“Technically, the matter does not only rest with the official environmental impact analysis (Amdal) and that should be clearly stated. For a long time I have been proposing that it is not just the Amdal that needs to be taken into consideration. Other specifications also need to be looked at,” said the former President dur-ing a press conference about the simultaneous regional elections that was held at the office of the PDI-P Bali, on Sunday (Nov. 22).

Megawati added that the first thing that needs to be considered in terms of the Beoa Bay rec-lamation plan, is the shifting of seawater. The reclamation would have major impacts on the marine ecosystem including coral reefs, fish and plankton and would also affect wind currents.

According to Megawati, such specific things need to be considered in great detail. This reclamation would cause many changes, particularly in the area of Benoa Bay. “But it should not be written that Mrs. Mega disproves of reclamation - this is not what I am saying. I am saying that reclamation needs to adhere to environmental regulation and socio-economic benefits need to be looked at as well to see if they would be valuable to the people of Bali, in the case of reclamation in Bali,” she emphasized.

During the same press conference, member of the House of Representatives from PDI-P, Rieke Diah Pitaloka, spoke of the national tourism strategic area (KSPN). She saying

that PDI-P cadres in Commission X have been fighting for the aspirations of Balinese people regarding the KSPN. In particular the inclusion of Besakih, Mount Agung and the surrounding areas in the KSPN. which they have been at-tempting to have excluded from the Annex of Government Regulation No. 50/2011.

“This regulation includes having respect for traditions so the inclusion of these areas was rejected based on the input of the Balinese com-munity. Regarding the reclamation plan, as Mrs. Mega already affirmed, it must comply with the rules, pay attention to the environmental ecosys-tem and so on,” explained Rieke. (kmb32)

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MIAMI - Colombia-born film star Sofia Vergara, America’s highest-paid TV actress, tied the knot Sunday in what the entertainment world called the celebrity wedding of the year.

The “Modern Family” star pledged her eternal love to fellow actor Joe Manganiello at “The Breakers” a swank Palm Beach resort, before of a gathering of friends and family, the culmination of a weekend-long wed-ding celebration.

Vergara posted photos from her nuptials on Instagram, including various pictures showing the cur-vaceous 43-year old actress in her torso-hugging, strapless lace bridal gown with plunging neckline.

She carried a bouquet of white orchids and wore her famous flowing mane loose, aside from a jeweled clip which pinned it to one side.

Among the stars at her nuptials were Hollywood’s Reese Wither-spoon, Channing Tatum and the cast

of her hit television show “Modern Family.” Vergara’s son from a previ-ous marriage, Manolo, 23, walked her down the aisle.

For the past few years, the Co-lombian-born bombshell has been America’s top-earning TV star.

In 2014, Forbes magazine esti-mated she made, $37 million, consid-erably more than the top paid actor, Ashton Kutcher, who earned some $26 million.

Vergara reportedly makes $325,000 an episode for “Modern Family,” but earns much more from endorsements including being the face of Diet Pepsi.

Manganiello is famous for his roles in the hit movie “Magic Mike” and the TV series “How I Met Your Mother.”

The couple met about a year and a half ago, and got engaged last December during a Hawaiian vaca-tion. (afp)

The Canadian singer sang Edith Piaf’s classic “Hymne a l’Amour” (“Hymn to Love”) in French at the star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles, which went ahead barely a week after the assault on a con-cert hall and other civilian targets across Paris.

In front of a screen flashing im-ages of Paris that culminated with the Eiffel Tower in the French flag’s tricolor, Dion sang the song of lost love as some members of the audi-ence were seen in tears.

Dion was introduced by the actor and musician Jared Leto, who re-called playing with his band Thirty

Seconds to Mars earlier this year at the historic Bataclan theater that saw the heaviest death toll in the November 13 attacks.

The tribute was a rare somber note in the made-for-television gala, although the electronic producer Skrillex also referred to world turmoil as he accepted an award for his work with pop celebrity Justin Bieber.

“There is so much negative stuff going on in the world, so it’s up to us to be positive,” Skrillex said of musicians’ role.

The American Music Awards are designed as a glitzy extravaganza and, unlike the more prestigious Grammy

Awards which will take place in Feb-ruary, the winners are determined by voting from fans rather than the music industry. For the second straight year, British boy band One Direction won Artist of the Year.

Pop superstar Taylor Swift won three awards, more than anyone else, including favorite album for her blockbuster “1989.”

Ariana Grande, the child star turned arena-packing pop singer, beat out Swift for favorite female pop or rock artist.

The 22-year-old, initially at a loss for words, thanked her gray-haired grandmother who had been sitting next to her in the audience. “I think I owe a lot of this to my nonna,” Grande, who is of Italian descent, said in reference to her grandmother. (afp)

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Niall Horan, from left, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, and Harry Styles of One Direction accept the award for artist of the year at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sun-day, Nov. 22, 2015, in Los Angeles.

Celine Dion leads music world in mourning Paris

LOS ANGELES - Celine Dion on Sunday led the music industry in an emotional tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks, as the American Music Awards heard appeals for a peaceful world.

Colombian bombshell Vergara, actor Joe Manganiello tie the knot

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IN AUGUST 2009, the Pen-det Dance, cre-ated by a Ba-linese artists, was claimed

as a Malaysian heritage through a

tourism advertisement that read: “Malaysia Truly Asia” showing this dance. The Reog Dance of Ponorogo was appropriated in a similar manner before that. Such cases shocked the Indonesian arts scene and have brought to light the fact that our governments need to take action to protect our arts from such appropriation. Many fear that if nothing is done, dances such as Bali’s Legong, Kecak, Barong, Wayang Wong and others could be “stolen” by other countries in a like manner or worse.

Head of the Bali Culture Agen-cy, Dewa Putu Beratha, underlines the fact that given that so many art works in Bali are created anony-mously, it is all the more important that local governments step in to protect the intellectual property rights of Balinese artists as soon as possible, to avoid having these works claimed by unauthorized parties.

“The Bali Culture Agency understands this risk very well, and so we have been working in collaboration with the Direc-tor General of Culture in the Ministry of Education and Cul-ture to collect data concerning 800 artistic and cultural works and objects that were created by Balinese people, including dances, gamelan compositions, culinary dishes, paintings, handi-craft products, weavings and so on. The data collection process should be complete by the end of the year,” said Beratha.

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The file photo shows dancers per-formed during demonstration to re-ject reclamation plan on Benoa Bay

that held in Renon, Denpasar.

Benoa Bay reclamation plan

Mega says environmental issues must be considered

DENPASAR - Chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Megawati Soekarnoputri, finally spoke out about the Benoa Bay recla-mation plan. Although, the fifth President of the RI did not expressly support or reject the plan to backfill 700 hectares of the bay area, Megawati did stress that any reclamation plan needs to pay particular attention to environmental issues.

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Unfortunately, due to long journey and took sev-eral days, Pandita Keling arrived in Gelgel in dishev-eled condition where his clothes were ragged like a beggar. In such clothes, no one in the kingdom believed in him, so Pandita Keling was forcibly evicted and hu-miliated. After that, Pandita Keling went on a quiet place in South Denpasar known as Sidakarya village.

The ceremony held by Dalem Waturenggong did not bring in blessing, failed and even caused disasters.

All offerings became rotten and rats swarmed the rotten offerings. Moreover, the rats destroyed crops more severely so that all farmers became restless.

Through his meditation, Dalem Waturenggong knew who condemned the magni-tude of the ceremonies. He then sent Arya Tangkas to pick up Pandita Keling who was still living in a quiet place (Suwung) which is now known as Sidakarya village.

The king apologized and invited Pandita Keling

to participate in officiating over the ceremony. Even, he got the final session so the ceremony became sida (endowed). To many people, this procession is then known as the finalizing Sidakarya.

Sidakarya mask has the function to accomplish vari-ous rituals such as deva yaj-na (such as ngenteg linggih, pedudusan agung), bhuta yajna (such as tawur agung, caru wrehaspati kalpa) and rishi yajna, excludes the manusha yajna that does not apply the Sidakarya mask.

It is believed that without performing the Sidakarya mask a ritual will result in obstacles, such as causing anxiety in the mind.

Especially for Sida-karya mask dancer, it had some rules to be followed. Failing which, the danc-ers would surely get a risk because from the making of Sidakarya mask to its performance, it had rules to be complied with such as choosing certain wood, starting on auspicious day and giving initiation with special ritual. (kmb)

In another effort to protect the intellectual property rights of the Balinese, nine ‘cultural products’ have been selected to be officially registered with UNESCO as world cultural heritages of Indonesia in November. The cultural products in question are all dances from Bali: the ritual Baris Dance, Rejang, San-ghyang, Sidakarya Mask, Wayang Wong, Gambuh, Barong, Legong Kraton and Joged Bumbung. “These nine Balinese dances are already listed as the Cultural Heritage of Indonesia. The Indonesian government however also wants the status of these dances to be upgraded to “World Cultural Heritage”. With the UNESCO’s recognition, no other country can claim these as their property,” said Beratha.

Given the staggering number of arts that are unique to Bali, Beratha explained that they are prioritizing the recording and registration of anonymous art forms that are widely practiced by the people of Bali. As for works of art whose creators are identified, especially those that are relatively new, the Culture Agency is hoping that the artists will take it upon themselves to register for copyright. Although they are certainly ready to facilitate this process, given that certainly not all Balinese artists understand the process of copyright registration.

“Considering that there have been some cases of different countries claiming the same arts as their own, the Bali Culture Agency has been inspired to disseminate information about the importance of copyright registration for and to Balinese artists. It is no longer enough just to create works of art, they need to be copyrighted to avoid being claimed by other parties. Presently only very few artists and artisans in Bali are both aware and willing to legally protect their creations,” he said. (ian)

It would appear that very few Balinese artists are interested in register-ing their art works with the authorities so as to obtain copy rights. For-mer Rector of the Indo-nesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar, Prof. Dr.

I Wayan Rai S recently stated that as a result these artworks become an easy target for piracy.

Addressing the question of why it is that Balinese artists would be reluctant to register for copyright -despite the obvious ben-

efits Prof. Rai suggested that it was perhaps due in large part to the fact that the process of registering for copyright is too compli-cated, costly and lengthly. “Herein lies the importance of the local government including the Bali Culture

Agency district/municipal culture agencies across Bali to facilitate the copy-right registration process for Balinese artists, includ-ing setting aside a budget to subsidize and protect our collective interests,” he suggested. (ian)

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Sidakarya mask

History of Sidakarya maskThe story began in the reign of Dalem Waturenggong in Gelgel, when he held a grandiose ceremony

at Besakih many priests were invited to officiate over the ceremony. There was a priest (Brahmin) from Keling who was not invited but would like to get involved in officiating over the ceremony. The intention was based on kinship between Keling in Java and Gelgel Bali.

Balinese artists reluctant to register for copyright

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Balinese dancer performed Barong Dance. Barong dance is one of nine ‘cultural products’ that have been selected to be officially registered with UNESCO as world cultural heritages of Indonesia in November.

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MIAMI - About half of the 15,000 tree species in the Amazon -- the world’s most diverse forest -- are threatened by deforestation, an international study said on Friday.

The report lays bare the destruc-tion of a vibrant and sprawling ecosystem often referred to as the lungs of the earth because trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

“At least 36 percent and up to 57 percent of all Amazonian tree spe-cies are likely to qualify as globally threatened,” said the study in the journal Science Advances, which used criteria from the respected

International Union for Conserva-tion of Nature (IUCN).

Under a business-as-usual sce-nario, about 40 percent of the original Amazon forest would be destroyed by 2050, the research-ers found.

But with stricter conservation measures, they said, that number could be halved.

The good news is that sig-nificant populations of endangered trees survive in protected areas of the Amazon, the researchers said.

Still, they added, only constant vigilance over valuable trees like the Brazil nut -- 63 percent of which could otherwise be lost by

2050 -- will help preserve the Ama-zon’s status as a major carbon sink, a potent natural asset in helping slow global climate change.

The cacao tree could decline by 50 percent within 35 years under a business-as-usual scenario, and the acai palm could decline 72 percent, the study found.

Already, the prized mahogany tree is considered commercially extinct, no longer a part of the Amazon’s forest economy.

The report was based on forest surveys across the Amazon as well as maps of current and projected deforestation. Researchers from 21 countries contributed.

“It’s a battle we’re going to see play out in our lifetimes,” said lead author Hans ter Steege of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands.

“Either we stand up and protect these critical parks and indigenous reserves, or deforestation will erode them until we see large-scale extinctions.”

The largest part of the Amazon is in Brazil, which last year cut carbon emissions slightly through reduced deforestation, said a sepa-rate report by the NGO Climate Observatory.

Still, Brazil’s emissions were at the second-highest level in six

years.In Colombia, meanwhile, the

government Friday reported that deforestation is also on the rise -- up 16 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year -- particularly in the Amazon region.

The main causes are illegal mining, the felling of trees for farmland or the growing of coca leaves and fires due to drought, said the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies.

About 45 percent of the 2014 deforestation took place in Colom-bia’s Amazon region, the institute said. (afp)

October’s temperature was the most above-normal month in history. It was 1.76 degrees Fahrenheit (0.98 degrees Celsius) above the 20th-century average.

“A complete blowout,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. “This year is going to be an all-time record-breaker.”

This was the eighth month this year when a heat record was set, with only January and April not setting records. That’s a record number of broken records in any year. Records go back to 1880.

Blunden and other scientists blame a potent and strengthening El Nino on top of accelerating man-made global warming.

“This is just a new normal,” Blunden said. “I don’t know what really else to call it.”

Nearly every team that measures temperatures found that October 2015 was a record, including NASA, the Japanese Meteorological Agency, Uni-versity of California at Berkeley and University of Alabama at Huntsville, which measures the upper air using satellites, Blunden said.

Record heat was found in Australia, southern Asia, parts of western North America, much of central and southern Africa, most of Central America and north-ern South America, according to NOAA.

It’s also the hottest January through October for Earth on record, along with the hottest consecutive 12 months on record.

Given that the El Nino continues to strengthen and how much warmer 2015 is than previous years, Blunden said “it is virtually just impossible that we will not break the record” for the hottest year. That record was set in 2014. Since the year 2000, global monthly heat records have been broken 32 times, yet the last time a monthly cold record was set was in 1916. (ap)

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This graphic provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows land and ocean tem-peratures for October 2015. Even for a record breaking hot year for Earth, October stood out as absurdly warm. The hottest October on record by a third of a degree over the old mark, a large margin for weather records.

Absurdly hot October as Earth sets 8th heat record this year

WASHINGTON — Even in a record-breaking hot year for Earth, October stood out as ab-surdly warm. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that last month globally was 58.86 degrees (14.98 degrees Celsius). That’s the hottest October on record by a third of a degree over the old mark, “an incredible amount” for weather records, said NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden.

Half of Amazon tree species in danger

UBUD – Life’s Better in Boardshorts; but more than that, it’s all about sharing the good vibes all around. Introducing the brand’s newest footprint in Ubud, this is Billabong’s second concept store that is in partnership with Bali Retailindo Lestari.

Located approximately 1km away from the famous Puri Saren Ubud (Ubud Palace), the new space spans 57m2 in floor space, and is fitted accordingly to all of Billabong’s new stores opened globally: new sig-nature surfboard ceiling, a combination of wood and clean white brick walls, fixtures and panels that not just highlights the brand’s assortment of garments and accessories, but also its award-winning #LifesBetter-inBoardshorts and #ABikiniKindaLife campaigns.

“Ubud is a flourishing tourist destination because of its beautiful landscapes and culture”, says Dessy Sudi-artha, Managing Director of Bali RetailIndo Lestari.

She adds, “Pair that with a brand (Billabong) that understands the lifestyle, we are confident of the potential of the new store.”

Besides playing house to the brand’s sizable prod-uct scope of garments and accessories, also available in the store is the exclusive Billabong TEAM Member-ship programme. This Membership entitles members of the programme to a host of exclusive promotions throughout all participating concept stores in Asia – more specifically, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, China, and the Middle East. (r)

“Such wrong decisions become a justification for the the accelera-tion of capitalist interests that are gripping the sacred areas of South Bali. The ecological impact of the mistake in allowing this deci-sion to stand will cause damage to the coral reefs and the verdant mangroves will disappear,” said Rahyuda.

During a focus group discus-sion (FGD) entitled “Opening People’s Aspirations to Benoa Bay Revitalization” held by the depart-ment of Post Graduate Studies at the Udayana University in coop-eration with the ITDC, Nusa Dua,

Rahyuda added that the waving sea grass that we now see at low tide will also disappear as will diving and snorkelling activities and small scale fishermen will loose their livelihood as many marine species will be eliminated by the project.

What is more, the people of Bali have no need or interest in such a mega project. “People are well aware that mega projects like this only benefit corporations and a small group of people, while the only thing that the people of Bali get form such projects are tear drops from the environmental dam-age that they cause,” he said.

Rahyuda went on to say that if the leaders of Bali were smart and wise, they would understand that the kinds of development projects are needed by Bali are both physi-cal and non-physical and need to all be based on the principles of Tri Hita Karana (THK). THK prin-ciples runs contrary to the greed of large building development projects and prioritizing capital interests above all else as the key to everything.

Networking Program Manager of KKP Bali, I Made Iwan Dew-antama, explained a number of reasons why the Benoa Bay recla-

mation project that covers an area of 700 hectares must be rejected. Among the reasons that he gave were the fact that Benoa Bay serves to regulate the flow of water from land and also hat that the Grand Forest park in Benoa Bay serves as a green belt for Bali.

Benoa Bay was formed by the confluence of volcanic soil and coral islands and it has become the habitat for an important ecosystem that includes fish seaweed and seahorses. Also, many sacred sites are located in Benoa Bay such as temples and loloan (estuaries).

“Bali must become a part of the archipelagic solution, by having strong regional bylaws regrading spatial planning (RTRWP) and a strong RZWP3K. Bali’s coastal governance should be in line with the concept of nyegara-gunung (seaward-mountainward) and sad kahyangan (sacred sites). Also

Balinese people need to be united in order to realize a prosperous Bali,” he said.

Chairman of the Tourism Re-search Consortium of Udayana University, Agung Suryawan Wiranatha, Ph.D., added that the development of tourism in Bali needs to be distributed throughout the island, not just focused in the south. There needs to be politi-cal on the part of our Provincial Government to organize invest-ments in tourism that are directed outside of Bandung, Denpasar and Gianyar. “The moratorium that has been placed on creating any more star hotels in Denpasar, Badung and Gianyar needs to be respected and extended over the next five years so that quality tour-ist accommodations and facilities can become more evenly spread in other regions of Bali,” said Wiranatha. (kmb32)

Benoa Bay reclamation, wrong decision

MANGUPURA - Director of Management for Post Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Business Economics at Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, recently said that the increasingly large gap between the interests of the people of Bali and the interests of unscrupulous local and national leaders is widening as decisions to develop mega projects on the island have been wrongly given permission. Revision to the status of Benoa Bay as conservation zone into a utilization zone, as stated by Presidential Decree No.51/2014 for example, is a serious threat to Bali.

Billabong opens its second concept store in Ubud

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Billabong’s second concept store that is in partnership with

Bali Retailindo Lestari.

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The patch of deep ocean south-west of Australia that Capt. Simon Hardy has determined is the most likely resting place of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will be searched through December, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is coordinating the search on Malay-sia’s behalf, said in a statement.

But Australian authorities are not being guided by the experi-enced Boeing 777 pilot’s analysis. Martin Dolan, the bureau’s chief commissioner, said the search was moving farther south within a 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) priority area because the southern hemisphere spring had made the extreme conditions in the southern ocean calmer.

“We’re aware that we’re in the area that Capt. Hardy specifies, but we’re in that area because it was next in our search sequence, and we’ve been moving progressively south because the weather is im-

proving,” Dolan said.Hardy’s theory of where Flight

370 went after it inexplicably flew far off course during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8, 2014, has been widely published in recent months. He used mathematical analysis and a flight simulator to plot the course he believed the airliner took when it vanished in one of aviation’s most baffling mysteries.

“I am fairly confident that the wreckage will be found within the next four to eight weeks,” Hardy told The Australian newspaper.

Experts directing the search have discussed Hardy’s theory with him. Hardy could not be im-mediately contacted for comment on Monday.

“There are many theories from members of the public and various independent experts and all are considered,” the bureau said in its statement, which described Hardy’s

analysis as credible.But searchers do not accept a key

aspect of Hardy’s conclusion: that whoever was flying the plane made a controlled landing at sea, which al-lowed it to sink largely intact. The only confirmed wreckage of Flight 370 to be recovered was a wing flap found on a remote Indian Ocean island in July.

Dolan said authorities still be-lieve that the final satellite transmis-sion from one of the jet’s engines indicated that it was out of fuel, meaning the plane would have plummeted into the ocean out of control and disintegrated.

Australia and Malaysia have split the cost of the search of the vast expanse of seabed that began in October last year based on satel-lite analysis of the jet’s flight for more than six hours after it went off course. The search, taking place more than 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) off the Australian coast, has so far covered 70,000 square kilo-meters (27,000 square miles). Chi-nese Premier Li Keqiang pledged an additional $14.5 million over the weekend to fund the continuing search. China lost 153 citizens in the disaster.(ap)

TOKYO — An explosion Mon-day damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured.

The Yasukuni shrine, which hon-ors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including executed war criminals, has been the target of criticism from China and South Korea, which suf-fered from Japan’s World War II atrocities and aggression.

Tokyo police said in a statement that they received a call about an explosion and smoke at Yasukuni. They said they suspected a “guer-rilla” attack, implying some kind of subversive activity, but declined to elaborate.

Firefighters were also called to the scene and found the ceiling and walls of the restroom had been damaged, said an official at the To-kyo Fire Department, who spoke on condition of anonymity. But the fire was out by the time they arrived.

It was unclear what caused the explosion, but a timing device and wirings were found near the spot of the explosion, according to Kyodo News service. Police will be reviewing footage on security cameras for clues, TBS TV news said. Footage on TV Asahi showed a bomb squad in protective gear entering the shrine premises. The person in charge of media at Yasu-kuni was not immediately available for comment.

The shrine is a focal point for lin-gering tensions with Japan’s neigh-bors over the country’s aggression before and during World War II. Some Japanese lawmakers have insisted on making official visits in the name of patriotism, while other lawmakers say such visits glorify Japan’s historical mistakes.

Emperor Akihito has not visited Yasukuni. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has also avoided making of-ficial visits over the last two years.(ap)

PARIS — Top tourism officials in Paris, one of the most visited cities in the world, are meeting to assess the impact of this month’s attacks on tourism.

Representatives from travel agencies, tour operators, hotels, restaurants as well as travel com-panies — such as Air France — plan Monday to come up with a short-term action plan to boost the industry.

The government says it will include how to tailor the marketing of Paris as a holiday destination for tourists fearful of a repeat of the at-tacks that killed 130 people.

Tourism to the French capital already took a hit earlier this year after attacks in January on a satiri-cal magazine and a Jewish market. The number of hotel stays fell 3.3 percent in the first three months of the year.(ap)

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FILE - In this March 22, 2014, file photo, Flight Lt. Jason Nichols on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, takes notes as they search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, Australia.

MH370 hunt moves to where British pilot believes it crashed

CANBERRA, Australia — The deep sea hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner has shifted to a remote part of the Indian Ocean where a British pilot has calculated that the Boeing 777 made a controlled ditching last year with 239 people aboard, officials said Monday.

Tourism officials meet in Paris to assess impact of attacks

Blast at Japan’s controversial war shrine injures no one

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Police officers stand guard outside the south gate of Yasu-kuni shrine in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. Japanese media reporting an explosion in a public restroom at Tokyo’s Yasu-kuni shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including those executed as war criminals. No one was injured.

NEGARA - Drain construction project at the border of Jembrana-Buleleng, right at Cekik toward Sumber Kelampok sacrifices a number of roadside trees. Some of the drain projects also makes small part of the West Bali National Park (TNBB). However, though having sent a letter to the TNBB, no measure has been taken for the replacement of toppled trees.

From the information, this proj-ect has been running since several months ago after the inter-district road pavement. Started from Sum-ber Kelampok area, now the proj-ect workmanship has entered the territory of Jembrana right in the Cekik forest. From observation, the toppled trees look so alarming, whereas they belong to the area of the West Bali. Actually, around the edge of the forest leading to Bule-leng is often taken advantage as a shelter by passing wild animals like monkeys and deer. As information, despite having entered the territory of Jembra na, the authority of Gili-manuk has not received a copy from Highways Construction related to the project sacrificing a number of trees.

Headman of Gilimanuk, I Gede Ngurah Widiada, told reporters on

Sunday (Nov. 22) that he already knew the project has entered the Jembrana region since last week. Indeed he has not received any letter or verbal notification from the project owner. Many traces of toppled trees are still left around the project.

The Administration Subdivision Head of the TNBB, Wiryawan, told reporters that his office has received a letter related to the project managed by the Directorate General of Highways, Ministry of Public Works. According to him, the project has indeed entered the territory of the TNBB but it is only a small part, the rest belongs to the authority of the West Bali Forest Management Unit (KPH). When being checked, the toppled trees are not native to the TNBB endemic tree, but shade trees at the roadside. Later his office will make coordi-nation regarding the mechanism of tree replacement, whether they are directly replaced or with other management.

As the observation, although it is a project, the trees toppled along the roadside between the jungles look less beautiful. Moreover, they are around the conservation area. (kmb26)

“According to plan, on Novem-ber 27th, there will be celebrations of Saraswati day held in a number of cities, that will involved perfor-mances such as Balinese poetry readings, quoted from a number of Kekawin manuscripts,” said Anak Agung Gde Rai, owner of the Agung Rai Museum of Arts (ARMA).

Poetry readings for Saraswati Day will take place in Tokyo, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Wash-ington DC and New York as well as at the ARMA in Ubud. The poems taken from the Kekawin palm-leaf manuscripts of Bali, will be read in three different languages: Balinese, Indonesian and the local language of the country where the readings

will be held. “Along with the kekawin quotes,

poems will also be taken from a number of literary works related to the themes of environment, culture, as well as expectations,” explained Agung Rai.

He added that the poetry reading should serve as a moment for the government of Indonesia to reflect on their lack of attention to preserv-ing local values and -in this case Balinese language in particular, as witnessed by the government’s decision to eliminate Balinese language class from the school cur-riculum. “Yes it strikes as this deci-sion, as Bali’s language has been one of the foundations of Bali’s culture, that is hundreds of years

old and which has become a tourist attraction. Rather than seeking to preserve it, the central government has in effect sought to eliminate it. It’s quite bizarre,” he said.

Agung Rai hopes that the gov-ernment is in fact interested in pre-serving local values and Balinese language in particular and that this year’s global Saraswati celebra-tions will serve as a milestone in the initial move towards making Saraswati day a national holiday commemorating the values of local wisdom. “In other words, Saras-wati day celebrations are not just about preserving Balinese language through poetry readings, but are meant to honor and help preserve the local languages of each region in Indonesia -through poetry read-ings. Saraswati represents universal knowledge which can be delivered through a variety of languages,” said Agung Rai.

He also added that he received a letter from the Embassy of the Re-public of Indonesia in Washington DC, asking him to bring a number

of paintings depicting the Goddess Saraswati as a symbol of education, science and culture.

“Based on the letter from the Embassy in Washington DC, I will hold a five day exhibition in New

York -from November 27th until December 1rst that will feature the works of a number of artists from Batuan village that have shown outstanding achievements,” added Agung Rai. (kmb35)

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Dokar, one of traditional transportation that is still being used in Denpasar. The traditional vehicle often attracts tourist who are enjoying their time in the city.

Drain workmanship at border area ‘sacrifices’ trees

Cultural preservation: Saraswati day celebrated in six countries

GIANYAR - There is no doubt that people from around the world are interested in Balinese culture as evidenced by many things, including Saraswati day celebrations that will take place simultenesouly in six major cities on November 27, 2015. This event should serve to remind the Government of Indonesia to pay attention to and honour its local cultures instead of doing things like removing Balinese language from the curriculum of schools n the island.

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The Hindus pray in Jagatnatha Temple to celebrate Sarawasti Day in Denpasar

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ABU DHABI - Rising from the desert outside Abu Dhabi, Masdar city is laying the groundwork for when the United Arab Emirates’ oil wells run dry.

Driverless electric cars shuttle between energy-saving buildings topped with arrays of solar panels.

Traditional Arabic architecture mixes with modern technology, as narrow shaded alleys run between brick-coloured buildings, focusing the wind and keeping temperatures low. On the edge of the complex, a 10-megawatt solar farm lined with photovoltaic panels provides clean energy.

First announced in 2007, Masdar city in the suburbs of Abu Dhabi has not yet become the city of 40,000 authorities promised, with only a few hundred people, mainly stu-dents, in residence.

But the complex -- which hosts the International Renewable Energy Association Agency (IRENA) and the Masdar Institute for Science and Technology -- is at the forefront of the UAE’s efforts to focus on renewables.

The company that bears its name has invested huge sums on green energy -- an unusual move for a country better known as an oil and gas producer and exporter.

Sitting on 5.9 percent of the world’s oil reserves and 3.1 per-cent of its natural gas, the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms, is a key player in the global energy market.

The discovery of commercial quantities of oil in the UAE in the late 1950s transformed the area, turning a few pearl-diving towns wedged between the Gulf and the

desert into an economic power-house.

But its rulers know the oil won’t last forever, with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan warning earlier this year that the country’s last tanker load will be exported in 50 years.

“We understood that for us to maintain our leadership in the (en-ergy) sector, we have to get into renewable, and we have done that,” Masdar chief executive officer Ah-mad Belhoul told AFP.

Nawal al-Hosany, head of sus-tainability at Masdar, said the UAE had an “ambitious” plan for “leveraging its resources from the hydrocarbon industry into this new sector.”

The UAE says it is expecting to invest $35 billion in non-hydrocar-

bon energy by 2020, including $20 billion on the Barakah 5.4-gigawatt nuclear power project.

Masdar has joined a number of clean energy projects abroad, Hosany said, investing some of the massive reserves the UAE has built up over the years.

“The UAE became the only OPEC country that not only exports oil but also exports renewable en-ergy around the world,” she said.

Masdar is a partner in the 20-megawatt Gemasolar power plant in southern Spain, the world’s first solar power station that generates electricity at night.

It also has a 20 percent share in the London Array wind power project, which has a capacity to generate 630 megawatts, enough to power nearly half a million homes in Britain.

At home, Masdar spent $600 million to build the Shams 1 plant, the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, west of Abu Dhabi, with a capacity to generate 100 megawatts.

It also supported the Solar Im-pulse bid to fly a solar-powered plane around the world in a trip that took off from Abu Dhabi in March but had to be called off in Hawaii due to a battery fault.

In total, Masdar says it is par-ticipating in projects that will eventually generate 1.5 gigawatts of power.

“Over the past five years, the UAE channelled $840 million into renewable energy projects in 25 countries,” said Thani al-Zeyoudi, the head of energy and climate change at the UAE foreign minis-try. (afp)

SINGAPORE - Oil prices fell in Asia on Monday, extending their slide as a stronger dollar and news that world stockpiles have reached a record high put pressure on futures.

Crude dived to two-month lows on Friday after the Inter-national Energy Agency, the world’s forecaster, said global commercial stocks had reached three billion barrels.

Mounting expectations the US will raise interest rates for the first time in almost a decade next month also drove the dollar higher on Monday, hurting commodities.

“Record levels of crude oil in storage with no let-up in production are likely to keep prices in a range in the coming weeks,” said Sanjeev Gupta, head of EY’s oil and gas practice for Asia-Pacific.

At around 0700 GMT, US benchmark West Texas In-termediate (WTI) for January delivery was down $1.18 at $40.72, while Brent crude for January was 82 cents lower at $43.84.

World oil prices have more than halved in the past 18 months as global production has outpaced consumption, and the IEA on Friday predicted demand will grow by a sluggish 1.2 million barrels next year.

The strengthening greenback, which got a boost over the weekend from bullish comments from a US Federal Reserve member, further hurt oil prices after three weeks of falls.

A higher greenback tends to dampen demand for dollar-denominated commodities like oil among holders of weaker currencies.

Bernard Aw, market strategist at IG in Singapore, said oil prices are unlikely to stage a comeback any time soon.

“Crude oil appears to find some bottom at current levels, although it will find it difficult to break higher as bears are clearly waiting in the folds to knock it lower each time there is a rally,” he said. (afp)

UAE channels oil money into alternative energy

Oil down in Asia on oversupply fears, strong dollar

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This Oct. 22, 2015 file photo shows destruction at Beiji oil refinery during the military operations, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq.

SINGARAJA - The initial stage of a clean water project in Eastern Buleleng is due to be finished next month, after having received IDR 42 billion from the Ministry of Public Works this year. The projects aims to address the lack of water in the region during the dry season, by creating in-frastructure that will drain water from the source in Sanih hamlet (Bukti, Kubutambahan) to six other villages in East Buleleng.

As of Sunday (Nov. 22), the initial stage of the project started in June 2015, under the Bali-Penida River Agency (BWS) is well under way with the main pipelines that run along 24 kilometres from the Air Sanih holding tank currently being laid down. A main reservoir located at Bulian village, Kubutambahan is also being built while the distribution reservoirs located at Tejakula and Bondalem (Tejakula subdistrict) and Bukti village (Kubutambahan) are also under construction. An intake building and water pump generator set are also being prepared.

CEO of the Municipality Water-works (PDAM) Buleleng, I Made Lestariana, said on Sunday (Nov. 22) that this Bali-Penida River Agency project of diverting Air Sanih Spring water to a reservoirs with a discharge capacity of 125 litters per second, will provide water to 10, 000 households in six different villages in east Bule-leng. This instead of having this water flush directly into the sea.

Technically, the water will be sucked up by a water pump, then after being processed in the uptake facili-ties will then be flowed to the main reservoir in Bulian. Using gravity, the water will then be drained to the distribution reservoirs from where it will be sent to households though the new pipeline.

“Although the project is being implemented by the Bali-Penida River Agency, we are often invited to coordinate in regards to utilization mapping and technical flow systems. This project will resolve the issue of clean water shortages often faced by residents of Eastern Buleleng and sur-rounding areas,” said Lestariana.

According to Lestariana, the bud-get for this project is being disbursed in stages. The construction of the main pipeline network and techni-cal support facilities will completed this year. Then in 2016 and 2017 the central government will disburse the next portion of the budget for a total fund worth IDR 50 billion that will go towards the installation of the distri-bution pipelines that will run from the distribution reservoirs to residential areas so that people can enjoy clean water all year round. (kmb35)

CEO of PDNKK Klungkung, I Wayan Sukadana, after the meeting with the Second Assistant for the Economy, Development and General Administration Ketut Suayadnya, the Economic Division of the Environment

Agency, the Finance Division and the Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda), said there are in a three part plan to help save the bird nest business.

The first part of the plan involves making

repairs to Goa Batu Melawang as a productive bird nest location. The second part of the plan it to develop Goa bath Melawang cave into a a conservation tourist attraction. While the third part of the plan to save the swallows, involves finding a third party to manage the site. Attempts to save the swallow nest site is being spurred on by the large potential profits that could be reaped from the bird nest selling business.

However, repairs to the Goa Batu Mela-wang cave would require as much as IDR 80 million. In addition to increasing the potential production of birds nest, the repairs would also mean that the site could be used as a conserva-tion tourist attraction as it already attracts many visitors for its shear beauty. “We propose that the cave be developed into a tourist attraction,” said Sukadana.

As for the idea of cooperating with a third party to manage the site, Sukandana said that this might be more of challenge He explained that he had already contacted PT Jasa Alam Semesta (JAS) that managed the bird nests in 2005 but they said that they were reluctant to accept the offer due to the declining number of nests in the cave and the low market price of the nests.

“In the past, bird nests could be sold for anywhere between IDR 11 million to IDR 16 million per kg, but today the highest price is about IDR 5 million and only for the best quality nests,” he added.

As for the PDNKK’s request to have repairs made to Goa Batu Melawang cave in 2016, Sukadana said that all three plans need to be looked at before a decision can be made. (dwa)

IBP/Wawan

The pedestrian must walk on the garden in Imam Bonjol area. The sidewalks is not avalable so the pedestrian have no choice and must step on the garden.

Clean water project in East Buleleng

Swallow nest business

Goa Batu Melawang cave needs repairs

SEMARAPURA - The Nusa Kertha Kosala (PDNKK), a local company owned by the district of Klungkung District is concerned about the future of the swallow nest business, and so they have requested for the government’s support in improving the poor condition of Goa Batu. Goa Batu Melawang provides the particular eco-system needed for swallows to build their nests, but because of the poor condition of the cave, the safety of nest collectors is at risks as is the bird population itself.

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Batu Melawang Cave in Nusa Penida

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BANDUNG - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has reminded entre-preneurs to pay taxes, so that the government’s efforts to develop infrastructure can run optimally and smoothly.

“Whatever your business is, 25 percent of it belongs to the government, so please pay the taxes,” the vice president said while opening the 7th National Congress of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) in Bandung, West Java, on Monday.

Kalla expressed hope that the business community would become better, and the revenue in the form of taxes would increase.

He remarked that without taxes, the government will not have sufficient funds to develop infrastructure.

“Do not protest about the high interest rates and lack of ports, among others, as all of it comes from taxes and not from the pockets of Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla. Without taxes, the government cannot do anything,” Kalla emphasized.

The government has given tax remissions and is also seeking tax amnesty, which is currently being discussed in the parliament.

Tax amnesty is assessed to be beneficial for Indonesia, par-ticularly by contributing in the form of tax revenues. The last tax amnesty program was implemented in 1984.

“This means that the entrepreneurs should pay taxes immedi-ately without complaining about bad roads or the lack of other infrastructure,” the vice president stated. (ant)

“This year we have tried to mainstream maritime cooperation in the form of EAS Statement on Regional Maritime Cooperation and this is very strategic for Indonesia. With the statement, we will promote maritime cooperation in the context of economy, while at the same time prioritizing maritime cooperation in the context of regional security and stability,” she said.

The minister said the Indonesian initiative has received support from

the United States, China, New Zea-land and Australia as well as full sup-port from all EAS member states.

She made it clear that the EAS Statement on Regional Maritime Cooperation carries five main priorities; first, developing sustain-able maritime economy; second, promoting maritime peace, stability and security; third, addressing cross border challenges; fourth, promot-ing maritime connectivity; and fifth, encouraging joint researches

involving various research institu-tions.

“So, the five cooperation pri-orities will be promoted in the context of maritime cooperation in the EAS. Once again this is our success in mainstreaming maritime cooperation in the context of EAS,” she said.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) attended the ASEAN Summit and other meetings held in Kuala Lum-pur from Saturday to Sunday. (ant)

REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas

A jockey falls off during a traditional Barapan Kebo or buffalo races, in Taliwang, on the island of Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia November 22, 2015. Around 250 pairs of water buffalo took part in the Barapan Kebo ahead of the planting season, for prizes which included a top prize of a pilgrimage to Mecca.

VP reminds entrepreneurs to pay taxes

Indonesia encouraging maritime cooperation in East Asia

JAKARTA - Indonesia is encouraging maritime cooperation in East Asia at the 10th East Asia Summit (EAS) which is part of a series of meetings highlighting the ASEAN Summit held in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and Sunday.”At the East Asia Summit, Indonesia can eventually mainstream maritime cooperation in the EAS. I think this is an extraordinary achievement of the Indonesian diplomacy. For the first time ever, we can mainstream a maritime issue at the EAS talk or discussion,” Foreign Minister Retno P Marsudi said while accompanying President Joko Widodo at the ASEAN Summit on Sunday evening.

One Iranian man, declaring a hunger strike, stripped to the waist, sewed his lips together with nylon and sat down in front of lines of Macedonian riot po-lice.

Asked by Reuters where he wanted to go, the man, a 34-year-old electrical engineer named Hamid, said: “To any free coun-try in the world. I cannot go back. I will be hanged.”

Hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of them Syrians fleeing war, have made the trek across the Balkan peninsula hav-ing arrived by boat and dinghy to Greece from Turkey, heading for the more affluent countries of northern and western Europe, mainly Germany and Sweden.

Last week, however, Slovenia, a member of Europe’s Schengen zone of passport-free travel, declared it would only grant pas-sage to those fleeing conflict in

Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and that all others deemed “economic migrants” would be sent back.

That prompted others on the route -- Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia -- to do the same, leaving growing numbers strand-ed in tents and around camp fires on Balkan borders with winter approaching.

Rights groups have ques-tioned the policy, warning asy-lum should be granted on merit, not on the basis of nationality.

“To classify a whole nation as economic migrants is not a principle recognised in interna-tional law,” said Rados Djurovic, director of the Belgrade-based Asylum Protection Centre. “We risk violating human rights and asylum law,” he told Serbian state television.

The new measure coincides with rising concern, particularly on the political right in Europe,

over the security risk of the cha-otic and often unchecked flow of humanity into Europe in the aftermath of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris by Islamist militants in which 130 people died.

It has emerged that two suicide bombers involved in the attacks took the same trail, arriving by boat in Greece and then travelling north across the Balkans. Most of the attackers, however, were citi-zens of France or Belgium.

On the Macedonian-Greek border, crowds of Moroccans, Iranians and others blocked the railway line running between the two countries, halting at least one train that tried to cross, a Reuters photographer said.

A group of Bangladeshis had stripped to the waist and written slogans on their chests in red paint. “Shoot us, we never go back,” read one. “Shoot us or save us,” read another. (rtr)

YANGON, Myanmar — Soldiers, police and volunteers pulled body after body from the rubble Monday, as the death toll from a landslide near several jade mines in northern Myanmar reached at least 113, a local official said. More than 100 others were missing.

The collapse early Saturday in Kachin state’s mining community of Hpakant was the worst-such disaster in recent memory.

The corpses were taken to a morgue, where friends and relatives broke down as they identified the victims. Some were buried at a cemetery and others were cremated. But there were stacks of unidentified bodies wrapped in blue plastic tarps.

Kachin is home to some of the world’s highest-quality jade, and the industry generated an estimated $31 billion last year, with most of the wealth going to individuals and companies tied to Myanmar’s former military rulers, according to Global Witness, a group that investigates misuse of resource revenues.

Hpakant, 950 kilometers (600 miles) northeast of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, is the industry’s epicenter. But it remains desperately poor, with bumpy dirt roads, constant electricity blackouts and sky-high heroin addiction rates.

The accident occurred at a 60-meter (200-foot) -high mountain of earth and waste discarded by several mines.

Earlier, officials said the dead were mostly men who were pick-ing through the waste and tailings in search of pieces of jade to sell. But officials said Monday the accident occurred at about 3 a.m., burying more than 70 makeshift huts where the miners slept.

Nilar Myint, a township administrator, said that by Monday the death toll had reached 113, with more than 100 others missing. Bodies were still being pulled from the debris.

“It’s not ending. It’s still ongoing. Local people in town are getting angry, because there are just too many bodies,” she said.

After Myanmar’s former military rulers handed over power to a nominally civilian government five years ago, resulting in the lifting of many Western-imposed sanctions, the already rapid pace of mining turned frenetic. No scrap of ground, no part of daily life in Hpakant has been left untouched by the fleets of giant yellow trucks and backhoes that have sliced apart mountains and denuded once-plush landscape.

In the last year, dozens of small-scale miners have been maimed or killed picking through tailing dumps.

“Large companies, many of them owned by families of former generals, army companies, cronies and drug lords, are making tens or hundreds of millions of dollars a year through their plunder of Hpakant,” said Mike Davis of Global Witness.

“Their legacy to local people is a dystopian wasteland in which scores of people at a time are buried alive in landslides,” he said.(ap)

REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Stranded Iranian migrant Hamid, 34, an electrical engineer from the Iranian town of Sanandij sits on rail tracks in front of Macedonian riot police guarding the borderline between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni November 23, 2015.

Stranded migrants block railway, call hunger strike

IDOMENI, Greece - Moroccans, Iranians and Pakistanis on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia blocked rail traffic and demanded passage to western Europe on Monday, stranded by a policy of filtering migrants in the Balkans that has raised human rights concerns.

Searchers pull bodies from rubble after Myanmar landslide

Eleven Media Group via AP

In this photo released from Eleven Media Group taken on Nov. 22, 2015, excavators dig dump soil to search bodies of miners as workers and rescue members gather in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar.

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CANGGU - Batu Bolong Beach is a beautiful white sandy beach stretch from Seminyak with the breathtak-ing view to the Indian Ocean. This beach is featured by the great wave and there are two surfing spots that give many opportunities for surfer to conquer the wave and enjoy the surf-ing adventures.

This famous beach has been many visited by tourists especially the do-mestic tourist and surfers to recreation or relax while enjoy the fresh atmo-sphere flows from the sea. This beach is also blessed by the panoramic view of sunset that creates the romantic nu-ance for every visitor.

The surfers have appointed that this surfing point as one of the best surfing points in Bali Island hence this place is many visited by the surf-ers from both foreign and domestic surfers.

This beach is located in Canggu Village, Kerobokan District, Badung regency, Bali province – Indonensia. This beach is situated among the other famous surfing points like Seminyak Beach, Berawa Beach, Echo Beach and Pererenan Beach those are easily reached from any di-rection. The location is strategic close to other surfing points and featured by the good access, the complete public facilities and easy access to the places of interest in the island of god. It is only 35 minutes away from Denpasar Airport by driving a car or 5 km from Kuta Beach that is ideal place to visit.

Batu Bolong Beach

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Federer brought the tournament to a close in anti-climactic fashion with a double-fault, although not as much as a year ago when he pulled out of the final with back injury.

After a modest celebration, Djokovic walked back to his chair and wrote “And now for vacation” in Serbian on a camera lens. How he deserves one. The 28-year-old has stomped through the season to leave his rivals trailing in his wake -- securing the year-end world number one ranking weeks before the London finale.

He won three of the year’s four grand slams, beating the evergreen Federer in the Wimbledon and U.S. Open finals to take his career haul to 10, and would have celebrated

the rarest of ‘calendar year slams’ had it not been for an inspired Stanislas Wawrinka in the French Open final.

Not only that but he won a record six Masters Series crowns and reached 15 consecutive finals after losing to Ivo Karlovic in the Doha quarter-finals at the start of the year.

He ended the year with an 82-6 win loss record -- half of those defeats coming against Federer, including Tuesday’s 7-5 6-2 group stage defeat by the Swiss that snapped his 23-match winning streak and three-year unbeaten run indoors.

With the stakes raised, though, the 34-year-old Federer made far too many errors on Sunday while

Djokovic’s defences proved largely impenetrable, but for the odd flash of Swiss magic that had his large red and white fan club chanting their approval.

STAND-OUT SEASON“I returned more balls back than

I did five days ago,” Djokovic told a news conference. “Obviously sit-ting here with this trophy alongside me, I couldn’t ask for a better finish of the season.

“This season definitely stands out. I can’t say I expected it, not at all. But I always gave my best, and I’m always asking from myself the most.” Federer’s chances were fleeting. He had the first break point in the second game but fluffed a forehand into the net.

In the next game a near-identical forehand found the net to give Djokovic the break and from there the world number one never looked back. The clinical Djokovic teased Federer into a volley error on set point in the ninth game to move ahead. (rtr)

DENVER — Golden State tied the best start to a season in NBA history by beating the Denver Nug-gets 118-105 on Sunday, moving to 15-0.

The Warriors matched the start of the 1948-49 Washington Capitols and the ‘93-94 Houston Rockets. The Warriors can break the record when they played at home against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tues-day.

Elsewhere, Oklahoma City came back from a double-digit deficit in the third quarter to edge Dallas, and Toronto clamped down early on the Los Angeles Clippers stars and had a comfortable win.

Golden State’s Klay Thompson scored 21 points for the Warriors, who surpassed the ‘57-58 Boston Celtics for the best start by a defend-ing champion.

Thompson hit a 3-pointer with 2:08 remaining in the second quarter and Golden State never trailed again. The reserves built up a sizeable lead and allowed Stephen Curry to rest the entire fourth quarter. Curry had 19 points, the first time this season he hasn’t reached 20. Darrell Arthur had 21 points for Denver, which has lost three straight.

Oklahoma City’s Russell West-brook had 31 points and 11 assists, hitting two key baskets in the final 63 seconds, to lead the Thunder past Dallas 117-114, halting the Maver-icks’ six-game winning streak.

Westbrook broke a 113-113 tie with a jumper with 1:03 left. Zaza Pachulia made 1 of 2 from the free-throw line to pull the Mavericks within a point before Westbrook’s 18-foot jumper with 24 seconds left capped the scoring.

Serge Ibaka had 16 points, nine rebounds and a key late blocked shot for Oklahoma City, which was without star forward Kevin Durant (injured hamstring) for the sixth straight game.

Deron Williams led Dallas with 20 points, but missed an 18-footer and had his layup attempt blocked by Ibaka on consecutive posses-sions, and Wesley Mathews’ last-second off-balance heave from 3-point range came nowhere close to the basket.

Toronto kept Blake Griffin and Chris Paul scoreless for the first 20 minutes, setting up a 91-80 win against the Clippers.

DeMar DeRozan had 21 points and DeMarre Carroll scored all his 21 points in the first half for the Raptors, who shot a poor 37 percent from the field but made up for it by forcing 19 turnovers.

J.J. Redick scored 17 points for Los Angeles, which is 2-7 in its past nine game after starting the season 4-0. The only other time they were under a .500 winning percentage during Doc Rivers’ two-plus seasons as coach was after his first game on the job. New Orleans’ Anthony Da-vis capped a 32-point, 19-rebound performance with a tiebreaking 3 in the final minute to lead the Pelicans past Phoenix 122-116.

Brooklyn’s Brook Lopez had 23 points and 10 rebounds and Jarrett Jack scored 13 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter to steer the Nets to a 111-101 win against Boston.

Portland beat the Los Angeles Lakers for the sixth straight time, winning 107-93 on the road behind Damian Lillard’s 30 points and career-high 13 assists. (ap)

AP Photo/David Zalubowski

Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari, center, of Italy, drives the lane for a shot as Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, right, defends and Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, of Ser-bia, looks on in the second half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015, in Denver. Golden State won 118-105.

Warriors match record start to season with win vs. Nuggets

Reuters / Suzanne Plunkett

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Switzerland’s Roger Federer pose with their trophies after their match

Djokovic ends year on high with Finals win over Federer

LONDON - Novak Djokovic put the finishing touch to a magnificent season by beating Roger Federer 6-3 6-4 to win the ATP World Tour Finals on Sunday for the fifth time in his career. The Serbian underlined his complete dominance of men’s tennis with another immaculate display to become the first player in the year-ending tournament’s 46-year history to triumph four times in a row.

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Goals from Jonathan Biabiany, Mauro Icardi, Jeison Murillo and Mar-celo Brozovic helped Inter to its first win by more than a one-goal margin since April.

“There is still a lot of the sea-

son to

g o , ” I n t e r coach Ro-berto Man-cini said.

“ I t h i n k t h e r e a r e three or four teams which are more or-ganized and stronger than us, with play-ers who have been together

for longer and are more prepared to win than us. But we are happy to be there at the top.”

Nikola Kalinic scored twice in five minutes, and also hit the bar, as Fiorentina fought back from two goals down in the Tuscan derby, while Gonzalo Higuain was on target again as Napoli won 2-0 at Hellas Verona.

It was the Argentine’s 10th league goal of the season and was set up by Lorenzo Insigne, who

scored the opener.Napoli and Fiorentina have 28 points, one more than

Roma, which was held to a 2-2 draw at

Bologna on Sat-urday. Sassuo-lo remained f i f th , de-spite los-ing 2-1 at Genoa in a

match that saw both sides reduced to 10 men at the end of the first half.

Elsewhere, Vincenzo Montella’s first match as Sampdoria coach ended in defeat as his new team lost 1-0 at Udinese, while Lazio ended a run of three successive defeats by coming from behind to draw 1-1 against Palermo.

Carpi remained level with bot-tom club Verona after losing 2-1 at

home to Chievo Verona. The two teams are seven points from safety. Torino won 1-0 at Atalanta.

The French national anthem was played before each Serie A match and supporters displayed several banners in support of their neighbors little over a week after the deadly attacks in Paris that claimed 130 lives and left hundreds more injured.

There were also thousands of French flags waved by the fans in Udine. In Florence a huge banner was unfurled with the words “close to the French people.” There were similar banners of support shown by fans elsewhere in Italy too.

Inter knew it could go clear at the top of the league after Fiorentina drew in the afternoon but the San Siro was almost stunned into silence in the seventh minute as only a fine Samir Handanovic diving save prevented Danilo Soddimo from volleying relegation-threatened Frosinone into a shock lead.

Biabiany had been given his first start in more than a year, having spent most of that time sidelined with a heart problem, and he marked the occasion with a goal on the rebound after Frosinone goalkeeper Nicola Leali did well to parry Adem Ljajic’s curled effort.

“I am happy for Biabiany,” Mancini added. “He had a serious problem, and risked having to quit

football. He can certainly give us more quality and pace. And he can still improve.”

Inter doubled its advantage in the 53rd. Ljajic played a smart one-two with Icardi and then returned the ball for the Argentine to tap in from close range.

Murillo scored his first club goal in nearly two years three minutes from time, firing between Leali’s legs after a delightful backheel from Stevan Jovetic. Brozovic, who had only been on the pitch for a couple of minutes, added to Frosi-none’s humiliation in stoppage time following another Ljajic assist.

Earlier, Fiorentina was looking to move back top after Napoli’s win but it had a miserable first half. Empoli took the lead in the 18th minute, although Marko Livaja was clearly offside when he latched onto Riccardo Saponara’s through ball and fired inside the near post.

The visitors doubled their lead nine minutes later when a free kick wasn’t cleared and Marcel Buchel smashed in the rebound. Fiorentina coach Paulo Sousa made a double change at the break, including bringing on Kalinic.

The Croatia forward headed in Marcos Alonso’s cross 11 minutes into the second half and leveled shortly afterward when Khouma Babacar volleyed across Federico Bernardeschi’s pass.(ap)

Inter crushes Frosinone 4-0 to go 2 points clear in Serie A

Milan’s Jei-son Murillo celebrates after scor-ing during a

Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Frosinone at the San Siro stadium

in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 22,

2015.

MILAN — Inter Milan moved two points clear at the top of Serie A with a 4-0 win over struggling Frosinone on Sunday after title rival Fiorentina was held to a 2-2 draw by Empoli.

MADRID — Real Madrid fans vividly showed their dis-satisfaction, frantically waving white “goodbye” handkerchiefs and loudly jeering. It was a clear message to coach Rafa Benitez: It’s time for you to go.

Benitez’s situation is becom-ing increasingly unbearable since a 4-0 loss to Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Saturday, and another setback could mean the end of the line. Madrid president Florentino Perez also has been targeted by the club’s demanding fans, but ulti-mately it will be Benitez who gets the blame for the team’s recent struggles.

In the local media, there is al-ready widespread talk about Ben-itez’s replacement — Zinedine Zidane. The name of the former France great, who is coaching Madrid’s “B’’ team in the third di-vision, is certain to surface every time Madrid fails. Not that he is in a hurry to get promoted.

“I’m coaching Castilla now. Benitez is the coach of the first team and things are fine like that,” the 43-year-old Zidane told Span-ish media. “I still have a long way to go.”

Some fan have also called for the return of Italian coach Carlos Ancelotti, who helped Madrid win its 10th European title two seasons ago. And there have been some reports that Fabio Capello, who is currently unemployed, could be the next in line. For Ben-

itez to have any chance of keeping his job, he needs to find a way to get Madrid back on track.

“We are all responsible and now we have to show unity in or-der to win the next game and give the fans something to be happy about, which is something we failed to do (against Barcelona),” the 55-year-old Benitez said. “We need to get over this result and focus on the next match as soon as possible.”

Things were just fine for the coach until two weeks ago, when Madrid lost for the first time in a Spanish league match at Sevilla. Madrid had been leading the league and was winning games with ease despite a series of inju-ries to its regular starters.

It advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League with two rounds to go, and is like-ly to finish first in its group ahead of Paris Saint-Germain. Benitez defends himself by pointing to the team’s numbers this season.

Madrid’s only bad result prior to the consecutive losses was a home draw against Malaga, when goalkeeper Carlos Kameni was the man of the match after stop-ping everything Madrid’s strikers threw at him.

Madrid had won four of its first five league games, outscor-ing opponents 14-1. It drew at Atletico Madrid 1-1, then won the next three matches by at least two goals. Among the key players injured early in the season were

Keylor Navas, Sergio Ramos, James Rodriguez, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema. The game against Barcelona marked only the second time that Benitez had all of his players available.

After the Barcelona loss, many criticized Benitez for starting with a lineup that left the team too ex-posed. But before the game, oth-ers had criticized him for playing too defensively. “With the match now over, we can clearly say that the lineup didn’t work,” said the coach, who was hired by Madrid less than six months ago. “I pick my teams by trying to manage the group as best as possible.”

Many said Benitez lost control of the squad and that players were not fully behind him. Last week, the coach was forced to public deny rumors that some of the top players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, organized a meeting to demand changes in the team’s tactics.

“We’re always completely be-hind the coach,” left back Marcelo said after Saturday’s loss. “We’re going to get ourselves out of this situation. We’re not going to lose our heads, we’re going to train hard and look at where we went wrong.” Madrid’s next game is Wednesday at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League.

The points will not mean much because Madrid is already through to the next round, but the game certainly will still be crucial for Benitez.(ap)

ANKARA - Turkish cham-pions Galatasaray are close to signing Mustafa Denizli, the only manager to win the domestic league with three different clubs, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday.

Club chairman Dursun Ozbek and Denizli will hold a meeting at the club’s stadium in Istanbul on Monday afternoon, Ozbek and Denizli separately told re-

porters.“The club and Denizli are both

enthusiastic about an agreement. The result of today’s meeting will most likely be positive,” a source close to the matter said.

Denizli, 66, managed the Turk-ish national team for four years and reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2000. He won three domes-tic league titles with Istanbul’s three arch-rivals -- Galatasaray,

Fenerbahce and Besiktas.Last week, Galatasaray parted

ways with coach Hamza Hamzao-glu less than a year after he took charge of the side following a mediocre start to the season.

Galatasaray are currently seven points behind league lead-ers Besiktas after 12 games and are third in Champions League Group C on four points from as many games. (rtr)

BARCELONA — Atletico Ma-drid took advantage of Real Ma-drid’s humbling loss in the “clasico” by moving past its crosstown rivals into second place in the Spanish league after winning 1-0 at Real Betis on Sunday.

Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion blasted in a rebound for what proved to be the winner in the sev-enth minute after Atletico’s intense pressure recovered the ball. After that, the hosts were outmatched and never mustered a serious challenge, while Atletico squandered several more chances.

Atletico replaced Madrid as Barcelona’s closest title rival at four points off its pace through 12 rounds. The change came a day after the defending champions dealt Madrid a humiliating 4-0 drubbing at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Atletico’s success in exploiting Madrid’s woes will increase the pressure on Madrid’s coach, Rafa Benitez, whose team is now six points behind Barcelona and two points adrift of Diego Simeone’s side. “We move ahead game by game, and we’ll see how far we can go,” Simeone said.

Koke, however, didn’t budge from Atletico’s standard line that the surprise 2014 champions are not chasing another title, given their significantly smaller budget com-

pared to Barcelona and Madrid.“We are happy to be second, but

it’s just an anecdote,” Koke said. “We have to continue. (The media) talks about us being candidates for the title, our goal is to finish third. Anything above that is just extra.”

Betis, which remained in 12th after a fourth consecutive home defeat, lost goalkeeper Antonio Adan to a right-foot injury in the second half.

Elsewhere, Villarreal scored late to salvage a 1-1 draw at home with Eibar that lifted it into fourth place.

In a match that both teams fin-ished with 10 men, left back Jaume Costa received Denis Suarez’s through-ball and poked home Vil-larreal’s equalizer off the post with five minutes left.

Sergi Enrich had given Eibar the lead in the 27th, following a tribute before kickoff to the victims of the Paris terrorist attacks. The French anthem was played, while a large monitor displayed the message “We Are All France” in Spanish at El Madrigal Stadium.

Villarreal moved above Celta Vigo and into Spain’s last Cham-pions League spot, but its players lamented not getting the win. “It’s a pity because we were convinced of the importance of taking all three points,” Costa said.(ap)

Galatasaray set to appoint Denizli as new manager

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

AP Photo/Paul White

Real Madrid’s head coach Rafael Benitez leaves a press conference in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. Real Madrid and Barcelona will play at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Sat-urday in the first clasico of the season.

Benitez hanging on at Real Madrid; Zinedine Zidane next?

Atletico moves past Real Madrid into 2nd in Spain

REUTERS/Fredy Builes

People take part in a game of ‘bubble bump soccer’ during an exhibition tournament in Medellin, Colombia, October 10, 2015. The game is played by five-a-side teams wearing inflatable balls trying to score goals against the opposing team.

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Goals from Jonathan Biabiany, Mauro Icardi, Jeison Murillo and Mar-celo Brozovic helped Inter to its first win by more than a one-goal margin since April.

“There is still a lot of the sea-

son to

g o , ” I n t e r coach Ro-berto Man-cini said.

“ I t h i n k t h e r e a r e three or four teams which are more or-ganized and stronger than us, with play-ers who have been together

for longer and are more prepared to win than us. But we are happy to be there at the top.”

Nikola Kalinic scored twice in five minutes, and also hit the bar, as Fiorentina fought back from two goals down in the Tuscan derby, while Gonzalo Higuain was on target again as Napoli won 2-0 at Hellas Verona.

It was the Argentine’s 10th league goal of the season and was set up by Lorenzo Insigne, who

scored the opener.Napoli and Fiorentina have 28 points, one more than

Roma, which was held to a 2-2 draw at

Bologna on Sat-urday. Sassuo-lo remained f i f th , de-spite los-ing 2-1 at Genoa in a

match that saw both sides reduced to 10 men at the end of the first half.

Elsewhere, Vincenzo Montella’s first match as Sampdoria coach ended in defeat as his new team lost 1-0 at Udinese, while Lazio ended a run of three successive defeats by coming from behind to draw 1-1 against Palermo.

Carpi remained level with bot-tom club Verona after losing 2-1 at

home to Chievo Verona. The two teams are seven points from safety. Torino won 1-0 at Atalanta.

The French national anthem was played before each Serie A match and supporters displayed several banners in support of their neighbors little over a week after the deadly attacks in Paris that claimed 130 lives and left hundreds more injured.

There were also thousands of French flags waved by the fans in Udine. In Florence a huge banner was unfurled with the words “close to the French people.” There were similar banners of support shown by fans elsewhere in Italy too.

Inter knew it could go clear at the top of the league after Fiorentina drew in the afternoon but the San Siro was almost stunned into silence in the seventh minute as only a fine Samir Handanovic diving save prevented Danilo Soddimo from volleying relegation-threatened Frosinone into a shock lead.

Biabiany had been given his first start in more than a year, having spent most of that time sidelined with a heart problem, and he marked the occasion with a goal on the rebound after Frosinone goalkeeper Nicola Leali did well to parry Adem Ljajic’s curled effort.

“I am happy for Biabiany,” Mancini added. “He had a serious problem, and risked having to quit

football. He can certainly give us more quality and pace. And he can still improve.”

Inter doubled its advantage in the 53rd. Ljajic played a smart one-two with Icardi and then returned the ball for the Argentine to tap in from close range.

Murillo scored his first club goal in nearly two years three minutes from time, firing between Leali’s legs after a delightful backheel from Stevan Jovetic. Brozovic, who had only been on the pitch for a couple of minutes, added to Frosi-none’s humiliation in stoppage time following another Ljajic assist.

Earlier, Fiorentina was looking to move back top after Napoli’s win but it had a miserable first half. Empoli took the lead in the 18th minute, although Marko Livaja was clearly offside when he latched onto Riccardo Saponara’s through ball and fired inside the near post.

The visitors doubled their lead nine minutes later when a free kick wasn’t cleared and Marcel Buchel smashed in the rebound. Fiorentina coach Paulo Sousa made a double change at the break, including bringing on Kalinic.

The Croatia forward headed in Marcos Alonso’s cross 11 minutes into the second half and leveled shortly afterward when Khouma Babacar volleyed across Federico Bernardeschi’s pass.(ap)

Inter crushes Frosinone 4-0 to go 2 points clear in Serie A

Milan’s Jei-son Murillo celebrates after scor-ing during a

Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Frosinone at the San Siro stadium

in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 22,

2015.

MILAN — Inter Milan moved two points clear at the top of Serie A with a 4-0 win over struggling Frosinone on Sunday after title rival Fiorentina was held to a 2-2 draw by Empoli.

MADRID — Real Madrid fans vividly showed their dis-satisfaction, frantically waving white “goodbye” handkerchiefs and loudly jeering. It was a clear message to coach Rafa Benitez: It’s time for you to go.

Benitez’s situation is becom-ing increasingly unbearable since a 4-0 loss to Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Saturday, and another setback could mean the end of the line. Madrid president Florentino Perez also has been targeted by the club’s demanding fans, but ulti-mately it will be Benitez who gets the blame for the team’s recent struggles.

In the local media, there is al-ready widespread talk about Ben-itez’s replacement — Zinedine Zidane. The name of the former France great, who is coaching Madrid’s “B’’ team in the third di-vision, is certain to surface every time Madrid fails. Not that he is in a hurry to get promoted.

“I’m coaching Castilla now. Benitez is the coach of the first team and things are fine like that,” the 43-year-old Zidane told Span-ish media. “I still have a long way to go.”

Some fan have also called for the return of Italian coach Carlos Ancelotti, who helped Madrid win its 10th European title two seasons ago. And there have been some reports that Fabio Capello, who is currently unemployed, could be the next in line. For Ben-

itez to have any chance of keeping his job, he needs to find a way to get Madrid back on track.

“We are all responsible and now we have to show unity in or-der to win the next game and give the fans something to be happy about, which is something we failed to do (against Barcelona),” the 55-year-old Benitez said. “We need to get over this result and focus on the next match as soon as possible.”

Things were just fine for the coach until two weeks ago, when Madrid lost for the first time in a Spanish league match at Sevilla. Madrid had been leading the league and was winning games with ease despite a series of inju-ries to its regular starters.

It advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League with two rounds to go, and is like-ly to finish first in its group ahead of Paris Saint-Germain. Benitez defends himself by pointing to the team’s numbers this season.

Madrid’s only bad result prior to the consecutive losses was a home draw against Malaga, when goalkeeper Carlos Kameni was the man of the match after stop-ping everything Madrid’s strikers threw at him.

Madrid had won four of its first five league games, outscor-ing opponents 14-1. It drew at Atletico Madrid 1-1, then won the next three matches by at least two goals. Among the key players injured early in the season were

Keylor Navas, Sergio Ramos, James Rodriguez, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema. The game against Barcelona marked only the second time that Benitez had all of his players available.

After the Barcelona loss, many criticized Benitez for starting with a lineup that left the team too ex-posed. But before the game, oth-ers had criticized him for playing too defensively. “With the match now over, we can clearly say that the lineup didn’t work,” said the coach, who was hired by Madrid less than six months ago. “I pick my teams by trying to manage the group as best as possible.”

Many said Benitez lost control of the squad and that players were not fully behind him. Last week, the coach was forced to public deny rumors that some of the top players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, organized a meeting to demand changes in the team’s tactics.

“We’re always completely be-hind the coach,” left back Marcelo said after Saturday’s loss. “We’re going to get ourselves out of this situation. We’re not going to lose our heads, we’re going to train hard and look at where we went wrong.” Madrid’s next game is Wednesday at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League.

The points will not mean much because Madrid is already through to the next round, but the game certainly will still be crucial for Benitez.(ap)

ANKARA - Turkish cham-pions Galatasaray are close to signing Mustafa Denizli, the only manager to win the domestic league with three different clubs, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday.

Club chairman Dursun Ozbek and Denizli will hold a meeting at the club’s stadium in Istanbul on Monday afternoon, Ozbek and Denizli separately told re-

porters.“The club and Denizli are both

enthusiastic about an agreement. The result of today’s meeting will most likely be positive,” a source close to the matter said.

Denizli, 66, managed the Turk-ish national team for four years and reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2000. He won three domes-tic league titles with Istanbul’s three arch-rivals -- Galatasaray,

Fenerbahce and Besiktas.Last week, Galatasaray parted

ways with coach Hamza Hamzao-glu less than a year after he took charge of the side following a mediocre start to the season.

Galatasaray are currently seven points behind league lead-ers Besiktas after 12 games and are third in Champions League Group C on four points from as many games. (rtr)

BARCELONA — Atletico Ma-drid took advantage of Real Ma-drid’s humbling loss in the “clasico” by moving past its crosstown rivals into second place in the Spanish league after winning 1-0 at Real Betis on Sunday.

Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion blasted in a rebound for what proved to be the winner in the sev-enth minute after Atletico’s intense pressure recovered the ball. After that, the hosts were outmatched and never mustered a serious challenge, while Atletico squandered several more chances.

Atletico replaced Madrid as Barcelona’s closest title rival at four points off its pace through 12 rounds. The change came a day after the defending champions dealt Madrid a humiliating 4-0 drubbing at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Atletico’s success in exploiting Madrid’s woes will increase the pressure on Madrid’s coach, Rafa Benitez, whose team is now six points behind Barcelona and two points adrift of Diego Simeone’s side. “We move ahead game by game, and we’ll see how far we can go,” Simeone said.

Koke, however, didn’t budge from Atletico’s standard line that the surprise 2014 champions are not chasing another title, given their significantly smaller budget com-

pared to Barcelona and Madrid.“We are happy to be second, but

it’s just an anecdote,” Koke said. “We have to continue. (The media) talks about us being candidates for the title, our goal is to finish third. Anything above that is just extra.”

Betis, which remained in 12th after a fourth consecutive home defeat, lost goalkeeper Antonio Adan to a right-foot injury in the second half.

Elsewhere, Villarreal scored late to salvage a 1-1 draw at home with Eibar that lifted it into fourth place.

In a match that both teams fin-ished with 10 men, left back Jaume Costa received Denis Suarez’s through-ball and poked home Vil-larreal’s equalizer off the post with five minutes left.

Sergi Enrich had given Eibar the lead in the 27th, following a tribute before kickoff to the victims of the Paris terrorist attacks. The French anthem was played, while a large monitor displayed the message “We Are All France” in Spanish at El Madrigal Stadium.

Villarreal moved above Celta Vigo and into Spain’s last Cham-pions League spot, but its players lamented not getting the win. “It’s a pity because we were convinced of the importance of taking all three points,” Costa said.(ap)

Galatasaray set to appoint Denizli as new manager

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

AP Photo/Paul White

Real Madrid’s head coach Rafael Benitez leaves a press conference in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. Real Madrid and Barcelona will play at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Sat-urday in the first clasico of the season.

Benitez hanging on at Real Madrid; Zinedine Zidane next?

Atletico moves past Real Madrid into 2nd in Spain

REUTERS/Fredy Builes

People take part in a game of ‘bubble bump soccer’ during an exhibition tournament in Medellin, Colombia, October 10, 2015. The game is played by five-a-side teams wearing inflatable balls trying to score goals against the opposing team.

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CANGGU - Batu Bolong Beach is a beautiful white sandy beach stretch from Seminyak with the breathtak-ing view to the Indian Ocean. This beach is featured by the great wave and there are two surfing spots that give many opportunities for surfer to conquer the wave and enjoy the surf-ing adventures.

This famous beach has been many visited by tourists especially the do-mestic tourist and surfers to recreation or relax while enjoy the fresh atmo-sphere flows from the sea. This beach is also blessed by the panoramic view of sunset that creates the romantic nu-ance for every visitor.

The surfers have appointed that this surfing point as one of the best surfing points in Bali Island hence this place is many visited by the surf-ers from both foreign and domestic surfers.

This beach is located in Canggu Village, Kerobokan District, Badung regency, Bali province – Indonensia. This beach is situated among the other famous surfing points like Seminyak Beach, Berawa Beach, Echo Beach and Pererenan Beach those are easily reached from any di-rection. The location is strategic close to other surfing points and featured by the good access, the complete public facilities and easy access to the places of interest in the island of god. It is only 35 minutes away from Denpasar Airport by driving a car or 5 km from Kuta Beach that is ideal place to visit.

Batu Bolong Beach

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Federer brought the tournament to a close in anti-climactic fashion with a double-fault, although not as much as a year ago when he pulled out of the final with back injury.

After a modest celebration, Djokovic walked back to his chair and wrote “And now for vacation” in Serbian on a camera lens. How he deserves one. The 28-year-old has stomped through the season to leave his rivals trailing in his wake -- securing the year-end world number one ranking weeks before the London finale.

He won three of the year’s four grand slams, beating the evergreen Federer in the Wimbledon and U.S. Open finals to take his career haul to 10, and would have celebrated

the rarest of ‘calendar year slams’ had it not been for an inspired Stanislas Wawrinka in the French Open final.

Not only that but he won a record six Masters Series crowns and reached 15 consecutive finals after losing to Ivo Karlovic in the Doha quarter-finals at the start of the year.

He ended the year with an 82-6 win loss record -- half of those defeats coming against Federer, including Tuesday’s 7-5 6-2 group stage defeat by the Swiss that snapped his 23-match winning streak and three-year unbeaten run indoors.

With the stakes raised, though, the 34-year-old Federer made far too many errors on Sunday while

Djokovic’s defences proved largely impenetrable, but for the odd flash of Swiss magic that had his large red and white fan club chanting their approval.

STAND-OUT SEASON“I returned more balls back than

I did five days ago,” Djokovic told a news conference. “Obviously sit-ting here with this trophy alongside me, I couldn’t ask for a better finish of the season.

“This season definitely stands out. I can’t say I expected it, not at all. But I always gave my best, and I’m always asking from myself the most.” Federer’s chances were fleeting. He had the first break point in the second game but fluffed a forehand into the net.

In the next game a near-identical forehand found the net to give Djokovic the break and from there the world number one never looked back. The clinical Djokovic teased Federer into a volley error on set point in the ninth game to move ahead. (rtr)

DENVER — Golden State tied the best start to a season in NBA history by beating the Denver Nug-gets 118-105 on Sunday, moving to 15-0.

The Warriors matched the start of the 1948-49 Washington Capitols and the ‘93-94 Houston Rockets. The Warriors can break the record when they played at home against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tues-day.

Elsewhere, Oklahoma City came back from a double-digit deficit in the third quarter to edge Dallas, and Toronto clamped down early on the Los Angeles Clippers stars and had a comfortable win.

Golden State’s Klay Thompson scored 21 points for the Warriors, who surpassed the ‘57-58 Boston Celtics for the best start by a defend-ing champion.

Thompson hit a 3-pointer with 2:08 remaining in the second quarter and Golden State never trailed again. The reserves built up a sizeable lead and allowed Stephen Curry to rest the entire fourth quarter. Curry had 19 points, the first time this season he hasn’t reached 20. Darrell Arthur had 21 points for Denver, which has lost three straight.

Oklahoma City’s Russell West-brook had 31 points and 11 assists, hitting two key baskets in the final 63 seconds, to lead the Thunder past Dallas 117-114, halting the Maver-icks’ six-game winning streak.

Westbrook broke a 113-113 tie with a jumper with 1:03 left. Zaza Pachulia made 1 of 2 from the free-throw line to pull the Mavericks within a point before Westbrook’s 18-foot jumper with 24 seconds left capped the scoring.

Serge Ibaka had 16 points, nine rebounds and a key late blocked shot for Oklahoma City, which was without star forward Kevin Durant (injured hamstring) for the sixth straight game.

Deron Williams led Dallas with 20 points, but missed an 18-footer and had his layup attempt blocked by Ibaka on consecutive posses-sions, and Wesley Mathews’ last-second off-balance heave from 3-point range came nowhere close to the basket.

Toronto kept Blake Griffin and Chris Paul scoreless for the first 20 minutes, setting up a 91-80 win against the Clippers.

DeMar DeRozan had 21 points and DeMarre Carroll scored all his 21 points in the first half for the Raptors, who shot a poor 37 percent from the field but made up for it by forcing 19 turnovers.

J.J. Redick scored 17 points for Los Angeles, which is 2-7 in its past nine game after starting the season 4-0. The only other time they were under a .500 winning percentage during Doc Rivers’ two-plus seasons as coach was after his first game on the job. New Orleans’ Anthony Da-vis capped a 32-point, 19-rebound performance with a tiebreaking 3 in the final minute to lead the Pelicans past Phoenix 122-116.

Brooklyn’s Brook Lopez had 23 points and 10 rebounds and Jarrett Jack scored 13 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter to steer the Nets to a 111-101 win against Boston.

Portland beat the Los Angeles Lakers for the sixth straight time, winning 107-93 on the road behind Damian Lillard’s 30 points and career-high 13 assists. (ap)

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Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari, center, of Italy, drives the lane for a shot as Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, right, defends and Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, of Ser-bia, looks on in the second half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015, in Denver. Golden State won 118-105.

Warriors match record start to season with win vs. Nuggets

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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Switzerland’s Roger Federer pose with their trophies after their match

Djokovic ends year on high with Finals win over Federer

LONDON - Novak Djokovic put the finishing touch to a magnificent season by beating Roger Federer 6-3 6-4 to win the ATP World Tour Finals on Sunday for the fifth time in his career. The Serbian underlined his complete dominance of men’s tennis with another immaculate display to become the first player in the year-ending tournament’s 46-year history to triumph four times in a row.

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BANDUNG - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has reminded entre-preneurs to pay taxes, so that the government’s efforts to develop infrastructure can run optimally and smoothly.

“Whatever your business is, 25 percent of it belongs to the government, so please pay the taxes,” the vice president said while opening the 7th National Congress of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) in Bandung, West Java, on Monday.

Kalla expressed hope that the business community would become better, and the revenue in the form of taxes would increase.

He remarked that without taxes, the government will not have sufficient funds to develop infrastructure.

“Do not protest about the high interest rates and lack of ports, among others, as all of it comes from taxes and not from the pockets of Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla. Without taxes, the government cannot do anything,” Kalla emphasized.

The government has given tax remissions and is also seeking tax amnesty, which is currently being discussed in the parliament.

Tax amnesty is assessed to be beneficial for Indonesia, par-ticularly by contributing in the form of tax revenues. The last tax amnesty program was implemented in 1984.

“This means that the entrepreneurs should pay taxes immedi-ately without complaining about bad roads or the lack of other infrastructure,” the vice president stated. (ant)

“This year we have tried to mainstream maritime cooperation in the form of EAS Statement on Regional Maritime Cooperation and this is very strategic for Indonesia. With the statement, we will promote maritime cooperation in the context of economy, while at the same time prioritizing maritime cooperation in the context of regional security and stability,” she said.

The minister said the Indonesian initiative has received support from

the United States, China, New Zea-land and Australia as well as full sup-port from all EAS member states.

She made it clear that the EAS Statement on Regional Maritime Cooperation carries five main priorities; first, developing sustain-able maritime economy; second, promoting maritime peace, stability and security; third, addressing cross border challenges; fourth, promot-ing maritime connectivity; and fifth, encouraging joint researches

involving various research institu-tions.

“So, the five cooperation pri-orities will be promoted in the context of maritime cooperation in the EAS. Once again this is our success in mainstreaming maritime cooperation in the context of EAS,” she said.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) attended the ASEAN Summit and other meetings held in Kuala Lum-pur from Saturday to Sunday. (ant)

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A jockey falls off during a traditional Barapan Kebo or buffalo races, in Taliwang, on the island of Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia November 22, 2015. Around 250 pairs of water buffalo took part in the Barapan Kebo ahead of the planting season, for prizes which included a top prize of a pilgrimage to Mecca.

VP reminds entrepreneurs to pay taxes

Indonesia encouraging maritime cooperation in East Asia

JAKARTA - Indonesia is encouraging maritime cooperation in East Asia at the 10th East Asia Summit (EAS) which is part of a series of meetings highlighting the ASEAN Summit held in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and Sunday.”At the East Asia Summit, Indonesia can eventually mainstream maritime cooperation in the EAS. I think this is an extraordinary achievement of the Indonesian diplomacy. For the first time ever, we can mainstream a maritime issue at the EAS talk or discussion,” Foreign Minister Retno P Marsudi said while accompanying President Joko Widodo at the ASEAN Summit on Sunday evening.

One Iranian man, declaring a hunger strike, stripped to the waist, sewed his lips together with nylon and sat down in front of lines of Macedonian riot po-lice.

Asked by Reuters where he wanted to go, the man, a 34-year-old electrical engineer named Hamid, said: “To any free coun-try in the world. I cannot go back. I will be hanged.”

Hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of them Syrians fleeing war, have made the trek across the Balkan peninsula hav-ing arrived by boat and dinghy to Greece from Turkey, heading for the more affluent countries of northern and western Europe, mainly Germany and Sweden.

Last week, however, Slovenia, a member of Europe’s Schengen zone of passport-free travel, declared it would only grant pas-sage to those fleeing conflict in

Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and that all others deemed “economic migrants” would be sent back.

That prompted others on the route -- Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia -- to do the same, leaving growing numbers strand-ed in tents and around camp fires on Balkan borders with winter approaching.

Rights groups have ques-tioned the policy, warning asy-lum should be granted on merit, not on the basis of nationality.

“To classify a whole nation as economic migrants is not a principle recognised in interna-tional law,” said Rados Djurovic, director of the Belgrade-based Asylum Protection Centre. “We risk violating human rights and asylum law,” he told Serbian state television.

The new measure coincides with rising concern, particularly on the political right in Europe,

over the security risk of the cha-otic and often unchecked flow of humanity into Europe in the aftermath of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris by Islamist militants in which 130 people died.

It has emerged that two suicide bombers involved in the attacks took the same trail, arriving by boat in Greece and then travelling north across the Balkans. Most of the attackers, however, were citi-zens of France or Belgium.

On the Macedonian-Greek border, crowds of Moroccans, Iranians and others blocked the railway line running between the two countries, halting at least one train that tried to cross, a Reuters photographer said.

A group of Bangladeshis had stripped to the waist and written slogans on their chests in red paint. “Shoot us, we never go back,” read one. “Shoot us or save us,” read another. (rtr)

YANGON, Myanmar — Soldiers, police and volunteers pulled body after body from the rubble Monday, as the death toll from a landslide near several jade mines in northern Myanmar reached at least 113, a local official said. More than 100 others were missing.

The collapse early Saturday in Kachin state’s mining community of Hpakant was the worst-such disaster in recent memory.

The corpses were taken to a morgue, where friends and relatives broke down as they identified the victims. Some were buried at a cemetery and others were cremated. But there were stacks of unidentified bodies wrapped in blue plastic tarps.

Kachin is home to some of the world’s highest-quality jade, and the industry generated an estimated $31 billion last year, with most of the wealth going to individuals and companies tied to Myanmar’s former military rulers, according to Global Witness, a group that investigates misuse of resource revenues.

Hpakant, 950 kilometers (600 miles) northeast of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, is the industry’s epicenter. But it remains desperately poor, with bumpy dirt roads, constant electricity blackouts and sky-high heroin addiction rates.

The accident occurred at a 60-meter (200-foot) -high mountain of earth and waste discarded by several mines.

Earlier, officials said the dead were mostly men who were pick-ing through the waste and tailings in search of pieces of jade to sell. But officials said Monday the accident occurred at about 3 a.m., burying more than 70 makeshift huts where the miners slept.

Nilar Myint, a township administrator, said that by Monday the death toll had reached 113, with more than 100 others missing. Bodies were still being pulled from the debris.

“It’s not ending. It’s still ongoing. Local people in town are getting angry, because there are just too many bodies,” she said.

After Myanmar’s former military rulers handed over power to a nominally civilian government five years ago, resulting in the lifting of many Western-imposed sanctions, the already rapid pace of mining turned frenetic. No scrap of ground, no part of daily life in Hpakant has been left untouched by the fleets of giant yellow trucks and backhoes that have sliced apart mountains and denuded once-plush landscape.

In the last year, dozens of small-scale miners have been maimed or killed picking through tailing dumps.

“Large companies, many of them owned by families of former generals, army companies, cronies and drug lords, are making tens or hundreds of millions of dollars a year through their plunder of Hpakant,” said Mike Davis of Global Witness.

“Their legacy to local people is a dystopian wasteland in which scores of people at a time are buried alive in landslides,” he said.(ap)

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Stranded Iranian migrant Hamid, 34, an electrical engineer from the Iranian town of Sanandij sits on rail tracks in front of Macedonian riot police guarding the borderline between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni November 23, 2015.

Stranded migrants block railway, call hunger strike

IDOMENI, Greece - Moroccans, Iranians and Pakistanis on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia blocked rail traffic and demanded passage to western Europe on Monday, stranded by a policy of filtering migrants in the Balkans that has raised human rights concerns.

Searchers pull bodies from rubble after Myanmar landslide

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In this photo released from Eleven Media Group taken on Nov. 22, 2015, excavators dig dump soil to search bodies of miners as workers and rescue members gather in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar.

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ABU DHABI - Rising from the desert outside Abu Dhabi, Masdar city is laying the groundwork for when the United Arab Emirates’ oil wells run dry.

Driverless electric cars shuttle between energy-saving buildings topped with arrays of solar panels.

Traditional Arabic architecture mixes with modern technology, as narrow shaded alleys run between brick-coloured buildings, focusing the wind and keeping temperatures low. On the edge of the complex, a 10-megawatt solar farm lined with photovoltaic panels provides clean energy.

First announced in 2007, Masdar city in the suburbs of Abu Dhabi has not yet become the city of 40,000 authorities promised, with only a few hundred people, mainly stu-dents, in residence.

But the complex -- which hosts the International Renewable Energy Association Agency (IRENA) and the Masdar Institute for Science and Technology -- is at the forefront of the UAE’s efforts to focus on renewables.

The company that bears its name has invested huge sums on green energy -- an unusual move for a country better known as an oil and gas producer and exporter.

Sitting on 5.9 percent of the world’s oil reserves and 3.1 per-cent of its natural gas, the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms, is a key player in the global energy market.

The discovery of commercial quantities of oil in the UAE in the late 1950s transformed the area, turning a few pearl-diving towns wedged between the Gulf and the

desert into an economic power-house.

But its rulers know the oil won’t last forever, with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan warning earlier this year that the country’s last tanker load will be exported in 50 years.

“We understood that for us to maintain our leadership in the (en-ergy) sector, we have to get into renewable, and we have done that,” Masdar chief executive officer Ah-mad Belhoul told AFP.

Nawal al-Hosany, head of sus-tainability at Masdar, said the UAE had an “ambitious” plan for “leveraging its resources from the hydrocarbon industry into this new sector.”

The UAE says it is expecting to invest $35 billion in non-hydrocar-

bon energy by 2020, including $20 billion on the Barakah 5.4-gigawatt nuclear power project.

Masdar has joined a number of clean energy projects abroad, Hosany said, investing some of the massive reserves the UAE has built up over the years.

“The UAE became the only OPEC country that not only exports oil but also exports renewable en-ergy around the world,” she said.

Masdar is a partner in the 20-megawatt Gemasolar power plant in southern Spain, the world’s first solar power station that generates electricity at night.

It also has a 20 percent share in the London Array wind power project, which has a capacity to generate 630 megawatts, enough to power nearly half a million homes in Britain.

At home, Masdar spent $600 million to build the Shams 1 plant, the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, west of Abu Dhabi, with a capacity to generate 100 megawatts.

It also supported the Solar Im-pulse bid to fly a solar-powered plane around the world in a trip that took off from Abu Dhabi in March but had to be called off in Hawaii due to a battery fault.

In total, Masdar says it is par-ticipating in projects that will eventually generate 1.5 gigawatts of power.

“Over the past five years, the UAE channelled $840 million into renewable energy projects in 25 countries,” said Thani al-Zeyoudi, the head of energy and climate change at the UAE foreign minis-try. (afp)

SINGAPORE - Oil prices fell in Asia on Monday, extending their slide as a stronger dollar and news that world stockpiles have reached a record high put pressure on futures.

Crude dived to two-month lows on Friday after the Inter-national Energy Agency, the world’s forecaster, said global commercial stocks had reached three billion barrels.

Mounting expectations the US will raise interest rates for the first time in almost a decade next month also drove the dollar higher on Monday, hurting commodities.

“Record levels of crude oil in storage with no let-up in production are likely to keep prices in a range in the coming weeks,” said Sanjeev Gupta, head of EY’s oil and gas practice for Asia-Pacific.

At around 0700 GMT, US benchmark West Texas In-termediate (WTI) for January delivery was down $1.18 at $40.72, while Brent crude for January was 82 cents lower at $43.84.

World oil prices have more than halved in the past 18 months as global production has outpaced consumption, and the IEA on Friday predicted demand will grow by a sluggish 1.2 million barrels next year.

The strengthening greenback, which got a boost over the weekend from bullish comments from a US Federal Reserve member, further hurt oil prices after three weeks of falls.

A higher greenback tends to dampen demand for dollar-denominated commodities like oil among holders of weaker currencies.

Bernard Aw, market strategist at IG in Singapore, said oil prices are unlikely to stage a comeback any time soon.

“Crude oil appears to find some bottom at current levels, although it will find it difficult to break higher as bears are clearly waiting in the folds to knock it lower each time there is a rally,” he said. (afp)

UAE channels oil money into alternative energy

Oil down in Asia on oversupply fears, strong dollar

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This Oct. 22, 2015 file photo shows destruction at Beiji oil refinery during the military operations, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq.

SINGARAJA - The initial stage of a clean water project in Eastern Buleleng is due to be finished next month, after having received IDR 42 billion from the Ministry of Public Works this year. The projects aims to address the lack of water in the region during the dry season, by creating in-frastructure that will drain water from the source in Sanih hamlet (Bukti, Kubutambahan) to six other villages in East Buleleng.

As of Sunday (Nov. 22), the initial stage of the project started in June 2015, under the Bali-Penida River Agency (BWS) is well under way with the main pipelines that run along 24 kilometres from the Air Sanih holding tank currently being laid down. A main reservoir located at Bulian village, Kubutambahan is also being built while the distribution reservoirs located at Tejakula and Bondalem (Tejakula subdistrict) and Bukti village (Kubutambahan) are also under construction. An intake building and water pump generator set are also being prepared.

CEO of the Municipality Water-works (PDAM) Buleleng, I Made Lestariana, said on Sunday (Nov. 22) that this Bali-Penida River Agency project of diverting Air Sanih Spring water to a reservoirs with a discharge capacity of 125 litters per second, will provide water to 10, 000 households in six different villages in east Bule-leng. This instead of having this water flush directly into the sea.

Technically, the water will be sucked up by a water pump, then after being processed in the uptake facili-ties will then be flowed to the main reservoir in Bulian. Using gravity, the water will then be drained to the distribution reservoirs from where it will be sent to households though the new pipeline.

“Although the project is being implemented by the Bali-Penida River Agency, we are often invited to coordinate in regards to utilization mapping and technical flow systems. This project will resolve the issue of clean water shortages often faced by residents of Eastern Buleleng and sur-rounding areas,” said Lestariana.

According to Lestariana, the bud-get for this project is being disbursed in stages. The construction of the main pipeline network and techni-cal support facilities will completed this year. Then in 2016 and 2017 the central government will disburse the next portion of the budget for a total fund worth IDR 50 billion that will go towards the installation of the distri-bution pipelines that will run from the distribution reservoirs to residential areas so that people can enjoy clean water all year round. (kmb35)

CEO of PDNKK Klungkung, I Wayan Sukadana, after the meeting with the Second Assistant for the Economy, Development and General Administration Ketut Suayadnya, the Economic Division of the Environment

Agency, the Finance Division and the Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda), said there are in a three part plan to help save the bird nest business.

The first part of the plan involves making

repairs to Goa Batu Melawang as a productive bird nest location. The second part of the plan it to develop Goa bath Melawang cave into a a conservation tourist attraction. While the third part of the plan to save the swallows, involves finding a third party to manage the site. Attempts to save the swallow nest site is being spurred on by the large potential profits that could be reaped from the bird nest selling business.

However, repairs to the Goa Batu Mela-wang cave would require as much as IDR 80 million. In addition to increasing the potential production of birds nest, the repairs would also mean that the site could be used as a conserva-tion tourist attraction as it already attracts many visitors for its shear beauty. “We propose that the cave be developed into a tourist attraction,” said Sukadana.

As for the idea of cooperating with a third party to manage the site, Sukandana said that this might be more of challenge He explained that he had already contacted PT Jasa Alam Semesta (JAS) that managed the bird nests in 2005 but they said that they were reluctant to accept the offer due to the declining number of nests in the cave and the low market price of the nests.

“In the past, bird nests could be sold for anywhere between IDR 11 million to IDR 16 million per kg, but today the highest price is about IDR 5 million and only for the best quality nests,” he added.

As for the PDNKK’s request to have repairs made to Goa Batu Melawang cave in 2016, Sukadana said that all three plans need to be looked at before a decision can be made. (dwa)

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The pedestrian must walk on the garden in Imam Bonjol area. The sidewalks is not avalable so the pedestrian have no choice and must step on the garden.

Clean water project in East Buleleng

Swallow nest business

Goa Batu Melawang cave needs repairs

SEMARAPURA - The Nusa Kertha Kosala (PDNKK), a local company owned by the district of Klungkung District is concerned about the future of the swallow nest business, and so they have requested for the government’s support in improving the poor condition of Goa Batu. Goa Batu Melawang provides the particular eco-system needed for swallows to build their nests, but because of the poor condition of the cave, the safety of nest collectors is at risks as is the bird population itself.

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Batu Melawang Cave in Nusa Penida

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The patch of deep ocean south-west of Australia that Capt. Simon Hardy has determined is the most likely resting place of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will be searched through December, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is coordinating the search on Malay-sia’s behalf, said in a statement.

But Australian authorities are not being guided by the experi-enced Boeing 777 pilot’s analysis. Martin Dolan, the bureau’s chief commissioner, said the search was moving farther south within a 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) priority area because the southern hemisphere spring had made the extreme conditions in the southern ocean calmer.

“We’re aware that we’re in the area that Capt. Hardy specifies, but we’re in that area because it was next in our search sequence, and we’ve been moving progressively south because the weather is im-

proving,” Dolan said.Hardy’s theory of where Flight

370 went after it inexplicably flew far off course during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8, 2014, has been widely published in recent months. He used mathematical analysis and a flight simulator to plot the course he believed the airliner took when it vanished in one of aviation’s most baffling mysteries.

“I am fairly confident that the wreckage will be found within the next four to eight weeks,” Hardy told The Australian newspaper.

Experts directing the search have discussed Hardy’s theory with him. Hardy could not be im-mediately contacted for comment on Monday.

“There are many theories from members of the public and various independent experts and all are considered,” the bureau said in its statement, which described Hardy’s

analysis as credible.But searchers do not accept a key

aspect of Hardy’s conclusion: that whoever was flying the plane made a controlled landing at sea, which al-lowed it to sink largely intact. The only confirmed wreckage of Flight 370 to be recovered was a wing flap found on a remote Indian Ocean island in July.

Dolan said authorities still be-lieve that the final satellite transmis-sion from one of the jet’s engines indicated that it was out of fuel, meaning the plane would have plummeted into the ocean out of control and disintegrated.

Australia and Malaysia have split the cost of the search of the vast expanse of seabed that began in October last year based on satel-lite analysis of the jet’s flight for more than six hours after it went off course. The search, taking place more than 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) off the Australian coast, has so far covered 70,000 square kilo-meters (27,000 square miles). Chi-nese Premier Li Keqiang pledged an additional $14.5 million over the weekend to fund the continuing search. China lost 153 citizens in the disaster.(ap)

TOKYO — An explosion Mon-day damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured.

The Yasukuni shrine, which hon-ors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including executed war criminals, has been the target of criticism from China and South Korea, which suf-fered from Japan’s World War II atrocities and aggression.

Tokyo police said in a statement that they received a call about an explosion and smoke at Yasukuni. They said they suspected a “guer-rilla” attack, implying some kind of subversive activity, but declined to elaborate.

Firefighters were also called to the scene and found the ceiling and walls of the restroom had been damaged, said an official at the To-kyo Fire Department, who spoke on condition of anonymity. But the fire was out by the time they arrived.

It was unclear what caused the explosion, but a timing device and wirings were found near the spot of the explosion, according to Kyodo News service. Police will be reviewing footage on security cameras for clues, TBS TV news said. Footage on TV Asahi showed a bomb squad in protective gear entering the shrine premises. The person in charge of media at Yasu-kuni was not immediately available for comment.

The shrine is a focal point for lin-gering tensions with Japan’s neigh-bors over the country’s aggression before and during World War II. Some Japanese lawmakers have insisted on making official visits in the name of patriotism, while other lawmakers say such visits glorify Japan’s historical mistakes.

Emperor Akihito has not visited Yasukuni. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has also avoided making of-ficial visits over the last two years.(ap)

PARIS — Top tourism officials in Paris, one of the most visited cities in the world, are meeting to assess the impact of this month’s attacks on tourism.

Representatives from travel agencies, tour operators, hotels, restaurants as well as travel com-panies — such as Air France — plan Monday to come up with a short-term action plan to boost the industry.

The government says it will include how to tailor the marketing of Paris as a holiday destination for tourists fearful of a repeat of the at-tacks that killed 130 people.

Tourism to the French capital already took a hit earlier this year after attacks in January on a satiri-cal magazine and a Jewish market. The number of hotel stays fell 3.3 percent in the first three months of the year.(ap)

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FILE - In this March 22, 2014, file photo, Flight Lt. Jason Nichols on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, takes notes as they search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, Australia.

MH370 hunt moves to where British pilot believes it crashed

CANBERRA, Australia — The deep sea hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner has shifted to a remote part of the Indian Ocean where a British pilot has calculated that the Boeing 777 made a controlled ditching last year with 239 people aboard, officials said Monday.

Tourism officials meet in Paris to assess impact of attacks

Blast at Japan’s controversial war shrine injures no one

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Police officers stand guard outside the south gate of Yasu-kuni shrine in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. Japanese media reporting an explosion in a public restroom at Tokyo’s Yasu-kuni shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including those executed as war criminals. No one was injured.

NEGARA - Drain construction project at the border of Jembrana-Buleleng, right at Cekik toward Sumber Kelampok sacrifices a number of roadside trees. Some of the drain projects also makes small part of the West Bali National Park (TNBB). However, though having sent a letter to the TNBB, no measure has been taken for the replacement of toppled trees.

From the information, this proj-ect has been running since several months ago after the inter-district road pavement. Started from Sum-ber Kelampok area, now the proj-ect workmanship has entered the territory of Jembrana right in the Cekik forest. From observation, the toppled trees look so alarming, whereas they belong to the area of the West Bali. Actually, around the edge of the forest leading to Bule-leng is often taken advantage as a shelter by passing wild animals like monkeys and deer. As information, despite having entered the territory of Jembra na, the authority of Gili-manuk has not received a copy from Highways Construction related to the project sacrificing a number of trees.

Headman of Gilimanuk, I Gede Ngurah Widiada, told reporters on

Sunday (Nov. 22) that he already knew the project has entered the Jembrana region since last week. Indeed he has not received any letter or verbal notification from the project owner. Many traces of toppled trees are still left around the project.

The Administration Subdivision Head of the TNBB, Wiryawan, told reporters that his office has received a letter related to the project managed by the Directorate General of Highways, Ministry of Public Works. According to him, the project has indeed entered the territory of the TNBB but it is only a small part, the rest belongs to the authority of the West Bali Forest Management Unit (KPH). When being checked, the toppled trees are not native to the TNBB endemic tree, but shade trees at the roadside. Later his office will make coordi-nation regarding the mechanism of tree replacement, whether they are directly replaced or with other management.

As the observation, although it is a project, the trees toppled along the roadside between the jungles look less beautiful. Moreover, they are around the conservation area. (kmb26)

“According to plan, on Novem-ber 27th, there will be celebrations of Saraswati day held in a number of cities, that will involved perfor-mances such as Balinese poetry readings, quoted from a number of Kekawin manuscripts,” said Anak Agung Gde Rai, owner of the Agung Rai Museum of Arts (ARMA).

Poetry readings for Saraswati Day will take place in Tokyo, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Wash-ington DC and New York as well as at the ARMA in Ubud. The poems taken from the Kekawin palm-leaf manuscripts of Bali, will be read in three different languages: Balinese, Indonesian and the local language of the country where the readings

will be held. “Along with the kekawin quotes,

poems will also be taken from a number of literary works related to the themes of environment, culture, as well as expectations,” explained Agung Rai.

He added that the poetry reading should serve as a moment for the government of Indonesia to reflect on their lack of attention to preserv-ing local values and -in this case Balinese language in particular, as witnessed by the government’s decision to eliminate Balinese language class from the school cur-riculum. “Yes it strikes as this deci-sion, as Bali’s language has been one of the foundations of Bali’s culture, that is hundreds of years

old and which has become a tourist attraction. Rather than seeking to preserve it, the central government has in effect sought to eliminate it. It’s quite bizarre,” he said.

Agung Rai hopes that the gov-ernment is in fact interested in pre-serving local values and Balinese language in particular and that this year’s global Saraswati celebra-tions will serve as a milestone in the initial move towards making Saraswati day a national holiday commemorating the values of local wisdom. “In other words, Saras-wati day celebrations are not just about preserving Balinese language through poetry readings, but are meant to honor and help preserve the local languages of each region in Indonesia -through poetry read-ings. Saraswati represents universal knowledge which can be delivered through a variety of languages,” said Agung Rai.

He also added that he received a letter from the Embassy of the Re-public of Indonesia in Washington DC, asking him to bring a number

of paintings depicting the Goddess Saraswati as a symbol of education, science and culture.

“Based on the letter from the Embassy in Washington DC, I will hold a five day exhibition in New

York -from November 27th until December 1rst that will feature the works of a number of artists from Batuan village that have shown outstanding achievements,” added Agung Rai. (kmb35)

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Dokar, one of traditional transportation that is still being used in Denpasar. The traditional vehicle often attracts tourist who are enjoying their time in the city.

Drain workmanship at border area ‘sacrifices’ trees

Cultural preservation: Saraswati day celebrated in six countries

GIANYAR - There is no doubt that people from around the world are interested in Balinese culture as evidenced by many things, including Saraswati day celebrations that will take place simultenesouly in six major cities on November 27, 2015. This event should serve to remind the Government of Indonesia to pay attention to and honour its local cultures instead of doing things like removing Balinese language from the curriculum of schools n the island.

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The Hindus pray in Jagatnatha Temple to celebrate Sarawasti Day in Denpasar

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MIAMI - About half of the 15,000 tree species in the Amazon -- the world’s most diverse forest -- are threatened by deforestation, an international study said on Friday.

The report lays bare the destruc-tion of a vibrant and sprawling ecosystem often referred to as the lungs of the earth because trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

“At least 36 percent and up to 57 percent of all Amazonian tree spe-cies are likely to qualify as globally threatened,” said the study in the journal Science Advances, which used criteria from the respected

International Union for Conserva-tion of Nature (IUCN).

Under a business-as-usual sce-nario, about 40 percent of the original Amazon forest would be destroyed by 2050, the research-ers found.

But with stricter conservation measures, they said, that number could be halved.

The good news is that sig-nificant populations of endangered trees survive in protected areas of the Amazon, the researchers said.

Still, they added, only constant vigilance over valuable trees like the Brazil nut -- 63 percent of which could otherwise be lost by

2050 -- will help preserve the Ama-zon’s status as a major carbon sink, a potent natural asset in helping slow global climate change.

The cacao tree could decline by 50 percent within 35 years under a business-as-usual scenario, and the acai palm could decline 72 percent, the study found.

Already, the prized mahogany tree is considered commercially extinct, no longer a part of the Amazon’s forest economy.

The report was based on forest surveys across the Amazon as well as maps of current and projected deforestation. Researchers from 21 countries contributed.

“It’s a battle we’re going to see play out in our lifetimes,” said lead author Hans ter Steege of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands.

“Either we stand up and protect these critical parks and indigenous reserves, or deforestation will erode them until we see large-scale extinctions.”

The largest part of the Amazon is in Brazil, which last year cut carbon emissions slightly through reduced deforestation, said a sepa-rate report by the NGO Climate Observatory.

Still, Brazil’s emissions were at the second-highest level in six

years.In Colombia, meanwhile, the

government Friday reported that deforestation is also on the rise -- up 16 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year -- particularly in the Amazon region.

The main causes are illegal mining, the felling of trees for farmland or the growing of coca leaves and fires due to drought, said the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies.

About 45 percent of the 2014 deforestation took place in Colom-bia’s Amazon region, the institute said. (afp)

October’s temperature was the most above-normal month in history. It was 1.76 degrees Fahrenheit (0.98 degrees Celsius) above the 20th-century average.

“A complete blowout,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. “This year is going to be an all-time record-breaker.”

This was the eighth month this year when a heat record was set, with only January and April not setting records. That’s a record number of broken records in any year. Records go back to 1880.

Blunden and other scientists blame a potent and strengthening El Nino on top of accelerating man-made global warming.

“This is just a new normal,” Blunden said. “I don’t know what really else to call it.”

Nearly every team that measures temperatures found that October 2015 was a record, including NASA, the Japanese Meteorological Agency, Uni-versity of California at Berkeley and University of Alabama at Huntsville, which measures the upper air using satellites, Blunden said.

Record heat was found in Australia, southern Asia, parts of western North America, much of central and southern Africa, most of Central America and north-ern South America, according to NOAA.

It’s also the hottest January through October for Earth on record, along with the hottest consecutive 12 months on record.

Given that the El Nino continues to strengthen and how much warmer 2015 is than previous years, Blunden said “it is virtually just impossible that we will not break the record” for the hottest year. That record was set in 2014. Since the year 2000, global monthly heat records have been broken 32 times, yet the last time a monthly cold record was set was in 1916. (ap)

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This graphic provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows land and ocean tem-peratures for October 2015. Even for a record breaking hot year for Earth, October stood out as absurdly warm. The hottest October on record by a third of a degree over the old mark, a large margin for weather records.

Absurdly hot October as Earth sets 8th heat record this year

WASHINGTON — Even in a record-breaking hot year for Earth, October stood out as ab-surdly warm. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that last month globally was 58.86 degrees (14.98 degrees Celsius). That’s the hottest October on record by a third of a degree over the old mark, “an incredible amount” for weather records, said NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden.

Half of Amazon tree species in danger

UBUD – Life’s Better in Boardshorts; but more than that, it’s all about sharing the good vibes all around. Introducing the brand’s newest footprint in Ubud, this is Billabong’s second concept store that is in partnership with Bali Retailindo Lestari.

Located approximately 1km away from the famous Puri Saren Ubud (Ubud Palace), the new space spans 57m2 in floor space, and is fitted accordingly to all of Billabong’s new stores opened globally: new sig-nature surfboard ceiling, a combination of wood and clean white brick walls, fixtures and panels that not just highlights the brand’s assortment of garments and accessories, but also its award-winning #LifesBetter-inBoardshorts and #ABikiniKindaLife campaigns.

“Ubud is a flourishing tourist destination because of its beautiful landscapes and culture”, says Dessy Sudi-artha, Managing Director of Bali RetailIndo Lestari.

She adds, “Pair that with a brand (Billabong) that understands the lifestyle, we are confident of the potential of the new store.”

Besides playing house to the brand’s sizable prod-uct scope of garments and accessories, also available in the store is the exclusive Billabong TEAM Member-ship programme. This Membership entitles members of the programme to a host of exclusive promotions throughout all participating concept stores in Asia – more specifically, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, China, and the Middle East. (r)

“Such wrong decisions become a justification for the the accelera-tion of capitalist interests that are gripping the sacred areas of South Bali. The ecological impact of the mistake in allowing this deci-sion to stand will cause damage to the coral reefs and the verdant mangroves will disappear,” said Rahyuda.

During a focus group discus-sion (FGD) entitled “Opening People’s Aspirations to Benoa Bay Revitalization” held by the depart-ment of Post Graduate Studies at the Udayana University in coop-eration with the ITDC, Nusa Dua,

Rahyuda added that the waving sea grass that we now see at low tide will also disappear as will diving and snorkelling activities and small scale fishermen will loose their livelihood as many marine species will be eliminated by the project.

What is more, the people of Bali have no need or interest in such a mega project. “People are well aware that mega projects like this only benefit corporations and a small group of people, while the only thing that the people of Bali get form such projects are tear drops from the environmental dam-age that they cause,” he said.

Rahyuda went on to say that if the leaders of Bali were smart and wise, they would understand that the kinds of development projects are needed by Bali are both physi-cal and non-physical and need to all be based on the principles of Tri Hita Karana (THK). THK prin-ciples runs contrary to the greed of large building development projects and prioritizing capital interests above all else as the key to everything.

Networking Program Manager of KKP Bali, I Made Iwan Dew-antama, explained a number of reasons why the Benoa Bay recla-

mation project that covers an area of 700 hectares must be rejected. Among the reasons that he gave were the fact that Benoa Bay serves to regulate the flow of water from land and also hat that the Grand Forest park in Benoa Bay serves as a green belt for Bali.

Benoa Bay was formed by the confluence of volcanic soil and coral islands and it has become the habitat for an important ecosystem that includes fish seaweed and seahorses. Also, many sacred sites are located in Benoa Bay such as temples and loloan (estuaries).

“Bali must become a part of the archipelagic solution, by having strong regional bylaws regrading spatial planning (RTRWP) and a strong RZWP3K. Bali’s coastal governance should be in line with the concept of nyegara-gunung (seaward-mountainward) and sad kahyangan (sacred sites). Also

Balinese people need to be united in order to realize a prosperous Bali,” he said.

Chairman of the Tourism Re-search Consortium of Udayana University, Agung Suryawan Wiranatha, Ph.D., added that the development of tourism in Bali needs to be distributed throughout the island, not just focused in the south. There needs to be politi-cal on the part of our Provincial Government to organize invest-ments in tourism that are directed outside of Bandung, Denpasar and Gianyar. “The moratorium that has been placed on creating any more star hotels in Denpasar, Badung and Gianyar needs to be respected and extended over the next five years so that quality tour-ist accommodations and facilities can become more evenly spread in other regions of Bali,” said Wiranatha. (kmb32)

Benoa Bay reclamation, wrong decision

MANGUPURA - Director of Management for Post Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Business Economics at Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, recently said that the increasingly large gap between the interests of the people of Bali and the interests of unscrupulous local and national leaders is widening as decisions to develop mega projects on the island have been wrongly given permission. Revision to the status of Benoa Bay as conservation zone into a utilization zone, as stated by Presidential Decree No.51/2014 for example, is a serious threat to Bali.

Billabong opens its second concept store in Ubud

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Billabong’s second concept store that is in partnership with

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Unfortunately, due to long journey and took sev-eral days, Pandita Keling arrived in Gelgel in dishev-eled condition where his clothes were ragged like a beggar. In such clothes, no one in the kingdom believed in him, so Pandita Keling was forcibly evicted and hu-miliated. After that, Pandita Keling went on a quiet place in South Denpasar known as Sidakarya village.

The ceremony held by Dalem Waturenggong did not bring in blessing, failed and even caused disasters.

All offerings became rotten and rats swarmed the rotten offerings. Moreover, the rats destroyed crops more severely so that all farmers became restless.

Through his meditation, Dalem Waturenggong knew who condemned the magni-tude of the ceremonies. He then sent Arya Tangkas to pick up Pandita Keling who was still living in a quiet place (Suwung) which is now known as Sidakarya village.

The king apologized and invited Pandita Keling

to participate in officiating over the ceremony. Even, he got the final session so the ceremony became sida (endowed). To many people, this procession is then known as the finalizing Sidakarya.

Sidakarya mask has the function to accomplish vari-ous rituals such as deva yaj-na (such as ngenteg linggih, pedudusan agung), bhuta yajna (such as tawur agung, caru wrehaspati kalpa) and rishi yajna, excludes the manusha yajna that does not apply the Sidakarya mask.

It is believed that without performing the Sidakarya mask a ritual will result in obstacles, such as causing anxiety in the mind.

Especially for Sida-karya mask dancer, it had some rules to be followed. Failing which, the danc-ers would surely get a risk because from the making of Sidakarya mask to its performance, it had rules to be complied with such as choosing certain wood, starting on auspicious day and giving initiation with special ritual. (kmb)

In another effort to protect the intellectual property rights of the Balinese, nine ‘cultural products’ have been selected to be officially registered with UNESCO as world cultural heritages of Indonesia in November. The cultural products in question are all dances from Bali: the ritual Baris Dance, Rejang, San-ghyang, Sidakarya Mask, Wayang Wong, Gambuh, Barong, Legong Kraton and Joged Bumbung. “These nine Balinese dances are already listed as the Cultural Heritage of Indonesia. The Indonesian government however also wants the status of these dances to be upgraded to “World Cultural Heritage”. With the UNESCO’s recognition, no other country can claim these as their property,” said Beratha.

Given the staggering number of arts that are unique to Bali, Beratha explained that they are prioritizing the recording and registration of anonymous art forms that are widely practiced by the people of Bali. As for works of art whose creators are identified, especially those that are relatively new, the Culture Agency is hoping that the artists will take it upon themselves to register for copyright. Although they are certainly ready to facilitate this process, given that certainly not all Balinese artists understand the process of copyright registration.

“Considering that there have been some cases of different countries claiming the same arts as their own, the Bali Culture Agency has been inspired to disseminate information about the importance of copyright registration for and to Balinese artists. It is no longer enough just to create works of art, they need to be copyrighted to avoid being claimed by other parties. Presently only very few artists and artisans in Bali are both aware and willing to legally protect their creations,” he said. (ian)

It would appear that very few Balinese artists are interested in register-ing their art works with the authorities so as to obtain copy rights. For-mer Rector of the Indo-nesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar, Prof. Dr.

I Wayan Rai S recently stated that as a result these artworks become an easy target for piracy.

Addressing the question of why it is that Balinese artists would be reluctant to register for copyright -despite the obvious ben-

efits Prof. Rai suggested that it was perhaps due in large part to the fact that the process of registering for copyright is too compli-cated, costly and lengthly. “Herein lies the importance of the local government including the Bali Culture

Agency district/municipal culture agencies across Bali to facilitate the copy-right registration process for Balinese artists, includ-ing setting aside a budget to subsidize and protect our collective interests,” he suggested. (ian)

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Sidakarya mask

History of Sidakarya maskThe story began in the reign of Dalem Waturenggong in Gelgel, when he held a grandiose ceremony

at Besakih many priests were invited to officiate over the ceremony. There was a priest (Brahmin) from Keling who was not invited but would like to get involved in officiating over the ceremony. The intention was based on kinship between Keling in Java and Gelgel Bali.

Balinese artists reluctant to register for copyright

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Balinese dancer performed Barong Dance. Barong dance is one of nine ‘cultural products’ that have been selected to be officially registered with UNESCO as world cultural heritages of Indonesia in November.

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“Technically, the matter does not only rest with the official environmental impact analysis (Amdal) and that should be clearly stated. For a long time I have been proposing that it is not just the Amdal that needs to be taken into consideration. Other specifications also need to be looked at,” said the former President dur-ing a press conference about the simultaneous regional elections that was held at the office of the PDI-P Bali, on Sunday (Nov. 22).

Megawati added that the first thing that needs to be considered in terms of the Beoa Bay rec-lamation plan, is the shifting of seawater. The reclamation would have major impacts on the marine ecosystem including coral reefs, fish and plankton and would also affect wind currents.

According to Megawati, such specific things need to be considered in great detail. This reclamation would cause many changes, particularly in the area of Benoa Bay. “But it should not be written that Mrs. Mega disproves of reclamation - this is not what I am saying. I am saying that reclamation needs to adhere to environmental regulation and socio-economic benefits need to be looked at as well to see if they would be valuable to the people of Bali, in the case of reclamation in Bali,” she emphasized.

During the same press conference, member of the House of Representatives from PDI-P, Rieke Diah Pitaloka, spoke of the national tourism strategic area (KSPN). She saying

that PDI-P cadres in Commission X have been fighting for the aspirations of Balinese people regarding the KSPN. In particular the inclusion of Besakih, Mount Agung and the surrounding areas in the KSPN. which they have been at-tempting to have excluded from the Annex of Government Regulation No. 50/2011.

“This regulation includes having respect for traditions so the inclusion of these areas was rejected based on the input of the Balinese com-munity. Regarding the reclamation plan, as Mrs. Mega already affirmed, it must comply with the rules, pay attention to the environmental ecosys-tem and so on,” explained Rieke. (kmb32)

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MIAMI - Colombia-born film star Sofia Vergara, America’s highest-paid TV actress, tied the knot Sunday in what the entertainment world called the celebrity wedding of the year.

The “Modern Family” star pledged her eternal love to fellow actor Joe Manganiello at “The Breakers” a swank Palm Beach resort, before of a gathering of friends and family, the culmination of a weekend-long wed-ding celebration.

Vergara posted photos from her nuptials on Instagram, including various pictures showing the cur-vaceous 43-year old actress in her torso-hugging, strapless lace bridal gown with plunging neckline.

She carried a bouquet of white orchids and wore her famous flowing mane loose, aside from a jeweled clip which pinned it to one side.

Among the stars at her nuptials were Hollywood’s Reese Wither-spoon, Channing Tatum and the cast

of her hit television show “Modern Family.” Vergara’s son from a previ-ous marriage, Manolo, 23, walked her down the aisle.

For the past few years, the Co-lombian-born bombshell has been America’s top-earning TV star.

In 2014, Forbes magazine esti-mated she made, $37 million, consid-erably more than the top paid actor, Ashton Kutcher, who earned some $26 million.

Vergara reportedly makes $325,000 an episode for “Modern Family,” but earns much more from endorsements including being the face of Diet Pepsi.

Manganiello is famous for his roles in the hit movie “Magic Mike” and the TV series “How I Met Your Mother.”

The couple met about a year and a half ago, and got engaged last December during a Hawaiian vaca-tion. (afp)

The Canadian singer sang Edith Piaf’s classic “Hymne a l’Amour” (“Hymn to Love”) in French at the star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles, which went ahead barely a week after the assault on a con-cert hall and other civilian targets across Paris.

In front of a screen flashing im-ages of Paris that culminated with the Eiffel Tower in the French flag’s tricolor, Dion sang the song of lost love as some members of the audi-ence were seen in tears.

Dion was introduced by the actor and musician Jared Leto, who re-called playing with his band Thirty

Seconds to Mars earlier this year at the historic Bataclan theater that saw the heaviest death toll in the November 13 attacks.

The tribute was a rare somber note in the made-for-television gala, although the electronic producer Skrillex also referred to world turmoil as he accepted an award for his work with pop celebrity Justin Bieber.

“There is so much negative stuff going on in the world, so it’s up to us to be positive,” Skrillex said of musicians’ role.

The American Music Awards are designed as a glitzy extravaganza and, unlike the more prestigious Grammy

Awards which will take place in Feb-ruary, the winners are determined by voting from fans rather than the music industry. For the second straight year, British boy band One Direction won Artist of the Year.

Pop superstar Taylor Swift won three awards, more than anyone else, including favorite album for her blockbuster “1989.”

Ariana Grande, the child star turned arena-packing pop singer, beat out Swift for favorite female pop or rock artist.

The 22-year-old, initially at a loss for words, thanked her gray-haired grandmother who had been sitting next to her in the audience. “I think I owe a lot of this to my nonna,” Grande, who is of Italian descent, said in reference to her grandmother. (afp)

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Niall Horan, from left, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, and Harry Styles of One Direction accept the award for artist of the year at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sun-day, Nov. 22, 2015, in Los Angeles.

Celine Dion leads music world in mourning Paris

LOS ANGELES - Celine Dion on Sunday led the music industry in an emotional tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks, as the American Music Awards heard appeals for a peaceful world.

Colombian bombshell Vergara, actor Joe Manganiello tie the knot

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IN AUGUST 2009, the Pen-det Dance, cre-ated by a Ba-linese artists, was claimed

as a Malaysian heritage through a

tourism advertisement that read: “Malaysia Truly Asia” showing this dance. The Reog Dance of Ponorogo was appropriated in a similar manner before that. Such cases shocked the Indonesian arts scene and have brought to light the fact that our governments need to take action to protect our arts from such appropriation. Many fear that if nothing is done, dances such as Bali’s Legong, Kecak, Barong, Wayang Wong and others could be “stolen” by other countries in a like manner or worse.

Head of the Bali Culture Agen-cy, Dewa Putu Beratha, underlines the fact that given that so many art works in Bali are created anony-mously, it is all the more important that local governments step in to protect the intellectual property rights of Balinese artists as soon as possible, to avoid having these works claimed by unauthorized parties.

“The Bali Culture Agency understands this risk very well, and so we have been working in collaboration with the Direc-tor General of Culture in the Ministry of Education and Cul-ture to collect data concerning 800 artistic and cultural works and objects that were created by Balinese people, including dances, gamelan compositions, culinary dishes, paintings, handi-craft products, weavings and so on. The data collection process should be complete by the end of the year,” said Beratha.

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Balinese arts risk being stolen

The file photo shows dancers per-formed during demonstration to re-ject reclamation plan on Benoa Bay

that held in Renon, Denpasar.

Benoa Bay reclamation plan

Mega says environmental issues must be considered

DENPASAR - Chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Megawati Soekarnoputri, finally spoke out about the Benoa Bay recla-mation plan. Although, the fifth President of the RI did not expressly support or reject the plan to backfill 700 hectares of the bay area, Megawati did stress that any reclamation plan needs to pay particular attention to environmental issues.

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