profound meaning. A creative Denpasar is rooted in the survival and development of the values of local wisdom. (ara)

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I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra

Strengthen people’s identity based on local wisdom

County govt drafts regional bylaw on land plotting

SINGARAJA - Although it looks difficult to be controlled, the government of Buleleng began to take serious measures to reduce irrigated land conversion into buildings or land plot business. The ongoing measures of the county government are drafting a regional bylaw that specifically governs the land plot-ting businesses. Actually the land plotting has been set forth in the Regional Bylaw No.9/2013 regarding the Regional Spatial Planning (RTRW). The drafting of this regional bylaw is meant to strengthen the existing regulation so that the rate of land conversion can be prevented optimally.

IBP/File Photo

Since the past few years, the land conversion in North Bali has been increasingly widespread. Productive land is not only converted into a means of tourism supporting facilities, but many lands are also converted into land plotting business.

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But of people who fail to obtain asylum or residency in the 28-nation EU, less than 40 per-cent actually go back. The failure of countries to fully apply the law is seen as a major flaw in the EU’s joint migration policy.

“We need to see Europe upping its game,” Britain’s interior minister, Theresa May, told reporters ahead of talks with her EU counter-parts in Luxembourg.

She said the EU “should be sending eco-nomic migrants back to their countries of ori-gin. It’s why we need to crack down on those who are abusing our asylum system.”

May urged Britain’s partners to take more refugees directly from camps outside Europe, in places like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan — which is Britain’s policy. Britain has an-nounced it will accept 20,000 Syrians from refugee camps over the next five years.

The EU interior ministers are likely to agree to crack down on migrants who have been refused entry into the bloc so they can be swiftly sent home.

This could include tougher measures to put those who have to leave in pre-departure deten-tion to make sure they don’t disappear and live illegally in EU nations.

The focus on deportation and detention makes for uncomfortable debate as Europe faces a humanitarian emergency unseen since World War II.

“The control of external borders, immigra-tion generally, and returns — it’s all a package. We have to get to work on it,” Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said as he arrived to chair the meeting.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has faced calls within her center-right bloc for a limit on the number of refugees allowed into the country.

Merkel told German public broadcaster ARD on Wednesday that limits weren’t legally possible. As the head of a Christian party, she says she doesn’t want “to take part in a competition of who can be the least friendly to refugees.” (ap)

BEIJING — A glass walkway that hugs a cliff above a scenic canyon in central China was closed after cracks developed while dozens of tourists were walking on the newly built structure.

Only one of the three layers of glass that make up the walkway was damaged so there was no safety threat, the management bureau of the Yuntaishan scenic area in Hunan province said on its microblog Thursday.

The walkway was supporting dozens of tourists when the cracks appeared with a loud bang Monday. A single pane of the 68-meter (223-foot) section shattered into coin-sized segments, according to footage on state broadcaster CCTV.

Postings to China’s Weibo messaging service described the fears of tourists who heard the panel crack, but there were no indications of mass panic or injuries.

The structure hugs a cliff side roughly 120 meters (394 feet) above a canyon in the remote mountain area renowned for its scenery. It opened on Sept. 20, and the problem oc-curred at the height of China’s weeklong Oct. 1 National Day holiday.

The post on the management bureau’s microblog said the cracks formed due to external force but wasn’t specific. It added that the walkway can support weights of more than 800 kilograms per square meter (175 pounds per square foot).

A glass walkway above London’s Tower Bridge had a similar problem in November when a falling bottle shattered the top layer of one pane, which was designed to be easily replaceable if damaged.

Such walkways have grown popular in China as scenic areas compete to attract increasingly affluent Chinese tour-ists. The world’s highest and longest glass skywalk is located in Hunan province’s Zhangjiajie, known as the model for the planet Pandora in the film “Avatar.” The structure stretches 430 meters (1,410 feet) at a height of 300 meters (984) above the canyon floor. (ap)

Britain urges EU to speed migrant deportation

LUXEMBOURG — Britain urged the European Union on Thursday to speed the deportation of people who do not qualify for asylum as the EU struggles with its biggest refugee emergency in decades. More than 500,000 people have arrived this year seeking sanctuary or jobs, sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades.

Csaba Krizsan/MTI via APMigrants climb out of the windows of a train after they arrived at the railway sta-tion in Hegyeshalom, at the Austrian border, 169 kms west of Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The migrants arrived here from the Croatian border to continue their journey to Austria.

Glass walkway over China canyon cracks with tourists on it

Chinatopix Via APVisitors walk across a glass-bottomed suspension bridge as seen from the air in a scenic zone in Pingjiang county in southern China’s Hunan province Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015.

NEGARA - Candikusuma’s rest area, intended as supporting facility for tourism in this coastal region, is still not functional even though construction began in 2014. A number of buildings appear be neglected, although there are a number of gazebo’s and a food court.

A fence along the cliff has also been set up for visitor’s safety and subsequent enjoyment of the view. The rest area however is still unusable. Local residents had hoped that the hundreds of millions of rupiah budgeted for building up the region would be put to good use.

“Obvisouly the location should already be in operation,” explained local resident Suharyono on Wednesday (Oct. 7).

Head of the Jembrana Education Agency, Nengah Alit, told reporters that the location remains out of use. Although the actually construction is complete, the buildings have yet to be confirmed by the govern-ment of Jembrana.

As planned, the location will be handed over to lo-cal customary village to be managed. However, since it has not even been handed over to the local govern-ment, it cannot be handed to the customary village.

Previously, this area was abandoned, with dam-aged buildings and plants. The local government then renovated the area including the construction of a number of buildings meant to support tourism in the area. (kmb26)

Villa Sinta, located in Bedugul was not able to present their busi-ness license, whereas it has been in operation for nearly two and a half years. On that account, the Tabanan Municipal Police suspended their operations and issued a first repri-mand owner.

Chief of Tabanan Municipal Police, Wayan Sarba, said that he had received a report from residents about the villa that was allegedly operating without a license. “After our personnel checked out the situation, the villa owner in fact could not produce the license,” he said.

According to procedure, his personnel then provided guidance to the business owner by summon-ing him to the office. Although the owner with the initials M. S. attended the summons of the Mu-nicipal Police and signed a state-ment saying that he had submitted request for a permit, whereas in fact the villa has been summoned three times and has yet to fullfill his obligation. “This is why we had to act decisively and issue first letter of reprimand,” he said.

If the first letter of reprimand does not yield a responses from the villa owner within the next seven days, police will not hesitate to is-

sue second letter of reprimand. If within three days after the second letter of reprimand is issued, he remains stubborn, the third letter will be issued. “After the issuance of the third letter, the case will be taken to Civil Servant Investigators to be followed up by the judiciary enforcement, at which point it is no longer our responsibility. Since we have only now issued a first letter of reprimand, it is still n the non-judisciary phase,” he explained.

Sarba hopes that the investors in Tabanan will immediately sub-mit a request, while those whose permits have expired will renew it accordance reviling rules to avoid causing any harm to the commu-nity. “Do not deal with Municipal Police. We ask for awareness on the part of investors to equip their businesses with permits set by the county government through regional bylaws,” he said.

Separately, a legislator from Pupuan, Omardani, expressed his appreciation for the performance of the Municipal Police in enforcing regulations. According to him, if investors comply with the prevail-ing rules it will help increase the regionally generated revenue and Tabanan development can move toward a better future. (kmb28)

Unlicensed Bedugul villa reprimandedTABANAN - The Tabanan Municipal Police have been cracking

down on companies operating without licenses. After discovering the allegedly illegal telecom towers in Tabanan and Kediri subdistrict, on Wednesday (Oct. 7), they turned their attention to a villa in Can-dikuning village, Baturiti.

IBP/fileThe tourists are enjoying their time in Lake Beratan, Bedugul.

Candikusuma’s rest area not functional yet

IBP/OloThe rest area in Candikusuma.

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ATHENS — Greece’s left-wing prime minister easily won a confidence vote early Thurs-day, and pledged to usher the bailout-reliant country out of its financial crisis by 2019, mitigat-ing creditor-mandated austerity with support for the poor.

Alexis Tsipras’ governing coalition received the backing of all 155 of its lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament, with all opposition members voting against.

Earlier, Tsipras told lawmak-ers that his newly-elected gov-ernment expects to be able to tap bond markets in early 2017 — a key condition for Greece to make ends meet without further rescue loans from its European

partners and the International Monetary Fund.

Tsipras’ speech concluded a three-day debate on his policy platform.

Tsipras was elected on a four-year mandate Sept. 20, despite ditching the anti-aus-terity rhetoric that first got him elected in January. He has now pledged to implement all tax hikes, income cuts and eco-nomic reforms he agreed to in July to secure a third bailout for Greece worth 86 billion euros.

“We want this four-year period to go down in history as the time when the crisis ended,” Tsipras said. “Our main concern will be to support the weakest.” (ap)

“We estimate that there is up to $3 trillion in over-borrowing in emerg-ing markets,” Jose Vinals, a top IMF official, said in presenting the body’s Global Financial Stability report at its annual meeting.

He told reporters that an unprec-edented lending spree has come to an end with the plunge in prices for oil, minerals and other commodities that economists attribute to China’s slowdown.

The risk is that shocks from bank-ruptcies in the developing world’s private sector, particularly in heavily commodities-dependent Latin Ameri-can economies, could be amplified in

global financial markets.The worst-case scenario, said

Vinals, is “a vicious cycle of fire sales and volatility.”

Vinals said over-borrowing in China, where an August devaluation sent global markets reeling, amounts to nearly 25 percent of the Asian power’s economic output and will need to be managed gingerly.

Seven years after the global reces-sion, he said advanced economies still need to address remaining legacies of the crisis.

For European banks, that means getting rid of some 900 billion euros worth of bad loans that

Vinals called a continuing drag on the region’s economy. Once removed from balance sheets, the report estimates, two-thirds of that amount would be freed up for new lending.

Vinals, director of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, said the fund does not yet consider it time for the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, which have been near zero since the crisis.

“We do not see wage and price in-flation having the strength that would make it necessary to increase interest rates at this stage,” he said.

When the Fed does begin to raise the rates, emerging markets are ex-pected to see further flights of capital and deeper devaluations of their cur-rencies against the U.S. dollar. (ap)

HONG KONG — China’s foreign exchange reserves shrank again last month in a sign the country’s central bank continues to support the cur-rency’s exchange rate after a surprise devaluation. But the smaller size of September’s fall indicates receding pressure on the currency.

Central bank data show that the reserves fell by $43.3 bil-lion in September after declin-ing a record $93.9 billion the previous month.

That still leaves China with the world’s biggest hoard of foreign currency reserves, at $3.514 trillion.

Beijing’s shock move to devalue the tightly controlled yuan by more than 2 percent on Aug. 11 roiled global financial markets and fueled bets by currency traders that it would fall further.

The central bank responded by selling off dollars to ease downward pressure on the ex-change rate.

The devaluation’s officially stated goal was to make China’s currency, which is also known

as the renminbi, more market oriented. But the timing of the move, coming after months of dismal economic data and stock market declines, raised concerns that Beijing was also trying to give its struggling ex-porters a price advantage.

Analysts said the smaller decline in reserves last month indicates that pressure is easing somewhat on the currency.

“It appears that as expecta-tions for a rate hike by the U.S. Fed have been pushed back and Chinese growth concerns have receded somewhat, capital out-flows out of China have eased,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics.

“As a result, the PBOC has been able to continue to hold the renminbi stable while also stepping back from FX inter-vention.”

Beijing steadily amassed its foreign exchange currency stockpile over the past two decades through buying dollars to prevent the yuan from rising too fast against the greenback and hurting Chinese export-ers. (ap)

REUTERS/Stephen JaffeInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) Financial Counsellor and Director of Monetary and Capital Markets Jose Vinals answers a question during a news conference for the Global Financial Stability Report at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru, in this October 7, 2015 photo by IMF.

Tsipras insists he can lead Greece out of crisis by 2019

China foreign exchange reserves fall $43.3B in September Up to $3 trillion in

over-borrowing in emerging markets

LIMA — The biggest risks to the global economy are now in emerg-ing markets, where private companies have racked up considerable debt amid a fifth straight year of slowing growth, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.

GIANYAR - The ranks of the Gianyar Municipal Police and the Gianyar Tourism Office conducted a joint inspection to the tourist area of Ubud, on Tuesday night (Oct. 6) and Wednesday morning

(Oct. 7). The inspection targeted bars and restaurants that offer live music. The inspection revealed a number of violations in terms of both licensing and also in terms of operating hours. Some of these

businesses were even threatened with being shut down for being repeat offenders.

The inspection of bars and res-taurants was held in response to numerous complaints made by hoteliers in Ubud. Around 01:30 a.m., tens of officers were deployed to crack down on the live music in the area.

Head of the Gianyar Tourism Of-fice, A.A. Ari Brahmanta, said that people were complaining because many bars and restaurants feature live music that is played at high volume even after midnight. Not only that, the entrepreneurs of the tourism businesses are also touted as deliberatly ignoring licensing and operating hour s regulations.

Chief of the Gianyar Municipal Police, I Gede Daging, mentioned that after examining five locations, he found that none of the bars and restaurants were not able to pres-ent complete licensing documents. Therefore, his institution immedi-ately sent out letters of reprimand and reminders these entrepreneurs that they have to equip their busi-

nesses with permits. “They are in violation of Regional Bylaw No. 3/2004 on business permits,” he said.

Daging also found some bars and restaurants that were in viola-tion of limits on hours of operation and presentations of live music. A number of business premises have repeatedly committed similar infractions. “Those who disregard limits on hours of operation are in violation of regional bylaw No. 12/1992 on Public Order. For those that have committed such viola-tions repeatedly, we will enforce the law by shutting them down,” he said.

Ari Brahmanta added that live music in itself is already a devia-tion from the concept of cultural or custom based tourism that is being applied in Ubud and which has been the foundation of tourism in Ubud since the beginning of tour-ism here.

The concept of culture-based tourism is also applied in regula-tions governing tourist accommo-dation in the area that are required

to have a Balinese cultural nuance. “Live music is already a deviation from our concept of cultural tour-ism. We understand that they are running businesses but they need to comply with the rules an d regula-tions,” he said.

Brahmanta further said that culture-based tourism in Ubud has actually becomes a major tourist attraction. However, this concept is increasingly being displaced because many businesses and sup-porting components are moving away from culture based tourism and leaning strongly towards profit driven incentives by applying as-pects of other cultures.

The head of the Gianyar tour-ism office emphasized that efforts need to made to made by all parties to remain aware of the concept of cultural tourism so that further de-viations are prevented from taking root. The tourism office promises to continuously monitor the situation and provide guidance to business owners. If there are indeed any violations, law enforcement will be applied. (kmb25)

NEGARA - Cacao farmers in Jembrana have managed to have their product pierce the Euro-pean export market. Members of Kerta Semaya Samaniya farmer’s cooperative sent 12.5 tons of fermented cacao beans to France, revealed Re-gent of Jembrana I Putu Artha, on Wednesday (Oct. 7).

A famous chocolate factory in France agreed to purchase the certified Jembranese cacao. Director of the Kerta Semaya Samaniya cooperative, I Ketut Wiadnyana, said that this was achieved thanks to the cooperation and assistance of the Kalimajari Foun-dation that has been ongoing for the last few years. The Kerta Semaya Samniya cooperative worked on improving the quality of their cacao to meet interna-tional standards and then got certification from the UTZ Netherlands.

Of the approximately 145 units of non-irrigated subak (subak abian), 22 units have been incorpo-rated into the cooperative. Since the famers’ cacao has been certified, farmers have had increasingly good sales. In 2013, farmers international standard cacao to PT Papandayan Cocoa Industry Barry Callebout, Bandung. The cooperative managed to supply this Bandung based company three times in 2015.

During is speech, Regent of Jembrana, I Putu Artha, encouraged cacao farmers to increase their efforts to avoid being encroached upon by middle-men. He also said that the government had regularly deployed extension officers for mentoring the farm-ers and troubleshooting with the aim of boosting farmers’ enthusiasm for planting cacao.

According to the latest data, Jembrananese cacao plantation cover an area of 6,226.5 hectares on which farmers are able to produce an estimated 3,000 tons of dry beans per year. However, of the hundreds of non-irrigated subaks, only 22 have joined the Kerta Semaya Samaniya Cooperative. (kmb26)

Balinese Cacao pierces European market

Bars in Ubud threatened with closure

IBP/FileThe shops in Ubud are seen in the piture.

IBP/FileA farmer is harvesting her cacao plant

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Indonesia had repeatedly de-clined offers of help from overseas to tackle the smoke, the main cause of which is companies using fire to clear land for palm oil and pulp wood plantations on Sumatra island and its part of Borneo island.

“We have asked for help and we have received help from Singa-pore,” Widodo said in a statement released on the Cabinet Secretary’s Website, adding he also wanted help from Russia, Malaysia and Japan.

“We hope this will speed up the process because fires on peat land is different from regular forest fires,” he said.

He did not say what help had come from Singapore but said he was seeking at least three aircraft from Singapore and Russia.

“What we need now are planes that can carry 12-15 tonnes of wa-ter, not like the 2-3 tonnes we have now,” he said.

The fires are set to clear vegeta-tion but often smolder for weeks in underground peat deposits.

The smoke has pushed up pollution to dangerous levels across parts of

Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and southern Thailand, disrupted flights and closed schools on bad days.

Tourism operators are fretting and health authorities across the re-gion warn people to avoid exercise when the smoke is heavy.

Indonesia routinely brushes off complaints while vowing to act to stop the burning but year after year, the problem reappears in the dry season.

It has been exacerbated this year by the El Nino weather phenom-enon which has brought unusually dry conditions.

Widodo did not elaborate on why Indonesia had now decided to seek foreign help. It had faced criticism for turning down offers from Singapore.

Indonesia’s foreign minister, Ret-no Marsudi, is expected to meet her Malaysian counterpart on Friday to discuss cooperation on the problem.

Indonesia’s national disaster management agency said last week it was hoping for rain to help douse the fires by early November, when the northeast monsoon usually starts. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesian au-thorities have seized about 3,000 shark fins that were about to be flown to Hong Kong, an official said Wednesday, a rare success in the battle against the illegal trade.

The fins from the oceanic whitetip shark, a species protect-

ed in Indonesia and banned from export, were seized last week at the international airport that serves the capital Jakarta, gov-ernment official Rusnanto, who goes by one name, told AFP.

“The fins came from around 3,000 oceanic whitetip sharks which were caught in the waters

around Java island,” said the of-ficial who works for an agency that deals with fish, referring to Indonesia’s main island.

He said the haul was worth one billion rupiah ($72,000) in Indonesia but would fetch several times that amount in Hong Kong, where shark fins are considered

a delicacy.Officials found the fins in box-

es that were due to be exported, he said. The export company was being investigated, he added, without giving the name.

Hong Kong is one of the world’s biggest markets for shark fin, which is often served

as a soup at expensive Chinese banquets.

More than 70 million sharks are killed every year, according to environmental group WWF. Huge quantities are exported an-nually to Hong Kong, and most of those fins are then sent on to mainland China. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia Wednes-day unveiled its third batch of stimulus measures in the space of a month, including a cut to energy prices, as Southeast Asia’s biggest economy battles a slowdown.

The economy is growing at its slowest pace for six years and the ru-piah is at a 17-year low, as the country is hit hard along with other emerging markets by signs of strengthening in the US and turmoil in China.

In the third instalment of an eco-nomic policy package, the govern-ment announced a cut in a range of energy prices, including diesel, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas, used by tens of millions across the country in cooking.

Other measures included the government offering to contribute towards insuring the country’s millions of farmers against losses, and making it easier for startups to

get funding. “The government is continuous-

ly improving the business climate,” Chief Economics Minister Darmin Nasution said, as he unveiled the steps in a televised address along-side other policymakers.

The decision to lower the price of diesel, from 6,900 rupiah (50 US cents) a litre to 6,700 a litre, came after President Joko Widodo last week requested a cut in fuel prices

to help industry. Fuel prices were heavily subsi-

dised for decades in Indonesia until Widodo last year scrapped the pay-outs entirely for petrol and reduced them substantially for diesel to free up money for other government programmes.

The two previous batches of stimulus measures announced in September included measures to cut red tape and attract foreign

investment. There has been some relief for

policymakers this week as the rupiah, which has been falling steeply, rebounded strongly after disappointing US jobs data lowered expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates soon.

The unit surged 3.4 percent against the dollar Wednesday. The stock market has also made gains. (afp)

Indonesia seizes shark fins destined for Hong Kong

Indonesia cuts energy prices in new stimulus measures

Indonesia asks four countries for help to fight fires

REUTERS/Olivia Harris

A woman looks towards the Prime Minister’s office, which is shrouded in haze, in Putrajaya, Malaysia October 6, 2015. Indonesia’s president said on Thursday he had asked Singapore, Russia, Malaysia and Japan for help to put out fires that have sent choking smoke drifting across the region for weeks.

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s president said on Thursday he had asked Singapore, Russia, Malaysia and Japan for help to put out fires that have sent choking smoke drifting across the region for weeks.

In a rare televised speech, Gen. Ali Ayoub said the Russian strikes have facilitated an expanded mili-tary operation to eliminate “terror-ists” — a term the Syrian govern-ment uses to refer to all armed opposition to President Bashar Assad.

The Syrian ground push got a boost after Russian warships launched the cruise missiles into Syria on Wednesday, bringing a ma-jor new military might into the war on the heels of Russian airstrikes that began last week.

The cruise missiles hit the prov-inces of Raqqa and Aleppo in the north and also Idlib province in the northwest, Russian officials said. The Islamic State group has strongholds in Raqqa and Aleppo, while Syria’s al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front, has a strong presence in Idlib.

Moscow insists it is only strik-ing militants but the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian airstrikes in Idlib killed at least seven civilians on Wednesday. Previously, at least 40 civilians were killed on the first day of the Russian airstrikes last week.

“After the Russian airstrikes, which reduced the fighting ability of Daesh and other terrorist groups, the Arab Syrian armed forces kept the military initiative and formed armed ground troops, the most important of which is the fourth legion-raid,” Ayoub said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

He added: “Today, the Syrian Arab armed forces began a wide ranging attack with the aim of eliminating the terrorists groups

and liberating the areas and towns that suffered from their scourge and crimes.”

Syrian activists said govern-ment troops pushed from areas they control in the rural part of Latakia, into rebel-held areas in the province that is the heartland of Assad’s family and Alawite minority group. Latakia is the third province to see ground operations since Wednesday.

The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman, said the troops moved from the village of Jorin into other parts of rural Latakia and Sahl al-Ghab, a vital plain that lies between Latakia, Hama and Idlib provinces.

Jaish al-Fatah, or the Army of Conquest, a coalition of rebel and militant groups that includes the Nusra Front, operates in the area. Foreign fighters, particularly from Asia and China’s ethnic Turkic Uighur minority, have also a strong presence in the area, according to Abdurrahman. (ap)

KABUL — A day after Presi-dent Barack Obama apologized for a tragic U.S. airstrike that killed at least 22 people at a hos-pital run by Doctors Without Bor-ders in northern Afghanistan, the medical charity said Thursday it is continuing to press its demand for an independent investigation of the incident.

The Oct. 3 airstrike took place as Afghan forces were fighting to retake the strategic northern city of Kunduz, which was over-run and briefly held last week by the Taliban. The insurgents, who have been massing around the city for months, launched a multi-pronged attack that took authorities by surprise.

Obama on Wednesday apolo-gized to the organization and said the U.S. would examine military procedures to look for better ways to prevent such incidents.

But scarce details on the er-roneous strike have only fueled growing condemnation by MSF, as the charity is known under its French acronym, and other aid groups. Along with a dozen hospital staffers, 10 patients were also killed. The airstrike will likely complicate delicate U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.

Speaking to repor ters on Thursday in Kabul, MSF’s gen-eral director, Christopher Stokes, reiterated the group’s demand for the probe, saying it would be important and a precedent for

non-government organizations working in conflict zones world-wide. Stokes said MSF wanted the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission “to get the facts of what happened, the truth.”

The IHFFC is based in the Swiss capital, Bern. It is made up of diplomats, legal experts, doctors and some former military officials from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia. Created after the Gulf War in 1991, the commission has never deployed a fact-finding mission.

MSF, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization that pro-vides medical aid in conflict zones, is awaiting responses to letters it sent Tuesday to 76 coun-tries that signed Article 90 of the additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions, seeking to mobilize the 15-member commission. The Conventions lay out rules on con-duct in armed conflict, mostly on protecting noncombatants.

For the commission to be mobi-lized, a single country would have to call for the fact-finding mission, and the U.S. and Afghanistan — which are not signatories — must also give their consent.

MSF says it has had no re-sponse yet from any country. “It would show a distinct lack of courage if none of the 76 sig-natories come forward,” Stokes said. (ap)

KUALA LUMPUR, Ma-laysia — Malaysia’s attorney general has defended the govern-ment over a debt scandal as the country’s state rulers push for the investigation to be resolved quickly.

The Conference of Rulers, which comprised nine state rulers

and governors of four other states, issued a rare statement Tuesday calling for a quick and transparent investigation into the 1MDB invest-ment fund.

The fund set up by Prime Minis-ter Najib Razak in 2009 to develop new industries has accumulated at least 42 billion ringgit ($10 billion)

in debt.The Attorney-General’s Cham-

bers says it studied the central bank’s investigation report into 1MDB and found no wrongdoing by fund officials. It said Thursday that the police and the anti-corrup-tion agency were still investigating. (ap)

Malaysia’s attorney general defends govt over fund scandal

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, a Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea. Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said four Russian navy ships in the Caspian launched 26 cruise missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria.

Syrian general lauds Russian strikes amid

ground offensiveDAMASCUS — Syria’s chief-of-staff on Thursday declared

a wide-ranging ground offensive by government forces, a day after Russian airstrikes and cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea backed Damascus’ multipronged advance into two Syrian provinces.

After Obama apology, medical charity

presses probe request

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The general director of medical charity, Medecins Sans Fron-tieres (MSF), Christopher Stokes, right, and MSF’s Country Representative for Afghanistan, Guilhem Molinie, left, listen to a question during a press conference at their office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015.

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GIANYAR - If you are a spiri-tualist, try to feel the vibration of the magical temple of Goa Garba or Garba Cave. Aura of the cave is so pronounced. People who aim to meditate and gain knowledge often come to this cave. This Goa Garba ancient relic is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple es-timated to have been built around the twelfth century AD during the reign of King Jayapangus.

Goa Garba is located at Sawe-gunung hamlet, Pejeng village, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar. By car, it is about 50 minutes away

or about 34 km from Denpasar. This historic site is now becoming a tourist destination visited by many foreign travelers.

Other than being known as a tourist destination with an abun-dance of temples, Bali also retains a good few of cave. One of them is Goa Garba posing one of the ancient relics having a great significance. Goa Garba is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple. The temple was formerly used as a school for the kings of Bali.

It is situated on a steep cliff, right on the bank of the Pakerisan

River. Based on information of local residents, Goa Garba is a her-mitage niche carved on the wall of cliff edge of the Pakerisan River. On top of this hermitage lie a number of pools and showers where at pool side sits a hole leading to a cave.

To achieve this cultural heri-tage, visitor must first visit a neat entrance gate with nicely arranged stairs made of river stone. Mean-while, the entrance gate is made of sand stone. It is said that the cave was made by Kebo Iwa, a Balinese vice regent having supernatural power.

There is a stone containing the footprints whose size exceeds the size of an ordinary human foot and it is believed to belong to Kebo Iwa. At the time of making the staircase, the stone is said to move by itself in accordance with the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time of step-ping down the stone staircase, its number is always different. When counting them for again and again, the amount will not be the same.

In the niche can be found several sculptures such as a stone board carved with the motif of a pot. In the meantime, in the Pengukur-

Ukuran temple can be found several carved stones and a stone door that reads Saka Year 1116 or be equal to 1194 AD. In the inscription is mentioned the name Dharmaanyar and this may be the former name of the temple.

To support the tourism sector, this Goa Garba tourist attraction has been equipped with facilities like a spacious parking lot. Although most of the population around the Goa Garba has livelihood as farmers, they have intelligent mind, so that the ancient relics can be preserved well.

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Goa Garba

Klitschko will begin training in less than two weeks at his usual camp in the Austrian Alps, the champ said Wednesday while tak-ing a brief break from rehabilita-tion in California. The fight was delayed five weeks after Klitschko was injured in training last month. The bout was rescheduled for Nov. 28 at Esprit Arena in Duesseldorf, Germany, where a capacity crowd of 55,000 is still expected despite the date change.

Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) had never hurt his calf before, but he knew rest and recovery would be preferable to fighting while injured, as Manny Pacquiao did against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May.

“I’ve had a lot of injuries in 25 years, and some of them, you can compete and you’re fine,” Klitschko said. “With others, you can’t. It de-pends. Is it really worth it to you to try it? You don’t want to be handicapped when you get the fight and then hear something like unfortunately we heard from Pacquiao, saying, ‘Well, I walked into the fight and had a shoulder injury,’ which is not a good statement to say after the fight.”

Even with the five-week delay, almost no fans returned their tickets in Germany, where Klitschko is wildly popular.

The 39-year-old Klitschko hopes for even bigger fights in 2016, in-cluding a title unification bout with WBC champion Deontay Wilder, hopefully on pay-per-view in Las Vegas or New York. Both fighters have publicly been eager to meet each other, but Klitschko has no idea whether they can resolve the politics of sanctioning bodies and Wilder’s management team at Hay-mon Boxing.

“I look forward to getting it done,” Klitschko said. “Do I have to? No. Do I feel pressure? No, I don’t.”

Klitschko has dreamed about unifying the belts since the retire-ment of his brother, Vitali, the longtime WBC champion. He hopes to entice Wilder, his former sparring partner, into the ring with the weight of history.

“Now I’m going to be a little bit cocky: It doesn’t matter how long Wilder or somebody else, (Alexan-der) Povetkin, I don’t know, who else could possibly hold this title,” Klitschko said. “They’re not going to be called the heavyweight cham-pion. They need to go through me. I’ve been around for a long time, and you’ve got to respect that. I will work on it, and I hope it’s going to happen, but if it’s not going to hap-

pen, am I going to be upset? Well, yeah, but it’s all right.”

Yet Klitschko and his brother have never been just about boxing. When asked about his future goals, Klitschko speaks excitedly about a seminar he will teach at the Uni-versity of St. Gallen in Switzerland early next year, giving his insights on management, motivation and mental strength from his quarter-century in boxing.

“The knowledge that I’m getting out of the sport, I want to give it to other people,” Klitschko said. “If I had known some of these things when I started, it would have been much better.”

Klitschko also said he hasn’t given up on his dream of fighting in the Rio Olympics, returning to the Games 20 years after his gold medal performance in Atlanta. AIBA, the governing body of amateur box-ing, has changed its rules to allow professionals to participate, but the organization wants fighters to sign with its professional promotion division.

Klitschko is still hoping AIBA will make an exception for him and other big-name professionals, and he would structure his 2016 sched-ule to be free for the Rio tournament in August. Klitschko auctioned off his gold medal from the 1996 Olympics for $1 million for charity. “I’m already thinking, ‘What would I do with that new gold medal?’” he said with a laugh. (ap)

BEIJING - Second seed Tomas Berdych crashed out in the first round of the China Open on Wednesday after losing 6-4 6-4 to Uruguay’s Pablo Cue-vas, two days after winning his first ATP title of the year in Shenzen. The Czech, the 2011 champion and the finalist in Beijing last year, hit 16 winners while committing double the number of un-forced errors to lose his opening match and now heads to Shanghai for his third event in the Asian country.

“I made one tournament title, the other one didn’t go my way,” Berdych said on the ATP website (www.atp-worldtour.com). “(I’m) just going to try

to do well in the third one, my last one. “It’s always a difficult part of the year. We have to travel a lot. The conditions are always very different, very difficult, week by week here in China. It’s not easy to adjust.”

Spaniard David Ferrer, fresh from winning his fourth title of the year in Malaysia on Sunday, advanced to the quarter-finals in Beijing with a 7-6(5) 6-2 win against Czech Lukas Rosol. Ferrer’s countryman Rafa Nadal also made his way through to the last eight with a 7-6(3) 6-4 win over Vasek Pospi-sil in the final match of the evening.

After both players failed to break each other’s serve in the opening set, Nadal, who beat his former practice partner Wu Di of China in the first round, got the all important break in the fifth game of the second and then served the match out. Taiwan’s wild card entrant Lu Yen-hsun and Ameri-can Jack Sock also advanced to the

quarter-finals.In the women’s draw, Pole Ag-

nieszka Radwanska reached the last eight when her opponent Madison Keys retired with a thigh injury after losing the first set 6-3. “Of course, this is not the way that I wanted to end up that match,” she said on the WTA website (www.wtatennis.com). “But as we all know the year is ending soon and we can see a couple of retirements. “Hope-fully she will get better soon.”

Next up for Radwanska in the quar-ter-finals will be German Angelique Kerber who brushed aside Caroline Wozniacki 6-2 6-3, ending the Dane’s chances of qualifying for the WTA Finals in Singapore.

Rising star Garbine Muguruza, who reached this year’s Wimbledon final, won her second round match 6-2 6-1 against American qualifier Irina Fal-coni and is now one victory away from qualifying for Singapore. (rtr)

Second seed Berdych suffers first-round defeat in China

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic hits a return against Pablo Cue-vas of Uruguay during their men’s singles match at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing, China, October 7, 2015.

Heavyweight champ Klitschko on schedule for November return

BEVERLY HILLS, California — Wladimir Klitschko is on sched-ule in his recovery from an injured left calf, and the heavyweight champion says he will be ready to defend his title belts against Tyson Fury next month.

AP Photo/Julio Cortez, FileFILE - In this April 26, 2015 file photo, Wladimir Klitschko, of Ukraine, holds his belts and gestures after defeating Bryant Jennings by deci-sion in a heayyweight boxing bout in New York.

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Hodgson has used Walcott mostly on the right for England, but the 26-year-old has im-pressed in a central role for his club this season and has admit-ted that is where he wants to play for the national team as well.

“I know everyone would like to see me up front,” Walcott told reporters before the Estonia game. “Playing there for Eng-land, that’s what I want to do.”

England qualified for next year’s finals in France with a 6-0 victory in San Marino on Sept. 5 and have won all eight of their qualifiers so far.

Walcott , who grabbed a brace in the San Marino game and has 12 goals in his last 14 Premier League starts, revealed that his improved form was down to advice from Arse-nal manager Arsene Wenger

and former team mate Thierry Henry, who is back at the club in a coaching role.

“He (Wenger) asked if I could be more aggressive on the pitch,” Walcott said. “I actually said (to Wenger), ‘Do you want me to start kicking people?’ That was my first reaction. He said, ‘No, I’m not saying that.’

“Again he wanted me to be more aggressive in terms of running at players, clos-ing them down, tracking back, being there and in their faces,” Walcott added.

The striker also said Henry has been a key factor in his improvement. “I have been chatting to him on a personal

level behind the scenes as well to learn things from him,” W a l c o t t said.

“ I t is a great tool

to have in the locker ... I’ve had quite a few

words with him about some of the games I’ve played. “He has just given me his analysis and if I’ve needed to ask him some questions about it, he’s always there,” he added. (rtr)

ZURICH - FIFA president Sepp Blatter faces an imminent 90 day suspension from football if the governing body’s eth-ics judge backs a prosecutor’s recommendation, a close friend and former advisor to Blatter told Reuters on Wednesday.

Blatter’s long-term confidant Klaus Stoehlker said the decision by judge Hans-Joachim Eckert on the provisional suspension was expected by Friday.

“There is no final decision, this is a recommendation from the lower part of the Ethics Committee to the upper part,” said Stoehlker, who added that Blatter had been informed of the development.

“President Blatter will be in his office at FIFA tomorrow,” he said. FIFA’s ethics code pro-vides for a representative of the Investigatory Chamber to look into a case and make a request to Eckert’s Adjudicatory Chamber to take action.

While Stoehlker said Blatter was “very calm”, a suspension would be a humiliating outcome for the 79-year-old who has been at FIFA for 40 years.

Even after the arrests of FIFA officials in May, which plunged the organisation into crisis, Blatter promised to lead a reform process before standing down in February.

If Eckert does opt for a sus-pension it would also leave the strife-ridden body without either of its top two officials.

Secretary general Jerome Valcke, Blatter’s right-hand man for the past eight years, was suspended last month after allegations he was involved in a scheme to sell 2014 World Cup tickets at a marked-up price. Valcke denied the charges.

Stoehlker’s comments were not able to be verified by FIFA bodies and FIFA’s media depart-ment directed inquiries to Blat-ter’s lawyers who said he had not

been informed of any decision.“President Blatter has not

been notified of any action taken by the FIFA Ethics Committee. We would expect that the Eth-ics Committee would want to hear from the President and his counsel, and conduct a thorough review of the evidence, before making any recommendation to take disciplinary action,” said a joint statement from Swiss law-yer Lorenz Erni and Blatter’s U.S lawyer Richard Cullen.

A spokesman for Eckert de-clined to comment. A spokesman for the Investigatory Chamber of the Ethics Committee declined to comment citing FIFA’s rules which prohibit them discussing cases.

If Blatter is suspended then under FIFA’s statutes the most senior vice-president, currently African football head Issa Haya-tou from Cameroon, would become interim president until an election to choose Blatter’s

replacement on February 26.The 79-year-old Swiss has been

president of FIFA since 1998 and has worked for the organisation for 40 years, starting as a technical director before becoming secretary general under former president Joao Havelange in 1981.

Swiss prosecutors last month opened a criminal investigation into Blatter over a Caribbean World Cup TV rights contract he signed, and a 2011 payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.1 million) to Platini, whose status the Swiss attorney general has described as being between a wit-ness and an accused person. Both have denied any wrongdoing.

Media reports have suggested that Platini is also being investigated by the Ethics Committee. Bound by confidentiality rules, FIFA’s Ethics Committee has not commented on whether Platini is under investiga-tion. Platini’s spokesman declined to comment. (rtr)

FLORENCE — Napoli forward Lorenzo Insigne pulled out of the Italy squad with a knee injury on Wednesday, depriving coach Antonio Conte of a player who has been in sparkling form recently.

Insigne scored twice in Napoli’s 4-0 win at AC Milan on Sunday, taking his tally to five goals in seven Serie A matches

— the same number he scored in total over the previous two seasons.

But the 24-year-old injured his right knee against Milan and was unable to train with his international teammates on Tuesday ahead of Eu-

ropean Championship qualifiers against Azerbaijan and Norway.

The Italian football federation said that although his condition had improved, Insigne was still in pain and would leave the Coverciano training camp on the outskirts of Florence and return to his club for treatment.

It is the second injury withdrawal from the squad, after Sassuolo uncapped forward Domenico Berardi.

Conte has called up Milan midfielder Giacomo Bonaven-tura, who will link up with the Italy squad in the evening.

Italy visits Azerbaijan on Saturday, then plays Norway in Rome on Tuesday. Conte’s team is top of Group H, two points ahead of Norway. (ap)

SOUtH SUdaN’S debut in World Cup qualifying will have to be played over two days after it was abandoned after just 10 minutes because of heavy rain on Wednesday with the score 1-1 against Mauritania.

Mauritania led after three minutes and South Sudan equalized in the fifth before the weather forced the first-leg game to be called off in the South Sudanese capital Juba. It will be re-started on Thurs-day at the point where it was stopped.

The world’s newest nation, currently embroiled in civil

war, is taking part in the early stages of the 2018 World Cup after being admitted as a mem-ber of FIFA in 2012.

Also in Africa’s first round of qualifying, Victor Wayamba’s Kenya beat Mauritius 5-2, the small Indian Ocean island of Comoros drew 0-0 with Lesotho, Burundi won 1-0 at Seychelles, and Tanzania beat Malawi 2-0.

Some of Africa’s lowest-ranked teams are this week beginning their quests to reach soccer’s biggest event in Russia in three years.

South Sudan’s first World

Cup game ended prematurely, but there was still time for the East African nation’s first goal in the competition.

Dominic Abui Pretino scored it after Boubacar Bagili had giv-en Mauritania a very early lead. Despite having no experience of World Cup qualifying, and little experience of international soc-cer, South Sudan was boosted by its first win in a competitive international last month in Afri-can Cup qualifying.

Southampton’s Wayamba didn’t score but captained Ke-nya to a big win in Mauritius to put the Kenyans in a strong

position in their tie ahead of the return leg on Sunday.

Of all the 26 teams starting qualifying in Africa this week, South Sudan is not even the biggest outsider.

Somalia and Djibouti, both among the six lowest-ranked in world soccer, will start their World Cup quests on Friday. They are unlikely to be among the five coun-tries from A f r i c a that ul-t imately make it to Russia. (ap)

ZaGREB, Croatia — Dinamo Zagreb says midfielder Arijan Ademi failed a doping test after the Croatian side’s Champions League win over Arsenal last month. Ademi played the full 90 minutes of Dinamo’s 2-1 home victory in the Group F match on Sept. 16.

In a statement on its website,

the club said Wednesday that; “Due to a positive doping test after the Champions league match Dinamo - Arsenal, UEFA instigates disciplinary proceed-ings against Ademi.”

The club said it was “surprised because Ademi was selected for doping control six times this year

and results were negative every time, as well as results of every other player who was selected for doping control by UEFA or Croatian Anti-Doping Agency.”

Though he played for Croatia at youth level, the 24-year-old Ademi is a Macedonia interna-tional. (ap)

FORmER AC Milan and Italy goalkeeper Marco Amelia looks set to join lurching Premier League champions Chelsea, after his agent Federico Pastorello ap-peared to confirm the move on Instagram.

“Dinner with #marcoamelia

(Amelia) to celebrate the contract with Chelsea FC !!! Good luck !!” Pastorello said in a post.

A knee injury has ruled out first choice goalie Thibaut Cour-tois until December and left the squad with only one experienced goalkeeper in Asmir Begovic.

Amelia was released by Milan in the summer of 2014 and the 33-year-old Italian had a short term deal with Seria B side Perugia at the end of last season but never made a first-team appearance.

Chelsea, thrashed 3-1 at home by Southampton last weekend, sit

in 16th place in the league with only eight points from their open-ing eight matches -- 10 behind leaders Manchester City.

The Blues have conceded 17 league goals already. Last season they let in only 32 for their entire 38-match campaign. (rtr)

With Rooney injured, Walcott eyes England striker role

South Sudan’s WCup qualifying debut ended early by rain

Amelia set to ease Chelsea’s goalkeeping troubles

aRSENaL’S theo Walcott is hoping to lead the line for England if Wayne Rooney does not recover from an ankle injury in time to face Estonia at Wembley on Friday. the manchester United and England captain is a major doubt for the Euro 2016 qualifier after missing two training ses-sions, with England manager Roy Hodgson reportedly set to name Gary Cahill skipper if Rooney misses the game.

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

Napoliàs Lorenzo Insigne celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Napoli, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015.

Injured Insigne out of Italy squad; Bonaventura called up

Dinamo Zagreb player fails doping test after Arsenal match

REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

The sign marking “FIFA Street” is seen in the early morn-ing outside their headquarters in Zurich October 8, 2015. FIFA President Sepp Blatter faces a 90 day suspension from football if the governing body’s ethics judge backs a prosecutor’s recommendation, a close friend and former advisor to Blatter told Reuters on Wednesday, October 7, 2015.

Blatter faces 90 day suspension from FIFA, confidant says

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Hodgson has used Walcott mostly on the right for England, but the 26-year-old has im-pressed in a central role for his club this season and has admit-ted that is where he wants to play for the national team as well.

“I know everyone would like to see me up front,” Walcott told reporters before the Estonia game. “Playing there for Eng-land, that’s what I want to do.”

England qualified for next year’s finals in France with a 6-0 victory in San Marino on Sept. 5 and have won all eight of their qualifiers so far.

Walcott , who grabbed a brace in the San Marino game and has 12 goals in his last 14 Premier League starts, revealed that his improved form was down to advice from Arse-nal manager Arsene Wenger

and former team mate Thierry Henry, who is back at the club in a coaching role.

“He (Wenger) asked if I could be more aggressive on the pitch,” Walcott said. “I actually said (to Wenger), ‘Do you want me to start kicking people?’ That was my first reaction. He said, ‘No, I’m not saying that.’

“Again he wanted me to be more aggressive in terms of running at players, clos-ing them down, tracking back, being there and in their faces,” Walcott added.

The striker also said Henry has been a key factor in his improvement. “I have been chatting to him on a personal

level behind the scenes as well to learn things from him,” W a l c o t t said.

“ I t is a great tool

to have in the locker ... I’ve had quite a few

words with him about some of the games I’ve played. “He has just given me his analysis and if I’ve needed to ask him some questions about it, he’s always there,” he added. (rtr)

ZURICH - FIFA president Sepp Blatter faces an imminent 90 day suspension from football if the governing body’s eth-ics judge backs a prosecutor’s recommendation, a close friend and former advisor to Blatter told Reuters on Wednesday.

Blatter’s long-term confidant Klaus Stoehlker said the decision by judge Hans-Joachim Eckert on the provisional suspension was expected by Friday.

“There is no final decision, this is a recommendation from the lower part of the Ethics Committee to the upper part,” said Stoehlker, who added that Blatter had been informed of the development.

“President Blatter will be in his office at FIFA tomorrow,” he said. FIFA’s ethics code pro-vides for a representative of the Investigatory Chamber to look into a case and make a request to Eckert’s Adjudicatory Chamber to take action.

While Stoehlker said Blatter was “very calm”, a suspension would be a humiliating outcome for the 79-year-old who has been at FIFA for 40 years.

Even after the arrests of FIFA officials in May, which plunged the organisation into crisis, Blatter promised to lead a reform process before standing down in February.

If Eckert does opt for a sus-pension it would also leave the strife-ridden body without either of its top two officials.

Secretary general Jerome Valcke, Blatter’s right-hand man for the past eight years, was suspended last month after allegations he was involved in a scheme to sell 2014 World Cup tickets at a marked-up price. Valcke denied the charges.

Stoehlker’s comments were not able to be verified by FIFA bodies and FIFA’s media depart-ment directed inquiries to Blat-ter’s lawyers who said he had not

been informed of any decision.“President Blatter has not

been notified of any action taken by the FIFA Ethics Committee. We would expect that the Eth-ics Committee would want to hear from the President and his counsel, and conduct a thorough review of the evidence, before making any recommendation to take disciplinary action,” said a joint statement from Swiss law-yer Lorenz Erni and Blatter’s U.S lawyer Richard Cullen.

A spokesman for Eckert de-clined to comment. A spokesman for the Investigatory Chamber of the Ethics Committee declined to comment citing FIFA’s rules which prohibit them discussing cases.

If Blatter is suspended then under FIFA’s statutes the most senior vice-president, currently African football head Issa Haya-tou from Cameroon, would become interim president until an election to choose Blatter’s

replacement on February 26.The 79-year-old Swiss has been

president of FIFA since 1998 and has worked for the organisation for 40 years, starting as a technical director before becoming secretary general under former president Joao Havelange in 1981.

Swiss prosecutors last month opened a criminal investigation into Blatter over a Caribbean World Cup TV rights contract he signed, and a 2011 payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.1 million) to Platini, whose status the Swiss attorney general has described as being between a wit-ness and an accused person. Both have denied any wrongdoing.

Media reports have suggested that Platini is also being investigated by the Ethics Committee. Bound by confidentiality rules, FIFA’s Ethics Committee has not commented on whether Platini is under investiga-tion. Platini’s spokesman declined to comment. (rtr)

FLORENCE — Napoli forward Lorenzo Insigne pulled out of the Italy squad with a knee injury on Wednesday, depriving coach Antonio Conte of a player who has been in sparkling form recently.

Insigne scored twice in Napoli’s 4-0 win at AC Milan on Sunday, taking his tally to five goals in seven Serie A matches

— the same number he scored in total over the previous two seasons.

But the 24-year-old injured his right knee against Milan and was unable to train with his international teammates on Tuesday ahead of Eu-

ropean Championship qualifiers against Azerbaijan and Norway.

The Italian football federation said that although his condition had improved, Insigne was still in pain and would leave the Coverciano training camp on the outskirts of Florence and return to his club for treatment.

It is the second injury withdrawal from the squad, after Sassuolo uncapped forward Domenico Berardi.

Conte has called up Milan midfielder Giacomo Bonaven-tura, who will link up with the Italy squad in the evening.

Italy visits Azerbaijan on Saturday, then plays Norway in Rome on Tuesday. Conte’s team is top of Group H, two points ahead of Norway. (ap)

SOUtH SUdaN’S debut in World Cup qualifying will have to be played over two days after it was abandoned after just 10 minutes because of heavy rain on Wednesday with the score 1-1 against Mauritania.

Mauritania led after three minutes and South Sudan equalized in the fifth before the weather forced the first-leg game to be called off in the South Sudanese capital Juba. It will be re-started on Thurs-day at the point where it was stopped.

The world’s newest nation, currently embroiled in civil

war, is taking part in the early stages of the 2018 World Cup after being admitted as a mem-ber of FIFA in 2012.

Also in Africa’s first round of qualifying, Victor Wayamba’s Kenya beat Mauritius 5-2, the small Indian Ocean island of Comoros drew 0-0 with Lesotho, Burundi won 1-0 at Seychelles, and Tanzania beat Malawi 2-0.

Some of Africa’s lowest-ranked teams are this week beginning their quests to reach soccer’s biggest event in Russia in three years.

South Sudan’s first World

Cup game ended prematurely, but there was still time for the East African nation’s first goal in the competition.

Dominic Abui Pretino scored it after Boubacar Bagili had giv-en Mauritania a very early lead. Despite having no experience of World Cup qualifying, and little experience of international soc-cer, South Sudan was boosted by its first win in a competitive international last month in Afri-can Cup qualifying.

Southampton’s Wayamba didn’t score but captained Ke-nya to a big win in Mauritius to put the Kenyans in a strong

position in their tie ahead of the return leg on Sunday.

Of all the 26 teams starting qualifying in Africa this week, South Sudan is not even the biggest outsider.

Somalia and Djibouti, both among the six lowest-ranked in world soccer, will start their World Cup quests on Friday. They are unlikely to be among the five coun-tries from A f r i c a that ul-t imately make it to Russia. (ap)

ZaGREB, Croatia — Dinamo Zagreb says midfielder Arijan Ademi failed a doping test after the Croatian side’s Champions League win over Arsenal last month. Ademi played the full 90 minutes of Dinamo’s 2-1 home victory in the Group F match on Sept. 16.

In a statement on its website,

the club said Wednesday that; “Due to a positive doping test after the Champions league match Dinamo - Arsenal, UEFA instigates disciplinary proceed-ings against Ademi.”

The club said it was “surprised because Ademi was selected for doping control six times this year

and results were negative every time, as well as results of every other player who was selected for doping control by UEFA or Croatian Anti-Doping Agency.”

Though he played for Croatia at youth level, the 24-year-old Ademi is a Macedonia interna-tional. (ap)

FORmER AC Milan and Italy goalkeeper Marco Amelia looks set to join lurching Premier League champions Chelsea, after his agent Federico Pastorello ap-peared to confirm the move on Instagram.

“Dinner with #marcoamelia

(Amelia) to celebrate the contract with Chelsea FC !!! Good luck !!” Pastorello said in a post.

A knee injury has ruled out first choice goalie Thibaut Cour-tois until December and left the squad with only one experienced goalkeeper in Asmir Begovic.

Amelia was released by Milan in the summer of 2014 and the 33-year-old Italian had a short term deal with Seria B side Perugia at the end of last season but never made a first-team appearance.

Chelsea, thrashed 3-1 at home by Southampton last weekend, sit

in 16th place in the league with only eight points from their open-ing eight matches -- 10 behind leaders Manchester City.

The Blues have conceded 17 league goals already. Last season they let in only 32 for their entire 38-match campaign. (rtr)

With Rooney injured, Walcott eyes England striker role

South Sudan’s WCup qualifying debut ended early by rain

Amelia set to ease Chelsea’s goalkeeping troubles

aRSENaL’S theo Walcott is hoping to lead the line for England if Wayne Rooney does not recover from an ankle injury in time to face Estonia at Wembley on Friday. the manchester United and England captain is a major doubt for the Euro 2016 qualifier after missing two training ses-sions, with England manager Roy Hodgson reportedly set to name Gary Cahill skipper if Rooney misses the game.

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

Napoliàs Lorenzo Insigne celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Napoli, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015.

Injured Insigne out of Italy squad; Bonaventura called up

Dinamo Zagreb player fails doping test after Arsenal match

REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

The sign marking “FIFA Street” is seen in the early morn-ing outside their headquarters in Zurich October 8, 2015. FIFA President Sepp Blatter faces a 90 day suspension from football if the governing body’s ethics judge backs a prosecutor’s recommendation, a close friend and former advisor to Blatter told Reuters on Wednesday, October 7, 2015.

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GIANYAR - If you are a spiri-tualist, try to feel the vibration of the magical temple of Goa Garba or Garba Cave. Aura of the cave is so pronounced. People who aim to meditate and gain knowledge often come to this cave. This Goa Garba ancient relic is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple es-timated to have been built around the twelfth century AD during the reign of King Jayapangus.

Goa Garba is located at Sawe-gunung hamlet, Pejeng village, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar. By car, it is about 50 minutes away

or about 34 km from Denpasar. This historic site is now becoming a tourist destination visited by many foreign travelers.

Other than being known as a tourist destination with an abun-dance of temples, Bali also retains a good few of cave. One of them is Goa Garba posing one of the ancient relics having a great significance. Goa Garba is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple. The temple was formerly used as a school for the kings of Bali.

It is situated on a steep cliff, right on the bank of the Pakerisan

River. Based on information of local residents, Goa Garba is a her-mitage niche carved on the wall of cliff edge of the Pakerisan River. On top of this hermitage lie a number of pools and showers where at pool side sits a hole leading to a cave.

To achieve this cultural heri-tage, visitor must first visit a neat entrance gate with nicely arranged stairs made of river stone. Mean-while, the entrance gate is made of sand stone. It is said that the cave was made by Kebo Iwa, a Balinese vice regent having supernatural power.

There is a stone containing the footprints whose size exceeds the size of an ordinary human foot and it is believed to belong to Kebo Iwa. At the time of making the staircase, the stone is said to move by itself in accordance with the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time of step-ping down the stone staircase, its number is always different. When counting them for again and again, the amount will not be the same.

In the niche can be found several sculptures such as a stone board carved with the motif of a pot. In the meantime, in the Pengukur-

Ukuran temple can be found several carved stones and a stone door that reads Saka Year 1116 or be equal to 1194 AD. In the inscription is mentioned the name Dharmaanyar and this may be the former name of the temple.

To support the tourism sector, this Goa Garba tourist attraction has been equipped with facilities like a spacious parking lot. Although most of the population around the Goa Garba has livelihood as farmers, they have intelligent mind, so that the ancient relics can be preserved well.

IBP/File Photo

Goa Garba

Klitschko will begin training in less than two weeks at his usual camp in the Austrian Alps, the champ said Wednesday while tak-ing a brief break from rehabilita-tion in California. The fight was delayed five weeks after Klitschko was injured in training last month. The bout was rescheduled for Nov. 28 at Esprit Arena in Duesseldorf, Germany, where a capacity crowd of 55,000 is still expected despite the date change.

Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) had never hurt his calf before, but he knew rest and recovery would be preferable to fighting while injured, as Manny Pacquiao did against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May.

“I’ve had a lot of injuries in 25 years, and some of them, you can compete and you’re fine,” Klitschko said. “With others, you can’t. It de-pends. Is it really worth it to you to try it? You don’t want to be handicapped when you get the fight and then hear something like unfortunately we heard from Pacquiao, saying, ‘Well, I walked into the fight and had a shoulder injury,’ which is not a good statement to say after the fight.”

Even with the five-week delay, almost no fans returned their tickets in Germany, where Klitschko is wildly popular.

The 39-year-old Klitschko hopes for even bigger fights in 2016, in-cluding a title unification bout with WBC champion Deontay Wilder, hopefully on pay-per-view in Las Vegas or New York. Both fighters have publicly been eager to meet each other, but Klitschko has no idea whether they can resolve the politics of sanctioning bodies and Wilder’s management team at Hay-mon Boxing.

“I look forward to getting it done,” Klitschko said. “Do I have to? No. Do I feel pressure? No, I don’t.”

Klitschko has dreamed about unifying the belts since the retire-ment of his brother, Vitali, the longtime WBC champion. He hopes to entice Wilder, his former sparring partner, into the ring with the weight of history.

“Now I’m going to be a little bit cocky: It doesn’t matter how long Wilder or somebody else, (Alexan-der) Povetkin, I don’t know, who else could possibly hold this title,” Klitschko said. “They’re not going to be called the heavyweight cham-pion. They need to go through me. I’ve been around for a long time, and you’ve got to respect that. I will work on it, and I hope it’s going to happen, but if it’s not going to hap-

pen, am I going to be upset? Well, yeah, but it’s all right.”

Yet Klitschko and his brother have never been just about boxing. When asked about his future goals, Klitschko speaks excitedly about a seminar he will teach at the Uni-versity of St. Gallen in Switzerland early next year, giving his insights on management, motivation and mental strength from his quarter-century in boxing.

“The knowledge that I’m getting out of the sport, I want to give it to other people,” Klitschko said. “If I had known some of these things when I started, it would have been much better.”

Klitschko also said he hasn’t given up on his dream of fighting in the Rio Olympics, returning to the Games 20 years after his gold medal performance in Atlanta. AIBA, the governing body of amateur box-ing, has changed its rules to allow professionals to participate, but the organization wants fighters to sign with its professional promotion division.

Klitschko is still hoping AIBA will make an exception for him and other big-name professionals, and he would structure his 2016 sched-ule to be free for the Rio tournament in August. Klitschko auctioned off his gold medal from the 1996 Olympics for $1 million for charity. “I’m already thinking, ‘What would I do with that new gold medal?’” he said with a laugh. (ap)

BEIJING - Second seed Tomas Berdych crashed out in the first round of the China Open on Wednesday after losing 6-4 6-4 to Uruguay’s Pablo Cue-vas, two days after winning his first ATP title of the year in Shenzen. The Czech, the 2011 champion and the finalist in Beijing last year, hit 16 winners while committing double the number of un-forced errors to lose his opening match and now heads to Shanghai for his third event in the Asian country.

“I made one tournament title, the other one didn’t go my way,” Berdych said on the ATP website (www.atp-worldtour.com). “(I’m) just going to try

to do well in the third one, my last one. “It’s always a difficult part of the year. We have to travel a lot. The conditions are always very different, very difficult, week by week here in China. It’s not easy to adjust.”

Spaniard David Ferrer, fresh from winning his fourth title of the year in Malaysia on Sunday, advanced to the quarter-finals in Beijing with a 7-6(5) 6-2 win against Czech Lukas Rosol. Ferrer’s countryman Rafa Nadal also made his way through to the last eight with a 7-6(3) 6-4 win over Vasek Pospi-sil in the final match of the evening.

After both players failed to break each other’s serve in the opening set, Nadal, who beat his former practice partner Wu Di of China in the first round, got the all important break in the fifth game of the second and then served the match out. Taiwan’s wild card entrant Lu Yen-hsun and Ameri-can Jack Sock also advanced to the

quarter-finals.In the women’s draw, Pole Ag-

nieszka Radwanska reached the last eight when her opponent Madison Keys retired with a thigh injury after losing the first set 6-3. “Of course, this is not the way that I wanted to end up that match,” she said on the WTA website (www.wtatennis.com). “But as we all know the year is ending soon and we can see a couple of retirements. “Hope-fully she will get better soon.”

Next up for Radwanska in the quar-ter-finals will be German Angelique Kerber who brushed aside Caroline Wozniacki 6-2 6-3, ending the Dane’s chances of qualifying for the WTA Finals in Singapore.

Rising star Garbine Muguruza, who reached this year’s Wimbledon final, won her second round match 6-2 6-1 against American qualifier Irina Fal-coni and is now one victory away from qualifying for Singapore. (rtr)

Second seed Berdych suffers first-round defeat in China

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic hits a return against Pablo Cue-vas of Uruguay during their men’s singles match at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing, China, October 7, 2015.

Heavyweight champ Klitschko on schedule for November return

BEVERLY HILLS, California — Wladimir Klitschko is on sched-ule in his recovery from an injured left calf, and the heavyweight champion says he will be ready to defend his title belts against Tyson Fury next month.

AP Photo/Julio Cortez, FileFILE - In this April 26, 2015 file photo, Wladimir Klitschko, of Ukraine, holds his belts and gestures after defeating Bryant Jennings by deci-sion in a heayyweight boxing bout in New York.

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Indonesia had repeatedly de-clined offers of help from overseas to tackle the smoke, the main cause of which is companies using fire to clear land for palm oil and pulp wood plantations on Sumatra island and its part of Borneo island.

“We have asked for help and we have received help from Singa-pore,” Widodo said in a statement released on the Cabinet Secretary’s Website, adding he also wanted help from Russia, Malaysia and Japan.

“We hope this will speed up the process because fires on peat land is different from regular forest fires,” he said.

He did not say what help had come from Singapore but said he was seeking at least three aircraft from Singapore and Russia.

“What we need now are planes that can carry 12-15 tonnes of wa-ter, not like the 2-3 tonnes we have now,” he said.

The fires are set to clear vegeta-tion but often smolder for weeks in underground peat deposits.

The smoke has pushed up pollution to dangerous levels across parts of

Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and southern Thailand, disrupted flights and closed schools on bad days.

Tourism operators are fretting and health authorities across the re-gion warn people to avoid exercise when the smoke is heavy.

Indonesia routinely brushes off complaints while vowing to act to stop the burning but year after year, the problem reappears in the dry season.

It has been exacerbated this year by the El Nino weather phenom-enon which has brought unusually dry conditions.

Widodo did not elaborate on why Indonesia had now decided to seek foreign help. It had faced criticism for turning down offers from Singapore.

Indonesia’s foreign minister, Ret-no Marsudi, is expected to meet her Malaysian counterpart on Friday to discuss cooperation on the problem.

Indonesia’s national disaster management agency said last week it was hoping for rain to help douse the fires by early November, when the northeast monsoon usually starts. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesian au-thorities have seized about 3,000 shark fins that were about to be flown to Hong Kong, an official said Wednesday, a rare success in the battle against the illegal trade.

The fins from the oceanic whitetip shark, a species protect-

ed in Indonesia and banned from export, were seized last week at the international airport that serves the capital Jakarta, gov-ernment official Rusnanto, who goes by one name, told AFP.

“The fins came from around 3,000 oceanic whitetip sharks which were caught in the waters

around Java island,” said the of-ficial who works for an agency that deals with fish, referring to Indonesia’s main island.

He said the haul was worth one billion rupiah ($72,000) in Indonesia but would fetch several times that amount in Hong Kong, where shark fins are considered

a delicacy.Officials found the fins in box-

es that were due to be exported, he said. The export company was being investigated, he added, without giving the name.

Hong Kong is one of the world’s biggest markets for shark fin, which is often served

as a soup at expensive Chinese banquets.

More than 70 million sharks are killed every year, according to environmental group WWF. Huge quantities are exported an-nually to Hong Kong, and most of those fins are then sent on to mainland China. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia Wednes-day unveiled its third batch of stimulus measures in the space of a month, including a cut to energy prices, as Southeast Asia’s biggest economy battles a slowdown.

The economy is growing at its slowest pace for six years and the ru-piah is at a 17-year low, as the country is hit hard along with other emerging markets by signs of strengthening in the US and turmoil in China.

In the third instalment of an eco-nomic policy package, the govern-ment announced a cut in a range of energy prices, including diesel, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas, used by tens of millions across the country in cooking.

Other measures included the government offering to contribute towards insuring the country’s millions of farmers against losses, and making it easier for startups to

get funding. “The government is continuous-

ly improving the business climate,” Chief Economics Minister Darmin Nasution said, as he unveiled the steps in a televised address along-side other policymakers.

The decision to lower the price of diesel, from 6,900 rupiah (50 US cents) a litre to 6,700 a litre, came after President Joko Widodo last week requested a cut in fuel prices

to help industry. Fuel prices were heavily subsi-

dised for decades in Indonesia until Widodo last year scrapped the pay-outs entirely for petrol and reduced them substantially for diesel to free up money for other government programmes.

The two previous batches of stimulus measures announced in September included measures to cut red tape and attract foreign

investment. There has been some relief for

policymakers this week as the rupiah, which has been falling steeply, rebounded strongly after disappointing US jobs data lowered expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates soon.

The unit surged 3.4 percent against the dollar Wednesday. The stock market has also made gains. (afp)

Indonesia seizes shark fins destined for Hong Kong

Indonesia cuts energy prices in new stimulus measures

Indonesia asks four countries for help to fight fires

REUTERS/Olivia Harris

A woman looks towards the Prime Minister’s office, which is shrouded in haze, in Putrajaya, Malaysia October 6, 2015. Indonesia’s president said on Thursday he had asked Singapore, Russia, Malaysia and Japan for help to put out fires that have sent choking smoke drifting across the region for weeks.

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s president said on Thursday he had asked Singapore, Russia, Malaysia and Japan for help to put out fires that have sent choking smoke drifting across the region for weeks.

In a rare televised speech, Gen. Ali Ayoub said the Russian strikes have facilitated an expanded mili-tary operation to eliminate “terror-ists” — a term the Syrian govern-ment uses to refer to all armed opposition to President Bashar Assad.

The Syrian ground push got a boost after Russian warships launched the cruise missiles into Syria on Wednesday, bringing a ma-jor new military might into the war on the heels of Russian airstrikes that began last week.

The cruise missiles hit the prov-inces of Raqqa and Aleppo in the north and also Idlib province in the northwest, Russian officials said. The Islamic State group has strongholds in Raqqa and Aleppo, while Syria’s al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front, has a strong presence in Idlib.

Moscow insists it is only strik-ing militants but the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian airstrikes in Idlib killed at least seven civilians on Wednesday. Previously, at least 40 civilians were killed on the first day of the Russian airstrikes last week.

“After the Russian airstrikes, which reduced the fighting ability of Daesh and other terrorist groups, the Arab Syrian armed forces kept the military initiative and formed armed ground troops, the most important of which is the fourth legion-raid,” Ayoub said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

He added: “Today, the Syrian Arab armed forces began a wide ranging attack with the aim of eliminating the terrorists groups

and liberating the areas and towns that suffered from their scourge and crimes.”

Syrian activists said govern-ment troops pushed from areas they control in the rural part of Latakia, into rebel-held areas in the province that is the heartland of Assad’s family and Alawite minority group. Latakia is the third province to see ground operations since Wednesday.

The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman, said the troops moved from the village of Jorin into other parts of rural Latakia and Sahl al-Ghab, a vital plain that lies between Latakia, Hama and Idlib provinces.

Jaish al-Fatah, or the Army of Conquest, a coalition of rebel and militant groups that includes the Nusra Front, operates in the area. Foreign fighters, particularly from Asia and China’s ethnic Turkic Uighur minority, have also a strong presence in the area, according to Abdurrahman. (ap)

KABUL — A day after Presi-dent Barack Obama apologized for a tragic U.S. airstrike that killed at least 22 people at a hos-pital run by Doctors Without Bor-ders in northern Afghanistan, the medical charity said Thursday it is continuing to press its demand for an independent investigation of the incident.

The Oct. 3 airstrike took place as Afghan forces were fighting to retake the strategic northern city of Kunduz, which was over-run and briefly held last week by the Taliban. The insurgents, who have been massing around the city for months, launched a multi-pronged attack that took authorities by surprise.

Obama on Wednesday apolo-gized to the organization and said the U.S. would examine military procedures to look for better ways to prevent such incidents.

But scarce details on the er-roneous strike have only fueled growing condemnation by MSF, as the charity is known under its French acronym, and other aid groups. Along with a dozen hospital staffers, 10 patients were also killed. The airstrike will likely complicate delicate U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.

Speaking to repor ters on Thursday in Kabul, MSF’s gen-eral director, Christopher Stokes, reiterated the group’s demand for the probe, saying it would be important and a precedent for

non-government organizations working in conflict zones world-wide. Stokes said MSF wanted the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission “to get the facts of what happened, the truth.”

The IHFFC is based in the Swiss capital, Bern. It is made up of diplomats, legal experts, doctors and some former military officials from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia. Created after the Gulf War in 1991, the commission has never deployed a fact-finding mission.

MSF, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization that pro-vides medical aid in conflict zones, is awaiting responses to letters it sent Tuesday to 76 coun-tries that signed Article 90 of the additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions, seeking to mobilize the 15-member commission. The Conventions lay out rules on con-duct in armed conflict, mostly on protecting noncombatants.

For the commission to be mobi-lized, a single country would have to call for the fact-finding mission, and the U.S. and Afghanistan — which are not signatories — must also give their consent.

MSF says it has had no re-sponse yet from any country. “It would show a distinct lack of courage if none of the 76 sig-natories come forward,” Stokes said. (ap)

KUALA LUMPUR, Ma-laysia — Malaysia’s attorney general has defended the govern-ment over a debt scandal as the country’s state rulers push for the investigation to be resolved quickly.

The Conference of Rulers, which comprised nine state rulers

and governors of four other states, issued a rare statement Tuesday calling for a quick and transparent investigation into the 1MDB invest-ment fund.

The fund set up by Prime Minis-ter Najib Razak in 2009 to develop new industries has accumulated at least 42 billion ringgit ($10 billion)

in debt.The Attorney-General’s Cham-

bers says it studied the central bank’s investigation report into 1MDB and found no wrongdoing by fund officials. It said Thursday that the police and the anti-corrup-tion agency were still investigating. (ap)

Malaysia’s attorney general defends govt over fund scandal

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, a Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea. Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said four Russian navy ships in the Caspian launched 26 cruise missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria.

Syrian general lauds Russian strikes amid

ground offensiveDAMASCUS — Syria’s chief-of-staff on Thursday declared

a wide-ranging ground offensive by government forces, a day after Russian airstrikes and cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea backed Damascus’ multipronged advance into two Syrian provinces.

After Obama apology, medical charity

presses probe request

AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini

The general director of medical charity, Medecins Sans Fron-tieres (MSF), Christopher Stokes, right, and MSF’s Country Representative for Afghanistan, Guilhem Molinie, left, listen to a question during a press conference at their office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015.

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ATHENS — Greece’s left-wing prime minister easily won a confidence vote early Thurs-day, and pledged to usher the bailout-reliant country out of its financial crisis by 2019, mitigat-ing creditor-mandated austerity with support for the poor.

Alexis Tsipras’ governing coalition received the backing of all 155 of its lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament, with all opposition members voting against.

Earlier, Tsipras told lawmak-ers that his newly-elected gov-ernment expects to be able to tap bond markets in early 2017 — a key condition for Greece to make ends meet without further rescue loans from its European

partners and the International Monetary Fund.

Tsipras’ speech concluded a three-day debate on his policy platform.

Tsipras was elected on a four-year mandate Sept. 20, despite ditching the anti-aus-terity rhetoric that first got him elected in January. He has now pledged to implement all tax hikes, income cuts and eco-nomic reforms he agreed to in July to secure a third bailout for Greece worth 86 billion euros.

“We want this four-year period to go down in history as the time when the crisis ended,” Tsipras said. “Our main concern will be to support the weakest.” (ap)

“We estimate that there is up to $3 trillion in over-borrowing in emerg-ing markets,” Jose Vinals, a top IMF official, said in presenting the body’s Global Financial Stability report at its annual meeting.

He told reporters that an unprec-edented lending spree has come to an end with the plunge in prices for oil, minerals and other commodities that economists attribute to China’s slowdown.

The risk is that shocks from bank-ruptcies in the developing world’s private sector, particularly in heavily commodities-dependent Latin Ameri-can economies, could be amplified in

global financial markets.The worst-case scenario, said

Vinals, is “a vicious cycle of fire sales and volatility.”

Vinals said over-borrowing in China, where an August devaluation sent global markets reeling, amounts to nearly 25 percent of the Asian power’s economic output and will need to be managed gingerly.

Seven years after the global reces-sion, he said advanced economies still need to address remaining legacies of the crisis.

For European banks, that means getting rid of some 900 billion euros worth of bad loans that

Vinals called a continuing drag on the region’s economy. Once removed from balance sheets, the report estimates, two-thirds of that amount would be freed up for new lending.

Vinals, director of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, said the fund does not yet consider it time for the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, which have been near zero since the crisis.

“We do not see wage and price in-flation having the strength that would make it necessary to increase interest rates at this stage,” he said.

When the Fed does begin to raise the rates, emerging markets are ex-pected to see further flights of capital and deeper devaluations of their cur-rencies against the U.S. dollar. (ap)

HONG KONG — China’s foreign exchange reserves shrank again last month in a sign the country’s central bank continues to support the cur-rency’s exchange rate after a surprise devaluation. But the smaller size of September’s fall indicates receding pressure on the currency.

Central bank data show that the reserves fell by $43.3 bil-lion in September after declin-ing a record $93.9 billion the previous month.

That still leaves China with the world’s biggest hoard of foreign currency reserves, at $3.514 trillion.

Beijing’s shock move to devalue the tightly controlled yuan by more than 2 percent on Aug. 11 roiled global financial markets and fueled bets by currency traders that it would fall further.

The central bank responded by selling off dollars to ease downward pressure on the ex-change rate.

The devaluation’s officially stated goal was to make China’s currency, which is also known

as the renminbi, more market oriented. But the timing of the move, coming after months of dismal economic data and stock market declines, raised concerns that Beijing was also trying to give its struggling ex-porters a price advantage.

Analysts said the smaller decline in reserves last month indicates that pressure is easing somewhat on the currency.

“It appears that as expecta-tions for a rate hike by the U.S. Fed have been pushed back and Chinese growth concerns have receded somewhat, capital out-flows out of China have eased,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics.

“As a result, the PBOC has been able to continue to hold the renminbi stable while also stepping back from FX inter-vention.”

Beijing steadily amassed its foreign exchange currency stockpile over the past two decades through buying dollars to prevent the yuan from rising too fast against the greenback and hurting Chinese export-ers. (ap)

REUTERS/Stephen JaffeInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) Financial Counsellor and Director of Monetary and Capital Markets Jose Vinals answers a question during a news conference for the Global Financial Stability Report at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru, in this October 7, 2015 photo by IMF.

Tsipras insists he can lead Greece out of crisis by 2019

China foreign exchange reserves fall $43.3B in September Up to $3 trillion in

over-borrowing in emerging markets

LIMA — The biggest risks to the global economy are now in emerg-ing markets, where private companies have racked up considerable debt amid a fifth straight year of slowing growth, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.

GIANYAR - The ranks of the Gianyar Municipal Police and the Gianyar Tourism Office conducted a joint inspection to the tourist area of Ubud, on Tuesday night (Oct. 6) and Wednesday morning

(Oct. 7). The inspection targeted bars and restaurants that offer live music. The inspection revealed a number of violations in terms of both licensing and also in terms of operating hours. Some of these

businesses were even threatened with being shut down for being repeat offenders.

The inspection of bars and res-taurants was held in response to numerous complaints made by hoteliers in Ubud. Around 01:30 a.m., tens of officers were deployed to crack down on the live music in the area.

Head of the Gianyar Tourism Of-fice, A.A. Ari Brahmanta, said that people were complaining because many bars and restaurants feature live music that is played at high volume even after midnight. Not only that, the entrepreneurs of the tourism businesses are also touted as deliberatly ignoring licensing and operating hour s regulations.

Chief of the Gianyar Municipal Police, I Gede Daging, mentioned that after examining five locations, he found that none of the bars and restaurants were not able to pres-ent complete licensing documents. Therefore, his institution immedi-ately sent out letters of reprimand and reminders these entrepreneurs that they have to equip their busi-

nesses with permits. “They are in violation of Regional Bylaw No. 3/2004 on business permits,” he said.

Daging also found some bars and restaurants that were in viola-tion of limits on hours of operation and presentations of live music. A number of business premises have repeatedly committed similar infractions. “Those who disregard limits on hours of operation are in violation of regional bylaw No. 12/1992 on Public Order. For those that have committed such viola-tions repeatedly, we will enforce the law by shutting them down,” he said.

Ari Brahmanta added that live music in itself is already a devia-tion from the concept of cultural or custom based tourism that is being applied in Ubud and which has been the foundation of tourism in Ubud since the beginning of tour-ism here.

The concept of culture-based tourism is also applied in regula-tions governing tourist accommo-dation in the area that are required

to have a Balinese cultural nuance. “Live music is already a deviation from our concept of cultural tour-ism. We understand that they are running businesses but they need to comply with the rules an d regula-tions,” he said.

Brahmanta further said that culture-based tourism in Ubud has actually becomes a major tourist attraction. However, this concept is increasingly being displaced because many businesses and sup-porting components are moving away from culture based tourism and leaning strongly towards profit driven incentives by applying as-pects of other cultures.

The head of the Gianyar tour-ism office emphasized that efforts need to made to made by all parties to remain aware of the concept of cultural tourism so that further de-viations are prevented from taking root. The tourism office promises to continuously monitor the situation and provide guidance to business owners. If there are indeed any violations, law enforcement will be applied. (kmb25)

NEGARA - Cacao farmers in Jembrana have managed to have their product pierce the Euro-pean export market. Members of Kerta Semaya Samaniya farmer’s cooperative sent 12.5 tons of fermented cacao beans to France, revealed Re-gent of Jembrana I Putu Artha, on Wednesday (Oct. 7).

A famous chocolate factory in France agreed to purchase the certified Jembranese cacao. Director of the Kerta Semaya Samaniya cooperative, I Ketut Wiadnyana, said that this was achieved thanks to the cooperation and assistance of the Kalimajari Foun-dation that has been ongoing for the last few years. The Kerta Semaya Samniya cooperative worked on improving the quality of their cacao to meet interna-tional standards and then got certification from the UTZ Netherlands.

Of the approximately 145 units of non-irrigated subak (subak abian), 22 units have been incorpo-rated into the cooperative. Since the famers’ cacao has been certified, farmers have had increasingly good sales. In 2013, farmers international standard cacao to PT Papandayan Cocoa Industry Barry Callebout, Bandung. The cooperative managed to supply this Bandung based company three times in 2015.

During is speech, Regent of Jembrana, I Putu Artha, encouraged cacao farmers to increase their efforts to avoid being encroached upon by middle-men. He also said that the government had regularly deployed extension officers for mentoring the farm-ers and troubleshooting with the aim of boosting farmers’ enthusiasm for planting cacao.

According to the latest data, Jembrananese cacao plantation cover an area of 6,226.5 hectares on which farmers are able to produce an estimated 3,000 tons of dry beans per year. However, of the hundreds of non-irrigated subaks, only 22 have joined the Kerta Semaya Samaniya Cooperative. (kmb26)

Balinese Cacao pierces European market

Bars in Ubud threatened with closure

IBP/FileThe shops in Ubud are seen in the piture.

IBP/FileA farmer is harvesting her cacao plant

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But of people who fail to obtain asylum or residency in the 28-nation EU, less than 40 per-cent actually go back. The failure of countries to fully apply the law is seen as a major flaw in the EU’s joint migration policy.

“We need to see Europe upping its game,” Britain’s interior minister, Theresa May, told reporters ahead of talks with her EU counter-parts in Luxembourg.

She said the EU “should be sending eco-nomic migrants back to their countries of ori-gin. It’s why we need to crack down on those who are abusing our asylum system.”

May urged Britain’s partners to take more refugees directly from camps outside Europe, in places like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan — which is Britain’s policy. Britain has an-nounced it will accept 20,000 Syrians from refugee camps over the next five years.

The EU interior ministers are likely to agree to crack down on migrants who have been refused entry into the bloc so they can be swiftly sent home.

This could include tougher measures to put those who have to leave in pre-departure deten-tion to make sure they don’t disappear and live illegally in EU nations.

The focus on deportation and detention makes for uncomfortable debate as Europe faces a humanitarian emergency unseen since World War II.

“The control of external borders, immigra-tion generally, and returns — it’s all a package. We have to get to work on it,” Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said as he arrived to chair the meeting.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has faced calls within her center-right bloc for a limit on the number of refugees allowed into the country.

Merkel told German public broadcaster ARD on Wednesday that limits weren’t legally possible. As the head of a Christian party, she says she doesn’t want “to take part in a competition of who can be the least friendly to refugees.” (ap)

BEIJING — A glass walkway that hugs a cliff above a scenic canyon in central China was closed after cracks developed while dozens of tourists were walking on the newly built structure.

Only one of the three layers of glass that make up the walkway was damaged so there was no safety threat, the management bureau of the Yuntaishan scenic area in Hunan province said on its microblog Thursday.

The walkway was supporting dozens of tourists when the cracks appeared with a loud bang Monday. A single pane of the 68-meter (223-foot) section shattered into coin-sized segments, according to footage on state broadcaster CCTV.

Postings to China’s Weibo messaging service described the fears of tourists who heard the panel crack, but there were no indications of mass panic or injuries.

The structure hugs a cliff side roughly 120 meters (394 feet) above a canyon in the remote mountain area renowned for its scenery. It opened on Sept. 20, and the problem oc-curred at the height of China’s weeklong Oct. 1 National Day holiday.

The post on the management bureau’s microblog said the cracks formed due to external force but wasn’t specific. It added that the walkway can support weights of more than 800 kilograms per square meter (175 pounds per square foot).

A glass walkway above London’s Tower Bridge had a similar problem in November when a falling bottle shattered the top layer of one pane, which was designed to be easily replaceable if damaged.

Such walkways have grown popular in China as scenic areas compete to attract increasingly affluent Chinese tour-ists. The world’s highest and longest glass skywalk is located in Hunan province’s Zhangjiajie, known as the model for the planet Pandora in the film “Avatar.” The structure stretches 430 meters (1,410 feet) at a height of 300 meters (984) above the canyon floor. (ap)

Britain urges EU to speed migrant deportation

LUXEMBOURG — Britain urged the European Union on Thursday to speed the deportation of people who do not qualify for asylum as the EU struggles with its biggest refugee emergency in decades. More than 500,000 people have arrived this year seeking sanctuary or jobs, sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades.

Csaba Krizsan/MTI via APMigrants climb out of the windows of a train after they arrived at the railway sta-tion in Hegyeshalom, at the Austrian border, 169 kms west of Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The migrants arrived here from the Croatian border to continue their journey to Austria.

Glass walkway over China canyon cracks with tourists on it

Chinatopix Via APVisitors walk across a glass-bottomed suspension bridge as seen from the air in a scenic zone in Pingjiang county in southern China’s Hunan province Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015.

NEGARA - Candikusuma’s rest area, intended as supporting facility for tourism in this coastal region, is still not functional even though construction began in 2014. A number of buildings appear be neglected, although there are a number of gazebo’s and a food court.

A fence along the cliff has also been set up for visitor’s safety and subsequent enjoyment of the view. The rest area however is still unusable. Local residents had hoped that the hundreds of millions of rupiah budgeted for building up the region would be put to good use.

“Obvisouly the location should already be in operation,” explained local resident Suharyono on Wednesday (Oct. 7).

Head of the Jembrana Education Agency, Nengah Alit, told reporters that the location remains out of use. Although the actually construction is complete, the buildings have yet to be confirmed by the govern-ment of Jembrana.

As planned, the location will be handed over to lo-cal customary village to be managed. However, since it has not even been handed over to the local govern-ment, it cannot be handed to the customary village.

Previously, this area was abandoned, with dam-aged buildings and plants. The local government then renovated the area including the construction of a number of buildings meant to support tourism in the area. (kmb26)

Villa Sinta, located in Bedugul was not able to present their busi-ness license, whereas it has been in operation for nearly two and a half years. On that account, the Tabanan Municipal Police suspended their operations and issued a first repri-mand owner.

Chief of Tabanan Municipal Police, Wayan Sarba, said that he had received a report from residents about the villa that was allegedly operating without a license. “After our personnel checked out the situation, the villa owner in fact could not produce the license,” he said.

According to procedure, his personnel then provided guidance to the business owner by summon-ing him to the office. Although the owner with the initials M. S. attended the summons of the Mu-nicipal Police and signed a state-ment saying that he had submitted request for a permit, whereas in fact the villa has been summoned three times and has yet to fullfill his obligation. “This is why we had to act decisively and issue first letter of reprimand,” he said.

If the first letter of reprimand does not yield a responses from the villa owner within the next seven days, police will not hesitate to is-

sue second letter of reprimand. If within three days after the second letter of reprimand is issued, he remains stubborn, the third letter will be issued. “After the issuance of the third letter, the case will be taken to Civil Servant Investigators to be followed up by the judiciary enforcement, at which point it is no longer our responsibility. Since we have only now issued a first letter of reprimand, it is still n the non-judisciary phase,” he explained.

Sarba hopes that the investors in Tabanan will immediately sub-mit a request, while those whose permits have expired will renew it accordance reviling rules to avoid causing any harm to the commu-nity. “Do not deal with Municipal Police. We ask for awareness on the part of investors to equip their businesses with permits set by the county government through regional bylaws,” he said.

Separately, a legislator from Pupuan, Omardani, expressed his appreciation for the performance of the Municipal Police in enforcing regulations. According to him, if investors comply with the prevail-ing rules it will help increase the regionally generated revenue and Tabanan development can move toward a better future. (kmb28)

Unlicensed Bedugul villa reprimandedTABANAN - The Tabanan Municipal Police have been cracking

down on companies operating without licenses. After discovering the allegedly illegal telecom towers in Tabanan and Kediri subdistrict, on Wednesday (Oct. 7), they turned their attention to a villa in Can-dikuning village, Baturiti.

IBP/fileThe tourists are enjoying their time in Lake Beratan, Bedugul.

Candikusuma’s rest area not functional yet

IBP/OloThe rest area in Candikusuma.

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The show caused many a drop-ping jaw even among Chanel’s VIP travelers, including model Cara Delevingne, singer Van-essa Paradis and tennis star Maria Sharapova — who to ld The Associated Press just what she thinks of fashion’s cur-rent sportswear mania.

G u e s t s couldn’t quite b e l i e v e t h e i r eyes as t h e y e n -t e r e d

one of Lagerfeld’s most ambitious fashion shows yet.

Young Japanese fashionistas bumped in to each other to take selfies beneath a giant electronic passenger information table. Host-esses sat at check-in desks plastered in “Chanel Airlines” — with depar-ture lounge chairs sprawling for hundreds of meters (yards).

Destinations on the board — Shanghai, Dallas, Salzburg, Dubai, Tokyo — were a showy check list of all the cities in which Chanel has recently presented collections,

highlighting the global nature of one of the world’s most lucra-tive luxury brands.

But the show itself, bien sur, was in Terminal No. 5, a reference

to the brand’s famous perfume.“The inspiration is travel, long-

distance travel to every destina-tion,” Lagerfeld said, sipping min-eral water from a silver platter.

The 95 diverse ready-to-wear looks riffed off the voyaging theme — with blue, red and white sweat-ers slung around shoulders, dresses printed with electronic passenger data in long, loose A-line shapes, comfy check sandals, and bejew-eled Chanel suitcases that will — literally — fly off the shelves.

There were even comfy ‘70s flared jeans that Lagerfeld later acknowledged were made from exorbitantly-priced soft crepe.

“I like the idea of beautifully made clothes, used and worn like street wear,” he explained.

Some of the looks in swirling blue, white and red check suffered from their pure exuberance. But the collection had a little bit for every woman from every country in the world. (ap)

Model wear creation for Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collec-tion presented during the Paris Fashion Week, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 in Paris, France. AP Photo/Francois Mori AP Photo/Francois Mori

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Chanel hosts airport show amid Paris aviation protest

PARIS — The sky was the limit for Karl Lagerfeld, who re-created an entire airport under Paris’ Grand Palais in Chanel’s blockbuster aviation-themed show at Paris Fashion Week — just as violent protests by real-life aviation workers were taking place elsewhere in the capital.

Since the past few years, the land conversion in North Bali has been increasingly widespread. Pro-ductive land is not only converted into a means of tourism supporting facilities, but many lands are also converted into land plotting busi-ness. Actually, the irrigated field can still produce rice, but in fact it is so easily converted into plotting land. Following the difficulty to control the increasing rate of land conversion, it has been handled by arranging it into zones in the county spatial planning.

Moreover, the county govern-ment is now re-drafting a special regional bylaw regarding the land plotting activity. The draft of regu-lation has been prepared and just waits for an academic study to be submitted to the Buleleng House of Representatives. The draft has set various requirements to be followed when opening new land plot at par-ticular location. The requirements involve a minimum road width of six meters. Developer shall prepare the and for public facilities, at least 20 percent of the total land area.

The Division Head of the Eco-nomic and Development Affairs

at the Regional Secretary of Bule-leng, Ketut Suparto, said that the county government has so far taken measures to anticipate the rate of land conversion in this area. The measure is ranging from the provi-sion of assistance in the form of facilities and infrastructures to the management of subak and groups of farmers as well as policy regarding the reduction of land and property tax (PBB).

In terms of regulations, the coun-ty government has governed the land conversion through regional bylaw on regional spatial planning (RTRW). In the regulation, several zones have been set up and the land conversion is allowed for develop-ment of new residential areas. “The land conversion is rampant and the government has controlled it. Land conversion is only allowed for the land with minimal irrigation water and categorized into unproductive area,” he said.

Though having been controlled, Suparto admitted that the rate of land conversion of productive land is still found at a number of locations in urban to rural areas. Besides, many people getting

involved in this land plotting business are without submitting a license. Actually based on the existing regulations, any applica-tion for land conversion must be preceded with studies, both in terms of designation and technical matters. For the designation, the

study refers to the regional bylaw regarding the regional spatial plan-ning (RTRW) that mentions the permitted area for new residential development. Its technical studies will have something to do with borderline of the road or river if the location developed is near a

road or river.“If the land is possible for land

conversion, the process is continued such as by splitting the certificate to the National Land Agency (BPN). Obviously, the land conversion is the authority of the BPN,” he ex-plained. (kmb38)

DENPASAR - There are so-cial impacts resulting form the increasingly urban atmosphere of Denpasar. A number of social prob-lems affecting the the daily lives of people in this city are not easily overcome. These include: waste, congestion, over population and critical ecological issues like the rampant conversion of agricultural land. These challenges need to be understood well in order to improve things in the future. This was stated by former Denpasar Mayor, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra.

Rai Mantra along with IGN Jaya Negara who is running for his second term, is well aware of the problems faced by this city that covers an area of 127.78 square kilometers. This incumbent candidate recognized that some of the achievements made dur-ing his seven years of service as

the mayor still needs improving. For example, the achievement of human development index (HDI) that now reaches 79.41 percent still has to be increased to at least 80 percent in order to meet inter-national standard, and to make facilitate cooperation with other regions, either regionally nation-ally or internationally. “This is also required for participation with the Organization of Word Heritage Cities (OWHC),” he said.

Rai Mantra also understands that Denpasar is a gateway into Bali and as such must be managed properly, especially in terms of its human resources. The government’s aim to improve people’s welfare highly depends on the quality of its human resources that affect the development of other fields, such as infrastructure. Empowering the existing human resources is an

effective measure for tackling this issue. In terms of people’s revenue, for instance, Rai Mantra has revital-ized traditional markets in several places, allowing local merchants to prosper. “This indicates that there is an increase and strengthening of community-based economy amid the onslaught of modern markets,” said Rai Mantra.

Rai Mantra also said that creat-ing urban harmony does not hap-pen overnight and that creative programs are required in order to encourage public participation,like for example the national human development program. Rai Man-tra’s vision of a, ‘Culture-based Creative Denpasar in Balance towards Harmony,’ has a quite profound meaning. A creative Denpasar is rooted in the survival and development of the values of local wisdom. (ara)

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I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra

Strengthen people’s identity based on local wisdom

County govt drafts regional bylaw on land plotting

SINGARAJA - Although it looks difficult to be controlled, the government of Buleleng began to take serious measures to reduce irrigated land conversion into buildings or land plot business. The ongoing measures of the county government are drafting a regional bylaw that specifically governs the land plot-ting businesses. Actually the land plotting has been set forth in the Regional Bylaw No.9/2013 regarding the Regional Spatial Planning (RTRW). The drafting of this regional bylaw is meant to strengthen the existing regulation so that the rate of land conversion can be prevented optimally.

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Since the past few years, the land conversion in North Bali has been increasingly widespread. Productive land is not only converted into a means of tourism supporting facilities, but many lands are also converted into land plotting business.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Winarta said that he suspects that the proliferation of modern stores and markets is Gianyar has been allowed to happen because of weak government supervi-sion. “Have these shops gone up without requesting the required permits? Why is it so easy to es-tablish a modern store? We need to find out what is going on with permits, because if stores are op-erating without permits, Gianyar is obviously suffering looses in terms of revenue,” he said.

The establishment of modern stores or modern markets must be strictly supervised by the govern-ment. The government must be able to monitor and control such developments to make sure it is

happening according to the rules. If nothing is done, the commu-nity will be harmed, especially small merchants in traditional markets. Traditional markets will be increasingly squeezed out, and in fact conditions are already alarming. “This is clearly contrary to the commitment of the government of Gianyar to advance traditional markets,” said Tagel. (ded)

THE PrOLIFErATION of modern stores in Gianyar is a phenomenon that needs to be addressed by local governments, be-cause clearly rules are being broken. Head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba recently stated that a regional bylaw (Perda) governing traditional markets and modern markets has already been established but has recently been elaborated on in a regent regulations that is to take effect immediately. “The regent regulation has just been finalized as the results of verifications were finally issued by the provincial government,” he said.

The regent regulation specifies the requirements for distance between such stores and includes the licensing mechanism that must be complied with before a store can be established in each subdistrict. The number of modern stores has been adjusted ac-cording to the results of the study related to such conditions as population, per capita income and the general shopping rhythm of the community. “For instance, Payangan and Ubud clearly have different conditions,” he said.

When asked about how many modern stores and markets have gone up in Gianyar, Suamba said that he did not know exactly and argued that the authority to issue licenses for such stores or markets lies with the Integrated Licensing Office (BPPT). Simi-larly, the quota for modern store licenses was also not available. “There must be some quotas left but I do not remember the exact number,” he added.

Suamba also said that in order to slow down the rate at which modern stores are opening, will require more than just government efforts. Many local people have invited investors to open up such markets in their region arguing that they provide goods that are not offered by traditional markets.

“At Sayan and Bitra customary villages, modern stores have not been able to grab a foot hold because of local customary rules. If the community is strict, efforts to curb the number of stores opening will be more effective. If it is all in the hands of the government it will be difficult to manage, everyone must work together,” he said.

Suamba added that his institution continues to empower tradi-tional markets as an effort to ‘compete’ against modern markets. One way is by renovating traditional markets so that they have more modern facilities. “Currently traditional markets must be promoted in such a way so as not to lose competitiveness against modern markets. For example, in terms of cleanliness and completeness of facilities, people need to feel comfortable shopping in traditional markets,” said Suamba. (ded)

Tourists walked in Ubud, Gianyar during their

holiday in Bali Island. Legislator of the Gianyar

House of representa-tives fear that the mod-ern stores and markets

that are popping all over Gianyar will eliminate

traditional markets.

Trade Agency admits it’s hard to control increase of modern storeIBP/File Photo

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A man stand in front of wines selection that’s sold in one of modern markets in Gianyar. The prolifera-tion of modern stores in Gianyar is a phenomenon that needs to be addressed by local governments, because clearly rules are being broken.

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“Taking a love for yoga and breathing ... not looking at it as an exercise, but just feeling more one with the Earth and everyone being connected, it’ll definitely have a reflection on the new record,” Agu-ilera said in a recent interview.

She has “loosely been working on my record for a couple years now,” even when she was pregnant with her daughter, who is 1.

And now, “it’s like really down to business and I’ve made a lot of headway and progress on the record, and you will see sort of the difference between this record and others in the past.”

Aguilera, 34, said she wants to release a new album next year. It would be the follow-up to 2012’s “Lotus.”

“I am hoping for it to be next year and maybe around the time ...

I return for (live episodes of) ‘The Voice’ season 10,” she said.

This month she is pre-taping the beginning of season 10 of NBC’s “The Voice,” which will air next year. Season nine, with Gwen Ste-fani in Aguilera’s chair, premiered last month. The Grammy winner said because two seasons of the show tape simultaneously, she has had to take breaks from the Emmy-winning series.

“I absolutely need those breaks,” she said, laughing. “I will whole-heartedly, openly be honest about it and just say that. I think it’s a little easier for Blake (Shelton) and Adam (Levine) — the show has definitely catapulted their careers to new heights and it’s awesome — but they’re not parents yet. ...I love being a mom and I think life is all about balance and to me it’s

really important to take time off from the show.”

“It also keeps things fresh,” she continued. “They pump it out twice a year so for me personally, I feel like I’m better at my position on the show and being a coach to people if I’m not juggling two teams at once while one season is being pre-taped and the other’s airing ... which is what ends up happening.”

Aguilera says she’s been keep-ing her big voice intact in between albums and tours, and she’s learned to care less about being a technical singer and has learned to develop a “signature style.”

“Maybe when I was younger and very green ... to the business and just wanting to emulate my idols, I would try probably harder to cross T’s and dot I’s and hit cer-tain notes,” she said. “But music is such an emotion to me and it’s so felt from the heart, that at this point in my life it’s really not about the image of a great singer, but the emo-tion of a great singer.” (ap)

LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Lopez is taking on hosting duties at next month’s American Music Awards.

Producers say Lopez will host and perform at the Nov. 22 show, to air live on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los

Angeles.This will be her first time hosting an

awards show. Dick clark productions said Wednesday the 46-year-old entertainer will also perform material from her upcoming Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

Singers Joe Jonas and Charlie Puth are set to announce AMA nominees on Oct. 13. Nominees are chosen based on album sales, radio airplay, touring and social media. The show recognizes artists with fan-voted awards in such categories as pop/rock, rap/hip-hop, country, Latin and adult contemporary. (ap)

Yoga serving as inspiration for Aguilera’s new music

NEW YORK — Yoga is serving as inspiration for Christina Aguilera’s upcoming album. The pop star says that the physical and mental exercise is helping her find inner peace, and that’s influencing her music-making process.

Jennifer Lopez to host the 2015 American Music Awards

Jennifer Lopez (C) performs with dancers during the second night of the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada Sep-tember 19, 2015.

REUTERS/Steve Marcus

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“In the next three years, Bali will be transformed into an island largely utilizing clean sources of energy,” ESDM Minister Sudirman Said noted after signing a memo-randum of understanding (MoU) with Asian Development Bank on Thursday.

The reason for selecting Bali Is-land for the project is its landmass.

Bali is considered to be vast enough to be developed as a clean energy technology center.

In addition, Bali is an island that receives the highest number of foreign tourists, so it can serve as a role model for other nations.

“Three years from now, Bali must be the first province having the required capability to produce

clean energy, which has low emis-sion,” Sudirman noted. In other parts of the country, clean energy projects are going to be maximized in the eastern region due to the wide availability of land spaces.

“Why Eastern Indonesia? Be-cause it is important to introduce gas as the main fuel to the people in that part of the country, so that the gas would be distributed across the country,” he added.

The ESDM has signed an MoU with Asian Development Bank on

the development of clean energy technology and research center in Indonesia.

“This is an effort to achieve the target of using up to 25 percent renewable energy by the end of 2025,” Sudirman explained.

A loan of up to US$6 billion and also grants that were not mentioned in detail will be offered as part of the cooperation.

This loan amount would not be disbursed at once, but it will be a four-year medium-term loan.

“We hope it can serve as a trig-ger for foreign investors to support clean energy technology,” he added. (ant)

LEGISLATOR of the Gianyar House of representatives fear that the modern stores and markets that are popping all over Gianyar will eliminate traditional markets. The legislators are planning to to monitor the situation by looking

into the licences held by these modern establishments.

“We will be looking into tourist accommodations as well as stores and markets to see if they have required licenses. We will then summon relevant agencies to ask for clarification regarding the establishment of modern markets and stores,” said Chairman of the Gianyar House of Representatives, I Wayan Tagel Winarta.

According to Winarta, rules governing the establish-ment of modern stores or modern markets in Gianyar are clearly set forth in a regional bylaw. These regulations clearly specify the number of modern stores and markets that are allowed in each subdistrict. Despite this, there seem to be modern stores and markets are every corner. It is estimated that there hundreds of such shops in Gianyar.

“There are so many of these shops and they have cropped up in every nook and cranny, one village even has three such stores. How many should be allowed? There must be firmness and control on the part of the government,” said this PDI-P politician.

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Two units panel of solar power plants (PLTS) in Hamlet Bangklet, Kayubihi village, Bangli Regency, part of clean energy power plant alternatives, can no longer be used. The Indonesian government, through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), plans to make Bali Island as the first clean energy center in the country.

Government to make Bali a clean energy center

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government, through the Min-istry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), plans to make Bali Island as the first clean energy center in the country.

Modern stores popping up all over Gianyar