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BUENOS AIRES - An Argentine judge has asked Interpol to issue a Red Notice for the arrest of pop star Justin Bieber over the alleged assault of a photographer outside a nightclub in 2013, his staff said Friday.

Bieber ignored a November court order to appear before the judge in the case, which dates to a stop in Buenos Aires on the Canadian heartthrob’s Believe tour.

“We are asking Interpol for Justin Bie-ber’s detention, anywhere in the world. Since he could not be found for his ap-pearance to testify, we request that he be detained,” Judge Alberto Banos’s secretary told AFP.

She said the request had been made on April 8, after Bieber failed to turn up in court within 60 days of his summons.

Interpol, the international police body, does not issue arrest warrants itself, but can send out a Red Notice informing its 190 member states that a suspect is wanted in a particular country.

According to the complaint, a body-guard, following Bieber’s orders, force-fully seized photographer Diego Pesoa’s camera and cellphone outside a nightclub in the upscale Palermo neighborhood in November 2013.

The 21-year-old megastar, who once enjoyed a squeaky clean image, has more recently had frequent run-ins with the law, including one in Canada in which he alleg-edly assaulted a limousine driver.

Last year, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges after taking part in an illegal drag race on a Miami street.

He was also sentenced to two years’ probation last year for throwing eggs at the home of a neighbor in California.

The 2013 tour stop, Bieber’s only visit to Argentina, was peppered with scandals. He was also thrown out of a hotel, and cut one show short after 45 minutes because of a stomach ache, angering some fans. (afp)

Reducing tourist visit in the middle of the year is inversely proportional to entering high season. The activity of fishermen to escort guest decreases from typically three times a day to only once a day. Unpredictable condition often makes fishermen idle and tends to repair their equipment to catch fish. “Our guiding activities this year begin to decline as entering mid-year like in April every year is always deserted. The increase will be-gin to be visible from June to August.

Now, I am able to escort guests once a day,” said a fisherman doubling as tour guide of dolphin tour, Made Bagi, 40, from Kalibukbuk village, Lovina, Singaraja.

Adverse weather condition often makes fishermen scream. They tend to reduce their fishing activities and escorting guests. Occasion-ally when guests would like to watch dolphins, the cost per person is forced to be

raised in order to cover the oper-ating cost due to fuel price hike several weeks ago.

“The current rate is IDR 100,000 per person from IDR 60,000 per person. We just object when the fuel price goes up. Although we can escort guests, we have trouble in the cost of purchasing gasoline at high enough price,” he added.

Made Bagi does not want to

make his guests disappointed and he has a special trick to get around the fuel price hike. Although the rate increases, the tradition of bargaining price in the field cannot be denied. So, he begins to set the mileage in order to be able to enjoy the dolphin attraction at sea. “We get around the mileage of dolphin tour from typically 50 kilometers to about 20 kilometer. Obviously it affects the catch and reduction of income,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Group Head of Cipta Karya Bakti Samudra at Kalibukbuk, Singaraja, Kadek Bu-diasa, explained that the group has 25 members. The decline in tourist visit is alleged to happen because

it has not entered holiday season. His party only objects to the policy when the fuel price goes up and he is forced to reduce the mileage at sea. “Now, I often go to sea at night, and only using light and generator set. In addition, our mileage is only 10 miles,” he explained. (kmb34)

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Lately, the fuel price hike is suspected to have a significant impact on the increase in the dolphin guiding rates and so is the lack of tourists coming to watch dolphin attraction.

Guest visit declines after rate increase of dolphin tour

SINGARAJA - Lately, the fuel price hike is suspected to have a significant impact on the increase in the dolphin guiding rates and so is the lack of tourists coming to watch dolphin at-traction. Lovina Beach area is famous for its dolphin icon as a tourist attraction in Buleleng. The increase in visitor becomes the hope of fishermen working as a tour guide in order to increase their daily income.

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LOS ANGELES - Singer Jus-tin Timberlake and his actress wife Jessica Biel welcomed their first child into the world on Saturday, a boy named Silas Randall.

Timberlake, 34, was “ecstatic,” People magazine said, adding that mother and baby were doing well.

“My amazing son and his beautiful wife have given us the most precious gift in the world!” Timberlake’s mother, Lynn Harless, wrote on Fa-cebook.

“Silas Randall Timberlake! Named after my father and my son! Life is beautiful and we couldn’t be happier! God bless you all and thanks for all the congrats!”

Actress Biel, who found fame with US television series 7th Heaven, be-gan dating former boy band N’Sync frontman Timberlake in 2007, after he launched a successful solo career.

The couple married in 2012 in a lavish ceremony in Italy. (afp)

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift revealed to her fans that her mother has cancer. Swift wrote about the news in a post on her Tum-blr on Thursday, which her representative confirmed. Swift said she wants to keep the details private, but said her mother wanted her fans to know what was going on.

The 25-year-old singer said she asked her mother to see her doctors as a Christmas gift. She said “there were no red flags,” but they later learned Andrea Swift had cancer.

Thought Swift is the superstar, Andrea has become a favorite among Swift’s fans, often earning cheers from audiences at live shows and taking photos with fans.

Swift also encouraged her young fans to remind their parents to go to the doctor and get check-ups. (ap)

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

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

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

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

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This hotel is located at Jalan Sunset Road 150 Legian. It is a joint venture with PT. Binong Megapolitan having the main business in the property development as an investor. The hotel offers 150 rooms and suites with modern concept and begins with the opening of 110 rooms. “The construction will continue until the end of April 2015 for the entire number of hotel rooms,” said General Manager Arie Irwanto.

Horizon Sunset Road Bali is very suitable for businessmen and tourists

who vacation on the Island of the Gods. Equipped with facilities like Malabar Coffee Shop, Putri Lounge as well as beautifully designed swimming pool it has added value for guests staying at hotel. “The hotel is also equipped with facilities to support business activities, namely five meeting rooms with capac-ity for approximately 100 people,” said Arie Irwanto.

It perches on strategic location which is only five minutes from Seminyak and Legian, five minutes to the center

of souvenirs, 15 minutes to Ngurah Rai International Airport and 20 minutes from Denpasar by car. The unique things at Horizon Sunset Road are all prices have included breakfast for two, daily afternoon tea, daily transfer at 10:00 and 16:00 to favorite locations in Bali (Hotel - Ngurah Rai International Airport - Shop-ping Center - Kuta Beach - Legian area - Seminyak - Hotel).

In Bali, the Horison has three prop-erties belonging to three-star category, Horison Ultima to four-star category and

Geria Telabah Denpasar is grieving. Ida Ayu Alit Kerti is the mother of the Bali tourism figure, Ida Bagus Surakusuma, has passed away. This patient woman died of illness at the age of 93 years old. She was treated at the pavilion of Wangaya Hospital Denpasar and passed away on Sunday (Apr. 5) at four o’clock in the afternoon.

The late Ida Ayu Alit Kerti is known as the mother becoming a role model. She completed her education at the Hollandsch-Inlandsche School (HIS) and during her lifetime she very faithfully followed her late husband. Ida Bagus Jaya Kusuma once served as the Head of Public Works Agency in Jakarta, Tangerang and Irian Jaya. He then returned home to Bali with her husband after retirement.

Ida Bagus Surakusuma is familiarly called I.B. Lolec as coordinator of the ceremony expressed the cremation activity will be held at Griya Telabah, precisely at Jalan Thamrin I / 10 Denpasar. The series of ceremony con-sists of Nyiraman on Friday (Apr. 10) at four o’clock in the afternoon and Narpana Saji at six o’clock.

On Monday (Apr. 13) will be held the manah toya ning at eight o’clock in the morning, ngajum at ten o’clock and pangaskara at four o’clock in the afternoon. Peak of the pelebon or cremation is held at Badung Cemetery, Tuesday (Apr. 14). Mareresik is held at three o’clock in the morning, atetangi ngutang pering at four o’clock and the tedun layon pelebon at midday.

I.B. Lolec along with his big family would like to apologize to relatives or friends if during the lifetime of the late Ida Ayu Alit Kerti made any mistakes. Hopefully, all her deeds are ac-cepted by the Lord and the families left behind will be given fortitude and patience. (kmb)

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Horizon Sunset Road BaliKUTA - Horizon Sunset Road Bali was officially opened on March 27, 2014. This fully-serviced suite

and resort hotel offered at affordable prices poses an expansion of hospitality business of the Metropolitan Golden Management. Its location is in the area of Sunset Road, Legian Bali and very close to the tourist area of Kuta Beach.

Grand Horizon to five-star category serving the needs of luxury hotel with a full spectrum of services equipped with other facilities equipped. “The Horizon Sunset Road also displays Balinese arts such as rindik music, activities of egg decoration, wood sculpting and gebogan or fruit arrangement making,” said Arie Irwanto, General Manager of the Horizon Sunset Road. (kmb)

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BANGLI - The high costs incurred by Hindu’s who perform pabayuhan (exorcism rituals) especially the sapuh leger ritual has given rise to exorcism rituals done en-masse. On Tues-day April 11, dozens of residents at Kayubihi Bangli, ranging from young children to the elderly, participated in such a ritual.

Chief of Kayubihi customary vil-lage, I Wayan Sadia, explained that the sapuh leger exorcism ritual was attended by 27 people who were born on wuku (one of the Balinese seven-day weeks) Wayang. The ritual

is down so as to avoid negative influ-ences although the exorcism ritual is only done once in a lifetime. Without performing such a ritual, it is believed that children born on wuku Wayang will be subject to disaster.

Sadia went on to say that the sapuh leger ritual done en-masse is one way of alleviating the burden of the expensive ritual for local people, especially for those in the middle and lower economic classes that cannot necessarily afford the manusa yajña ceremony.

He also explained that the ritual

must be held, so members of the Hindu community have found a solu-tion by performing the ritual together as a village. “Mass rituals are cheaper so each person can spend less,” he explained.

Sadia disclosed that such group rituals also aim to improve the kin-ship between residents and foster the tradition of mutual assistance, because everyone is involved in the prepara-tion of the ceremony. “Other than for purpose of the ritual itself, it can also increase the sense of brotherhood,” he said.

One of the residents participating in the ritual, I Nengah Santika, said that he was greatly assisted by the mass ritual. Over the years he has not been able to perform it independently due to financial problems. According to him, it can cost up to IDR 30 million.

The mass ritual only costs IDR 1 million per person. “If we organize a sapuh leger independently, it can cost tens of millions, while en masse the cost is more affordable,” he said.

He also added that if the ritual is carried out independently, apart from the oblations, one also has to pay for

other expenses such as food, bever-ages and renting tents.

The one-day event began with the performance of a shadow puppet play performed by puppeteer Jro Dalang Sudirma which was followed by the sprinkling of holy water at the family shrines of participants. Then the exor-cism rite is conducted using holy water and the puppets are carried out in front of the puppet performance. Partici-pants also step on a bundle of Balinese rice. The procession is continued with pabayuh oton, majaya-jaya and ends with the saying of prayers. (kmb45)

These youth were not alone in conducting such actions. Members of the Sanur Fishermen Group also took action at sea. At least 30 people set sail on 15 boats and sailed around the Grand Bali Beach Hotel. However, only a few boats managed to pass in front of the hotel because police prevented them from doing so. Gusde, Coordinator of the boat action, was even detained on the beach for inter-rogation, although he was eventually released.

“Let Jokowi know that we want to remind him that the PDI-P said that they would reject the regulation for the seek of the people, so why should we be stopped from demonstrating in our boats?” said Gusde regarding the demonstration of the rejection of the reclamation plan. The protesters also expressed their disagreement with the Chairman of the PDI-P Bali, I Wayan Koster, who said that he would not discuss the matter of the Benoa Bay reclamation project in the congress.

“He was elected by the people, so he should be pro-people and do what people demand. If he does neglects to do so, it is just like a peanut forgetting its skin. If he forgets his promises once he has the position, something bad

could be triggered. Actually we do not want to mention anyone, whether Koster or others,” he said.

Gusde added that he does not agree with the reclamation plan because it is filled with personal interests and does not favor the interests of the wider community.

Aside from protests around the congress itself, the rejection of the Benoa Bay reclamation plan was also expressed by the people of Indonesia in Washington DC who also urge President Joko Widodo to revoke Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 that would allow for such a project.

“From our perspective, this recla-mation plan is just a gimmick used to control the land which has a very high economic value,” said the representa-tive of the Indonesian community in Washington DC, Made Supriatma.

The Indonesians in Washington held a peaceful demonstration outside the United States Congress, Capitol Hill, on April 11.

Previously, public rejections of the reclamation of Benoa Bay plan were conducted by hundreds of members of the groups Outsider and Ladyrose in Solo, Sukoharjo, Wonogiri, Klaten, Karanganyar and Purwodadi, as well

Tumpek WayangResidents join “sapuh leger” ritual en masse

Jokowi greeted by rejection of reclamation in Bali

DENPASAR - President Joko Widodo while attending the Fourth PDI-P Congress got ‘a surprise’ from the residents of Sanur on Thursday (Apr. 9). As president Jokowi made his way to the congress, he drove passed local youths who lined Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai holding banners that read: “Cancel Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.”

as by members of the Solo Pitbull, students from UNS Surakarta as well as Balinese people living in Solo, on April 5.

They stood in solidarity for the rejection of the plan under the ban-ner: “Solo for Bali, Reject Benoa Bay Reclamation.” This action aimed to provide enlightenment about the negative impacts of the Benoa Bay

reclamation for Bali in particular and Indonesia in general. Many people enthusiastically participated in this action whether by signing petitions, taking ForBali flyers, and/or by join-ing in the long march.

According to Tommy LA, Spokes-man of the “Solo for Bali, Reject Benoa Bay Reclamation” group actions, the Benoa Bay reclamation

plan will not only undermine and harm the people of Bali, but the other region whose beach sand to be taken fro this protect, will also undergo dam-age and loss. The governor of NTB acknowledges the kind of damage that such actions could cause and so does not allow the taking of sea sand in Lombok -so as to ensure that nature there is preserved. (kmb32)

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One of the banner that reject the reclamation plan.

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For a half-century, the U.S. trade embargo had blocked such businesses from entering the Cuban market. In January, how-ever, the Obama administration loosened a series of restrictions on U.S. business in an attempt to encourage the growth of the island’s small private sector.

Airbnb searches for “Cuba” now turn up more than 1,000 properties across the island, with 40 percent in Havana and the rest in tourist destinations such as Cienfuegos a few hours away on the southern coast. The com-pany has been sending teams of representatives to Cuba for three months to sign up home owners, and plans to expand steadily in coming months.

“We believe that Cuba could become one of Airbnb’s biggest markets in Latin America,” said Kay Kuehne, regional director for Airbnb, the website and mo-bile app that allows users to book rooms in more than 1 million pri-vate homes around the world.

One of the most developed and important elements of Cuba’s en-trepreneurial sector is a network of thousands of privately owned rooms and houses for tourists. Starting in the post-Soviet eco-nomic crisis of the 1990s as homey, bed and breakfast-style alternatives to Cuba’s gener-ally grim state-run hotels, “casas particulares,” or private homes, have expanded into an industry with options ranging from small apartments in central Havana to multi-room beach houses with top-notch food and maid service.

The Airbnb move could be the most significant development in terms of putting money in the pockets of entrepreneurs across the island and bolstering them in a stagnant state-run economy — leading goals for the Obama administration in warming rela-tions with Cuba.

“I think this is going to help our business prosper, to definitely improve, not just private business, but everything here,” said Israel Rivero, who owns an immaculate-ly renovated, pre-war apartment in central Havana. He charges $25 a night per room, but the price will go to $30 on Airbnb to cover fees and currency exchange costs.

Kuehne said Airbnb’s plans had been welcomed by Cuban

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The popular online home-rental service Airbnb is allowing American travelers to book lodging in Cuba in the most significant U.S. business expansion on the island since the declaration of detente between the two countries late last year.

Airbnb offers Cuba lodgings in major US business expansion

HAVANA — The popular online home-rental service Airbnb is allowing American travelers to book lodging in Cuba in the most significant U.S. business expansion on the island since the declaration of detente between the two countries late last year.

authorities.Asked about the expansion,

the U.S. State Department said Thursday that “we applaud efforts to help the Cuban people, includ-ing the nascent private sector, take advantage of new opportunities to move Cuba towards greater open-ness and prosperity.”

Cuba has been wrestling with how to accommodate a surge of travelers since the announcement of detente. Trips to the island have been up nearly 20 percent in recent months, mostly by non-

U.S. travelers, and many hotels are fully booked, particularly the few able to offer service close to international standards.

“Airbnb’s momentous expan-sion into Cuba represents the first move by a major American company to fully seize the op-portunities presented by both our new Cuba policy and the island’s burgeoning entrepreneurial sec-tor,” said Ric Herrero, executive director of CubaNow, a Cuban-American group that lobbies for closer ties between the two

countries.For the time being, non-U.S.

travelers will not be able to use Airbnb.

Because of continuing restric-tions under the U.S. embargo, the company’s Cuba listing will only be available to U.S. travelers visiting under one of 12 U.S.-government approved categories of legal travel, ranging from professional research to religious activities.

While virtually all U.S. travel to Cuba previously required in-dividual licenses from the U.S. Treasury Department, the January changes essentially shift it to an honor system by allowing travel-

ers to fill out a form asserting they are going for one of the approved purposes.

A major drawback for the Cuban private lodging business has been the difficulty of renting from overseas on an island with one of the world’s lower rates of Internet penetration and a constantly malfunctioning phone system. While dozens of websites such as TripAdvisor have listings for lodgings, most only provide phone numbers or email addresses for owners instead of the quick online booking and guaranteed reservations that Airbnb will of-fer, as it does in more than 190 countries. (ap)

“Four priority programs have been prepared and will be imple-mented by the ministry,” Soesilo stated on Saturday.

The minister delivered a speech at the fourth congress of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.

The programs include a plan to ensure maritime sovereignty, utiliz-

ing natural resources and a program on preservation, infrastructure de-velopment through the marine toll access program, and projecting Indonesia as a maritime country.

Soesilo affirmed that in the future, these four programs will give Indo-nesia a good opportunity to achieve international maritime unity.

“Soekarno’s struggle to maintain maritime sovereignty should be continued,” he emphasized.

According to the minister, Soeka-rno defended the Indonesian mari-time sector after successfully main-taining sovereignty in the Indonesian waters of Java and Natuna for 25 years. (ant)

GIANYAR - Minister of Trade, Rahmat Gobel, clarified the imple-ment Ministry of Trade Regulation No.06/M-DAG/PER/2015 regarding the control and supervision of the procurement, distribution and sale of liquor, reiterating that it will be implemented but that 16 tourists areas will exempt.

“For areas that have been specifi-cally designated as tourist areas, such as Kuta and Sanur, merchants can con-tinue to sell alcohol, provided it is only sold to tourists and never to minors,” said Rahmat Gobel accompanied by the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, during a recent visit to the Sukawati Art Market.

A trade system is being designed so that liquor will primarily be sold in restaurants or by those who establish a cooperative for this purpose. Rahmat Gobel also rejected the notion that the ban could possibly have a nega-tive impact on the number of tourists who visit Bali. “Travelers come here looking for the beauty of our nature and culture, furthermore the liquor ban only applies to minors so tourism will not be affected. Also, smaller vendors operating in tourist areas will

continue to be allowed to sell alcohol,” he said.

Trade Ministry Regulation No.06/2015 was set forth in order to restrict the distribution of liquor amongst the youth. Before the regu-lation, minimarts near schools and places of worship were allowed to sell alcohol freely, thus risking to provoke young people to drink. The ban is one of several measures being taking to al-low the younger generation to be able to better compete in the global market. “Now, minimarts near schools are selling alcoholic beverages. If people start consuming alcohol from a very young age, their health is adversely affected causing them to be unhealthy when they should be at their most pro-ductive. If our young people are thus affected, how can we face the global market?” he asked.

Gobel added that the ministry of trade is encouraging customary lead-ers to join the struggle and participate in helping to control the situation. When asked about customary youth clubs in Bali which often sells liquor such beer, through their bazaar activi-ties, he re-affirmed that the regulation is intentionally designed to protect

young people from the influence of liquor. Those who produce the beer also have a big responsibility regard-ing its the circulation in these bazaars. “In fact Ministry of Trade Regulation No.16/2015-red) prohibits the sale of beer in such a context and is clearly meant to protect the young generation, so it is deplorable to find beer compa-nies selling at such events,” said the Minster of Trade.

Regional representative councillor (DPD), Arya Wedakarna -also present, added that retailers in the 16 tourist ar-eas, who will continue to be allowed to sell alcohol, will receive guidance and training related to the new regulation. In essence, retailers will be reminded that alcohol must only be sold to tour-ists and that it is strictly prohibited to sell to those under 21 years old. “The Regional representative council will propose a clause requesting special guidance for those selling in the 16 designated tourist area. We will contin-ue to coordinate with the Minister who will be issuing technical guidelines on April 16th. We have also sent a letter to the Bali Police and other agencies so as to prevent something bad from happening,” he said. (kmb35)

DENPASAR - Early childhood education is a branch of education that can help to prevent the spread of radicalism, Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa said.

“Through early childhood educa-tion, they can learn about tolerance. It (the ideology) should be implanted in them from an early age,” Parawansa stated on Saturday.

“From an early age, they can develop an understanding of cultural diversity and pluralism, and through these efforts, tolerance and modera-tion can be ingrained in them,” the minister affirmed.

Parawansa hopes that teachers of early childhood education can help to prevent radicalism.

She added that efforts to prevent radicalism should not be carried out in schools alone but in the community as well.

Earlier, an Islamic organization in Indonesia had urged the government to block threatening websites that have yet to be detected by a panel recently set up for the purpose.

“We can see several websites that are dangerous and have the potential to spread radicalism, such as the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but they have yet to be blocked. They must be blocked immediately,” Deputy General Chair-man of the Executive Board of Nah-dlatul Ulama (PBNU) Asad Said Ali said here on Friday.

He made the request during a discussion on the “Effectiveness of Blocking Radical Websites in the Fight against Terrorism” in the campus of Bhayangkara Jaya Raya University in Jalan Dharmawangsa, South Jakarta.

The websites that the PBNU wants blocked because they carry negative content are Milaibrahim, Ansyarudaullah, ansaruttauhid, ji-hadologi, azzam blog, sautusallam, and Al-busro.

“They carry radical content and even give lessons on how to make bombs; this indicates that they are closely linked with the ISIS, but have been ignored,” he pointed out.

Ali further noted that the PBNU supported and appreciated the Na-tional Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) and the Ministry of Informat-ics and Communication for blocking 19 websites that were believed to be spreading radicalism.

“I hail the blocking of the 19 websites. It was a good move. More firm actions must be taken, and with regard to protests by operators of 12 of the 19 websites, it is okay as remedial steps can be taken, such as in the case of Dakwatuna.com belonging to the Prosperous Justice Party,” he stressed.

Moreover, Ali observed that sev-eral websites that supported the ISIS have addresses and clear operators. So the BNPT and the Ministry of In-

formatics and Communication must take firm actions against them.

“I believe that operators and con-tent of a website are both criteria to block a website. If, for example, the content of a website belonging to the PBNU helps the ISIS, then PBNU must be reprimanded. However, if the ownership is affiliated to the ISIS, then the website must be blocked straightaway,” he explained.

Ali also pointed out that the ideology of the ISIS was a threat to not only Indonesia but to the world at large.

He emphasized that the group’s ideology was not Islamic because it propagated hatred against other hu-man beings, even Muslims belonging to different sects.

In addition, the government has lifted restrictions from 12 of the 19 Islamic websites that were blocked recently for allegedly promoting radicalism.

After the Forum for Handling Websites carrying Negative Content (FPSIBN) held a meeting on ter-rorism, SARA (ethnicity, religious, racial and group), and hate issues here on Thursday, the deputy chairman of the forum, Agus Barnas, announced that the operation of the 12 websites will be normalized, but they will continue to be monitored.

“We are restoring only 12 of the 19 blocked websites because only their operators communicated with the forum, which showed their goodwill. This is besides a dialog that was held with them regarding the importance of maintaining the integrity of the Unitary State of Indonesia,” he re-marked. (ant)

Early childhood education can prevent radicalism

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The government has prepared four priority programs to transform the

Indonesian maritime sector into a world maritime unit, Maritime

Coordinating Minister Indroyono Soesilo said.

Four priority programs prepared for maritime sectorSANUR - The government has prepared four priority programs to transform the Indonesian

maritime sector into a world maritime unit, Maritime Coordinating Minister Indroyono Soesilo said.

Liquor ban to protect the youth 16 tourist areas exempt

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From 19th century territorial raids on Mexico to U.S. support for the overthrow of Chile’s socialist government in 1973 and the 1989 invasion of Panama that removed Gen. Manuel Noriega, Washing-ton’s interventions in Latin America were all targets of rebuke during long speeches by Venezuelan Presi-dent Nicolas Maduro and his allies. That prompted President Barack Obama to retort, “I always enjoy the history lessons that I receive when I’m here.”

But the historic meeting between Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday before the sum-mit closed provides the U.S. and Latin America with an opportunity to move beyond a history of griev-ances and mistrust and set a course of closer cooperation. There were concerns in the run-up that recent U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan offi-cials could undermine the goodwill generated by Obama’s decision to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba, but they proved unfounded.

The conciliatory tone was set by Castro, who joked that since Cuba had been barred from the previous summits he was entitled to speak well beyond the eight minutes allot-ted to each of the 30-plus heads of state in attendance. “Since you owe me six summits when you excluded me, six times eight is 48,” he said to laughter.

While much of Castro’s mean-dering remarks consisted of con-demnation of U.S. aggression, the high point came when the aging Cu-ban leader, in an abrupt about face, professed admiration for Obama, saying he had read his two memoirs and was convinced that he was an “honest man” who hadn’t forgotten his humble roots.

“I have told President Obama that I get very emotional talking about the revolution,” Castro said, noting that Obama wasn’t even born when the U.S. imposed sanctions on the communist island. “I apologize to him because President Obama had no responsibility for this.”

The two leaders later sat down for the first meeting between Cuban and American heads of state since before the 1959 revolution the de-posed Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista.

Even Maduro eased up, forgoing a threat to deliver a petition signed by 10 million Venezuelans calling on Obama to repeal the sanctions. Instead, as what he called the “Sum-mit of the Truth” was closing, he also briefly spoke with Obama in a private exchange that Maduro said could open the door to meaningful dialogue between the two nations.

The White House said Obama reiterated his concern about the state of democracy in deeply di-vided Venezuela, but in his public speech Obama refrained from language declaring the situation in Venezuela a national security threat — the justification to freeze the assets of seven officials ac-cused of human rights abuses tied to last year’s anti-government protests. (ap)

MEXICO CITY — About 200 Central American migrants who were planning to take part in a traditional “Viacrucis” protest have been hemmed in by Mexi-can immigration checkpoints and threats to detain them, an activist said Saturday. For several years, migrants have carried wooden crosses in protest marches around Easter week to illustrate their suf-fering at the hands of criminals and corrupt police.

But the Rev. Alejandro So-la l inde , who runs a shel ter for migrants, said authorities threatened to arrest on human-trafficking charges the owners of buses rented to take the protest-ers from the town of Ixtepec in Oaxaca state to the capital. He said the protesters had planned to leave for Mexico City on Thursday.

Almost 200 other migrants have also piled up at the shelter in Ixtepec because they are afraid of being detained at immigra-tion checkpoints set up near the town, leaving Solalinde and his volunteers to feed and house about 420 people. He called the situation “critical.” “I’ve never seen a city under siege like this,” Solalinde said.

Mexico’s National Immigra-tion Institute said in a statement that it keeps its checkpoints at least 6 miles (10 kilomters) from Ixtepec and that its agents are un-armed and human rights observ-ers are present in the area. It said the road checkpoints are needed to detect migrants in the country illegally as well as people smug-glers and they help “protect the migrants’ safety.”

The protesters are calling for an end to immigration raids that have largely prevented them from the riding a freight train north toward the U.S. border.

Solalinde said raids begun last summer to stop hitchhiking on the train had forced migrants to use more dangerous routes. He said that while about 15 percent of migrants were victims of rob-bery, extortion, assault and other forms of abuse previously, about 90 percent are victimized now.

“Before, they could get through faster and look after each other” on the train, Solalinde said. “Be-fore, a stretch that would take them 12 or 13 hours, now it takes them a month. They are taking a dozen longer, more dangerous routes, where they are robbed or extorted.” (ap)

Mexican activist says authorities hinder migrant protest

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A man wearing a bandana over part of his face, with a mes-sage that reads in Spanish; “Justice. We are all Ayotzinapa,” during a march to commemorate the sixth month of the dis-appeared 43 rural college students, in Mexico City, Thursday, March 26, 2015.

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U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff shake hands during their bilateral meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Obama-Castro meeting overshadows anti-US line at summit

PANAMA CITY — As usual when Latin America leftist leaders get together with U.S. officials, there were plenty of swipes at the U.S. during the seventh Summit of the Americas.

The Buleleng Disaster Mitiga-tion Agency or BPBD’s SAR team, police and local residents, searching for the two victims found Mustafa’s body at the bridge in Sambangan village about two kilometers from the Aling-Aling waterfalls, but after searching until midnight, Bayu Prasetiya had still not been found.

According to reports from the search party, Bayu, a local resident, had escorted the victim and five friends to visit the Aling-Aling waterfalls. When they arrived at the waterfalls, Mustafa and two of his friends proceeded to bathe in the pool at the base of the falls, known to be extreme. The three other friends and Bayu waited on the river bank. It had been rain-

ing in the area and soon afterward they entered the pool, there was a flash flood and the river suddenly enlarged so Bayu immediately jumped in to retrieve the bathers. He managed to save two of them but unluckily he was then swept away along with Mustafa. The water was so swift and abundant that the two immediately disappeared into the flood water. Information about the incident immediately spread and some nearby residents immediately reported it to the police. Mustafa’s body was found an hour later near the bridge two kilometres away and was then brought to the mortuary at Buleleng Hospital. The search for Bayu Prasetiya, a regular tour guide to this site continued.

An officer of BPBD Buleleng, I Nyoman Darma Kurniawan, said that based on information provided by local residents and the victim’s friends, at the time of incident the river flow was very heavy. Alleg-edly, the two victims were swept away by the mighty stream. “The victims were alleged to have been swept away by a sudden flood” he said.

The search had to be stopped in Saturday night because the flow of water in the river was still heavy and it was already dark making it difficult for the officers to continue the search, which then resumed on Sunday morning. As of yet (Apr. 12) Bayu Prasetiya has still not been found. (kmb38)

TABANAN - Agriculture Min-ister Andi Amran Sulaiman has expressed hope that domestic farm products will be able to meet national needs, and that the country will no longer need to import farm commodities in the future.

“I praise the Tabanan district administration in Bali for achiev-ing self-reliance in food produc-tion, with the availability of farm products exceeding local people’s needs,” the minister said during a working visit in Tabanan district recently.

He noted that as the Tabanan district government had continued to step up the development of its agricultural sector, the district had managed to meet local people’s food needs and improve farmers’ living standards.

“Don’t delay in planting rice; don’t leave land unused; and don’t let the community sleep. Let us build this nation till it makes progress at a global level,” he remarked.

Sulaiman also expressed hope that farmers would always be enthusiastic and consistent in de-veloping the agricultural sector as a means to earn a living, as well as

to motivate younger generations to strive towards improving the industry.

This way, the district, which is known as the “rice barn” of Bali province, will be able to take opti-mum advantage of the huge poten-tial the agricultural sector presents, he affirmed.

During the course of the visit, the minister also handed over 24 trac-tors, water pumps, and Rp10 billion as funds to improve the irrigation networks in Tabanan district.

Moreover, District Head of Ta-banan Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, in her address read out by District Sec-retary Nyoman Wirna Ariwangsa, stated that despite being the “rice barn” of the province, Tanaban still faced constraints and obstacles re-lated to infrastructure development, and that it still needed assistance from the central government.

Wiryastuti added that the dis-trict had managed to maintain its rice production of 111 thousand tons, which made it the largest rice producer in Bali. With local rice consumption reaching 56 thousand tons, the district recorded a surplus of 55 thousand tons. (ant)

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The search and rescue team is still looking for the missing victim who drowned at Aling-Aling Waterfall in Buleleng.

1 dead, 1 missing at Aling-Aling waterfalls

SINGARAJA - A visitor from Jakarta named Mustafa was found dead, drowned in the ex-treme Aling-Aling waterfalls at Sambangan village, Sukasada on Saturday (Apr. 11) around 1:30 p.m. The tour guide who accompanied him named Putu Bayu Prasetiya, 24, was washed away with him.

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The rice is compiled in a warehouse by the worker.

Indonesia to not import rice any longer

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BUSINESS

Eurogroup ministers have set the deadline in order to have sufficient time to examine Athens’ proposal ahead of a meeting on April 24, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, quoting unnamed repre-sentatives in the negotiations.

Negotiators from Greece and the EU have struggled to make headway over the final payout of 7.2 billion euros as Athens has refused to consider cutting civil servants’ pensions.

Alexis Tsipras’s government,

which was elected on an anti-austerity ticket, is reticent about accepting further cuts in public spending.

Rather, it is looking at raising national revenues through improv-ing tax compliance.

On Thursday, the Greek govern-ment also began examining a draft bill aimed at rehiring around 4,000 civil servants who were retrenched due to austerity reforms.

In addition, the draft bill envis-ages the hiring of 6,000 people who passed public service exami-nations.

Despite the discord between Athens and the EU over Greece’s

proposed reforms, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Thursday he was very confident that a deal could be done by April 24.

A government source in Athens also said that phone contacts were made Saturday with Greece’s credi-tors, and that they were held “in a climate of cooperation” and aimed at defining the agenda for the com-ing days. (afp)

WASHINGTON — Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, says surging economic growth presents America with “much opportunity” in Asia.

In an interview for CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the daughter of President John F. Kennedy says the Ameri-can news media are “missing the story.”

She was very upbeat about changes in Asia, saying “there is so much opportunity going on here,”

and says there is a lot of “goodwill” toward the United States.

Obama had said he wanted to focus more heavily on Asia in his second term, but he’s been besieged by a series of international crises including the rise of the Islamic State group, whose advances in Iraq and Syria have further destabilized the Mideast. He’s also been busy with nuclear talks with Iran and ef-forts to reach an Israeli-Palestinian accord. (ap)

PARIS - The quandary for those who run social networks is how to monetise activity on them without antagonising and thus losing us-ers through distracting ads? The answer, for Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, is to slip in some stealthy ads camouflaged to look like posts from listed contacts.

Each of the networks has in-house teams whose job is to think up ways to advise brands on how to sneak their marketing into mem-bers’ feeds. At YouTube, owned by Google, the effort is called “Zoo”. Instagram uses the “Creative Shop” of its parent company Facebook. Twitter’s name for it is the relatively straight-forward “Brand Strategy”.

The strategies adapt to the spe-cific requirements, formats and behaviour on each of the social networks.

In the case of Instagram, the

four-year-old site which boasts 300 million users worldwide who share filtered photos and videos, the advertising push has now extended to France.

The network long resisted intro-ducing sponsored messages, aware that many of its fans were creative types -- artists, photographers, ar-chitects -- against having screens of pure images corrupted by tawdry commercial intrusions.

But after Facebook bought it for $715 million in 2012, Instagram started putting in ads. They started in 2013 in the United States, then Australia and Canada in late 2014 and, from mid-March this year, in France.

They hide in plain sight: pre-sented in the same square format, with the same “vintage” filter as user-generated pictures. Only the mention “sponsored” reveals that

it’s there to sell, not share.“The brand has to express itself

as if it’s a person and respect the community,” explained Cedric At-lan, of Facebook’s Creative Shop.

“You have come upon the brand the same way you would a friend or someone from your family. The advertising needs to be integrated and not disturb the user.”

The specialist teams are expe-rienced, well versed in advertising and marketing, often having been snapped up from ad agencies. Each count around 100 employees, scattered around the planet. The job requirement is to have a deep and nuanced knowledge of local markets and to stay abreast of the latest trends.

“There are no borders. It’s a global team that communicates from everywhere in the world, 24/7. If you want to know what’s happen-

ing with mobiles in Asia in such and such an area, we can get an answer in an hour,” said Mailine Swildens, director of YouTube’s Zoo for southern and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

In 2014, Zoo lent its talents to the Italian fashion company Fendi and the result was the first fashion show filmed with drones and broadcast live on YouTube.

“There are innovative areas where you can mix geolocalisation, mobiles, technology,” Swildens said.

Laurent Buanec, brand strategist for Twitter, said: “Sometimes, we get ideas that aren’t really feasible or which miss the point. Our role isn’t to give scores but to accom-pany agencies and brands.”

One campaign rolled out with the help of Twitter was for Nissan France. During a UEFA Champions

League tournament, the car manu-facturer turned its Twitter feed into a football-stat spouting source dur-ing the matches -- to emphasise the brand’s sponsorship.

While it makes sense for the social networks that depend on advertising for their revenues to take on this consulting role, Nicolas Levy, who handles strategy for the Marcel advertising agency within the French Publicis group, said they may end up in competition with the big ad agencies.

“Right now, it’s in everybody’s interest. But in the longer term, Google and Facebook -- which are the most innovative and the biggest -- are potentially rivals,” he said.

“The solution for the big adver-tising group is to grow, especially in the data field, so that they don’t leave client understanding to the social networks,” Levy said. (afp)

Eurogroup wants Greece’s list of reforms by April 20

FRANKFURT - The European Union has given Greece until April 20 to present a list of re-forms which, if found acceptable, would unlock the final tranche of aid funds promised under a multi-billion-euro bailout, a German newspaper reported Sunday.

Twitter, YouTube, Instagram work on stealth advertising

Caroline Kennedy upbeat about economic growth across Asia

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Megawati Soekarnoputri, who is the daughter of Indonesia’s first President Soekarno, was reelected and installed as general chairperson of the party for the 2015-2020 term of office on Thursday.

Prananda was named associate chairman for creative economy affairs for the period of 2015-2020.

“Prananda is a quiet person and has interest in creative economy,” Megawati remarked while announc-ing Prananda’s appointment.

She explained her decision to choose Prananda to handle creative economy as she believes that the sector has the potential to grow in the next five years.

Muhammad Prananda is the sec-ond son of Megawati from her late first husband, first lieutenant Surindro Supjarso.

Megawati has also named Puan Maharani, her daughter from her marriage with late husband Taufik Kiemas, as associate chairperson for political and security affairs.

She noted that Maharani however would not play an active role as she is currently holding the post of coor-dinating minister for human develop-ment and cultural affairs.

“I have sought a permit (for Puan’s

appointment) from the president. So, while she is part of the party’s struc-ture, she will remain non-active,” she affirmed.

President Joko Widodo has de-cided that no minister in his cabinet should hold a political party post.

“I have explained that one cannot be stopped from becoming a politi-cal party activist because it has to do with loyalty and dedication, but he/she could be made non-active,” she affirmed.

With regard to the formation of the party’s central executive board, Megawati Soekarnoputri, who is also a former president, stated that the selection had already been carried out long time ago from the lowest to the highest levels.

She remarked that during the se-lection process, she had also sought assistance from a psychology institute to assess the candidates’ character and leadership skills.

Megawati revealed that she had also taken loyalty and dedication into consideration while choosing the can-didates as she believed that the cadres should possess the two qualities.

people-oriented The Indonesian Democratic Party

of Struggle (PDIP), which won the general elections last year, has said it will ensure that natural resources in the country are developed for the prosperity of the people.

“The PDIP will seek to revise the laws on coal, mineral resources, oil and gas to ensure that they have a ‘red-white’ (nationalist) spirit, with the aim to bring national en-ergy management in line with the principles of Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution,” Megawati stated while closing the party’s congress on Saturday.

The former president and daugh-ter of late first president Soekarno noted that in line with the constitu-tional mandate, the state must control land, water and natural resources underground to realize energy sov-ereignty to ensure the prosperity of the people.

The country, she added, was re-sponsible for providing decent jobs to its citizens and for creating decent jobs for them.

The PDIP will also encourage the framing of various laws to cre-ate decent conditions for workers, including government employees, in all sectors at home and abroad, she affirmed. (ant)DENPASAR - The deportation of 39 Chinese and Taiwanese

citizens arrested for Internet crimes by the police will be carried out in stages from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, stated Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly.

“They will be deported in cooperation with the Chinese police,” Laoly noted on Friday.

The Chinese police had coordinated with the Indonesian immigration office by sending the names of their suspects for arrest.

“It demonstrates our cooperation with China and other countries in countering cybercrimes. The Chinese police have sent their names, and our immigration officers immediately detected and arrested them with the cooperation of the police,” he pointed out.

Head of the Denpasar Immigration Office Bambang Wisnu stated that his office would deport five of them on Friday eve-ning, (April 10); 10 on Saturday, (April 11); and 24 more on Sunday, (April 12).

“During the deportation, they will be under the custody of the Chinese police,” he emphasized.

The 39 suspects comprise four Chinese nationals and 35 Taiwanese.

In the meantime, a commissioner of the General Election Commission (KPU) recently revealed that attempts were made to hack into the KPU’s information technology system network during the vote recapitulation process of the presidential elec-tion last year.

“Once, there were attempts to ‘penetrate’ our network by using a blocking system, with many of them, including from China,” Hadar Nafis Gumay, the KPU commissioner, noted. (ant)

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The deportation of 39 Chinese and Taiwanese citizens arrested for Internet crimes by the police will be car-ried out in stages from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, stated Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly.

Deportation of 39 Chinese to be

conducted in stages

Megawati selected kin as party’s executive

board membersSANUR - Megawati Soekarnoputri named her second son, Prananda Prabowo, as one of the

executive board members of the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) at the party’s congress on Friday.

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Megawati Soekarnoputri

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INDONESIAW RLD

“Today, (April 12) a total of 43 Indonesian citizens (WNI) are expected to arrive home from Ye-men. With their arrival, the number of WNIs already evacuated since December 2014 totals 1,036,” the ministry said in its statement.

According to the foreign ministry, security conditions in Yemen, par-ticularly around the Aden and Sana’a cities were deteriorating. The armed clashes among the conflicting parties were also escalating.

These conditions had posed dif-ficulties in the efforts to evacuate the Indonesian citizens there, thus forc-ing the team to follow special sce-narios for the evacuation process.

The Indonesian government has dispatched an integrated team to Ye-men and Salalah, Oman to evacuate WNIs.

It mobilized an airplane Boeing

737-400 belonging to the Air Force (TNI AU) and one ship chartered from Djibouti.

The integrated evacuating team consisted of 48 personnel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the TNI AU, the National Police (Polri) and the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).

The Indonesian citizens’ evacua-tion operation in Yemen also involves five Indonesian representatives from the Embassy in Sanaa, Embassy in Riyadh, Embassy in Muscat, Embassy in Addis Ababa, and the Consulate General in Jeddah.

The team members assigned in Hudayah, Tarim and Al-Mukalla, Aden (Yemen), Salalah (Oman) and Djibouti continue to collect data and make approaches to the relevant authorities.

They monitor the on-going condi-tions to carry out the evacuation of

Indonesian citizens out of Yemen.Besides, the evacuation team in

South Yemen is still exploring the availability of ships from Djibouti to pick up WNIs trapped in Aden.

Many ships are afraid to call at the city’s port because of unfavorable and unstable security conditions.

Data collected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that there are still a number of Indonesian citi-zens who are housed in accommo-dating facilities in various Yemeni regions for further evacuation.

Based on the data, 58 citizens are still in Sana’a, 37 in Hudaydah, 423 in Tarim, 260 in Mukalla and 111 in Aden.

The Indonesian government continues to appeal its citizens to be prepared for evacuation before the situation becomes further dete-riorated. (ant)

DOMPU - Mt Tambora area which has just been given a national park status, is expected to lure domestic as well as foreign tourists to West Nusa Tenggara Province. Tourism Minister Arief Yahya expressed his optimism that Tambora National Park could become an attractive destination of ecotourism.

“The opportunities here are ecotour-ism and agrotourism. The accessibility and attraction are good, now mt’s only a matter of amenity,” the minister said when attending “Tembora Greets The World” event in Doro Ncanga Savana, Dompu.

He said human resources develop-ment is crucial in the tourism sector.

The minister hoped Mt Tambora National Park to become one of the national tourism strategic areas.

Head of the West Nusa Tenggara Tourism Office Lalo Mohammad Fao-zal confirmed that Tambora has become a new tourist destination.

Dompu and Bima have become fa-vorite tracking areas. He called on the central government help build support-ing infrastructure and intensify tourism

promotion abroad. Earlier, President Joko Widodo

emphasized on the importance Mount Tambora National Park, stating that it was an asset that must be preserved and developed to benefit local people.

He made the statement on Saturday while attending the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the explosion of Mount Tambora and the launching of Mount Tambora National Park.

The president ordered local people to preserve and look after the region well to turn it into an ecotourism des-tination. “I want you to preserve it and ensure that no one damages it,” he told the people.

Jokowi also hopes that the Tambora Festival is organized as an annual event to bring more added value to national tourism.

“I wish this event is held every year to promote tourism in Bima and Dom-pu. The Tambora Festival must be held annually with funding from the central government so that all know where Dompu, Bima and West Nusa Tenggara are, as well as where Indonesia is,” he remarked. (ant)

JAKARTA — The number of enslaved fishermen found on a remote Indonesian island has now reached nearly 550, after a fact-finding team returned for a single day to make sure no one had been left behind nearly a week after more than half of the men were removed in a dramatic rescue.

Many of the 210 identified Thursday were Burmese who want-ed to leave, but there were a few holdouts — men who claimed they were owed years of back pay from their bosses, said Steve Hamilton, deputy chief of mission at the Inter-national Organization for Migration in Jakarta.

An in-depth investigation by The Associated Press published last month led to the discovery of massive rights abuses in the island village of Benjina and surrounding waters. The report traced slave-caught seafood from there to Thailand where it can then enter the supply chains of some of America’s biggest supermarket chains and retailers.

Many of the men interviewed said they were tricked or even kid-napped before being put on boats in Thailand and taken to Indonesia. They were forced to work almost non-stop under horrendous condi-tions, some brutally beaten by their Thai captains when they were sick

or caught resting.Last week, Indonesian authori-

ties rescued around 330 migrants from Benjina, bringing them to the island of Tual, where they are now being sheltered by the government. Those found Thursday by a team, which included Myanmar officials, remain in Benjina.

It’s unclear who will pay for the mass repatriation. A former slave now in Tual said conditions were relatively good there. He said the men are getting medical care and enough to eat, but their living quarters are cramped and many do not have a change of clothes since they left quickly with only what they were wearing.

Meanwhile, Myanmar opposi-tion leader Aung San Suu Kyi told reporters Thursday in her country’s capital, Naypyitaw, it was up to governments “to protect the rights of the citizens and to bring them back out of bondage.”

“That is the most obvious and very simple solution and unavoid-able duty of any responsible govern-ment,” she told reporters.

While most fisherman found in Benjina were Burmese, there also were scores of Cambodians. The toll of 550 did not include men — many of whom also were enslaved — from poor parts of Thailand. (ap)

Indonesia has evacuated 1,036 citizens from Yemen

JAKARTA - Indonesia so far has evacuated 1,036 of its citizens from Yemen, the Foreign Ministry said in its press statement on Sunday.

Number of slaves found on Indonesian island at almost 550

Tambora National Park expected to lure tourists

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Dancers performed during the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the explosion of Mount Tambora and the launching of Mount Tambora National Park.

Mohammad Qamaruzzaman was hanged Saturday night in the central jail in the capital, Dhaka, a senior prison official, Forman Ali, told re-porters. He was buried early Sunday under tight security, according to his brother, Kafil Uddin.

Prosecutors said that Qamaruzza-man, an assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, headed a militia group that collaborated with the Pakistani army in central Bangladesh in 1971 and was behind the killings of at least 120 unarmed farmers.

Bangladesh blames Pakistani soldiers and local collaborators for the deaths of 3 million people during the nine-month war of independence from Pakistan. An estimated 200,000 women were raped and about 10 mil-lion people fled to refugee camps in neighboring India.

Jamaat-e-Islami denounced the execution and called for a nationwide general strike Monday. At the same time, thousands of people applauded the execution on the streets of Dhaka and other cities, a sign of popular ap-

proval of the war crime trials launched by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. More rallies supporting the execution were planned for Sunday.

“We are happy that justice has been delivered finally,” said Moham-mad Al Masum, a student at Dhaka University, who joined a procession in Shabagh Square. “I did not see the war but I am sure the families that lost their dear ones will be happy today.”

Hasina has vowed to continue the trials despite pressure from abroad and the opposition at home. Jamaat-e-Islami party, which garners about 2 percent to 3 percent of popular vote, has been weakened significantly as most of its senior leaders have already been convicted. Another assistant secretary, Abdul Quader Mollah, was executed in 2013 for similar crimes.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, earlier this week urged Bangladesh not to carry out the execution, saying that Qamaruzzman’s trial did not meet international standards.

The United States was more guard-

ed in its assessment of the trial, but still urged the government not to proceed with the execution.

“We have seen progress, but still believe that further improvements ... could ensure these proceedings meet domestic and international ob-ligations,” State Department spokes-woman Marie Harf said in a statement shortly before the execution.

The Bangladeshi government said the trial met the proper standards with the defendant receiving the opportuni-ty to challenge the prosecution’s case in open court and appeal the verdict all the way up to the Supreme Court. Qamaruzzaman, however, refused to seek presidential clemency.

The initial trials that followed Ban-gladesh’s independence four decades ago were halted after the assassination of then-president and independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — Hasina’s father — and most of his family members in a 1975 military coup. Hasina revived the process, making good on a pledge she made before 2008 elections. (ap)

VIENNA — Austrian officials say two skiers have been rescued from a crevasse in a glacier high in the Alps after nearly 24 hours.

Mountain rescue spokeswom-an Maria Riedler told the Austria Press Agency that the men, an Austrian and a German, were plucked out of the crevasse by he-licopter on Sunday morning. She said they were cold but in good condition, and had kept each

other awake during the night. They were taken to a hospital.

The two experienced skiers on Saturday morning fell about 4 meters (13 feet) into the crevasse on the Grosses Wiesbachhorn mountain in Salzburg province at an altitude of some 3,300 meters (10,800 feet).

The men alerted authorities by cellphone, but bad weather thwarted rescue attempts on Sat-urday. (ap)

PATNA — Maoist rebels at-tacked a group of policemen patrolling in a central Indian for-est, killing seven and wounding another 10, police said.

The ambushed policemen were part of a special task force out searching for rebel activity ear-ly Saturday when the militants opened fire, according to R.K. Vij, a top police official in Chhat-tisgarh state.

Ten wounded officers were airlifted to a hospital in the state capital of Raipur. Few other details

were available from the remote region in Sukma district, 385 kilometers (240 miles) south of Raipur.

The rebels have been called India’s biggest internal security threat, operating in 20 of India’s 28 states with thousands of fighters. Inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, they’ve been fighting for over three decades in central and eastern India to de-mand the poor receive more jobs and a greater share of wealth from natural resources. (ap)

PARIS — A 13-year-old boy has been killed by a shark while surfing off the shore of the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.

The island, with an active volcano and striking vistas that attract tourists, has seen a rise in shark activity in recent years. It was the seventh shark-related death since 2011.

After a non-fatal shark attack in February, authorities banned

all water activities outside select areas watched by lifeguards.

The regional maritime rescue service, known as CROSS, said in a statement that the boy was surfing Sunday in an off-limits area on the west coast of the island when the shark attacked his arms and legs. The statement says rescuers arrived quickly but could not save him. Authorities would not provide further details about the victim. (ap)

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Bangladeshi security personnel cordon an ambulance leaving Central Jail carrying the body of Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami party, after he was executed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Bangladesh on alert after execution, applauded by many

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Thousands of Bangladeshis poured onto the streets to applaud the execution of an Islamist party official on charges of crimes against humanity during the coun-try’s 1971 independence war, while security forces were on alert Sunday for a possible backlash from his supporters.

2 rescued from Alpine crevasse after nearly a day

Rebels ambush police in central Indian forest, killing 7

Shark kills 13-year-old surfer on French Indian Ocean island

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This Saturday, April 11, 2015 photo shows Indian policemen who were wounded in an attack by Maoist rebels being at-tended to by colleagues in Sukma district, 385 kilometers (240 miles) south of Raipur, India.

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Greivis Vasquez and Kyle Lowry each scored 12 points and Patrick Patterson had 11 for the Raptors, who clinched home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

Dwyane Wade scored 30 points for the Heat, who can only get to 37 wins — the number that Brooklyn and Boston are already at, putting them in the No. 7 and No. 8 spots in the Eastern Conference race. Goran Dragic scored 22 points for Miami and Hassan Whiteside finished with 16 points and 18 rebounds.

But Whiteside also missed 12 free throws, going 4 for 16, and as a team the Heat went 24 of 44 from the line.

Williams hit a 3-pointer with 31.2 seconds left to put the Raptors up by five, and that just about sealed

not just the game but Miami’s playoff fate. The Heat must win their last two games, and get a ton of help to reach the postseason for the seventh straight year.

The win was Toronto’s 48th of the season and 22nd on the road, both tying franchise records.

Pau Gasol had 24 points and 13 rebounds and Derrick Rose had 22 points and eight assists in 28 minutes in the Chicago Bulls’ 114-107 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.

The Bulls remained tied with the Toronto Raptors for third place in the Eastern Conference with two games to go for each team.

The 76ers dressed just nine play-ers, but stayed close with an aggres-sive, attacking style on both ends.

Robert Covington led Philadelphia with 22 points, Jason Richardson had 19, and JaKarr Sampson 18.

Stephen Curry scored 20 of his 34 points in the first half, Klay Thompson made three 3-pointers in the final 4 minutes and the Golden State Warriors set yet an-other franchise record in a 110-101 victory over the Minnesota Tim-berwolves.

The Warriors broke their fran-chise record with their 37th home win. They have lost only twice at home and lead the NBA with a 68-15 record.

Curry made five 3-pointers, went 11 of 21 from the floor and had seven assists to help the Warriors complete a four-game sweep of the Timberwolves. (ap)

Lewis HAmiLToN and Mer-cedes reasserted their authority over Formula 1 with a commanding Chi-nese Grand Prix victory. Nico Rosberg had to settle for second place, ahead of the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, in a race that was close at times without ever truly coming to life.

Hamilton had made his intentions clear by angling his car very aggres-sively towards Rosberg’s on the grid. He duly held his lead off the line, with Rosberg and Vettel stringing out behind the champion through the first stint. The situation became more tense in the middle stint of the two-stop race, as both Rosberg and Vettel closed on Hamilton.

A frustrated Rosberg radioed Mercedes asking if Hamilton could speed up, as his tyres were wearing too much whenever he got closer than two seconds away from his team-mate’s rear wing. When Ferrari brought Vet-tel in for his second stop ahead of the two Mercedes, Rosberg was pitted a lap later in an effort to prevent his countryman getting an undercut on his new tyres.

But rather than his rivals’ earlier stops putting Hamilton at a disad-vantage, he was able to raise his pace considerably on his final laps on soft tyres. Hamilton ran two laps longer than Rosberg and rejoined with a 6s cushion rather than the 2s advantage he had held prior to the stops.

Rosberg reduced Hamilton’s lead slightly before settling for second. A safety car appearance with two laps to go - caused by Max Verstappen’s Toro Rosso parking on the pit straight in a cloud of smoke - made things even more comfortable for Hamilton, as the race finished under yellow.

Vettel was not a match for the Mercedes once all were onto me-dium tyres and fell away in third. The Malaysian GP winner then came under late pressure from team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn quickly cleared both Williams on the open-ing lap to make up for his qualifying frustration, and though he could not keep pace with the top three at first,

he ran long in his middle stint and made up ground.

Raikkonen was still 1.4s behind Vettel when the late safety car came out and had to be content with fourth. Williams ran a lonely and distant fifth and sixth with Felipe Massa and Valt-teri Bottas, a minute behind the leaders prior to the field being bunched up.

Lotus scored its first points of the year with Romain Grosjean in seventh, but it was a wild race for his team-mate Pastor Maldonado. The Venezuelan got ahead of Grosjean in the first pitstop sequence, before going down the pitlane entry escape road at his second stop.

A spin while trying to recover left him even further behind, and he then became embroiled in a spectacular battle with the McLarens of Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso. After several fraught laps, this came to a head when Button hit the back of the Lotus at Turn 1, ending Maldonado’s race and prompting a stewards’ in-vestigation.

Despite that, McLaren still got its first double finish of 2015 with Alonso and Button’s battered cars 12th and 13th. Until his late engine failure, Verstappen was on course for eighth, having sliced through the field with some very accomplished overtaking. But his problem completed a terrible day for Renault and the Red Bull-owned teams.

Daniel Ricciardo had tumbled to 17th with a terrible start and made heavy weather of coming back through the field to ninth between the Saubers of Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson, which scored again.

Daniil Kvyat was also out early with a suspected engine failure, while Carlos Sainz Jr spun at Turn 1 in the opening laps and later lost time with a gearbox problem before finishing between the McLarens and Manors in 14th.

Force India spent a while in the points as a unique three-stop strategy for Sergio Perez shook out, but in the end 11th was his limit. A gearbox failure ended team-mate Nico Hulk-enberg’s race. (rtr)

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

Miami Heat guard Goran Dragic (7) of Slovenia, goes up for a shot during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Toronto Raptors, Saturday, April 11, 2015, in Miami.

Raptors put Heat on brink of elimination, beat Miami 107-104miAmi — Lou williams scored 29 points, Demar DeRozan added 24 and the Toronto Raptors

put the miami Heat on the brink of playoff elimination with a 107-104 victory saturday night.

Hamilton leads Rosberg in comfortable Mercedes 1-2

REUTERS/Goh Chai Hin/Pool

Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain takes his car in for a pit-stop during the Chinese F1 Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit, April 12, 2015.

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Ever Banega struck a 30-metre drive into the corner that Claudio Bravo failed to keep out in the 38th minute and, after chances at both ends, substitute Kevin Gameiro grabbed the equaliser six minutes from time. “We were the better side but in the second half they pushed more and the game was more even,” Barca midfielder Sergio Busquets told reporters.

“Whether it is just or not, it’s what happened and we have to accept it.” Elsewhere, Santi Mina hit four goals and Joaquin Larrivey scored twice as Celta Vigo crushed Rayo Vallecano 6-1 while Thomas Partey’s double helped Almeria sweep past Granada 3-0.

Cristiano Ronaldo continued his hot streak with the opening goal as second-placed Real won while An-toine Griezmann came to the rescue

of Atletico Madrid, who are third, with his second of the game after 78 minutes earning the champions a 2-2 draw at Malaga.

Ronaldo struck a free kick from distance and the ball moved decep-tively in the air to catch out keeper Xabier Irureta and put Real 1-0 up after 21 minutes at the Bernabeu. The World Player of the Year’s form dropped after Christmas, coinciding with Real losing top spot, but he has now bounced back with eight goals from four games.

Real were missing several regu-lar starters against Eibar, who posed little threat, and Javier Hernandez nodded home the second after 31 minutes. Jese Rodriguez completed the scoring from the edge of the area seven minutes from the end. Barca now have 75 points, two more than Real with seven games

to go, while Atletico are on 66.

GOOD RESULT

“It was a good result for us par-ticularly with the players missing,” said Real full back Alvaro Arbeloa. “We played with those who haven’t had that many minutes so far this season but they responded well and it showed the strength that we have in the squad.”

Without a La Liga goal in almost two months, the pressure was grow-ing on Neymar but he responded well and it appeared as though Barca would walk away with a victory.

Neymar found Messi and he curled the ball into the corner of the net after 14 minutes before striking a free kick himself that nestled in the top corner. Banega then started to come more into the game in midfield

PARIS — Zlatan Ibrahimovic and substitute Edinson Cavani both scored twice Saturday as Paris Saint-Germain won its first trophy of the season by retaining the League Cup with a 4-0 win over 10-man Bastia.

Ibrahimovic, who missed last season’s final through injury, opened the scoring from the pen-alty spot after Sebastien Squillaci was sent off, and doubled the lead just before halftime. Cavani added more luster to the win in the clos-ing stages of the match with a fine header and a cool finish at the end of a counterattack.

PSG is chasing an unprec-edented quadruple, as Laurent

Blanc side also made it to the French Cup final and

leads the French league standings. But it will be without Ibrahi-movic next week against Barcelona

in the first leg of the Champi-

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striker will miss a l so miss

f o u r matches of the domestic season after receiving

another ban for his criticism of a referee. “We are ready for Barce-lona,” said PSG president Nasser Al Khelaifi.

Ibrahimovic has been in tre-mendous form recently, scoring a hat trick in the 4-1 win over Saint-Etienne in the French Cup semifinals midweek and bagging 13 goals in his last seven appearances for club and country. Once again, he was the man of the match at the Stade de France.

With David Luiz and Thiago Motta both out with injuries, Serge Aurier returned to the PSG defense while Adrien Rabiot was given a starting role in midfield. In a tight start to the game, PSG created the

ROME - Bankrupt, bottom-of-the-table Parma, whose players have not been paid all season, pulled off a stunning 1-0 victory over runaway Serie A leaders Juventus on Saturday. Midfielder Jose Mauri, 18, scored on the hour as Juventus, 7-0 winners over Parma earlier in the season, suffered only their second league defeat of the campaign.

Even though the leaders rested sev-eral players ahead of their Champions League tie with Monaco on Tuesday, it was still a remarkable result for Parma who have only continued in the league thanks to a fund set up by the Italian federation. Juventus remained 14 points clear at the top and on course for a fourth successive title while Parma, who have had three points deducted for breaching financial regulations, are on 16 points, still five adrift at the bottom. Parma, who at one stage had to postpone two successive games due to their financial problems, have taken seven points from their last three outings, but remain 10 points from the safety zone with nine matches left. Genoa beat one-from-bottom Cagliari 2-0, pushing the Sardinians (21 points) closer to Serie B, and Inter Milan won 3-0 at Verona to end a seven-match winless run in all competitions.

Roberto Mancini’s side are joint eighth alongside AC Milan and Genoa with 41 points. “This has given us great satisfaction in a very difficult season,” said Parma coach Roberto Donadoni.

“Everyone is making a great sac-rifice. I must pay my compliments to the lads who are doing something extraordinary.” “To be captain today against Juve and win in this situation is something I will never forget,” added captain Massimo Gobbi. “This is the sort of story that can only happen in

sport.” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri criticised his team.

“Today was an important match, but we didn’t understand that,” he said on the club’s Twitter feed. “We didn’t control the match and we deserved the defeat.” “The absent players are no excuse,” he added later in the press conference. “We didn’t win a tackle out there and that tells you a great deal about the spirit Parma played with.”

Juventus rested strikers Alvaro Morata and Carlos Tevez along with playmaker Andrea Pirlo, who had recovered from a calf injury, while goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon had a stomach virus.

Parma goalkeeper Antonio Mirante kept the hosts in the game in the first half but Parma broke through just after the hour when Ishak Belfodil, always a threat on the break, burst down the right and pulled the ball into the middle for Mauri to sidefoot into the top cor-ner from just inside the area.

There were some bad-tempered exchanges as Juventus pressed for an equaliser, but Parma held out to give Donadoni his first Serie A win over Juve in 10 attempts as a coach. Mauro Icardi gave Inter an 11th minute lead at Verona, tapping in Rodrigo Palacio’s low cross for his 16th Serie A goal of the season as the home defence ap-peared to be distracted by an apparent injury to Panagiotis Tachtsidis, who quickly recovered.

Palacio extended Inter’s lead after halftime before their goalkeeper Samir Handanovic continued his remarkable run of penalty saves by denying Luca Toni from the spot.

The Slovenian has saved seven of the last eight penalties against him. An unlucky own goal by Vangelis Moras in stoppage time completed Inter’s win. (rtr)

BURNLEY — If Chelsea col-lapses in the final weeks of the Premier League season, Arsenal will be primed to take advantage. Aaron Ramsey ex-tended Arsenal’s winning run to eight matches on Saturday by clinching a 1-0 victory at Burnley.

Arsenal’s resurgence has sent the team four points behind Chelsea with six matches to go, but Jose Mourinho’s side has two games in hand.

“I am pleased because it was a more fighting and fluent performance and many people question us on that side,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. “We had to fight and be combative until the end. We couldn’t score the second goal and our defend-ers played well today and got us the three points.”

Chelsea’s plays struggling Queens Park Rangers on Sunday, while Man-chester rivals United and City meet in a clash between third and fourth.

“Nothing has changed, they are too comfortable Chelsea,” Wenger said. “We need a perfect run and non-perfect run from them. We can’t

master that.”It is a tight tussle against the drop

with bottom-place Leicester winning 3-2 at West Bromwich Albion to go within a point of Burnley and QPR.

The two teams directly above the relegation zone both lost on Saturday. Sunderland was thrashed 4-1 at home by Crystal Palace — with Yannick Bolasie scoring an 11-minute hat trick — and Hull went down 2-0 at Southampton.

As Southampton rose to fifth, Tot-tenham slid to seventh with a 1-0 loss to Aston Villa. Christian Benteke’s header gave manager Tim Sherwood a victory against the club which fired him last year and lifted Villa six points clear of danger. The only game on Saturday with any impact on the top of the standings was at Burnley. And Ar-senal discovered just why Manchester City lost here and Tottenham was held 0-0 in the last month. “It was definitely one of the tougher games,” Ramsey said. “A lot of the big teams have dropped points here this season.”

Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton

saved a free kick from Alexis Sanchez in the first minute, but he conceded his first goal at home since Feb. 28 in the 12th minute. Mesut Ozil’s shot was parried by Heaton, Sanchez’s follow-up hit Kieran Trippier, but Ramsey sent a powerful strike into the bottom corner amid a goalmouth scramble.

Tripper came close to leveling when his dipping free kick was turned away by David Ospina’s diving save, while George Boyd and Danny Ings squandered chances to grab a point for Burnley in the second half.

“We’ve got good belief in our per-formances,” Burnley manager Sean Dyche said. “We still need to add quality to our performance, but there’s certainly a will and a demand to go and get more points this season.”

There was a pair of 1-1 draws between teams hovering around the middle of the standings. Jonjo Shelvey’s penalty for Swansea can-celed out Aaron Lennon’s Everton opener. West Ham conceded a stop-page time equalizer from Stoke’s Marko Arnautovic. (ap)

AMSTERDAM — Defending Dutch league champion Ajax beat Heracles Almelo 2-0 Saturday to ensure PSV Eindhoven will have to wait at least another week to dethrone the Amsterdam club.

Ice land s t r ike r Kolbe inn Sigthorsson scored deep in first-

half injury time, pouncing on a rebound from Ricardo van Rhijn’s free kick, and substitute Lucas Anderson curled in an 86th-minute shot to notch Ajax’s 2,000th Eredivisie goal and make sure of the win.

PSV beat PEC Zwolle 3-1 Fri-

day and would have been crowned champion for the first time since 2008 had Ajax lost in Almelo.

PSV, which won four straight league titles from 2005-2008, now leads second-place Ajax by 10 points with four rounds to play. (ap)

SARANSK, Russia — Saransk’s stadium for the 2018 World Cup is supposed to raise the profile of this little-known Russian city, but for now Alexei Merkushkin is just trying to keep costs down.

As Minister of Special Programs for the region that includes this city of 300,000 people south-east of Moscow, Merkushkin’s job is to make sure the smallest of Russia’s 11 host cities is ready to welcome fans not just to its new 45,000-seat stadium, but also the hotels and transport links that are supposed to transform Saransk in time for 2018.

Constructing the arena is set to cost 15.66 billion rubles ($300 million), fully funded by the federal budget, with a fur-ther $10.5 million earlier spent on design costs. Turning a provincial city into an international destination is not easy. Sa-ransk normally sees only one flight from Moscow per day and the airport needs expansion to cope with World Cup crowds. The city was a surprise choice as a World Cup host. Many Russians would have trouble finding it on a map and it’s hardly an eye-catching location,

460 km away from Moscow.Following a year of international

sanctions against Russia, the ruble is worth more than a third less against the dollar than it was in January 2014, while the low oil price is squeezing the fed-eral and regional budgets that fund the World Cup. The federal government has slashed spending by 10 percent across the board. While most World Cup-related expenditure is protected, govern-ment belt-tightening means a renewed crackdown on any cost increases.

“There’s a tough position that more cost increases won’t be allowed. So the cost that’s been laid out, that’s fi-nal,” Merkushkin told The Associated Press.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised the economic turbulence will not affect the World Cup, FIFA head Sepp Blatter said in January.

Blatter said he had spoken with Putin during a visit to Russia and was assured “there is no intention to ask FIFA to change anything in the pattern and the program of the World Cup and we trust Russia will find a solution.” (ap)

Ajax beats Heracles Almelo 2-0 to make PSV wait for title

PSG beats Bastia 4-0 to win League Cup

AP Photo/Michel Euler

Paris Saint Germain’s Edinson Cavani, acknowledges applause after their League Cup final soccer match against Bastia at Stade de France stadium in Saint Denis, outside Paris, France, Saturday, April 11, 2015. Paris Saint Germain won 4-0.

first chance in the fourth minute when Ibrahimovic collected a long pass in the box following a free kick from Ezequiel Lavezzi, but the tall Swede was flagged offside.

PSG had a penalty claim turn down soon after when Gael Danic touched the ball with his right arm inside the box. But referee Benoit Bastien pointed to the spot in the 20th minute after Squillaci brought Ezequiel Lavezzi down, with the former Arsenal player receiving a straight red card for his foul.

Second on PSG’s all-time top scorers list behind Pedro Pauleta with 104 goals, Ibrahimovic made no mistake from the spot, sending ‘keeper Alphonse Areola the wrong way with a shot in the top left corner. Squillaci’s red card forced Bastia coach Ghislain Printant to change his strategy, with Mathieu Peybernes coming in for Danic. The move did not make a big difference as PSG took complete control of the match and overwhelmed Bastia midfield.

Pegged back in their own half, the Corsicans fought back PSG’s relentless attacks for 20 minutes but a poor headed clearance from

Peybernes fell into Ibrahimovic’s path, with the Swede chesting down the ball before unleashing a low shot at the near post to double the lead. PSG continued to apply pressure after the interval and went close in the 48th when Pastore saw his angled shot end just wide at the far post.

PSG goalkeeper Nicolas Dou-chez enjoyed a quiet evening and Florian Marange failed to convert Bastia’s first occasion in the 56th minute, sending his header just wide.

Bastia tried everything in the closing stages of the game but lacked a cutting edge and was caught on the break when Cavani struck a perfect header at the far post from Aurier’s cross to make it 3-0 with 10 minutes remaining.

Another PSG counterattack brought another goal in added time, with Cavani curling a shot past Areola from Ibrahimovic’s assist as PSG claimed its fifth League Cup. “The match was over after 20 min-utes following the penalty and the sending off,” said Marange. “We knew the referee would not make us any gift.” (ap)

AP Photo/Marco Vasini

Parma’s Ishak Belfodil, left, and Juventus’ Giorgio Chiellini vie for the ball during their Serie A soccer match at Parma’s Tardini stadium, Italy, Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Bankrupt Parma floor Serie A leaders Juventus

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo

celebrates after scor-ing a goal

against Eibar during their

Spanish first division soc-

cer match at Santiago

Bernabeu stadium in

Madrid April 11, 2015.

Arsenal wins 8th in a row, hoping leader Chelsea slips up

Real close gap after Barca let 2-0 lead slip

BARCELONA - Barcelona’s lead at the top of La Liga was cut to two points on Saturday as they squandered a two-goal advantage to draw 2-2 at Sevilla while Real Madrid powered their way to a 3-0 home win over Eibar. Neymar set up Argentine Lionel Messi for Barca’s first goal and the Brazilian then converted an inch-perfect free kick after 31 minutes but a determined Sevilla, who are now unbeaten in 32 home games, never gave up.

and Sevilla began stretching Barca with their movement in attack.

After going close with a previ-ous effort, Banega pulled a goal back with a shot that Bravo will feel he should have parried. The game was wide open in the second half and Luis Suarez had an off-day as he failed to make the most of a couple of clear chances. The Barca striker was made to pay dearly when Gameiro scored following a Sevilla counter-attack.

Atletico were gifted the open-ing goal as Malaga keeper Carlos Kameni flapped at a long throw by Jesus Gamez and it was left for Griezmann to simply knock the ball over the line from close range.

Malaga caused little threat in a cagey first half but were given a helping hand by Fernando Torres who inadvertently headed a corner into his own net before the break.

Things opened up in the second half and Samu delicately chipped the ball over keeper Jan Oblak with 19 minutes left, only to see Griezmann respond with a clinical finish. (rtr) REUTERS/Sergio Perez

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Ever Banega struck a 30-metre drive into the corner that Claudio Bravo failed to keep out in the 38th minute and, after chances at both ends, substitute Kevin Gameiro grabbed the equaliser six minutes from time. “We were the better side but in the second half they pushed more and the game was more even,” Barca midfielder Sergio Busquets told reporters.

“Whether it is just or not, it’s what happened and we have to accept it.” Elsewhere, Santi Mina hit four goals and Joaquin Larrivey scored twice as Celta Vigo crushed Rayo Vallecano 6-1 while Thomas Partey’s double helped Almeria sweep past Granada 3-0.

Cristiano Ronaldo continued his hot streak with the opening goal as second-placed Real won while An-toine Griezmann came to the rescue

of Atletico Madrid, who are third, with his second of the game after 78 minutes earning the champions a 2-2 draw at Malaga.

Ronaldo struck a free kick from distance and the ball moved decep-tively in the air to catch out keeper Xabier Irureta and put Real 1-0 up after 21 minutes at the Bernabeu. The World Player of the Year’s form dropped after Christmas, coinciding with Real losing top spot, but he has now bounced back with eight goals from four games.

Real were missing several regu-lar starters against Eibar, who posed little threat, and Javier Hernandez nodded home the second after 31 minutes. Jese Rodriguez completed the scoring from the edge of the area seven minutes from the end. Barca now have 75 points, two more than Real with seven games

to go, while Atletico are on 66.

GOOD RESULT

“It was a good result for us par-ticularly with the players missing,” said Real full back Alvaro Arbeloa. “We played with those who haven’t had that many minutes so far this season but they responded well and it showed the strength that we have in the squad.”

Without a La Liga goal in almost two months, the pressure was grow-ing on Neymar but he responded well and it appeared as though Barca would walk away with a victory.

Neymar found Messi and he curled the ball into the corner of the net after 14 minutes before striking a free kick himself that nestled in the top corner. Banega then started to come more into the game in midfield

PARIS — Zlatan Ibrahimovic and substitute Edinson Cavani both scored twice Saturday as Paris Saint-Germain won its first trophy of the season by retaining the League Cup with a 4-0 win over 10-man Bastia.

Ibrahimovic, who missed last season’s final through injury, opened the scoring from the pen-alty spot after Sebastien Squillaci was sent off, and doubled the lead just before halftime. Cavani added more luster to the win in the clos-ing stages of the match with a fine header and a cool finish at the end of a counterattack.

PSG is chasing an unprec-edented quadruple, as Laurent

Blanc side also made it to the French Cup final and

leads the French league standings. But it will be without Ibrahi-movic next week against Barcelona

in the first leg of the Champi-

ons League quarter-

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striker will miss a l so miss

f o u r matches of the domestic season after receiving

another ban for his criticism of a referee. “We are ready for Barce-lona,” said PSG president Nasser Al Khelaifi.

Ibrahimovic has been in tre-mendous form recently, scoring a hat trick in the 4-1 win over Saint-Etienne in the French Cup semifinals midweek and bagging 13 goals in his last seven appearances for club and country. Once again, he was the man of the match at the Stade de France.

With David Luiz and Thiago Motta both out with injuries, Serge Aurier returned to the PSG defense while Adrien Rabiot was given a starting role in midfield. In a tight start to the game, PSG created the

ROME - Bankrupt, bottom-of-the-table Parma, whose players have not been paid all season, pulled off a stunning 1-0 victory over runaway Serie A leaders Juventus on Saturday. Midfielder Jose Mauri, 18, scored on the hour as Juventus, 7-0 winners over Parma earlier in the season, suffered only their second league defeat of the campaign.

Even though the leaders rested sev-eral players ahead of their Champions League tie with Monaco on Tuesday, it was still a remarkable result for Parma who have only continued in the league thanks to a fund set up by the Italian federation. Juventus remained 14 points clear at the top and on course for a fourth successive title while Parma, who have had three points deducted for breaching financial regulations, are on 16 points, still five adrift at the bottom. Parma, who at one stage had to postpone two successive games due to their financial problems, have taken seven points from their last three outings, but remain 10 points from the safety zone with nine matches left. Genoa beat one-from-bottom Cagliari 2-0, pushing the Sardinians (21 points) closer to Serie B, and Inter Milan won 3-0 at Verona to end a seven-match winless run in all competitions.

Roberto Mancini’s side are joint eighth alongside AC Milan and Genoa with 41 points. “This has given us great satisfaction in a very difficult season,” said Parma coach Roberto Donadoni.

“Everyone is making a great sac-rifice. I must pay my compliments to the lads who are doing something extraordinary.” “To be captain today against Juve and win in this situation is something I will never forget,” added captain Massimo Gobbi. “This is the sort of story that can only happen in

sport.” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri criticised his team.

“Today was an important match, but we didn’t understand that,” he said on the club’s Twitter feed. “We didn’t control the match and we deserved the defeat.” “The absent players are no excuse,” he added later in the press conference. “We didn’t win a tackle out there and that tells you a great deal about the spirit Parma played with.”

Juventus rested strikers Alvaro Morata and Carlos Tevez along with playmaker Andrea Pirlo, who had recovered from a calf injury, while goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon had a stomach virus.

Parma goalkeeper Antonio Mirante kept the hosts in the game in the first half but Parma broke through just after the hour when Ishak Belfodil, always a threat on the break, burst down the right and pulled the ball into the middle for Mauri to sidefoot into the top cor-ner from just inside the area.

There were some bad-tempered exchanges as Juventus pressed for an equaliser, but Parma held out to give Donadoni his first Serie A win over Juve in 10 attempts as a coach. Mauro Icardi gave Inter an 11th minute lead at Verona, tapping in Rodrigo Palacio’s low cross for his 16th Serie A goal of the season as the home defence ap-peared to be distracted by an apparent injury to Panagiotis Tachtsidis, who quickly recovered.

Palacio extended Inter’s lead after halftime before their goalkeeper Samir Handanovic continued his remarkable run of penalty saves by denying Luca Toni from the spot.

The Slovenian has saved seven of the last eight penalties against him. An unlucky own goal by Vangelis Moras in stoppage time completed Inter’s win. (rtr)

BURNLEY — If Chelsea col-lapses in the final weeks of the Premier League season, Arsenal will be primed to take advantage. Aaron Ramsey ex-tended Arsenal’s winning run to eight matches on Saturday by clinching a 1-0 victory at Burnley.

Arsenal’s resurgence has sent the team four points behind Chelsea with six matches to go, but Jose Mourinho’s side has two games in hand.

“I am pleased because it was a more fighting and fluent performance and many people question us on that side,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. “We had to fight and be combative until the end. We couldn’t score the second goal and our defend-ers played well today and got us the three points.”

Chelsea’s plays struggling Queens Park Rangers on Sunday, while Man-chester rivals United and City meet in a clash between third and fourth.

“Nothing has changed, they are too comfortable Chelsea,” Wenger said. “We need a perfect run and non-perfect run from them. We can’t

master that.”It is a tight tussle against the drop

with bottom-place Leicester winning 3-2 at West Bromwich Albion to go within a point of Burnley and QPR.

The two teams directly above the relegation zone both lost on Saturday. Sunderland was thrashed 4-1 at home by Crystal Palace — with Yannick Bolasie scoring an 11-minute hat trick — and Hull went down 2-0 at Southampton.

As Southampton rose to fifth, Tot-tenham slid to seventh with a 1-0 loss to Aston Villa. Christian Benteke’s header gave manager Tim Sherwood a victory against the club which fired him last year and lifted Villa six points clear of danger. The only game on Saturday with any impact on the top of the standings was at Burnley. And Ar-senal discovered just why Manchester City lost here and Tottenham was held 0-0 in the last month. “It was definitely one of the tougher games,” Ramsey said. “A lot of the big teams have dropped points here this season.”

Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton

saved a free kick from Alexis Sanchez in the first minute, but he conceded his first goal at home since Feb. 28 in the 12th minute. Mesut Ozil’s shot was parried by Heaton, Sanchez’s follow-up hit Kieran Trippier, but Ramsey sent a powerful strike into the bottom corner amid a goalmouth scramble.

Tripper came close to leveling when his dipping free kick was turned away by David Ospina’s diving save, while George Boyd and Danny Ings squandered chances to grab a point for Burnley in the second half.

“We’ve got good belief in our per-formances,” Burnley manager Sean Dyche said. “We still need to add quality to our performance, but there’s certainly a will and a demand to go and get more points this season.”

There was a pair of 1-1 draws between teams hovering around the middle of the standings. Jonjo Shelvey’s penalty for Swansea can-celed out Aaron Lennon’s Everton opener. West Ham conceded a stop-page time equalizer from Stoke’s Marko Arnautovic. (ap)

AMSTERDAM — Defending Dutch league champion Ajax beat Heracles Almelo 2-0 Saturday to ensure PSV Eindhoven will have to wait at least another week to dethrone the Amsterdam club.

Ice land s t r ike r Kolbe inn Sigthorsson scored deep in first-

half injury time, pouncing on a rebound from Ricardo van Rhijn’s free kick, and substitute Lucas Anderson curled in an 86th-minute shot to notch Ajax’s 2,000th Eredivisie goal and make sure of the win.

PSV beat PEC Zwolle 3-1 Fri-

day and would have been crowned champion for the first time since 2008 had Ajax lost in Almelo.

PSV, which won four straight league titles from 2005-2008, now leads second-place Ajax by 10 points with four rounds to play. (ap)

SARANSK, Russia — Saransk’s stadium for the 2018 World Cup is supposed to raise the profile of this little-known Russian city, but for now Alexei Merkushkin is just trying to keep costs down.

As Minister of Special Programs for the region that includes this city of 300,000 people south-east of Moscow, Merkushkin’s job is to make sure the smallest of Russia’s 11 host cities is ready to welcome fans not just to its new 45,000-seat stadium, but also the hotels and transport links that are supposed to transform Saransk in time for 2018.

Constructing the arena is set to cost 15.66 billion rubles ($300 million), fully funded by the federal budget, with a fur-ther $10.5 million earlier spent on design costs. Turning a provincial city into an international destination is not easy. Sa-ransk normally sees only one flight from Moscow per day and the airport needs expansion to cope with World Cup crowds. The city was a surprise choice as a World Cup host. Many Russians would have trouble finding it on a map and it’s hardly an eye-catching location,

460 km away from Moscow.Following a year of international

sanctions against Russia, the ruble is worth more than a third less against the dollar than it was in January 2014, while the low oil price is squeezing the fed-eral and regional budgets that fund the World Cup. The federal government has slashed spending by 10 percent across the board. While most World Cup-related expenditure is protected, govern-ment belt-tightening means a renewed crackdown on any cost increases.

“There’s a tough position that more cost increases won’t be allowed. So the cost that’s been laid out, that’s fi-nal,” Merkushkin told The Associated Press.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised the economic turbulence will not affect the World Cup, FIFA head Sepp Blatter said in January.

Blatter said he had spoken with Putin during a visit to Russia and was assured “there is no intention to ask FIFA to change anything in the pattern and the program of the World Cup and we trust Russia will find a solution.” (ap)

Ajax beats Heracles Almelo 2-0 to make PSV wait for title

PSG beats Bastia 4-0 to win League Cup

AP Photo/Michel Euler

Paris Saint Germain’s Edinson Cavani, acknowledges applause after their League Cup final soccer match against Bastia at Stade de France stadium in Saint Denis, outside Paris, France, Saturday, April 11, 2015. Paris Saint Germain won 4-0.

first chance in the fourth minute when Ibrahimovic collected a long pass in the box following a free kick from Ezequiel Lavezzi, but the tall Swede was flagged offside.

PSG had a penalty claim turn down soon after when Gael Danic touched the ball with his right arm inside the box. But referee Benoit Bastien pointed to the spot in the 20th minute after Squillaci brought Ezequiel Lavezzi down, with the former Arsenal player receiving a straight red card for his foul.

Second on PSG’s all-time top scorers list behind Pedro Pauleta with 104 goals, Ibrahimovic made no mistake from the spot, sending ‘keeper Alphonse Areola the wrong way with a shot in the top left corner. Squillaci’s red card forced Bastia coach Ghislain Printant to change his strategy, with Mathieu Peybernes coming in for Danic. The move did not make a big difference as PSG took complete control of the match and overwhelmed Bastia midfield.

Pegged back in their own half, the Corsicans fought back PSG’s relentless attacks for 20 minutes but a poor headed clearance from

Peybernes fell into Ibrahimovic’s path, with the Swede chesting down the ball before unleashing a low shot at the near post to double the lead. PSG continued to apply pressure after the interval and went close in the 48th when Pastore saw his angled shot end just wide at the far post.

PSG goalkeeper Nicolas Dou-chez enjoyed a quiet evening and Florian Marange failed to convert Bastia’s first occasion in the 56th minute, sending his header just wide.

Bastia tried everything in the closing stages of the game but lacked a cutting edge and was caught on the break when Cavani struck a perfect header at the far post from Aurier’s cross to make it 3-0 with 10 minutes remaining.

Another PSG counterattack brought another goal in added time, with Cavani curling a shot past Areola from Ibrahimovic’s assist as PSG claimed its fifth League Cup. “The match was over after 20 min-utes following the penalty and the sending off,” said Marange. “We knew the referee would not make us any gift.” (ap)

AP Photo/Marco Vasini

Parma’s Ishak Belfodil, left, and Juventus’ Giorgio Chiellini vie for the ball during their Serie A soccer match at Parma’s Tardini stadium, Italy, Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Bankrupt Parma floor Serie A leaders Juventus

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo

celebrates after scor-ing a goal

against Eibar during their

Spanish first division soc-

cer match at Santiago

Bernabeu stadium in

Madrid April 11, 2015.

Arsenal wins 8th in a row, hoping leader Chelsea slips up

Real close gap after Barca let 2-0 lead slip

BARCELONA - Barcelona’s lead at the top of La Liga was cut to two points on Saturday as they squandered a two-goal advantage to draw 2-2 at Sevilla while Real Madrid powered their way to a 3-0 home win over Eibar. Neymar set up Argentine Lionel Messi for Barca’s first goal and the Brazilian then converted an inch-perfect free kick after 31 minutes but a determined Sevilla, who are now unbeaten in 32 home games, never gave up.

and Sevilla began stretching Barca with their movement in attack.

After going close with a previ-ous effort, Banega pulled a goal back with a shot that Bravo will feel he should have parried. The game was wide open in the second half and Luis Suarez had an off-day as he failed to make the most of a couple of clear chances. The Barca striker was made to pay dearly when Gameiro scored following a Sevilla counter-attack.

Atletico were gifted the open-ing goal as Malaga keeper Carlos Kameni flapped at a long throw by Jesus Gamez and it was left for Griezmann to simply knock the ball over the line from close range.

Malaga caused little threat in a cagey first half but were given a helping hand by Fernando Torres who inadvertently headed a corner into his own net before the break.

Things opened up in the second half and Samu delicately chipped the ball over keeper Jan Oblak with 19 minutes left, only to see Griezmann respond with a clinical finish. (rtr) REUTERS/Sergio Perez

Russia’s World Cup organizers face budget headaches

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Greivis Vasquez and Kyle Lowry each scored 12 points and Patrick Patterson had 11 for the Raptors, who clinched home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

Dwyane Wade scored 30 points for the Heat, who can only get to 37 wins — the number that Brooklyn and Boston are already at, putting them in the No. 7 and No. 8 spots in the Eastern Conference race. Goran Dragic scored 22 points for Miami and Hassan Whiteside finished with 16 points and 18 rebounds.

But Whiteside also missed 12 free throws, going 4 for 16, and as a team the Heat went 24 of 44 from the line.

Williams hit a 3-pointer with 31.2 seconds left to put the Raptors up by five, and that just about sealed

not just the game but Miami’s playoff fate. The Heat must win their last two games, and get a ton of help to reach the postseason for the seventh straight year.

The win was Toronto’s 48th of the season and 22nd on the road, both tying franchise records.

Pau Gasol had 24 points and 13 rebounds and Derrick Rose had 22 points and eight assists in 28 minutes in the Chicago Bulls’ 114-107 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.

The Bulls remained tied with the Toronto Raptors for third place in the Eastern Conference with two games to go for each team.

The 76ers dressed just nine play-ers, but stayed close with an aggres-sive, attacking style on both ends.

Robert Covington led Philadelphia with 22 points, Jason Richardson had 19, and JaKarr Sampson 18.

Stephen Curry scored 20 of his 34 points in the first half, Klay Thompson made three 3-pointers in the final 4 minutes and the Golden State Warriors set yet an-other franchise record in a 110-101 victory over the Minnesota Tim-berwolves.

The Warriors broke their fran-chise record with their 37th home win. They have lost only twice at home and lead the NBA with a 68-15 record.

Curry made five 3-pointers, went 11 of 21 from the floor and had seven assists to help the Warriors complete a four-game sweep of the Timberwolves. (ap)

Lewis HAmiLToN and Mer-cedes reasserted their authority over Formula 1 with a commanding Chi-nese Grand Prix victory. Nico Rosberg had to settle for second place, ahead of the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, in a race that was close at times without ever truly coming to life.

Hamilton had made his intentions clear by angling his car very aggres-sively towards Rosberg’s on the grid. He duly held his lead off the line, with Rosberg and Vettel stringing out behind the champion through the first stint. The situation became more tense in the middle stint of the two-stop race, as both Rosberg and Vettel closed on Hamilton.

A frustrated Rosberg radioed Mercedes asking if Hamilton could speed up, as his tyres were wearing too much whenever he got closer than two seconds away from his team-mate’s rear wing. When Ferrari brought Vet-tel in for his second stop ahead of the two Mercedes, Rosberg was pitted a lap later in an effort to prevent his countryman getting an undercut on his new tyres.

But rather than his rivals’ earlier stops putting Hamilton at a disad-vantage, he was able to raise his pace considerably on his final laps on soft tyres. Hamilton ran two laps longer than Rosberg and rejoined with a 6s cushion rather than the 2s advantage he had held prior to the stops.

Rosberg reduced Hamilton’s lead slightly before settling for second. A safety car appearance with two laps to go - caused by Max Verstappen’s Toro Rosso parking on the pit straight in a cloud of smoke - made things even more comfortable for Hamilton, as the race finished under yellow.

Vettel was not a match for the Mercedes once all were onto me-dium tyres and fell away in third. The Malaysian GP winner then came under late pressure from team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn quickly cleared both Williams on the open-ing lap to make up for his qualifying frustration, and though he could not keep pace with the top three at first,

he ran long in his middle stint and made up ground.

Raikkonen was still 1.4s behind Vettel when the late safety car came out and had to be content with fourth. Williams ran a lonely and distant fifth and sixth with Felipe Massa and Valt-teri Bottas, a minute behind the leaders prior to the field being bunched up.

Lotus scored its first points of the year with Romain Grosjean in seventh, but it was a wild race for his team-mate Pastor Maldonado. The Venezuelan got ahead of Grosjean in the first pitstop sequence, before going down the pitlane entry escape road at his second stop.

A spin while trying to recover left him even further behind, and he then became embroiled in a spectacular battle with the McLarens of Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso. After several fraught laps, this came to a head when Button hit the back of the Lotus at Turn 1, ending Maldonado’s race and prompting a stewards’ in-vestigation.

Despite that, McLaren still got its first double finish of 2015 with Alonso and Button’s battered cars 12th and 13th. Until his late engine failure, Verstappen was on course for eighth, having sliced through the field with some very accomplished overtaking. But his problem completed a terrible day for Renault and the Red Bull-owned teams.

Daniel Ricciardo had tumbled to 17th with a terrible start and made heavy weather of coming back through the field to ninth between the Saubers of Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson, which scored again.

Daniil Kvyat was also out early with a suspected engine failure, while Carlos Sainz Jr spun at Turn 1 in the opening laps and later lost time with a gearbox problem before finishing between the McLarens and Manors in 14th.

Force India spent a while in the points as a unique three-stop strategy for Sergio Perez shook out, but in the end 11th was his limit. A gearbox failure ended team-mate Nico Hulk-enberg’s race. (rtr)

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

Miami Heat guard Goran Dragic (7) of Slovenia, goes up for a shot during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Toronto Raptors, Saturday, April 11, 2015, in Miami.

Raptors put Heat on brink of elimination, beat Miami 107-104miAmi — Lou williams scored 29 points, Demar DeRozan added 24 and the Toronto Raptors

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Hamilton leads Rosberg in comfortable Mercedes 1-2

REUTERS/Goh Chai Hin/Pool

Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain takes his car in for a pit-stop during the Chinese F1 Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit, April 12, 2015.

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Penatahan Hot Spring

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“Today, (April 12) a total of 43 Indonesian citizens (WNI) are expected to arrive home from Ye-men. With their arrival, the number of WNIs already evacuated since December 2014 totals 1,036,” the ministry said in its statement.

According to the foreign ministry, security conditions in Yemen, par-ticularly around the Aden and Sana’a cities were deteriorating. The armed clashes among the conflicting parties were also escalating.

These conditions had posed dif-ficulties in the efforts to evacuate the Indonesian citizens there, thus forc-ing the team to follow special sce-narios for the evacuation process.

The Indonesian government has dispatched an integrated team to Ye-men and Salalah, Oman to evacuate WNIs.

It mobilized an airplane Boeing

737-400 belonging to the Air Force (TNI AU) and one ship chartered from Djibouti.

The integrated evacuating team consisted of 48 personnel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the TNI AU, the National Police (Polri) and the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).

The Indonesian citizens’ evacua-tion operation in Yemen also involves five Indonesian representatives from the Embassy in Sanaa, Embassy in Riyadh, Embassy in Muscat, Embassy in Addis Ababa, and the Consulate General in Jeddah.

The team members assigned in Hudayah, Tarim and Al-Mukalla, Aden (Yemen), Salalah (Oman) and Djibouti continue to collect data and make approaches to the relevant authorities.

They monitor the on-going condi-tions to carry out the evacuation of

Indonesian citizens out of Yemen.Besides, the evacuation team in

South Yemen is still exploring the availability of ships from Djibouti to pick up WNIs trapped in Aden.

Many ships are afraid to call at the city’s port because of unfavorable and unstable security conditions.

Data collected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that there are still a number of Indonesian citi-zens who are housed in accommo-dating facilities in various Yemeni regions for further evacuation.

Based on the data, 58 citizens are still in Sana’a, 37 in Hudaydah, 423 in Tarim, 260 in Mukalla and 111 in Aden.

The Indonesian government continues to appeal its citizens to be prepared for evacuation before the situation becomes further dete-riorated. (ant)

DOMPU - Mt Tambora area which has just been given a national park status, is expected to lure domestic as well as foreign tourists to West Nusa Tenggara Province. Tourism Minister Arief Yahya expressed his optimism that Tambora National Park could become an attractive destination of ecotourism.

“The opportunities here are ecotour-ism and agrotourism. The accessibility and attraction are good, now mt’s only a matter of amenity,” the minister said when attending “Tembora Greets The World” event in Doro Ncanga Savana, Dompu.

He said human resources develop-ment is crucial in the tourism sector.

The minister hoped Mt Tambora National Park to become one of the national tourism strategic areas.

Head of the West Nusa Tenggara Tourism Office Lalo Mohammad Fao-zal confirmed that Tambora has become a new tourist destination.

Dompu and Bima have become fa-vorite tracking areas. He called on the central government help build support-ing infrastructure and intensify tourism

promotion abroad. Earlier, President Joko Widodo

emphasized on the importance Mount Tambora National Park, stating that it was an asset that must be preserved and developed to benefit local people.

He made the statement on Saturday while attending the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the explosion of Mount Tambora and the launching of Mount Tambora National Park.

The president ordered local people to preserve and look after the region well to turn it into an ecotourism des-tination. “I want you to preserve it and ensure that no one damages it,” he told the people.

Jokowi also hopes that the Tambora Festival is organized as an annual event to bring more added value to national tourism.

“I wish this event is held every year to promote tourism in Bima and Dom-pu. The Tambora Festival must be held annually with funding from the central government so that all know where Dompu, Bima and West Nusa Tenggara are, as well as where Indonesia is,” he remarked. (ant)

JAKARTA — The number of enslaved fishermen found on a remote Indonesian island has now reached nearly 550, after a fact-finding team returned for a single day to make sure no one had been left behind nearly a week after more than half of the men were removed in a dramatic rescue.

Many of the 210 identified Thursday were Burmese who want-ed to leave, but there were a few holdouts — men who claimed they were owed years of back pay from their bosses, said Steve Hamilton, deputy chief of mission at the Inter-national Organization for Migration in Jakarta.

An in-depth investigation by The Associated Press published last month led to the discovery of massive rights abuses in the island village of Benjina and surrounding waters. The report traced slave-caught seafood from there to Thailand where it can then enter the supply chains of some of America’s biggest supermarket chains and retailers.

Many of the men interviewed said they were tricked or even kid-napped before being put on boats in Thailand and taken to Indonesia. They were forced to work almost non-stop under horrendous condi-tions, some brutally beaten by their Thai captains when they were sick

or caught resting.Last week, Indonesian authori-

ties rescued around 330 migrants from Benjina, bringing them to the island of Tual, where they are now being sheltered by the government. Those found Thursday by a team, which included Myanmar officials, remain in Benjina.

It’s unclear who will pay for the mass repatriation. A former slave now in Tual said conditions were relatively good there. He said the men are getting medical care and enough to eat, but their living quarters are cramped and many do not have a change of clothes since they left quickly with only what they were wearing.

Meanwhile, Myanmar opposi-tion leader Aung San Suu Kyi told reporters Thursday in her country’s capital, Naypyitaw, it was up to governments “to protect the rights of the citizens and to bring them back out of bondage.”

“That is the most obvious and very simple solution and unavoid-able duty of any responsible govern-ment,” she told reporters.

While most fisherman found in Benjina were Burmese, there also were scores of Cambodians. The toll of 550 did not include men — many of whom also were enslaved — from poor parts of Thailand. (ap)

Indonesia has evacuated 1,036 citizens from Yemen

JAKARTA - Indonesia so far has evacuated 1,036 of its citizens from Yemen, the Foreign Ministry said in its press statement on Sunday.

Number of slaves found on Indonesian island at almost 550

Tambora National Park expected to lure tourists

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Dancers performed during the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the explosion of Mount Tambora and the launching of Mount Tambora National Park.

Mohammad Qamaruzzaman was hanged Saturday night in the central jail in the capital, Dhaka, a senior prison official, Forman Ali, told re-porters. He was buried early Sunday under tight security, according to his brother, Kafil Uddin.

Prosecutors said that Qamaruzza-man, an assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, headed a militia group that collaborated with the Pakistani army in central Bangladesh in 1971 and was behind the killings of at least 120 unarmed farmers.

Bangladesh blames Pakistani soldiers and local collaborators for the deaths of 3 million people during the nine-month war of independence from Pakistan. An estimated 200,000 women were raped and about 10 mil-lion people fled to refugee camps in neighboring India.

Jamaat-e-Islami denounced the execution and called for a nationwide general strike Monday. At the same time, thousands of people applauded the execution on the streets of Dhaka and other cities, a sign of popular ap-

proval of the war crime trials launched by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. More rallies supporting the execution were planned for Sunday.

“We are happy that justice has been delivered finally,” said Moham-mad Al Masum, a student at Dhaka University, who joined a procession in Shabagh Square. “I did not see the war but I am sure the families that lost their dear ones will be happy today.”

Hasina has vowed to continue the trials despite pressure from abroad and the opposition at home. Jamaat-e-Islami party, which garners about 2 percent to 3 percent of popular vote, has been weakened significantly as most of its senior leaders have already been convicted. Another assistant secretary, Abdul Quader Mollah, was executed in 2013 for similar crimes.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, earlier this week urged Bangladesh not to carry out the execution, saying that Qamaruzzman’s trial did not meet international standards.

The United States was more guard-

ed in its assessment of the trial, but still urged the government not to proceed with the execution.

“We have seen progress, but still believe that further improvements ... could ensure these proceedings meet domestic and international ob-ligations,” State Department spokes-woman Marie Harf said in a statement shortly before the execution.

The Bangladeshi government said the trial met the proper standards with the defendant receiving the opportuni-ty to challenge the prosecution’s case in open court and appeal the verdict all the way up to the Supreme Court. Qamaruzzaman, however, refused to seek presidential clemency.

The initial trials that followed Ban-gladesh’s independence four decades ago were halted after the assassination of then-president and independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — Hasina’s father — and most of his family members in a 1975 military coup. Hasina revived the process, making good on a pledge she made before 2008 elections. (ap)

VIENNA — Austrian officials say two skiers have been rescued from a crevasse in a glacier high in the Alps after nearly 24 hours.

Mountain rescue spokeswom-an Maria Riedler told the Austria Press Agency that the men, an Austrian and a German, were plucked out of the crevasse by he-licopter on Sunday morning. She said they were cold but in good condition, and had kept each

other awake during the night. They were taken to a hospital.

The two experienced skiers on Saturday morning fell about 4 meters (13 feet) into the crevasse on the Grosses Wiesbachhorn mountain in Salzburg province at an altitude of some 3,300 meters (10,800 feet).

The men alerted authorities by cellphone, but bad weather thwarted rescue attempts on Sat-urday. (ap)

PATNA — Maoist rebels at-tacked a group of policemen patrolling in a central Indian for-est, killing seven and wounding another 10, police said.

The ambushed policemen were part of a special task force out searching for rebel activity ear-ly Saturday when the militants opened fire, according to R.K. Vij, a top police official in Chhat-tisgarh state.

Ten wounded officers were airlifted to a hospital in the state capital of Raipur. Few other details

were available from the remote region in Sukma district, 385 kilometers (240 miles) south of Raipur.

The rebels have been called India’s biggest internal security threat, operating in 20 of India’s 28 states with thousands of fighters. Inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, they’ve been fighting for over three decades in central and eastern India to de-mand the poor receive more jobs and a greater share of wealth from natural resources. (ap)

PARIS — A 13-year-old boy has been killed by a shark while surfing off the shore of the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.

The island, with an active volcano and striking vistas that attract tourists, has seen a rise in shark activity in recent years. It was the seventh shark-related death since 2011.

After a non-fatal shark attack in February, authorities banned

all water activities outside select areas watched by lifeguards.

The regional maritime rescue service, known as CROSS, said in a statement that the boy was surfing Sunday in an off-limits area on the west coast of the island when the shark attacked his arms and legs. The statement says rescuers arrived quickly but could not save him. Authorities would not provide further details about the victim. (ap)

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Bangladeshi security personnel cordon an ambulance leaving Central Jail carrying the body of Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami party, after he was executed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Bangladesh on alert after execution, applauded by many

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Thousands of Bangladeshis poured onto the streets to applaud the execution of an Islamist party official on charges of crimes against humanity during the coun-try’s 1971 independence war, while security forces were on alert Sunday for a possible backlash from his supporters.

2 rescued from Alpine crevasse after nearly a day

Rebels ambush police in central Indian forest, killing 7

Shark kills 13-year-old surfer on French Indian Ocean island

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This Saturday, April 11, 2015 photo shows Indian policemen who were wounded in an attack by Maoist rebels being at-tended to by colleagues in Sukma district, 385 kilometers (240 miles) south of Raipur, India.

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Eurogroup ministers have set the deadline in order to have sufficient time to examine Athens’ proposal ahead of a meeting on April 24, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, quoting unnamed repre-sentatives in the negotiations.

Negotiators from Greece and the EU have struggled to make headway over the final payout of 7.2 billion euros as Athens has refused to consider cutting civil servants’ pensions.

Alexis Tsipras’s government,

which was elected on an anti-austerity ticket, is reticent about accepting further cuts in public spending.

Rather, it is looking at raising national revenues through improv-ing tax compliance.

On Thursday, the Greek govern-ment also began examining a draft bill aimed at rehiring around 4,000 civil servants who were retrenched due to austerity reforms.

In addition, the draft bill envis-ages the hiring of 6,000 people who passed public service exami-nations.

Despite the discord between Athens and the EU over Greece’s

proposed reforms, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Thursday he was very confident that a deal could be done by April 24.

A government source in Athens also said that phone contacts were made Saturday with Greece’s credi-tors, and that they were held “in a climate of cooperation” and aimed at defining the agenda for the com-ing days. (afp)

WASHINGTON — Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, says surging economic growth presents America with “much opportunity” in Asia.

In an interview for CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the daughter of President John F. Kennedy says the Ameri-can news media are “missing the story.”

She was very upbeat about changes in Asia, saying “there is so much opportunity going on here,”

and says there is a lot of “goodwill” toward the United States.

Obama had said he wanted to focus more heavily on Asia in his second term, but he’s been besieged by a series of international crises including the rise of the Islamic State group, whose advances in Iraq and Syria have further destabilized the Mideast. He’s also been busy with nuclear talks with Iran and ef-forts to reach an Israeli-Palestinian accord. (ap)

PARIS - The quandary for those who run social networks is how to monetise activity on them without antagonising and thus losing us-ers through distracting ads? The answer, for Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, is to slip in some stealthy ads camouflaged to look like posts from listed contacts.

Each of the networks has in-house teams whose job is to think up ways to advise brands on how to sneak their marketing into mem-bers’ feeds. At YouTube, owned by Google, the effort is called “Zoo”. Instagram uses the “Creative Shop” of its parent company Facebook. Twitter’s name for it is the relatively straight-forward “Brand Strategy”.

The strategies adapt to the spe-cific requirements, formats and behaviour on each of the social networks.

In the case of Instagram, the

four-year-old site which boasts 300 million users worldwide who share filtered photos and videos, the advertising push has now extended to France.

The network long resisted intro-ducing sponsored messages, aware that many of its fans were creative types -- artists, photographers, ar-chitects -- against having screens of pure images corrupted by tawdry commercial intrusions.

But after Facebook bought it for $715 million in 2012, Instagram started putting in ads. They started in 2013 in the United States, then Australia and Canada in late 2014 and, from mid-March this year, in France.

They hide in plain sight: pre-sented in the same square format, with the same “vintage” filter as user-generated pictures. Only the mention “sponsored” reveals that

it’s there to sell, not share.“The brand has to express itself

as if it’s a person and respect the community,” explained Cedric At-lan, of Facebook’s Creative Shop.

“You have come upon the brand the same way you would a friend or someone from your family. The advertising needs to be integrated and not disturb the user.”

The specialist teams are expe-rienced, well versed in advertising and marketing, often having been snapped up from ad agencies. Each count around 100 employees, scattered around the planet. The job requirement is to have a deep and nuanced knowledge of local markets and to stay abreast of the latest trends.

“There are no borders. It’s a global team that communicates from everywhere in the world, 24/7. If you want to know what’s happen-

ing with mobiles in Asia in such and such an area, we can get an answer in an hour,” said Mailine Swildens, director of YouTube’s Zoo for southern and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

In 2014, Zoo lent its talents to the Italian fashion company Fendi and the result was the first fashion show filmed with drones and broadcast live on YouTube.

“There are innovative areas where you can mix geolocalisation, mobiles, technology,” Swildens said.

Laurent Buanec, brand strategist for Twitter, said: “Sometimes, we get ideas that aren’t really feasible or which miss the point. Our role isn’t to give scores but to accom-pany agencies and brands.”

One campaign rolled out with the help of Twitter was for Nissan France. During a UEFA Champions

League tournament, the car manu-facturer turned its Twitter feed into a football-stat spouting source dur-ing the matches -- to emphasise the brand’s sponsorship.

While it makes sense for the social networks that depend on advertising for their revenues to take on this consulting role, Nicolas Levy, who handles strategy for the Marcel advertising agency within the French Publicis group, said they may end up in competition with the big ad agencies.

“Right now, it’s in everybody’s interest. But in the longer term, Google and Facebook -- which are the most innovative and the biggest -- are potentially rivals,” he said.

“The solution for the big adver-tising group is to grow, especially in the data field, so that they don’t leave client understanding to the social networks,” Levy said. (afp)

Eurogroup wants Greece’s list of reforms by April 20

FRANKFURT - The European Union has given Greece until April 20 to present a list of re-forms which, if found acceptable, would unlock the final tranche of aid funds promised under a multi-billion-euro bailout, a German newspaper reported Sunday.

Twitter, YouTube, Instagram work on stealth advertising

Caroline Kennedy upbeat about economic growth across Asia

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Megawati Soekarnoputri, who is the daughter of Indonesia’s first President Soekarno, was reelected and installed as general chairperson of the party for the 2015-2020 term of office on Thursday.

Prananda was named associate chairman for creative economy affairs for the period of 2015-2020.

“Prananda is a quiet person and has interest in creative economy,” Megawati remarked while announc-ing Prananda’s appointment.

She explained her decision to choose Prananda to handle creative economy as she believes that the sector has the potential to grow in the next five years.

Muhammad Prananda is the sec-ond son of Megawati from her late first husband, first lieutenant Surindro Supjarso.

Megawati has also named Puan Maharani, her daughter from her marriage with late husband Taufik Kiemas, as associate chairperson for political and security affairs.

She noted that Maharani however would not play an active role as she is currently holding the post of coor-dinating minister for human develop-ment and cultural affairs.

“I have sought a permit (for Puan’s

appointment) from the president. So, while she is part of the party’s struc-ture, she will remain non-active,” she affirmed.

President Joko Widodo has de-cided that no minister in his cabinet should hold a political party post.

“I have explained that one cannot be stopped from becoming a politi-cal party activist because it has to do with loyalty and dedication, but he/she could be made non-active,” she affirmed.

With regard to the formation of the party’s central executive board, Megawati Soekarnoputri, who is also a former president, stated that the selection had already been carried out long time ago from the lowest to the highest levels.

She remarked that during the se-lection process, she had also sought assistance from a psychology institute to assess the candidates’ character and leadership skills.

Megawati revealed that she had also taken loyalty and dedication into consideration while choosing the can-didates as she believed that the cadres should possess the two qualities.

people-oriented The Indonesian Democratic Party

of Struggle (PDIP), which won the general elections last year, has said it will ensure that natural resources in the country are developed for the prosperity of the people.

“The PDIP will seek to revise the laws on coal, mineral resources, oil and gas to ensure that they have a ‘red-white’ (nationalist) spirit, with the aim to bring national en-ergy management in line with the principles of Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution,” Megawati stated while closing the party’s congress on Saturday.

The former president and daugh-ter of late first president Soekarno noted that in line with the constitu-tional mandate, the state must control land, water and natural resources underground to realize energy sov-ereignty to ensure the prosperity of the people.

The country, she added, was re-sponsible for providing decent jobs to its citizens and for creating decent jobs for them.

The PDIP will also encourage the framing of various laws to cre-ate decent conditions for workers, including government employees, in all sectors at home and abroad, she affirmed. (ant)DENPASAR - The deportation of 39 Chinese and Taiwanese

citizens arrested for Internet crimes by the police will be carried out in stages from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, stated Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly.

“They will be deported in cooperation with the Chinese police,” Laoly noted on Friday.

The Chinese police had coordinated with the Indonesian immigration office by sending the names of their suspects for arrest.

“It demonstrates our cooperation with China and other countries in countering cybercrimes. The Chinese police have sent their names, and our immigration officers immediately detected and arrested them with the cooperation of the police,” he pointed out.

Head of the Denpasar Immigration Office Bambang Wisnu stated that his office would deport five of them on Friday eve-ning, (April 10); 10 on Saturday, (April 11); and 24 more on Sunday, (April 12).

“During the deportation, they will be under the custody of the Chinese police,” he emphasized.

The 39 suspects comprise four Chinese nationals and 35 Taiwanese.

In the meantime, a commissioner of the General Election Commission (KPU) recently revealed that attempts were made to hack into the KPU’s information technology system network during the vote recapitulation process of the presidential elec-tion last year.

“Once, there were attempts to ‘penetrate’ our network by using a blocking system, with many of them, including from China,” Hadar Nafis Gumay, the KPU commissioner, noted. (ant)

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The deportation of 39 Chinese and Taiwanese citizens arrested for Internet crimes by the police will be car-ried out in stages from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, stated Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly.

Deportation of 39 Chinese to be

conducted in stages

Megawati selected kin as party’s executive

board membersSANUR - Megawati Soekarnoputri named her second son, Prananda Prabowo, as one of the

executive board members of the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) at the party’s congress on Friday.

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Megawati Soekarnoputri

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From 19th century territorial raids on Mexico to U.S. support for the overthrow of Chile’s socialist government in 1973 and the 1989 invasion of Panama that removed Gen. Manuel Noriega, Washing-ton’s interventions in Latin America were all targets of rebuke during long speeches by Venezuelan Presi-dent Nicolas Maduro and his allies. That prompted President Barack Obama to retort, “I always enjoy the history lessons that I receive when I’m here.”

But the historic meeting between Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday before the sum-mit closed provides the U.S. and Latin America with an opportunity to move beyond a history of griev-ances and mistrust and set a course of closer cooperation. There were concerns in the run-up that recent U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan offi-cials could undermine the goodwill generated by Obama’s decision to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba, but they proved unfounded.

The conciliatory tone was set by Castro, who joked that since Cuba had been barred from the previous summits he was entitled to speak well beyond the eight minutes allot-ted to each of the 30-plus heads of state in attendance. “Since you owe me six summits when you excluded me, six times eight is 48,” he said to laughter.

While much of Castro’s mean-dering remarks consisted of con-demnation of U.S. aggression, the high point came when the aging Cu-ban leader, in an abrupt about face, professed admiration for Obama, saying he had read his two memoirs and was convinced that he was an “honest man” who hadn’t forgotten his humble roots.

“I have told President Obama that I get very emotional talking about the revolution,” Castro said, noting that Obama wasn’t even born when the U.S. imposed sanctions on the communist island. “I apologize to him because President Obama had no responsibility for this.”

The two leaders later sat down for the first meeting between Cuban and American heads of state since before the 1959 revolution the de-posed Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista.

Even Maduro eased up, forgoing a threat to deliver a petition signed by 10 million Venezuelans calling on Obama to repeal the sanctions. Instead, as what he called the “Sum-mit of the Truth” was closing, he also briefly spoke with Obama in a private exchange that Maduro said could open the door to meaningful dialogue between the two nations.

The White House said Obama reiterated his concern about the state of democracy in deeply di-vided Venezuela, but in his public speech Obama refrained from language declaring the situation in Venezuela a national security threat — the justification to freeze the assets of seven officials ac-cused of human rights abuses tied to last year’s anti-government protests. (ap)

MEXICO CITY — About 200 Central American migrants who were planning to take part in a traditional “Viacrucis” protest have been hemmed in by Mexi-can immigration checkpoints and threats to detain them, an activist said Saturday. For several years, migrants have carried wooden crosses in protest marches around Easter week to illustrate their suf-fering at the hands of criminals and corrupt police.

But the Rev. Alejandro So-la l inde , who runs a shel ter for migrants, said authorities threatened to arrest on human-trafficking charges the owners of buses rented to take the protest-ers from the town of Ixtepec in Oaxaca state to the capital. He said the protesters had planned to leave for Mexico City on Thursday.

Almost 200 other migrants have also piled up at the shelter in Ixtepec because they are afraid of being detained at immigra-tion checkpoints set up near the town, leaving Solalinde and his volunteers to feed and house about 420 people. He called the situation “critical.” “I’ve never seen a city under siege like this,” Solalinde said.

Mexico’s National Immigra-tion Institute said in a statement that it keeps its checkpoints at least 6 miles (10 kilomters) from Ixtepec and that its agents are un-armed and human rights observ-ers are present in the area. It said the road checkpoints are needed to detect migrants in the country illegally as well as people smug-glers and they help “protect the migrants’ safety.”

The protesters are calling for an end to immigration raids that have largely prevented them from the riding a freight train north toward the U.S. border.

Solalinde said raids begun last summer to stop hitchhiking on the train had forced migrants to use more dangerous routes. He said that while about 15 percent of migrants were victims of rob-bery, extortion, assault and other forms of abuse previously, about 90 percent are victimized now.

“Before, they could get through faster and look after each other” on the train, Solalinde said. “Be-fore, a stretch that would take them 12 or 13 hours, now it takes them a month. They are taking a dozen longer, more dangerous routes, where they are robbed or extorted.” (ap)

Mexican activist says authorities hinder migrant protest

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A man wearing a bandana over part of his face, with a mes-sage that reads in Spanish; “Justice. We are all Ayotzinapa,” during a march to commemorate the sixth month of the dis-appeared 43 rural college students, in Mexico City, Thursday, March 26, 2015.

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U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff shake hands during their bilateral meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Obama-Castro meeting overshadows anti-US line at summit

PANAMA CITY — As usual when Latin America leftist leaders get together with U.S. officials, there were plenty of swipes at the U.S. during the seventh Summit of the Americas.

The Buleleng Disaster Mitiga-tion Agency or BPBD’s SAR team, police and local residents, searching for the two victims found Mustafa’s body at the bridge in Sambangan village about two kilometers from the Aling-Aling waterfalls, but after searching until midnight, Bayu Prasetiya had still not been found.

According to reports from the search party, Bayu, a local resident, had escorted the victim and five friends to visit the Aling-Aling waterfalls. When they arrived at the waterfalls, Mustafa and two of his friends proceeded to bathe in the pool at the base of the falls, known to be extreme. The three other friends and Bayu waited on the river bank. It had been rain-

ing in the area and soon afterward they entered the pool, there was a flash flood and the river suddenly enlarged so Bayu immediately jumped in to retrieve the bathers. He managed to save two of them but unluckily he was then swept away along with Mustafa. The water was so swift and abundant that the two immediately disappeared into the flood water. Information about the incident immediately spread and some nearby residents immediately reported it to the police. Mustafa’s body was found an hour later near the bridge two kilometres away and was then brought to the mortuary at Buleleng Hospital. The search for Bayu Prasetiya, a regular tour guide to this site continued.

An officer of BPBD Buleleng, I Nyoman Darma Kurniawan, said that based on information provided by local residents and the victim’s friends, at the time of incident the river flow was very heavy. Alleg-edly, the two victims were swept away by the mighty stream. “The victims were alleged to have been swept away by a sudden flood” he said.

The search had to be stopped in Saturday night because the flow of water in the river was still heavy and it was already dark making it difficult for the officers to continue the search, which then resumed on Sunday morning. As of yet (Apr. 12) Bayu Prasetiya has still not been found. (kmb38)

TABANAN - Agriculture Min-ister Andi Amran Sulaiman has expressed hope that domestic farm products will be able to meet national needs, and that the country will no longer need to import farm commodities in the future.

“I praise the Tabanan district administration in Bali for achiev-ing self-reliance in food produc-tion, with the availability of farm products exceeding local people’s needs,” the minister said during a working visit in Tabanan district recently.

He noted that as the Tabanan district government had continued to step up the development of its agricultural sector, the district had managed to meet local people’s food needs and improve farmers’ living standards.

“Don’t delay in planting rice; don’t leave land unused; and don’t let the community sleep. Let us build this nation till it makes progress at a global level,” he remarked.

Sulaiman also expressed hope that farmers would always be enthusiastic and consistent in de-veloping the agricultural sector as a means to earn a living, as well as

to motivate younger generations to strive towards improving the industry.

This way, the district, which is known as the “rice barn” of Bali province, will be able to take opti-mum advantage of the huge poten-tial the agricultural sector presents, he affirmed.

During the course of the visit, the minister also handed over 24 trac-tors, water pumps, and Rp10 billion as funds to improve the irrigation networks in Tabanan district.

Moreover, District Head of Ta-banan Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, in her address read out by District Sec-retary Nyoman Wirna Ariwangsa, stated that despite being the “rice barn” of the province, Tanaban still faced constraints and obstacles re-lated to infrastructure development, and that it still needed assistance from the central government.

Wiryastuti added that the dis-trict had managed to maintain its rice production of 111 thousand tons, which made it the largest rice producer in Bali. With local rice consumption reaching 56 thousand tons, the district recorded a surplus of 55 thousand tons. (ant)

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The search and rescue team is still looking for the missing victim who drowned at Aling-Aling Waterfall in Buleleng.

1 dead, 1 missing at Aling-Aling waterfalls

SINGARAJA - A visitor from Jakarta named Mustafa was found dead, drowned in the ex-treme Aling-Aling waterfalls at Sambangan village, Sukasada on Saturday (Apr. 11) around 1:30 p.m. The tour guide who accompanied him named Putu Bayu Prasetiya, 24, was washed away with him.

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The rice is compiled in a warehouse by the worker.

Indonesia to not import rice any longer

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For a half-century, the U.S. trade embargo had blocked such businesses from entering the Cuban market. In January, how-ever, the Obama administration loosened a series of restrictions on U.S. business in an attempt to encourage the growth of the island’s small private sector.

Airbnb searches for “Cuba” now turn up more than 1,000 properties across the island, with 40 percent in Havana and the rest in tourist destinations such as Cienfuegos a few hours away on the southern coast. The com-pany has been sending teams of representatives to Cuba for three months to sign up home owners, and plans to expand steadily in coming months.

“We believe that Cuba could become one of Airbnb’s biggest markets in Latin America,” said Kay Kuehne, regional director for Airbnb, the website and mo-bile app that allows users to book rooms in more than 1 million pri-vate homes around the world.

One of the most developed and important elements of Cuba’s en-trepreneurial sector is a network of thousands of privately owned rooms and houses for tourists. Starting in the post-Soviet eco-nomic crisis of the 1990s as homey, bed and breakfast-style alternatives to Cuba’s gener-ally grim state-run hotels, “casas particulares,” or private homes, have expanded into an industry with options ranging from small apartments in central Havana to multi-room beach houses with top-notch food and maid service.

The Airbnb move could be the most significant development in terms of putting money in the pockets of entrepreneurs across the island and bolstering them in a stagnant state-run economy — leading goals for the Obama administration in warming rela-tions with Cuba.

“I think this is going to help our business prosper, to definitely improve, not just private business, but everything here,” said Israel Rivero, who owns an immaculate-ly renovated, pre-war apartment in central Havana. He charges $25 a night per room, but the price will go to $30 on Airbnb to cover fees and currency exchange costs.

Kuehne said Airbnb’s plans had been welcomed by Cuban

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The popular online home-rental service Airbnb is allowing American travelers to book lodging in Cuba in the most significant U.S. business expansion on the island since the declaration of detente between the two countries late last year.

Airbnb offers Cuba lodgings in major US business expansion

HAVANA — The popular online home-rental service Airbnb is allowing American travelers to book lodging in Cuba in the most significant U.S. business expansion on the island since the declaration of detente between the two countries late last year.

authorities.Asked about the expansion,

the U.S. State Department said Thursday that “we applaud efforts to help the Cuban people, includ-ing the nascent private sector, take advantage of new opportunities to move Cuba towards greater open-ness and prosperity.”

Cuba has been wrestling with how to accommodate a surge of travelers since the announcement of detente. Trips to the island have been up nearly 20 percent in recent months, mostly by non-

U.S. travelers, and many hotels are fully booked, particularly the few able to offer service close to international standards.

“Airbnb’s momentous expan-sion into Cuba represents the first move by a major American company to fully seize the op-portunities presented by both our new Cuba policy and the island’s burgeoning entrepreneurial sec-tor,” said Ric Herrero, executive director of CubaNow, a Cuban-American group that lobbies for closer ties between the two

countries.For the time being, non-U.S.

travelers will not be able to use Airbnb.

Because of continuing restric-tions under the U.S. embargo, the company’s Cuba listing will only be available to U.S. travelers visiting under one of 12 U.S.-government approved categories of legal travel, ranging from professional research to religious activities.

While virtually all U.S. travel to Cuba previously required in-dividual licenses from the U.S. Treasury Department, the January changes essentially shift it to an honor system by allowing travel-

ers to fill out a form asserting they are going for one of the approved purposes.

A major drawback for the Cuban private lodging business has been the difficulty of renting from overseas on an island with one of the world’s lower rates of Internet penetration and a constantly malfunctioning phone system. While dozens of websites such as TripAdvisor have listings for lodgings, most only provide phone numbers or email addresses for owners instead of the quick online booking and guaranteed reservations that Airbnb will of-fer, as it does in more than 190 countries. (ap)

“Four priority programs have been prepared and will be imple-mented by the ministry,” Soesilo stated on Saturday.

The minister delivered a speech at the fourth congress of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.

The programs include a plan to ensure maritime sovereignty, utiliz-

ing natural resources and a program on preservation, infrastructure de-velopment through the marine toll access program, and projecting Indonesia as a maritime country.

Soesilo affirmed that in the future, these four programs will give Indo-nesia a good opportunity to achieve international maritime unity.

“Soekarno’s struggle to maintain maritime sovereignty should be continued,” he emphasized.

According to the minister, Soeka-rno defended the Indonesian mari-time sector after successfully main-taining sovereignty in the Indonesian waters of Java and Natuna for 25 years. (ant)

GIANYAR - Minister of Trade, Rahmat Gobel, clarified the imple-ment Ministry of Trade Regulation No.06/M-DAG/PER/2015 regarding the control and supervision of the procurement, distribution and sale of liquor, reiterating that it will be implemented but that 16 tourists areas will exempt.

“For areas that have been specifi-cally designated as tourist areas, such as Kuta and Sanur, merchants can con-tinue to sell alcohol, provided it is only sold to tourists and never to minors,” said Rahmat Gobel accompanied by the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, during a recent visit to the Sukawati Art Market.

A trade system is being designed so that liquor will primarily be sold in restaurants or by those who establish a cooperative for this purpose. Rahmat Gobel also rejected the notion that the ban could possibly have a nega-tive impact on the number of tourists who visit Bali. “Travelers come here looking for the beauty of our nature and culture, furthermore the liquor ban only applies to minors so tourism will not be affected. Also, smaller vendors operating in tourist areas will

continue to be allowed to sell alcohol,” he said.

Trade Ministry Regulation No.06/2015 was set forth in order to restrict the distribution of liquor amongst the youth. Before the regu-lation, minimarts near schools and places of worship were allowed to sell alcohol freely, thus risking to provoke young people to drink. The ban is one of several measures being taking to al-low the younger generation to be able to better compete in the global market. “Now, minimarts near schools are selling alcoholic beverages. If people start consuming alcohol from a very young age, their health is adversely affected causing them to be unhealthy when they should be at their most pro-ductive. If our young people are thus affected, how can we face the global market?” he asked.

Gobel added that the ministry of trade is encouraging customary lead-ers to join the struggle and participate in helping to control the situation. When asked about customary youth clubs in Bali which often sells liquor such beer, through their bazaar activi-ties, he re-affirmed that the regulation is intentionally designed to protect

young people from the influence of liquor. Those who produce the beer also have a big responsibility regard-ing its the circulation in these bazaars. “In fact Ministry of Trade Regulation No.16/2015-red) prohibits the sale of beer in such a context and is clearly meant to protect the young generation, so it is deplorable to find beer compa-nies selling at such events,” said the Minster of Trade.

Regional representative councillor (DPD), Arya Wedakarna -also present, added that retailers in the 16 tourist ar-eas, who will continue to be allowed to sell alcohol, will receive guidance and training related to the new regulation. In essence, retailers will be reminded that alcohol must only be sold to tour-ists and that it is strictly prohibited to sell to those under 21 years old. “The Regional representative council will propose a clause requesting special guidance for those selling in the 16 designated tourist area. We will contin-ue to coordinate with the Minister who will be issuing technical guidelines on April 16th. We have also sent a letter to the Bali Police and other agencies so as to prevent something bad from happening,” he said. (kmb35)

DENPASAR - Early childhood education is a branch of education that can help to prevent the spread of radicalism, Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa said.

“Through early childhood educa-tion, they can learn about tolerance. It (the ideology) should be implanted in them from an early age,” Parawansa stated on Saturday.

“From an early age, they can develop an understanding of cultural diversity and pluralism, and through these efforts, tolerance and modera-tion can be ingrained in them,” the minister affirmed.

Parawansa hopes that teachers of early childhood education can help to prevent radicalism.

She added that efforts to prevent radicalism should not be carried out in schools alone but in the community as well.

Earlier, an Islamic organization in Indonesia had urged the government to block threatening websites that have yet to be detected by a panel recently set up for the purpose.

“We can see several websites that are dangerous and have the potential to spread radicalism, such as the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but they have yet to be blocked. They must be blocked immediately,” Deputy General Chair-man of the Executive Board of Nah-dlatul Ulama (PBNU) Asad Said Ali said here on Friday.

He made the request during a discussion on the “Effectiveness of Blocking Radical Websites in the Fight against Terrorism” in the campus of Bhayangkara Jaya Raya University in Jalan Dharmawangsa, South Jakarta.

The websites that the PBNU wants blocked because they carry negative content are Milaibrahim, Ansyarudaullah, ansaruttauhid, ji-hadologi, azzam blog, sautusallam, and Al-busro.

“They carry radical content and even give lessons on how to make bombs; this indicates that they are closely linked with the ISIS, but have been ignored,” he pointed out.

Ali further noted that the PBNU supported and appreciated the Na-tional Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) and the Ministry of Informat-ics and Communication for blocking 19 websites that were believed to be spreading radicalism.

“I hail the blocking of the 19 websites. It was a good move. More firm actions must be taken, and with regard to protests by operators of 12 of the 19 websites, it is okay as remedial steps can be taken, such as in the case of Dakwatuna.com belonging to the Prosperous Justice Party,” he stressed.

Moreover, Ali observed that sev-eral websites that supported the ISIS have addresses and clear operators. So the BNPT and the Ministry of In-

formatics and Communication must take firm actions against them.

“I believe that operators and con-tent of a website are both criteria to block a website. If, for example, the content of a website belonging to the PBNU helps the ISIS, then PBNU must be reprimanded. However, if the ownership is affiliated to the ISIS, then the website must be blocked straightaway,” he explained.

Ali also pointed out that the ideology of the ISIS was a threat to not only Indonesia but to the world at large.

He emphasized that the group’s ideology was not Islamic because it propagated hatred against other hu-man beings, even Muslims belonging to different sects.

In addition, the government has lifted restrictions from 12 of the 19 Islamic websites that were blocked recently for allegedly promoting radicalism.

After the Forum for Handling Websites carrying Negative Content (FPSIBN) held a meeting on ter-rorism, SARA (ethnicity, religious, racial and group), and hate issues here on Thursday, the deputy chairman of the forum, Agus Barnas, announced that the operation of the 12 websites will be normalized, but they will continue to be monitored.

“We are restoring only 12 of the 19 blocked websites because only their operators communicated with the forum, which showed their goodwill. This is besides a dialog that was held with them regarding the importance of maintaining the integrity of the Unitary State of Indonesia,” he re-marked. (ant)

Early childhood education can prevent radicalism

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The government has prepared four priority programs to transform the

Indonesian maritime sector into a world maritime unit, Maritime

Coordinating Minister Indroyono Soesilo said.

Four priority programs prepared for maritime sectorSANUR - The government has prepared four priority programs to transform the Indonesian

maritime sector into a world maritime unit, Maritime Coordinating Minister Indroyono Soesilo said.

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

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

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

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

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This hotel is located at Jalan Sunset Road 150 Legian. It is a joint venture with PT. Binong Megapolitan having the main business in the property development as an investor. The hotel offers 150 rooms and suites with modern concept and begins with the opening of 110 rooms. “The construction will continue until the end of April 2015 for the entire number of hotel rooms,” said General Manager Arie Irwanto.

Horizon Sunset Road Bali is very suitable for businessmen and tourists

who vacation on the Island of the Gods. Equipped with facilities like Malabar Coffee Shop, Putri Lounge as well as beautifully designed swimming pool it has added value for guests staying at hotel. “The hotel is also equipped with facilities to support business activities, namely five meeting rooms with capac-ity for approximately 100 people,” said Arie Irwanto.

It perches on strategic location which is only five minutes from Seminyak and Legian, five minutes to the center

of souvenirs, 15 minutes to Ngurah Rai International Airport and 20 minutes from Denpasar by car. The unique things at Horizon Sunset Road are all prices have included breakfast for two, daily afternoon tea, daily transfer at 10:00 and 16:00 to favorite locations in Bali (Hotel - Ngurah Rai International Airport - Shop-ping Center - Kuta Beach - Legian area - Seminyak - Hotel).

In Bali, the Horison has three prop-erties belonging to three-star category, Horison Ultima to four-star category and

Geria Telabah Denpasar is grieving. Ida Ayu Alit Kerti is the mother of the Bali tourism figure, Ida Bagus Surakusuma, has passed away. This patient woman died of illness at the age of 93 years old. She was treated at the pavilion of Wangaya Hospital Denpasar and passed away on Sunday (Apr. 5) at four o’clock in the afternoon.

The late Ida Ayu Alit Kerti is known as the mother becoming a role model. She completed her education at the Hollandsch-Inlandsche School (HIS) and during her lifetime she very faithfully followed her late husband. Ida Bagus Jaya Kusuma once served as the Head of Public Works Agency in Jakarta, Tangerang and Irian Jaya. He then returned home to Bali with her husband after retirement.

Ida Bagus Surakusuma is familiarly called I.B. Lolec as coordinator of the ceremony expressed the cremation activity will be held at Griya Telabah, precisely at Jalan Thamrin I / 10 Denpasar. The series of ceremony con-sists of Nyiraman on Friday (Apr. 10) at four o’clock in the afternoon and Narpana Saji at six o’clock.

On Monday (Apr. 13) will be held the manah toya ning at eight o’clock in the morning, ngajum at ten o’clock and pangaskara at four o’clock in the afternoon. Peak of the pelebon or cremation is held at Badung Cemetery, Tuesday (Apr. 14). Mareresik is held at three o’clock in the morning, atetangi ngutang pering at four o’clock and the tedun layon pelebon at midday.

I.B. Lolec along with his big family would like to apologize to relatives or friends if during the lifetime of the late Ida Ayu Alit Kerti made any mistakes. Hopefully, all her deeds are ac-cepted by the Lord and the families left behind will be given fortitude and patience. (kmb)

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Horizon Sunset Road BaliKUTA - Horizon Sunset Road Bali was officially opened on March 27, 2014. This fully-serviced suite

and resort hotel offered at affordable prices poses an expansion of hospitality business of the Metropolitan Golden Management. Its location is in the area of Sunset Road, Legian Bali and very close to the tourist area of Kuta Beach.

Grand Horizon to five-star category serving the needs of luxury hotel with a full spectrum of services equipped with other facilities equipped. “The Horizon Sunset Road also displays Balinese arts such as rindik music, activities of egg decoration, wood sculpting and gebogan or fruit arrangement making,” said Arie Irwanto, General Manager of the Horizon Sunset Road. (kmb)

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BANGLI - The high costs incurred by Hindu’s who perform pabayuhan (exorcism rituals) especially the sapuh leger ritual has given rise to exorcism rituals done en-masse. On Tues-day April 11, dozens of residents at Kayubihi Bangli, ranging from young children to the elderly, participated in such a ritual.

Chief of Kayubihi customary vil-lage, I Wayan Sadia, explained that the sapuh leger exorcism ritual was attended by 27 people who were born on wuku (one of the Balinese seven-day weeks) Wayang. The ritual

is down so as to avoid negative influ-ences although the exorcism ritual is only done once in a lifetime. Without performing such a ritual, it is believed that children born on wuku Wayang will be subject to disaster.

Sadia went on to say that the sapuh leger ritual done en-masse is one way of alleviating the burden of the expensive ritual for local people, especially for those in the middle and lower economic classes that cannot necessarily afford the manusa yajña ceremony.

He also explained that the ritual

must be held, so members of the Hindu community have found a solu-tion by performing the ritual together as a village. “Mass rituals are cheaper so each person can spend less,” he explained.

Sadia disclosed that such group rituals also aim to improve the kin-ship between residents and foster the tradition of mutual assistance, because everyone is involved in the prepara-tion of the ceremony. “Other than for purpose of the ritual itself, it can also increase the sense of brotherhood,” he said.

One of the residents participating in the ritual, I Nengah Santika, said that he was greatly assisted by the mass ritual. Over the years he has not been able to perform it independently due to financial problems. According to him, it can cost up to IDR 30 million.

The mass ritual only costs IDR 1 million per person. “If we organize a sapuh leger independently, it can cost tens of millions, while en masse the cost is more affordable,” he said.

He also added that if the ritual is carried out independently, apart from the oblations, one also has to pay for

other expenses such as food, bever-ages and renting tents.

The one-day event began with the performance of a shadow puppet play performed by puppeteer Jro Dalang Sudirma which was followed by the sprinkling of holy water at the family shrines of participants. Then the exor-cism rite is conducted using holy water and the puppets are carried out in front of the puppet performance. Partici-pants also step on a bundle of Balinese rice. The procession is continued with pabayuh oton, majaya-jaya and ends with the saying of prayers. (kmb45)

These youth were not alone in conducting such actions. Members of the Sanur Fishermen Group also took action at sea. At least 30 people set sail on 15 boats and sailed around the Grand Bali Beach Hotel. However, only a few boats managed to pass in front of the hotel because police prevented them from doing so. Gusde, Coordinator of the boat action, was even detained on the beach for inter-rogation, although he was eventually released.

“Let Jokowi know that we want to remind him that the PDI-P said that they would reject the regulation for the seek of the people, so why should we be stopped from demonstrating in our boats?” said Gusde regarding the demonstration of the rejection of the reclamation plan. The protesters also expressed their disagreement with the Chairman of the PDI-P Bali, I Wayan Koster, who said that he would not discuss the matter of the Benoa Bay reclamation project in the congress.

“He was elected by the people, so he should be pro-people and do what people demand. If he does neglects to do so, it is just like a peanut forgetting its skin. If he forgets his promises once he has the position, something bad

could be triggered. Actually we do not want to mention anyone, whether Koster or others,” he said.

Gusde added that he does not agree with the reclamation plan because it is filled with personal interests and does not favor the interests of the wider community.

Aside from protests around the congress itself, the rejection of the Benoa Bay reclamation plan was also expressed by the people of Indonesia in Washington DC who also urge President Joko Widodo to revoke Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 that would allow for such a project.

“From our perspective, this recla-mation plan is just a gimmick used to control the land which has a very high economic value,” said the representa-tive of the Indonesian community in Washington DC, Made Supriatma.

The Indonesians in Washington held a peaceful demonstration outside the United States Congress, Capitol Hill, on April 11.

Previously, public rejections of the reclamation of Benoa Bay plan were conducted by hundreds of members of the groups Outsider and Ladyrose in Solo, Sukoharjo, Wonogiri, Klaten, Karanganyar and Purwodadi, as well

Tumpek WayangResidents join “sapuh leger” ritual en masse

Jokowi greeted by rejection of reclamation in Bali

DENPASAR - President Joko Widodo while attending the Fourth PDI-P Congress got ‘a surprise’ from the residents of Sanur on Thursday (Apr. 9). As president Jokowi made his way to the congress, he drove passed local youths who lined Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai holding banners that read: “Cancel Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.”

as by members of the Solo Pitbull, students from UNS Surakarta as well as Balinese people living in Solo, on April 5.

They stood in solidarity for the rejection of the plan under the ban-ner: “Solo for Bali, Reject Benoa Bay Reclamation.” This action aimed to provide enlightenment about the negative impacts of the Benoa Bay

reclamation for Bali in particular and Indonesia in general. Many people enthusiastically participated in this action whether by signing petitions, taking ForBali flyers, and/or by join-ing in the long march.

According to Tommy LA, Spokes-man of the “Solo for Bali, Reject Benoa Bay Reclamation” group actions, the Benoa Bay reclamation

plan will not only undermine and harm the people of Bali, but the other region whose beach sand to be taken fro this protect, will also undergo dam-age and loss. The governor of NTB acknowledges the kind of damage that such actions could cause and so does not allow the taking of sea sand in Lombok -so as to ensure that nature there is preserved. (kmb32)

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BUENOS AIRES - An Argentine judge has asked Interpol to issue a Red Notice for the arrest of pop star Justin Bieber over the alleged assault of a photographer outside a nightclub in 2013, his staff said Friday.

Bieber ignored a November court order to appear before the judge in the case, which dates to a stop in Buenos Aires on the Canadian heartthrob’s Believe tour.

“We are asking Interpol for Justin Bie-ber’s detention, anywhere in the world. Since he could not be found for his ap-pearance to testify, we request that he be detained,” Judge Alberto Banos’s secretary told AFP.

She said the request had been made on April 8, after Bieber failed to turn up in court within 60 days of his summons.

Interpol, the international police body, does not issue arrest warrants itself, but can send out a Red Notice informing its 190 member states that a suspect is wanted in a particular country.

According to the complaint, a body-guard, following Bieber’s orders, force-fully seized photographer Diego Pesoa’s camera and cellphone outside a nightclub in the upscale Palermo neighborhood in November 2013.

The 21-year-old megastar, who once enjoyed a squeaky clean image, has more recently had frequent run-ins with the law, including one in Canada in which he alleg-edly assaulted a limousine driver.

Last year, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges after taking part in an illegal drag race on a Miami street.

He was also sentenced to two years’ probation last year for throwing eggs at the home of a neighbor in California.

The 2013 tour stop, Bieber’s only visit to Argentina, was peppered with scandals. He was also thrown out of a hotel, and cut one show short after 45 minutes because of a stomach ache, angering some fans. (afp)

Reducing tourist visit in the middle of the year is inversely proportional to entering high season. The activity of fishermen to escort guest decreases from typically three times a day to only once a day. Unpredictable condition often makes fishermen idle and tends to repair their equipment to catch fish. “Our guiding activities this year begin to decline as entering mid-year like in April every year is always deserted. The increase will be-gin to be visible from June to August.

Now, I am able to escort guests once a day,” said a fisherman doubling as tour guide of dolphin tour, Made Bagi, 40, from Kalibukbuk village, Lovina, Singaraja.

Adverse weather condition often makes fishermen scream. They tend to reduce their fishing activities and escorting guests. Occasion-ally when guests would like to watch dolphins, the cost per person is forced to be

raised in order to cover the oper-ating cost due to fuel price hike several weeks ago.

“The current rate is IDR 100,000 per person from IDR 60,000 per person. We just object when the fuel price goes up. Although we can escort guests, we have trouble in the cost of purchasing gasoline at high enough price,” he added.

Made Bagi does not want to

make his guests disappointed and he has a special trick to get around the fuel price hike. Although the rate increases, the tradition of bargaining price in the field cannot be denied. So, he begins to set the mileage in order to be able to enjoy the dolphin attraction at sea. “We get around the mileage of dolphin tour from typically 50 kilometers to about 20 kilometer. Obviously it affects the catch and reduction of income,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Group Head of Cipta Karya Bakti Samudra at Kalibukbuk, Singaraja, Kadek Bu-diasa, explained that the group has 25 members. The decline in tourist visit is alleged to happen because

it has not entered holiday season. His party only objects to the policy when the fuel price goes up and he is forced to reduce the mileage at sea. “Now, I often go to sea at night, and only using light and generator set. In addition, our mileage is only 10 miles,” he explained. (kmb34)

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Lately, the fuel price hike is suspected to have a significant impact on the increase in the dolphin guiding rates and so is the lack of tourists coming to watch dolphin attraction.

Guest visit declines after rate increase of dolphin tour

SINGARAJA - Lately, the fuel price hike is suspected to have a significant impact on the increase in the dolphin guiding rates and so is the lack of tourists coming to watch dolphin at-traction. Lovina Beach area is famous for its dolphin icon as a tourist attraction in Buleleng. The increase in visitor becomes the hope of fishermen working as a tour guide in order to increase their daily income.

News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali.listen2my-

radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

LOS ANGELES - Singer Jus-tin Timberlake and his actress wife Jessica Biel welcomed their first child into the world on Saturday, a boy named Silas Randall.

Timberlake, 34, was “ecstatic,” People magazine said, adding that mother and baby were doing well.

“My amazing son and his beautiful wife have given us the most precious gift in the world!” Timberlake’s mother, Lynn Harless, wrote on Fa-cebook.

“Silas Randall Timberlake! Named after my father and my son! Life is beautiful and we couldn’t be happier! God bless you all and thanks for all the congrats!”

Actress Biel, who found fame with US television series 7th Heaven, be-gan dating former boy band N’Sync frontman Timberlake in 2007, after he launched a successful solo career.

The couple married in 2012 in a lavish ceremony in Italy. (afp)

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift revealed to her fans that her mother has cancer. Swift wrote about the news in a post on her Tum-blr on Thursday, which her representative confirmed. Swift said she wants to keep the details private, but said her mother wanted her fans to know what was going on.

The 25-year-old singer said she asked her mother to see her doctors as a Christmas gift. She said “there were no red flags,” but they later learned Andrea Swift had cancer.

Thought Swift is the superstar, Andrea has become a favorite among Swift’s fans, often earning cheers from audiences at live shows and taking photos with fans.

Swift also encouraged her young fans to remind their parents to go to the doctor and get check-ups. (ap)

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