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“The important formula and re-sults of the forum will become part of our national policy,” the minister noted in his speech during the clos-ing ceremony of the first WCF in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Tuesday.

He expressed hope that Indone-

sia would become a country with a new civilization and a strong culture in the next 20 to 30 years. On the occasion, the minister also called on Indonesians to confi-dently convey their ideas. This will have a positive impact on the

world’s development.“We do not have to feel inferior

while presenting our ideas,” the minister remarked. He noted that Indonesia had achieved great suc-cess in hosting the forum.

“The success of the WCF must

provide good momentum for boost-ing our confidence,” he remarked, adding that the WCF was inspired by President Yudhoyono’s idea in 2005. It will continue to be held once every two years, he asserted.

“Indonesia will continue to host or co-host the WCF,” he promised.

Themed “Culture as Power in Sustainable Development,” the WCF was held from November 24

to 27, 2013. Eight-hundred partici-pants, including 17 ministers, from 45 friendly countries attended it.

The minister noted that the World Culture Forum had aimed to promote culture as an element of social connectivity that would strengthen globalization.

A joint statement in the field of culture between Indonesia and China was signed during the forum.

Indonesian dancers put on a show as part of a culture performance in Bali, Indo-

nesia, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. Indonesia hosts the first World Culture Forum (WCF)

on 24-27 November. The results of the World Culture Forum (WCF) will become

part of our national policy, said Culture and Education Minister Mohammad Nuh.

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NUSA DUA - The results of the World Culture Forum (WCF) will become part of our national policy, said Culture and Education Minister Mohammad Nuh.

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Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt and her “The Client List” co-star Brian Hallisay are the proud parents of a baby girl.

Hewitt’s publicist Sarah Fuller said in an email statement the couple is “thrilled” over Tuesday’s birth of Autumn James Hallisay.

The couple is also celebrating being newlyweds. Fuller says they were recently married but did not provide further details.

“The Client List” was recently canceled by Lifetime after its second season. Hewitt and Hallisay played husband and wife.

Us Weekly first reported the news.

The trio belted out the Bon Jovi classic at the end of a gala event at the London palace in support of the homeless charity Centrepoint, of which 31-year-old Wil-liam is patron.

Bon Jovi began the performance alone with his guitar, but the second-in-line to the British throne and Grammy-winning pop diva Swift came on stage to join him, to huge cheers from the crowd.

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Britain’s Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, speaks with singer Taylor Swift (front L) during the Cen-trepoint Gala Dinner at Kensington Palace in London November 26, 2013.

Britain’s Prince William teamed up with US pop royalty Jon Bon Jovi and Taylor Swift on Tuesday night to perform an impromptu version of “Livin’ On A Prayer” at his home, Kensington Palace.

Hewitt welcomes baby girl after quiet wedding

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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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Calendar Event for November 2 through December 11, 20132 Nov Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan.Pura Taman Pule di Mas-Ubud.Pura Ularan di Takmung-Klungkung.Pura Bukitjati di Gulingan-Kawan Bangli.

6 Nov Buda Wage Langkir.Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan.Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud.Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi Batuan.Pura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi.Pura Masceti Desa Sanding-Tampak Siring.Puru Luwur Batur Pucangan Buahan-Tabanan.Odalan Alit di Pura Dalem Takuran di Cemeng-goan Sukawati.Odalan Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih.Mr. Pasek Gelgel Silakarang.Pura Dalem Bangun Sakti Kapal.Pura Dalem Bias Muntig Ped-Nusa Penida.

10 Nov redite Pon Medangsia.Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan.

11 Nov Soma Wage Medangsia.Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung.Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar.

12 Nov Anggara Keliwon Medangsia.Pura Pesimpangan Geria Sakti Manuaba di Yogya-karta-Sumur Lampung Selatan.Pura Luwur Uluwatu Pecatu Kuta Selatan.Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud.Pura Andakasa Karangasem.Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung.Merajan Kawitan Arya Kubontubuh Gelgel Klungkung.Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi.Pura Suralaya Banda-Klungkung.Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang-Bangli.Pura Gadung Blahbatuh Gianyar.Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan.Pura Pasek Gadung Kerambitan Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tugu Gelgel Klungkung.Pura Dalem Banyuning Barat-Buleleng.Odalan Sepen di Pura Puseh.Pura Desa Cemenggaon-Sukawati.Pura Pusering Jagat Pejeng-Tampaksiring.Merajan Pasek Kubayan Mengwi.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Gegelang-Tabanan.Pura Geria Sakti (Dang Kahyangan) Tulikup Gianyar.Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud.

13 Nov Buda Umanis Medangsia.Pura Gede Perancak-Jembrana.Pura Dalem Dauma-Batuan Sukawati.Pura Nataran Kacangdawa-Klungkung.

Odalan Bhatara Gede Apol di Ubung Denpasar.Pura Puseh Brahmana Kamasan-Klungkung.Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan.Pura Dalem Sukehet Klungkung.Pura Dalem Muaspatih Guwang Sukawati.Pura Taman Tegalalang.Pura Desa Sanding-Tampaksiring.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa-Batanbuah-Kesiman.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Basangkawan.Pura Sahab Nusa Penida.Merajan Agung Gorokgak Dalem Sukawati.

14 Nov Wraspati Paing Medangsia.Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan.Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra-Gianyar.

17 Nov redite Keliwon Pujut.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran-Mengwi.

17 Nov Purnama Kelima.Aci-aci Penaung Bayu di Pura Batumadeg di Besakih.Pura Kentel Gumi di Batur Baangli.Pura Pedarman Agung, Satria Denpasar.Pura Pemerajan Agung - Pemecutan Denpasar.Ngusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli.Pura Desa Pemenang di Lombok.Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel di Sumerta Denpasar.Pura Pasek Gobleg di Kekeran Mengwi.Pura Suranadi di Lombok.Pura Puncak Bukit Tampak Siring.Pura Dalem Puri Agung Kintamani.Pura Dalem Agung Nongan Karangasem.Pura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-Tabanan.Pura Dalem Balingkang Kintamani.Pr. Tampurhyang Pusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak di Songan Kintamani.Pura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Buleleng.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Lebih.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Tulamben.Pura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa Selemadeg Tabanan.Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi Karangasem.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak Kaja.Pura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu Karangasem.Pura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.Pura Narmada di Lombok.Pura Segara di Ampenan Lombok.Pura Ularan di Seririt Buleleng.

24 Nov redite Paing Pahang.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi.Pura Pasek Sandra Peguyangan Badung.

26 Nov Anggara Wage Pahang.Pura Batu Madeg (Meru Tumpang Sanga) di Besakih.Pura Hyang Tibha Batuan Sakah.

27 Nov Buda Keliwon Pahang.Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti Tabanan.Pura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati.Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan-Sukawati.Pura Penataran di Batuyang-Batubulan.Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-Sukawati.Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar.Pura Kresek Banyuning-Buleleng.Pura Puseh di Bebandem-Karangasem.Merajan Pasek Kubayan-Gaji.Merajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan.Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan.Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa Penida.Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih-Denpasar.Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem Karangasem.Pura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag Paguyangan.Pura Pulasari Sibang Gede Abiansemal.Pura Batur Sari Ubud.Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati.

2 Dec Soma Keliwon Krulut.Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mengwi Badung.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar.

7 Dec Tumpek Krurut.Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng.Pura Dalem Pemuteran di Desa Jelantik Tojan - Klungkung.Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa di Besakih.Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tarukan di Bebalang Bangli.Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.Pura Merajan Kanginan (Ida Betara Empu Beradah) di Besakih.

8 Dec redite Umanis Merakih.Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin - Lembongan Nusa Penida.Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar.

11 Dec Buda Wage Merakih.Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah - Pedungan - Denpasar Selatan.Pura Natih Banjar Kalah - Batubulan.Pura Desa Silakarang - Singapadu.Pura dalem Petitenget - Kerobokan - Kuta.Pura Dalem Pulasari - Samplangan - Gianyar.Pura Kubayan - Kepisah - Pedungan - Denpasar - Selatan.Pura Pasek gelgel Banjar Tanahpegat - Tabanan.Pr. Paibon Banjar Bengkel - Sumerta - Denpasar.Pura Pasek Lumintang - Denpasar.Pr. Panti Penyarikan Medahan - Sanding - Tampaksiring.Pr. Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken - Kaba-kaba - Tabanan.

The World Ethnic Music Festi-val (WEMF) 2013 was as a series of the World Culture Forum (WCF) which was opened by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on November 25, 2013. It was made in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture. The WEMF was followed by several participating countries including the USA, China, Russia, India, Japan, Africa (Burkina Faso), Middle East (Iran), South Korea, Australia and the host Indonesia. Featuring the theme ‘We Are One in Harmony,’ the WEMF was held on November 24-28, 2013.

The World Ethnic Music Fes-tival 2013 featured performances of ethnic music, dances, folk songs and other unique arts. All the par-ticipants put on typical clothing of their home country. Additionally, they also mutually presented their captivating attraction that aroused the pride and inspired guests.

In his speech, the Coordinat-ing Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono said that music did not only serve as a medium for en-tertainment, but music could also serve as a medium that maintained

cultural norms and future genera-tions. Music could also integrate the community, not only in the lo-cal scope but also in international scope, he said.

“It is a brilliant and outstanding idea which combines the World Ethnic Music Festival 2013 and the World Culture Forum taking place on November 24-28, 2013,” said Agung Laksono. He hoped the activity would not only serve as complement of the agenda. However, it was also a medium to reinforce the identity and the character development of the na-tion and strengthen the relationship among the countries, he said.

Laksono affirmed the works of music as intellectual builder should be protected. Therefore, in the present era the composers would not be harmed by those who only made profits by unscru-pulous means such as piracy, he said. Laksono invited all parties to continuously work tirelessly to combat against piracy with the Save Creative Power movement, he affirmed. The official open-ing was done with the signature of inscription and beating of the

drum musical instruments together as the opening symbol the World Ethnic Music Festival 2013 by the Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono.

The event was then continued in the Ardha Chandra Amphitheater of Art Center where the session first showed off the appearance of Ayu Laksmi with her Svara Semesta group along with famous musician and guitarist Wayan Bal-awan. According to Ayu Laksmi, she welcomed the WEMF 2013 implementation in which young generation was invited to love a variety of ethnic musical arts.

“The art can bind a sense of unity over diversity in Indonesia. The WEMF 2013 event can give a space to the musicians in various countries so they can show off their art of music. We can learn from other participating countries where they perform with spirit and love what they have. From there, we can imitate how people overseas appreciate to their arts,” she explained.

Through the preparation for 2 weeks with only 10 times the exercise, Laksmi displayed the concept of Unity in Diversity. “We have confidence that through the arts we are able to strengthen various existing constraints and differences,” she said.

Ayu Laksmi said it was her big dream to become a delegate of In-donesia and had become a special gift as she had been waiting for this opportunity. She hoped that through the event all participants could understand one another and wanted to learn traditional art of

each country. Aside from meeting in a particular event or perfor-mance, in the future they could meet in a forum such as seminar or discussion.

Meanwhile, Wayan Balawan said such an event could provide a means for traditional musicians where they were could be involved in the WEMF, so there was a space other than the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). “The artists and musicians need a different appreciative space. In the BAF, the space for the artists is still not maximal because most people come to just look around the enter-

tainment and shop,” he explained.According to him, the WEMF

was a new breakthrough to pro-vide a special space for the artists and musicians like the Jakarta Playhouse (GKJ). Thus, musicians had a schedule and good program and did not make performance only once a year monotonously in the BAF. Balawan expected there would be a cultural exchange with other countries inviting the other native people of the region becoming an artist in their respec-tive region to make a performance here, he affirmed. (dgk)

Bali Post

SANUr - Two divers from Bet Ngandang Sanur, I Wayan Sumen-dra, 44, and Kadek Nata, 40, nearly drowned while diving to catch fish in the waters of Nusa Penida, Tuesday

(Nov 26). They were then rushed to Sanglah Hospital in half-conscious condition.

According to one of the relatives, Gusti Lanang Maharta, at the time of accident Sumendra and Nata were escorting guests and diving at

Nusa Penida waters for fishing. “The guests are accustomed to eat sashimi (Japanese-style raw fish dish—Ed). So, it was eaten after being caught,” said Maharta.

However, when diving, the sea currents were estimated to suddenly

become so powerful so they both panicked and immediately went to the surface. Due to a sudden pressure difference, the two divers were lan-guid and eventually fell unconscious. According to Maharta, condition of Nata was much better than that of

Sumendra who was coming in uncon-scious condition. “For Sumendra, his condition was indeed not good. His family told if he stayed up late the night before,” he said. Until Tuesday, the two victims were still under treat-ment at Sanglah Hospital. (san)

Strong sea currents, two divers almost drowned

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

The World Ethnic Music Festival 2013 was officially opened by Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono. It was held in the Ksiraarnawa Hall, Denpasar Art Centre, on Monday (Nov 25). The event was attended by participants from 10 countries.

World Ethnic Music Festival 2013

Develop creativity of ethnic artists and musiciansBali Post

DENPASAr - The World Ethnic Music Festival 2013 was officially opened by Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono. It was held in the Ksiraarnawa Hall, Denpasar Art Centre, on Monday (Nov 25). The event was attended by participants from 10 countries. In addition, there were also other invitees such as the Minister of Education Mohammad Nuh, Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika, regent of Ta-banan Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, Denpasar Mayor IB Rai Mantra Dharmawijaya and several others.

Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort offers luxurious facilities and quality service offerings that reflect the brand’s combination of French elegance and flair with warm Balinese hospitality, rich culture and fine arts. Designed by internationally acclaimed design firm, Wilson Associates, the hotel comprises 415 rooms and suites including 17 Private Villas, 22 Prestige Suites and 376 Luxury Rooms featuring Sofitel’s signature MyBed, plush amenities and high tech fittings including complimen-tary broadband internet access.

“Sofitel is renowned for French luxury and sophistication. With the opening of Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort, we’re introducing our signature French elegance and “cousu-

main” tailor-made service to Indonesia. This spectacular resort is created as a unique holiday sanctuary retreat for business travellers, couples and families, offering all guests the height of resort living with world-class facilities,” said Goran Aleks, General Manager of Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Resort.

Conceptualized by Blue Plates in Singapore, the resort presents an eclectic set of dining options with three restaurants, two bars and a club lounge. Inspired by a “food market” dining concept, Kwee Zeen serves Pan Asian menu in a relaxed dining atmosphere with each atelier highlighting a dif-ferent cuisine from dumplings to hot grills. CCC (Cut Catch Cucina) features multi offerings with a steakhouse, Ital-

ian Osteria and Sea Grill while Artisan highlights classic Indonesian favourites including satay grills. From LE BAR (lobby bar), to L’OH Pool Bar, and the CLUB N5 Beach Club lounge, guests can also choose from one of the three different bars offering distinctive views and settings ideal for drinks and entertainment.

Discover an oasis of well-being with the hotel’s wellness and fitness offerings allowing guests to rejuvenate in style. Guests will be able to relax in the resort’s gorgeous beachfront pool, get active at So FIT, the state-of-the-art fitness centre, or revitalize at So SPA, Sofitel’s spa concept where ancient traditions from around the world meet the refinement and skill of the latest in French cosmetology.

Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort also features Sofitel’s hallmark Inspired Meetings concept that combines the latest conference technology with a passion for excellence.The hotel offers

some of the largest meetings and func-tion facilities in Bali, with the Grand Ballroom able to accommodate up to 600 guests theatre style.

Fun for children and peace of mind for adults, Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort offers a Kids Club packed with fun facilities and adventures. The resort’s kid’s club concept of learning, exploring, and fun is brought to life through extensive facilities compris-ing an outdoor kids’ pool, reading

room, nap room, video game consoles and a host of activities from cooking classes, yoga for kids and various beach games.

Surrounded by swaying palms, white sand beaches and inviting tur-quoise waters, the much-anticipated Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort Bali brings all the key elements of a premium international beachfront hotel to one of the world’s most sought-after holiday destinations.

Sofitel to launch hotel in Nusa Dua on DecemberIBP

NUSA DUA - Sofitel Luxury Hotels continues to expand its luxury network across Asia, with its first Indonesian property scheduled to open in Nusa Dua, Bali on 20 December 2013.

IBP/Courtesy of Sofitel

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DENPASAR - The Denpasar Police office has stepped up se-curity at the Australian consulate general in Denpasar, Bali, amidst rising tensions between Indonesia and the neighboring nation over the wire-tapping row.

“We are conducting security checks openly and covertly,” Ad-junct Commissioner Ida Bagus Made Sarjana said.

cThe number of security person-nel has been increased and they will be stationed at the consulate general’s office indefinitely.

Earlier, the National Police Chief General Sutarman had instructed his subordinates to tighten security at every Australian representative office throughout Indonesia.

According to a posting on smar-traveller.gov.au, the Australian government had issued a travel advisory to its citizens on Nov. 21, asking them to “exercise a high degree of caution” if they intended to visit Indonesia.

Documents released by whistle-blower Edward Snowden revealed that in 2009, Australia’s Defense Signals Directorate had wire-tapped the personal mobile phones of both

President Yudhoyono and his wife, Kristiani Herawati, as well as eight others in the President’s inner circle, including Vice President Boediono.

The Indonesian government had recalled its ambassador to Australia as a mark of strong protest over the illegal wire-tapping activities con-ducted by Australian surveillance agencies. President Yudhoyono also ordered the suspension of several co-operation programs with Australia.

These cooperation programs include the exchange of intelligence information, joint military exer-cises, and military operations aimed at curbing human trafficking.

“The development of a mineral database is one of the topics that will be discussed at the ASOMM, besides an improvement in human resources and the use of miner-als for sustainable development in ASEAN,” the Head of the Geological Board at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Sukyar, stated on Tuesday.

Sukyar, who is also Chairman of the 13th ASOMM, expressed hope that the mineral database could be launched during the fourth ASEAN Ministerial Meet-ing on Minerals (AMMIN), which is also being held in Bali from November 28 to 29.

“The mineral database is need-ed to see the mineral power

of each ASEAN member state. Based on the database, we will be able to better understand the mineral supply and demand from all ASEAN member countries,” he pointed out.

The mineral database would hopefully receive wide support from the private sector, Sukyar stated, adding that the develop-

ment of the mineral database could also serve as a blueprint for the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.

Sukyar invited representatives from ASEAN member states at the meeting to come up with their respective proposals to develop an ASEAN database and information system.

The 13th ASOMM is part of the fourth AMMIN.

The meeting serves as a venue to discuss mineral issues facing ASEAN member states, cover-

ing all the technical aspects and policies on the development of mineral resources, he noted.

According to the AEC blue-print, cooperation among ASEAN member states in the mineral sector will help boost trade and investment, as well as the capac-ity of the geological and mineral sector to support sustainable de-velopment in ASEAN.

The ASEAN member states are namely, Brunei Darussalam, Cam-bodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singa-pore, Thailand and Vietnam.

ASEAN members propose setting up mineral database systemAntara

NUSA DUA - The 13th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Senior Officials Meeting on Minerals (ASOMM) will be held in Bali from November 26 to 27, which will focus on discussing the development of the mineral database system in Southeast Asian countries, an official said.

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NUSA DUA - The government should be cautious about issuing a ban on the exports of minerals next year or it will stand losing billions of US dollars in state revenues, the Indonesian Mining As-sociation (IMA) has warned.

“In principle, it will be difficult to stop exporting minerals as of January 12, 2014 as the construction of a smelter cannot be completed next year,” IMA Executive Director Syahrir Abubakar said at the 13th ASEAN Senior Official Meeting (ASSOM) on Tuesday.

The ban will significantly impact several regions in the country, he stated.

According to IMA data, the government could lose nearly 45 percent of state income stemming from taxes and royalties paid by the two foreign mining companies--Freeport and Newmont.

“The government will lose more than 45 percent or US$3.2 billion of the US$8.5 billion in state income from Freeport and Newmont,” Syahrir pointed out.

The West Sumbawa and Timika districts, which had so far relied on the two companies for nearly 92 percent of their income, would also collapse, he added.

“The ban will result in many people in these two districts losing their jobs,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Geological Board at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Sukyar was of the view that the ban was a fair policy, which had been implemented by many countries including several Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states.

“Nearly 20 countries have revised their policies on exporting raw minerals. Even Laos and Myanmar have imposed a ban on the export of mining raw materials,” he said.

He noted that the deposits of at least five mining commodities, in-cluding nickel ore, copper, bauxite, gold and iron needed be saved.

“The domestic demand for nickel ore currently stands at 10 mil-lion tons per year. But its production can touch 60 million tons per year, with the excess 50 million tons being exported,” he said.

If exports of nickel ore continued unchecked, they would exhaust the national reserves quickly, he said.

The ban was therefore necessary to boost the national economy, he said.

Under the Mineral and Coal Law number 4 of 2009, the govern-ment of Indonesia had banned the export of minerals or raw materials, as of January 1, 2013.

The minerals must be processed first before being exported.

Security stepped up at Australian Consulate

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The Denpasar Police office has stepped up security at the Australian consulate general in Denpasar, Bali, amidst rising tensions between Indonesia and the neighboring nation over the wire-tapping row.

Government should be cautious about

banning mineral exports

The decision to change its labels by HRA Pharma is based on a previous study of levonorgestrel, one of the active ingredients in its Norlevo emergency contracep-tive, said Frederique Welgryn, HRA Pharma’s head of women’s health.

Some doctors said heavy women shouldn’t assume emergency con-traception won’t work for them and that they should talk to a health professional or consider alterna-tives like a copper IUD, a birth control device that can be fitted on the uterus. Norlevo is not sold in the U.S. but another drug with the same active ingredient is widely available.

Welgryn said a dose of HRA’s drug contains 1.5 mg of levonorg-estrel, identical to that found in Plan B One-Step, manufactured by Teva Pharmaceuticals in the U.S. Denise Bradley, a spokeswoman for the

company, declined to comment.The Food and Drug Adminis-

tration is currently reviewing the issue and will determine “what, if any, labeling changes to approved emergency contraceptives are war-ranted,” according to spokeswoman Erica Jefferson in an email.

Welgryn said that while the re-sults of the study conducted by the University of Edinburgh in 2011 were “quite surprising,” the last few years have seen much discussion about contraceptives’ efficacy in overweight or obese patients.

HRA Pharma Chief Executive Erin Gainer estimated that mil-lions of women across Europe use emergency contraceptives identical to Norlevo. Gainer declined to give sales figures for Norlevo alone.

Anna Glasier, a lead researcher in the 2011 study, said that their research wasn’t designed to look specifically at the effect of weight

on emergency contraception. She said their study only included about 1,700 women. “It is not my place to comment as to whether the com-pany’s decision to change advice is premature,” she said in an email.

She also noted another previous analysis that found there was no sol-id evidence to show that hormonal contraceptives were less effective in

overweight women, but the quality of the studies was low.

The morning-after pill contains a higher dose of the hormone in regular birth control pills. Taking it within 72 hours of rape, condom failure or just forgetting regular contraception can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent, but it works best within the first

24 hours. If a woman is already pregnant, the pill, which prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg, has no effect.

HRA began the process of con-sulting with French regulators about changing the pill’s labeling in 2012 and it has taken until now for Eu-rope’s drug regulators to approve the change, Welgryn said.

Reuters

LONDON - Some 131,000 people were newly infected with HIV in Eu-rope and nearby countries in 2012, an 8 percent rise from a year earlier and a worrying reversal of a recent downward trend in AIDS cases in the West.

A report published by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) European office and the European Centre for Dis-ease Prevention and Control (ECDC) showed a steady increase in new HIV cases over the last year, but by far the majority of cases were in Eastern Eu-rope and Central Asia.

“The high and increasing number of AIDS cases in the East is indicative of late HIV diagnosis, low treatment coverage and delayed initiation of life-saving HIV treatment,” the ECDC/WHO report said.

Some 76,000 new HIV infections were reported in Russia alone, accounting for more than half the region’s cases.

While reported AIDS cases had been declining steadily in western Europe - dropping 48 percent between 2006 and 2012 - in the east of the WHO’s European Region, which includes many Asian former Soviet republics, the

number of people newly diagnosed with AIDS increased by 113 percent.

Experts said this increase was closely linked to a lack of prevention measures for people at high risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.

These include clean needles and syringes for drug users, free condoms and easy access to HIV testing for sex workers and gay men, and early access to treatment with AIDS drugs - known as antiretroviral therapy (ART) - for those who test positive.

“Our data show that nearly every sec-ond person tested positive for HIV (in the region) - that’s 49 percent - is diagnosed late in the course of their infection, which means they need antiretroviral therapy right away because their immune sys-tem is already starting to fail,” said the ECDC’s director Marc Sprenger.

Worldwide, more than 35 million people have HIV - the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa where ac-cess to prevention, testing and drugs is often limited by low funds. Cocktails and combinations of AIDS drugs can keep the virus in check for many years, allow-ing those who are diagnosed and treated early to live full and long lives.

Yet even in the relatively wealthy WHO European Region, only one in three people with HIV is getting the ART treatment they need, Wednesday’s report said.

Michel Kazatchkine, the United Nation’s HIV/AIDS Special Envoy in Eastern Europe, told Reuters in an inter-view this month that HIV epidemics are becoming more concentrated in margina-lised groups such as sex workers, drug users and gay men, and could defy global attempts to combat AIDS if no progress is made in turning them around.

Sprenger said that to start to do that more effectively “we need to make HIV testing more available across Europe to ensure earlier diagnosis and more effec-tive treatment and care”.

Zsuzsanna Jakab, the WHO’s re-gional director for Europe, said pro-viding AIDS drugs earlier for those infected with HIV would allow them to live longer and healthier lives, and help reduce the risk that they transmit HIV to others.

“While we are not at the end of the HIV epidemic in Europe, our goal of halting and reversing the spread of HIV by 2015 is still achievable in many countries,” she said.

Reuters

BEIJING - More than 500 illegal outdoor barbecues, which

Chinese state media say cause “serious air pollution”, have been destroyed in Beijing as part of an emergency programme to alleviate the city’s often hazardous pollution.

The raids were part of a three-month operation to supervise the barbecues, many of which are operated by ethnic Uighur Muslims from the restive Xinjiang province in China’s west.

“Over 500 illegal barbecue grills in Beijing were destroyed on Tuesday amid the city’s efforts to fight air pollution and lingering foggy weather,” state media Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

Pollution often reaches hazardous levels and can cause long-term health issues. Chinese health officials say that lung cancer rates are rising among the city’s more than 20 million residents. China has adopted an emergency re-sponse programme to try to reduce the pollution, including alternating days for cars with odd and even licence plates to be on the road and closing schools when the smog is particularly heavy.

Smoke from factories and heating plants that encircle Beijing, winds blowing in from the Gobi Desert and fumes from millions of vehicles all contribute to the smog that often forms a thick blanket over the city. Last winter the capital’s smog was so bad it was dubbed the “airpocalypse”, and there are concerns this winter will see a repeat after huge swathes of northeastern China ground to a halt in October when they were smothered by pollution.

AIDS proves stubborn in Europe as new HIV infections rise

China destroys 500 barbecues to tame Beijing pollution - media

AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere

Boxes of Norlevo emergency contraceptive are sold in a pharmacy, west of Paris, Tuesday Nov. 26, 2013.

French drugmaker warns on morning-after pillAssociated Press Writer

PARIS — A French contraceptive maker said Tuesday its morning-after pill doesn’t work when taken by women who weigh more than 80 kilograms (176 pounds) and plans to change its labels to warn patients.

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Complaint of the residents was submitted by hamlet chief of Glogor, Nengah Sutama, Tuesday (Nov 26). Having been completed, he admitted to be disappointed after seeing the results. It had less density and less width. Meanwhile, the asphalt peeled off and some parts were even carried away by rainwater. “The results were not as expected so our residents were disappointed. Actually, it was just completed but has been dam-aged,” said Sutama. He admitted to have complained to the project consultant and the project contrac-tor, but there was no good will to fix it. Results of the project had also been checked by the officer of Public Works who undertook supervision. The Public Works of-ficers also considered the project had poor quality. Besides, the of-ficers also recognized to follow it

up, but so far no one of the officers came again after the project was completed.

The road was said to reach 1.5 kilometers. It led to Dalem Glogor Temple and connected to approxi-mately 80 families at Glogor on the highland of the existing 150 families. “This pathway also goes to agrotourism at Bukit Abah, be-tween Glogor hamlet and Besan village. Necessarily, the quality is not like this. I proposed the road with the width of eight meters, but in reality it is not more than four meters. After being passed once, it has broken,” he said. He also asked to repair the pathway again with a better quality in order the road at Glogor hamlet would be more durable and could be utilized by local people.

Similar opinion was also re-vealed by local resident, Komang

Suardana. “If the quality is good, it is impossible for the newly com-pleted road to be overgrown with grass. Moreover, this path leads to ecotourism,” he protested.

As seen on the project board, the road improvement project was financed by Klungkung regional budget 2013. The budget spent was IDR 1,268,999,000 with the construction period of 80 days and CV Bhuana Raya served as the project contractor. The proj-ect contractor was cited as one of the individuals of the Klung-kung House legislator. From a number of cases, it was indeed often revealed that legislators took side job as project partner, but the project result was not qualified. Previously, the project alleged to be worked on by a partner doubling as individual of legislator also happened to the parking lot project at Goa Lawah Temple. The project was much worse where it had been left before completed. “By all means, the legislator borrows the name of its brother or sister or other family. Such a legislator should not be voted again,” Suardana suggested. (kmb31)

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DENPASAR - Allegedly, due to heavy burden plus rain at the previous night, the branch of flamboyant tree growing in front of the parking area of Kamadhuk Cooperative at Sanglah Hospital was broken, Tuesday (Nov 26). Due to such incident, two motorcycles parked underneath were damaged.

When asking for confirmation on the matter, Coordinator of PD Parkir of Sanglah Hospital, AA Ngurah Gudanta, explained the inci-dent took place around 6:45 a.m. Such incident was quite surprising because the condition of the tree all this time looked strong. “When we observed, the broken branches did not have signs of rot. Appar-ently, it was overburden due to dense leaf and rain water after it rained overnight,” said Gudanta.

The management of PD Parkir of Sanglah Hospital and Sanglah Hospital then held cutting and cleaning up to the falling tree branches while cutting the trees to make it more secure and avoid any subse-quent broken branches.

Due to the incident, two motorcycles were damaged consisting of Yamaha Jupiter MX with license plate DK 5823 RR and red Honda Beat with license plate DK 6375 IE. Of the two motorcycles, the most severe damage happened to Yamaha Jupiter MX where its front part was wrecked and front wheel was broken. Meanwhile, the Honda Beat motorcycle suffered a breakage on speedometer and rearview mirror.

According to Gudanta, the Honda Beat motorcycle belonged to a doctor co-assistant on duty, while the Yamaha motorcycle was the property of patient watchman named Sudika, a resident from Gianyar.

Regarding the damage to both motorcycles, added Gudanta, based on Regional Bylaw No.11, the coverage of PD Parkir’s ticket was for the case of total loss happened to the motorcycle. “In terms of the incident, it belongs to natural disaster, so the loss is not covered,” said Gudanta. The main requirements for claiming the compensa-tion of lost motorcycle were the parking tickets, vehicle registration, vehicle certificate, motorcycle keys and loss notice. “If a parking ticket or other requirements are not available, then the losses cannot be covered,” said Gudanta.

Meanwhile, the owner of Yamaha motorcycle suffered the most severe damage and admitted if the motorcycle had just been paid off three months ago. “I came to Sanglah Hospital early in the morning to watch my mother who is ill. My motorcycle has just been paid off three months ago,” said Sudika sadly. (san)

Tree branch broken at Sanglah HospitalTwo motorcycles damaged

IBP/Wira SanjiwaniAllegedly, due to heavy burden plus rain at the previous night, the branch of flamboyant tree growing in front of the parking area of Kamadhuk Cooperative at Sanglah Hospital was broken, Tuesday (Nov 26).

IBP/BagiarthaThe project improvement of road quality at Glogor hamlet, Pikat village, leading to local Dalem Temple was complained by residents.

Flushed by one-day rain

Paving project washes awayBali Post

SEMARAPURA - The project improvement of road quality at Glogor hamlet, Pikat village, leading to local Dalem Temple was complained by residents. It happened because the pavement carried out by project contrac-tor had inferior quality. It was visible after being flushed by one-day heavy rain where the asphalt layer washed away. Actually, the project was just completed on November 20 having been worked on since September 4.

Agence France-Presse

NEW DELHI - A “very se-vere” cyclone barrelled towards southeast India on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of villagers and fishermen, just a month after a killer storm triggered another massive rescue effort.

Cyclone Lehar, packing sus-tained winds of up to 165 ki-lometres an hour (103 mph),

was expected to make landfall in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh late Thursday, accompa-nied by storm surges of up to three metres (10 feet), authorities said.

More than 1,000 rescue workers were deployed in the flood zone on Wednesday as the state began trying to move 250,000 people to safer places, the state disaster management authority said.

The Indian weather office cat-

egorised the cyclone as “very se-vere” and warned of disruption of power and communication lines as well as rail and road traffic.

It added there was a threat of flying debris, flooding of escape routes and extensive damage to crops.

But Lehar, meaning “wave”, was expected to be less seri-ous than Cyclone Phailin which slammed into the coast further to

the north in October, killing 18 and leaving a trail of destruction.

Phailin, which was also classed as “very severe”, had sustained winds of over 200 kilometres an hour that uprooted trees, over-turned trucks, snapped power lines and damaged crops in Andhra Pradesh and its northern neigh-bour, Orissa.

The most powerful storms which strike India at this time of

year are classified as “super-cy-clones” followed by “very severe” and then “severe”.

Cyclone Lehar comes just a week after Cyclone Helen -- a “se-vere” storm -- killed eight people and destroyed large tracts of farm-land in Andhra Pradesh.

In 1999 more than 8,000 people were killed when a cyclone hit Orissa, which took years to re-cover.

Valdis Dombrovskis’ decision means that his center-right gov-ernment automatically falls. He is the longest serving prime minister in Latvia’s history.

Last week’s collapse of the Maxima supermarket was the worst disaster since Latvia de-clared its independence from Soviet Union in 1991, and has caused a storm of outrage from

Latvians.Police have opened a criminal

investigation into the cause of last week’s tragedy. Possible ex-planations for the disaster include a flawed design, substandard construction materials, and cor-ruption.

President Andris Berzins can either reject the resignation or accept it and nominate an acting

prime minister whose job it will be to form a new cabinet.

Dombrovskis came to power in 2009 as Latvia’s economy was sinking into a deep recession and was charged with leading harsh budget cuts and tax increases while at the same time imple-menting tough structural reforms demanded by international orga-nizations such as the International Monetary Fund.

Dombrovskis was re-appointed twice as prime minister since then, and is widely credited with preventing the small Baltic nation from going bankrupt.


MOSCOW - Russian police on Wednesday detained 15 heavily-armed radical Islamists in Moscow who allegedly belong to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror network and were preparing suicide strikes.

The interior ministry said members of Takfir wal-Hijra -- a group formed in Egypt in the late 1960s and outlawed in Russia in 2010 -- had been discovered hiding weapons and suicide belts along with extremist literature.

Footage aired on Russian national news channels showed hel-meted riot police burst into a high-rise apartment in a pre-dawn raid and throw several men face down on the floor.

Police were shown opening plastic bags holding grenades and pistols as well as a heavy black object identified by one unnamed officer as an explosive belt.

The interior ministry said the group had been funding its activities by “conducting general crime” in and around Moscow.

Russia remains on heightened security alert ahead of the Febru-ary 7-23 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that lies near the volatile North Caucasus.

A top North Caucasus guerrilla commander who has claimed responsibility for a string of deadly suicide bombings in Moscow has threatened to target the Sochi Games.

Officials in 2011 claimed to have uncovered a complex terror plot against the Games by Islamist rebels who allegedly used little-policed mountain regions of Georgia as their base.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has said Russia is “very worried” about security at all its sporting events.

Takfir wal-Hijra was quashed in Egypt in the 1970s but is be-lieved to have cells linked to Al-Qaeda in several European and other countries. The TrackingTerrorism.org website said members of the puritanical group have included the 9/11 US terror attack pilot Mohamed Atta and former Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency said the group’s activi-ties were first detected in ex-Soviet nations such as Ukraine about five years ago. But RIA Novosti said experts questioned whether Takfir wal-Hijra members in the region had actual links to the original organisation in Egypt or had simply assumed the name of a relatively well-known terror group.

“Still, since these groups essentially share the same ideology and are prepared to resort to violence to achieve their goals, this is clearly a threat,” the news agency quoted Russian Institute for Strategic Studies analyst Yelena Suponina as saying.

Russia’s three-year streak without attacks outside the North Caucasus was broken in October when a female suicide bomber killed six people on a bus packed with students and workers in the southern city of Volgograd.

Security officials later claimed to have killed the woman’s hus-band -- believed to have been a member of an Islamist terror network -- in a special security operation in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan. Russia’s lower hose of parliament responded to the attack by adopting tough new legislation that makes families of terrorists financially accountable for the damage incurred in any attack.

Cyclone Lehar barrels towards southeast India

Moscow police detain 15 Islamists with suicide belts

AP Photo/Yves Logghe, FileIn this July 9, 2013, photo, Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis addresses the media on the adop-tion of the euro, at the European Council building in Brussels.

Latvian prime minister resigns in wake of tragedyAssociated Press

RIGA — Latvia’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday after accept-ing political responsibility for the collapse of a supermarket roof in the capital that killed 54 people and wounded at least 40 others.

IBP

The weekend of November 15-17 saw The Art Of Surfing – Bali

host their first High Performance Surf Training Camp at Bali’s West Coast surf break of Balian. With 15 enthusiastic grommets signed

up for the junior clinic (all-female and adult editions to follow over the next weeks), spirits were high across the three long days of waves, instruction, and learning new skills.

Utilizing international coaches with proven high-performance methods focusing on video re-view, comparative analysis with the best surfers in the world, and a heavy emphasis on correct tech-nique and equipment, Head Coach Matt Scorringe was very pleased with the outcome, saying, “We couldn’t have asked for a better response to our first camp here in Bali. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some great surfers, but there’s nothing more rewarding than seeing the young ones prog-ress.” Scorringe had a leading hand in the recent crowning of 2013 ASP World Junior Champion Ella Williams.

Accompanied by an array of provided Channel Island demo boards – the grommets were ea-ger participants, excited to push

themselves and surf to the very best of their capabilities. Rang-ing in age from 11-16, a mix of Indonesians and internationals of varying abilities, there wasn’t a single grom who didn’t enjoy an improvement in their surfing over the course of the three days.

As well as top-end surf coach-ing, the grommets participated in surf-specific fitness classes (as de-veloped at the Modern Movement Surf Training Studio that The Art Of Surfing – Bali co-founder Tai Graham runs with Taj Burrow’s trainer Johnny Gannon) and yoga classes, ate only the healthiest of meals provided by the Bali Buda Café, and were given ocean-specific rescue and CPR train-ing. Although some were a little skeptical at first, the groms soon realized the importance of being able to save a friend in trouble, then embraced and enjoyed the experience.

Top Australian junior and Bali resident Reef Doig was ecstatic about his camp experience, men-

tioning the values he saw overall especially in the CPR training. “My favorite part was for sure the CPR training. Working with experienced guys who have been in all sorts of situations really put things into perspective that some-one might need help anywhere at anytime. To now have a better understanding of this give me so much more confidence, especially once I head over to Hawaii.”

Above all, the camp was about improving surfing through various platforms and having fun while doing it. Judging by the smiles smeared across the faces of the shattered surfers as the weekend drew to a close it was clear that it was mission accomplished on The Art Of Surfing – Bali’s first ever camp.

There are still a few spots available for the final High Per-formance Camp that starts this Friday through to Sunday again at Balian Beach. Numbers are limited so act fast. Camp is open to surfers of all ages.

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“The dollar exchange rate in-creases so the price of handicraft products offered in rupiah rate could be cheaper and buyers will or-der in larger quantities. It can raise the export earnings,” he said.

He also explained the deprecia-tion of rupiah occurred lately was very advantageous for small busi-nesses because their products were mostly from local commodities. It was a good opportunity for small entrepreneurs and craftsmen of Bali to increase the quantity of their production.

“Depreciation of rupiah ex-change rate makes the value of export commodity (or other craft) higher in the world market. Con-versely, for businesses that rely on imported goods, the depreciation of rupiah will become a heavy bur-den,” he said.

The burdened importers could happen to automotive and retail businesses and they would inevita-bly have to raise the price. Current-ly, he said, people should be keen to

see this opportunity. “So far, small businesses lack of socialization made by the government. Thus, the weakening rupiah often becomes a barrier for them. Actually, if they know, a lot of positive things can be exploited,” he said.

He said the depreciation of ex-change rate was caused by the cur-rent imbalanced account. One of the causes was the imbalance of export and import expenditure. In addition, it was also triggered by tendency of some investors’ capital outflow re-lated to the economic conditions due to the demand of workers against employers as well as a bit of political turbulence before 2014.

“Seeing the increasingly depressed rupiah exchange rate, it is certainly very worrying because it is not bal-anced at IDR 11,000,” he said.

To overcome the problem, Bank Indonesia (BI) as monetary author-ity duly intervened. If Bank Indo-nesia had expressed its readiness to fight against this turbulence, speculators (money market) could

weaken.Meanwhile, the Head of the Cen-

tral Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, I Gede Suarsa, said the depreciation of rupiah exchange rate could have an impact on the increase in produc-tion cost, particularly those using imported commodities. The price of basic necessities, especially the

imported ones was feared to always rise uncontrollably. “Weakening of rupiah will surely decrease the import spending power of the com-munity,” he said.

Actually, he admitted the de-preciation of rupiah could bring in positive and negative impacts. In other words, it would bring in

fortune for the exporters and mis-fortune for the importers. Suarsa added that such condition would also cause the foreign currency in-vestment namely dollar to increase in Indonesia in the long-term, while in the short-term it would have an impact on the economic inflamma-tion. (kmb28)

A new wave of learning hits Bali

IBP/Courtesy of Tim HainThe weekend of November 15-17 saw The Art Of Surfing – Bali host their first High Performance Surf Training Camp at Bali’s West Coast surf break of Balian.

Depreciation of rupiah exchange rate profits exporters

IBP/File PhotoThe lineups of entrepreneur, especially exporters, seem to be benefited when the exchange rate of rupiah is currently depressed in a serious enough position to IDR 11,715 per US dollar.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The lineups of entrepreneur, especially exporters, seem to be benefited when the exchange rate of rupiah is currently depressed in a serious enough position to IDR 11,715 per US dollar. The exporters as delivered by the economist from the Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, would get additional revenue from the shipment of goods over-seas, particularly the exporters of handicraft and other business sectors.

Diplomats from the World Trade Organization’s 159 mem-bers had been trying to forge an agreement before a trade minis-ters’ meeting next week in Bali, Indonesia. Achieving a deal in Bali is seen as a final effort to revive a broader 12-year effort to ease global trade rules.

The mini-deal discussed in Geneva had been intended, in part, to reduce delays and inefficien-cies at national borders. Making it easier to move goods across borders could boost the global economy by nearly $1 trillion a year and support 21 million jobs, according to a report co-written by Jeffrey Schott, a senior fellow in international trade at the Pe-terson Institute for International Economics.

The lack of a global deal hasn’t prevented individual countries from seeking agreements among themselves. But experts say the failure to reach a global deal leaves

poorer countries worse off.“This should be a no-brainer

for developed and developing countries,” Schott said.

Deputy U.S. Trade Representa-tive Michael Punke expressed “a great deal of sadness” over the failure in Geneva.

Schott said he’s hopeful that ne-gotiators will salvage the deal in Bali and restore the efforts to achieve a broader trade agreement.

“If this small test can’t be passed, there’s very little reason for confidence” negotiators will ever reach the broader agreement, Schott said.

Some poor countries are de-manding economic and technical assistance before they sign on. India is holding up a deal by insisting on protections for its farmers.

The WTO chief , Rober to Azevedo, said so much disagree-ment remains that several more weeks of negotiations cannot

bridge the gaps.“Holding negotiations in the

short time we’ll have in Bali would be simply impractical with over 100 ministers around the table,” Azevedo said.

Negotiations toward a broader global trade deal began in Qatar in 2001, and the agonizing pace

of talks frustrated Azevedo’s pre-decessor, Pascal Lamy.

Still, some developed countries are seeking to reach side deals. The European Union, for example, has signed free-trade pacts with South Korea and Canada. The EU is also holding separate talks with the United States and Japan.

But Azevedo said the failure to reach a global deal particularly hurts poorer countries.

It also hurts the WTO’s cred-ibility. Azevedo said he worries that the WTO will be seen only as a trade court and no longer as a forum for governments to negoti-ate trade agreements.


MADRID - French President Francois Hollande visits Spain on Wednesday for a bilateral summit seeking a common stance on bank-ing supervision to avoid a repeat of the eurozone debt crisis.

Hollande is pushing for Euro-pean authorities to adopt common measures to prevent costly bank failures and to directly recapitalise lenders in difficulty.

Having won backing for that

from Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta last week, Hollande is now looking to bring Spanish premier Mariano Rajoy on board, French officials said.

The push for closer EU banking supervision was largely driven by Spain’s woes last year, when it was forced to accept an emergen-cy credit line from its eurozone partners to save its financial sector from collapse.

Hollande is expected to reiterate his call for European Union coun-

tries “to make jobs growth and sta-bility the heart of their decisions” at their summit next month.

France and Spain will also discuss economic growth at their summit on Wednesday, with Hollande looking for support to boost investment capacity and pro-growth policies across the eurozone, officials said.

Growth is a major concern for Spain, the eurozone’s fourth-biggest economy, which has just crawled timidly out of two years of

recession with 0.1 percent growth in the third quarter of this year.

The summit in Madrid will discuss France’s proposal for an “economic government” of the eurozone with a permanent Eurogroup chairman to oversee members’ economic policies.

It will also address unemploy-ment, which in Spain is painfully high at nearly 26 percent and more than 54 percent among the under-25s. French officials said Madrid was pushing for an efficient use

of European resources to combat youth joblessness.

Other issues on the agenda of the summit, which involves vari-ous ministers from both countries, are migration, defence, anti-ter-rorism measures and transport.

A new high-speed railway from Paris to Barcelona is due to be opened in mid-December. Officials say it will cut the non-stop train journey time between the two cities to six hours and 20 minutes.

France, Spain to discuss euro bank rules at summit

Talks on global free-trade deal collapse in Geneva

World Trade Organization, WTO, Director General Roberto Azevedo, of Brazil, informs the media about the next ministerial meeting on Bali during a press conference, after the General Council at the headquarters of the

World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzer-land, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013.

Associated Press

GENEVA — Negotiators came close but failed Tuesday to clinch a free-trade deal that could have helped boost the world economy by $1 trillion a year and cleared the way for a broader global agreement.

BUSINESS

Demonstrators have paralysed government ministries in Bangkok to challenge Yingluck and her ex-iled brother, ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, in the biggest street protests since mass rallies in 2010 that turned deadly.

Stepping up the i r ac t ion Wednesday, protesters entered a major government complex in the northern outskirts of the capital and also forced the evacuation of the Justice Department’s besieged Department of Special Investiga-tions.

Outside Bangkok, protesters gathered at about 25 provincial halls mainly in the opposition’s southern heartlands -- including on the tourist island of Phuket.

“We will not give up even if the prime minister resigns or dis-solves parliament. We will stop only when power is in the hands of the people,” protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban told supporters.

Warning that the political tur-moil could affect economic confi-dence, the central bank unexpect-edly cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points, to 2.25 percent.

While the demos have so far been largely peaceful, there are fears they could degenerate into another bout of street violence in a country that has seen several episodes of political unrest since

Thaksin was toppled in a 2006 coup.

The billionaire tycoon-turned-politician is adored by many of the country’s rural and urban working class. But he is reviled by many in the elite and the middle classes, who accuse him of being corrupt and a threat to the monarchy.

Suthep on Tuesday called for the creation of an unelected ad-ministration to run the country, in the clearest indication yet that the demonstrators are seeking to sus-pend the democratic system.

“If we demolish the Thaksin regime ... we will set up a people’s council which will come from people from every sector,” he said. “Then we will let the people’s council pick good people to be the prime minister and ministers.”

On Tuesday protesters sur-rounded the interior, agriculture, transport, and sports and tourism ministries, ordering officials inside to leave, a day after occupying the finance and foreign ministries.

A court has issued an arrest war-rant for Suthep for his role in the ministry seizures and authorities have urged the veteran politican to surrender.

The recent protests were sparked by plans by the ruling Puea Thai party to introduce an amnesty that could have allowed the return from

self-imposed exile of Thaksin.The Senate blocked the contro-

versial bill but demonstrators have since broadened their goal and now

want to topple the government.Yingluck on Monday ordered

the expansion across Bangkok of the Internal Security Act, which

gives authorities additional pow-ers to block routes, impose a curfew, ban gatherings and carry out searches.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Tuesday Australia’s leader had made “important” commit-ments aimed at ending a row over spying but warned much more work was needed before ties re-turned to normal.

But even as tensions calmed with Canberra, they threatened to escalate elsewhere, with Yud-hoyono saying his government would summon the South Korean and Singaporean envoys over new espionage claims.

Allegations that Australian spies tried to listen to the phones of Yudhoyono, his wife and his ministers in 2009 surfaced last week and sparked a diplomatic crisis.

Jakarta reacted furiously, end-ing cooperation on military ex-ercises and in the key area of people-smuggling and recalling its ambassador from Australia.

Indonesia was further infuri-ated by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s failure to apologise or offer what it saw as a clear explanation. But on Tuesday Yud-hoyono struck a conciliatory tone after receiving a letter from Ab-bott aimed at calming the row with a key ally and trading partner.

The letter contained a “commit-ment from the Australian PM that Australia will not do anything in the future that will disadvantage or disturb Indonesia”, the presi-dent said.

“That is a very important point,” Yudhoyono added. He said Abbott supported his proposal to come up with a “protocols” and a

code of ethics to govern relations between the neighbours that were “clear, fair and abided to”.

Yudhoyono described a long process, that would involve as-signing the foreign minister or a special envoy to work with the Australians. After the details were hammered out, a formal ceremony would have to take place to bring the new agreements into place, attended by both Abbott and Yud-hoyono, said the president.

Only after the two countries have “regained trust” in this fashion could normal relations and cooperation be restored, said the president.

However Yudhoyono reacted angrily to new reports that South Korea and Singapore helped with US-Australian surveillance in the region. The Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday that both countries played key roles in a “Five Eyes” intelligence network grouping the United States, Brit-ain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

It quoted a top-secret US Na-tional Security Agency map that it said was published by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.

The president said that even though Indonesia was not specifi-cally named in the reports, he was nevertheless angry as the whole of Asia was mentioned.

“I have instructed our foreign minister to ask for an explanation from the ambassadors of those countries,” he said.

A presidential spokesman con-firmed Yudhoyono meant the envoys would be summoned. Ma-laysia’s foreign ministry earlier Tuesday summoned the ambassa-

dor from neighbouring Singapore over the same report. The report said that as a major hub for re-gional telecommunications traffic, Singapore was an important link in the surveillance network.

The allegations that Australian spies targeted Indonesian officials has also sparked anger among the Indonesian public, and on Tues-

day a crowd of demonstrators in military-style uniforms protested outside the Australian embassy. The protesters, from a paramili-tary group, burned photos of Ab-bott and demanded the Australian ambassador leave the country.

The alleged spying was first revealed by Australian media last week, which based its reports on

leaked documents from US intelli-gence fugitive Edward Snowden.

They showed that Australia’s electronic intelligence agency tracked Yudhoyono’s activity on his mobile phone for 15 days in August 2009 under the previous Canberra government. At least one phone call was reportedly intercepted.

Speaking before pol i t ical party leaders, who are slated to present their economic views at the Kompas-100 CE0 Forum in Jakarta on Wednesday, the Presi-

dent said, “I hope the current issues will be discussed well at this forum.”

He noted that too much rhet-or ic was useless because i t

would not change the nation’s economy.

“What we need today are real strategy, policy and action,” the head of state said at the forum,

which was attended by 12 po-litical party leaders, economists, business makers, politicians and government officials.

The government officials who presented their views included Finance Minister M. Chatib Basri and Bank of Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo.

According to the President, the possible subtraction of ex-

pansive monetary stimulus and tapering off from the Federal Reserve would probably have a direct impact on the rupiah exchange rate.

Therefore, the head of state expressed hope that the current economic situation would con-tinue to be scrutinized by allow-ing real strategy and policy to manage economic pressures.

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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked political party leaders to pres-ent real strategy and policy in their debates and discussion, rather than economic rhetoric that will never change the economy of Indonesia.

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Protesters prepare to burn posters of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott during a dem-onstration against Australia’s alleged wiretapping outside Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tuesday, Nov. 26. 2013.

Indonesia, Australia take steps to calm spy row


AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn

Supporters cheer anti-government protesters marching to the Government complex in Bang-kok, Thailand, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013.


BANGKOK - Thailand’s mass political protests spread outside the capital Wednesday as opposition demonstrators stepped up their attempts to overthrow Prime Minister Ying-luck Shinawatra’s government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.


TUNIS - Several hundred protesters set fire on Wednesday to the office of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party in the neglected Gafsa region, one of several areas on strike, an AFP journalist reported.

The demonstrators attacked the Ennahda party’s headquarters in the poor central region after trying to break into the regional governor’s office, where they were dispersed by police.

The protesters seized files and furniture from the office and burned them in the road, while preventing firemen from gaining access to the building. There was no immediate sign of the police.

As in the other regions of Gabes and Siliana, Gafsa ground to a halt on Wednesday as a general strike was observed.

The strike was called to protest against poverty and lack of develop-ment, driving factors behind the popular uprising that toppled Tunisia’s former strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.

Tunisia protesters torch ruling party office


NEW DELHI - Japan’s royal couple will this week start their first state visit to India, aiming to bring the people of the two countries closer together, an embassy official said Wednes-day.

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will begin a week-long tour on Saturday, meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top officials in New Delhi before flying to the southern city of Chennai.

The couple will take part in a range of activities designed to foster closer ties, Japanese em-bassy official Tamaki Tsukada, who is in charge of the royal visit, told reporters.

“We already enjoy very close relat ions at the government level. What we want to realise through this royal state visit is the coming closer of the people of the two countries,” Tsukada said.

“The visit will upgrade the status of India within the Japa-nese psyche.”

The trip is the first by any Japanese emperor to India in the more than 2,600-year his-tory of the Japanese monarchy, the world’s oldest continuous hereditary royalty.

Japan’s emperor is the nomi-nal head of state and does not enjoy pol i t ical powers . But cus tomar i ly, the emperor ’s visit to any country is highly significant and signals a peak in bilateral ties.

Akihito visited India twice in the early 1960s when he was crown prince.

Japan’s imperial couple set for first official India tour

Organizers announced details on Wednesday of ticket prices and kickoff times for the tourna-ment in England with less than two years to go.

The final on Oct. 31 will kick off at 1700 GMT, which is dawn

in New Zealand, home to the holder and tournament favorite.

When tickets go on sale next September, they will start for the final at 150 pounds ($240) — about 25 percent less than the cheapest at the 2011 final in New

Zealand — and the most expen-sive will be 715 pounds ($1,160), about 10 percent higher.

Child tickets, which are being sold for pool stage games, are not being made available for the final or main knockout phase games.

By comparison, tickets for international fans at football’s World Cup final in 2014 range from $440 to $990.

The opening game of the

Rugby World Cup on Sept. 18 sees England play an Oceania qualifier at Twickenham, with a 1900 GMT kickoff. Tickets for that game range from 75 pounds ($122) to 315 pounds ($511), with child tickets at 15 pounds ($24).

Television viewers will have to wake up early in New Zealand to see the All Blacks’ title defense begin against Argentina with a 1600 GMT kickoff at Wembley

Stadium on Sept. 20.Australia’s opener against an

Oceania qualifier starts at the same time three days later at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Kickoff t imes in the pool stages will range across 1100, 1330, 1600 and 1900 GMT; in the quarterfinals and semifi-nals at Millennium Stadium and Twickenham they will be 1300 and 1600 GMT.

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TABANAN - Butterf ly is one of the greatest offerings of the natural wealth of Indonesia spreading from Sabang to Mer-auke. Now, the wealth of assorted butterflies is gathered in a beauti-ful and tranquil park named But-terfly Park situated at Wanasari Village, Tabanan Regency, about 5 km north of Tabanan town. Every day hundreds of colorful butterflies fly around the park where some of them have been famous in the world such as the bird of paradise-winged butterfly (Omithoptera paradisea), Omith-optera priamus and various other types. The only one butterfly park in this archipelago is trying to breed and cultivate those species for the purposes of science as well as education in the future.

IBP/File Photo

Bali Butterfly Park

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NAPLES — LPGA Tour Com-missioner Mike Whan said the an-nual awards celebration was by far his favorite time on the year. Inbee Park made it special for everyone there with a speech that explained who she is and what she tried to achieve this year.

Park had six wins and three straight majors with just more than three months left in the season, and she still didn’t wrap up the points-based award for LPGA player of the year until the next-to-last tourna-

ment. She jokingly said that kept her from having more time to work on her speech.

She delivered one of her best moments of the year.

“Many people say I look effort-less. They also say I’m emotionless. Some people started called me the ‘Silent Assassin,’” Park said. “However, just because I’m short of feelings doesn’t mean I don’t feel anything.”

She conceded that the pressure around her amazing run in the ma-jors was almost too much to bear, even though no one around might

have imagined that.“I remember there were days

when the thought of addressing the media overwhelmed me,” she said. “Imagine yourself in China, stand-ing before a crowd full of Chinese people who are staring at you, and you had to make a speech in Chi-nese. That’s how I felt.”

Most intriguing, though, was when she talked about her goals for the year. It was simply to be happier than she was last year.

“Don’t we all want to be happy? Aren’t we all doing whatever we do in order to be happy?” she said.

“Unexpectedly, as soon as happi-ness became my goal, I achieved more things than ever. ... But a funny thing happened. I started to want more. That’s when I re-ally started to struggle. A lot came into my mind. I started to think too much. I started to think about scores, statistics — not only of mine, but others as well. I found it especially challenging to deal with others’ expectations for me.”

She said her family kept her grounded, and then Park paid tribute to her parents, her fans and sponsors, her caddie and her fiance,

speaking a short message in Korean to each of them after explaining in English the role they played.

Park closed her speech with this:

“I am especially proud to be the first player from South Korea to win this award,” she said. “My hope is that my achievement will inspire a new generation of young girls ... to pick up a set of golf clubs and follow their dreams. More than anything, though, I — the ‘Silent Assassin’ — am most proud that I kept my eye on the higher goal — happiness. I found it.”

AP Photo / Anna Gowthorpe, PAFans dressed as Daleks, from the TV programme Dr. Who, watch from the stand during the England v New Zealand Rugby League World Cup semi-final match at Wembley Stadium, London, Saturday Nov. 23, 2013. Tickets for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham will cost up to $1,160 for some fans.

2015 World Cup final tickets cost up to $1,160

The secret to Park’s success was happiness

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LONDON — Tickets for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham will cost up to $1,160 for some fans.

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MILAN - Inter Milan president Erick Thohir said his priority will be putting the club back on a sound financial footing and not splashing the cash on top drawer players, according to reports Wednesday.

Thohir, who recently acquired a 70 percent ma-jority stake in the Nerazzurri from former owner Massimo Moratti, was elected president of the Serie A giants two weeks ago.

Fans are hoping his investment will lead to a move away from the San Siro ground Inter share with city rivals AC Milan to a new, purpose-built arena.

Having finished ninth in the league last season under former coach Andrea Stramaccioni, there are also hopes Thohir will attract big name players to the club.

However the 43-year-old Indonesian business-man, who has already invested in Major League Soccer club DC United and the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team, indicated that fans may have to be patient.

“If you ask me if I’m going to buy new players, my answer is always the same,” Thohir told La Gazzetta dello Sport on Wednesday.

“Our decisions will be taken together, but with one eye on the budget. There would be no unilateral decision on my part, that’s what’s different from the past.

“We will buy players, but we’re going to be care-ful with our spending. Our objective is financial restructuring, creating a club which is in sound financial health, as agreed with Moratti.”

One player reportedly on Thohir’s radar is Radja Nainggolan, a Belgian international of Indonesian heritage who currently plays at Serie A strugglers Cagliari. The eventual purchase of Nainggolan could theoretically boost Thohir’s wish to open up new markets and fan bases in Asia, where Inter already have thousands of followers.

Thohir admitted Nainggolan had caught his eye: “It’s true... but only if there’s agreement between myself, the managers and the technical staff.”

But a new stadium could be further in the fu-ture.

“One day we will have our own new stadium, but at this point we can’t say if we’re going to build one,” added Thohir.

However the Inter chief, who says he has no wish to follow AC Milan owner Sivio Berlusconi into the political arena, insists he is taking the “big respon-sibility” of leading the Serie A giants seriously.

“I have a big responsibility because I’m the first foreign president of the club. And I’m not just rep-resenting myself, what I do reflects on all of Indo-nesia,” he added. “But I don’t feel pressure and I’m not afraid. I have a big task here but that only makes me want to show how hard the Indonesian people can work.” He added: “A lot of people have claimed I would like to be a candidate in the Indonesian elec-tion in 2014 or 2018, but it’s not true.

“Right now I’m the president of Inter, I don’t want to be like Berlusconi: I am not interested in politics, it bores me.

“I want to focus on developing Inter financially and in terms of business, and I think we can suc-ceed.”


LONDON - Chelsea may have secured their passage to the Cham-pions League last 16 on Tuesday, but their 1-0 defeat at FC Basel demonstrated that they remain a work in progress.

Chelsea had been stunned by Basel at Stamford Bridge in their opening group game and their de-feat at St Jakob-Park was similarly galling, with the Europa League champions failing to record a single shot on target.

Ultimately it mattered not, as Schalke’s 0-0 draw at Steaua Bucha-

rest in the other Group E game guaranteed Chelsea’s progress, but it was the latest in a succession of stuttering displays by the London club.

Having won all six of their games in October, they hit the skids in November, losing 2-0 at Newcastle United and needing a fiercely debated injury-time penalty to snatch a 2-2 draw at home to West Bromwich Albion.

Manager Jose Mourinho said the most recent loss to Basel could be explained by “fatigue”, but he is yet to find a consistent winning formula since returning to the club from Real Madrid in June.

He was quick to settle on a 4-2-3-1 formation -- his “favourite system” -- but in Chelsea’s first 17 games he has experimented with no less than 10 different combinations of players in the attacking midfield band.

Oscar, Eden Hazard, Juan Mata, Andre Schurrle, Willian and Kevin De Bruyne have been chopped and changed with dizzying regularity, with the same trio selected to start consecutive games on only two occasions.

In contrast, Mourinho had identified a favoured attacking midfield combination by his third league game at previous club Madrid, select-ing Angel di Maria, Mesut Ozil and Cristiano Ronaldo for 11 uccessive matches.

Former Liverpool midfielder turned television pundit Jamie Redknapp identified the problem in September, saying: “I don’t think Jose really knows what his best team is.

“If it wasn’t Jose Mourinho, you’d probably be thinking: ‘What is this guy up to? What’s their best system? What’s their identity? How do they play?’

Mourinho switched to a 4-3-3 system for Saturday’s trip to West Ham United in the Premier League and was rewarded as a liberated Frank Lampard -- afforded more freedom by the presence of two central midfield players alongside him -- scored twice in a 3-0 win.

The same formation did not yield quite the same results in Basel, however, leaving Mourinho with a tactical conundrum ahead of Sun-day’s visit of Southampton in the Premier League.

Upon returning to Chelsea, Mourinho pledged that he would intro-duce a more proactive, passing style, but he is struggling to find an alternative to the counter-attacking approach that is his trademark.

Chelsea have averaged a healthy 56.9 percent of possession in their 12 league games to date this season, but they seem happier when they have taken an early lead and can pick off their opponents on the break.

Of their 12 victories in all competitions, 10 have come after they went ahead inside the first 33 minutes and on the five occasions when they have conceded the opening goal, they have come back to win only once, in last month’s 4-1 win at home to Cardiff City.

Mourinho also continues to bemuse fans with his sparing use of the artful Mata -- Chelsea’s player of the season for the last two years -- who has started in less than half of their matches to date.

Mourinho has questioned Mata’s application when he does not have the ball, but with 25 assists over the previous two seasons, the Spaniard had established himself as the most prolific creator of goals in the division.

With Chelsea only four points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal and through to the knockout phase of the Champions League, there seems no cause for alarm, but if Mourinho seriously intends to change the club’s playing ethos, his revolution has started slowly.

The Spanish champions fell behind and never recovered in a 2-1 Champions League loss at Ajax on Tuesday, with defender Gerard Pique calling it “the worst first half of football” the club has played this season.

Midfielder Cesc Fabregas was more critical of the Spanish leaders, saying “It didn’t look like we were there in the first half. There was a lack of intensity, a lack of hunger.”

Pique says “the horrible” image Barcelona gave off was “unacceptable,” while Fabregas says the Spanish league leaders were not prepared when their Dutch opponents started the game with such intensity.

Barcelona, which is without Lionel Messi, has already qualified for the last 16 of Europe’s elite competition.


Ajax’s goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen,

right grabs the ball in front of Barcelona’s Gerard Pique during the Group H Cham-

pions League soccer match between Ajax and FC Barcelona at the ArenA stadium in Amsterdam, Nether-lands, Tuesday Nov.

26, 2013.

AP Photo/Peter Dejong

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BARCELONA — Barcelona’s first defeat of the season has led some players to question the squad’s hunger.

Inter won’t splash cash, says president: report

Mourinho still searching for winning formula

AP Photo/Keystone/Georgios Kefalas

Jose Mourinho

Organizers announced details on Wednesday of ticket prices and kickoff times for the tourna-ment in England with less than two years to go.

The final on Oct. 31 will kick off at 1700 GMT, which is dawn

in New Zealand, home to the holder and tournament favorite.

When tickets go on sale next September, they will start for the final at 150 pounds ($240) — about 25 percent less than the cheapest at the 2011 final in New

Zealand — and the most expen-sive will be 715 pounds ($1,160), about 10 percent higher.

Child tickets, which are being sold for pool stage games, are not being made available for the final or main knockout phase games.

By comparison, tickets for international fans at football’s World Cup final in 2014 range from $440 to $990.

The opening game of the

Rugby World Cup on Sept. 18 sees England play an Oceania qualifier at Twickenham, with a 1900 GMT kickoff. Tickets for that game range from 75 pounds ($122) to 315 pounds ($511), with child tickets at 15 pounds ($24).

Television viewers will have to wake up early in New Zealand to see the All Blacks’ title defense begin against Argentina with a 1600 GMT kickoff at Wembley

Stadium on Sept. 20.Australia’s opener against an

Oceania qualifier starts at the same time three days later at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Kickoff t imes in the pool stages will range across 1100, 1330, 1600 and 1900 GMT; in the quarterfinals and semifi-nals at Millennium Stadium and Twickenham they will be 1300 and 1600 GMT.

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TABANAN - Butterf ly is one of the greatest offerings of the natural wealth of Indonesia spreading from Sabang to Mer-auke. Now, the wealth of assorted butterflies is gathered in a beauti-ful and tranquil park named But-terfly Park situated at Wanasari Village, Tabanan Regency, about 5 km north of Tabanan town. Every day hundreds of colorful butterflies fly around the park where some of them have been famous in the world such as the bird of paradise-winged butterfly (Omithoptera paradisea), Omith-optera priamus and various other types. The only one butterfly park in this archipelago is trying to breed and cultivate those species for the purposes of science as well as education in the future.

IBP/File Photo

Bali Butterfly Park

Associated Press

NAPLES — LPGA Tour Com-missioner Mike Whan said the an-nual awards celebration was by far his favorite time on the year. Inbee Park made it special for everyone there with a speech that explained who she is and what she tried to achieve this year.

Park had six wins and three straight majors with just more than three months left in the season, and she still didn’t wrap up the points-based award for LPGA player of the year until the next-to-last tourna-

ment. She jokingly said that kept her from having more time to work on her speech.

She delivered one of her best moments of the year.

“Many people say I look effort-less. They also say I’m emotionless. Some people started called me the ‘Silent Assassin,’” Park said. “However, just because I’m short of feelings doesn’t mean I don’t feel anything.”

She conceded that the pressure around her amazing run in the ma-jors was almost too much to bear, even though no one around might

have imagined that.“I remember there were days

when the thought of addressing the media overwhelmed me,” she said. “Imagine yourself in China, stand-ing before a crowd full of Chinese people who are staring at you, and you had to make a speech in Chi-nese. That’s how I felt.”

Most intriguing, though, was when she talked about her goals for the year. It was simply to be happier than she was last year.

“Don’t we all want to be happy? Aren’t we all doing whatever we do in order to be happy?” she said.

“Unexpectedly, as soon as happi-ness became my goal, I achieved more things than ever. ... But a funny thing happened. I started to want more. That’s when I re-ally started to struggle. A lot came into my mind. I started to think too much. I started to think about scores, statistics — not only of mine, but others as well. I found it especially challenging to deal with others’ expectations for me.”

She said her family kept her grounded, and then Park paid tribute to her parents, her fans and sponsors, her caddie and her fiance,

speaking a short message in Korean to each of them after explaining in English the role they played.

Park closed her speech with this:

“I am especially proud to be the first player from South Korea to win this award,” she said. “My hope is that my achievement will inspire a new generation of young girls ... to pick up a set of golf clubs and follow their dreams. More than anything, though, I — the ‘Silent Assassin’ — am most proud that I kept my eye on the higher goal — happiness. I found it.”

AP Photo / Anna Gowthorpe, PAFans dressed as Daleks, from the TV programme Dr. Who, watch from the stand during the England v New Zealand Rugby League World Cup semi-final match at Wembley Stadium, London, Saturday Nov. 23, 2013. Tickets for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham will cost up to $1,160 for some fans.

2015 World Cup final tickets cost up to $1,160

The secret to Park’s success was happiness

Associated Press

LONDON — Tickets for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham will cost up to $1,160 for some fans.

Demonstrators have paralysed government ministries in Bangkok to challenge Yingluck and her ex-iled brother, ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, in the biggest street protests since mass rallies in 2010 that turned deadly.

Stepping up the i r ac t ion Wednesday, protesters entered a major government complex in the northern outskirts of the capital and also forced the evacuation of the Justice Department’s besieged Department of Special Investiga-tions.

Outside Bangkok, protesters gathered at about 25 provincial halls mainly in the opposition’s southern heartlands -- including on the tourist island of Phuket.

“We will not give up even if the prime minister resigns or dis-solves parliament. We will stop only when power is in the hands of the people,” protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban told supporters.

Warning that the political tur-moil could affect economic confi-dence, the central bank unexpect-edly cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points, to 2.25 percent.

While the demos have so far been largely peaceful, there are fears they could degenerate into another bout of street violence in a country that has seen several episodes of political unrest since

Thaksin was toppled in a 2006 coup.

The billionaire tycoon-turned-politician is adored by many of the country’s rural and urban working class. But he is reviled by many in the elite and the middle classes, who accuse him of being corrupt and a threat to the monarchy.

Suthep on Tuesday called for the creation of an unelected ad-ministration to run the country, in the clearest indication yet that the demonstrators are seeking to sus-pend the democratic system.

“If we demolish the Thaksin regime ... we will set up a people’s council which will come from people from every sector,” he said. “Then we will let the people’s council pick good people to be the prime minister and ministers.”

On Tuesday protesters sur-rounded the interior, agriculture, transport, and sports and tourism ministries, ordering officials inside to leave, a day after occupying the finance and foreign ministries.

A court has issued an arrest war-rant for Suthep for his role in the ministry seizures and authorities have urged the veteran politican to surrender.

The recent protests were sparked by plans by the ruling Puea Thai party to introduce an amnesty that could have allowed the return from

self-imposed exile of Thaksin.The Senate blocked the contro-

versial bill but demonstrators have since broadened their goal and now

want to topple the government.Yingluck on Monday ordered

the expansion across Bangkok of the Internal Security Act, which

gives authorities additional pow-ers to block routes, impose a curfew, ban gatherings and carry out searches.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Tuesday Australia’s leader had made “important” commit-ments aimed at ending a row over spying but warned much more work was needed before ties re-turned to normal.

But even as tensions calmed with Canberra, they threatened to escalate elsewhere, with Yud-hoyono saying his government would summon the South Korean and Singaporean envoys over new espionage claims.

Allegations that Australian spies tried to listen to the phones of Yudhoyono, his wife and his ministers in 2009 surfaced last week and sparked a diplomatic crisis.

Jakarta reacted furiously, end-ing cooperation on military ex-ercises and in the key area of people-smuggling and recalling its ambassador from Australia.

Indonesia was further infuri-ated by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s failure to apologise or offer what it saw as a clear explanation. But on Tuesday Yud-hoyono struck a conciliatory tone after receiving a letter from Ab-bott aimed at calming the row with a key ally and trading partner.

The letter contained a “commit-ment from the Australian PM that Australia will not do anything in the future that will disadvantage or disturb Indonesia”, the presi-dent said.

“That is a very important point,” Yudhoyono added. He said Abbott supported his proposal to come up with a “protocols” and a

code of ethics to govern relations between the neighbours that were “clear, fair and abided to”.

Yudhoyono described a long process, that would involve as-signing the foreign minister or a special envoy to work with the Australians. After the details were hammered out, a formal ceremony would have to take place to bring the new agreements into place, attended by both Abbott and Yud-hoyono, said the president.

Only after the two countries have “regained trust” in this fashion could normal relations and cooperation be restored, said the president.

However Yudhoyono reacted angrily to new reports that South Korea and Singapore helped with US-Australian surveillance in the region. The Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday that both countries played key roles in a “Five Eyes” intelligence network grouping the United States, Brit-ain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

It quoted a top-secret US Na-tional Security Agency map that it said was published by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.

The president said that even though Indonesia was not specifi-cally named in the reports, he was nevertheless angry as the whole of Asia was mentioned.

“I have instructed our foreign minister to ask for an explanation from the ambassadors of those countries,” he said.

A presidential spokesman con-firmed Yudhoyono meant the envoys would be summoned. Ma-laysia’s foreign ministry earlier Tuesday summoned the ambassa-

dor from neighbouring Singapore over the same report. The report said that as a major hub for re-gional telecommunications traffic, Singapore was an important link in the surveillance network.

The allegations that Australian spies targeted Indonesian officials has also sparked anger among the Indonesian public, and on Tues-

day a crowd of demonstrators in military-style uniforms protested outside the Australian embassy. The protesters, from a paramili-tary group, burned photos of Ab-bott and demanded the Australian ambassador leave the country.

The alleged spying was first revealed by Australian media last week, which based its reports on

leaked documents from US intelli-gence fugitive Edward Snowden.

They showed that Australia’s electronic intelligence agency tracked Yudhoyono’s activity on his mobile phone for 15 days in August 2009 under the previous Canberra government. At least one phone call was reportedly intercepted.

Speaking before pol i t ical party leaders, who are slated to present their economic views at the Kompas-100 CE0 Forum in Jakarta on Wednesday, the Presi-

dent said, “I hope the current issues will be discussed well at this forum.”

He noted that too much rhet-or ic was useless because i t

would not change the nation’s economy.

“What we need today are real strategy, policy and action,” the head of state said at the forum,

which was attended by 12 po-litical party leaders, economists, business makers, politicians and government officials.

The government officials who presented their views included Finance Minister M. Chatib Basri and Bank of Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo.

According to the President, the possible subtraction of ex-

pansive monetary stimulus and tapering off from the Federal Reserve would probably have a direct impact on the rupiah exchange rate.

Therefore, the head of state expressed hope that the current economic situation would con-tinue to be scrutinized by allow-ing real strategy and policy to manage economic pressures.

President urges party leaders to refrain using excessive rhetoricAntara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked political party leaders to pres-ent real strategy and policy in their debates and discussion, rather than economic rhetoric that will never change the economy of Indonesia.

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Protesters prepare to burn posters of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott during a dem-onstration against Australia’s alleged wiretapping outside Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tuesday, Nov. 26. 2013.

Indonesia, Australia take steps to calm spy row


AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn

Supporters cheer anti-government protesters marching to the Government complex in Bang-kok, Thailand, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013.


BANGKOK - Thailand’s mass political protests spread outside the capital Wednesday as opposition demonstrators stepped up their attempts to overthrow Prime Minister Ying-luck Shinawatra’s government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.


TUNIS - Several hundred protesters set fire on Wednesday to the office of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party in the neglected Gafsa region, one of several areas on strike, an AFP journalist reported.

The demonstrators attacked the Ennahda party’s headquarters in the poor central region after trying to break into the regional governor’s office, where they were dispersed by police.

The protesters seized files and furniture from the office and burned them in the road, while preventing firemen from gaining access to the building. There was no immediate sign of the police.

As in the other regions of Gabes and Siliana, Gafsa ground to a halt on Wednesday as a general strike was observed.

The strike was called to protest against poverty and lack of develop-ment, driving factors behind the popular uprising that toppled Tunisia’s former strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.

Tunisia protesters torch ruling party office


NEW DELHI - Japan’s royal couple will this week start their first state visit to India, aiming to bring the people of the two countries closer together, an embassy official said Wednes-day.

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will begin a week-long tour on Saturday, meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top officials in New Delhi before flying to the southern city of Chennai.

The couple will take part in a range of activities designed to foster closer ties, Japanese em-bassy official Tamaki Tsukada, who is in charge of the royal visit, told reporters.

“We already enjoy very close relat ions at the government level. What we want to realise through this royal state visit is the coming closer of the people of the two countries,” Tsukada said.

“The visit will upgrade the status of India within the Japa-nese psyche.”

The trip is the first by any Japanese emperor to India in the more than 2,600-year his-tory of the Japanese monarchy, the world’s oldest continuous hereditary royalty.

Japan’s emperor is the nomi-nal head of state and does not enjoy pol i t ical powers . But cus tomar i ly, the emperor ’s visit to any country is highly significant and signals a peak in bilateral ties.

Akihito visited India twice in the early 1960s when he was crown prince.

Japan’s imperial couple set for first official India tour

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The weekend of November 15-17 saw The Art Of Surfing – Bali

host their first High Performance Surf Training Camp at Bali’s West Coast surf break of Balian. With 15 enthusiastic grommets signed

up for the junior clinic (all-female and adult editions to follow over the next weeks), spirits were high across the three long days of waves, instruction, and learning new skills.

Utilizing international coaches with proven high-performance methods focusing on video re-view, comparative analysis with the best surfers in the world, and a heavy emphasis on correct tech-nique and equipment, Head Coach Matt Scorringe was very pleased with the outcome, saying, “We couldn’t have asked for a better response to our first camp here in Bali. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some great surfers, but there’s nothing more rewarding than seeing the young ones prog-ress.” Scorringe had a leading hand in the recent crowning of 2013 ASP World Junior Champion Ella Williams.

Accompanied by an array of provided Channel Island demo boards – the grommets were ea-ger participants, excited to push

themselves and surf to the very best of their capabilities. Rang-ing in age from 11-16, a mix of Indonesians and internationals of varying abilities, there wasn’t a single grom who didn’t enjoy an improvement in their surfing over the course of the three days.

As well as top-end surf coach-ing, the grommets participated in surf-specific fitness classes (as de-veloped at the Modern Movement Surf Training Studio that The Art Of Surfing – Bali co-founder Tai Graham runs with Taj Burrow’s trainer Johnny Gannon) and yoga classes, ate only the healthiest of meals provided by the Bali Buda Café, and were given ocean-specific rescue and CPR train-ing. Although some were a little skeptical at first, the groms soon realized the importance of being able to save a friend in trouble, then embraced and enjoyed the experience.

Top Australian junior and Bali resident Reef Doig was ecstatic about his camp experience, men-

tioning the values he saw overall especially in the CPR training. “My favorite part was for sure the CPR training. Working with experienced guys who have been in all sorts of situations really put things into perspective that some-one might need help anywhere at anytime. To now have a better understanding of this give me so much more confidence, especially once I head over to Hawaii.”

Above all, the camp was about improving surfing through various platforms and having fun while doing it. Judging by the smiles smeared across the faces of the shattered surfers as the weekend drew to a close it was clear that it was mission accomplished on The Art Of Surfing – Bali’s first ever camp.

There are still a few spots available for the final High Per-formance Camp that starts this Friday through to Sunday again at Balian Beach. Numbers are limited so act fast. Camp is open to surfers of all ages.

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“The dollar exchange rate in-creases so the price of handicraft products offered in rupiah rate could be cheaper and buyers will or-der in larger quantities. It can raise the export earnings,” he said.

He also explained the deprecia-tion of rupiah occurred lately was very advantageous for small busi-nesses because their products were mostly from local commodities. It was a good opportunity for small entrepreneurs and craftsmen of Bali to increase the quantity of their production.

“Depreciation of rupiah ex-change rate makes the value of export commodity (or other craft) higher in the world market. Con-versely, for businesses that rely on imported goods, the depreciation of rupiah will become a heavy bur-den,” he said.

The burdened importers could happen to automotive and retail businesses and they would inevita-bly have to raise the price. Current-ly, he said, people should be keen to

see this opportunity. “So far, small businesses lack of socialization made by the government. Thus, the weakening rupiah often becomes a barrier for them. Actually, if they know, a lot of positive things can be exploited,” he said.

He said the depreciation of ex-change rate was caused by the cur-rent imbalanced account. One of the causes was the imbalance of export and import expenditure. In addition, it was also triggered by tendency of some investors’ capital outflow re-lated to the economic conditions due to the demand of workers against employers as well as a bit of political turbulence before 2014.

“Seeing the increasingly depressed rupiah exchange rate, it is certainly very worrying because it is not bal-anced at IDR 11,000,” he said.

To overcome the problem, Bank Indonesia (BI) as monetary author-ity duly intervened. If Bank Indo-nesia had expressed its readiness to fight against this turbulence, speculators (money market) could

weaken.Meanwhile, the Head of the Cen-

tral Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, I Gede Suarsa, said the depreciation of rupiah exchange rate could have an impact on the increase in produc-tion cost, particularly those using imported commodities. The price of basic necessities, especially the

imported ones was feared to always rise uncontrollably. “Weakening of rupiah will surely decrease the import spending power of the com-munity,” he said.

Actually, he admitted the de-preciation of rupiah could bring in positive and negative impacts. In other words, it would bring in

fortune for the exporters and mis-fortune for the importers. Suarsa added that such condition would also cause the foreign currency in-vestment namely dollar to increase in Indonesia in the long-term, while in the short-term it would have an impact on the economic inflamma-tion. (kmb28)

A new wave of learning hits Bali

IBP/Courtesy of Tim HainThe weekend of November 15-17 saw The Art Of Surfing – Bali host their first High Performance Surf Training Camp at Bali’s West Coast surf break of Balian.

Depreciation of rupiah exchange rate profits exporters

IBP/File PhotoThe lineups of entrepreneur, especially exporters, seem to be benefited when the exchange rate of rupiah is currently depressed in a serious enough position to IDR 11,715 per US dollar.

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DENPASAR - The lineups of entrepreneur, especially exporters, seem to be benefited when the exchange rate of rupiah is currently depressed in a serious enough position to IDR 11,715 per US dollar. The exporters as delivered by the economist from the Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, would get additional revenue from the shipment of goods over-seas, particularly the exporters of handicraft and other business sectors.

Diplomats from the World Trade Organization’s 159 mem-bers had been trying to forge an agreement before a trade minis-ters’ meeting next week in Bali, Indonesia. Achieving a deal in Bali is seen as a final effort to revive a broader 12-year effort to ease global trade rules.

The mini-deal discussed in Geneva had been intended, in part, to reduce delays and inefficien-cies at national borders. Making it easier to move goods across borders could boost the global economy by nearly $1 trillion a year and support 21 million jobs, according to a report co-written by Jeffrey Schott, a senior fellow in international trade at the Pe-terson Institute for International Economics.

The lack of a global deal hasn’t prevented individual countries from seeking agreements among themselves. But experts say the failure to reach a global deal leaves

poorer countries worse off.“This should be a no-brainer

for developed and developing countries,” Schott said.

Deputy U.S. Trade Representa-tive Michael Punke expressed “a great deal of sadness” over the failure in Geneva.

Schott said he’s hopeful that ne-gotiators will salvage the deal in Bali and restore the efforts to achieve a broader trade agreement.

“If this small test can’t be passed, there’s very little reason for confidence” negotiators will ever reach the broader agreement, Schott said.

Some poor countries are de-manding economic and technical assistance before they sign on. India is holding up a deal by insisting on protections for its farmers.

The WTO chief , Rober to Azevedo, said so much disagree-ment remains that several more weeks of negotiations cannot

bridge the gaps.“Holding negotiations in the

short time we’ll have in Bali would be simply impractical with over 100 ministers around the table,” Azevedo said.

Negotiations toward a broader global trade deal began in Qatar in 2001, and the agonizing pace

of talks frustrated Azevedo’s pre-decessor, Pascal Lamy.

Still, some developed countries are seeking to reach side deals. The European Union, for example, has signed free-trade pacts with South Korea and Canada. The EU is also holding separate talks with the United States and Japan.

But Azevedo said the failure to reach a global deal particularly hurts poorer countries.

It also hurts the WTO’s cred-ibility. Azevedo said he worries that the WTO will be seen only as a trade court and no longer as a forum for governments to negoti-ate trade agreements.


MADRID - French President Francois Hollande visits Spain on Wednesday for a bilateral summit seeking a common stance on bank-ing supervision to avoid a repeat of the eurozone debt crisis.

Hollande is pushing for Euro-pean authorities to adopt common measures to prevent costly bank failures and to directly recapitalise lenders in difficulty.

Having won backing for that

from Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta last week, Hollande is now looking to bring Spanish premier Mariano Rajoy on board, French officials said.

The push for closer EU banking supervision was largely driven by Spain’s woes last year, when it was forced to accept an emergen-cy credit line from its eurozone partners to save its financial sector from collapse.

Hollande is expected to reiterate his call for European Union coun-

tries “to make jobs growth and sta-bility the heart of their decisions” at their summit next month.

France and Spain will also discuss economic growth at their summit on Wednesday, with Hollande looking for support to boost investment capacity and pro-growth policies across the eurozone, officials said.

Growth is a major concern for Spain, the eurozone’s fourth-biggest economy, which has just crawled timidly out of two years of

recession with 0.1 percent growth in the third quarter of this year.

The summit in Madrid will discuss France’s proposal for an “economic government” of the eurozone with a permanent Eurogroup chairman to oversee members’ economic policies.

It will also address unemploy-ment, which in Spain is painfully high at nearly 26 percent and more than 54 percent among the under-25s. French officials said Madrid was pushing for an efficient use

of European resources to combat youth joblessness.

Other issues on the agenda of the summit, which involves vari-ous ministers from both countries, are migration, defence, anti-ter-rorism measures and transport.

A new high-speed railway from Paris to Barcelona is due to be opened in mid-December. Officials say it will cut the non-stop train journey time between the two cities to six hours and 20 minutes.

France, Spain to discuss euro bank rules at summit

Talks on global free-trade deal collapse in Geneva

World Trade Organization, WTO, Director General Roberto Azevedo, of Brazil, informs the media about the next ministerial meeting on Bali during a press conference, after the General Council at the headquarters of the

World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzer-land, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013.

Associated Press

GENEVA — Negotiators came close but failed Tuesday to clinch a free-trade deal that could have helped boost the world economy by $1 trillion a year and cleared the way for a broader global agreement.

BUSINESS

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Complaint of the residents was submitted by hamlet chief of Glogor, Nengah Sutama, Tuesday (Nov 26). Having been completed, he admitted to be disappointed after seeing the results. It had less density and less width. Meanwhile, the asphalt peeled off and some parts were even carried away by rainwater. “The results were not as expected so our residents were disappointed. Actually, it was just completed but has been dam-aged,” said Sutama. He admitted to have complained to the project consultant and the project contrac-tor, but there was no good will to fix it. Results of the project had also been checked by the officer of Public Works who undertook supervision. The Public Works of-ficers also considered the project had poor quality. Besides, the of-ficers also recognized to follow it

up, but so far no one of the officers came again after the project was completed.

The road was said to reach 1.5 kilometers. It led to Dalem Glogor Temple and connected to approxi-mately 80 families at Glogor on the highland of the existing 150 families. “This pathway also goes to agrotourism at Bukit Abah, be-tween Glogor hamlet and Besan village. Necessarily, the quality is not like this. I proposed the road with the width of eight meters, but in reality it is not more than four meters. After being passed once, it has broken,” he said. He also asked to repair the pathway again with a better quality in order the road at Glogor hamlet would be more durable and could be utilized by local people.

Similar opinion was also re-vealed by local resident, Komang

Suardana. “If the quality is good, it is impossible for the newly com-pleted road to be overgrown with grass. Moreover, this path leads to ecotourism,” he protested.

As seen on the project board, the road improvement project was financed by Klungkung regional budget 2013. The budget spent was IDR 1,268,999,000 with the construction period of 80 days and CV Bhuana Raya served as the project contractor. The proj-ect contractor was cited as one of the individuals of the Klung-kung House legislator. From a number of cases, it was indeed often revealed that legislators took side job as project partner, but the project result was not qualified. Previously, the project alleged to be worked on by a partner doubling as individual of legislator also happened to the parking lot project at Goa Lawah Temple. The project was much worse where it had been left before completed. “By all means, the legislator borrows the name of its brother or sister or other family. Such a legislator should not be voted again,” Suardana suggested. (kmb31)

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DENPASAR - Allegedly, due to heavy burden plus rain at the previous night, the branch of flamboyant tree growing in front of the parking area of Kamadhuk Cooperative at Sanglah Hospital was broken, Tuesday (Nov 26). Due to such incident, two motorcycles parked underneath were damaged.

When asking for confirmation on the matter, Coordinator of PD Parkir of Sanglah Hospital, AA Ngurah Gudanta, explained the inci-dent took place around 6:45 a.m. Such incident was quite surprising because the condition of the tree all this time looked strong. “When we observed, the broken branches did not have signs of rot. Appar-ently, it was overburden due to dense leaf and rain water after it rained overnight,” said Gudanta.

The management of PD Parkir of Sanglah Hospital and Sanglah Hospital then held cutting and cleaning up to the falling tree branches while cutting the trees to make it more secure and avoid any subse-quent broken branches.

Due to the incident, two motorcycles were damaged consisting of Yamaha Jupiter MX with license plate DK 5823 RR and red Honda Beat with license plate DK 6375 IE. Of the two motorcycles, the most severe damage happened to Yamaha Jupiter MX where its front part was wrecked and front wheel was broken. Meanwhile, the Honda Beat motorcycle suffered a breakage on speedometer and rearview mirror.

According to Gudanta, the Honda Beat motorcycle belonged to a doctor co-assistant on duty, while the Yamaha motorcycle was the property of patient watchman named Sudika, a resident from Gianyar.

Regarding the damage to both motorcycles, added Gudanta, based on Regional Bylaw No.11, the coverage of PD Parkir’s ticket was for the case of total loss happened to the motorcycle. “In terms of the incident, it belongs to natural disaster, so the loss is not covered,” said Gudanta. The main requirements for claiming the compensa-tion of lost motorcycle were the parking tickets, vehicle registration, vehicle certificate, motorcycle keys and loss notice. “If a parking ticket or other requirements are not available, then the losses cannot be covered,” said Gudanta.

Meanwhile, the owner of Yamaha motorcycle suffered the most severe damage and admitted if the motorcycle had just been paid off three months ago. “I came to Sanglah Hospital early in the morning to watch my mother who is ill. My motorcycle has just been paid off three months ago,” said Sudika sadly. (san)

Tree branch broken at Sanglah HospitalTwo motorcycles damaged

IBP/Wira SanjiwaniAllegedly, due to heavy burden plus rain at the previous night, the branch of flamboyant tree growing in front of the parking area of Kamadhuk Cooperative at Sanglah Hospital was broken, Tuesday (Nov 26).

IBP/BagiarthaThe project improvement of road quality at Glogor hamlet, Pikat village, leading to local Dalem Temple was complained by residents.

Flushed by one-day rain

Paving project washes awayBali Post

SEMARAPURA - The project improvement of road quality at Glogor hamlet, Pikat village, leading to local Dalem Temple was complained by residents. It happened because the pavement carried out by project contrac-tor had inferior quality. It was visible after being flushed by one-day heavy rain where the asphalt layer washed away. Actually, the project was just completed on November 20 having been worked on since September 4.


NEW DELHI - A “very se-vere” cyclone barrelled towards southeast India on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of villagers and fishermen, just a month after a killer storm triggered another massive rescue effort.

Cyclone Lehar, packing sus-tained winds of up to 165 ki-lometres an hour (103 mph),

was expected to make landfall in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh late Thursday, accompa-nied by storm surges of up to three metres (10 feet), authorities said.

More than 1,000 rescue workers were deployed in the flood zone on Wednesday as the state began trying to move 250,000 people to safer places, the state disaster management authority said.

The Indian weather office cat-

egorised the cyclone as “very se-vere” and warned of disruption of power and communication lines as well as rail and road traffic.

It added there was a threat of flying debris, flooding of escape routes and extensive damage to crops.

But Lehar, meaning “wave”, was expected to be less seri-ous than Cyclone Phailin which slammed into the coast further to

the north in October, killing 18 and leaving a trail of destruction.

Phailin, which was also classed as “very severe”, had sustained winds of over 200 kilometres an hour that uprooted trees, over-turned trucks, snapped power lines and damaged crops in Andhra Pradesh and its northern neigh-bour, Orissa.

The most powerful storms which strike India at this time of

year are classified as “super-cy-clones” followed by “very severe” and then “severe”.

Cyclone Lehar comes just a week after Cyclone Helen -- a “se-vere” storm -- killed eight people and destroyed large tracts of farm-land in Andhra Pradesh.

In 1999 more than 8,000 people were killed when a cyclone hit Orissa, which took years to re-cover.

Valdis Dombrovskis’ decision means that his center-right gov-ernment automatically falls. He is the longest serving prime minister in Latvia’s history.

Last week’s collapse of the Maxima supermarket was the worst disaster since Latvia de-clared its independence from Soviet Union in 1991, and has caused a storm of outrage from

Latvians.Police have opened a criminal

investigation into the cause of last week’s tragedy. Possible ex-planations for the disaster include a flawed design, substandard construction materials, and cor-ruption.

President Andris Berzins can either reject the resignation or accept it and nominate an acting

prime minister whose job it will be to form a new cabinet.

Dombrovskis came to power in 2009 as Latvia’s economy was sinking into a deep recession and was charged with leading harsh budget cuts and tax increases while at the same time imple-menting tough structural reforms demanded by international orga-nizations such as the International Monetary Fund.

Dombrovskis was re-appointed twice as prime minister since then, and is widely credited with preventing the small Baltic nation from going bankrupt.


MOSCOW - Russian police on Wednesday detained 15 heavily-armed radical Islamists in Moscow who allegedly belong to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror network and were preparing suicide strikes.

The interior ministry said members of Takfir wal-Hijra -- a group formed in Egypt in the late 1960s and outlawed in Russia in 2010 -- had been discovered hiding weapons and suicide belts along with extremist literature.

Footage aired on Russian national news channels showed hel-meted riot police burst into a high-rise apartment in a pre-dawn raid and throw several men face down on the floor.

Police were shown opening plastic bags holding grenades and pistols as well as a heavy black object identified by one unnamed officer as an explosive belt.

The interior ministry said the group had been funding its activities by “conducting general crime” in and around Moscow.

Russia remains on heightened security alert ahead of the Febru-ary 7-23 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that lies near the volatile North Caucasus.

A top North Caucasus guerrilla commander who has claimed responsibility for a string of deadly suicide bombings in Moscow has threatened to target the Sochi Games.

Officials in 2011 claimed to have uncovered a complex terror plot against the Games by Islamist rebels who allegedly used little-policed mountain regions of Georgia as their base.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has said Russia is “very worried” about security at all its sporting events.

Takfir wal-Hijra was quashed in Egypt in the 1970s but is be-lieved to have cells linked to Al-Qaeda in several European and other countries. The TrackingTerrorism.org website said members of the puritanical group have included the 9/11 US terror attack pilot Mohamed Atta and former Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency said the group’s activi-ties were first detected in ex-Soviet nations such as Ukraine about five years ago. But RIA Novosti said experts questioned whether Takfir wal-Hijra members in the region had actual links to the original organisation in Egypt or had simply assumed the name of a relatively well-known terror group.

“Still, since these groups essentially share the same ideology and are prepared to resort to violence to achieve their goals, this is clearly a threat,” the news agency quoted Russian Institute for Strategic Studies analyst Yelena Suponina as saying.

Russia’s three-year streak without attacks outside the North Caucasus was broken in October when a female suicide bomber killed six people on a bus packed with students and workers in the southern city of Volgograd.

Security officials later claimed to have killed the woman’s hus-band -- believed to have been a member of an Islamist terror network -- in a special security operation in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan. Russia’s lower hose of parliament responded to the attack by adopting tough new legislation that makes families of terrorists financially accountable for the damage incurred in any attack.

Cyclone Lehar barrels towards southeast India

Moscow police detain 15 Islamists with suicide belts

AP Photo/Yves Logghe, FileIn this July 9, 2013, photo, Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis addresses the media on the adop-tion of the euro, at the European Council building in Brussels.

Latvian prime minister resigns in wake of tragedyAssociated Press

RIGA — Latvia’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday after accept-ing political responsibility for the collapse of a supermarket roof in the capital that killed 54 people and wounded at least 40 others.

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DENPASAR - The Denpasar Police office has stepped up se-curity at the Australian consulate general in Denpasar, Bali, amidst rising tensions between Indonesia and the neighboring nation over the wire-tapping row.

“We are conducting security checks openly and covertly,” Ad-junct Commissioner Ida Bagus Made Sarjana said.

cThe number of security person-nel has been increased and they will be stationed at the consulate general’s office indefinitely.

Earlier, the National Police Chief General Sutarman had instructed his subordinates to tighten security at every Australian representative office throughout Indonesia.

According to a posting on smar-traveller.gov.au, the Australian government had issued a travel advisory to its citizens on Nov. 21, asking them to “exercise a high degree of caution” if they intended to visit Indonesia.

Documents released by whistle-blower Edward Snowden revealed that in 2009, Australia’s Defense Signals Directorate had wire-tapped the personal mobile phones of both

President Yudhoyono and his wife, Kristiani Herawati, as well as eight others in the President’s inner circle, including Vice President Boediono.

The Indonesian government had recalled its ambassador to Australia as a mark of strong protest over the illegal wire-tapping activities con-ducted by Australian surveillance agencies. President Yudhoyono also ordered the suspension of several co-operation programs with Australia.

These cooperation programs include the exchange of intelligence information, joint military exer-cises, and military operations aimed at curbing human trafficking.

“The development of a mineral database is one of the topics that will be discussed at the ASOMM, besides an improvement in human resources and the use of miner-als for sustainable development in ASEAN,” the Head of the Geological Board at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Sukyar, stated on Tuesday.

Sukyar, who is also Chairman of the 13th ASOMM, expressed hope that the mineral database could be launched during the fourth ASEAN Ministerial Meet-ing on Minerals (AMMIN), which is also being held in Bali from November 28 to 29.

“The mineral database is need-ed to see the mineral power

of each ASEAN member state. Based on the database, we will be able to better understand the mineral supply and demand from all ASEAN member countries,” he pointed out.

The mineral database would hopefully receive wide support from the private sector, Sukyar stated, adding that the develop-

ment of the mineral database could also serve as a blueprint for the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.

Sukyar invited representatives from ASEAN member states at the meeting to come up with their respective proposals to develop an ASEAN database and information system.

The 13th ASOMM is part of the fourth AMMIN.

The meeting serves as a venue to discuss mineral issues facing ASEAN member states, cover-

ing all the technical aspects and policies on the development of mineral resources, he noted.

According to the AEC blue-print, cooperation among ASEAN member states in the mineral sector will help boost trade and investment, as well as the capac-ity of the geological and mineral sector to support sustainable de-velopment in ASEAN.

The ASEAN member states are namely, Brunei Darussalam, Cam-bodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singa-pore, Thailand and Vietnam.

ASEAN members propose setting up mineral database systemAntara

NUSA DUA - The 13th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Senior Officials Meeting on Minerals (ASOMM) will be held in Bali from November 26 to 27, which will focus on discussing the development of the mineral database system in Southeast Asian countries, an official said.

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NUSA DUA - The government should be cautious about issuing a ban on the exports of minerals next year or it will stand losing billions of US dollars in state revenues, the Indonesian Mining As-sociation (IMA) has warned.

“In principle, it will be difficult to stop exporting minerals as of January 12, 2014 as the construction of a smelter cannot be completed next year,” IMA Executive Director Syahrir Abubakar said at the 13th ASEAN Senior Official Meeting (ASSOM) on Tuesday.

The ban will significantly impact several regions in the country, he stated.

According to IMA data, the government could lose nearly 45 percent of state income stemming from taxes and royalties paid by the two foreign mining companies--Freeport and Newmont.

“The government will lose more than 45 percent or US$3.2 billion of the US$8.5 billion in state income from Freeport and Newmont,” Syahrir pointed out.

The West Sumbawa and Timika districts, which had so far relied on the two companies for nearly 92 percent of their income, would also collapse, he added.

“The ban will result in many people in these two districts losing their jobs,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Geological Board at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Sukyar was of the view that the ban was a fair policy, which had been implemented by many countries including several Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states.

“Nearly 20 countries have revised their policies on exporting raw minerals. Even Laos and Myanmar have imposed a ban on the export of mining raw materials,” he said.

He noted that the deposits of at least five mining commodities, in-cluding nickel ore, copper, bauxite, gold and iron needed be saved.

“The domestic demand for nickel ore currently stands at 10 mil-lion tons per year. But its production can touch 60 million tons per year, with the excess 50 million tons being exported,” he said.

If exports of nickel ore continued unchecked, they would exhaust the national reserves quickly, he said.

The ban was therefore necessary to boost the national economy, he said.

Under the Mineral and Coal Law number 4 of 2009, the govern-ment of Indonesia had banned the export of minerals or raw materials, as of January 1, 2013.

The minerals must be processed first before being exported.

Security stepped up at Australian Consulate

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The Denpasar Police office has stepped up security at the Australian consulate general in Denpasar, Bali, amidst rising tensions between Indonesia and the neighboring nation over the wire-tapping row.

Government should be cautious about

banning mineral exports

The decision to change its labels by HRA Pharma is based on a previous study of levonorgestrel, one of the active ingredients in its Norlevo emergency contracep-tive, said Frederique Welgryn, HRA Pharma’s head of women’s health.

Some doctors said heavy women shouldn’t assume emergency con-traception won’t work for them and that they should talk to a health professional or consider alterna-tives like a copper IUD, a birth control device that can be fitted on the uterus. Norlevo is not sold in the U.S. but another drug with the same active ingredient is widely available.

Welgryn said a dose of HRA’s drug contains 1.5 mg of levonorg-estrel, identical to that found in Plan B One-Step, manufactured by Teva Pharmaceuticals in the U.S. Denise Bradley, a spokeswoman for the

company, declined to comment.The Food and Drug Adminis-

tration is currently reviewing the issue and will determine “what, if any, labeling changes to approved emergency contraceptives are war-ranted,” according to spokeswoman Erica Jefferson in an email.

Welgryn said that while the re-sults of the study conducted by the University of Edinburgh in 2011 were “quite surprising,” the last few years have seen much discussion about contraceptives’ efficacy in overweight or obese patients.

HRA Pharma Chief Executive Erin Gainer estimated that mil-lions of women across Europe use emergency contraceptives identical to Norlevo. Gainer declined to give sales figures for Norlevo alone.

Anna Glasier, a lead researcher in the 2011 study, said that their research wasn’t designed to look specifically at the effect of weight

on emergency contraception. She said their study only included about 1,700 women. “It is not my place to comment as to whether the com-pany’s decision to change advice is premature,” she said in an email.

She also noted another previous analysis that found there was no sol-id evidence to show that hormonal contraceptives were less effective in

overweight women, but the quality of the studies was low.

The morning-after pill contains a higher dose of the hormone in regular birth control pills. Taking it within 72 hours of rape, condom failure or just forgetting regular contraception can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent, but it works best within the first

24 hours. If a woman is already pregnant, the pill, which prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg, has no effect.

HRA began the process of con-sulting with French regulators about changing the pill’s labeling in 2012 and it has taken until now for Eu-rope’s drug regulators to approve the change, Welgryn said.

Reuters

LONDON - Some 131,000 people were newly infected with HIV in Eu-rope and nearby countries in 2012, an 8 percent rise from a year earlier and a worrying reversal of a recent downward trend in AIDS cases in the West.

A report published by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) European office and the European Centre for Dis-ease Prevention and Control (ECDC) showed a steady increase in new HIV cases over the last year, but by far the majority of cases were in Eastern Eu-rope and Central Asia.

“The high and increasing number of AIDS cases in the East is indicative of late HIV diagnosis, low treatment coverage and delayed initiation of life-saving HIV treatment,” the ECDC/WHO report said.

Some 76,000 new HIV infections were reported in Russia alone, accounting for more than half the region’s cases.

While reported AIDS cases had been declining steadily in western Europe - dropping 48 percent between 2006 and 2012 - in the east of the WHO’s European Region, which includes many Asian former Soviet republics, the

number of people newly diagnosed with AIDS increased by 113 percent.

Experts said this increase was closely linked to a lack of prevention measures for people at high risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.

These include clean needles and syringes for drug users, free condoms and easy access to HIV testing for sex workers and gay men, and early access to treatment with AIDS drugs - known as antiretroviral therapy (ART) - for those who test positive.

“Our data show that nearly every sec-ond person tested positive for HIV (in the region) - that’s 49 percent - is diagnosed late in the course of their infection, which means they need antiretroviral therapy right away because their immune sys-tem is already starting to fail,” said the ECDC’s director Marc Sprenger.

Worldwide, more than 35 million people have HIV - the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa where ac-cess to prevention, testing and drugs is often limited by low funds. Cocktails and combinations of AIDS drugs can keep the virus in check for many years, allow-ing those who are diagnosed and treated early to live full and long lives.

Yet even in the relatively wealthy WHO European Region, only one in three people with HIV is getting the ART treatment they need, Wednesday’s report said.

Michel Kazatchkine, the United Nation’s HIV/AIDS Special Envoy in Eastern Europe, told Reuters in an inter-view this month that HIV epidemics are becoming more concentrated in margina-lised groups such as sex workers, drug users and gay men, and could defy global attempts to combat AIDS if no progress is made in turning them around.

Sprenger said that to start to do that more effectively “we need to make HIV testing more available across Europe to ensure earlier diagnosis and more effec-tive treatment and care”.

Zsuzsanna Jakab, the WHO’s re-gional director for Europe, said pro-viding AIDS drugs earlier for those infected with HIV would allow them to live longer and healthier lives, and help reduce the risk that they transmit HIV to others.

“While we are not at the end of the HIV epidemic in Europe, our goal of halting and reversing the spread of HIV by 2015 is still achievable in many countries,” she said.

Reuters

BEIJING - More than 500 illegal outdoor barbecues, which

Chinese state media say cause “serious air pollution”, have been destroyed in Beijing as part of an emergency programme to alleviate the city’s often hazardous pollution.

The raids were part of a three-month operation to supervise the barbecues, many of which are operated by ethnic Uighur Muslims from the restive Xinjiang province in China’s west.

“Over 500 illegal barbecue grills in Beijing were destroyed on Tuesday amid the city’s efforts to fight air pollution and lingering foggy weather,” state media Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

Pollution often reaches hazardous levels and can cause long-term health issues. Chinese health officials say that lung cancer rates are rising among the city’s more than 20 million residents. China has adopted an emergency re-sponse programme to try to reduce the pollution, including alternating days for cars with odd and even licence plates to be on the road and closing schools when the smog is particularly heavy.

Smoke from factories and heating plants that encircle Beijing, winds blowing in from the Gobi Desert and fumes from millions of vehicles all contribute to the smog that often forms a thick blanket over the city. Last winter the capital’s smog was so bad it was dubbed the “airpocalypse”, and there are concerns this winter will see a repeat after huge swathes of northeastern China ground to a halt in October when they were smothered by pollution.

AIDS proves stubborn in Europe as new HIV infections rise

China destroys 500 barbecues to tame Beijing pollution - media

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Boxes of Norlevo emergency contraceptive are sold in a pharmacy, west of Paris, Tuesday Nov. 26, 2013.

French drugmaker warns on morning-after pillAssociated Press Writer

PARIS — A French contraceptive maker said Tuesday its morning-after pill doesn’t work when taken by women who weigh more than 80 kilograms (176 pounds) and plans to change its labels to warn patients.

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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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Calendar Event for November 2 through December 11, 20132 Nov Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan.Pura Taman Pule di Mas-Ubud.Pura Ularan di Takmung-Klungkung.Pura Bukitjati di Gulingan-Kawan Bangli.

6 Nov Buda Wage Langkir.Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan.Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud.Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi Batuan.Pura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi.Pura Masceti Desa Sanding-Tampak Siring.Puru Luwur Batur Pucangan Buahan-Tabanan.Odalan Alit di Pura Dalem Takuran di Cemeng-goan Sukawati.Odalan Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih.Mr. Pasek Gelgel Silakarang.Pura Dalem Bangun Sakti Kapal.Pura Dalem Bias Muntig Ped-Nusa Penida.

10 Nov redite Pon Medangsia.Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan.

11 Nov Soma Wage Medangsia.Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung.Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar.

12 Nov Anggara Keliwon Medangsia.Pura Pesimpangan Geria Sakti Manuaba di Yogya-karta-Sumur Lampung Selatan.Pura Luwur Uluwatu Pecatu Kuta Selatan.Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud.Pura Andakasa Karangasem.Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung.Merajan Kawitan Arya Kubontubuh Gelgel Klungkung.Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi.Pura Suralaya Banda-Klungkung.Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang-Bangli.Pura Gadung Blahbatuh Gianyar.Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan.Pura Pasek Gadung Kerambitan Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tugu Gelgel Klungkung.Pura Dalem Banyuning Barat-Buleleng.Odalan Sepen di Pura Puseh.Pura Desa Cemenggaon-Sukawati.Pura Pusering Jagat Pejeng-Tampaksiring.Merajan Pasek Kubayan Mengwi.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Gegelang-Tabanan.Pura Geria Sakti (Dang Kahyangan) Tulikup Gianyar.Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud.

13 Nov Buda Umanis Medangsia.Pura Gede Perancak-Jembrana.Pura Dalem Dauma-Batuan Sukawati.Pura Nataran Kacangdawa-Klungkung.

Odalan Bhatara Gede Apol di Ubung Denpasar.Pura Puseh Brahmana Kamasan-Klungkung.Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan.Pura Dalem Sukehet Klungkung.Pura Dalem Muaspatih Guwang Sukawati.Pura Taman Tegalalang.Pura Desa Sanding-Tampaksiring.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa-Batanbuah-Kesiman.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Basangkawan.Pura Sahab Nusa Penida.Merajan Agung Gorokgak Dalem Sukawati.

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The World Ethnic Music Festi-val (WEMF) 2013 was as a series of the World Culture Forum (WCF) which was opened by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on November 25, 2013. It was made in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture. The WEMF was followed by several participating countries including the USA, China, Russia, India, Japan, Africa (Burkina Faso), Middle East (Iran), South Korea, Australia and the host Indonesia. Featuring the theme ‘We Are One in Harmony,’ the WEMF was held on November 24-28, 2013.

The World Ethnic Music Fes-tival 2013 featured performances of ethnic music, dances, folk songs and other unique arts. All the par-ticipants put on typical clothing of their home country. Additionally, they also mutually presented their captivating attraction that aroused the pride and inspired guests.

In his speech, the Coordinat-ing Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono said that music did not only serve as a medium for en-tertainment, but music could also serve as a medium that maintained

cultural norms and future genera-tions. Music could also integrate the community, not only in the lo-cal scope but also in international scope, he said.

“It is a brilliant and outstanding idea which combines the World Ethnic Music Festival 2013 and the World Culture Forum taking place on November 24-28, 2013,” said Agung Laksono. He hoped the activity would not only serve as complement of the agenda. However, it was also a medium to reinforce the identity and the character development of the na-tion and strengthen the relationship among the countries, he said.

Laksono affirmed the works of music as intellectual builder should be protected. Therefore, in the present era the composers would not be harmed by those who only made profits by unscru-pulous means such as piracy, he said. Laksono invited all parties to continuously work tirelessly to combat against piracy with the Save Creative Power movement, he affirmed. The official open-ing was done with the signature of inscription and beating of the

drum musical instruments together as the opening symbol the World Ethnic Music Festival 2013 by the Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono.

The event was then continued in the Ardha Chandra Amphitheater of Art Center where the session first showed off the appearance of Ayu Laksmi with her Svara Semesta group along with famous musician and guitarist Wayan Bal-awan. According to Ayu Laksmi, she welcomed the WEMF 2013 implementation in which young generation was invited to love a variety of ethnic musical arts.

“The art can bind a sense of unity over diversity in Indonesia. The WEMF 2013 event can give a space to the musicians in various countries so they can show off their art of music. We can learn from other participating countries where they perform with spirit and love what they have. From there, we can imitate how people overseas appreciate to their arts,” she explained.

Through the preparation for 2 weeks with only 10 times the exercise, Laksmi displayed the concept of Unity in Diversity. “We have confidence that through the arts we are able to strengthen various existing constraints and differences,” she said.

Ayu Laksmi said it was her big dream to become a delegate of In-donesia and had become a special gift as she had been waiting for this opportunity. She hoped that through the event all participants could understand one another and wanted to learn traditional art of

each country. Aside from meeting in a particular event or perfor-mance, in the future they could meet in a forum such as seminar or discussion.

Meanwhile, Wayan Balawan said such an event could provide a means for traditional musicians where they were could be involved in the WEMF, so there was a space other than the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). “The artists and musicians need a different appreciative space. In the BAF, the space for the artists is still not maximal because most people come to just look around the enter-

tainment and shop,” he explained.According to him, the WEMF

was a new breakthrough to pro-vide a special space for the artists and musicians like the Jakarta Playhouse (GKJ). Thus, musicians had a schedule and good program and did not make performance only once a year monotonously in the BAF. Balawan expected there would be a cultural exchange with other countries inviting the other native people of the region becoming an artist in their respec-tive region to make a performance here, he affirmed. (dgk)

Bali Post

SANUr - Two divers from Bet Ngandang Sanur, I Wayan Sumen-dra, 44, and Kadek Nata, 40, nearly drowned while diving to catch fish in the waters of Nusa Penida, Tuesday

(Nov 26). They were then rushed to Sanglah Hospital in half-conscious condition.

According to one of the relatives, Gusti Lanang Maharta, at the time of accident Sumendra and Nata were escorting guests and diving at

Nusa Penida waters for fishing. “The guests are accustomed to eat sashimi (Japanese-style raw fish dish—Ed). So, it was eaten after being caught,” said Maharta.

However, when diving, the sea currents were estimated to suddenly

become so powerful so they both panicked and immediately went to the surface. Due to a sudden pressure difference, the two divers were lan-guid and eventually fell unconscious. According to Maharta, condition of Nata was much better than that of

Sumendra who was coming in uncon-scious condition. “For Sumendra, his condition was indeed not good. His family told if he stayed up late the night before,” he said. Until Tuesday, the two victims were still under treat-ment at Sanglah Hospital. (san)

Strong sea currents, two divers almost drowned

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The World Ethnic Music Festival 2013 was officially opened by Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono. It was held in the Ksiraarnawa Hall, Denpasar Art Centre, on Monday (Nov 25). The event was attended by participants from 10 countries.

World Ethnic Music Festival 2013

Develop creativity of ethnic artists and musiciansBali Post

DENPASAr - The World Ethnic Music Festival 2013 was officially opened by Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono. It was held in the Ksiraarnawa Hall, Denpasar Art Centre, on Monday (Nov 25). The event was attended by participants from 10 countries. In addition, there were also other invitees such as the Minister of Education Mohammad Nuh, Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika, regent of Ta-banan Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, Denpasar Mayor IB Rai Mantra Dharmawijaya and several others.

Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort offers luxurious facilities and quality service offerings that reflect the brand’s combination of French elegance and flair with warm Balinese hospitality, rich culture and fine arts. Designed by internationally acclaimed design firm, Wilson Associates, the hotel comprises 415 rooms and suites including 17 Private Villas, 22 Prestige Suites and 376 Luxury Rooms featuring Sofitel’s signature MyBed, plush amenities and high tech fittings including complimen-tary broadband internet access.

“Sofitel is renowned for French luxury and sophistication. With the opening of Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort, we’re introducing our signature French elegance and “cousu-

main” tailor-made service to Indonesia. This spectacular resort is created as a unique holiday sanctuary retreat for business travellers, couples and families, offering all guests the height of resort living with world-class facilities,” said Goran Aleks, General Manager of Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Resort.

Conceptualized by Blue Plates in Singapore, the resort presents an eclectic set of dining options with three restaurants, two bars and a club lounge. Inspired by a “food market” dining concept, Kwee Zeen serves Pan Asian menu in a relaxed dining atmosphere with each atelier highlighting a dif-ferent cuisine from dumplings to hot grills. CCC (Cut Catch Cucina) features multi offerings with a steakhouse, Ital-

ian Osteria and Sea Grill while Artisan highlights classic Indonesian favourites including satay grills. From LE BAR (lobby bar), to L’OH Pool Bar, and the CLUB N5 Beach Club lounge, guests can also choose from one of the three different bars offering distinctive views and settings ideal for drinks and entertainment.

Discover an oasis of well-being with the hotel’s wellness and fitness offerings allowing guests to rejuvenate in style. Guests will be able to relax in the resort’s gorgeous beachfront pool, get active at So FIT, the state-of-the-art fitness centre, or revitalize at So SPA, Sofitel’s spa concept where ancient traditions from around the world meet the refinement and skill of the latest in French cosmetology.

Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort also features Sofitel’s hallmark Inspired Meetings concept that combines the latest conference technology with a passion for excellence.The hotel offers

some of the largest meetings and func-tion facilities in Bali, with the Grand Ballroom able to accommodate up to 600 guests theatre style.

Fun for children and peace of mind for adults, Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort offers a Kids Club packed with fun facilities and adventures. The resort’s kid’s club concept of learning, exploring, and fun is brought to life through extensive facilities compris-ing an outdoor kids’ pool, reading

room, nap room, video game consoles and a host of activities from cooking classes, yoga for kids and various beach games.

Surrounded by swaying palms, white sand beaches and inviting tur-quoise waters, the much-anticipated Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort Bali brings all the key elements of a premium international beachfront hotel to one of the world’s most sought-after holiday destinations.

Sofitel to launch hotel in Nusa Dua on DecemberIBP

NUSA DUA - Sofitel Luxury Hotels continues to expand its luxury network across Asia, with its first Indonesian property scheduled to open in Nusa Dua, Bali on 20 December 2013.

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“The important formula and re-sults of the forum will become part of our national policy,” the minister noted in his speech during the clos-ing ceremony of the first WCF in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Tuesday.

He expressed hope that Indone-

sia would become a country with a new civilization and a strong culture in the next 20 to 30 years. On the occasion, the minister also called on Indonesians to confi-dently convey their ideas. This will have a positive impact on the

world’s development.“We do not have to feel inferior

while presenting our ideas,” the minister remarked. He noted that Indonesia had achieved great suc-cess in hosting the forum.

“The success of the WCF must

provide good momentum for boost-ing our confidence,” he remarked, adding that the WCF was inspired by President Yudhoyono’s idea in 2005. It will continue to be held once every two years, he asserted.

“Indonesia will continue to host or co-host the WCF,” he promised.

Themed “Culture as Power in Sustainable Development,” the WCF was held from November 24

to 27, 2013. Eight-hundred partici-pants, including 17 ministers, from 45 friendly countries attended it.

The minister noted that the World Culture Forum had aimed to promote culture as an element of social connectivity that would strengthen globalization.

A joint statement in the field of culture between Indonesia and China was signed during the forum.

Indonesian dancers put on a show as part of a culture performance in Bali, Indo-

nesia, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. Indonesia hosts the first World Culture Forum (WCF)

on 24-27 November. The results of the World Culture Forum (WCF) will become

part of our national policy, said Culture and Education Minister Mohammad Nuh.

WCF results to become national policyAntara

NUSA DUA - The results of the World Culture Forum (WCF) will become part of our national policy, said Culture and Education Minister Mohammad Nuh.

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Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt and her “The Client List” co-star Brian Hallisay are the proud parents of a baby girl.

Hewitt’s publicist Sarah Fuller said in an email statement the couple is “thrilled” over Tuesday’s birth of Autumn James Hallisay.

The couple is also celebrating being newlyweds. Fuller says they were recently married but did not provide further details.

“The Client List” was recently canceled by Lifetime after its second season. Hewitt and Hallisay played husband and wife.

Us Weekly first reported the news.

The trio belted out the Bon Jovi classic at the end of a gala event at the London palace in support of the homeless charity Centrepoint, of which 31-year-old Wil-liam is patron.

Bon Jovi began the performance alone with his guitar, but the second-in-line to the British throne and Grammy-winning pop diva Swift came on stage to join him, to huge cheers from the crowd.

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Britain’s Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, speaks with singer Taylor Swift (front L) during the Cen-trepoint Gala Dinner at Kensington Palace in London November 26, 2013.

Britain’s Prince William teamed up with US pop royalty Jon Bon Jovi and Taylor Swift on Tuesday night to perform an impromptu version of “Livin’ On A Prayer” at his home, Kensington Palace.

Hewitt welcomes baby girl after quiet wedding

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