“The state budget for 2015 targeted IDR 3.5 trillion in non-tax revenue from tourism. If we assume that 40 percent of foreign visitors to Indonesia come to Bali then the non-tax revenue from these visitors amount to some IDR 1.4 trillion,” said legislator of the Federal House of Representatives, Wayan Koster, representing the constituency of Bali.

During his meeting with Bali House of Repre-sentatives, the Governor of Bali, legislators and senators from the constituency of Bali, regents and mayors from throughout Bali, as well as the parliamentary leadership of Bali, Koster explained that the non-tax revenue of tourism is

returned to the Departement of Immigration to be used for making improvements to and developing immigration. The amount of foreign exchange in 2014, sourced from from hoteliers, restaurateurs, airlines, business services, merchants and such is estimated to have reach IDR 59 trillion. Bali’s local government receives some funds from the hotel and restaurant taxes.

“Asking for a share of the profits made from tourism in Bali is not within Bali’s rights to de-mand, because tourism -unlike natural resources, does not qualify for the nomenclature of ‘primary sector’. State revenue derived tourism comes from fees for visas and is a non-tax revenue that

is managed by Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, not by Minister of Finance, therefore such income does not qualify for being shared with the region that generated it,” affirmed this member of the Parliament’s Budgetary Committee.

Koster added that Bali receives regional fund transfers and ‘village funds’ worth IDR 8.26 trillion. This fund includes money sourced from personal income tax (VAT), corporate income tax and others. “So, by receiving a transfer of funds worth IDR 6.26 trillion from the central government, Bali has been subsidized by other regions,” he explained.

“I look forward to presenting these 17 distinguished Americans with our nation’s highest civilian honor,” President Barack Obama said.

“From public servants who helped us meet defining challenges of our time to artists who expanded our imaginations, from leaders who have made our union more perfect to athletes who have inspired mil-lions of fans, these men and women have enriched our lives and helped define our shared experience as Americans,” he added.

Among other entertainment stars to be honored are music pro-ducer Emilio Estefan and pop star Gloria Estefan, a Cuban American couple seen as trailblazers for be-

ing Spanish-language stars who successfully crossed over to the English-language market.

Grammy-winner Itzhak Perl-man and composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim also will receive the hon-or together with the likes of Spiel-berg, the director and philanthropist whose films include blockbusters such as “Jaws,” “Jurassic Park,” “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” and the “Indiana Jones” series.

Baseball great Willie Mays will be honored alongside fellow legend Yogi Berra, who will get a posthu-mous award.

Public servants to be lauded include the late Shirley Chisholm, who became the first black US

congresswoman in 1968. She later ran for president as a Democrat, and was a professor at Mount Holyoke College.

The late Minoru Yasui also is to be honored. The attorney chal-lenged the constitutionality of a military curfew order during World War II on the grounds of racial dis-crimination. He was in solitary con-finement during the legal process and spent much of his life appealing his wartime conviction.

“At the time of his death in 1986, he had successfully convinced a trial court to vacate his arrest, and a case challenging the constitutional-ity of his conviction was pending before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,” a White House statement said.

The awards ceremony will take place at the White House on No-vember 24. (afp)

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NEW YORK — Cate Blanchett, accepting an honor for her film work, made reference to the recent attacks in Paris and Beirut and said her own efforts “feel very insignificant” in view of what’s happening in the world.

Blanchett was honored Tuesday evening at the Museum of Modern Art’s eighth annual film benefit, which raises funds so that important cinematic works can join the mu-seum’s collection. “All my efforts do feel very insignificant in view of what’s going on in the world at the moment, the horrific events in Europe and the Middle East,” Blanchett said, “and the thousands of refugees who travel across the borders, and their plight, their peril has become even more precarious and difficult.”

“But,” she added, “and this is going to sound like a mas-sive justification — perhaps it is in the face of what’s going on in the world — sometimes you’re presented with the op-portunity of working on projects that perhaps might last and perhaps have something interesting and important to say, and last year was definitely one of those years for me.”

She was referring to the two current movies that both are generating serious awards buzz for the two-time Oscar winner. One is “Truth,” in which Blanchett plays the real-life role of CBS producer Mary Mapes, whose career ended

following her report about George W. Bush’s National Guard service. In an earlier red carpet interview, Blanchett said she was “so fascinated to play the role of a real-life person in free fall in a very unexplored part of recent media history which I think it’s quite timely to think about, how we process and digest our news.”

Blanchett’s latest film is “Carol,” adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel, in which she plays a woman involved in a 1950s lesbian romance. “This movie was a labor of love for everyone involved,” she said.

Among those speaking at the tribute was Blanchett’s co-star in the 1997 movie “Oscar and Lucinda,” Ralph Fiennes, who spoke about her “eccentric and beautiful inner landscape.”

“You’re a great artist, Cate,” he said, “Thank you for sharing your gift with us.”

Also speaking — in a videotaped message — was Woody Allen, who directed Blanchett’s Oscar-winning performance in “Blue Jasmine.” The famously reclusive Allen, who often shuns awards ceremonies, quipped that “mercifully, I had a prior engagement.” He noted that be-fore he directed Blanchett, “everyone told me, ‘Hire Cate Blanchett, and she’ll make you look like a genius.’” (ap)

Cate Blanchett honored at Museum of Modern Art

Spielberg, Streisand to get Presidential Medal of Freedom

WASHINGTON - Movie mogul Steven Spielberg, singer-director Barbra Streisand, and songwriter James Taylor are among the 17 people to be awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Monday.

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Cate Blanchett, right, and Ralph Fiennes attend the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit honoring Blanchett at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, in New York.

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Supplementation Institution Con-

f e d e r a t i o n (ACSIC) of-ficially closed on Wednes-

day. The 28th ACSIC confer-

ence results will be realized by the Indonesia Credit Guarantee Association (Asip-pindo). One of them is related to the formation of SMEs rating agency.

Chairman of Asippindo, Did-ing S. Anwar said Asippindo and Jamkrindo is ready to provide free services to rank Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Moreover, Financial Services Authority (OJK) fully supported this agency.

“This is become a strategic decision for Indonesia,” said the man who is also President Director of Jamkrindo.

Diding explained, SMEs ranking is essential to raise the level of SMEs for their business sustainability. SMEs also can get lending from banks and other financial institutions.

Diding added, Asippindo and Jamkrindo as a pioneer in rat-ing agency for SMEs will soon make decision on legal matter and cost which is considered the least expensive to finance the ranking process.

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Tourists visit Kuta Beach during their holiday to Bali Island. The Bali House of Representatives recently discussed a revi-sion to Law No.33/2004 on Financial Balance, related to tourism profit sharing, and came to the conclusion that it would be hard to attain the desired goal.

Bali demands share of tourism profits

Not so easy to achieveDENPASAR - The Bali House of Representatives recently discussed a revision to

Law No.33/2004 on Financial Balance, related to tourism profit sharing, and came to the conclusion that it would be hard to attain the desired goal. The main obstacle to Bali receiving more of the foreign exchange earnings from tourism on the island, is the fact that these earnings do not fall under state revenue. The only non-tax revenue that Bali contributes to the state are earnings from Visa on Arrivals.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Recently the team at the iconic hotel took things a step further. As part of the hotel’s 40th anniversary celebrations, almost 200 past, pres-ent and long-serving team members got together to organise their own special reunion dinner.

In addition to the current team at the hotel, members who were in the original pre-opening team for the hotel and who have worked in the hotel for 30 years or more

were invited along too. The owner of the hotel, Dr Aron Harilela, also joined in the celebrations which were held the hotel’s glittering Crys-tal Ballroom.

In keeping with the hotel’s tradition of taking great care of its guests, and also of contribut-ing to the community as well, the

team donated almost HKD 70,000 to the hotel’s supported charity IDEAL.

An acronym for the Intellectu-ally Disabled Education and Advo-cacy League, IDEAL provides much needed educational opportunities for young people with learning and be-havioural difficulties in Hong Kong and helps them to build meaningful and rewarding lives. A wonderful and heartfelt gesture from one of Hong Kong’s most caring and hos-pitable hotels.

Holiday Inn 40th anniversary

Team reunion dinner brings surprise boost for charity

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DENPASAr - For four decades the popular Holiday Inn Golden Mile has presided over the heart of Tsimshatsui and gained a place in local people’s hearts and in the travel community as a whole for its warm hospitality and caring service.

NUSA DUA - Speakers from both Japan and Korea also brought some insightful experiences to the conference table. Like Indonesia, Japan has a number of guarantee companies that assist SMEs in ac-cessing credit. Japan however has proven to be more successful at boosting this sector, because they have created a centre for data and development for SMEs.

During that ocassion, he said the role of state owned guarantee company, Jamkrindo, in boosting people’s business credit (KUR) to SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), still behind the bank. But, after participate in the 28th Asian Credit Supplementa-tion Institution Confederation (ACSIC) conference being held in Nusa Dua (Nov 16-20) is al-ready having major impacts on the way that Indonesian creditors see guarantees.

Jamkrindo, Indonesia’s state owned guarantee company for example, is looking to adopt models of loan guaranteeing, that have proven successful in other Asian countries.

Anwar said that having guar-antee institutions -like the one that he heads, take a more active role in issuing loans to SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) makes a lot of sense for a coun-try like Indonesia: “in other countries, guarantee institu-tions and banks work together to provide more credit options for SMEs,” Anwar added that by with greater access to credit, even the smallest of personal businesses can take things to the next level and cited companies like Fiat, Ferrari and Gucci as examples of private companies that became multinationals. “With the support of loans, even a pecel (vegetable with peanut sauce) street stall can grow into an international company,” said Anwar with great excitement. (kmb32/kmb18) IBP Yudi Karnaedi

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Participants of 28th Asian Credit Supplementation Institution Confederation (ACSIC) conference listened to speaker during the Chief Delegates Meeting (CDM) that held in Nusa Dua, Bali.

Indonesia to learn from Japan,

South Korea

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Nina Kurnia Dewi

Committee Chairman of the 28th Asian Credit Supplementation In-stitution Confederation (ACSIC) conference, Nina Kurnia Dewi said that Indonesia would do well to follow suite, especially given that -like Japan, Indonesia’s regions are developed locally with Jamkrindo cooperating with local Jamkrida’s in

different areas. Although South Korea’s only has

three guarantee companies that are fo-cused on large companies, technology and specialized SMEs respectively, Kurnia added that “this approach of developing segmented or specific guar-antees for specific sectors, could also be useful in Indonesia”. (kmb18)

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The medication, called Disul-firam, draws out the AIDS-causing virus without any side effects for patients, according to a study pub-lished in The Lancet.

In people undergoing treatment for AIDS, the virus can take cover in certain cells and hide away,

only to reemerge once therapy is stopped.

This latency has been one of the biggest hurdles in developing a cure.

“Waking up” the virus - and then destroying it -- is a promising strat-egy for ridding patients of HIV.

But other drugs which are able to rouse HIV from its dormant state are toxic to humans.

In clinical trials led by Sharon Lewin, a professor at the Univer-sity of Melbourne, 30 people on antiretroviral treatment (ART) were given increasing doses of Disulfiram over a period of three days.

At the highest dose, there was evidence of slumbering HIV being

stimulated, with no side effects.“This trial clearly demonstrates

that Disulfiram is not toxic and is safe to use, and could quite possi-bly be the game changer we need,” Lewin said in a statement.

The next step will be to test Disulfiram’s rousing effect in com-bination with a virus-killing drug.

“Waking up the virus is only the first step to eliminating it,” said the study’s lead author Julian Elliott,

head of clinical research in the department of infectious diseases at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

“Now we need to work out how to get rid of the infected cell.”

Approximately 34 million people have died of HIV-related causes worldwide. By the end of 2014, there were an estimated 36.9 people living with HIV globally. (afp)

MIAMI - People who report drinking three to five cups of cof-fee per day are less likely to die prematurely from heart disease, suicide, diabetes or Parkinson’s disease, US researchers said Monday.

Both caffeinated and decaf-feinated coffee were shown to have benefits, said the study by researchers at the Harvard Uni-versity Chan School of Public Health published in the Novem-ber 16 edition of the journal Circulation.

The study compared people who don’t drink coffee, or drank less than two cups daily, to those who reported drinking “moder-ate” amounts of coffee, or up to five cups daily.

The study did not prove a cause-and-effect for coffee and the reduced likelihood of certain diseases, but uncovered an ap-parent link that aligns with previ-ous research, and that scientists would like to probe further.

“Bioactive compounds in cof-fee reduce insulin resistance and systematic inflammation,” said first author Ming Ding, a doc-toral student in the Department of Nutrition.

“That could explain some of our findings. However, more

studies are needed to investigate the biological mechanisms pro-ducing these effects.”

No protective effect was found against cancer in this study. Some previous research has pointed to a link between coffee consump-tion and a lower risk of certain cancers.

The study was based on data gathered from three large, on-going surveys including some 300,000 nurses and other health professionals who agree to an-swer questionnaires about their own medical conditions and habits at regular intervals over the course of 30 years.

“In the whole study popula-tion, moderate coffee consump-tion was associated with reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, and suicide,” said the findings.

Researchers also accounted for potential confounding factors such as smoking, body mass in-dex, exercise, alcohol consump-tion, and diet. But the fact that the research relied on surveys, which use self-reported behavior, could raise questions about its reliability.

And experts warned that coffee -- a substance adored by many devotees -- may not be right for everyone.

“Regular consumption of cof-fee can be included as part of a healthy, balanced diet,” said senior author Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard.

“However, certain populations such as pregnant women and children should be cautious about high caffeine intake from coffee or other beverages.” (afp)

Alcoholism drug may help design HIV cure

PARIS - A treatment for alcoholism can reactivate dormant HIV, potentially allowing other drugs to spot and kill the virus hiding out in human immune cells, researchers said Tuesday.

Coffee-drinkers less likely to die from certain diseases

A customer carries a coffee drink in a red paper cup, with a cardboard cover attached. People who report drinking three to five cups of coffee per day are less likely to die prematurely from heart disease, suicide, diabetes or Parkinson’s disease, US researchers said Monday.AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

Anwar also stated that, over the next two days of the ACSIC conference, Asippindo will put forward two important points related to the sustainability of Indonesia’s guarantee industry. “The first point is related to SMEs ratings, that will allow Small businesses to upgrade their status to Medium business once they have accessed capital from both banks and non-banking financial institutions. We are hoping that Small and Medium businesses can grow bigger and we are now looking into providing mentoring as well,” he said.

Anwar stressed that mentoring is an im-portant part of the struggle of his institution to help SMEs evolve. We are also proposing that the media and educational institutions

get involved in acting as companions to SMEs. Specifically we are looking at having University’s provide business clinics aimed at stimulating the local economy. So far, in Indoneisa, only Brawijaya University, Gad-jah Mada University and the University of Indonesia offer business clinics of varying directions.

“We must not let the capital that SMEs gain access to, to go to waste simply because they are not able to package their products into saleable commodities. We need to strengthen the competitiveness of our SMEs because they will soon be competing directly with companies from other countries,” added An-war. (kmb32)

Asippindo members join ACSIC

NUSA DUA – During the Chief Delegates Meeting (CDM) of the 28th ACSIC conference in Nusa Dua on Tuesday evening it was decided that all members of the Indonesia Credit Guarantee Association (Asippindo) will officially join ACSIC (Asian Credit Supplementation Institution Confederation. Asippindo chairman, and President Director of Jamkrindo, Diding S. Anwar explained that ACSIC does not place a limit on the number of guarantee industry institutions or companies from any given country that can join, so long as they have received a recommendation from a financial institution in their home country.

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Chairman of the Asippindo, Diding S. Anwar (6 from right) during the International Guarantee Seminar (IGS) that held in Nusa Dua before the 28th Asian Credit Supplementation Institution Confederation (ACSIC) conference.

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“The picture is getting increas-ingly bleak,” said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. “There’s been an accumulation of anti-Islamic rheto-ric in our lives and that I think has trigged these overt acts of violence and vandalism.”

He said the rise in the level of an-ti-Muslim sentiment is reflected by some GOP presidential candidates, governors and others speaking out in opposition to the U.S. accepting more Syrian refugees.

Hooper said the council is see-ing an increase in anti-Muslim incidents since Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded more than 350. In Con-necticut, the FBI and local police are investigating reports of mul-tiple gunshots fired at the Baitul Aman mosque in Meriden hours after the attacks.

Leaders of the mosque don’t know the motive of the shooter or shooters, said Salaam Bhatti, a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in New York, to which the mosque belongs. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a movement within Islam. Bhatti said the shooting has not rattled

mosque members. He said many are from Pakistan, where conditions for the Ahmadiyya movement are much worse.

“It’s a teachable moment,” Bhat-ti said. “As we do raise awareness of attacks in mosques, we will see mosques do not respond in violence. Islam teaches us to teach peace.”

At the University of Connecti-cut, authorities are investigating after the words “killed Paris” were discovered on Saturday written beneath an Egyptian student’s name on his dorm room door.

Muslim leaders also have re-ported recent vandalism, threats and other hate crimes targeting mosques in Nebraska, Florida, Texas, Ken-tucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, New York and other states.

After the Paris attacks:— The Omaha Islamic Center

in Nebraska reported that someone spray-painted a rough outline of the Eiffel Tower on an outside wall. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has called for the FBI and local police to investigate the inci-dent as a possible hate crime, and they’re doing just that, according to Nasir Husain, general secretary of

the center. Muslims in the central U.S. city are afraid, he said.

— In a suburb of Austin, Texas, leaders of the Islamic Center of Pflugerville on Monday discov-ered feces and torn pages of the Quran that had been thrown at the door of the mosque. Muslim leaders also encouraged authori-ties to investigate the act as a hate crime.

— In a suburb of Houston, Tex-

as, authorities on Tuesday arrested a man accused of threatening on so-cial media to “shoot up a mosque.” He was charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony.

— Two Tampa Bay-area mosques in Florida received threatening phone messages on Friday night. FBI officials said the same per-son made the calls to the Islamic Society of St. Petersburg and the Islamic Society of Pinellas County.

The person was identified and interviewed over the weekend, but investigators found no actual plans to carry out acts of violence, the FBI said. One of the calls threatened a firebombing.

Nihad Awad, national execu-tive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, asked law enforcement officials to step up patrols at mosques and other Islamic institutions.(ap)

MANILA, Philippines — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has asked Philippine authorities to punish kidnap-pers who reportedly beheaded a Malay-sian man in the southern Philippines, saying he and his people were “shocked and sickened” by the savage act.

The Philippine military said Tuesday that it is verifying intelligence reports that the militants killed Bernard Then Ted Fen in a jungle in Sulu province, where the militants are holding other foreign and Filipino kidnap victims.

In a statement posted on his Facebook account late Tuesday, Najib called on Phil-ippine authorities “to take action against those who have perpetrated this savage and barbaric act and ensure that they are brought to justice.”

“I, the government, and all Malaysians are shocked and sickened by the murder of our countryman Bernard Then and we condemn it in its strongest terms,” said Najib, who is in Manila to attend an annual summit of Asia Pacific leaders.

He said Malaysia will cooperate with the Philippine investigation of Then’s killing.

Then was abducted with a compa-triot, Thien Nyuk Fun, by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in May in the Malaysian state of Sabah and taken by boat across the sea border to Sulu. Thien was freed earlier this month after a ransom was reportedly paid.

The United States and the Philippines have listed the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization for conducting kidnappings, beheadings, extortion and bomb attacks. The al-Qaida-linked militants have been weakened but have survived more than a decade of U.S.-backed offensives.

The Abu Sayyaf has been suspected of kidnapping two Canadians, a Norwegian and a Filipina from a marina in the south in September. Militants who identified themselves in an online video as belong-ing to the Abu Sayyaf have demanded more than $60 million for the release of the three foreigners.(ap)

US Muslims face backlash after Paris attacksHARTFORD, Conn. — Muslims around the U.S. are facing

backlash following the deadly attacks in Paris, including van-dalism to mosques and Islamic centers, hate-filled phone and online messages and threats of violence. Advocacy leaders say they have come to expect some anti-Muslim sentiment follow-ing such attacks, but they now see a spike that seems notable, stirred by anti-Muslim sentiment in the media.

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 photo, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Connecticut walks past the Baitul Aman mosque in South Meriden, Conn., where police and the FBI had been investigating reports of multiple gunshots fired at the mosque during the weekend.

Malaysia ‘sickened’ by citizen’s beheading in Philippines

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Activist and presidential candidate Atty. Elly Pamatong burns a Malaysian flag to protest the visit of Prime Minister Najib Razak who will attend this week’s APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit of Leaders Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 in Manila, Philippines. Pamatong is protesting the long-standing claim by the Sultan-ate of Sulu in southern Philippines of the island of Sabah.

GIANYAR - An Austrian tourist, Alexander Anton Lochs, was found unconscious on Jalan Raya Ubud, Sunday afternoon (Nov. 15). But when brought to public health center, he was finally dead. As provisional estimation, this 66-year-old man died from consuming alcoholic drink of arrack type. However, police authority claimed that it cannot make it sure.

As information gathered on Tuesday (Nov. 17), it is said the incident began when the victim was seen by two employees of Coco Vistro Restaurant on Jalan Raya Ubud while sitting on sidewalk on Sunday morning around 10:00 a.m. Besides, the Belgium-born tourist was also seen carrying two bottles of mineral water which alleg-edly contained alcoholic drink.

Initially, two restaurant employees did not suspect him. However, until 2:30 p.m. they began to suspect the tourist. As unwilling to take risk, the two restaurant employees finally reported it to police station at the intersection of Ubud. Then, two po-lice officers came down to the scene and invited the victim to be escorted back to his boarding house in the area of Kalah hamlet, Peliatan. At that time, the tourist refused and did not answer.

An hour later or around 3:30 p.m., both restaurant employees came back to police station. At that time they im-mediately asked the police officers to bring the foreigner to health center. Allegedly he was in sick condition.

Chief of Ubud Police, Ketut Widi-ada, when asked for his confirmation about the incident justified it. He said that police officers immediately rushed the victim to Ubud health center. Unfortunately, when being ex-amined by medical team at the health center, the man was already dead. After that, his body was immediately taken to Sanglah Hospital.

“After the death of foreigner, we have contacted the Austrian Consul-ate. In addition, some personnel also directly asked for testimony of several witnesses,” he said.

Widiada did not dare to make sure regarding the information if the for-eigner was bringing alcoholic drink while sitting in front of the restaurant in Ubud. His authority is still checking the bottles of mineral water brought. “Ob-viously, according to both restaurant employees, the foreigner was carrying bottles of mineral water, but the content has not been known as it is still being examined,” he added. (kmb35)

It was explained by a legislator of Karan-gasem House of Representatives, Nyoman Sumadi. Sumadi who is also a member of Commission III said that in addition to scarce maize, the egg production in Karangasem also accumulates. Sluggish economic condition is alleged to have caused people to reduce their egg consumption.

He said that local egg production in Karan-gasem reaches about five million. Stock of egg production has accumulated for two weeks. From the aspiration of breeders in Karan-gasem he received, all this time the marketing of the egg production in Karangasem spreads to the nine districts and city in Bali as well as NTB and NTT. “Due to sluggish economy, as also happens to NTT, consumers seem to reduce their egg consumption. As a result, the production accumulates in the collectors. Lately the price of eggs slumped because the production is still piling up,” he said.

He said that based on the latest data the population of laying hens in Karangasem

reaches approximately 600,000 heads. Farm-ers in Manggis subdistrict breed 350,000 heads, while in Karangasem subdistrict with the center at Bugbug and Seraya village reaches 250,000 heads. Breeders of laying hens have also developed to Rendang region, such as Besakih village, Selat subdistict and even to Bau hamlet (Abang). “Laying hen breeders have also developed to our village at Pura, Selat,” said another legislator, Wayan Sumerta.

With such fairly high population of lay-ing hens, the livestock can absorb moderate labor in Karangasem. All this time, when the price of eggs increases this business has quite developed public economy in Karangasem. However, with global economic slowdown aggravated by scarce maize supply farmers became distraught. Moreover, a breeder at Pesedahan, Manggis, raising 40,000 laying hens has never increased the population of his chicken since a year ago. It is caused by the sluggish economic condition so that it presses

the breeder.He said that maize need in Karangasem is

estimated to reach 28.8 tons each day. This amount is calculated when maize poses 40 percent of feed mixture composite other than fish and soybean meal. “Actually, the potential for maize cultivation is very high in order to prosper maize farmers,” he said.

Scarcity of maize happens because the stock of farmer crop in Sumbawa and other maize production centers have been sold out. Besides, it also occurs due to prolonged dry season. All this time, maize of farmers is also absorbed by many feed mills in Java where the factory took the maize of farmers because the maize import has been stopped. However, currently the maize stock in the market has sold out and it is estimated that the government will open the maize import.

However, it has been so late because the stocks in society have run out. Even if the government is now flushing imported maize, small farmers will lose because the imported maize will directly go to plant. When the processed maize is distributed to market by the factory, the price will be expensive and farmers are depressed. (013)

Suspected of getting drunk of arrack, an Austrian killed

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The maize is cleaned after being harvest. The drought is affecting the harvest of maize.

During drought, maize turns rare

AMLAPURA - Maize as a component of animal feed for laying chicken is getting rare lately. As a result, farmers are distraught because they must use manufactured animal feed that costs much more expensive.

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WASHINGTON — A survey of 500 chief financial of-ficers at U.S. companies released Tuesday found them opti-mistic about the American economy, with more than half of them expecting to hire additional employees next year, the highest level in eight years.

The annual survey sponsored by Bank of America Mer-rill Lynch showed that the chief financial officers see rising health care costs and weak domestic demand as the biggest threats to company earnings. A strong dollar and weak global demand were viewed as lesser threats.

The survey found that the chief financial executives at companies with annual revenues ranging from $25 million to $2 billion were generally upbeat about economic prospects next year, with 54 percent saying they expected to hire ad-ditional full-time workers, while only 5 percent expected to lay off workers.

The percentage of companies predicting increased hiring was up from 52 percent in last year’s survey. During the depths of the last recession, the number fell as low as 23 percent who had expected to increase hiring in 2009.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has conducted the annual survey of executive opinions for the past 18 years.

Executives in this year’s survey gave the U.S. economy an average score of 61, up from last year’s 59, which, like the job hiring percentage, was the highest in eight years. On the survey scale, zero is an extremely weak economy and 100 is extremely strong.

“Chief financial officers continue to be optimistic about the U.S. economy and their own companies,” said Alastair Borthwick, head of global commercial banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “This is consistent with what we are hearing from our middle-market clients.”

The survey found that 39 percent listed health care costs as the top threat to their company’s earnings next year fol-lowed by 39 percent who cited weak domestic demand and 31 percent who listed increased competition. The strong dollar, which has hurt export sales, was listed by 17 percent of those surveyed, while 10 percent listed weak international demand as one of the top threats to their company earnings. (ap)

In a speech to a business confer-ence on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Xi said China is committed to overhauling its economy and raising the living standards of its people.

China’s growth fell to a six-year low of 6.8 percent in the latest quarter as Beijing tries to shift the economy away from reliance on trade and investment. The slow-down, which has been unfolding for several years, has rippled around the world, crimping growth in

countries such as South Korea and Australia that were big exporters to China.

“The Chinese economy is a concern for everyone, and against the background of a changing world must cope with all sorts of difficul-ties and challenges,” Xi said. But China would “preserve stability and accelerate its development,” he said.

“We will work hard to shift our growth model from just expanding scale to improving its structure.”

He also said Beijing is step-

ping up efforts to counter climate change and clean up its environ-ment.

Weeks away from a deadline for an agreement to limit global warming, President Barack Obama sought to build momentum for the pact on Wednesday, reasoning that bold climate action will be a boon for businesses in Asia and around the world.

At the APEC business confer-ence, Obama urged business leaders to reduce their own emissions and pressure governments to sign on to an international carbon-cutting pact to be discussed beginning Nov. 30 in Paris.

“Your businesses can do right

by your bottom lines and by our planet and future generations,” Obama said. “The old rules that said we can’t grow our economy and protect our economy the same time — those are outdated.”

Xi did not comment on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, which are not part of the official agenda of the regional summit taking place under extremely tight security in the Philippine capital, Manila.

But on Wednesday, Obama called on China to halt further land reclamation and new construction in the disputed waters.

At a meeting with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III,

Obama called for “bold steps” to lower tensions over China’s ter-ritorial ambitions in the region, which have recently centered on construction of artificial islands in areas claimed by the Philip-pines and other Southeast Asian countries.

Such rifts often have tended to strain APEC’s facade of handshakes and unity, overshadowing talks on trade and development at the annual summit of the 21-member APEC.

The U.S. has showed solidarity with the Philippines by conducting military maneuvers recently near islands where China has reclaimed land and built settlements to shore up its claims. (ap)

Xi says China will keep economic growth on track

MANILA — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sought to reassure regional economic and political leaders that his government will keep the world’s No. 2 economy growing.

Business survey finds companies expecting to boost hiring

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File

In this Oct. 6, 2015 photo, A’GACI clothing store hiring manager Marcie Lowe, right, gives her card to job applicant Xionara Garcia, left, of Miami, during a job fair at Dolphin Mall in Miami.

Silting condition of Lake Buyan has occurred since the past six months. As the experience of local community, lake water formerly often overflowed to the points at the edge of the lake. Green algae did not commonly emerge as lately happened. “The depth of water in Lake Buyan is approximately 28

meters,” said Wayan Sumadra, Tuesday (Nov. 17).

Unfortunately, Lake Buyan does not get optimal attention from the government. Such condition is indi-cated by the ecosystem around Lake Buyan. Slowly but surely, the water increasingly recedes, while the lake is only filled in with dark brown mud

and green algae. The fish commonly emerges and becomes the netting target of fishermen began to be rarely found. Severe condition occurs in front of Pura Ulun Danu Bulian. The hills previously covered with trees have turned fragile as the trees are cut down. As a result, it is feared to cause erosion in the future. “Alleg-

edly this causes erosion in the hills around the area of ??Lake Buyan. Moreover, water of Lake Buyan has decreased nearly three meters after being hit by drought,” he said.

He said that the tree planting ef-fort has been made for several times, but they still failed to grow. He noted that tree planting has been carried out for approximately four times as an experiment, but they failed because they are submerged when water undergoes tidal condition. “Yes, all the seedlings planted previ-ously have died. They cannot grow as being submerged when the water

of the lake increases,” he said.It is required a supervision in the

effort to maintain orderliness against the development in the hill ranges around the area of ??Lake Buyan. It also includes the discipline against villas plotting people’s land with the development relying on the view of Lake Buyan. “If we love our grand-children in the future, primarily Buleleng with its Lake Tamblingan and Lake Buyan, the existence of the lake as the upstream of Bali must be saved by the government from various natural damages,” he said. (dgk)

DENPASAR - Since October 2015, the aid of Australian govern-ment to combat HIV/AIDS is offi-cially terminated. For 20 years, the Australian government has become a donor in the AIDS mitigation in Indonesia. The aids distributed to foundations are used to finance their operations and payment of salaries for their field personnel. As a result of the donation termination, some foundations no longer perform

their activities and are threatened to disband. However, there are some foundations seeking to find their own funds in order to keep the foundation running.

Kerti Praja Foundation, for instance, chaired by Prof. Dr. Wirawan, also experienced the same condition. His foundation must seek other funds to keep run-ning the AIDS prevention activities. “After being provided with the aids

for 20 years by Australian govern-ment, now it’s time for us to be independent,” he said, Tuesday (Nov. 17).

Then, a few Dutch people carry-ing out a tour by bike did fundrais-ing. To date, they have collected 9,000 dollars. As planned, the funds will be donated to Kerti Praja Foun-dation for operational assistance. “It will be taken advantage to pay field staff and nurses so as to keep

it running,” he said.In addition, his foundation also

talked to the National AIDS Mitiga-tion Commission (KPA) Denpasar in order that it can help make the foundation survive. In the end, it was decided that 11 foundation staff will be paid by the KPA Denpasar. “KPA Denpasar wants to help through regional budget, while the other KPA claims to face difficulty and has no fund,” he said.

Financial aid for HIV/AIDS has been discontinued, but the epidemic is still high. He was worried about the increasing AIDS epidemic. “Each month the foundation needs as much as IDR 30 million for the operations, while the officers have already been helped by KPA Den-pasar but the fund is limited,” he said. On that account, he hoped the government can allocate more bud-gets for the HIV/AIDS. (kmb42)

Australia aid for HIV/AIDS in Bali officially ceased

Govt must provide more budgets

Lake Buyan

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Lake Buyan has high potential to produce water for Buleleng

SINGARAJA - Scenic beauty of Lake Buyan at Pancasari village, Sukasada, has an eco-tourist attraction for local and foreign travelers. Lately, Lake Buyan is revealed to experience siltation marked by water receding at some central points of the lake. This condition causes several areas in Buleleng to have limited water supply. Existence of Lake Buyan is known as the upstream of life for the Island of Bali where the water of Lake Buyan is believed to have a general benefit to the community in Bali.

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Explosions and gunfire rang out as police stormed a building in a Paris suburb where Abdelhamid Abaaoud was believed to be hid-ing with five other heavily armed people, a senior police official told AP. Authorities said a woman blew herself up and a man was killed. Five people were arrested.

The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to police rules, but is informed rou-tinely about the operation.

On Monday, French authorities identified Abaaoud, the child of Moroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital’s multiethnic Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighbor-hood, as the presumed mastermind of last Friday’s attacks that killed 129 people and injured hundreds. He also is believed to have links to earlier attacks that were thwarted: one against a Paris-bound high-speed train that was foiled by three young Americans in August, and the other against a church in the French capital’s suburbs.

Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels’ most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d’Uccle, Abaaoud morphed into Belgium’s

most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to the cause of holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.

“All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow,” Abaaoud said in a video made public in 2014. “I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them.”

Belgian authorities suspect him of also helping organize and finance a terror cell in the eastern city of Verviers that was broken up in an armed police raid on Jan. 15, in which two of his presumed accom-plices were killed.

The following month, Abaaoud was quoted by the Islamic State group’s English-language magazine, Dabiq, as saying that he had secretly returned to Belgium to lead the terror cell and then escaped to Syria in the aftermath of the raid despite having his picture broadcast across the news.

“I was even stopped by an of-ficer who contemplated me so as to compare me to the picture, but he let me go, as he did not see the resemblance!” Abaaoud boasted.

The hardscrabble area in the

west of Brussels where he grew up has long been considered a focal point of Islamic radicalism and recruitment of foreign fighters to go to Iraq and Syria.

Abaaoud’s image became grim-mer after independent journalists Etienne Huver and Guillaume Lho-tellier, visiting the Turkish-Syrian frontier, obtained photos and video last year of his exploits across Syria. The material included footage of him and his friends loading a pickup truck and a makeshift trailer with a mound of bloodied corpses.

Before driving off, a grinning Abaaoud tells the camera: “Before we towed jet skis, motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vacation in Morocco. Now, thank God, following God’s path, we’re towing apostates, infidels who are fighting us.”

Huver told The Associated Press Monday that the video was too fragmentary to say much about Abaaoud’s character, but that he de-tected some signs the Belgian was moving into a leadership role.

“On the one hand I’m surprised,” Huver said of Abaaoud’s promi-nence. “On the other hand, I saw that there were beginnings of some-thing . You can see that he’s giving orders. You can feel a charismatic guy who’s going up in the world ... You can see a combatant who’s ready to climb the ranks.” (ap)

SALT LAKE CITY — Authorities cleared both Air France flights bound for Paris from the U.S. that had to be diverted Tuesday night because of anonymous threats received after they had taken off.

Air France Flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport, Air France said in a statement. At about the same time a second flight, Air France 55, took off from Dulles International Airport outside Washington and was diverted to Halifax on Canada’s East Coast, officials said.

Passengers got off both planes safely and were taken to terminals. American authorities investigated and found no credible threat, according to an FBI statement released late Tuesday night.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said investigators found no evidence of an explosive device after they searched the plane and luggage.

Passengers in the Utah airport were boarding their plane again around 11:30 p.m., Salt Lake airport spokeswoman Bi-anca Shreeve said. Keith Rosso of Santa Monica, California, a passenger on the flight from Los Angeles with his fiancee, said “everything was smooth, everything was great, everything was going swell” for the first two hours of the flight, then things changed.

“The flight attendants quickly came by and cleared plates, then there was an announcement that we were making an emer-gency landing and that the flight attendants were trained exactly for situations like this,” Rosso told The Associated Press by phone from the airport in Salt Lake City.

He said he looked at the flight monitor at his seat and saw that “we had made a pretty sharp right turn — we had been almost near Canada — toward Salt Lake City.” Rosso said an FBI agent interviewed the passengers after the landing.

In Halifax, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police led the investigation. RCMP Constable Mark Skinner said there were 262 people onboard that plane, which also received an anony-mous threat. No further details on that threat were released. “We received a complaint of a bomb threat and we responded to it,” Skinner said. (ap)

Militant photo via AP

This undated image made available in the Islamic State’s English-language magazine Dabiq, shows Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Abated who was identified by French authorities on Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, is the presumed mastermind of the attacks last Friday in Paris.

A look at presumed Paris mastermind

targeted in police raidSAINT-DENIS, France — The presumed mastermind of

last week’s devastating attacks in Paris — targeted in a police operation in the suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday — once bragged about being so slippery he could move undetected between Syria and Belgium, his home country.

No threat found on both diverted flights

from US to Paris

Social media was flooded with angry comments after the ministry’s attempt to launch a campaign to debunk myths about HIV backfired badly in a country where people with the virus are much stigma-tised.

The controversy came as the virus was hitting the headlines glob-ally after US actor Charlie Sheen revealed he was HIV-positive -- and had paid millions of dollars in hush money to people who knew about his infection to keep them quiet.

The Indonesian plan involved putting up posters on commuter trains in the capital Jakarta stating that HIV cannot be transmitted through mosquito bites, swimming and sneezing, as well as human saliva and sweat.

But the printing company man-aged to miss out the word “not” from the posters and then failed to get final approval from officials, meaning the banners reinforced

the very beliefs they were meant to challenge.

Hundreds of posters were plas-tered on trains at the weekend, but have now been removed following an outcry.

“The ministry has to carry out a massive and systematic awareness campaign to undo this blunder,” said Aditya Wardhana, an activist from Indonesia AIDS Coalition.

Prominent HIV activist Fajar Jasmin tweeted that the botched campaign was a “stupid, fatal mistake”.

Senior health ministry official Mu-hammad Subuh admitted the mistake was due to a “printing error”.

“We have made a public apol-ogy and now the banners are being removed and will be replaced with the correct ones,” he told AFP.

“They omitted the word ‘not’, it was an honest mistake.”

Subuh said the printing company failed to show the ministry the final

version of the posters before issuing them as they were supposed to.

The company has also apolo-gised for the error.

However Subuh insisted the controversy was a “blessing in disguise” as many people recogn-ised immediately it was a mistake, showing progress had made in spreading awareness about the true causes of transmission.

Activists dismissed his claim, with Wardhana saying that HIV campaigners would now have to be sent to train stations to inform people of the error.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can lead to AIDS, is mainly transmitted via sexual intercourse or needle shar-ing.

Ignorance about the virus has come from the highest echelons of government -- in February, then trade minister Rachmat Gobel sparked outrage by claiming that second-hand clothes could spread HIV as he campaigned to stop the import of used garments.

He has since been removed from his job. (afp)

JAKARTA - Australia’s trade minister said Wednesday it was a “matter of urgency” to revive talks on a trade agreement with Indo-nesia, during a trip to Jakarta with hundreds of business leaders as ties thaw between the neighbours.

“It’s a very important visit from our point of view,” Andrew Robb told reporters in the Indonesian capital, after arriving at the head of 350 businessmen and -women, the biggest delegation Australia has ever sent to Indonesia.

“We haven’t had the engagement that we could and should as such close neighbours,” he said, adding that both countries “have been look-ing past one another” for commercial opportunities in the past 15 to 20 years despite being so close.

He said that talks on a trade pact, which stalled after initial discus-sions several years ago, would be revived as soon as early next year.

The pact is aimed at strengthen-ing trade, investment and economic cooperation between the neigh-bours, according to Australia’s department of trade.

“We reached an agreement that it would be a matter of urgency to get on with it,” Robb said, referring to a discussion aimed at getting the trade talks back on track that he held

with his Indonesian counterpart on Monday.

Indonesia is Australia’s 12th largest trading partner, with two-way trade valued at $16 billion last year.

Robb said that Australia is at-tracted by Indonesia’s fast-growing economy and its location, which he said makes it an entry point for Aus-tralia to the rest of the region.

Australia’s main exports to Indo-nesia are wheat and cattle, but Robb pointed out that there was potential for partnerships on infrastructure, education and health services.

Robb’s four-day trip, which started Tuesday, follows a visit last week by new Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who was seeking to turn the page after recent crises.

Relations between Jakarta and Canberra have had many ups and downs, but hit a new low earlier this year following Indonesia’s ex-ecution of two Australian drug smugglers.

Ties have also been strained by Canberra’s hardline immigration policies, which involve turning mi-grant boats back to Indonesia, and allegations Australian spies tapped the phones of Indonesia’s former president. (afp)

JAKARTA - The government will develop 10 main tourist desti-nations to help boost the country’s economic growth, stated Coordinat-ing Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli.

“We will develop 10 main tour-ist destinations in Indonesia apart from Bali Island as other regions also hold huge potential,” Minister Ramli stated during a Core Eco-nomic Outlook discussion held on Wednesday.

The 10 new main tourist destina-tions will be developed at par with international standards.

Lake Toba in North Sumatra will be one of the 10 destinations.

The government will invest in developing infrastructure and fa-cilities around Lake Toba, such as building roads, internet network, markets, and hotels.

“So far, seven investors have expressed interest in investing in the tourist destination,” he stated.

He estimated that some Rp3.2 trillion will be needed to implement the projects around Lake Toba.

The One Thousand Islands, locally known as Pulau Seribu and located off North Jakarta, is another potential tourist destination to be developed.

“An airport and portable water pipeline network will be con-structed on Pulau Seribu, so that the tourists can proceed directly to the location from the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Cengkar-eng. Clean water supply is also needed to improve the health of the local inhabitants,” he stated.

Other potential areas include Flores in East Nusa Tenggara, Raja Ampat in West Papua, Borobudur in Yogyakarta, Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara, and Mount Bromo in Central Java.

He expressed hope that once the projects are realized, Indonesia’s economic growth would surpass that of India and the Philippines. (ant)

Government to develop 10 tourists destinations

for economic growth

Australian minister pushes ‘urgent’ trade talks in Indonesia

Indonesia sorry over HIV sneezing

link postersJAKARTA - Indonesia’s health ministry has apologised after

a printing error led to posters being put up claiming that HIV can be transmitted through mosquito bites, swimming and sneezing, an official said Wednesday.

REUTERS/Garry Lotulung

An employee of money changer stands beside Indonesian rupiah banknotes in Jakarta, November 18, 2015. Indonesia reaffirmed its commitment to allowing the free movement of capital and a floating exchange rate, putting to bed concerns the government would impose capital controls to manage rupiah and dollar liquidity.

Governor of Bali, Made Mang-ku Pastika, nonetheless called for a revision of Law No.33/2004 saying that justice could be acheived through further elabora-tion of other resources.

“For examples, East Kaliman-tan has oil, gas and all kinds of natural resources and its regional budget comes to IDR 15 trillion. East Kalimantan- like Bali, has a population of 4 million. We have the same number of people here, but a large number of visitors come to Bali, and our regional budget is only IDR 5 trillion - this is a big difference, no?” he asked.

Governor Pastika added that the government of Bali is there-fore forced to reduce the amount of other budgetary spending such as that required for infrastructure, in order to fund the preserva-tion of customs, culture and the

environment. “This is part of the moral burden of Bali as the show-case of Indonesia,” he said.

“This is the problem, Bali needs to look good. We need to have a cosmetic fee or something like that. In essence, we just want Bali to get just and fair treatment from the central government - we have no intention of undervaluing the other regions, but Bali has a particular responsibility as the showcase of Indonesia. It is im-portant,” stated the governor.

Deputy Chairman of the Bali House of Representatives, Nyo-man Sugawa Korry, added that Bali -as a tourist destination, should be allowed to request a cultural heritage and environ-mental preservation donation from foreign travelers as has been done by nine other countries in the world, including France, Japan and China. “We are not just whining to the federal gov-ernment, we are fighting for our rights,” said Korry. (kmb32)

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It is located a few kilometers northwards of Uluwatu, adjacent to Bingin and Labuan Sait surfing beach. The name Suluban is derived from a Balinese word meaning ‘to run or pass under something So, Suluban Beach signifies that visitors who want to visit the beach must go through a rock cave on the beach before finally reaching the

broad and white sandy beach with pounding waves that will pamper the adrenaline of surfers.

Its water is very clear and the waves are high enough. That’s why it is the best known beach among surfers of the world. Some tourism facilities such as restaurant, bar, surf equipment rental and repair shop are available here.

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Serbian world number one Djok-ovic had won his last 15 matches at the venue, his last 38 under a roof and has been untouchable since losing to Federer in Cincinnati in August.

But with his timing well off, he was brushed aside 7-5 6-2 by the 17-times grand slam champion who is already through to the semi-finals, probably as winner of the Stan Smith Group, with another round-robin match still to come.

Federer fully expects Djokovic to recover from the jolting defeat, however, and he may well have to beat him again at the weekend if he is to claim a seventh title at the ATP’s season-ending showpiece event.

“Still to me Novak is the favou-

rite for the tournament,” Federer told reporters. “Heavy favourite in the (Tomas) Berdych match (on Thursday), in my opinion. “Then he should make his way to the semis somehow. I don’t know exactly what he needs. And he’ll be the favourite in that probably, too, with the year he’s had.

“He’s far from gone. The way I know Novak, he’s going to find a way to be tougher to beat from now on.”

Federer has now won 50 matches at the tournament, although he was said he was not expecting to beat Djokovic -- an odd admission from a player who now leads their head-to-head 22-21.

“I wouldn’t have picked it maybe before the tournament, you know,

just because of his really good record indoors, the year he’s had,” he said of the Serb who has won three of the year’s four grand slams together with Six Masters Series titles.

Federer even managed to strike a blow before a ball was struck on Tuesday, sitting on the court-side chair which already had Djokovic’s towel draped on it. Asked about it afterwards, he joked: “I’m not go-ing to be pushed by a towel. I sat on that chair when I walked out against Tomas. I said, I’d like to sit here again.”

Djokovic also saw the funny side of it. “I don’t think it was a tactical approach,” he said. “Messing me around before even the first ball.”

Federer has two round-robin wins already with Djokovic and Kei Nishikori on one each. Djokovic will need to beat winless Tomas Berdych on Thursday to guarantee a semi-final place.(ap)

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan — Andre Drummond had 25 points and 18 rebounds, and made some crucial free throws when he was fouled intentionally, helping the Detroit Pistons rally to a 104-99 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday.

LeBron James scored 23 of his 30 points in the first half, but the Pistons double-teamed him on a couple of big possessions down the stretch and Cleveland couldn’t convert. The Cavs lost their second straight after winning eight in a row.

Drummond’s free throw with 2:07 left gave the Pistons a 98-97 advantage, and Detroit was able to hold on.

Golden State’s Stephen Curry scored 37 points to lead the defending champion Warriors to their 12th straight win to open the season, a hard-fought 115-110 victory over the Toronto Raptors.

Klay Thompson added 19 points and Andrew Bogut scored 13 for the Warriors, off to the best start since Dallas won the first 14 games in 2002-03. Golden State needs three wins to equal the NBA record of 15-0 held by the 1948-49 Washington Capitols and the 1993-94 Houston Rock-ets.

Lowry and DeMar DeRozan scored 28

points apiece for the Raptors. In New Or-leans, Danilo Gallinari scored a season-high 32 points for the Nuggets and the Pelicans’ Anthony Davis hurt his left shoulder in the first quarter as Denver won 115-98.

Jameer Nelson scored all 16 of his points in the last 14:10 of the game, help-ing Denver secure its fourth victory in five games. Will Barton added 17 points and Gary Harris 16. Ryan Anderson scored 24 and Eric Gordon 19 for the injury-riddled Pelicans.

The Brooklyn Nets edged the Atlanta Hawks 90-88 after Brook Lopez had 26 points and Thaddeus Young hit two free throws with 1.4 seconds remaining.

After a timeout, Young knocked away Thabo Sefolosha’s inbounds pass to Al Horford as time expired. Young finished with 16 points and 11 rebounds. Jarrett Jack and Shane Larkin each had 14.

In other games, Andrew Wiggins scored 24 points and Zach LaVine added 17 as the Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a triple-double by Miami’s Hassan Whiteside to beat the Heat 103-91, the New York Knicks defeated the Charlotte Hornets 102-94and the Washington Wizards were 115-86 winners over the Milwaukee Bucks.(ap)

Djokovic still favourite, says victorious Federer

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Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates during his match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia

LONDON - Novak Djokovic is still the favourite to claim a fourth consecutive ATP World Tour Finals title according to Roger Federer, despite him ending the Serb’s 23-match winning streak at the O2 Arena on Tuesday.

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Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) passes the ball to teammate Timofey Mozgov (20) while under pressure from Detroit Pistons’ Andre Drummond (0) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, in Auburn Hills, Mich. The Pistons defeated the Cavaliers 104-99. AP Photo/

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Striker Daniel Sturridge has returned to full training, taking him a step closer to making a first ap-pearance under manager Juergen Klopp when Liverpool take on his former employers Manchester City on Saturday.

The injury-prone England interna-tional missed the start of the season after returning from hip surgery and has made just three appearances this campaign.

A knee injury in training ruled him out of Klopp’s first game in charge, against Tottenham Hotspur on Oct. 17, and a build up of fluid in the knee has kept him out of action ever since.

Klopp, whose first days at Anfield were marked by one injury set-back after another, including full-back Joe Gomez and striker Danny Ings being ruled out for the season with cruciate ligament injuries, is expected to be able to call upon James Milner and Jordon Ibe for the City match.

Milner missed the 2-1 defeat by Crystal Palace - Klopp’s first loss as Liverpool manager - with a hamstring strain, while Ibe missed a week’s training with a bruised knee, but both returned to training on Monday.

Sturridge, though, has not played a competitive fixture since Oct. 4, and will be monitored by the club’s medical team as he continues to build up match fitness ahead of the

City clash before a call is made on whether he will get to play a part

against the club that handed him his Premier League debut. (ap)

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A touching pre-game ceremony saw England and France supporters sing the French national anthem as one, before the squads came together around the center circle for an impeccably observed minute of silence in honor of the 129 people killed.

Social media was awash with praise for the dignified way a sen-sitive occasion was handled, while French sports daily L’Equipe’s Wednesday front page comprised a photo of the players observing the minute’s silence with the single word “Respect.”

Wembley’s iconic arch was lit up in the blue, white, and red of the French flag, while the French motto “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite” was projected on the front of the national stadium.

England won 2-0, but rarely has the result of a soccer match — par-ticularly one this prestigious — felt

so irrelevant.“This will be shown round the

world and will show unity,” said England captain Wayne Rooney, one of the team’s goal-scorers. “Football is a global game and . it is not about religion or race. We need to stand tall together in these tough times.”

France striker Olivier Giroud said it was an emotionally charged occasion, “illustrated by the min-ute’s silence and ‘La Marseillaise (France’s national anthem).’”

“We wanted to play this match for all the people who have stayed in Paris, to pay homage and to honor the victims and their fami-lies,” Giroud said. “Everyone who played the match is a professional player. Even if it wasn’t easy, we had to do our job on the pitch.”

Prince William, who helped lay floral tributes beside the field, and British Prime Minister David

Cameron were among the 71,223 spectators at Wembley, where there was an increased police presence and enhanced security measures that included compulsory bag searches.

With a police helicopter whir-ring overhead and armed officers on patrol, England and France soccer fans had mingled outside Wembley in a calm pre-match atmosphere on a wet and windy evening in London. There was no sense of panic among supporters, who appeared intent on sending a defiant message of unity after the bombings in the French capital.

“We have been welcomed here like it’s our own home,” Sebastien Correia, a train driver from the northern French city of Calais who was attending the game with nine friends, told The Associated Press. “That’s very important for us, for Europe, and for the world, for all the people who are fighting against dictatorships and terrorism. We need solidarity on a European and a world level.”

France’s players were caught up

in the attacks that ripped through Paris in several locations on Fri-day. Suicide bombers attacked the Stade de France, where France was playing Germany in a friendly. The teams spent the night in the stadium as carnage struck elsewhere.

France midfielder Lassana Di-arra’s cousin was killed and France forward Antoine Griezmann’s sister escaped from the Bataclan concert hall where 89 people died. Diarra and Griezmann were among the 23-man squad that came to London, and both came on as second-half substitutes to applause.

Diarra lowered his head during the minute’s silence. Many France players, who had been told to play the game by the French Football Federa-tion, looked emotional for what was the country’s first major public event since Friday’s atrocities.

Dele Alli and Rooney, with his record-extending 51st England goal, were the scorers for the home side. Yet, worldwide focus was not on the game or the result between two of the major powers in European soccer, but on what the

occasion came to represent.“It was a very poignant occa-

sion, it was really everything I expected it to be,” said England coach Roy Hodgson, who likened the pre-game activities to a “re-membrance service.”

Fans from both countries shared warm embraces outside the sta-dium, and some broke into a ren-dition of “La Marseillaise” as they walked up to the stadium. Some England supporters were wearing berets. Hours later — in another powerful moment in the pre-game ceremony — players from both teams stood side by side with their arms linked in front of photog-raphers. Mathieu De Bruyne, an engineer from Dunkerque, said he had brief doubts about coming to London for the game.

“Maybe for two minutes, I thought to myself, ‘Should I go, should I not go?’ But I had to go. Nothing has changed,” he said. “You have to live like you live normally, go to the game, drink beer in the bar. “Don’t show you are afraid.” (ap)

SAO PAULO - An inspired performance from Douglas Costa helped Brazil to a 3-0 win over Peru on Tuesday and lifted them into third place in the South American qualifying group for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Costa scored the first after 21 minutes and then laid on the second for Renato Augusto 12 minutes into the second half. Filipe Luis grabbed a third in 76 minutes after the keeper parried Costa’s ferocious drive from the right wing.

“It was very important to win after the draw in Argentina and we did well,” said Luis, who scored his first international goal. “The team is growing and getting better every game and we are finding a style of play that we want.”

Brazil, who made three chang-es from the side that were fortu-nate to draw 1-1 with Argentina in Buenos Aires on Nov. 13, made a shaky start to the game.

Peru’s Paolo Guerrero should have done better when he only had the goalkeeper to beat after just three minutes but goalkeeper Alisson got down well to smother

his shot. Brazil, however, opened the scoring after 21 minutes when Douglas Costa got on the end of a cross from Willian to bundle the ball home from close range.

The 25-year old was unlucky not to get a second after 39 min-utes when his swerving cross bounced off the post and away to safety.

Peru’s Christian Cueva had an overhead kick well saved by Alisson in the 53rd minute before Willian watched Diego Penny parry a 20-yard drive to safety a few moments later. Brazil doubled their lead after 57 minutes when Costa laid the ball into the path of Renato Augusto, who stroked the ball home from 20 yards out.

Neymar, who was regularly fouled by the Peruvians, was unlucky to see his goal cruelly chalked off for offside midway through the second half.

Luis made it three with 14 minutes left when he was on hand to fire home the rebound from Costa’s parried shot. The result lifts Brazil into third in the 10-team table, one of three sides on seven points. (rtr)

SAN SALVADOr, El Salvador — El Salvador and Canada played to a 0-0 draw Tuesday in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Pressured after a previous 3-0 loss to Mexico, El Salvador started aggres-sively in search of a win that would improve its chances of qualifying for the World Cup.

El Salvador’s Dennis Pineda

broke through Canada’s line on sev-eral occasions, but failed to score.

Canadian goalkeeper Milan Bor-jan stopped Dustin Corea on a golden opportunity, silencing the home crowd’s screams of “Gol!”

Canada came close to scoring when striker Cyle Lurin shot over the head of goalkeeper Henry Her-nandez only to watch the ball hit the

crossbar.Canada is in second place in

Group A with four points behind Mexico with six and ahead of El Sal-vador with one and Honduras with none. The top teams in the group advance to the final round of World Cup qualifying in the CONCACAF region. Mexico won 2-0 away to Honduras earlier Tuesday. (ap)

LONDON — France striker Anthony Martial left Wembley Sta-dium on crutches after the friendly against England, in a potential blow to Manchester United ahead of the resumption of the English Premier League.

Martial’s left ankle was bandaged as he hobbled past reporters in the mixed zone after France’s 2-0 loss on Tuesday. He was substituted in the 67th minute of the game.

The 19-year-old Martial is one of the few strikers in United’s squad

and has made an impressive start to his career at Old Trafford after his move from Monaco for an initial fee of 38 million pounds ($58 million) last summer. United’s next game is against Watford in the Premier League on Saturday. (ap)

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

England and France players stand together as a mark of respect for the victims of Friday’s attacks in Paris, before the international friendly soccer match between England and France at Wembley Stadium in London, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015.

France, England soccer teams unite in defiance, respect

LONDON — Uniting in a symbol of defiance and respect, players and fans of the French and English soccer teams deliv-ered a moving display of solidarity at Wembley Stadium at a friendly staged four days after the deadly attacks in Paris.

Brazil’s Douglas Costa

celebrates with team-

mate Neymar after scoring against Peru during a 2018

World Cup qualifying

soccer match in Salvador, Brazil, Tues-day, Nov. 17,

2015.

Inspired Costa leads Brazil to 3-0

win over Peru

AP Photo/Nelson Antoine

El Salvador, Canada reach 0-0 draw in World Cup qualifier

Martial leaves Wembley on crutches after France-England game

Boost for Klopp as injury-prone Sturridge returns to training

AP Photo/Nikolai Alexandrov

Liverpool’s coach Jurgen Klopp watches a Europa League Group B soccer match between Rubin and Liverpool in Kazan, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015.

Striker Daniel Sturridge has returned to full training, taking him a step closer to making a first ap-pearance under manager Juergen Klopp when Liverpool take on his former employers Manchester City on Saturday.

The injury-prone England interna-tional missed the start of the season after returning from hip surgery and has made just three appearances this campaign.

A knee injury in training ruled him out of Klopp’s first game in charge, against Tottenham Hotspur on Oct. 17, and a build up of fluid in the knee has kept him out of action ever since.

Klopp, whose first days at Anfield were marked by one injury set-back after another, including full-back Joe Gomez and striker Danny Ings being ruled out for the season with cruciate ligament injuries, is expected to be able to call upon James Milner and Jordon Ibe for the City match.

Milner missed the 2-1 defeat by Crystal Palace - Klopp’s first loss as Liverpool manager - with a hamstring strain, while Ibe missed a week’s training with a bruised knee, but both returned to training on Monday.

Sturridge, though, has not played a competitive fixture since Oct. 4, and will be monitored by the club’s medical team as he continues to build up match fitness ahead of the

City clash before a call is made on whether he will get to play a part

against the club that handed him his Premier League debut. (ap)

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A touching pre-game ceremony saw England and France supporters sing the French national anthem as one, before the squads came together around the center circle for an impeccably observed minute of silence in honor of the 129 people killed.

Social media was awash with praise for the dignified way a sen-sitive occasion was handled, while French sports daily L’Equipe’s Wednesday front page comprised a photo of the players observing the minute’s silence with the single word “Respect.”

Wembley’s iconic arch was lit up in the blue, white, and red of the French flag, while the French motto “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite” was projected on the front of the national stadium.

England won 2-0, but rarely has the result of a soccer match — par-ticularly one this prestigious — felt

so irrelevant.“This will be shown round the

world and will show unity,” said England captain Wayne Rooney, one of the team’s goal-scorers. “Football is a global game and . it is not about religion or race. We need to stand tall together in these tough times.”

France striker Olivier Giroud said it was an emotionally charged occasion, “illustrated by the min-ute’s silence and ‘La Marseillaise (France’s national anthem).’”

“We wanted to play this match for all the people who have stayed in Paris, to pay homage and to honor the victims and their fami-lies,” Giroud said. “Everyone who played the match is a professional player. Even if it wasn’t easy, we had to do our job on the pitch.”

Prince William, who helped lay floral tributes beside the field, and British Prime Minister David

Cameron were among the 71,223 spectators at Wembley, where there was an increased police presence and enhanced security measures that included compulsory bag searches.

With a police helicopter whir-ring overhead and armed officers on patrol, England and France soccer fans had mingled outside Wembley in a calm pre-match atmosphere on a wet and windy evening in London. There was no sense of panic among supporters, who appeared intent on sending a defiant message of unity after the bombings in the French capital.

“We have been welcomed here like it’s our own home,” Sebastien Correia, a train driver from the northern French city of Calais who was attending the game with nine friends, told The Associated Press. “That’s very important for us, for Europe, and for the world, for all the people who are fighting against dictatorships and terrorism. We need solidarity on a European and a world level.”

France’s players were caught up

in the attacks that ripped through Paris in several locations on Fri-day. Suicide bombers attacked the Stade de France, where France was playing Germany in a friendly. The teams spent the night in the stadium as carnage struck elsewhere.

France midfielder Lassana Di-arra’s cousin was killed and France forward Antoine Griezmann’s sister escaped from the Bataclan concert hall where 89 people died. Diarra and Griezmann were among the 23-man squad that came to London, and both came on as second-half substitutes to applause.

Diarra lowered his head during the minute’s silence. Many France players, who had been told to play the game by the French Football Federa-tion, looked emotional for what was the country’s first major public event since Friday’s atrocities.

Dele Alli and Rooney, with his record-extending 51st England goal, were the scorers for the home side. Yet, worldwide focus was not on the game or the result between two of the major powers in European soccer, but on what the

occasion came to represent.“It was a very poignant occa-

sion, it was really everything I expected it to be,” said England coach Roy Hodgson, who likened the pre-game activities to a “re-membrance service.”

Fans from both countries shared warm embraces outside the sta-dium, and some broke into a ren-dition of “La Marseillaise” as they walked up to the stadium. Some England supporters were wearing berets. Hours later — in another powerful moment in the pre-game ceremony — players from both teams stood side by side with their arms linked in front of photog-raphers. Mathieu De Bruyne, an engineer from Dunkerque, said he had brief doubts about coming to London for the game.

“Maybe for two minutes, I thought to myself, ‘Should I go, should I not go?’ But I had to go. Nothing has changed,” he said. “You have to live like you live normally, go to the game, drink beer in the bar. “Don’t show you are afraid.” (ap)

SAO PAULO - An inspired performance from Douglas Costa helped Brazil to a 3-0 win over Peru on Tuesday and lifted them into third place in the South American qualifying group for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Costa scored the first after 21 minutes and then laid on the second for Renato Augusto 12 minutes into the second half. Filipe Luis grabbed a third in 76 minutes after the keeper parried Costa’s ferocious drive from the right wing.

“It was very important to win after the draw in Argentina and we did well,” said Luis, who scored his first international goal. “The team is growing and getting better every game and we are finding a style of play that we want.”

Brazil, who made three chang-es from the side that were fortu-nate to draw 1-1 with Argentina in Buenos Aires on Nov. 13, made a shaky start to the game.

Peru’s Paolo Guerrero should have done better when he only had the goalkeeper to beat after just three minutes but goalkeeper Alisson got down well to smother

his shot. Brazil, however, opened the scoring after 21 minutes when Douglas Costa got on the end of a cross from Willian to bundle the ball home from close range.

The 25-year old was unlucky not to get a second after 39 min-utes when his swerving cross bounced off the post and away to safety.

Peru’s Christian Cueva had an overhead kick well saved by Alisson in the 53rd minute before Willian watched Diego Penny parry a 20-yard drive to safety a few moments later. Brazil doubled their lead after 57 minutes when Costa laid the ball into the path of Renato Augusto, who stroked the ball home from 20 yards out.

Neymar, who was regularly fouled by the Peruvians, was unlucky to see his goal cruelly chalked off for offside midway through the second half.

Luis made it three with 14 minutes left when he was on hand to fire home the rebound from Costa’s parried shot. The result lifts Brazil into third in the 10-team table, one of three sides on seven points. (rtr)

SAN SALVADOr, El Salvador — El Salvador and Canada played to a 0-0 draw Tuesday in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Pressured after a previous 3-0 loss to Mexico, El Salvador started aggres-sively in search of a win that would improve its chances of qualifying for the World Cup.

El Salvador’s Dennis Pineda

broke through Canada’s line on sev-eral occasions, but failed to score.

Canadian goalkeeper Milan Bor-jan stopped Dustin Corea on a golden opportunity, silencing the home crowd’s screams of “Gol!”

Canada came close to scoring when striker Cyle Lurin shot over the head of goalkeeper Henry Her-nandez only to watch the ball hit the

crossbar.Canada is in second place in

Group A with four points behind Mexico with six and ahead of El Sal-vador with one and Honduras with none. The top teams in the group advance to the final round of World Cup qualifying in the CONCACAF region. Mexico won 2-0 away to Honduras earlier Tuesday. (ap)

LONDON — France striker Anthony Martial left Wembley Sta-dium on crutches after the friendly against England, in a potential blow to Manchester United ahead of the resumption of the English Premier League.

Martial’s left ankle was bandaged as he hobbled past reporters in the mixed zone after France’s 2-0 loss on Tuesday. He was substituted in the 67th minute of the game.

The 19-year-old Martial is one of the few strikers in United’s squad

and has made an impressive start to his career at Old Trafford after his move from Monaco for an initial fee of 38 million pounds ($58 million) last summer. United’s next game is against Watford in the Premier League on Saturday. (ap)

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

England and France players stand together as a mark of respect for the victims of Friday’s attacks in Paris, before the international friendly soccer match between England and France at Wembley Stadium in London, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015.

France, England soccer teams unite in defiance, respect

LONDON — Uniting in a symbol of defiance and respect, players and fans of the French and English soccer teams deliv-ered a moving display of solidarity at Wembley Stadium at a friendly staged four days after the deadly attacks in Paris.

Brazil’s Douglas Costa

celebrates with team-

mate Neymar after scoring against Peru during a 2018

World Cup qualifying

soccer match in Salvador, Brazil, Tues-day, Nov. 17,

2015.

Inspired Costa leads Brazil to 3-0

win over Peru

AP Photo/Nelson Antoine

El Salvador, Canada reach 0-0 draw in World Cup qualifier

Martial leaves Wembley on crutches after France-England game

Boost for Klopp as injury-prone Sturridge returns to training

AP Photo/Nikolai Alexandrov

Liverpool’s coach Jurgen Klopp watches a Europa League Group B soccer match between Rubin and Liverpool in Kazan, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015.

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Serbian world number one Djok-ovic had won his last 15 matches at the venue, his last 38 under a roof and has been untouchable since losing to Federer in Cincinnati in August.

But with his timing well off, he was brushed aside 7-5 6-2 by the 17-times grand slam champion who is already through to the semi-finals, probably as winner of the Stan Smith Group, with another round-robin match still to come.

Federer fully expects Djokovic to recover from the jolting defeat, however, and he may well have to beat him again at the weekend if he is to claim a seventh title at the ATP’s season-ending showpiece event.

“Still to me Novak is the favou-

rite for the tournament,” Federer told reporters. “Heavy favourite in the (Tomas) Berdych match (on Thursday), in my opinion. “Then he should make his way to the semis somehow. I don’t know exactly what he needs. And he’ll be the favourite in that probably, too, with the year he’s had.

“He’s far from gone. The way I know Novak, he’s going to find a way to be tougher to beat from now on.”

Federer has now won 50 matches at the tournament, although he was said he was not expecting to beat Djokovic -- an odd admission from a player who now leads their head-to-head 22-21.

“I wouldn’t have picked it maybe before the tournament, you know,

just because of his really good record indoors, the year he’s had,” he said of the Serb who has won three of the year’s four grand slams together with Six Masters Series titles.

Federer even managed to strike a blow before a ball was struck on Tuesday, sitting on the court-side chair which already had Djokovic’s towel draped on it. Asked about it afterwards, he joked: “I’m not go-ing to be pushed by a towel. I sat on that chair when I walked out against Tomas. I said, I’d like to sit here again.”

Djokovic also saw the funny side of it. “I don’t think it was a tactical approach,” he said. “Messing me around before even the first ball.”

Federer has two round-robin wins already with Djokovic and Kei Nishikori on one each. Djokovic will need to beat winless Tomas Berdych on Thursday to guarantee a semi-final place.(ap)

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan — Andre Drummond had 25 points and 18 rebounds, and made some crucial free throws when he was fouled intentionally, helping the Detroit Pistons rally to a 104-99 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday.

LeBron James scored 23 of his 30 points in the first half, but the Pistons double-teamed him on a couple of big possessions down the stretch and Cleveland couldn’t convert. The Cavs lost their second straight after winning eight in a row.

Drummond’s free throw with 2:07 left gave the Pistons a 98-97 advantage, and Detroit was able to hold on.

Golden State’s Stephen Curry scored 37 points to lead the defending champion Warriors to their 12th straight win to open the season, a hard-fought 115-110 victory over the Toronto Raptors.

Klay Thompson added 19 points and Andrew Bogut scored 13 for the Warriors, off to the best start since Dallas won the first 14 games in 2002-03. Golden State needs three wins to equal the NBA record of 15-0 held by the 1948-49 Washington Capitols and the 1993-94 Houston Rock-ets.

Lowry and DeMar DeRozan scored 28

points apiece for the Raptors. In New Or-leans, Danilo Gallinari scored a season-high 32 points for the Nuggets and the Pelicans’ Anthony Davis hurt his left shoulder in the first quarter as Denver won 115-98.

Jameer Nelson scored all 16 of his points in the last 14:10 of the game, help-ing Denver secure its fourth victory in five games. Will Barton added 17 points and Gary Harris 16. Ryan Anderson scored 24 and Eric Gordon 19 for the injury-riddled Pelicans.

The Brooklyn Nets edged the Atlanta Hawks 90-88 after Brook Lopez had 26 points and Thaddeus Young hit two free throws with 1.4 seconds remaining.

After a timeout, Young knocked away Thabo Sefolosha’s inbounds pass to Al Horford as time expired. Young finished with 16 points and 11 rebounds. Jarrett Jack and Shane Larkin each had 14.

In other games, Andrew Wiggins scored 24 points and Zach LaVine added 17 as the Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a triple-double by Miami’s Hassan Whiteside to beat the Heat 103-91, the New York Knicks defeated the Charlotte Hornets 102-94and the Washington Wizards were 115-86 winners over the Milwaukee Bucks.(ap)

Djokovic still favourite, says victorious Federer

Reuters / Toby Melville

Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates during his match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia

LONDON - Novak Djokovic is still the favourite to claim a fourth consecutive ATP World Tour Finals title according to Roger Federer, despite him ending the Serb’s 23-match winning streak at the O2 Arena on Tuesday.

Pistons rally for 104-99 win over Cavs despite James’ 30

Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) passes the ball to teammate Timofey Mozgov (20) while under pressure from Detroit Pistons’ Andre Drummond (0) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, in Auburn Hills, Mich. The Pistons defeated the Cavaliers 104-99. AP Photo/

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Explosions and gunfire rang out as police stormed a building in a Paris suburb where Abdelhamid Abaaoud was believed to be hid-ing with five other heavily armed people, a senior police official told AP. Authorities said a woman blew herself up and a man was killed. Five people were arrested.

The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to police rules, but is informed rou-tinely about the operation.

On Monday, French authorities identified Abaaoud, the child of Moroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital’s multiethnic Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighbor-hood, as the presumed mastermind of last Friday’s attacks that killed 129 people and injured hundreds. He also is believed to have links to earlier attacks that were thwarted: one against a Paris-bound high-speed train that was foiled by three young Americans in August, and the other against a church in the French capital’s suburbs.

Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels’ most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d’Uccle, Abaaoud morphed into Belgium’s

most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to the cause of holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.

“All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow,” Abaaoud said in a video made public in 2014. “I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them.”

Belgian authorities suspect him of also helping organize and finance a terror cell in the eastern city of Verviers that was broken up in an armed police raid on Jan. 15, in which two of his presumed accom-plices were killed.

The following month, Abaaoud was quoted by the Islamic State group’s English-language magazine, Dabiq, as saying that he had secretly returned to Belgium to lead the terror cell and then escaped to Syria in the aftermath of the raid despite having his picture broadcast across the news.

“I was even stopped by an of-ficer who contemplated me so as to compare me to the picture, but he let me go, as he did not see the resemblance!” Abaaoud boasted.

The hardscrabble area in the

west of Brussels where he grew up has long been considered a focal point of Islamic radicalism and recruitment of foreign fighters to go to Iraq and Syria.

Abaaoud’s image became grim-mer after independent journalists Etienne Huver and Guillaume Lho-tellier, visiting the Turkish-Syrian frontier, obtained photos and video last year of his exploits across Syria. The material included footage of him and his friends loading a pickup truck and a makeshift trailer with a mound of bloodied corpses.

Before driving off, a grinning Abaaoud tells the camera: “Before we towed jet skis, motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vacation in Morocco. Now, thank God, following God’s path, we’re towing apostates, infidels who are fighting us.”

Huver told The Associated Press Monday that the video was too fragmentary to say much about Abaaoud’s character, but that he de-tected some signs the Belgian was moving into a leadership role.

“On the one hand I’m surprised,” Huver said of Abaaoud’s promi-nence. “On the other hand, I saw that there were beginnings of some-thing . You can see that he’s giving orders. You can feel a charismatic guy who’s going up in the world ... You can see a combatant who’s ready to climb the ranks.” (ap)

SALT LAKE CITY — Authorities cleared both Air France flights bound for Paris from the U.S. that had to be diverted Tuesday night because of anonymous threats received after they had taken off.

Air France Flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport, Air France said in a statement. At about the same time a second flight, Air France 55, took off from Dulles International Airport outside Washington and was diverted to Halifax on Canada’s East Coast, officials said.

Passengers got off both planes safely and were taken to terminals. American authorities investigated and found no credible threat, according to an FBI statement released late Tuesday night.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said investigators found no evidence of an explosive device after they searched the plane and luggage.

Passengers in the Utah airport were boarding their plane again around 11:30 p.m., Salt Lake airport spokeswoman Bi-anca Shreeve said. Keith Rosso of Santa Monica, California, a passenger on the flight from Los Angeles with his fiancee, said “everything was smooth, everything was great, everything was going swell” for the first two hours of the flight, then things changed.

“The flight attendants quickly came by and cleared plates, then there was an announcement that we were making an emer-gency landing and that the flight attendants were trained exactly for situations like this,” Rosso told The Associated Press by phone from the airport in Salt Lake City.

He said he looked at the flight monitor at his seat and saw that “we had made a pretty sharp right turn — we had been almost near Canada — toward Salt Lake City.” Rosso said an FBI agent interviewed the passengers after the landing.

In Halifax, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police led the investigation. RCMP Constable Mark Skinner said there were 262 people onboard that plane, which also received an anony-mous threat. No further details on that threat were released. “We received a complaint of a bomb threat and we responded to it,” Skinner said. (ap)

Militant photo via AP

This undated image made available in the Islamic State’s English-language magazine Dabiq, shows Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Abated who was identified by French authorities on Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, is the presumed mastermind of the attacks last Friday in Paris.

A look at presumed Paris mastermind

targeted in police raidSAINT-DENIS, France — The presumed mastermind of

last week’s devastating attacks in Paris — targeted in a police operation in the suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday — once bragged about being so slippery he could move undetected between Syria and Belgium, his home country.

No threat found on both diverted flights

from US to Paris

Social media was flooded with angry comments after the ministry’s attempt to launch a campaign to debunk myths about HIV backfired badly in a country where people with the virus are much stigma-tised.

The controversy came as the virus was hitting the headlines glob-ally after US actor Charlie Sheen revealed he was HIV-positive -- and had paid millions of dollars in hush money to people who knew about his infection to keep them quiet.

The Indonesian plan involved putting up posters on commuter trains in the capital Jakarta stating that HIV cannot be transmitted through mosquito bites, swimming and sneezing, as well as human saliva and sweat.

But the printing company man-aged to miss out the word “not” from the posters and then failed to get final approval from officials, meaning the banners reinforced

the very beliefs they were meant to challenge.

Hundreds of posters were plas-tered on trains at the weekend, but have now been removed following an outcry.

“The ministry has to carry out a massive and systematic awareness campaign to undo this blunder,” said Aditya Wardhana, an activist from Indonesia AIDS Coalition.

Prominent HIV activist Fajar Jasmin tweeted that the botched campaign was a “stupid, fatal mistake”.

Senior health ministry official Mu-hammad Subuh admitted the mistake was due to a “printing error”.

“We have made a public apol-ogy and now the banners are being removed and will be replaced with the correct ones,” he told AFP.

“They omitted the word ‘not’, it was an honest mistake.”

Subuh said the printing company failed to show the ministry the final

version of the posters before issuing them as they were supposed to.

The company has also apolo-gised for the error.

However Subuh insisted the controversy was a “blessing in disguise” as many people recogn-ised immediately it was a mistake, showing progress had made in spreading awareness about the true causes of transmission.

Activists dismissed his claim, with Wardhana saying that HIV campaigners would now have to be sent to train stations to inform people of the error.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can lead to AIDS, is mainly transmitted via sexual intercourse or needle shar-ing.

Ignorance about the virus has come from the highest echelons of government -- in February, then trade minister Rachmat Gobel sparked outrage by claiming that second-hand clothes could spread HIV as he campaigned to stop the import of used garments.

He has since been removed from his job. (afp)

JAKARTA - Australia’s trade minister said Wednesday it was a “matter of urgency” to revive talks on a trade agreement with Indo-nesia, during a trip to Jakarta with hundreds of business leaders as ties thaw between the neighbours.

“It’s a very important visit from our point of view,” Andrew Robb told reporters in the Indonesian capital, after arriving at the head of 350 businessmen and -women, the biggest delegation Australia has ever sent to Indonesia.

“We haven’t had the engagement that we could and should as such close neighbours,” he said, adding that both countries “have been look-ing past one another” for commercial opportunities in the past 15 to 20 years despite being so close.

He said that talks on a trade pact, which stalled after initial discus-sions several years ago, would be revived as soon as early next year.

The pact is aimed at strengthen-ing trade, investment and economic cooperation between the neigh-bours, according to Australia’s department of trade.

“We reached an agreement that it would be a matter of urgency to get on with it,” Robb said, referring to a discussion aimed at getting the trade talks back on track that he held

with his Indonesian counterpart on Monday.

Indonesia is Australia’s 12th largest trading partner, with two-way trade valued at $16 billion last year.

Robb said that Australia is at-tracted by Indonesia’s fast-growing economy and its location, which he said makes it an entry point for Aus-tralia to the rest of the region.

Australia’s main exports to Indo-nesia are wheat and cattle, but Robb pointed out that there was potential for partnerships on infrastructure, education and health services.

Robb’s four-day trip, which started Tuesday, follows a visit last week by new Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who was seeking to turn the page after recent crises.

Relations between Jakarta and Canberra have had many ups and downs, but hit a new low earlier this year following Indonesia’s ex-ecution of two Australian drug smugglers.

Ties have also been strained by Canberra’s hardline immigration policies, which involve turning mi-grant boats back to Indonesia, and allegations Australian spies tapped the phones of Indonesia’s former president. (afp)

JAKARTA - The government will develop 10 main tourist desti-nations to help boost the country’s economic growth, stated Coordinat-ing Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli.

“We will develop 10 main tour-ist destinations in Indonesia apart from Bali Island as other regions also hold huge potential,” Minister Ramli stated during a Core Eco-nomic Outlook discussion held on Wednesday.

The 10 new main tourist destina-tions will be developed at par with international standards.

Lake Toba in North Sumatra will be one of the 10 destinations.

The government will invest in developing infrastructure and fa-cilities around Lake Toba, such as building roads, internet network, markets, and hotels.

“So far, seven investors have expressed interest in investing in the tourist destination,” he stated.

He estimated that some Rp3.2 trillion will be needed to implement the projects around Lake Toba.

The One Thousand Islands, locally known as Pulau Seribu and located off North Jakarta, is another potential tourist destination to be developed.

“An airport and portable water pipeline network will be con-structed on Pulau Seribu, so that the tourists can proceed directly to the location from the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Cengkar-eng. Clean water supply is also needed to improve the health of the local inhabitants,” he stated.

Other potential areas include Flores in East Nusa Tenggara, Raja Ampat in West Papua, Borobudur in Yogyakarta, Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara, and Mount Bromo in Central Java.

He expressed hope that once the projects are realized, Indonesia’s economic growth would surpass that of India and the Philippines. (ant)

Government to develop 10 tourists destinations

for economic growth

Australian minister pushes ‘urgent’ trade talks in Indonesia

Indonesia sorry over HIV sneezing

link postersJAKARTA - Indonesia’s health ministry has apologised after

a printing error led to posters being put up claiming that HIV can be transmitted through mosquito bites, swimming and sneezing, an official said Wednesday.

REUTERS/Garry Lotulung

An employee of money changer stands beside Indonesian rupiah banknotes in Jakarta, November 18, 2015. Indonesia reaffirmed its commitment to allowing the free movement of capital and a floating exchange rate, putting to bed concerns the government would impose capital controls to manage rupiah and dollar liquidity.

Governor of Bali, Made Mang-ku Pastika, nonetheless called for a revision of Law No.33/2004 saying that justice could be acheived through further elabora-tion of other resources.

“For examples, East Kaliman-tan has oil, gas and all kinds of natural resources and its regional budget comes to IDR 15 trillion. East Kalimantan- like Bali, has a population of 4 million. We have the same number of people here, but a large number of visitors come to Bali, and our regional budget is only IDR 5 trillion - this is a big difference, no?” he asked.

Governor Pastika added that the government of Bali is there-fore forced to reduce the amount of other budgetary spending such as that required for infrastructure, in order to fund the preserva-tion of customs, culture and the

environment. “This is part of the moral burden of Bali as the show-case of Indonesia,” he said.

“This is the problem, Bali needs to look good. We need to have a cosmetic fee or something like that. In essence, we just want Bali to get just and fair treatment from the central government - we have no intention of undervaluing the other regions, but Bali has a particular responsibility as the showcase of Indonesia. It is im-portant,” stated the governor.

Deputy Chairman of the Bali House of Representatives, Nyo-man Sugawa Korry, added that Bali -as a tourist destination, should be allowed to request a cultural heritage and environ-mental preservation donation from foreign travelers as has been done by nine other countries in the world, including France, Japan and China. “We are not just whining to the federal gov-ernment, we are fighting for our rights,” said Korry. (kmb32)

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BUSINESS

WASHINGTON — A survey of 500 chief financial of-ficers at U.S. companies released Tuesday found them opti-mistic about the American economy, with more than half of them expecting to hire additional employees next year, the highest level in eight years.

The annual survey sponsored by Bank of America Mer-rill Lynch showed that the chief financial officers see rising health care costs and weak domestic demand as the biggest threats to company earnings. A strong dollar and weak global demand were viewed as lesser threats.

The survey found that the chief financial executives at companies with annual revenues ranging from $25 million to $2 billion were generally upbeat about economic prospects next year, with 54 percent saying they expected to hire ad-ditional full-time workers, while only 5 percent expected to lay off workers.

The percentage of companies predicting increased hiring was up from 52 percent in last year’s survey. During the depths of the last recession, the number fell as low as 23 percent who had expected to increase hiring in 2009.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has conducted the annual survey of executive opinions for the past 18 years.

Executives in this year’s survey gave the U.S. economy an average score of 61, up from last year’s 59, which, like the job hiring percentage, was the highest in eight years. On the survey scale, zero is an extremely weak economy and 100 is extremely strong.

“Chief financial officers continue to be optimistic about the U.S. economy and their own companies,” said Alastair Borthwick, head of global commercial banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “This is consistent with what we are hearing from our middle-market clients.”

The survey found that 39 percent listed health care costs as the top threat to their company’s earnings next year fol-lowed by 39 percent who cited weak domestic demand and 31 percent who listed increased competition. The strong dollar, which has hurt export sales, was listed by 17 percent of those surveyed, while 10 percent listed weak international demand as one of the top threats to their company earnings. (ap)

In a speech to a business confer-ence on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Xi said China is committed to overhauling its economy and raising the living standards of its people.

China’s growth fell to a six-year low of 6.8 percent in the latest quarter as Beijing tries to shift the economy away from reliance on trade and investment. The slow-down, which has been unfolding for several years, has rippled around the world, crimping growth in

countries such as South Korea and Australia that were big exporters to China.

“The Chinese economy is a concern for everyone, and against the background of a changing world must cope with all sorts of difficul-ties and challenges,” Xi said. But China would “preserve stability and accelerate its development,” he said.

“We will work hard to shift our growth model from just expanding scale to improving its structure.”

He also said Beijing is step-

ping up efforts to counter climate change and clean up its environ-ment.

Weeks away from a deadline for an agreement to limit global warming, President Barack Obama sought to build momentum for the pact on Wednesday, reasoning that bold climate action will be a boon for businesses in Asia and around the world.

At the APEC business confer-ence, Obama urged business leaders to reduce their own emissions and pressure governments to sign on to an international carbon-cutting pact to be discussed beginning Nov. 30 in Paris.

“Your businesses can do right

by your bottom lines and by our planet and future generations,” Obama said. “The old rules that said we can’t grow our economy and protect our economy the same time — those are outdated.”

Xi did not comment on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, which are not part of the official agenda of the regional summit taking place under extremely tight security in the Philippine capital, Manila.

But on Wednesday, Obama called on China to halt further land reclamation and new construction in the disputed waters.

At a meeting with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III,

Obama called for “bold steps” to lower tensions over China’s ter-ritorial ambitions in the region, which have recently centered on construction of artificial islands in areas claimed by the Philip-pines and other Southeast Asian countries.

Such rifts often have tended to strain APEC’s facade of handshakes and unity, overshadowing talks on trade and development at the annual summit of the 21-member APEC.

The U.S. has showed solidarity with the Philippines by conducting military maneuvers recently near islands where China has reclaimed land and built settlements to shore up its claims. (ap)

Xi says China will keep economic growth on track

MANILA — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sought to reassure regional economic and political leaders that his government will keep the world’s No. 2 economy growing.

Business survey finds companies expecting to boost hiring

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File

In this Oct. 6, 2015 photo, A’GACI clothing store hiring manager Marcie Lowe, right, gives her card to job applicant Xionara Garcia, left, of Miami, during a job fair at Dolphin Mall in Miami.

Silting condition of Lake Buyan has occurred since the past six months. As the experience of local community, lake water formerly often overflowed to the points at the edge of the lake. Green algae did not commonly emerge as lately happened. “The depth of water in Lake Buyan is approximately 28

meters,” said Wayan Sumadra, Tuesday (Nov. 17).

Unfortunately, Lake Buyan does not get optimal attention from the government. Such condition is indi-cated by the ecosystem around Lake Buyan. Slowly but surely, the water increasingly recedes, while the lake is only filled in with dark brown mud

and green algae. The fish commonly emerges and becomes the netting target of fishermen began to be rarely found. Severe condition occurs in front of Pura Ulun Danu Bulian. The hills previously covered with trees have turned fragile as the trees are cut down. As a result, it is feared to cause erosion in the future. “Alleg-

edly this causes erosion in the hills around the area of ??Lake Buyan. Moreover, water of Lake Buyan has decreased nearly three meters after being hit by drought,” he said.

He said that the tree planting ef-fort has been made for several times, but they still failed to grow. He noted that tree planting has been carried out for approximately four times as an experiment, but they failed because they are submerged when water undergoes tidal condition. “Yes, all the seedlings planted previ-ously have died. They cannot grow as being submerged when the water

of the lake increases,” he said.It is required a supervision in the

effort to maintain orderliness against the development in the hill ranges around the area of ??Lake Buyan. It also includes the discipline against villas plotting people’s land with the development relying on the view of Lake Buyan. “If we love our grand-children in the future, primarily Buleleng with its Lake Tamblingan and Lake Buyan, the existence of the lake as the upstream of Bali must be saved by the government from various natural damages,” he said. (dgk)

DENPASAR - Since October 2015, the aid of Australian govern-ment to combat HIV/AIDS is offi-cially terminated. For 20 years, the Australian government has become a donor in the AIDS mitigation in Indonesia. The aids distributed to foundations are used to finance their operations and payment of salaries for their field personnel. As a result of the donation termination, some foundations no longer perform

their activities and are threatened to disband. However, there are some foundations seeking to find their own funds in order to keep the foundation running.

Kerti Praja Foundation, for instance, chaired by Prof. Dr. Wirawan, also experienced the same condition. His foundation must seek other funds to keep run-ning the AIDS prevention activities. “After being provided with the aids

for 20 years by Australian govern-ment, now it’s time for us to be independent,” he said, Tuesday (Nov. 17).

Then, a few Dutch people carry-ing out a tour by bike did fundrais-ing. To date, they have collected 9,000 dollars. As planned, the funds will be donated to Kerti Praja Foun-dation for operational assistance. “It will be taken advantage to pay field staff and nurses so as to keep

it running,” he said.In addition, his foundation also

talked to the National AIDS Mitiga-tion Commission (KPA) Denpasar in order that it can help make the foundation survive. In the end, it was decided that 11 foundation staff will be paid by the KPA Denpasar. “KPA Denpasar wants to help through regional budget, while the other KPA claims to face difficulty and has no fund,” he said.

Financial aid for HIV/AIDS has been discontinued, but the epidemic is still high. He was worried about the increasing AIDS epidemic. “Each month the foundation needs as much as IDR 30 million for the operations, while the officers have already been helped by KPA Den-pasar but the fund is limited,” he said. On that account, he hoped the government can allocate more bud-gets for the HIV/AIDS. (kmb42)

Australia aid for HIV/AIDS in Bali officially ceased

Govt must provide more budgets

Lake Buyan

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Lake Buyan has high potential to produce water for Buleleng

SINGARAJA - Scenic beauty of Lake Buyan at Pancasari village, Sukasada, has an eco-tourist attraction for local and foreign travelers. Lately, Lake Buyan is revealed to experience siltation marked by water receding at some central points of the lake. This condition causes several areas in Buleleng to have limited water supply. Existence of Lake Buyan is known as the upstream of life for the Island of Bali where the water of Lake Buyan is believed to have a general benefit to the community in Bali.

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“The picture is getting increas-ingly bleak,” said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. “There’s been an accumulation of anti-Islamic rheto-ric in our lives and that I think has trigged these overt acts of violence and vandalism.”

He said the rise in the level of an-ti-Muslim sentiment is reflected by some GOP presidential candidates, governors and others speaking out in opposition to the U.S. accepting more Syrian refugees.

Hooper said the council is see-ing an increase in anti-Muslim incidents since Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded more than 350. In Con-necticut, the FBI and local police are investigating reports of mul-tiple gunshots fired at the Baitul Aman mosque in Meriden hours after the attacks.

Leaders of the mosque don’t know the motive of the shooter or shooters, said Salaam Bhatti, a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in New York, to which the mosque belongs. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a movement within Islam. Bhatti said the shooting has not rattled

mosque members. He said many are from Pakistan, where conditions for the Ahmadiyya movement are much worse.

“It’s a teachable moment,” Bhat-ti said. “As we do raise awareness of attacks in mosques, we will see mosques do not respond in violence. Islam teaches us to teach peace.”

At the University of Connecti-cut, authorities are investigating after the words “killed Paris” were discovered on Saturday written beneath an Egyptian student’s name on his dorm room door.

Muslim leaders also have re-ported recent vandalism, threats and other hate crimes targeting mosques in Nebraska, Florida, Texas, Ken-tucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, New York and other states.

After the Paris attacks:— The Omaha Islamic Center

in Nebraska reported that someone spray-painted a rough outline of the Eiffel Tower on an outside wall. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has called for the FBI and local police to investigate the inci-dent as a possible hate crime, and they’re doing just that, according to Nasir Husain, general secretary of

the center. Muslims in the central U.S. city are afraid, he said.

— In a suburb of Austin, Texas, leaders of the Islamic Center of Pflugerville on Monday discov-ered feces and torn pages of the Quran that had been thrown at the door of the mosque. Muslim leaders also encouraged authori-ties to investigate the act as a hate crime.

— In a suburb of Houston, Tex-

as, authorities on Tuesday arrested a man accused of threatening on so-cial media to “shoot up a mosque.” He was charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony.

— Two Tampa Bay-area mosques in Florida received threatening phone messages on Friday night. FBI officials said the same per-son made the calls to the Islamic Society of St. Petersburg and the Islamic Society of Pinellas County.

The person was identified and interviewed over the weekend, but investigators found no actual plans to carry out acts of violence, the FBI said. One of the calls threatened a firebombing.

Nihad Awad, national execu-tive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, asked law enforcement officials to step up patrols at mosques and other Islamic institutions.(ap)

MANILA, Philippines — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has asked Philippine authorities to punish kidnap-pers who reportedly beheaded a Malay-sian man in the southern Philippines, saying he and his people were “shocked and sickened” by the savage act.

The Philippine military said Tuesday that it is verifying intelligence reports that the militants killed Bernard Then Ted Fen in a jungle in Sulu province, where the militants are holding other foreign and Filipino kidnap victims.

In a statement posted on his Facebook account late Tuesday, Najib called on Phil-ippine authorities “to take action against those who have perpetrated this savage and barbaric act and ensure that they are brought to justice.”

“I, the government, and all Malaysians are shocked and sickened by the murder of our countryman Bernard Then and we condemn it in its strongest terms,” said Najib, who is in Manila to attend an annual summit of Asia Pacific leaders.

He said Malaysia will cooperate with the Philippine investigation of Then’s killing.

Then was abducted with a compa-triot, Thien Nyuk Fun, by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in May in the Malaysian state of Sabah and taken by boat across the sea border to Sulu. Thien was freed earlier this month after a ransom was reportedly paid.

The United States and the Philippines have listed the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization for conducting kidnappings, beheadings, extortion and bomb attacks. The al-Qaida-linked militants have been weakened but have survived more than a decade of U.S.-backed offensives.

The Abu Sayyaf has been suspected of kidnapping two Canadians, a Norwegian and a Filipina from a marina in the south in September. Militants who identified themselves in an online video as belong-ing to the Abu Sayyaf have demanded more than $60 million for the release of the three foreigners.(ap)

US Muslims face backlash after Paris attacksHARTFORD, Conn. — Muslims around the U.S. are facing

backlash following the deadly attacks in Paris, including van-dalism to mosques and Islamic centers, hate-filled phone and online messages and threats of violence. Advocacy leaders say they have come to expect some anti-Muslim sentiment follow-ing such attacks, but they now see a spike that seems notable, stirred by anti-Muslim sentiment in the media.

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 photo, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Connecticut walks past the Baitul Aman mosque in South Meriden, Conn., where police and the FBI had been investigating reports of multiple gunshots fired at the mosque during the weekend.

Malaysia ‘sickened’ by citizen’s beheading in Philippines

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Activist and presidential candidate Atty. Elly Pamatong burns a Malaysian flag to protest the visit of Prime Minister Najib Razak who will attend this week’s APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit of Leaders Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 in Manila, Philippines. Pamatong is protesting the long-standing claim by the Sultan-ate of Sulu in southern Philippines of the island of Sabah.

GIANYAR - An Austrian tourist, Alexander Anton Lochs, was found unconscious on Jalan Raya Ubud, Sunday afternoon (Nov. 15). But when brought to public health center, he was finally dead. As provisional estimation, this 66-year-old man died from consuming alcoholic drink of arrack type. However, police authority claimed that it cannot make it sure.

As information gathered on Tuesday (Nov. 17), it is said the incident began when the victim was seen by two employees of Coco Vistro Restaurant on Jalan Raya Ubud while sitting on sidewalk on Sunday morning around 10:00 a.m. Besides, the Belgium-born tourist was also seen carrying two bottles of mineral water which alleg-edly contained alcoholic drink.

Initially, two restaurant employees did not suspect him. However, until 2:30 p.m. they began to suspect the tourist. As unwilling to take risk, the two restaurant employees finally reported it to police station at the intersection of Ubud. Then, two po-lice officers came down to the scene and invited the victim to be escorted back to his boarding house in the area of Kalah hamlet, Peliatan. At that time, the tourist refused and did not answer.

An hour later or around 3:30 p.m., both restaurant employees came back to police station. At that time they im-mediately asked the police officers to bring the foreigner to health center. Allegedly he was in sick condition.

Chief of Ubud Police, Ketut Widi-ada, when asked for his confirmation about the incident justified it. He said that police officers immediately rushed the victim to Ubud health center. Unfortunately, when being ex-amined by medical team at the health center, the man was already dead. After that, his body was immediately taken to Sanglah Hospital.

“After the death of foreigner, we have contacted the Austrian Consul-ate. In addition, some personnel also directly asked for testimony of several witnesses,” he said.

Widiada did not dare to make sure regarding the information if the for-eigner was bringing alcoholic drink while sitting in front of the restaurant in Ubud. His authority is still checking the bottles of mineral water brought. “Ob-viously, according to both restaurant employees, the foreigner was carrying bottles of mineral water, but the content has not been known as it is still being examined,” he added. (kmb35)

It was explained by a legislator of Karan-gasem House of Representatives, Nyoman Sumadi. Sumadi who is also a member of Commission III said that in addition to scarce maize, the egg production in Karangasem also accumulates. Sluggish economic condition is alleged to have caused people to reduce their egg consumption.

He said that local egg production in Karan-gasem reaches about five million. Stock of egg production has accumulated for two weeks. From the aspiration of breeders in Karan-gasem he received, all this time the marketing of the egg production in Karangasem spreads to the nine districts and city in Bali as well as NTB and NTT. “Due to sluggish economy, as also happens to NTT, consumers seem to reduce their egg consumption. As a result, the production accumulates in the collectors. Lately the price of eggs slumped because the production is still piling up,” he said.

He said that based on the latest data the population of laying hens in Karangasem

reaches approximately 600,000 heads. Farm-ers in Manggis subdistrict breed 350,000 heads, while in Karangasem subdistrict with the center at Bugbug and Seraya village reaches 250,000 heads. Breeders of laying hens have also developed to Rendang region, such as Besakih village, Selat subdistict and even to Bau hamlet (Abang). “Laying hen breeders have also developed to our village at Pura, Selat,” said another legislator, Wayan Sumerta.

With such fairly high population of lay-ing hens, the livestock can absorb moderate labor in Karangasem. All this time, when the price of eggs increases this business has quite developed public economy in Karangasem. However, with global economic slowdown aggravated by scarce maize supply farmers became distraught. Moreover, a breeder at Pesedahan, Manggis, raising 40,000 laying hens has never increased the population of his chicken since a year ago. It is caused by the sluggish economic condition so that it presses

the breeder.He said that maize need in Karangasem is

estimated to reach 28.8 tons each day. This amount is calculated when maize poses 40 percent of feed mixture composite other than fish and soybean meal. “Actually, the potential for maize cultivation is very high in order to prosper maize farmers,” he said.

Scarcity of maize happens because the stock of farmer crop in Sumbawa and other maize production centers have been sold out. Besides, it also occurs due to prolonged dry season. All this time, maize of farmers is also absorbed by many feed mills in Java where the factory took the maize of farmers because the maize import has been stopped. However, currently the maize stock in the market has sold out and it is estimated that the government will open the maize import.

However, it has been so late because the stocks in society have run out. Even if the government is now flushing imported maize, small farmers will lose because the imported maize will directly go to plant. When the processed maize is distributed to market by the factory, the price will be expensive and farmers are depressed. (013)

Suspected of getting drunk of arrack, an Austrian killed

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The maize is cleaned after being harvest. The drought is affecting the harvest of maize.

During drought, maize turns rare

AMLAPURA - Maize as a component of animal feed for laying chicken is getting rare lately. As a result, farmers are distraught because they must use manufactured animal feed that costs much more expensive.

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The medication, called Disul-firam, draws out the AIDS-causing virus without any side effects for patients, according to a study pub-lished in The Lancet.

In people undergoing treatment for AIDS, the virus can take cover in certain cells and hide away,

only to reemerge once therapy is stopped.

This latency has been one of the biggest hurdles in developing a cure.

“Waking up” the virus - and then destroying it -- is a promising strat-egy for ridding patients of HIV.

But other drugs which are able to rouse HIV from its dormant state are toxic to humans.

In clinical trials led by Sharon Lewin, a professor at the Univer-sity of Melbourne, 30 people on antiretroviral treatment (ART) were given increasing doses of Disulfiram over a period of three days.

At the highest dose, there was evidence of slumbering HIV being

stimulated, with no side effects.“This trial clearly demonstrates

that Disulfiram is not toxic and is safe to use, and could quite possi-bly be the game changer we need,” Lewin said in a statement.

The next step will be to test Disulfiram’s rousing effect in com-bination with a virus-killing drug.

“Waking up the virus is only the first step to eliminating it,” said the study’s lead author Julian Elliott,

head of clinical research in the department of infectious diseases at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

“Now we need to work out how to get rid of the infected cell.”

Approximately 34 million people have died of HIV-related causes worldwide. By the end of 2014, there were an estimated 36.9 people living with HIV globally. (afp)

MIAMI - People who report drinking three to five cups of cof-fee per day are less likely to die prematurely from heart disease, suicide, diabetes or Parkinson’s disease, US researchers said Monday.

Both caffeinated and decaf-feinated coffee were shown to have benefits, said the study by researchers at the Harvard Uni-versity Chan School of Public Health published in the Novem-ber 16 edition of the journal Circulation.

The study compared people who don’t drink coffee, or drank less than two cups daily, to those who reported drinking “moder-ate” amounts of coffee, or up to five cups daily.

The study did not prove a cause-and-effect for coffee and the reduced likelihood of certain diseases, but uncovered an ap-parent link that aligns with previ-ous research, and that scientists would like to probe further.

“Bioactive compounds in cof-fee reduce insulin resistance and systematic inflammation,” said first author Ming Ding, a doc-toral student in the Department of Nutrition.

“That could explain some of our findings. However, more

studies are needed to investigate the biological mechanisms pro-ducing these effects.”

No protective effect was found against cancer in this study. Some previous research has pointed to a link between coffee consump-tion and a lower risk of certain cancers.

The study was based on data gathered from three large, on-going surveys including some 300,000 nurses and other health professionals who agree to an-swer questionnaires about their own medical conditions and habits at regular intervals over the course of 30 years.

“In the whole study popula-tion, moderate coffee consump-tion was associated with reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, and suicide,” said the findings.

Researchers also accounted for potential confounding factors such as smoking, body mass in-dex, exercise, alcohol consump-tion, and diet. But the fact that the research relied on surveys, which use self-reported behavior, could raise questions about its reliability.

And experts warned that coffee -- a substance adored by many devotees -- may not be right for everyone.

“Regular consumption of cof-fee can be included as part of a healthy, balanced diet,” said senior author Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard.

“However, certain populations such as pregnant women and children should be cautious about high caffeine intake from coffee or other beverages.” (afp)

Alcoholism drug may help design HIV cure

PARIS - A treatment for alcoholism can reactivate dormant HIV, potentially allowing other drugs to spot and kill the virus hiding out in human immune cells, researchers said Tuesday.

Coffee-drinkers less likely to die from certain diseases

A customer carries a coffee drink in a red paper cup, with a cardboard cover attached. People who report drinking three to five cups of coffee per day are less likely to die prematurely from heart disease, suicide, diabetes or Parkinson’s disease, US researchers said Monday.AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

Anwar also stated that, over the next two days of the ACSIC conference, Asippindo will put forward two important points related to the sustainability of Indonesia’s guarantee industry. “The first point is related to SMEs ratings, that will allow Small businesses to upgrade their status to Medium business once they have accessed capital from both banks and non-banking financial institutions. We are hoping that Small and Medium businesses can grow bigger and we are now looking into providing mentoring as well,” he said.

Anwar stressed that mentoring is an im-portant part of the struggle of his institution to help SMEs evolve. We are also proposing that the media and educational institutions

get involved in acting as companions to SMEs. Specifically we are looking at having University’s provide business clinics aimed at stimulating the local economy. So far, in Indoneisa, only Brawijaya University, Gad-jah Mada University and the University of Indonesia offer business clinics of varying directions.

“We must not let the capital that SMEs gain access to, to go to waste simply because they are not able to package their products into saleable commodities. We need to strengthen the competitiveness of our SMEs because they will soon be competing directly with companies from other countries,” added An-war. (kmb32)

Asippindo members join ACSIC

NUSA DUA – During the Chief Delegates Meeting (CDM) of the 28th ACSIC conference in Nusa Dua on Tuesday evening it was decided that all members of the Indonesia Credit Guarantee Association (Asippindo) will officially join ACSIC (Asian Credit Supplementation Institution Confederation. Asippindo chairman, and President Director of Jamkrindo, Diding S. Anwar explained that ACSIC does not place a limit on the number of guarantee industry institutions or companies from any given country that can join, so long as they have received a recommendation from a financial institution in their home country.

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Chairman of the Asippindo, Diding S. Anwar (6 from right) during the International Guarantee Seminar (IGS) that held in Nusa Dua before the 28th Asian Credit Supplementation Institution Confederation (ACSIC) conference.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Recently the team at the iconic hotel took things a step further. As part of the hotel’s 40th anniversary celebrations, almost 200 past, pres-ent and long-serving team members got together to organise their own special reunion dinner.

In addition to the current team at the hotel, members who were in the original pre-opening team for the hotel and who have worked in the hotel for 30 years or more

were invited along too. The owner of the hotel, Dr Aron Harilela, also joined in the celebrations which were held the hotel’s glittering Crys-tal Ballroom.

In keeping with the hotel’s tradition of taking great care of its guests, and also of contribut-ing to the community as well, the

team donated almost HKD 70,000 to the hotel’s supported charity IDEAL.

An acronym for the Intellectu-ally Disabled Education and Advo-cacy League, IDEAL provides much needed educational opportunities for young people with learning and be-havioural difficulties in Hong Kong and helps them to build meaningful and rewarding lives. A wonderful and heartfelt gesture from one of Hong Kong’s most caring and hos-pitable hotels.

Holiday Inn 40th anniversary

Team reunion dinner brings surprise boost for charity

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DENPASAr - For four decades the popular Holiday Inn Golden Mile has presided over the heart of Tsimshatsui and gained a place in local people’s hearts and in the travel community as a whole for its warm hospitality and caring service.

NUSA DUA - Speakers from both Japan and Korea also brought some insightful experiences to the conference table. Like Indonesia, Japan has a number of guarantee companies that assist SMEs in ac-cessing credit. Japan however has proven to be more successful at boosting this sector, because they have created a centre for data and development for SMEs.

During that ocassion, he said the role of state owned guarantee company, Jamkrindo, in boosting people’s business credit (KUR) to SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), still behind the bank. But, after participate in the 28th Asian Credit Supplementa-tion Institution Confederation (ACSIC) conference being held in Nusa Dua (Nov 16-20) is al-ready having major impacts on the way that Indonesian creditors see guarantees.

Jamkrindo, Indonesia’s state owned guarantee company for example, is looking to adopt models of loan guaranteeing, that have proven successful in other Asian countries.

Anwar said that having guar-antee institutions -like the one that he heads, take a more active role in issuing loans to SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) makes a lot of sense for a coun-try like Indonesia: “in other countries, guarantee institu-tions and banks work together to provide more credit options for SMEs,” Anwar added that by with greater access to credit, even the smallest of personal businesses can take things to the next level and cited companies like Fiat, Ferrari and Gucci as examples of private companies that became multinationals. “With the support of loans, even a pecel (vegetable with peanut sauce) street stall can grow into an international company,” said Anwar with great excitement. (kmb32/kmb18) IBP Yudi Karnaedi

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Participants of 28th Asian Credit Supplementation Institution Confederation (ACSIC) conference listened to speaker during the Chief Delegates Meeting (CDM) that held in Nusa Dua, Bali.

Indonesia to learn from Japan,

South Korea

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Nina Kurnia Dewi

Committee Chairman of the 28th Asian Credit Supplementation In-stitution Confederation (ACSIC) conference, Nina Kurnia Dewi said that Indonesia would do well to follow suite, especially given that -like Japan, Indonesia’s regions are developed locally with Jamkrindo cooperating with local Jamkrida’s in

different areas. Although South Korea’s only has

three guarantee companies that are fo-cused on large companies, technology and specialized SMEs respectively, Kurnia added that “this approach of developing segmented or specific guar-antees for specific sectors, could also be useful in Indonesia”. (kmb18)

“The state budget for 2015 targeted IDR 3.5 trillion in non-tax revenue from tourism. If we assume that 40 percent of foreign visitors to Indonesia come to Bali then the non-tax revenue from these visitors amount to some IDR 1.4 trillion,” said legislator of the Federal House of Representatives, Wayan Koster, representing the constituency of Bali.

During his meeting with Bali House of Repre-sentatives, the Governor of Bali, legislators and senators from the constituency of Bali, regents and mayors from throughout Bali, as well as the parliamentary leadership of Bali, Koster explained that the non-tax revenue of tourism is

returned to the Departement of Immigration to be used for making improvements to and developing immigration. The amount of foreign exchange in 2014, sourced from from hoteliers, restaurateurs, airlines, business services, merchants and such is estimated to have reach IDR 59 trillion. Bali’s local government receives some funds from the hotel and restaurant taxes.

“Asking for a share of the profits made from tourism in Bali is not within Bali’s rights to de-mand, because tourism -unlike natural resources, does not qualify for the nomenclature of ‘primary sector’. State revenue derived tourism comes from fees for visas and is a non-tax revenue that

is managed by Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, not by Minister of Finance, therefore such income does not qualify for being shared with the region that generated it,” affirmed this member of the Parliament’s Budgetary Committee.

Koster added that Bali receives regional fund transfers and ‘village funds’ worth IDR 8.26 trillion. This fund includes money sourced from personal income tax (VAT), corporate income tax and others. “So, by receiving a transfer of funds worth IDR 6.26 trillion from the central government, Bali has been subsidized by other regions,” he explained.

“I look forward to presenting these 17 distinguished Americans with our nation’s highest civilian honor,” President Barack Obama said.

“From public servants who helped us meet defining challenges of our time to artists who expanded our imaginations, from leaders who have made our union more perfect to athletes who have inspired mil-lions of fans, these men and women have enriched our lives and helped define our shared experience as Americans,” he added.

Among other entertainment stars to be honored are music pro-ducer Emilio Estefan and pop star Gloria Estefan, a Cuban American couple seen as trailblazers for be-

ing Spanish-language stars who successfully crossed over to the English-language market.

Grammy-winner Itzhak Perl-man and composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim also will receive the hon-or together with the likes of Spiel-berg, the director and philanthropist whose films include blockbusters such as “Jaws,” “Jurassic Park,” “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” and the “Indiana Jones” series.

Baseball great Willie Mays will be honored alongside fellow legend Yogi Berra, who will get a posthu-mous award.

Public servants to be lauded include the late Shirley Chisholm, who became the first black US

congresswoman in 1968. She later ran for president as a Democrat, and was a professor at Mount Holyoke College.

The late Minoru Yasui also is to be honored. The attorney chal-lenged the constitutionality of a military curfew order during World War II on the grounds of racial dis-crimination. He was in solitary con-finement during the legal process and spent much of his life appealing his wartime conviction.

“At the time of his death in 1986, he had successfully convinced a trial court to vacate his arrest, and a case challenging the constitutional-ity of his conviction was pending before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,” a White House statement said.

The awards ceremony will take place at the White House on No-vember 24. (afp)

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NEW YORK — Cate Blanchett, accepting an honor for her film work, made reference to the recent attacks in Paris and Beirut and said her own efforts “feel very insignificant” in view of what’s happening in the world.

Blanchett was honored Tuesday evening at the Museum of Modern Art’s eighth annual film benefit, which raises funds so that important cinematic works can join the mu-seum’s collection. “All my efforts do feel very insignificant in view of what’s going on in the world at the moment, the horrific events in Europe and the Middle East,” Blanchett said, “and the thousands of refugees who travel across the borders, and their plight, their peril has become even more precarious and difficult.”

“But,” she added, “and this is going to sound like a mas-sive justification — perhaps it is in the face of what’s going on in the world — sometimes you’re presented with the op-portunity of working on projects that perhaps might last and perhaps have something interesting and important to say, and last year was definitely one of those years for me.”

She was referring to the two current movies that both are generating serious awards buzz for the two-time Oscar winner. One is “Truth,” in which Blanchett plays the real-life role of CBS producer Mary Mapes, whose career ended

following her report about George W. Bush’s National Guard service. In an earlier red carpet interview, Blanchett said she was “so fascinated to play the role of a real-life person in free fall in a very unexplored part of recent media history which I think it’s quite timely to think about, how we process and digest our news.”

Blanchett’s latest film is “Carol,” adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel, in which she plays a woman involved in a 1950s lesbian romance. “This movie was a labor of love for everyone involved,” she said.

Among those speaking at the tribute was Blanchett’s co-star in the 1997 movie “Oscar and Lucinda,” Ralph Fiennes, who spoke about her “eccentric and beautiful inner landscape.”

“You’re a great artist, Cate,” he said, “Thank you for sharing your gift with us.”

Also speaking — in a videotaped message — was Woody Allen, who directed Blanchett’s Oscar-winning performance in “Blue Jasmine.” The famously reclusive Allen, who often shuns awards ceremonies, quipped that “mercifully, I had a prior engagement.” He noted that be-fore he directed Blanchett, “everyone told me, ‘Hire Cate Blanchett, and she’ll make you look like a genius.’” (ap)

Cate Blanchett honored at Museum of Modern Art

Spielberg, Streisand to get Presidential Medal of Freedom

WASHINGTON - Movie mogul Steven Spielberg, singer-director Barbra Streisand, and songwriter James Taylor are among the 17 people to be awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Monday.

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Cate Blanchett, right, and Ralph Fiennes attend the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit honoring Blanchett at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, in New York.

NUSA DUA - The annual conference of Asian Credit

Supplementation Institution Con-

f e d e r a t i o n (ACSIC) of-ficially closed on Wednes-

day. The 28th ACSIC confer-

ence results will be realized by the Indonesia Credit Guarantee Association (Asip-pindo). One of them is related to the formation of SMEs rating agency.

Chairman of Asippindo, Did-ing S. Anwar said Asippindo and Jamkrindo is ready to provide free services to rank Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Moreover, Financial Services Authority (OJK) fully supported this agency.

“This is become a strategic decision for Indonesia,” said the man who is also President Director of Jamkrindo.

Diding explained, SMEs ranking is essential to raise the level of SMEs for their business sustainability. SMEs also can get lending from banks and other financial institutions.

Diding added, Asippindo and Jamkrindo as a pioneer in rat-ing agency for SMEs will soon make decision on legal matter and cost which is considered the least expensive to finance the ranking process.

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Asippindo and Jamkrindo give free service to rank SMEs

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Tourists visit Kuta Beach during their holiday to Bali Island. The Bali House of Representatives recently discussed a revi-sion to Law No.33/2004 on Financial Balance, related to tourism profit sharing, and came to the conclusion that it would be hard to attain the desired goal.

Bali demands share of tourism profits

Not so easy to achieveDENPASAR - The Bali House of Representatives recently discussed a revision to

Law No.33/2004 on Financial Balance, related to tourism profit sharing, and came to the conclusion that it would be hard to attain the desired goal. The main obstacle to Bali receiving more of the foreign exchange earnings from tourism on the island, is the fact that these earnings do not fall under state revenue. The only non-tax revenue that Bali contributes to the state are earnings from Visa on Arrivals.