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Fiji super cyclone kills 17 and raises fears of health crisis

Violence rages in Syria as Kerry and Lavrov reach provisional deal on ceasefire

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FIFA faces day of reckoning as threats mount

That’s roughly what Fox, the stu-dio behind the $58 million comic-book adaptation, had predicted that the film would open to a week ago. Of course, it shattered those projec-tions, destroying February records with a $152.2 million President’s Weekend launch.

After two weeks, “Deadpool” has now earned $235.4 million domestically, re-established Ryan Reynolds as a major Hollywood star, and created a new superhero franchise to rival the likes of Iron Man and the X-Men. The picture, a very R-rated affair, centers on a mercenary with accelerated healing abilities and a penchant for bawdy humor.

“It’s one of those times where a movie becomes a touchstone in culture,” said Chris Aronson, Fox’s domestic distribution chief. “It just becomes part of the zeitgeist and one of those movies you just have to see. That’s due to its uniqueness. People have never seen anything like this before.”

A few brave new releases tried to ride out “Deadpool” mania. “Risen,” a faith-based drama about a soldier investigating the death and resurrection of Jesus, fared best, pulling in a solid $11.8 million from 2,915 locations to snag third place. Sony’s Affirm label produced the picture for $20 million, and courted church leaders with the hopes of

producing another “War Room” or “Heaven is for Real,” two films that turned out Christian moviegoers in droves. The studio will follow the same formula with the upcom-ing Easter release “Miracles From Heaven.”

“This is in our wheelhouse,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s distribution chief. “We’ve really embraced be-ing in the faith-based business and it’s certainly paid off.”

“The Witch,” a critically ac-claimed look at a Puritan family torn apart by supernatural terrors, debuted to $8.7 million from 2,046 theaters for a fourth place finish. The picture is the widest debut in the history of A24, the indie label behind “Ex Machina” and “Room,” and its biggest ever premiere. (rtr)

BERLIN - Iranian director Mani Haghighi says his Berlin competition movie “Ejhdeha Vared Mihavad!” (A Dragon Arrives!) is a hodge-podge of genres ranging from crime film to “X-Files”, but he trusts viewers will find it an entertaining and thought-provoking mix.

“It’s a mess, yeah, it’s a mess,” Haghighi told Reuters in an in-terview on Friday, the day of the film’s festival premiere. “The idea was to make a mess and see how it goes.”

“As I went along I realised that maybe one genre wasn’t going to do the trick and it would be just the same old boring thing.

“So what would happen if you put science fiction, paranoia ‘X-Files’-type things together with Philip Marlowe, Dashiell Hammett detective stuff plus Jules Verne and Tintin and Indiana Jones and then some Iranian films and local colour and put it all together?

“The idea was to make it as complex in terms of genre-bending as possible.”

The film, which is in competition for the Berlin film festival’s main Golden Bear prize to be awarded on Saturday, suggests it is aiming for a Monty Python-esque slant by stat-ing at the outset it is “a true story” but delivering anything but.

What viewers get instead are some striking images of the hulk of an immense wooden ship stranded in a desert landscape in Iran, a shaggy dog story of a political dissident who has either hanged himself or been murdered inside the ship, but who has left intrigu-ing scribblings all over its interior walls, plus police agents driving around in a vintage Chevrolet Impala.

And there is something under the earth in a cemetery right outside the ship that causes a localised earth-quake to occur whenever a dead body is buried there. (rtr)

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Actor Ed Skrein arrives for the premiere of “Deadpool” in New York, February 8, 2016.

Box Office:’Deadpool’ dominates’The Witch,’’Risen’

LOS ANGELES - “Deadpool” dominated the box office for a second consecutive weekend, racking up $55 million.

Iran’s Haghighi is proud his Berlin “Dragon”

film is “a mess”

REUTERS/Stefanie Loos

Actors Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Kiana Tajammol, director Mani Haghighi, and actors Amir Jadidi and Ehsan Goudarzi (L-R) pose during a photocall to promote the movie ‘Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!’ (‘A Dragon Arrives!’) at the 66th Berlinale Interna-tional Film Festival in Berlin, Germany February 19, 2016.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and some 35 communities declared the national movement on the Ho-tel Indonesia Roundabout, Jakarta Sunday, Director General of trash and waste management of the En-vironment and Forestry Ministry Tuti Hendrawati Mintarsih said here Saturday.

“President Joko Widodo par-ticipate to promote the movement campaign by having a teleconference

with four city mayors and asking the attendants to do kerja bakti (commu-nity service),” Mintarsih said.

As many as 706 local communities all over Indonesia also stated their support to the national movement in which they can elaborate the move-ment in a website (http://bergerak.bebassampah.id) and social media using #bebassampah2020 ta-gline.

During the launch of the move-ment, the government will also con-duct a socialization of a policy trial on a plastic bag charge conducted in 22 cities and the entire regions of Jakarta.

The government has issued a regulation on plastic bag charge which oblige modern retailers to charge customers for plastic bags starting Sunday. The policy is aimed at re-ducing the use of plastic bags. “That

Indonesia will no longer become the second largest

plastic garbage producer after China,” Mintarsih

said.

The movement has gained a lot of support, founder of Greeneration Indonesia Bijaksana Junerosano said. “Various communities in Indo-nesia are enthusiastic about joining the movement. Some are willing to clean the garbage in the ocean, rivers, mountains or in cities,” Junerosano said.

Indonesia ranks second among the world’s largest plastic waste produc-ers, behind only China, using 187.2 million tons each year, according to a study published last year in the journal Science.

The policy will run as a trial for six months, before being implemented

elsewhere if proven successful, En-vironment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said.

Although the ministry recom-mends charging customers Rp 200 per bag, the actual costs are decided by provincial and city governments.

But some are skeptical charging such a low sum will significantly reduce plastic waste — which takes dozens of years to decompose in the overflowing landfills across the coun-try’s major cities. (ant)

FOLLOWING the enactment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)

2016 the boundaries between countries are no longer

considered to be based on sea and parapet delinea-tions. This will have a tremendous impact on

the lives of every indi-vidual within this new

territory, and the lives of Indonesians -including Balinese, are no exception. A variety of business opportunities are open-ing up and new opportunities will continue to emmergeìThis is possible due to the rapid development of information and technol-ogy. The opportunities that will come in various forms and packaging, require adequate capabilities for people to receive this information,î said business expert, John

Sadewa on Sunday (Feb. 21).These new conditions, continued John,

require that there be focus placed on the ca-pabilities of Bali’s human resources. Every opportunity must be greeted with readiness, willingness, ability and courage by our human resources. Competition is already present and now that the doors of globaliza-tion have been flung wide open – rampant competition is inevitable, he said.

ìIf Balinese people do not realize what is going on, then many of us will simply become spectators of the new economy in our home land. Those who will be the main actors and directors on the stage of our economy will be predominantly foreigners.,î said said John, initiator of the Business Investor Club (BIC).

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Indonesia Trying Hard to Reduce Plastic

The final disposal place is filled with garbage which is mostly made from plastic. The action to reduce

the use of plastic must be done immediaetly.

JAKARTA - Indonesians have embrace the new policy of paying for plastic bags each time they purchase groceries. It is obviously that the environmental benefits outweigh the hassle of bringing their own bags.

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is 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 hap-pens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on

the importance of the occasion.The celebration is very colorful.

The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are wor-shipped 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 Ho-liness. 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 at-tire, 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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What is more, if capital con-straints on not implemented by the government, then the new allowance of foreingner to be 100% investment owners will also put huge pressure on the people and SME’s of Bali. In short, global competition is in-evitable.

ìThis can only be addressed through mental preparedness, so that Balinese people do not lack self-confidence. This needs to be coupled with a willingness to try and working diligently to survive., We must participate within the AEC as actors and directors on our own

stage,î said John.ìI am ready to train Balinese

people so that they can take an ac-tive role in the AEC and the era of globalization. Young, creative and resilient entrepreneurs and inves-tors must be prepared to compete at the national, Asian and the world levels,î he said.

Tourism entrerener, Made Su-ardana, said that the challenge of employment in Bali in the era of the AEC, lies in the struggle to compete for job opportunities. Although there are still many job opportunities both at home and abroad, Balinese people

will certainly face challenges in terms of quality, he said.

ìNow, do our workers want to scramble for job opportunities abroad? If the human resources of Indonesia only compete at home, they will of course loose out to well-trained foreign workers who are pro-ficient in English and Indonesian,î he said.

According to Suardana, the hu-man resources of Indonesia -includ-ing Bali, need both formal education as well as informal training in order to compete will workers from over seas. When possible, Indonesians

must be brave enough to seek op-portunities abroad. At present many of our local work force needs to be specially trained both through formal education as well as through the learning of specialized skills and English language proficiency.

ìKeep also in mind that they have learned more about our culture than we have about theirs. Those coming to Indonesia have learned a lot about the cultures of Bali, Java SUnda and others. Balinese people certainly know about their own culture, while labor from outside Bali is uncertain,î said Suardana. (rah)

Given that hospitality work-ers from neighboring countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand prefer to work in their own country, it is important that Indonesian workers remain com-petitive on the new market.

ìMiddle level positins such as cashiers, waitresses in shopping mall, restaurants and other such positions in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and even in Europe have started to be predominantly filled by Filipino workers. Philipinos can speak English fluently and their general attitude does not pose any significant problems and they are willing to work for the standard salaries of Singapore and Ma-laysia. They are not interested in working in Indonesiaî said Min-ister of Tourism, Arief Yahya, in Jakarta, last Sunday.

The Ministry of Tourism, held a Basic HR training session on February19th and 20th at the Best Western Hotel, Jakarta. Approxi-mately 200 students from the State University of Jakarta (UNJ) were trained to welcome the AEC tourism sector and develop hu-

man resources. The Ministry of Tourism, under the command of the Deputy of Tourism Institu-tional Development, presented seven different speakers,

ìThe government has deter-mined tourism as a leading sector that is expected to drive other economic sectors in the future. Public support is required in order to realize this goal includ-ing the support of academics in helping to train our human ressources,î said Deputy of Tour-ism Institutional Development for the Ministry of Tourism, Ah-man Sya.

The Ministry of Tourism has provided basic training of human resources in various parts of the country, including; Lampung, Tanjung Lesung, Medan, Batam, Seribu Islands, Mentawai, Tulung Agung district, Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta and Lombok Mandalika.

ìWe have also provided Man-darin competency training for Balinese tour guides. All of our training programs apply ASEAN standards,î said Sya. (pts)

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John Sadewa

HR trained by Ministry of Tourism to face AEC

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Tourists are looking at the products made from waste in Shankara Resto in Sanur. Many wonderful products can be made from the waste such as bags and wallet. It also can help to problem of recycling the garbage.

JAKArTA -To ensure success within the ASEAN Economic Community

(AEC), Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism has prepared skill building training for Human resources (Hr) so that the ca-pacities of Indonesian hospitality workers comply with ASEAN standards. This is a crucial point and determining factor in the success or failure of the development of the tourism sector.

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WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Senate Armed Ser-vices Committee on Wednesday increased pressure on the Penta-gon and the Air Force, demanding answers over the continued use of Russian rocket engines for U.S. satellite launches.

Senator John McCain, in a let-ter dated Feb. 10 seen by Reuters, asked Air Force Secretary Deborah James and Pentagon chief arms buyer Frank Kendall to explain why the U.S. government is con-tinuing to deal with NPO Energo-mash, the Russian firm that builds

Russian RD-180 rocket engines.McCain pressed the officials on

the legality of doing business with NPO Energomash given sanctions in place against Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and others, who now have control over the company after a recent reorganization.

McCain also questioned the Air Force’s continued payment of a large launch support contract to United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co , despite the presence of a certified competitor,

Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX.

McCain said he wants answers to these questions by February 22.

James pledged to respond to the questions during a January hearing, but McCain said he followed up in writing to underscore his concerns about what he has described as subsidies to Russian leader “Vladi-mir Putin and his gang of corrupt cronies.”

Congress banned use of the Russian RD-180 rocket engines for military use after Russia annexed

Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014. But U.S. lawmakers weakened the ban late last year, worried that it could drive ULA out of business and leave just privately-held SpaceX, to lift satellites into space.

James and other officials have urged Congress to allow use of the Russian engines that power ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket for several years until alternatives are available in several years.

In his letter, McCain asked the U.S. and Air Force to explain what options they had to penalize ULA

for not bidding in a recent launch competition despite receiving launch support of $800 million to $1 billion a year since 2006.

He also asked the department to examine what percentage of that annual support contract was associated with ULA’s other family of rockets, the Delta 4, which the company plans to retire since it is more costly than the Atlas 5.

McCain and other senators argue that it would be worth the extra cost to end U.S. reliance on the Russian engines. (rtr)

The rollout of the gleaming craft, dubbed Virgin Space Ship

Unity, marks Branson’s return to a race among rival billionaire entre-

preneurs to develop a vehicle that can take thrill-seekers, researchers and commercial customers on short hops into space.

“It’s almost too good to be true,” Branson said during a ceremony at the Mojave Air and Space Port,

about 100 miles (160 km) north of Los Angeles. “When I saw it for the first time, it brought an immediate lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. It was a completely over-whelming moment.”

Christened with a bottle of milk

by Branson’s year-old granddaugh-ter, the ship was painted bright white on its front section, fading to gray and black toward the tail.

The tail itself was emblazoned with a blue image of a peering eye belonging to famed British physi-cist Stephen Hawking.

Branson has already offered a flight into space to Hawking, who is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. It was Hawking who sug-gested naming the ship Unity.

“I have always dreamed of space-flight, but for so many years I thought it was just that - a dream,” Hawking said in a recorded message played at the space port. “If I am able to go, and if Richard will still take me, I will be proud to fly on this spaceship.”

From outward appearances, the spacecraft is nearly identical to the one lost on Oct. 31, 2014. The acci-dent was blamed on pilot error and oversights by Northrop Gumman Corp’s Scaled Composites division, which designed, built and tested the vehicle, known as SpaceShipTwo.

Virgin Galactic’s own man-ufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, already was well into construction of the successor ship when the accident occurred.

The biggest difference between the two is the addition of a pin to prevent a pilot from unlocking the ship’s rotating tail section too soon before descent, which is what trig-gered the breakup of the first space-ship, said Galactic Chief Executive George Whitesides.

The two-pilot, six-passenger spaceship is designed to reach alti-tudes of 62 miles (100 km) above the planet, providing a few minutes of weightlessness and a view of Earth set against the blackness of space. Nearly 700 people have signed up for rides, which cost $250,000 each. (rtr)

McCain presses U.S. Air Force, Pentagon over Russian engines

Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveils new passenger spaceship

REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Richard Branson (R) and Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides unveil the new SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger two-pilot vehicle meant to ferry people into space that replaces a rocket destroyed during a test flight in October 2014, in Mojave, Cali-fornia, United States, February 19, 2016.

MOJAVE - Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture un-veiled a new passenger spacecraft on Friday, nearly 16 months after a fatal accident destroyed its sister ship during a test flight over California’s Mojave Desert.

SINGARAJA — Tourist guides plays a role to boost the tourism potential in North Bali. Not entire tourist guides have mastered the information about destinations in North Bali. “Tourism develop-ment in Buleleng cannot indeed be seen in terms of physical aspect only. It needs to strengthen the quantity and quality of human resources. Tourist guides pose the spearhead in the field of tour-ism,” said a tourism observer and academician from the Undiksha Singaraja, I Putu Gede Parma, Friday (Feb. 19).

According to Parma, guests

making first visit to tourist desti-nation will get information on the destinations through their guides. “Local and foreign travelers get first impression from their tour-ist guides. So, training needs to be given to prospective tourist guides, including the basics of English and other foreign lan-guages,” he said.

Parma is also getting involved as a builder of Tourism Aware-ness Group (Pokmasta) in the North Bali. Ideally tourist guides better know about the potential at the village or the destinations visited. “Relevant agencies in the

government play an important role to improve the quality of tourist guides in Buleleng. I think it has not been maximized. Recent train-ing of tourist guides provided by the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency needs to be intensified,” he said.

Lately, the saturation of the tourist visit in South Bali will slowly shift to North Bali. Parma did not dismiss if the scenery and the natural potential are still in demand by foreign travelers where they do not have them in their home country. “Tourist destination in North Bali has remarkably dis-

tinctive characteristics. Promotion of Buleleng offers different con-cept of unique selling point, unlike that of South Bali. Moreover, in the future travelers will get saturated after seeing the trend change in the composition of travelers coming from South Bali,” said Parma who is also Assistant Dean III of the Faculty of Economics and Busi-ness (FEB) at the Undiksha.

He emphasized that tourism in Buleleng can empower cultural tourism, not mass tourism, as it is favored by quality tourism. This is an appropriate moment for North Bali considering the investors have

not touched the whole land and tourist destinations. Characteristics of North Bali destinations are dif-ferent and are required to have an excellent blueprint for maritime, spiritual, nature, art and cultural tourism.

“The success to draw travelers can be seen from the length of stay and tourist expenditure. All this time, the most is mass tourism. They mostly stay for 2 to 3 day and the short stay is filled with activities like taking photographs, having excursion with inexpensive package, and eating outside the hotel,” he said. (kmb34)

A number of ritual processions have been conducted before the peak of the ritual. For instance, the pedanan (blessing ritual of sacrificial animal) and tawur agung (animal sacrifice) were held on Saturday (Feb. 20) coin-ciding with the feast of Kuningan.

As observation, thousands of residents of Jro Kuta Jro Pejeng and other Pejeng residents looked to fill

the location of tawur and pedanan at the front courtyard of Penataran Sasih Temple. Though being under the heat of the sunlight, people still did the procession solemnly until the end. The ritual was officiated over by 14 high priests of Shiva, Buddha and Bujangga.

Chief of Jro Kuta Pejeng custom-ary village, Cok Gde Putra Pemayun,

explained the smooth implementation of the ritual was inseparable from the hard work, mutual assistance and sin-cere devotional works performed by residents of Jero Kuta Pejeng. “This grandiose ritual can be realized due to the hard work of all residents carried out for the first time after 50 years ago,” he said.

He said this vivacity has been

showed by as many as 280 residents of krama ngarep and 1,118 residents of krama pengele of Jro Kuta Pejeng. Besides, the morale and material support are also showed by residents from 33 hamlets coalesced into four villages, including Pejeng Kaja, Pejeng Kangin, Pejeng Kelod and Pejeng Kawan. After the animal sacrifice, a number of ritual proces-sions will be held before the climax on Monday (Feb. 22).

He added that before the tawur agung, a number of other rituals precede such as the tawur rishi

gana at innermost courtyard of the Penataran Sasih, labuh gentuh and pakelem on Masceti Beach, Songan at Lake Batur and Mount Agung. “In essence, all the rituals held put emphasis on the self-real-ization of the greatness and power of God Almighty with all the mani-festations. With such awareness, it will emerge devotion as well as concrete efforts of mankind in pre-serving the life and harmony with nature. By keeping this aspect, the prosperity will soon be achieved,” he explained. (kmb35)

Superior tourist guides boost destination in North Bali

Panca Wali Krama ritual at Penataran Sasih, Pejeng coin-ciding with Soma Pahing Langkir. Related to this grandiose ritual, the supporting devotees from 33 hamlets and 15 customary villages have made preparation through devo-tional works for paraphernalia and infrastruct

Panca Wali Krama ritual at Penataran SasihGIANYAR — Panca Wali Krama ritual at Penataran Sasih, Pejeng will be first held after 50

years ago, Monday (Feb. 22) coinciding with Soma Pahing Langkir. Related to this grandiose ritual, the supporting devotees from 33 hamlets and 15 customary villages have made prepara-tion through devotional works for paraphernalia and infrastructure since 3 months ago.

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Aid agencies warned of a wide-spread health crisis, particularly in low-lying areas where thousands of Fiji’s 900,000 people live in tin shacks, after crops were wiped out and fresh water supplies blocked.

Almost 8,000 people remained hunkered down in hundreds of evacuation centres across Fiji where they had headed before tropical cy-clone Winston hit late on Saturday with winds of up to 325 kph (200 mph).

“The death toll from Cyclone Winston continues to rise and reports of widespread damage are coming in from across Fiji,” said New Zealand Foreign Minister

Murray McCully. “It is clear that Fiji faces a major cleanup and re-covery operation.”

McCully said a New Zealand Defence Force C-130 would leave for the Fijian capital, Suva, later on Monday with relief supplies and an emergency response team.

The majority of the fatalities were along the western coast and were caused mainly by flying debris and drowning in storm surges, au-thorities said. There were also fears for seven fishermen believed to be missing at sea.

A 36-hour curfew was lifted early on Monday, allowing the Fi-jian military to ramp up efforts to

reach the more remote parts of the archipelago of about 300 islands.

“The Fijians are desperately trying to repair severed lines of communication, but they hold grave fears that the news waiting for them will be dire,” said Raijeli Nicole, Pacific regional director of aid group Oxfam.

“Given the intensity of the storm and the images we have seen so far, there are strong con-cerns that the death toll won’t stop climbing today and that hundreds of people will have seen their homes and livelihoods completely destroyed.”

Aerial footage of outlying is-lands taken by the Royal New Zea-land Air Force, and posted on the Fiji government’s official website, showed whole villages flattened and flooded. (rtr)

LONDON - London Mayor Boris Johnson threw his weight on Sunday behind the campaign to leave the European Union, dealing a blow to David Cameron by increasing the chance British voters will ditch membership in a June referendum.

In a move that electrified the referendum campaign by pit-ting one of Britain’s most charismatic politicians against the prime minister, Johnson said Cameron had failed to deliver fundamental reform with an EU deal struck on Friday.

Johnson, a political showman whose buffoonish and eccen-tric exterior is thought to mask a fierce ambition to succeed Cameron, said he loved European culture, civilisation and food but that the European project was in danger of getting out of democratic control.

“The last thing I wanted was to go against David Cameron or the government, but after a great deal of heartache I don’t think there’s anything else I can do. I will be advocating Vote Leave,” Johnson told reporters outside his north London home 20 minutes after texting the prime minister his decision.

“I want a better deal for the people of this country to save them money and to take back control,” said Johnson, mayor since 2008 and a member of parliament for Cameron’s Con-servative Party.

Sterling fell in Asia as concern grew that Britain would quit the EU. The pound fell around 1 percent against the dollar, euro and yen.

Johnson, 51, said he would not take part in debates against members of his own party. But his decision gives the “out” campaign a de facto leader who is one of Britain’s most high-profile politicians.

Betting odds of a British exit rose to a 33 percent chance from about 29 percent, according to bookmakers.

Johnson dismissed questions from reporters about whether joining the campaign to leave the EU was the first step towards a bid to succeed Cameron. On the contrary, he said with a smile, Cameron should stay no matter who won the June 23 referendum. (rtr)

REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

London Mayor Boris Johnson cycles off after speaking to the media in front of his home in London, Britain February 22, 2016. Johnson threw his weight on Sunday behind the campaign to leave the European Union, dealing a blow to David Cameron by increasing the chance British voters will ditch membership in a June referendum.

Defying Cameron, London’s mayor to

campaign for British exit from EU

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A family stands outside their damaged home after Cyclone Winston swept through Ba on the northern side Fiji’s Viti Levu Island, February 22, 2016.

Fiji super cyclone kills 17 and raises

fears of health crisisSYDNEY - Fiji began a massive cleanup on Monday after

one of the most powerful storms recorded in the southern hemi-sphere tore through the Pacific island nation, killing 17 people, flattening remote villages and cutting off communications.

Terror can be pressed through cooperation of various parties, maintenance of conduciveness and reporting the action of suspi-cious individuals. “We increase our preparedness and remain in first alert. Security at various en-trances to Buleleng is conducted in the area of Gerokgak, Sukasada,

Busungbiu and Tejakula. Buleleng Police Headquarters are also strictly guarded,” said Chief of Buleleng Police, Harry Haryadi Badjuri Buleleng, when met by Bali Post in Singaraja, Friday (Feb. 19).

Security level against motor-ists is provided by police through intensive raids at the points of

crowd. People are asked to be patient considering the quantity of raid has been intensified to four times instead of once each day. “A number of raids on public roads are increased by police, from one time to four times each day. People are asked not to be anxious and worried if their trips become disturbed due to many raids. We do hope people do not think too much about it. This is solely to increase public safety and security,” he added.

Security of sea waters is carried by Water Police of Buleleng Po-lice. Communication involves the cooperation with local fishermen in coastal area of Buleleng. “Our marine patrol has three patrol boats, and they are respectively in charge of their respective zone. Overall ev-erything goes well. Communication with the community of fishermen in the field is improved and if found any illegal fishing vessels they can report it to police,” he said.

Related to the celebration of the Kuningan feast, Buleleng Police deployed 200 personnel in all re-gions in North Bali. It is meant to provide comfort and safety for the Hindus in doing the prayers. “We guarantee the public safety and security of people in the celebration of Kuningan. Totally 200 personnel are involved in the security and we will spread them at some points considered to be vulnerable,” he said. (kmb34)

BANGLI — The rain often flushing Bangli and surrounding ar-eas lately did not affect much on the tourist visit to the hot spring bathing place in the area of Toya Bungkah, Batur, Kintamani. Despite the rain, the interest of visitors to soak while enjoying natural scenery remains high.

The owner of Toya Bungkah B’Mas hot spring bathing place, Nyoman Muliawan, said on Sat-urday (Feb. 20) that rainy season all this time does not have much

effect on the decline in tourist visit to his hot water bath. “Rainy season almost has no impact on it. It would be more influential in guest season,” he explained.

He explained that tourist visit will usually decline during the pe-riod of April to June (low season). Then, in July and August, the tour-ist visit will go up mainly foreign travelers. Not only that, he also told that domestic tourist visit will be crowded around July or during school holidays and December right

on the year-end holidays.On holidays such as Galungan,

Kuningan and the day after Nyepi, the number of visitors soaking in the hot water of Toya Bungkah can reach 200 domestic travelers. Beyond the holidays, the number reaches an average of 100-200 people. “For Kuningan feast, until this afternoon the tourist visit has been quite crowded. By and large, the day after Kuningan visitors will be more crowded,” he said. (kmb40)

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The rain often flushing Bangli and surrounding areas lately did not affect much on the tourist visit to the hot spring bathing place in the area of Toya Bungkah, Batur, Kintamani.

Rain unaffected tourist visit to Toya Bungkah hot springs

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Security against the threat of terror is enhanced by police authority in North Bali. Local government and Buleleng Police improve communication and self-awareness. Terror can be pressed through cooperation of various parties, maintenance of conduciveness and reporting the action of suspicious individuals.

Police anticipate threat of terror in BulelengSINGARAJA — Security against the threat of terror is en-

hanced by police authority in North Bali. Local government and Buleleng Police improve communication and self-awareness.

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BUSINESS

The bank also unexpectedly an-nounced a $1.3 billion loss for the final quarter, compared with a $511 million profit in the same period the previous year.

Chairman Douglas Flint said the results were “broadly satisfactory.” He said in a statement that last year was marked by “seismic shifts in global economic conditions,” nota-bly sharp falls in prices for oil and other commodities, partly stemming from slowing growth in China.

The London-based bank has been steadily trimming back its global operations as part of a sweeping reorganization announced last June in order to focus on Asia, where it expects the region’s growing affluence to drive profits. Asia accounted for 83.5 percent of HSBC’s pre-tax profits last year. It’s slashing thousands of jobs and sell-

ing off businesses in countries like Brazil while expanding in China, particularly the wealthy Pearl River Delta manufacturing region in the country’s south.

HSBC said that cost cutting mea-sures were already having an impact and it’s now a “leaner business” than it was half a year ago.

However, Flint said challenges remain as growth ebbs in China, where the economy grew last year at its slowest rate in a quarter century.

“China’s slower economic growth will undoubtedly contribute to a bumpier financial environment, but it is still expected to be the larg-est contributor to global growth as its economy transitions to higher added value manufacturing and ser-vices and becomes more consumer driven,” he said.

Growth in China’s economy, the world’s second biggest, dipped to 6.9 percent last year as policy-makers sought to shift away from growth based mainly on export-led manufacturing and investment to-ward greater reliance on consumer demand. Officials are forecasting growth of between 6.5-7 percent this year.

Despite its focus on Asia, last month HSBC decided to keep its headquarters in London rather than moving it to Hong Kong, ending a 10-month review prompted by new U.K. regulatory and tax changes. The bank said keeping its base in London gave it the “best of both worlds.” HSBC has a sizeable pres-ence in Hong Kong, where it was founded to finance trade between China and Europe more than a century ago, when the city was still a British colony.

CEO Stuart Gulliver said HSBC gave up on plans to sell its Turkey business because it didn’t get a good enough offer. It will restructure it instead. (ap)

PARIS — Experts at the Inter-national Energy Agency have dra-matically pushed back their view on when oil prices will rebound from current 13-year lows, saying the supply glut will hold prices down until early next year.

A year ago, the IEA, a Paris-based organization of 29 major oil importing nations, had forecast a “relatively swift” recovery. Instead, oil prices have continued to fall,

reaching a level below $30 a barrel last seen in 2003, the IEA says in its latest report Monday.

IEA chief Fatih Birol blamed “extraordinary volatility” in oil markets that has made forecasting “more difficult than ever” for its changed outlook.

In its report, the agency says oil supplies have surged due to a three-year rise in stocks, a phenomenon last seen in the mid-1990s. (ap)

LONDON — The pound is down sharply on concern that Britain’s popular vote on whether to leave the European Union could be closer than expected after se-nior politicians joined the “leave” campaign.

London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sunday said he would support the campaign in favor of leaving the 28-country bloc, arguing it would

help restore power over national policies from Brussels.

Many investors and businesses are wary of such a move, however, as it creates uncertainty and could hurt the economy, at least in the short term. Economists say the U.K. largely benefits from the EU’s free-dom of money and labor. The pound was down 1.7 percent at $1.4166 on Monday. (ap)

Pound drops after UK sets EU referendum vote

High supplies seen capping oil price until early 2017

REUTERS/Marco Bello

A worker handles the nozzle of a fuel dispenser at a gas sta-tion, which belongs to Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, in Caracas, Venezuela February 19, 2016.

AP Photo/Vincent Yu

People walk past a branch of HSBC bank in Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. HSBC warned of a “bumpier” global financial outlook thanks to China’s slowing economy, as it reported Monday that profit dipped slightly last year.

HSBC 2015 profit dips as it warns of bumpy financial outlook

HONG KONG — HSBC warned of a “bumpier” global finan-cial outlook thanks to China’s slowing economy, as it reported Monday that profit dipped slightly last year. Europe’s biggest bank posted a net profit of $13.5 billion for 2015, down 1.2 percent from the year before and below analysts’ forecasts.

Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives, Ngakan Made Kutha Parwata, said on Sunday (Feb. 21) that the designation of ‘tourism village’ is meant to con-tribute to these villages developing their potential and eventually im-proving the welfare of the villagers. In Bangli, the government is very keen on establishing tourism vil-lages and as of this year there are a total of 25 that have been desig-nated as such.

However, in reality the number of so called tourism villages that have been able to progress at all can be counted on one hand.. ìSo far, only the villages of Penglipuran, Guliang Kangin and Tamanbali, are active, the others remain dormant and are completely unknown to touristsî said Parwata. He added that the new government should provide more serious attention to the tourism villages and not allow the spirit in which there were cre-ated be inversely proportional to the effort put into supporting their growth.

This PDI-P politician said that every year Bangli always obtains hotel and restaurant tax. Accord-ing to his observation, the previous yearís funding was dominantly used for infrastructure development re-lated to public interests. This year, the allocation needs to be changed where it must be given to tourism object development, where one of them is tourism village.

ìThere are four criteria for the hotel and restaurant tax fund allo-cation: the development of tourist attractions, environmental manage-ment, and social and infrastructure development designed with public interest in mind. Previsouly these four points were given equal atten-tion, this year, however the devel-opment of tourist attractinos should be given priorityî he said.

In addition to making physical improvements to tourists attrac-tions, this man from Banbang vil-lage, Tembuku emphasized that the development of human ressources also needs to be given serious atten-tion. ìHuman resources should be a major concern, with attention given to training about how to develop and manage a tourist attraction.,î he said.

Member of Commission II of the Bangli House of Representa-tives, I Wayan Jamin, also accused the Cutlure and Tourism Agency of being half hearted in their per-formance last year. Apparently all they did was to determine certain villages as destined for tourism but measures to develop them were far from optimal, he said, adding that both choosing the village and sup-prting their development need to be done in unison..ìTourism villages should not just be established, but must be complemented with other efforts, such as human resource development, Do not do things half-heartedly” said Jamin.

He added that currently the government does not have an appropriate grand design for the development of tourism villages. The Culture and Tourism agency as the leaders of this effort, seem to remain egoistic, he said. ìThis year the attention paid to tourism villages must be better than it has ever been. The villages that have managed to develop should be taken as an example to help foster the others,î he said.

Half-hearted attitude of the tourism agency is also felt by The

people of Bayunggede village in Kintamani also feel that the Culture and Tourism Agency has not been fully dedicated to the endeavour. Banynggede submit-ted a proposal for human resource development last year, but it was never followed up on by the agency. “Unfortunately, there has been no response so far and when we ask for clarification they always respond by saying that they are looking for a good time to schedule such an effort,î said headman, I Wayan Suarjaya. Some

training would indeed be helpful, especially because tourist have started coming to visit the village ìWe just need some coaching, we have already been making physi-cal improvements to the village ourselves,î he explained.

Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, I Wayan Adnyana, claimed that human resource devel-opment activities will be maximized and added that they plan to start next April by training vilagers in how to manage a tourist attraction,î he said simply. (kmb45)

AMLAPURA - The Telaga Waja Rafting Association (ARTW) op-poses poans to built a dam on the Telaga Waja River, Karangasem, that would serve the Banjing hydro-electric power plant (PLTA). The hydropower plant , they explained, would damage the river ecosystem that is now crowded as a tourist at-traction for water rafting adventure. In addition, the pool of the dam would displace residents of Tanah Bita hamlet, Rendang.

ARTW Advisor, Nengah Predana Putra, said on Sunday (Feb. 21) in Rendang, Karangasem, that apart from displacing more than 40 fami-lies fromTanah Bita, the dam would also submerge two major temples,

(including a subak temple), as wlel as 114 heactares of paddy fields. Most local peole depend on these fields to earn a living.

Predana explained that the ARTW has been opposed to the dam from the start and was of-ficially delivered to the Regent of Karangasem in a letter to the regent at the time, Wayan Geredeg. The ARTWwas invited to a meeting in Denpasar before the Tourism Office, the Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda) and in-vestors. The ARTW and members of the local community expressly opposed the project citing many reasons. The initiators and investors of the dam project then stated to

discuss things again as disseminate the plan of the project to people in the affected communities.

However, continued Predana, there was no public dissemination of information on the part of the initia-tor and investors of the project. ìI have a lot of family living in Tanah Bita who told me that nobody from the proposed powerplant ever asked for their permission nor gave any information’s or notification about the environmental impact analysis nor the Environmental Management Effort and Environmental Monitor-ing Effort documents for the hydro-electric power plant,î he said.

Predana suspects that the meet-ing to discuss the hydro power plant

that was held a a few days ago at the office of Rendang subdistirct was held secretly, without involving the affected surrounding residents. ìWhen we were invited to a meeting in Denpasar about six months ago, it was delivered that the recommenda-tion of the regent or governor had expired. If a new recommendation related to the continuation of the project plan was being discussed then, we as the community should be involved in the discussion. Unfortunately, weíve receinved no information about it so far,î said Predana alias Matek.

Predana said that based on the expose originally presented by the initiators of the hydropower plant

project that they propose to build in the territory of Banjing or Mijil, the dam will be 95 meters high with 8 meter thick walls. The pool of the dam will submerge some 114 hectares of paddy fields and state land. The dam’s upstream area will stretch along some 3 to 5 km. The initiators said that both affected temples will be relocated.

ìEven 20 meter thick dam walls can break. If the dam collapses – the soil if the Telaga River bank is unstable, who will be responsible? Do we want to face something like what happened at to the Situ Gintung dam? When we ask about this, there is no statement about the responsible party,î he said. (013)

Two temples and hundreds of hectares of paddy fields submerged Rafting association opposes Telaga Waja dam

IBP/Wawan

The tourists are enjoying their time in Penglipuran Village in Bangli

Goverment Must Promote Tourism Village Properly

BANGLI - The government of Bangli district through the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency is considered by many to be only half-heartedly boosting tourism villages. Of the tens of tourism villages in Bangli only a few have managed to develop. Human resource capacity building efforts is said to have not run very well. Hopefully this will change.

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Meanwhile, violence continued to rage in Syria. Multiple bomb blasts in a southern district of Da-mascus killed at least 87 people on Sunday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, and twin car bombs killed at least 59 people in Homs, the moni-toring group said.

Russian air strikes launched in September against rebels fight-ing President Bashar al-Assad have exacerbated suffering and destruction in Syria, where a five-year-old civil war has killed more than a quarter of a million people.

Assad said on Saturday he was ready for a ceasefire on condition “terrorists” did not use a lull in fighting to their advantage and that countries backing the insurgents stopped supporting them.

The Syrian opposition had ear-lier said it had agreed to the “pos-sibility” of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus’s allies, including Rus-

sia, would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries were al-lowed country-wide.

“We have reached a provisional agreement in principle on the terms of a cessation of hostilities that could begin in the coming days,” Kerry told a news conference in Amman with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh.

“The modalities for a cessation of hostilities are now being com-pleted. In fact, we are closer to a ceasefire today than we have been,” said Kerry, who was also to meet King Abdullah.

He declined to go into detail about the unresolved issues, say-ing the two sides were “filling out the details” of the agreement. And he indicated issues remained to be resolved and he did not expect any immediate change on the ground.

He repeated the U.S. position that Assad had to step down. “With Assad there, this war cannot and will not end,” he said.

Assad’s fate has been one of the main points of difference between Washington and Russia, the Syrian

leader’s main international backer. Russia recently has begun to say Syrians should decide on whether

Assad should stay or not, but it con-tinues to support Damascus with air strikes. (rtr)

BAHADURGARH - Rural Indian protesters blockaded high-ways and paralysed a northern state on Monday despite a deal giving them more government jobs, but there was relief for New Delhi’s 20 million residents as the army retook control of their main water source.

Days of rioting and looting across Haryana state by the Jat rural caste have killed at least 15 people and threaten to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of better days for In-dians who elected him in 2014 with the largest majority in three decades.

Thousands of troops have been deployed to quell protests, which flared again on Monday near the town of Sonipat as protesters set fire to a freight train.

A compromise with the Jats brokered by Modi’s home minister on Sunday failed to get protest-

ers to clear highway roadblocks. Disruption has been huge, with 850 trains cancelled, 500 facto-ries closed and business losses estimated at $2.9 billion.

“We will continue the protests. The government thinks we will succumb to their pressure tactics but they are making a big mistake by ignoring us,” Ramesh Dalal, convenor of the Jat Arakshan Andolan (Jat Reservation Move-ment), told Reuters.

“Jats are determined to win the battle. They had to send the army to control our anger but even they have failed.”

The Indian army retook control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of the capital’s water. Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said the army had reopened the sluice gates of the Munak canal to the north of the city. Water was expected to reach the metropolis within hours. (rtr)

Violence rages in Syria as Kerry and Lavrov reach

provisional deal on ceasefireAMMAN - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on

Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before.

REUTERS/Stringer

Syrian army soldiers and civilians inspect the site of multiple bomb blasts that hit the Sayeda Zeinab area, a southern district of Damascus, Syria, February 21, 2016.

Indian caste protesters keep up blockade; Delhi water restored

REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

Residents with their empty containers crowd around a municipal tanker to fetch water in New Delhi, India, February 22, 2016. The Indian army has taken control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of Delhi’s water, the state’s chief minister said on Monday, raising hope that a water crisis in the metropolis of more than 20 million people can be averted.

In the meeting of the House, the president will discuss the KPK Law and others bills, which are included in the 2016 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas). With regard to the revision, the president said he would comment further on the issue, saying that he would meet the leaders of the house.

Earlier, KPK Chairman Agus Rahardjo and other institutional lead-ers had met President Jokowi at the Merdeka Palace here on Monday.

“We have consulted with the president on the revision of the KPK Law,” Agus Rahardjo noted. Rahardjo and other KPK leaders, however, did not reveal further details regarding their meeting with the president. Meanwhile, several re-ligious figures have urged President Jokowi to stop efforts by the DPR to revise the law on KPK.

“We urged President Jokowi to stop the efforts to revise the law as we see that the draft revision will only weaken (KPK),” Catholic priest Benny Susetyo stated at a meeting of interfaith figures on corruption. He said that public pressure should make the president stop the revision and meet his governments promise to stay committed to fighting corruption.

To deal with the current emer-gency situation caused by cor-ruption, Susetyo affirmed that the leader needed to demonstrate strong will to eradicate corruption and reject any efforts to weaken the anti-graft body. Hajriyanto Y. Tohari, chairman of the Islamic organization Muhammadiyah, sus-pected that the president might have a hidden agenda by allowing the people to be involved in a polemic over the revision of the KPK law.

“I suspect that there is a hidden agenda behind him allowing the people to stage a polemic over the re-vision issue. Will he allow the people to continue with it?” he questioned.

In view of this, Tohari has called on the president to no longer allow the people to be part of the polemic by immediately clarifying whether he agreed to it.

The decision to include the revi-sion of the KPK law in the Prolegnas this year is a joint decision of the government and DPR, and so, the president must demonstrate his firm stand by demanding a postponement of the discussion and not allowing the DPR to discuss the matter and mak-ing it the scapegoat, he emphasized.

The DPR was initially scheduled to discuss the revision on Feb. 18, but it was later decided to postpone the discussion until Feb. 23.(ant)

BATAM - The State Audit Board (BPK) is conducting a financial auditing on the Batam Free Trade and Free Port Zone Authority (BP Batam) which was usually audited by only the BPK branch office in the island.

“Yes, I have just received a report that a team of BPK from the central government is auditing the BP Batam. In the past, the BP Batam was auditing BPKs branch office here. Now, the auditing is taken over by the central office,” BPK Chairman Harry Azhar Azis said in a text message to ANTARA News here Saturday.

The auditing is conducted on the financial accountability of the BP Batam in the January 1 - December 31, 2015 period, he said. “It will be reported together with other

financial reports of the central of-fice,” he added. The auditing is carried out based on the law on BPK, he said.

Harry did not explain any links to the auditing with the statement of the Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal and Security Luhut Binsar Panjaitan who said the land allocation in Batam would be audited.

“There can be or cannot be a link with it. We decided to conduct the editing based on the BPK law,” Harry said.

Luhut who held a meeting in Batam earlier said the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and other relevant agencies will soon go to Batam to conduct audit-ing on the land allocation in the free trade and free port zone.(ant)

JAKARTA — Indonesian po-lice on Sunday released most of the men detained while attending military-style training at a suspect jihadi camp, as officials lamented weaknesses in the current anti-terrorism legislation that is due to be significantly strengthened following last month’s deadly attacks in Jakarta.

The elite anti-terrorism squad early Saturday detained 38 men at a suspected militant camp on the remote slopes of Mount Sumbing in Central Java province, said provincial police spokesman Col. Liliek Darmanto. Police seized air rifles, knives, and jihadi books and flags in the raid.

However, they were released early Sunday after 24-hour ques-tioning as police were unable to prove a string of terrorism-related allegations, he said.

“This is the weakness of our laws,” said Saud Usman Nasu-tion, head of the anti-terrorism agency. “We cannot arrest before they have committed a crime even though we can detect a radical network.”

His agency has been pushing the government to strengthen the anti-terrorism law. It gained momentum following the Jan. 14 suicide and gun attacks in Jakarta, which left eight people

dead, including four of the at-tackers.

In response to the attacks, Indonesia’s government submit-ted a new anti-terrorism law to parliament this past week.

The draft bill, obtained by The Associated Press, says an indi-vidual suspected of plotting to carry out an act of terrorism could be detained for up to six months without charges. If approved, it would be the first time for such a tough measure to be enacted since the downfall of dictator Suharto in 1998.

Luhut Pandjaitan, a Cabinet minister in charge of security and political affairs, said he expected lawmakers to pass the revisions within the next two months.

The bill would also become an offense for Indonesians to join a militant group overseas such as the Islamic State group, or recruit others, with a maximum impris-onment of seven years. It would also authorize the anti-terrorism squad to execute raids and arrest suspects for interrogation based solely on intelligence reports.

In addition to the Central Java raid, five other suspected mili-tants were captured late Friday in Malang, a hilly city in East Java province, said local police chief Lt. Col. Yudho Nugroho.(ap)

Most suspects freed in Indonesia raid as tough law pending

State Audit Board conducts financial auditing on Batam authority

AP Photo/M. Urip

Debris fly into the air as foreign fishing boats are blown up by Indonesian Navy off Batam Island, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Authorities on Monday sank dozens of fishing boats caught operating illegally in Indonesian waters as part of the country’s campaign to battle illegal fishing.

President Jokowi invites anti-graft agency, house to discuss KPK law

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) invited leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the House of Representatives (DPR) on Monday to discuss the revision of the KPK Law. “Essentially, I met leaders of the KPK to discuss the revision of the Anti-Graft Agency Law. I will then meet leaders of the DPR to discuss the revision this afternoon,” President Jokowi noted here on Monday.

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“Our goal with this car is to score points,” declared principal Guenther Steiner, who previously worked in Formula One with Jag-uar and then Red Bull when the Austrian energy drinks company bought that team.

“First, we need to go out there and show that we can do the job, that we can finish races, that we are respected by the fans and other teams in the paddock. Then, we want to score points. That is the ultimate goal.”

The car, designed in Italy by

Dallara and powered by Ferrari, will make its first public appearance on track at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on Monday at the start of pre-season testing.

The team carried out a brief ‘shakedown’ of the car in Barcelona on Saturday but Ferrari had the circuit to themselves on Sunday for private filming.

Frenchman Romain Grosjean and Mexican Esteban Gutierrez,

who was a Ferrari reserve last season after previously racing for Sauber, are the Haas drivers.

The season starts in Australia on March 20.

Haas are Formula One’s first com-pletely new team since 2010, when Lotus Racing, Hispania and Virgin Racing made their debuts. Only the latter still survives after changing it’s name to Marussia and now Manor.

Hispania (HRT) folded in 2012

and Lotus Racing, which became Team Lotus and then Caterham, disappeared after the 2014 season. Neither scored a point.

Haas have forged close links with Ferrari, however, taking most of their components from the sport’s most successful team as well as engine and gearbox. Ferrari won three races last year and were the closest challengers to champions Mercedes. (rtr)

DUBAI - Novak Djokovic has vowed not to become over-confident as he seeks to extend a 15-match winning streak when he returns to action in Dubai, his first tournament since winning a sixth Australian Open title last month.

The Melbourne Park victory earned the Serb an 11th grand slam trophy, bringing him level with Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver, and the 28-year-old admit-ted such milestones are important to him after winning four of the past five majors.

“People start talking about the all-time greats and me coming closer to them, but I still would like to follow the same ap-proach and philosophy of focusing only on the next tournament,” Djokovic told reporters in Dubai.

“I try not to be over-confident because I have lots of respect for other players but being at the peak of my career I’m trying to use this momentum and take everything out of myself and achieve more.”

After winning 34 of his last 35 grand slam matches, it is not inconceivable that Djokovic could end up eclipsing Roger Federer’s record of 17 majors before too long.

But for all his success, Djokovic has

yet to crack the French Open, finishing runner-up on three occasions.

But with rivals such as Federer, Andy Murray and Rafa Nadal unable to keep pace with him in the best-of-five set contests, the Serb is hoping to end his Roland Garros jinx in 2016 and perhaps even become the first man to achieve the calendar year Grand Slam since Rod Laver in 1969.

“I try to approach each tournament optimistically and I believe that I can win every match that I play against anybody on any surface,” said Djokovic, who is 12-0 this year.

Anything other than victory in Dubai, where Djokovic will potentially only face two other top-10 players, would be a huge shock especially after Federer with-drew with injury. The duo have won the last seven Dubai titles between them.

Djokovic’s most likely challenger in Dubai will be world number four Stan Wawrinka, who beat him in last year’s Roland Garros final. (rtr)

REUTERS/Sergio Perez TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Haas Formula One drivers Esteban Gutierrez of Mexico (L) and Romain Grosjean of France pose with the new VF-16 F1 car before the first testing session ahead of the upcoming season at the Circuit Catalunya-Barcelona in Montmelo, Spain, February 22, 2016.

Haas aim for points with their ’very first’ F1 car

BARCELONA - Formula One newcomers Haas, the sport’s first U.S.-owned team in 30 years, presented their 2016 car on Sunday with a grey and red livery and the designation VF-16 to mark it out as the ‘Very First’.

Djokovic determined not to get carried away with success

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic plays with some children during a visit to the

Melbourne City Mission’s Bray-brook Early Learning Centre in this

February 1, 2016 handout photo. REUTERS/Fiona Hamilton/Handout via Reuters

SUKAWATI - Sukawati is best known for its art market, still many have not heard of this hidden canyon. To enjoy the canyon, the local already

arrange guide to assist the tourist. The route to the canyon is short (5-10 minutes) along the shallow river, but if you want to take further just ask the

local guide to continue after the first canyon. The route is still along the same river, but after around 30 min-utes or less (if you are trekking much)

you will find the second canyon with quite the same characteristics as the 1st one. You don’t take the same route for returning rather than to continue

and get back all along paddy fields. You can also take a picture together with snake or rare palm cockatoo. (IBP/net)

The Sacred and Secret Canyon of Sukawati

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Drawn up over the last eight months, it suggests changes to stop the scandals that have left the organi-sation supposed to lead the world’s most popular sport facing its greatest threat for decades.

The most obvious challenge is criminal investiga-tions in the United States and Switzerland that have already resulted in the indictment of several dozen soccer officials for corruption, many of them serv-ing or former presidents of national or continental associations.

U.S. prosecutors have continued to call FIFA a victim of corrupt individuals. But if FIFA as an organi-sation were criminally charged, sponsors and other partners might be reluctant to do business with it.

But that is not the only concern. In the last month, talk has resurfaced among Europe’s most powerful clubs of a breakaway European Super League, as well as complaints about the amount of time players spend with national teams.

National team competitions depend on a calendar agreed between FIFA and the clubs, which commit to release players to their national teams on certain dates. If the clubs, which are always eager for more opportunities to play lucrative friendlies abroad, were to pull out, it would throw inter-national football into chaos.

There was similar discontent in the 1990s, when European soccer’s governing body UEFA became deeply critical of Joao Havelange, the Brazilian president of FIFA at the time.

UEFA produced propos-als that included handing more power to the con-tinental confederations, rotating FIFA’s presi-dency and limiting it mainly to organis-ing the four-yearly World Cup.

Leading clubs including AC Milan and Manchester Unit-ed then sought to build support for a breakaway league, and top players found themselves in a tug-of-war as clubs refused to release them for internationals.

OLD AND NEW CHALLENGES

FIFA’s response was to threaten national associations (FAs), clubs and players with

suspension if they linked up with the proposed league, and UEFA quelled the threat by reorganis-ing its competitions.

But FIFA now faces similar challenges, added to the menace of match-fixing organised by illegal betting syndicates, all while trying to shake off a series of scandals that have seen FIFA president Sepp Blatter banned for ethics violations and cast a shadow over the awarding of at least three World Cup finals. Clearly, it cannot afford to get its reforms wrong.

“If there is not a strong FIFA, football will be grabbed by a lot of people who have no interest in the game and want to use the game for other reasons - political, business or even criminal,” said Jerome Champagne, one of five candidates for president.

The reform proposal on the table includes term limits for top officials, to avoid another 18-

year presidency such as Blatter’s, as well as disclosure of their salaries.

More radically, it would take respon-sibility for everyday business decisions away from the “political” representa-tives of national associations. These would sit on a new-look 36-member

FIFA Council, which would have at least six female members, and set a broad

strategy for world soccer.Day-to-day management

would instead pass to a new, professional general secretariat, more akin to a corporate executive board, which, like the Council, would be over-seen by a fully indepen-dent Audit and Compli-ance Committee.

The proposals also place a greater onus on continental confed-erations and national associations to police themselves.(rtr)

NEW YORK — Lionel Mes-si and his Argentina squad have been drawn against defending champion Chile in the group stage of this year’s Centennial Copa America tournament in a rematch of last year’s final that gave the Chileans their first ma-jor tournament title.

Argentina, the No. 2 team in the world rankings, and No. 5 Chile were also drawn Sunday with Bolivia and Panama in the special 16-nation tournament whose business deals led to in-dictments against a slew of top soccer executives on corruption charges.

Chile defeated Argentina 4-1 in a shootout to win the title last year, extending Argentina’s 22-year title drought.

“Facing Argentina once again carries an extra burden,” Chile coach Juan Antonio Pizzi said after the draw was announced.

Argentina coach Gerardo Martino, however, downplayed the match between the two teams on June 6 in Santa Clara, California, saying, “You cannot compare it with the Copa Amer-ica final, which was something unique.”

The other groups are: A_Unit-ed States, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay B_Brazil, Ecuador, Haiti, Peru C_Jamaica, Mexico,

Uruguay, VenezuelaThe tournament marks the

100th anniversary of the first Copa America, South America’s national-team championship. It will be held in the United States from June 3-26 — the first time outside South America — and feature 10 teams from South America, as well as six from the CONCACAF region.

U.S. federal prosecutors al-leged a company formed to buy the Centennial Copa America’s marketing rights agreed to pay $110 million in bribes to South American soccer officials.

The last three presidents of soccer’s governing bodies for South America and the CONCA-CAF region have been indicted, including former CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb, who agreed to plead guilty. The cor-ruption probe led FIFA President Sepp Blatter to announce his resignation last spring, just days after he was elected to a fifth term. His successor is due to be chosen Friday by a special FIFA Congress.

Following the initial indict-ments in May, the U.S. Soccer Federation refused to host the tournament until the previous business agreements were ter-minated.

Messi, a five-time world

player of the year, has already committed to playing in the tournament and organizers also hope it will include top stars such as Brazil’s Neymar, Uruguay’s Luis Suarez and Chile’s Alexis Sanchez.

The Americans meet Colom-bia in the tournament opener on June 3 at Santa Clara — a match that carries historical significance.

Twenty-two years ago, the two teams played in California during the group stage of the 1994 World Cup, a match won by the U.S. 2-1. The result led 10 days later to the murder of Andres Escobar, a 27-year-old Colombian defender who had de-flected a pass from John Harkes into his net for an own goal.

“One of the toughest groups because of the history of all the teams involved,” Colombia coach Jose Pekerman said.

Colombia went 3-0 in its group at the 2014 World Cup and was knocked out by Brazil in the quarterfinals. Ranked eighth in the world, Colombia has a player pool that includes stars James Rodriguez and Jackson Martinez.

“We know we start right on our toes with the opening whistle in Santa Clara,” U.S. coach Jur-gen Klinsmann said. (ap)

AMSTERDAM - A third succes-sive clean sheet proved the high point of Saturday’s win in the Dutch league for PSV Eindhoven coach Philip Cocu as his team prepare to host Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday.

PSV extended their lead at the top of the domestic standings by beating Heracles Almelo 2-0 in a performance that pleased Cocu as he looked ahead to the first leg of the Champions League last 16 clash.

“I thought we were defensively a lot stronger. The last line and the midfield worked well together and the players put in a lot of work,” he told reporters after Saturday’s win.

“We were never in any trouble and I thought in the first half we played

together a superb match. We controlled the second half too. It was just a pity we did not convert all our chances.

“On Wednesday we’ll need to bring the same work and intensity. We gave Heracles too much space in the second half and made the field too big. We can’t do that on Wednesday because Atletico are deadly on the counter attack. We are going to work hard at it.”

PSV are likely to also have a full compliment of players with Andres Guardado and Maxime Lestienne returning from injury.

“We will use Monday and Tuesday to check how they come through train-ing but a player who is 90 percent fit is of no use for a big match like that against Atletico,” Cocu added. (rtr)

BARCELONA — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal but missed a penalty

as Real Madrid was held 1-1 at Malaga on Sunday to fall nine points behind Spanish league leader Barcelona. Second-place Atletico Madrid could only manage a 0-0 draw against Villarreal and is eight points behind Barcelona, which is now in a strong position to retain its league title.

Ronaldo put the visitors in front with a header in the 33rd minute but missed a chance to increase the lead a couple of minutes later when his spot-kick was saved by Malaga goalkeeper Carlos Kameni. The hosts equalized through defender Raul Albentosa in the 66th.

Madrid needed a victory to keep pace with Barcelona, after the Catalan side won 2-1 at Las Palmas on Saturday.

Atletico Madrid also had to win, but Diego Simeone’s team failed to break through Villarreal’s defense at the Vicente Calderon Stadium. The draw extended Villarreal’s 12-game unbeaten streak and kept the club in fourth place, five points behind Atletico Madrid.

“We have to keep working, game after game,” Atletico midfielder Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion said. “We are still second, we will continue to fight until the end.” Atletico and Real Madrid have 13 games left to try to catch Barcelona. No team has come back from nine points down to win the title with this many matches left in the Spanish league.

“We are not done yet, we only lost two points,” Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. “There are a lot of games left, the other teams can also lose points.”

It will be difficult, though, as Barcelona hasn’t lost in 32 games and has won eight in a row in the league. Real Madrid has been dominant at home since Zidane took over the squad, but it drew two of its three away league games. The only victory came with a late winner against Granada.

“We never give up,” Real Madrid left back Marcelo said. “It’s a big difference but we will fight until the end.” Some of Spain’s top sports newspapers ran headlines saying Madrid’s title run was over.

“Real Madrid says goodbye to league title,” both Marca and AS said on their websites after the game.

Madrid struggled from the start at La Rosaleda Stadium in Malaga, allowing the hosts to create several scoring chances. Goalkeeper Keylor Navas did well in keeping Malaga from scoring more goals. (ap)

ChRiSTiAN PuLiSiC, a 17-year-old American midfielder from Hershey, Pennsylvania, made his first start in the Bundesliga on Sunday in Borussia Dortmund’s 1-0 win at Bayer Leverkusen.

Pulisic made his Bundesliga debut Jan. 30 as a second-half substitute and had three additional substitute appear-ances after that, two in the Bundesliga and one in the Europa League against

Porto.He played the first half Sunday and

set up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who shot wide. Aubameyang scored in the 64th minute of the match, which then was interrupted for eight min-utes when referee Felix Zwayer sent Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt to the stands for “repeated unsporting actions,” and Schmidt refused to go. (ap)

AP Photo/Daniel Tejedor

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal, gestures in pain, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Malaga and Real Madrid at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016.

Ronaldo misses penalty, Madrid loses ground to Barcelona

17-year-old American Pulisic gets 1st

start in Bundesliga

Clean sheet boosts PSV ahead of

Champions League tie

IBP/net

Philip Cocu

AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

From left, Carlos Valderrama, Alexi Lalas, Mario Kempes and Jorge Campos, join Jurgen Mainka, center, master of ceremonies, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, at the completion of the official 2016 Copa Centenario Official Draw in New York.

Argentina faces Chile in Copa America in rematch of final

FIFA faces day of reckoning as threats mount

REUTERS/Marko Djurica

UEFA General Secretary and FIFA presidential

candidate Gianni Infan-tino arrives for the re-gional meeting of National Football Associations in

Belgrade, Serbia February 13, 2016.

ZuRiCh - The spotlight at next week’s FiFA Congress will fall on the presidential elec-tion - but the real key to the future of soccer’s beleaguered governing body is embedded in a document with the unglamorous title “Draft statutes - Congress 2016”.

98 Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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Drawn up over the last eight months, it suggests changes to stop the scandals that have left the organi-sation supposed to lead the world’s most popular sport facing its greatest threat for decades.

The most obvious challenge is criminal investiga-tions in the United States and Switzerland that have already resulted in the indictment of several dozen soccer officials for corruption, many of them serv-ing or former presidents of national or continental associations.

U.S. prosecutors have continued to call FIFA a victim of corrupt individuals. But if FIFA as an organi-sation were criminally charged, sponsors and other partners might be reluctant to do business with it.

But that is not the only concern. In the last month, talk has resurfaced among Europe’s most powerful clubs of a breakaway European Super League, as well as complaints about the amount of time players spend with national teams.

National team competitions depend on a calendar agreed between FIFA and the clubs, which commit to release players to their national teams on certain dates. If the clubs, which are always eager for more opportunities to play lucrative friendlies abroad, were to pull out, it would throw inter-national football into chaos.

There was similar discontent in the 1990s, when European soccer’s governing body UEFA became deeply critical of Joao Havelange, the Brazilian president of FIFA at the time.

UEFA produced propos-als that included handing more power to the con-tinental confederations, rotating FIFA’s presi-dency and limiting it mainly to organis-ing the four-yearly World Cup.

Leading clubs including AC Milan and Manchester Unit-ed then sought to build support for a breakaway league, and top players found themselves in a tug-of-war as clubs refused to release them for internationals.

OLD AND NEW CHALLENGES

FIFA’s response was to threaten national associations (FAs), clubs and players with

suspension if they linked up with the proposed league, and UEFA quelled the threat by reorganis-ing its competitions.

But FIFA now faces similar challenges, added to the menace of match-fixing organised by illegal betting syndicates, all while trying to shake off a series of scandals that have seen FIFA president Sepp Blatter banned for ethics violations and cast a shadow over the awarding of at least three World Cup finals. Clearly, it cannot afford to get its reforms wrong.

“If there is not a strong FIFA, football will be grabbed by a lot of people who have no interest in the game and want to use the game for other reasons - political, business or even criminal,” said Jerome Champagne, one of five candidates for president.

The reform proposal on the table includes term limits for top officials, to avoid another 18-

year presidency such as Blatter’s, as well as disclosure of their salaries.

More radically, it would take respon-sibility for everyday business decisions away from the “political” representa-tives of national associations. These would sit on a new-look 36-member

FIFA Council, which would have at least six female members, and set a broad

strategy for world soccer.Day-to-day management

would instead pass to a new, professional general secretariat, more akin to a corporate executive board, which, like the Council, would be over-seen by a fully indepen-dent Audit and Compli-ance Committee.

The proposals also place a greater onus on continental confed-erations and national associations to police themselves.(rtr)

NEW YORK — Lionel Mes-si and his Argentina squad have been drawn against defending champion Chile in the group stage of this year’s Centennial Copa America tournament in a rematch of last year’s final that gave the Chileans their first ma-jor tournament title.

Argentina, the No. 2 team in the world rankings, and No. 5 Chile were also drawn Sunday with Bolivia and Panama in the special 16-nation tournament whose business deals led to in-dictments against a slew of top soccer executives on corruption charges.

Chile defeated Argentina 4-1 in a shootout to win the title last year, extending Argentina’s 22-year title drought.

“Facing Argentina once again carries an extra burden,” Chile coach Juan Antonio Pizzi said after the draw was announced.

Argentina coach Gerardo Martino, however, downplayed the match between the two teams on June 6 in Santa Clara, California, saying, “You cannot compare it with the Copa Amer-ica final, which was something unique.”

The other groups are: A_Unit-ed States, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay B_Brazil, Ecuador, Haiti, Peru C_Jamaica, Mexico,

Uruguay, VenezuelaThe tournament marks the

100th anniversary of the first Copa America, South America’s national-team championship. It will be held in the United States from June 3-26 — the first time outside South America — and feature 10 teams from South America, as well as six from the CONCACAF region.

U.S. federal prosecutors al-leged a company formed to buy the Centennial Copa America’s marketing rights agreed to pay $110 million in bribes to South American soccer officials.

The last three presidents of soccer’s governing bodies for South America and the CONCA-CAF region have been indicted, including former CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb, who agreed to plead guilty. The cor-ruption probe led FIFA President Sepp Blatter to announce his resignation last spring, just days after he was elected to a fifth term. His successor is due to be chosen Friday by a special FIFA Congress.

Following the initial indict-ments in May, the U.S. Soccer Federation refused to host the tournament until the previous business agreements were ter-minated.

Messi, a five-time world

player of the year, has already committed to playing in the tournament and organizers also hope it will include top stars such as Brazil’s Neymar, Uruguay’s Luis Suarez and Chile’s Alexis Sanchez.

The Americans meet Colom-bia in the tournament opener on June 3 at Santa Clara — a match that carries historical significance.

Twenty-two years ago, the two teams played in California during the group stage of the 1994 World Cup, a match won by the U.S. 2-1. The result led 10 days later to the murder of Andres Escobar, a 27-year-old Colombian defender who had de-flected a pass from John Harkes into his net for an own goal.

“One of the toughest groups because of the history of all the teams involved,” Colombia coach Jose Pekerman said.

Colombia went 3-0 in its group at the 2014 World Cup and was knocked out by Brazil in the quarterfinals. Ranked eighth in the world, Colombia has a player pool that includes stars James Rodriguez and Jackson Martinez.

“We know we start right on our toes with the opening whistle in Santa Clara,” U.S. coach Jur-gen Klinsmann said. (ap)

AMSTERDAM - A third succes-sive clean sheet proved the high point of Saturday’s win in the Dutch league for PSV Eindhoven coach Philip Cocu as his team prepare to host Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday.

PSV extended their lead at the top of the domestic standings by beating Heracles Almelo 2-0 in a performance that pleased Cocu as he looked ahead to the first leg of the Champions League last 16 clash.

“I thought we were defensively a lot stronger. The last line and the midfield worked well together and the players put in a lot of work,” he told reporters after Saturday’s win.

“We were never in any trouble and I thought in the first half we played

together a superb match. We controlled the second half too. It was just a pity we did not convert all our chances.

“On Wednesday we’ll need to bring the same work and intensity. We gave Heracles too much space in the second half and made the field too big. We can’t do that on Wednesday because Atletico are deadly on the counter attack. We are going to work hard at it.”

PSV are likely to also have a full compliment of players with Andres Guardado and Maxime Lestienne returning from injury.

“We will use Monday and Tuesday to check how they come through train-ing but a player who is 90 percent fit is of no use for a big match like that against Atletico,” Cocu added. (rtr)

BARCELONA — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal but missed a penalty

as Real Madrid was held 1-1 at Malaga on Sunday to fall nine points behind Spanish league leader Barcelona. Second-place Atletico Madrid could only manage a 0-0 draw against Villarreal and is eight points behind Barcelona, which is now in a strong position to retain its league title.

Ronaldo put the visitors in front with a header in the 33rd minute but missed a chance to increase the lead a couple of minutes later when his spot-kick was saved by Malaga goalkeeper Carlos Kameni. The hosts equalized through defender Raul Albentosa in the 66th.

Madrid needed a victory to keep pace with Barcelona, after the Catalan side won 2-1 at Las Palmas on Saturday.

Atletico Madrid also had to win, but Diego Simeone’s team failed to break through Villarreal’s defense at the Vicente Calderon Stadium. The draw extended Villarreal’s 12-game unbeaten streak and kept the club in fourth place, five points behind Atletico Madrid.

“We have to keep working, game after game,” Atletico midfielder Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion said. “We are still second, we will continue to fight until the end.” Atletico and Real Madrid have 13 games left to try to catch Barcelona. No team has come back from nine points down to win the title with this many matches left in the Spanish league.

“We are not done yet, we only lost two points,” Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. “There are a lot of games left, the other teams can also lose points.”

It will be difficult, though, as Barcelona hasn’t lost in 32 games and has won eight in a row in the league. Real Madrid has been dominant at home since Zidane took over the squad, but it drew two of its three away league games. The only victory came with a late winner against Granada.

“We never give up,” Real Madrid left back Marcelo said. “It’s a big difference but we will fight until the end.” Some of Spain’s top sports newspapers ran headlines saying Madrid’s title run was over.

“Real Madrid says goodbye to league title,” both Marca and AS said on their websites after the game.

Madrid struggled from the start at La Rosaleda Stadium in Malaga, allowing the hosts to create several scoring chances. Goalkeeper Keylor Navas did well in keeping Malaga from scoring more goals. (ap)

ChRiSTiAN PuLiSiC, a 17-year-old American midfielder from Hershey, Pennsylvania, made his first start in the Bundesliga on Sunday in Borussia Dortmund’s 1-0 win at Bayer Leverkusen.

Pulisic made his Bundesliga debut Jan. 30 as a second-half substitute and had three additional substitute appear-ances after that, two in the Bundesliga and one in the Europa League against

Porto.He played the first half Sunday and

set up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who shot wide. Aubameyang scored in the 64th minute of the match, which then was interrupted for eight min-utes when referee Felix Zwayer sent Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt to the stands for “repeated unsporting actions,” and Schmidt refused to go. (ap)

AP Photo/Daniel Tejedor

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal, gestures in pain, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Malaga and Real Madrid at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016.

Ronaldo misses penalty, Madrid loses ground to Barcelona

17-year-old American Pulisic gets 1st

start in Bundesliga

Clean sheet boosts PSV ahead of

Champions League tie

IBP/net

Philip Cocu

AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

From left, Carlos Valderrama, Alexi Lalas, Mario Kempes and Jorge Campos, join Jurgen Mainka, center, master of ceremonies, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, at the completion of the official 2016 Copa Centenario Official Draw in New York.

Argentina faces Chile in Copa America in rematch of final

FIFA faces day of reckoning as threats mount

REUTERS/Marko Djurica

UEFA General Secretary and FIFA presidential

candidate Gianni Infan-tino arrives for the re-gional meeting of National Football Associations in

Belgrade, Serbia February 13, 2016.

ZuRiCh - The spotlight at next week’s FiFA Congress will fall on the presidential elec-tion - but the real key to the future of soccer’s beleaguered governing body is embedded in a document with the unglamorous title “Draft statutes - Congress 2016”.

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“First, we need to go out there and show that we can do the job, that we can finish races, that we are respected by the fans and other teams in the paddock. Then, we want to score points. That is the ultimate goal.”

The car, designed in Italy by

Dallara and powered by Ferrari, will make its first public appearance on track at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on Monday at the start of pre-season testing.

The team carried out a brief ‘shakedown’ of the car in Barcelona on Saturday but Ferrari had the circuit to themselves on Sunday for private filming.

Frenchman Romain Grosjean and Mexican Esteban Gutierrez,

who was a Ferrari reserve last season after previously racing for Sauber, are the Haas drivers.

The season starts in Australia on March 20.

Haas are Formula One’s first com-pletely new team since 2010, when Lotus Racing, Hispania and Virgin Racing made their debuts. Only the latter still survives after changing it’s name to Marussia and now Manor.

Hispania (HRT) folded in 2012

and Lotus Racing, which became Team Lotus and then Caterham, disappeared after the 2014 season. Neither scored a point.

Haas have forged close links with Ferrari, however, taking most of their components from the sport’s most successful team as well as engine and gearbox. Ferrari won three races last year and were the closest challengers to champions Mercedes. (rtr)

DUBAI - Novak Djokovic has vowed not to become over-confident as he seeks to extend a 15-match winning streak when he returns to action in Dubai, his first tournament since winning a sixth Australian Open title last month.

The Melbourne Park victory earned the Serb an 11th grand slam trophy, bringing him level with Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver, and the 28-year-old admit-ted such milestones are important to him after winning four of the past five majors.

“People start talking about the all-time greats and me coming closer to them, but I still would like to follow the same ap-proach and philosophy of focusing only on the next tournament,” Djokovic told reporters in Dubai.

“I try not to be over-confident because I have lots of respect for other players but being at the peak of my career I’m trying to use this momentum and take everything out of myself and achieve more.”

After winning 34 of his last 35 grand slam matches, it is not inconceivable that Djokovic could end up eclipsing Roger Federer’s record of 17 majors before too long.

But for all his success, Djokovic has

yet to crack the French Open, finishing runner-up on three occasions.

But with rivals such as Federer, Andy Murray and Rafa Nadal unable to keep pace with him in the best-of-five set contests, the Serb is hoping to end his Roland Garros jinx in 2016 and perhaps even become the first man to achieve the calendar year Grand Slam since Rod Laver in 1969.

“I try to approach each tournament optimistically and I believe that I can win every match that I play against anybody on any surface,” said Djokovic, who is 12-0 this year.

Anything other than victory in Dubai, where Djokovic will potentially only face two other top-10 players, would be a huge shock especially after Federer with-drew with injury. The duo have won the last seven Dubai titles between them.

Djokovic’s most likely challenger in Dubai will be world number four Stan Wawrinka, who beat him in last year’s Roland Garros final. (rtr)

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Haas Formula One drivers Esteban Gutierrez of Mexico (L) and Romain Grosjean of France pose with the new VF-16 F1 car before the first testing session ahead of the upcoming season at the Circuit Catalunya-Barcelona in Montmelo, Spain, February 22, 2016.

Haas aim for points with their ’very first’ F1 car

BARCELONA - Formula One newcomers Haas, the sport’s first U.S.-owned team in 30 years, presented their 2016 car on Sunday with a grey and red livery and the designation VF-16 to mark it out as the ‘Very First’.

Djokovic determined not to get carried away with success

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic plays with some children during a visit to the

Melbourne City Mission’s Bray-brook Early Learning Centre in this

February 1, 2016 handout photo. REUTERS/Fiona Hamilton/Handout via Reuters

SUKAWATI - Sukawati is best known for its art market, still many have not heard of this hidden canyon. To enjoy the canyon, the local already

arrange guide to assist the tourist. The route to the canyon is short (5-10 minutes) along the shallow river, but if you want to take further just ask the

local guide to continue after the first canyon. The route is still along the same river, but after around 30 min-utes or less (if you are trekking much)

you will find the second canyon with quite the same characteristics as the 1st one. You don’t take the same route for returning rather than to continue

and get back all along paddy fields. You can also take a picture together with snake or rare palm cockatoo. (IBP/net)

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Meanwhile, violence continued to rage in Syria. Multiple bomb blasts in a southern district of Da-mascus killed at least 87 people on Sunday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, and twin car bombs killed at least 59 people in Homs, the moni-toring group said.

Russian air strikes launched in September against rebels fight-ing President Bashar al-Assad have exacerbated suffering and destruction in Syria, where a five-year-old civil war has killed more than a quarter of a million people.

Assad said on Saturday he was ready for a ceasefire on condition “terrorists” did not use a lull in fighting to their advantage and that countries backing the insurgents stopped supporting them.

The Syrian opposition had ear-lier said it had agreed to the “pos-sibility” of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus’s allies, including Rus-

sia, would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries were al-lowed country-wide.

“We have reached a provisional agreement in principle on the terms of a cessation of hostilities that could begin in the coming days,” Kerry told a news conference in Amman with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh.

“The modalities for a cessation of hostilities are now being com-pleted. In fact, we are closer to a ceasefire today than we have been,” said Kerry, who was also to meet King Abdullah.

He declined to go into detail about the unresolved issues, say-ing the two sides were “filling out the details” of the agreement. And he indicated issues remained to be resolved and he did not expect any immediate change on the ground.

He repeated the U.S. position that Assad had to step down. “With Assad there, this war cannot and will not end,” he said.

Assad’s fate has been one of the main points of difference between Washington and Russia, the Syrian

leader’s main international backer. Russia recently has begun to say Syrians should decide on whether

Assad should stay or not, but it con-tinues to support Damascus with air strikes. (rtr)

BAHADURGARH - Rural Indian protesters blockaded high-ways and paralysed a northern state on Monday despite a deal giving them more government jobs, but there was relief for New Delhi’s 20 million residents as the army retook control of their main water source.

Days of rioting and looting across Haryana state by the Jat rural caste have killed at least 15 people and threaten to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of better days for In-dians who elected him in 2014 with the largest majority in three decades.

Thousands of troops have been deployed to quell protests, which flared again on Monday near the town of Sonipat as protesters set fire to a freight train.

A compromise with the Jats brokered by Modi’s home minister on Sunday failed to get protest-

ers to clear highway roadblocks. Disruption has been huge, with 850 trains cancelled, 500 facto-ries closed and business losses estimated at $2.9 billion.

“We will continue the protests. The government thinks we will succumb to their pressure tactics but they are making a big mistake by ignoring us,” Ramesh Dalal, convenor of the Jat Arakshan Andolan (Jat Reservation Move-ment), told Reuters.

“Jats are determined to win the battle. They had to send the army to control our anger but even they have failed.”

The Indian army retook control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of the capital’s water. Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said the army had reopened the sluice gates of the Munak canal to the north of the city. Water was expected to reach the metropolis within hours. (rtr)

Violence rages in Syria as Kerry and Lavrov reach

provisional deal on ceasefireAMMAN - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on

Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before.

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Syrian army soldiers and civilians inspect the site of multiple bomb blasts that hit the Sayeda Zeinab area, a southern district of Damascus, Syria, February 21, 2016.

Indian caste protesters keep up blockade; Delhi water restored

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Residents with their empty containers crowd around a municipal tanker to fetch water in New Delhi, India, February 22, 2016. The Indian army has taken control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of Delhi’s water, the state’s chief minister said on Monday, raising hope that a water crisis in the metropolis of more than 20 million people can be averted.

In the meeting of the House, the president will discuss the KPK Law and others bills, which are included in the 2016 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas). With regard to the revision, the president said he would comment further on the issue, saying that he would meet the leaders of the house.

Earlier, KPK Chairman Agus Rahardjo and other institutional lead-ers had met President Jokowi at the Merdeka Palace here on Monday.

“We have consulted with the president on the revision of the KPK Law,” Agus Rahardjo noted. Rahardjo and other KPK leaders, however, did not reveal further details regarding their meeting with the president. Meanwhile, several re-ligious figures have urged President Jokowi to stop efforts by the DPR to revise the law on KPK.

“We urged President Jokowi to stop the efforts to revise the law as we see that the draft revision will only weaken (KPK),” Catholic priest Benny Susetyo stated at a meeting of interfaith figures on corruption. He said that public pressure should make the president stop the revision and meet his governments promise to stay committed to fighting corruption.

To deal with the current emer-gency situation caused by cor-ruption, Susetyo affirmed that the leader needed to demonstrate strong will to eradicate corruption and reject any efforts to weaken the anti-graft body. Hajriyanto Y. Tohari, chairman of the Islamic organization Muhammadiyah, sus-pected that the president might have a hidden agenda by allowing the people to be involved in a polemic over the revision of the KPK law.

“I suspect that there is a hidden agenda behind him allowing the people to stage a polemic over the re-vision issue. Will he allow the people to continue with it?” he questioned.

In view of this, Tohari has called on the president to no longer allow the people to be part of the polemic by immediately clarifying whether he agreed to it.

The decision to include the revi-sion of the KPK law in the Prolegnas this year is a joint decision of the government and DPR, and so, the president must demonstrate his firm stand by demanding a postponement of the discussion and not allowing the DPR to discuss the matter and mak-ing it the scapegoat, he emphasized.

The DPR was initially scheduled to discuss the revision on Feb. 18, but it was later decided to postpone the discussion until Feb. 23.(ant)

BATAM - The State Audit Board (BPK) is conducting a financial auditing on the Batam Free Trade and Free Port Zone Authority (BP Batam) which was usually audited by only the BPK branch office in the island.

“Yes, I have just received a report that a team of BPK from the central government is auditing the BP Batam. In the past, the BP Batam was auditing BPKs branch office here. Now, the auditing is taken over by the central office,” BPK Chairman Harry Azhar Azis said in a text message to ANTARA News here Saturday.

The auditing is conducted on the financial accountability of the BP Batam in the January 1 - December 31, 2015 period, he said. “It will be reported together with other

financial reports of the central of-fice,” he added. The auditing is carried out based on the law on BPK, he said.

Harry did not explain any links to the auditing with the statement of the Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal and Security Luhut Binsar Panjaitan who said the land allocation in Batam would be audited.

“There can be or cannot be a link with it. We decided to conduct the editing based on the BPK law,” Harry said.

Luhut who held a meeting in Batam earlier said the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and other relevant agencies will soon go to Batam to conduct audit-ing on the land allocation in the free trade and free port zone.(ant)

JAKARTA — Indonesian po-lice on Sunday released most of the men detained while attending military-style training at a suspect jihadi camp, as officials lamented weaknesses in the current anti-terrorism legislation that is due to be significantly strengthened following last month’s deadly attacks in Jakarta.

The elite anti-terrorism squad early Saturday detained 38 men at a suspected militant camp on the remote slopes of Mount Sumbing in Central Java province, said provincial police spokesman Col. Liliek Darmanto. Police seized air rifles, knives, and jihadi books and flags in the raid.

However, they were released early Sunday after 24-hour ques-tioning as police were unable to prove a string of terrorism-related allegations, he said.

“This is the weakness of our laws,” said Saud Usman Nasu-tion, head of the anti-terrorism agency. “We cannot arrest before they have committed a crime even though we can detect a radical network.”

His agency has been pushing the government to strengthen the anti-terrorism law. It gained momentum following the Jan. 14 suicide and gun attacks in Jakarta, which left eight people

dead, including four of the at-tackers.

In response to the attacks, Indonesia’s government submit-ted a new anti-terrorism law to parliament this past week.

The draft bill, obtained by The Associated Press, says an indi-vidual suspected of plotting to carry out an act of terrorism could be detained for up to six months without charges. If approved, it would be the first time for such a tough measure to be enacted since the downfall of dictator Suharto in 1998.

Luhut Pandjaitan, a Cabinet minister in charge of security and political affairs, said he expected lawmakers to pass the revisions within the next two months.

The bill would also become an offense for Indonesians to join a militant group overseas such as the Islamic State group, or recruit others, with a maximum impris-onment of seven years. It would also authorize the anti-terrorism squad to execute raids and arrest suspects for interrogation based solely on intelligence reports.

In addition to the Central Java raid, five other suspected mili-tants were captured late Friday in Malang, a hilly city in East Java province, said local police chief Lt. Col. Yudho Nugroho.(ap)

Most suspects freed in Indonesia raid as tough law pending

State Audit Board conducts financial auditing on Batam authority

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Debris fly into the air as foreign fishing boats are blown up by Indonesian Navy off Batam Island, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Authorities on Monday sank dozens of fishing boats caught operating illegally in Indonesian waters as part of the country’s campaign to battle illegal fishing.

President Jokowi invites anti-graft agency, house to discuss KPK law

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) invited leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the House of Representatives (DPR) on Monday to discuss the revision of the KPK Law. “Essentially, I met leaders of the KPK to discuss the revision of the Anti-Graft Agency Law. I will then meet leaders of the DPR to discuss the revision this afternoon,” President Jokowi noted here on Monday.

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BUSINESS

The bank also unexpectedly an-nounced a $1.3 billion loss for the final quarter, compared with a $511 million profit in the same period the previous year.

Chairman Douglas Flint said the results were “broadly satisfactory.” He said in a statement that last year was marked by “seismic shifts in global economic conditions,” nota-bly sharp falls in prices for oil and other commodities, partly stemming from slowing growth in China.

The London-based bank has been steadily trimming back its global operations as part of a sweeping reorganization announced last June in order to focus on Asia, where it expects the region’s growing affluence to drive profits. Asia accounted for 83.5 percent of HSBC’s pre-tax profits last year. It’s slashing thousands of jobs and sell-

ing off businesses in countries like Brazil while expanding in China, particularly the wealthy Pearl River Delta manufacturing region in the country’s south.

HSBC said that cost cutting mea-sures were already having an impact and it’s now a “leaner business” than it was half a year ago.

However, Flint said challenges remain as growth ebbs in China, where the economy grew last year at its slowest rate in a quarter century.

“China’s slower economic growth will undoubtedly contribute to a bumpier financial environment, but it is still expected to be the larg-est contributor to global growth as its economy transitions to higher added value manufacturing and ser-vices and becomes more consumer driven,” he said.

Growth in China’s economy, the world’s second biggest, dipped to 6.9 percent last year as policy-makers sought to shift away from growth based mainly on export-led manufacturing and investment to-ward greater reliance on consumer demand. Officials are forecasting growth of between 6.5-7 percent this year.

Despite its focus on Asia, last month HSBC decided to keep its headquarters in London rather than moving it to Hong Kong, ending a 10-month review prompted by new U.K. regulatory and tax changes. The bank said keeping its base in London gave it the “best of both worlds.” HSBC has a sizeable pres-ence in Hong Kong, where it was founded to finance trade between China and Europe more than a century ago, when the city was still a British colony.

CEO Stuart Gulliver said HSBC gave up on plans to sell its Turkey business because it didn’t get a good enough offer. It will restructure it instead. (ap)

PARIS — Experts at the Inter-national Energy Agency have dra-matically pushed back their view on when oil prices will rebound from current 13-year lows, saying the supply glut will hold prices down until early next year.

A year ago, the IEA, a Paris-based organization of 29 major oil importing nations, had forecast a “relatively swift” recovery. Instead, oil prices have continued to fall,

reaching a level below $30 a barrel last seen in 2003, the IEA says in its latest report Monday.

IEA chief Fatih Birol blamed “extraordinary volatility” in oil markets that has made forecasting “more difficult than ever” for its changed outlook.

In its report, the agency says oil supplies have surged due to a three-year rise in stocks, a phenomenon last seen in the mid-1990s. (ap)

LONDON — The pound is down sharply on concern that Britain’s popular vote on whether to leave the European Union could be closer than expected after se-nior politicians joined the “leave” campaign.

London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sunday said he would support the campaign in favor of leaving the 28-country bloc, arguing it would

help restore power over national policies from Brussels.

Many investors and businesses are wary of such a move, however, as it creates uncertainty and could hurt the economy, at least in the short term. Economists say the U.K. largely benefits from the EU’s free-dom of money and labor. The pound was down 1.7 percent at $1.4166 on Monday. (ap)

Pound drops after UK sets EU referendum vote

High supplies seen capping oil price until early 2017

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A worker handles the nozzle of a fuel dispenser at a gas sta-tion, which belongs to Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, in Caracas, Venezuela February 19, 2016.

AP Photo/Vincent Yu

People walk past a branch of HSBC bank in Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. HSBC warned of a “bumpier” global financial outlook thanks to China’s slowing economy, as it reported Monday that profit dipped slightly last year.

HSBC 2015 profit dips as it warns of bumpy financial outlook

HONG KONG — HSBC warned of a “bumpier” global finan-cial outlook thanks to China’s slowing economy, as it reported Monday that profit dipped slightly last year. Europe’s biggest bank posted a net profit of $13.5 billion for 2015, down 1.2 percent from the year before and below analysts’ forecasts.

Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives, Ngakan Made Kutha Parwata, said on Sunday (Feb. 21) that the designation of ‘tourism village’ is meant to con-tribute to these villages developing their potential and eventually im-proving the welfare of the villagers. In Bangli, the government is very keen on establishing tourism vil-lages and as of this year there are a total of 25 that have been desig-nated as such.

However, in reality the number of so called tourism villages that have been able to progress at all can be counted on one hand.. ìSo far, only the villages of Penglipuran, Guliang Kangin and Tamanbali, are active, the others remain dormant and are completely unknown to touristsî said Parwata. He added that the new government should provide more serious attention to the tourism villages and not allow the spirit in which there were cre-ated be inversely proportional to the effort put into supporting their growth.

This PDI-P politician said that every year Bangli always obtains hotel and restaurant tax. Accord-ing to his observation, the previous yearís funding was dominantly used for infrastructure development re-lated to public interests. This year, the allocation needs to be changed where it must be given to tourism object development, where one of them is tourism village.

ìThere are four criteria for the hotel and restaurant tax fund allo-cation: the development of tourist attractions, environmental manage-ment, and social and infrastructure development designed with public interest in mind. Previsouly these four points were given equal atten-tion, this year, however the devel-opment of tourist attractinos should be given priorityî he said.

In addition to making physical improvements to tourists attrac-tions, this man from Banbang vil-lage, Tembuku emphasized that the development of human ressources also needs to be given serious atten-tion. ìHuman resources should be a major concern, with attention given to training about how to develop and manage a tourist attraction.,î he said.

Member of Commission II of the Bangli House of Representa-tives, I Wayan Jamin, also accused the Cutlure and Tourism Agency of being half hearted in their per-formance last year. Apparently all they did was to determine certain villages as destined for tourism but measures to develop them were far from optimal, he said, adding that both choosing the village and sup-prting their development need to be done in unison..ìTourism villages should not just be established, but must be complemented with other efforts, such as human resource development, Do not do things half-heartedly” said Jamin.

He added that currently the government does not have an appropriate grand design for the development of tourism villages. The Culture and Tourism agency as the leaders of this effort, seem to remain egoistic, he said. ìThis year the attention paid to tourism villages must be better than it has ever been. The villages that have managed to develop should be taken as an example to help foster the others,î he said.

Half-hearted attitude of the tourism agency is also felt by The

people of Bayunggede village in Kintamani also feel that the Culture and Tourism Agency has not been fully dedicated to the endeavour. Banynggede submit-ted a proposal for human resource development last year, but it was never followed up on by the agency. “Unfortunately, there has been no response so far and when we ask for clarification they always respond by saying that they are looking for a good time to schedule such an effort,î said headman, I Wayan Suarjaya. Some

training would indeed be helpful, especially because tourist have started coming to visit the village ìWe just need some coaching, we have already been making physi-cal improvements to the village ourselves,î he explained.

Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, I Wayan Adnyana, claimed that human resource devel-opment activities will be maximized and added that they plan to start next April by training vilagers in how to manage a tourist attraction,î he said simply. (kmb45)

AMLAPURA - The Telaga Waja Rafting Association (ARTW) op-poses poans to built a dam on the Telaga Waja River, Karangasem, that would serve the Banjing hydro-electric power plant (PLTA). The hydropower plant , they explained, would damage the river ecosystem that is now crowded as a tourist at-traction for water rafting adventure. In addition, the pool of the dam would displace residents of Tanah Bita hamlet, Rendang.

ARTW Advisor, Nengah Predana Putra, said on Sunday (Feb. 21) in Rendang, Karangasem, that apart from displacing more than 40 fami-lies fromTanah Bita, the dam would also submerge two major temples,

(including a subak temple), as wlel as 114 heactares of paddy fields. Most local peole depend on these fields to earn a living.

Predana explained that the ARTW has been opposed to the dam from the start and was of-ficially delivered to the Regent of Karangasem in a letter to the regent at the time, Wayan Geredeg. The ARTWwas invited to a meeting in Denpasar before the Tourism Office, the Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda) and in-vestors. The ARTW and members of the local community expressly opposed the project citing many reasons. The initiators and investors of the dam project then stated to

discuss things again as disseminate the plan of the project to people in the affected communities.

However, continued Predana, there was no public dissemination of information on the part of the initia-tor and investors of the project. ìI have a lot of family living in Tanah Bita who told me that nobody from the proposed powerplant ever asked for their permission nor gave any information’s or notification about the environmental impact analysis nor the Environmental Management Effort and Environmental Monitor-ing Effort documents for the hydro-electric power plant,î he said.

Predana suspects that the meet-ing to discuss the hydro power plant

that was held a a few days ago at the office of Rendang subdistirct was held secretly, without involving the affected surrounding residents. ìWhen we were invited to a meeting in Denpasar about six months ago, it was delivered that the recommenda-tion of the regent or governor had expired. If a new recommendation related to the continuation of the project plan was being discussed then, we as the community should be involved in the discussion. Unfortunately, weíve receinved no information about it so far,î said Predana alias Matek.

Predana said that based on the expose originally presented by the initiators of the hydropower plant

project that they propose to build in the territory of Banjing or Mijil, the dam will be 95 meters high with 8 meter thick walls. The pool of the dam will submerge some 114 hectares of paddy fields and state land. The dam’s upstream area will stretch along some 3 to 5 km. The initiators said that both affected temples will be relocated.

ìEven 20 meter thick dam walls can break. If the dam collapses – the soil if the Telaga River bank is unstable, who will be responsible? Do we want to face something like what happened at to the Situ Gintung dam? When we ask about this, there is no statement about the responsible party,î he said. (013)

Two temples and hundreds of hectares of paddy fields submerged Rafting association opposes Telaga Waja dam

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The tourists are enjoying their time in Penglipuran Village in Bangli

Goverment Must Promote Tourism Village Properly

BANGLI - The government of Bangli district through the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency is considered by many to be only half-heartedly boosting tourism villages. Of the tens of tourism villages in Bangli only a few have managed to develop. Human resource capacity building efforts is said to have not run very well. Hopefully this will change.

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Aid agencies warned of a wide-spread health crisis, particularly in low-lying areas where thousands of Fiji’s 900,000 people live in tin shacks, after crops were wiped out and fresh water supplies blocked.

Almost 8,000 people remained hunkered down in hundreds of evacuation centres across Fiji where they had headed before tropical cy-clone Winston hit late on Saturday with winds of up to 325 kph (200 mph).

“The death toll from Cyclone Winston continues to rise and reports of widespread damage are coming in from across Fiji,” said New Zealand Foreign Minister

Murray McCully. “It is clear that Fiji faces a major cleanup and re-covery operation.”

McCully said a New Zealand Defence Force C-130 would leave for the Fijian capital, Suva, later on Monday with relief supplies and an emergency response team.

The majority of the fatalities were along the western coast and were caused mainly by flying debris and drowning in storm surges, au-thorities said. There were also fears for seven fishermen believed to be missing at sea.

A 36-hour curfew was lifted early on Monday, allowing the Fi-jian military to ramp up efforts to

reach the more remote parts of the archipelago of about 300 islands.

“The Fijians are desperately trying to repair severed lines of communication, but they hold grave fears that the news waiting for them will be dire,” said Raijeli Nicole, Pacific regional director of aid group Oxfam.

“Given the intensity of the storm and the images we have seen so far, there are strong con-cerns that the death toll won’t stop climbing today and that hundreds of people will have seen their homes and livelihoods completely destroyed.”

Aerial footage of outlying is-lands taken by the Royal New Zea-land Air Force, and posted on the Fiji government’s official website, showed whole villages flattened and flooded. (rtr)

LONDON - London Mayor Boris Johnson threw his weight on Sunday behind the campaign to leave the European Union, dealing a blow to David Cameron by increasing the chance British voters will ditch membership in a June referendum.

In a move that electrified the referendum campaign by pit-ting one of Britain’s most charismatic politicians against the prime minister, Johnson said Cameron had failed to deliver fundamental reform with an EU deal struck on Friday.

Johnson, a political showman whose buffoonish and eccen-tric exterior is thought to mask a fierce ambition to succeed Cameron, said he loved European culture, civilisation and food but that the European project was in danger of getting out of democratic control.

“The last thing I wanted was to go against David Cameron or the government, but after a great deal of heartache I don’t think there’s anything else I can do. I will be advocating Vote Leave,” Johnson told reporters outside his north London home 20 minutes after texting the prime minister his decision.

“I want a better deal for the people of this country to save them money and to take back control,” said Johnson, mayor since 2008 and a member of parliament for Cameron’s Con-servative Party.

Sterling fell in Asia as concern grew that Britain would quit the EU. The pound fell around 1 percent against the dollar, euro and yen.

Johnson, 51, said he would not take part in debates against members of his own party. But his decision gives the “out” campaign a de facto leader who is one of Britain’s most high-profile politicians.

Betting odds of a British exit rose to a 33 percent chance from about 29 percent, according to bookmakers.

Johnson dismissed questions from reporters about whether joining the campaign to leave the EU was the first step towards a bid to succeed Cameron. On the contrary, he said with a smile, Cameron should stay no matter who won the June 23 referendum. (rtr)

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London Mayor Boris Johnson cycles off after speaking to the media in front of his home in London, Britain February 22, 2016. Johnson threw his weight on Sunday behind the campaign to leave the European Union, dealing a blow to David Cameron by increasing the chance British voters will ditch membership in a June referendum.

Defying Cameron, London’s mayor to

campaign for British exit from EU

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A family stands outside their damaged home after Cyclone Winston swept through Ba on the northern side Fiji’s Viti Levu Island, February 22, 2016.

Fiji super cyclone kills 17 and raises

fears of health crisisSYDNEY - Fiji began a massive cleanup on Monday after

one of the most powerful storms recorded in the southern hemi-sphere tore through the Pacific island nation, killing 17 people, flattening remote villages and cutting off communications.

Terror can be pressed through cooperation of various parties, maintenance of conduciveness and reporting the action of suspi-cious individuals. “We increase our preparedness and remain in first alert. Security at various en-trances to Buleleng is conducted in the area of Gerokgak, Sukasada,

Busungbiu and Tejakula. Buleleng Police Headquarters are also strictly guarded,” said Chief of Buleleng Police, Harry Haryadi Badjuri Buleleng, when met by Bali Post in Singaraja, Friday (Feb. 19).

Security level against motor-ists is provided by police through intensive raids at the points of

crowd. People are asked to be patient considering the quantity of raid has been intensified to four times instead of once each day. “A number of raids on public roads are increased by police, from one time to four times each day. People are asked not to be anxious and worried if their trips become disturbed due to many raids. We do hope people do not think too much about it. This is solely to increase public safety and security,” he added.

Security of sea waters is carried by Water Police of Buleleng Po-lice. Communication involves the cooperation with local fishermen in coastal area of Buleleng. “Our marine patrol has three patrol boats, and they are respectively in charge of their respective zone. Overall ev-erything goes well. Communication with the community of fishermen in the field is improved and if found any illegal fishing vessels they can report it to police,” he said.

Related to the celebration of the Kuningan feast, Buleleng Police deployed 200 personnel in all re-gions in North Bali. It is meant to provide comfort and safety for the Hindus in doing the prayers. “We guarantee the public safety and security of people in the celebration of Kuningan. Totally 200 personnel are involved in the security and we will spread them at some points considered to be vulnerable,” he said. (kmb34)

BANGLI — The rain often flushing Bangli and surrounding ar-eas lately did not affect much on the tourist visit to the hot spring bathing place in the area of Toya Bungkah, Batur, Kintamani. Despite the rain, the interest of visitors to soak while enjoying natural scenery remains high.

The owner of Toya Bungkah B’Mas hot spring bathing place, Nyoman Muliawan, said on Sat-urday (Feb. 20) that rainy season all this time does not have much

effect on the decline in tourist visit to his hot water bath. “Rainy season almost has no impact on it. It would be more influential in guest season,” he explained.

He explained that tourist visit will usually decline during the pe-riod of April to June (low season). Then, in July and August, the tour-ist visit will go up mainly foreign travelers. Not only that, he also told that domestic tourist visit will be crowded around July or during school holidays and December right

on the year-end holidays.On holidays such as Galungan,

Kuningan and the day after Nyepi, the number of visitors soaking in the hot water of Toya Bungkah can reach 200 domestic travelers. Beyond the holidays, the number reaches an average of 100-200 people. “For Kuningan feast, until this afternoon the tourist visit has been quite crowded. By and large, the day after Kuningan visitors will be more crowded,” he said. (kmb40)

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The rain often flushing Bangli and surrounding areas lately did not affect much on the tourist visit to the hot spring bathing place in the area of Toya Bungkah, Batur, Kintamani.

Rain unaffected tourist visit to Toya Bungkah hot springs

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Security against the threat of terror is enhanced by police authority in North Bali. Local government and Buleleng Police improve communication and self-awareness. Terror can be pressed through cooperation of various parties, maintenance of conduciveness and reporting the action of suspicious individuals.

Police anticipate threat of terror in BulelengSINGARAJA — Security against the threat of terror is en-

hanced by police authority in North Bali. Local government and Buleleng Police improve communication and self-awareness.

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WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Senate Armed Ser-vices Committee on Wednesday increased pressure on the Penta-gon and the Air Force, demanding answers over the continued use of Russian rocket engines for U.S. satellite launches.

Senator John McCain, in a let-ter dated Feb. 10 seen by Reuters, asked Air Force Secretary Deborah James and Pentagon chief arms buyer Frank Kendall to explain why the U.S. government is con-tinuing to deal with NPO Energo-mash, the Russian firm that builds

Russian RD-180 rocket engines.McCain pressed the officials on

the legality of doing business with NPO Energomash given sanctions in place against Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and others, who now have control over the company after a recent reorganization.

McCain also questioned the Air Force’s continued payment of a large launch support contract to United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co , despite the presence of a certified competitor,

Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX.

McCain said he wants answers to these questions by February 22.

James pledged to respond to the questions during a January hearing, but McCain said he followed up in writing to underscore his concerns about what he has described as subsidies to Russian leader “Vladi-mir Putin and his gang of corrupt cronies.”

Congress banned use of the Russian RD-180 rocket engines for military use after Russia annexed

Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014. But U.S. lawmakers weakened the ban late last year, worried that it could drive ULA out of business and leave just privately-held SpaceX, to lift satellites into space.

James and other officials have urged Congress to allow use of the Russian engines that power ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket for several years until alternatives are available in several years.

In his letter, McCain asked the U.S. and Air Force to explain what options they had to penalize ULA

for not bidding in a recent launch competition despite receiving launch support of $800 million to $1 billion a year since 2006.

He also asked the department to examine what percentage of that annual support contract was associated with ULA’s other family of rockets, the Delta 4, which the company plans to retire since it is more costly than the Atlas 5.

McCain and other senators argue that it would be worth the extra cost to end U.S. reliance on the Russian engines. (rtr)

The rollout of the gleaming craft, dubbed Virgin Space Ship

Unity, marks Branson’s return to a race among rival billionaire entre-

preneurs to develop a vehicle that can take thrill-seekers, researchers and commercial customers on short hops into space.

“It’s almost too good to be true,” Branson said during a ceremony at the Mojave Air and Space Port,

about 100 miles (160 km) north of Los Angeles. “When I saw it for the first time, it brought an immediate lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. It was a completely over-whelming moment.”

Christened with a bottle of milk

by Branson’s year-old granddaugh-ter, the ship was painted bright white on its front section, fading to gray and black toward the tail.

The tail itself was emblazoned with a blue image of a peering eye belonging to famed British physi-cist Stephen Hawking.

Branson has already offered a flight into space to Hawking, who is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. It was Hawking who sug-gested naming the ship Unity.

“I have always dreamed of space-flight, but for so many years I thought it was just that - a dream,” Hawking said in a recorded message played at the space port. “If I am able to go, and if Richard will still take me, I will be proud to fly on this spaceship.”

From outward appearances, the spacecraft is nearly identical to the one lost on Oct. 31, 2014. The acci-dent was blamed on pilot error and oversights by Northrop Gumman Corp’s Scaled Composites division, which designed, built and tested the vehicle, known as SpaceShipTwo.

Virgin Galactic’s own man-ufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, already was well into construction of the successor ship when the accident occurred.

The biggest difference between the two is the addition of a pin to prevent a pilot from unlocking the ship’s rotating tail section too soon before descent, which is what trig-gered the breakup of the first space-ship, said Galactic Chief Executive George Whitesides.

The two-pilot, six-passenger spaceship is designed to reach alti-tudes of 62 miles (100 km) above the planet, providing a few minutes of weightlessness and a view of Earth set against the blackness of space. Nearly 700 people have signed up for rides, which cost $250,000 each. (rtr)

McCain presses U.S. Air Force, Pentagon over Russian engines

Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveils new passenger spaceship

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Richard Branson (R) and Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides unveil the new SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger two-pilot vehicle meant to ferry people into space that replaces a rocket destroyed during a test flight in October 2014, in Mojave, Cali-fornia, United States, February 19, 2016.

MOJAVE - Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture un-veiled a new passenger spacecraft on Friday, nearly 16 months after a fatal accident destroyed its sister ship during a test flight over California’s Mojave Desert.

SINGARAJA — Tourist guides plays a role to boost the tourism potential in North Bali. Not entire tourist guides have mastered the information about destinations in North Bali. “Tourism develop-ment in Buleleng cannot indeed be seen in terms of physical aspect only. It needs to strengthen the quantity and quality of human resources. Tourist guides pose the spearhead in the field of tour-ism,” said a tourism observer and academician from the Undiksha Singaraja, I Putu Gede Parma, Friday (Feb. 19).

According to Parma, guests

making first visit to tourist desti-nation will get information on the destinations through their guides. “Local and foreign travelers get first impression from their tour-ist guides. So, training needs to be given to prospective tourist guides, including the basics of English and other foreign lan-guages,” he said.

Parma is also getting involved as a builder of Tourism Aware-ness Group (Pokmasta) in the North Bali. Ideally tourist guides better know about the potential at the village or the destinations visited. “Relevant agencies in the

government play an important role to improve the quality of tourist guides in Buleleng. I think it has not been maximized. Recent train-ing of tourist guides provided by the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency needs to be intensified,” he said.

Lately, the saturation of the tourist visit in South Bali will slowly shift to North Bali. Parma did not dismiss if the scenery and the natural potential are still in demand by foreign travelers where they do not have them in their home country. “Tourist destination in North Bali has remarkably dis-

tinctive characteristics. Promotion of Buleleng offers different con-cept of unique selling point, unlike that of South Bali. Moreover, in the future travelers will get saturated after seeing the trend change in the composition of travelers coming from South Bali,” said Parma who is also Assistant Dean III of the Faculty of Economics and Busi-ness (FEB) at the Undiksha.

He emphasized that tourism in Buleleng can empower cultural tourism, not mass tourism, as it is favored by quality tourism. This is an appropriate moment for North Bali considering the investors have

not touched the whole land and tourist destinations. Characteristics of North Bali destinations are dif-ferent and are required to have an excellent blueprint for maritime, spiritual, nature, art and cultural tourism.

“The success to draw travelers can be seen from the length of stay and tourist expenditure. All this time, the most is mass tourism. They mostly stay for 2 to 3 day and the short stay is filled with activities like taking photographs, having excursion with inexpensive package, and eating outside the hotel,” he said. (kmb34)

A number of ritual processions have been conducted before the peak of the ritual. For instance, the pedanan (blessing ritual of sacrificial animal) and tawur agung (animal sacrifice) were held on Saturday (Feb. 20) coin-ciding with the feast of Kuningan.

As observation, thousands of residents of Jro Kuta Jro Pejeng and other Pejeng residents looked to fill

the location of tawur and pedanan at the front courtyard of Penataran Sasih Temple. Though being under the heat of the sunlight, people still did the procession solemnly until the end. The ritual was officiated over by 14 high priests of Shiva, Buddha and Bujangga.

Chief of Jro Kuta Pejeng custom-ary village, Cok Gde Putra Pemayun,

explained the smooth implementation of the ritual was inseparable from the hard work, mutual assistance and sin-cere devotional works performed by residents of Jero Kuta Pejeng. “This grandiose ritual can be realized due to the hard work of all residents carried out for the first time after 50 years ago,” he said.

He said this vivacity has been

showed by as many as 280 residents of krama ngarep and 1,118 residents of krama pengele of Jro Kuta Pejeng. Besides, the morale and material support are also showed by residents from 33 hamlets coalesced into four villages, including Pejeng Kaja, Pejeng Kangin, Pejeng Kelod and Pejeng Kawan. After the animal sacrifice, a number of ritual proces-sions will be held before the climax on Monday (Feb. 22).

He added that before the tawur agung, a number of other rituals precede such as the tawur rishi

gana at innermost courtyard of the Penataran Sasih, labuh gentuh and pakelem on Masceti Beach, Songan at Lake Batur and Mount Agung. “In essence, all the rituals held put emphasis on the self-real-ization of the greatness and power of God Almighty with all the mani-festations. With such awareness, it will emerge devotion as well as concrete efforts of mankind in pre-serving the life and harmony with nature. By keeping this aspect, the prosperity will soon be achieved,” he explained. (kmb35)

Superior tourist guides boost destination in North Bali

Panca Wali Krama ritual at Penataran Sasih, Pejeng coin-ciding with Soma Pahing Langkir. Related to this grandiose ritual, the supporting devotees from 33 hamlets and 15 customary villages have made preparation through devo-tional works for paraphernalia and infrastruct

Panca Wali Krama ritual at Penataran SasihGIANYAR — Panca Wali Krama ritual at Penataran Sasih, Pejeng will be first held after 50

years ago, Monday (Feb. 22) coinciding with Soma Pahing Langkir. Related to this grandiose ritual, the supporting devotees from 33 hamlets and 15 customary villages have made prepara-tion through devotional works for paraphernalia and infrastructure since 3 months ago.

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is 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 hap-pens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on

the importance of the occasion.The celebration is very colorful.

The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are wor-shipped 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 Ho-liness. 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 at-tire, 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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What is more, if capital con-straints on not implemented by the government, then the new allowance of foreingner to be 100% investment owners will also put huge pressure on the people and SME’s of Bali. In short, global competition is in-evitable.

ìThis can only be addressed through mental preparedness, so that Balinese people do not lack self-confidence. This needs to be coupled with a willingness to try and working diligently to survive., We must participate within the AEC as actors and directors on our own

stage,î said John.ìI am ready to train Balinese

people so that they can take an ac-tive role in the AEC and the era of globalization. Young, creative and resilient entrepreneurs and inves-tors must be prepared to compete at the national, Asian and the world levels,î he said.

Tourism entrerener, Made Su-ardana, said that the challenge of employment in Bali in the era of the AEC, lies in the struggle to compete for job opportunities. Although there are still many job opportunities both at home and abroad, Balinese people

will certainly face challenges in terms of quality, he said.

ìNow, do our workers want to scramble for job opportunities abroad? If the human resources of Indonesia only compete at home, they will of course loose out to well-trained foreign workers who are pro-ficient in English and Indonesian,î he said.

According to Suardana, the hu-man resources of Indonesia -includ-ing Bali, need both formal education as well as informal training in order to compete will workers from over seas. When possible, Indonesians

must be brave enough to seek op-portunities abroad. At present many of our local work force needs to be specially trained both through formal education as well as through the learning of specialized skills and English language proficiency.

ìKeep also in mind that they have learned more about our culture than we have about theirs. Those coming to Indonesia have learned a lot about the cultures of Bali, Java SUnda and others. Balinese people certainly know about their own culture, while labor from outside Bali is uncertain,î said Suardana. (rah)

Given that hospitality work-ers from neighboring countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand prefer to work in their own country, it is important that Indonesian workers remain com-petitive on the new market.

ìMiddle level positins such as cashiers, waitresses in shopping mall, restaurants and other such positions in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and even in Europe have started to be predominantly filled by Filipino workers. Philipinos can speak English fluently and their general attitude does not pose any significant problems and they are willing to work for the standard salaries of Singapore and Ma-laysia. They are not interested in working in Indonesiaî said Min-ister of Tourism, Arief Yahya, in Jakarta, last Sunday.

The Ministry of Tourism, held a Basic HR training session on February19th and 20th at the Best Western Hotel, Jakarta. Approxi-mately 200 students from the State University of Jakarta (UNJ) were trained to welcome the AEC tourism sector and develop hu-

man resources. The Ministry of Tourism, under the command of the Deputy of Tourism Institu-tional Development, presented seven different speakers,

ìThe government has deter-mined tourism as a leading sector that is expected to drive other economic sectors in the future. Public support is required in order to realize this goal includ-ing the support of academics in helping to train our human ressources,î said Deputy of Tour-ism Institutional Development for the Ministry of Tourism, Ah-man Sya.

The Ministry of Tourism has provided basic training of human resources in various parts of the country, including; Lampung, Tanjung Lesung, Medan, Batam, Seribu Islands, Mentawai, Tulung Agung district, Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta and Lombok Mandalika.

ìWe have also provided Man-darin competency training for Balinese tour guides. All of our training programs apply ASEAN standards,î said Sya. (pts)

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HR trained by Ministry of Tourism to face AEC

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Tourists are looking at the products made from waste in Shankara Resto in Sanur. Many wonderful products can be made from the waste such as bags and wallet. It also can help to problem of recycling the garbage.

JAKArTA -To ensure success within the ASEAN Economic Community

(AEC), Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism has prepared skill building training for Human resources (Hr) so that the ca-pacities of Indonesian hospitality workers comply with ASEAN standards. This is a crucial point and determining factor in the success or failure of the development of the tourism sector.

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FIFA faces day of reckoning as threats mount

That’s roughly what Fox, the stu-dio behind the $58 million comic-book adaptation, had predicted that the film would open to a week ago. Of course, it shattered those projec-tions, destroying February records with a $152.2 million President’s Weekend launch.

After two weeks, “Deadpool” has now earned $235.4 million domestically, re-established Ryan Reynolds as a major Hollywood star, and created a new superhero franchise to rival the likes of Iron Man and the X-Men. The picture, a very R-rated affair, centers on a mercenary with accelerated healing abilities and a penchant for bawdy humor.

“It’s one of those times where a movie becomes a touchstone in culture,” said Chris Aronson, Fox’s domestic distribution chief. “It just becomes part of the zeitgeist and one of those movies you just have to see. That’s due to its uniqueness. People have never seen anything like this before.”

A few brave new releases tried to ride out “Deadpool” mania. “Risen,” a faith-based drama about a soldier investigating the death and resurrection of Jesus, fared best, pulling in a solid $11.8 million from 2,915 locations to snag third place. Sony’s Affirm label produced the picture for $20 million, and courted church leaders with the hopes of

producing another “War Room” or “Heaven is for Real,” two films that turned out Christian moviegoers in droves. The studio will follow the same formula with the upcom-ing Easter release “Miracles From Heaven.”

“This is in our wheelhouse,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s distribution chief. “We’ve really embraced be-ing in the faith-based business and it’s certainly paid off.”

“The Witch,” a critically ac-claimed look at a Puritan family torn apart by supernatural terrors, debuted to $8.7 million from 2,046 theaters for a fourth place finish. The picture is the widest debut in the history of A24, the indie label behind “Ex Machina” and “Room,” and its biggest ever premiere. (rtr)

BERLIN - Iranian director Mani Haghighi says his Berlin competition movie “Ejhdeha Vared Mihavad!” (A Dragon Arrives!) is a hodge-podge of genres ranging from crime film to “X-Files”, but he trusts viewers will find it an entertaining and thought-provoking mix.

“It’s a mess, yeah, it’s a mess,” Haghighi told Reuters in an in-terview on Friday, the day of the film’s festival premiere. “The idea was to make a mess and see how it goes.”

“As I went along I realised that maybe one genre wasn’t going to do the trick and it would be just the same old boring thing.

“So what would happen if you put science fiction, paranoia ‘X-Files’-type things together with Philip Marlowe, Dashiell Hammett detective stuff plus Jules Verne and Tintin and Indiana Jones and then some Iranian films and local colour and put it all together?

“The idea was to make it as complex in terms of genre-bending as possible.”

The film, which is in competition for the Berlin film festival’s main Golden Bear prize to be awarded on Saturday, suggests it is aiming for a Monty Python-esque slant by stat-ing at the outset it is “a true story” but delivering anything but.

What viewers get instead are some striking images of the hulk of an immense wooden ship stranded in a desert landscape in Iran, a shaggy dog story of a political dissident who has either hanged himself or been murdered inside the ship, but who has left intrigu-ing scribblings all over its interior walls, plus police agents driving around in a vintage Chevrolet Impala.

And there is something under the earth in a cemetery right outside the ship that causes a localised earth-quake to occur whenever a dead body is buried there. (rtr)

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Actor Ed Skrein arrives for the premiere of “Deadpool” in New York, February 8, 2016.

Box Office:’Deadpool’ dominates’The Witch,’’Risen’

LOS ANGELES - “Deadpool” dominated the box office for a second consecutive weekend, racking up $55 million.

Iran’s Haghighi is proud his Berlin “Dragon”

film is “a mess”

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Actors Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Kiana Tajammol, director Mani Haghighi, and actors Amir Jadidi and Ehsan Goudarzi (L-R) pose during a photocall to promote the movie ‘Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!’ (‘A Dragon Arrives!’) at the 66th Berlinale Interna-tional Film Festival in Berlin, Germany February 19, 2016.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and some 35 communities declared the national movement on the Ho-tel Indonesia Roundabout, Jakarta Sunday, Director General of trash and waste management of the En-vironment and Forestry Ministry Tuti Hendrawati Mintarsih said here Saturday.

“President Joko Widodo par-ticipate to promote the movement campaign by having a teleconference

with four city mayors and asking the attendants to do kerja bakti (commu-nity service),” Mintarsih said.

As many as 706 local communities all over Indonesia also stated their support to the national movement in which they can elaborate the move-ment in a website (http://bergerak.bebassampah.id) and social media using #bebassampah2020 ta-gline.

During the launch of the move-ment, the government will also con-duct a socialization of a policy trial on a plastic bag charge conducted in 22 cities and the entire regions of Jakarta.

The government has issued a regulation on plastic bag charge which oblige modern retailers to charge customers for plastic bags starting Sunday. The policy is aimed at re-ducing the use of plastic bags. “That

Indonesia will no longer become the second largest

plastic garbage producer after China,” Mintarsih

said.

The movement has gained a lot of support, founder of Greeneration Indonesia Bijaksana Junerosano said. “Various communities in Indo-nesia are enthusiastic about joining the movement. Some are willing to clean the garbage in the ocean, rivers, mountains or in cities,” Junerosano said.

Indonesia ranks second among the world’s largest plastic waste produc-ers, behind only China, using 187.2 million tons each year, according to a study published last year in the journal Science.

The policy will run as a trial for six months, before being implemented

elsewhere if proven successful, En-vironment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said.

Although the ministry recom-mends charging customers Rp 200 per bag, the actual costs are decided by provincial and city governments.

But some are skeptical charging such a low sum will significantly reduce plastic waste — which takes dozens of years to decompose in the overflowing landfills across the coun-try’s major cities. (ant)

FOLLOWING the enactment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)

2016 the boundaries between countries are no longer

considered to be based on sea and parapet delinea-tions. This will have a tremendous impact on

the lives of every indi-vidual within this new

territory, and the lives of Indonesians -including Balinese, are no exception. A variety of business opportunities are open-ing up and new opportunities will continue to emmergeìThis is possible due to the rapid development of information and technol-ogy. The opportunities that will come in various forms and packaging, require adequate capabilities for people to receive this information,î said business expert, John

Sadewa on Sunday (Feb. 21).These new conditions, continued John,

require that there be focus placed on the ca-pabilities of Bali’s human resources. Every opportunity must be greeted with readiness, willingness, ability and courage by our human resources. Competition is already present and now that the doors of globaliza-tion have been flung wide open – rampant competition is inevitable, he said.

ìIf Balinese people do not realize what is going on, then many of us will simply become spectators of the new economy in our home land. Those who will be the main actors and directors on the stage of our economy will be predominantly foreigners.,î said said John, initiator of the Business Investor Club (BIC).

AEC, become a user or just a consumer?

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Indonesia Trying Hard to Reduce Plastic

The final disposal place is filled with garbage which is mostly made from plastic. The action to reduce

the use of plastic must be done immediaetly.

JAKARTA - Indonesians have embrace the new policy of paying for plastic bags each time they purchase groceries. It is obviously that the environmental benefits outweigh the hassle of bringing their own bags.

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