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Monday, April 20, 2015 16 Pages Number 87 7 th Year e-mail: [email protected]online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST Page 13 Page 6 News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2my- radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali. The number of rooms available in the richest county in Bali has ballooned to 61,206 rooms. There are 98 star hotels that account for 16,360 rooms. In 2009 there were 505 non-star hotels, but by 2014 this number had already increased to 855 hotels with a total of 34,815 rooms. The problem is that elite area ac- commodations do not buy there wa- ter from the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM), but instead drill into the water table (ABT). If there are more parge scale projects, such as the mega project proposed for Benoa Bay, the ground water will most certainly be severely depleted. Secretary General of the Indo- nesia Hotel and Restaurant Asso- ciation (PHRI) of Badung Chapter, Gusti Kade Sutawa, argues that a water crisis will obvioussly have an impact on the sustainability of tourism. For this reason, he hopes there will be no more mega projects built in South Badung. “We know the area is already over saturated with hotels, so building anymore poses a threat to water sources, because nearly all such projects tap into the groundwater,” said Kade Sutawa when contacted over the weekend. According to Sutawa, tourism industry players in South Badung have been trying to reduce their use of underground water by increasing the amount of water that they get from the Municipal Waterworks. A number of five-star accommo- dations have been managing their waste water so that it can be reused. “The tourism industry has been using this breakthrough method (of recycling waste water-Ed),” he said. However, he added that the pro- cessed water has yet to be used for bathing, cooking and drinking be- cause of the negative connotations associated with such water. “Processed waste water is only intended for watering lawns and for the fire hydrants. It has not been used for drinking water because it comes from urine and other waste, so it is inappropriate for human consumption,” he explained. Sutawa, who is also Operations Manager for the Puri Saron Group, hopes that the government is pre- paring regulations to prevent any- more hotels from going up. “If the number of hotel rooms continues to rise, it is not impossible that South Badung will face a drought. If this happens, tourism will go bankrupt,” he predicted. A member of the Badung Tour- ism Promotion Board (BPPD), I Putu Anom, said that Bali’s car- rying capacity for tourism, has been noted in a study made by the Center for Tourism Research at Udayana University in 2000. “The number of hotel rooms that the study predicted up until 2010 has been far exceeded. A water short- age has occurred due to the rampant development of the tourism sector as well as housing construction in general,” he explained. This Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Intellectual Association (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, suggests that the government conducts a study about the carrying capacity of Bali, so that development can be done with proper planning and in relation to the results of such a study. “Currently a water crisis has already hit South Bali. Therefore, the government needs to exercise extreme caution in issuing any more permits for accommodations, particularly for projects that require lots of water and land,” he said. In the meantime, the Regent of Badung A.A. Gde Agung said that he has arranged for clean water to be supplied to meet the demands of people in South Badung. The clean water service of Penet River has been running properly through funding assistance from the central government, while the pipeline construction is being financed by the province of Bali and Badung County. The development of this drinking water provision system (SPAM) is meant to meet the needs for water in South Badung. “The multi-year project has not been fully completed as it still faces constrainst in the matter of the pipeline installa- tion. After completion, it will allow for 300 liters of water per second. South Badung requires a total of 150 liters,” he explained. Additionally, the government of Badung is also building a clean water facility at Tegeh Sari. Hope- fully, South Badung can start enjoy- ing this clean water in April 2016. (kmb27) Rapid growth of hotel rooms in South Badung triggers wasteful use of underground water. Con- sequently, it is not impossible for the area relied to produce regionally generated revenue (PAD) will be hit by water crisis. More hotels in South Badung threat of water crisis MANGUPURA - The increasing number of hotel rooms in South Badung, and the groundwater depletion that they bring, means that this region, which has been relied on to produce “re- gionally generated revenue” (PAD) will be hit by water crisis. IBP/Eka Adhiyasa South Korean police question dozens after violent ferry protest Indian farmers protest gov’t plans to ease land acquisition Page 8 Messi scores 400th goal for Barcelona in 2-0 win vs Valencia
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The “Iron Man” and “Shakespeare in Love” star was challenged by ce-lebrity chef Mario Batali to live on the equivalent of the average US govern-ment food stipend for low-income families. The goal was to raise funds and public awareness for the Food Bank For New York City, which pro-vides millions of free meals to New Yorkers in need.
With $29, Paltrow filled her grocery basket with a healthy-looking mix of eggs, black beans, lettuce, kale, a tomato, some avocados and corn tortillas.
“As I suspected, we only made
it through about four days, when I personally broke and had some chicken and fresh vegetables (and in full transparency, half a bag of black licorice),” she wrote on her Goop.com blog Thursday.
Giving herself a C minus for her ef-forts, Paltrow blamed income inequal-ity between men and women for the difficulties that “hardworking moth-ers” face in feeding their families.
Paltrow, a mother of two, was seen Tuesday at a Los Angeles film promotion event that featured with an $80-a-head prix fixe menu -- although it’s unclear if she ate from it, the E!
showbiz network reported.One in seven Americans, or 46
million people, live on what the US government officially calls the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The US Depart-ment of Agriculture, which oversees SNAP, puts the weekly cost of food for a young family of four at between $151 to $247.
If Paltrow, 42, was trying to prove the near-impossibility of living on food stamps alone, the point was missed by many critics on social media. “Looks like Paltrow did some conscious un-coupling from her food stamp week,” snickered one cynic on Twitter, riffing off the way she and Coldplay front-man Chris Martin labeled their 2014 divorce. (afp)
CLEVELAND — Ringo Starr was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a little help from one of his famous friends. The mop-topped drum-mer who kept the beat for the Beatles, Starr was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on Saturday night during a ceremony jammed with scintillating performances and touching moments.
Starr was the last of the Beatles to be inducted for his individual work, getting in after bandmates Paul Mc-Cartney, John Lennon and George Harrison. He was always the fourth Beatle — John, Paul, George ... and Ringo — but now he’s been immortal-ized as a frontman.
Starr was inducted along with Green Day, underground-icon Lou Reed, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, soul singer-songwriter Bill Withers, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The “5’’ Royales.
The 74-year-old Starr was inducted by McCartney, and then stepped to the podium and said: “My name is Ringo and I play drums” — as if anyone didn’t know.
He was then joined on stage by Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh on “It Don’t Come Easy” before McCartney came out to play bass, the two living Beatles jamming again, to “A Little Help From My Friends.”
With plenty of punk attitude and energy, Green Day thrashed its way into the Rock Hall. The Bay Area trio, which formed as teenagers and helped make punk rock radio friendly in the 1990s, briefly turned the star-studded event into one of their high-intensity shows with a powerful set of some of their most memorable hits.
From the opening power chords of “American Idiot,” Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool had the crowd at Cleveland’s Public Hall dancing in the aisles.
Brash and belligerent, Green Day blasted onto the music scene just as Seattle’s grunge sound was growing stale. The band borrowed riffs from punk pioneers like The Stooges and Sex Pistols, flavored them with some power chords and pop hooks and helped redefine a genre.
Reed was both daring and provoca-tive as a songwriter and lyricist, pushing boundaries with ballads about forbidden subjects like drugs, prostitution and sui-cide. Reed’s songs like “Walk On The Wild Side,” ‘’Vicious” and “Heroin” remain vibrant today. Although he died in 2013, Reed continues to influence a young generation of musicians touched by his rebel ways. (ap)
Billie Joe Armstrong, front, and Mike Dirnt, from Green Day perform
at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Saturday, April
18, 2015, in Cleveland.
Gwyneth Paltrow flunks food stamp challenge
LOS ANGELES - Four days proved too much for Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow when she tried to get by on a $29 food-stamp bud-get, only to give up when chicken and black licorice beckoned.
Ringo Starr, Green Day rock their way into Rock Hall
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The number of rooms available in the richest county in Bali has ballooned to 61,206 rooms. There are 98 star hotels that account for 16,360 rooms. In 2009 there were 505 non-star hotels, but by 2014 this number had already increased to 855 hotels with a total of 34,815 rooms.
The problem is that elite area ac-commodations do not buy there wa-ter from the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM), but instead drill into the water table (ABT). If there are more parge scale projects, such as the mega project proposed for Benoa Bay, the ground water will most certainly be severely depleted.
Secretary General of the Indo-nesia Hotel and Restaurant Asso-ciation (PHRI) of Badung Chapter, Gusti Kade Sutawa, argues that a water crisis will obvioussly have an impact on the sustainability of
tourism. For this reason, he hopes there will be no more mega projects built in South Badung. “We know the area is already over saturated with hotels, so building anymore poses a threat to water sources, because nearly all such projects tap into the groundwater,” said Kade Sutawa when contacted over the weekend.
According to Sutawa, tourism industry players in South Badung have been trying to reduce their use of underground water by increasing the amount of water that they get from the Municipal Waterworks. A number of five-star accommo-dations have been managing their waste water so that it can be reused. “The tourism industry has been using this breakthrough method (of recycling waste water-Ed),” he said.
However, he added that the pro-
cessed water has yet to be used for bathing, cooking and drinking be-cause of the negative connotations associated with such water.
“Processed waste water is only intended for watering lawns and for the fire hydrants. It has not been used for drinking water because it comes from urine and other waste, so it is inappropriate for human consumption,” he explained.
Sutawa, who is also Operations Manager for the Puri Saron Group, hopes that the government is pre-paring regulations to prevent any-more hotels from going up. “If the number of hotel rooms continues to rise, it is not impossible that South Badung will face a drought. If this happens, tourism will go bankrupt,” he predicted.
A member of the Badung Tour-ism Promotion Board (BPPD), I Putu Anom, said that Bali’s car-rying capacity for tourism, has been noted in a study made by the Center for Tourism Research at Udayana University in 2000. “The number of hotel rooms that the
study predicted up until 2010 has been far exceeded. A water short-age has occurred due to the rampant development of the tourism sector as well as housing construction in general,” he explained.
This Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Intellectual Association (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, suggests that the government conducts a study about the carrying capacity of Bali, so that development can be done with proper planning and in relation to the results of such a study. “Currently a water crisis has already hit South Bali. Therefore, the government needs to exercise extreme caution in issuing any more permits for accommodations, particularly for projects that require lots of water and land,” he said.
In the meantime, the Regent of Badung A.A. Gde Agung said that he has arranged for clean water to be supplied to meet the demands of people in South Badung. The clean water service of Penet River has been running properly through funding assistance from the central
government, while the pipeline construction is being financed by the province of Bali and Badung County. The development of this drinking water provision system (SPAM) is meant to meet the needs for water in South Badung. “The multi-year project has not been fully completed as it still faces constrainst in the matter of the pipeline installa-tion. After completion, it will allow for 300 liters of water per second. South Badung requires a total of 150 liters,” he explained.
Additionally, the government of Badung is also building a clean water facility at Tegeh Sari. Hope-fully, South Badung can start enjoy-ing this clean water in April 2016. (kmb27)
Rapid growth of hotel rooms in South Badung triggers wasteful use of underground water. Con-
sequently, it is not impossible for the area relied to produce regionally generated revenue
(PAD) will be hit by water crisis.
More hotels in South Badung threat of water crisis
MANGUPURA - The increasing number of hotel rooms in South Badung, and the groundwater depletion that they bring, means that this region, which has been relied on to produce “re-gionally generated revenue” (PAD) will be hit by water crisis.
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Indian farmers protest gov’t plans to ease land acquisition
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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authentic Japanese dining experience with live Teppanyaki.
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According to the Head of the Badung Livestock Agency, I Gde Asrama, this mass vaccination by the government, will reach all dogs in these two areas. “The door-to-door method is more effective than call-ing people to meet at their hamlet halls, because sometimes people feel reluctant to show up for any number of reason,” he said.
Asrama estimates that their are 55,000 dogs in Badung, most of which are in North Kuta, Meng-wi, Abiansemal, Petang and Kuta. Although there are en estimated 55,000,only 50, 00 dogs were vac-cinated. The remaining 5,000 will be
vaccinated once the 2015 budget has been amended,. “Each dog vaccina-tion costs IDR 20,000, so if we mul-tiply that by 50,000 we find that IDR 1 billion is required to conduct the mass vaccination,” he explained.
According to Asrama, South Kuta is considered a red zone or high risk zone because there are so many stray dogs. “Yes indeed South Kuta is a high risk zone, so a special team made up of officers from the county as well as the provincial livestock agency are dealing with matters there,” he explained.
The vaccination started in Dalung village. The combined budgets of
the local, provincial and central goverment’s, allotted to the mass vaccination -which will be taking place over the next three months, amounts to approximately amounts to IDR 1 billion.
“The budget worth IDR 1 bil-lion is broken down as follows: the ergional budget of Badung allocates for 30,000 dogs, the provincial gov-ernment for15,000 dogs, and the state budget for 5,000 dogs,” he said.
The vaccination program being held from April until July 2015, tar-gets all of Badung including Petang, Abiansemal, Mengwi, North Kuta, Kuta and South Kuta. (kmb27)
Environmentalist, Dr. Luh Kartini, said genuine Balinese people should view Benoa Bay as a sacred area. “We have been given directives or signs by the ancestors, based on the concept of nyegara-gunung (mountainward-seaward), which states that the oceans, mountains, seas, lakes, bays and springs must be sanctified. That which is implicitly signified by ‘sanctified’ means more than -but at the very least, that it should be maintained,” she said.
Kartini asserted that Benoa Bay will be better off if it remains a conservation area. Moreover, the people of this area believe there is a Dalem Karang Temple under the wa-ters of Benoa Bay. The flow of tourist dollars into Bali is inseparable from the traditions and faith of Hinduism related to the sanctified places.
“Secondly, all the people of Bali and the leaders of Bali must do some serious introspection. What will happen if all the proposed projects are built in Bali- including the toll road? Our society and culture is based on agriculture, so if all the arable land is built on this will obviously change everything, including the available water - Bali functions as one eco-system. The issue of our carrying capacity is very problematic,” she said. (kmb32)
NEGARA - Mangosteen farmers in Jembrana admit to feel lethargic within the past month. It is triggered by the selling price of their crops that plummeted in the market whereas this month is the harvest peak of mangosteen orchard. Farmers are forced to sell their crops at low price.
As perceived by mangosteen farmers at Pohsanten vil-lage, Mendoyo subdistrict, they claimed that the price of mangosteen dropped in the past month so that they are very upset. Mangosteen commonly sold in the range of IDR 8,000 per kg dropped to IDR 3,000 to IDR 2,500. “It dropped drastically, whereas it was once sold at IDR 15,000. Now, it’s very cheap,” said Gusti Komang Suartama, a mangosteen farmer.
According to him, it was the lowest price within the past several years as long as he harvested mangosteen. The price drop happened because the harvest of mangosteen occurred at the same time in a number of areas in Jembrana. As a result, the stock of mangosteen turned abundant and had an impact on the price.
Similar condition is also experienced by farmers at Gunung Sekar, Mendoyo Dauh Tukad and Pancaseming, Batuagung. The mangosteen orchard owners at these two villages also have the impact on the decline in the price of mangosteen. Indeed there are several types of mangosteen sought after and the price is more expensive. According to them, it is difficult to produce the demanded fruit. “At least some can meet the requirement, but the price will also drop when the price in the market drops,” said Ida Bagus Yuli, one of the farmers at Batuagung. According to him, the price decline has occurred at the collector level because the price in the market also falls. (kmb36)
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The dog vaccination is done to prevent the spread of rabies
Rabbies prevention
Government door-to-door dog vaccination
MANGUPUrA – The government of Badung through the Badung Livestock Agency performed a mass vaccination on Friday (Apr. 17). In order to reach more dogs, officers being sent out to each ham-let to go door-to-door looking for dogs to vaccinate. North Kuta and other parts of Badung are being targeted first, because of the large number of dogs in these areas.
Dr. Luh KartiniBenoa should be honoured as a
sacred area
Mangosteen of Jembrana drastically drops
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For American tourists, the dollar’s strength translates into a discount of around 25 percent compared with this time last year. China’s currency has risen some 20 percent against the euro over the past year.
And eurozone residents feel-ing the pinch from their sluggish economies are more likely to stay inside the bloc, where they won’t feel the currency changes.
That means the ingredients are in place for “a great year for tourism” in Europe, says Nick Greenfield, head of tour opera-tor relations at the London-based European Tour Operators As-sociation.
The euro has fallen against many currencies in recent times, but its drop has been particularly pronounced against the dollar. The euro was trading at $1.057 on Wednesday, having been as high as $1.40 a year ago. Tim Cooper, a global economist at BMI Research in London, says his company expects the euro and dollar to reach parity later this year.
The European Central Bank’s policies have been weakening the euro, while those of the U.S. Fed-eral Reserve have been bolster-ing the dollar. The euro has also been dragged down by fears over Greece’s debts and the bloc’s muted economic growth.
U.S. bookings to some Euro-pean countries have risen by up to 20 percent so far, European tourism officials and American travel companies report.
Lyssandros Tsilidis, president of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agents, said Greece has seen a 15-20 percent increase in reservations from the U.S. — Europe’s biggest long-haul market — compared to the same time last year. Spain saw a 12 percent increase in January and almost 19 percent in Febru-ary. Officials anticipate more growth, which they attribute to the dollar’s strength.
The exchange rate “certainly makes things easier to enjoy,” said Bob Homeyer, a retired businessman from San Diego on vacation in Madrid with his wife. “We have had some fine meals for what worked out to be reasonable prices, and our visit to the Prado Museum worked out at 7 euros ($7.48) each, which is a
AP Photo/Andrew Medichini
People line up to enter St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 15, 2015.
Weak euro adds to Europe’s vacation lure for tourists
LISBON — Vacations in Europe have a new attraction: the euro’s steep drop in value is making the continent much cheaper for tourists from across the world, especially the United States and China.
real bargain,” he said outside the Madrid landmark.
Among individual cities, Paris is a top attraction, pulling some 2 million Americans tourists last year. Officials hope to make it 2.2 million this year - and “encour-age them to spend more” while the exchange rate is favorable, says Francois Navarro, general manager of the city’s tourism committee.
If trends hold, Navarro said, Americans could well return this year to the top spot among foreign tourists in the Paris area — for the first time in about a decade. “It’ll be a big deal,” he
said.But a new generation of Chi-
nese tourists is shaking up Paris’ forecasts, Navarro said. They’re aged 25 to 40, travel alone, and spend on high-end hotels and restaurants, unlike the previous generation that wanted mainly to shop. And a Chinese visitor spends four times as much on average as Americans.
The United States is also the biggest source of tourists for Rome, which recorded a 7 per-cent increase in American visi-tors in January, the latest figures available, compared with the same month last year.
U.S. tour company Liberty Travel says its New York City outlets are reporting a year-on-year 17 percent jump in bookings to Europe. That includes marked growth in travel to usually less-visited European cities, including Dublin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid and Athens, the company said.
Vacationers have a broad vari-ety of options to choose from: the eurozone encompasses countries from Portugal to Finland and from Greece to Ireland.
Europe is now competing for American business with popular U.S. destinations, says Joseph A. Moscone, Booking.com’s senior manager for public relations in the Americas.
The company compared room
prices this year in Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Ber-lin with last year’s prices, using the euro-dollar exchange rate last month and in March 2014. It con-cluded that the average price in U.S. dollars for a night in a 4-star hotel in those cities is 21 percent lower, and down 17 percent for 5-star accommodation.
That means, Booking.com calculates, that for the price of seven days in Palm Springs, an American could spend 14 days in Barcelona.
Vacations in Europe are “not only affordable, but even a rela-tively inexpensive option in comparison to some pricier U.S. destinations,” Moscone said in emailed comments to the AP. (ap)
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Tourists listen to a guide as they stand in front of the Erech-theion temple during a visit at the Acropolis hill in Athens, on Wednesday, April 15, 2015.
AP Photo/Thibault Camus
Roberts family from left, Dan, Trevor, Tyler Mayes and Angie, from Colombus, OH. stand in front of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris, France.
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In this picture taken Friday, April 10, 2015, a South Korean tourist poses for a photo taken by her friend in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain.
BANGLI – One of the Kinta-mani dog breeders, I Wayan Dwika Pratama Putra, said on Sunday that the demand of Kintamani dog is constantly increasing over time. He explained that the demand is not only from the area of Bali, but also from outside the region, such as Jakarta. “Interested people from outside the area continue to increase,” he explained.
High appeal of Kintamani dog to be made a pet makes a number of animal lovers have an initiative to breed it in order to go interna-tional. This proliferation is also taken advantage as one of the busi-ness opportunities having a bright prospect.
He said further that people are interested in the dog due to the intelligent and brave nature of the dog. Physically, the Kintamani dog is recognized to have many privileges. In terms of its fur, this dog has a specific mane, white and thick fur as well as a tail resembling a crescent moon. Besides, the dog also has almond-like eyes with inverted v-shaped ears. In addition, the posture is straight and it tends to resemble wolf. In terms of its na-ture, Kintamani dog has intelligence exceeding the other types of dogs as well as good agility.
On the other hand, the dog origi-nating in the cool climatic region is very good at dancing and responsive when trained. It happens due to the sharp instinct possessed. “This dog is very different from the other dogs and its own characteristics become the main attraction,” said the man from Tanjung Benoa, Badung.
He added that high demand cannot be fully fulfilled. This hap-pens because he cannot breed the Kintamani dog in large numbers. However, when there is a demand, he will make collaboration with other breeders. By that way, the
According to Rumawan, gov-ernment action, particularly in matters of environmental conser-vation tend to remain theoretical or are done half-heartedly. Everyone must work together to ensure that Bali’s sources of water are main-tained.
Despite the fact that the map-ping of new water sources has been done, as of yet there has been no real or sustained effort to work on tho potential. “As a consequence,
we must now act strategically and in consideration of available water and potential alternatives, particu-larly in regards to developments in Bali,” said Rumawan.
To date, there remains extreme inequality in terms of water usage. Apparently mega projects and tour-ist accommodations are guaranteed access to water, either through the services of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) or artesian wells. Meanwhile the general
population often has to wait hours or sometimes days for access to clean water. This is another issue regarding water in Bali that needs to be addressed.
The re-orientation of develop-ment projects in general must be geared toward being genuinely eco-friendly and not just appear to be so on paper. The most press-ing issue is the environment. Ru-mawan pointed out that the clean and green program launched by the
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Water running low
Government urged to take actionDENPASAR - Many people have been concerned about the decreasing amounts of ground
water available in Bali. Udayana University academic Putu Rumawan Salain said on Sunday that it is time for the government to enact a strategy to address this problem.
government some time ago, is not enough to deal with the problem. Planting trees is certainly a good thing, however it takes years to see the results. Water sources need to be protected immediately.
The enormous amounts of water that the tourism industry uses, has depleted the water table and cause sea water intrusion. In Denpasar, sea water has already seeped as far as North Sesetan. This Udayana academic, and others, worries that with the addition of even more tourist accommodations, particu-larly big projects like the Benoa Bay reclamation project, the nega-
tive impact on the community will be even more pronounced. “We cannot just keep expanding the tourism sector without protecting out water sources. The government must be considerably stricter in is-suing building permits,” he said.
Rumawan added that it is im-perative that a critical study be done regarding water in Bali. University and government depart-ments need to work together and not shy away from collaborations so that this problem can be solved. There needs to be a recalculation of the carrying capacity of Bali now. (kmb25)
Kintamani dog increasingly in demanddesire of pet lovers to collect the dog can be fulfilled.
Other than Pratama Putra, the other breeder of Kintamani dog is I Wayan Syartama Hadi Nugraha. He also revealed similar opinion. The man who has just pursued in breeding the Kintamani dog for few years explained that the real interest to raise or breed the dog never goes out.
Through the years, the inter-ested people continue to grow. Unfortunately, he cannot transform it into a business opportunity be-cause the puppy produced remains
in a small number. “I want to focus first on the breeding. After having more puppies, I will make it into a business,” said the student of the Veterinary Department, Udayana University.
The intention of Hadi Nugraha to breed the Kintamani dog is inseparable from of his identity originating from Kintamani.
According to him, as a local community he should help to preserve the dog. He also added to be proud of doing things at the moment and would like to bring the dog to a wider sphere. “I want
to preserve this dog, so that it will not come into extinction,” he explained.
The high intention to breed the dog from cool climatic region is inseparable from the number of recognitions obtained by this Kin-tamani dog, such as the recognition as the Indonesian species by the All Indonesian Kennel Club (Perkin) in 2006. Later, in February 2012 the Kintamani dog got recognition in the Asian level from the Asian Kennel Union (AKU). After that, in 2014 the dog received another recognition from the Ministry of
Agriculture as the native dog spe-cies to Indonesia based on the de-cree of the Minister of Agriculture No.581/Kpts/SR.120/4/2014.
The existence of Kintamani dog is not only preserved by the dog lovers. The government of Bangli through the Livestock and Fisher-ies Agency also continues to work for Kintamani dog so that it can achieve the recognition from the Federation Cynologique Interna-tionale (FCI) as a dog species of the world. The effort having been made since 2011 is to perform breeding of the Kintamani dog in cage especially made by the Livestock and Fisheries Agency. (kmb45/kmb40)
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The protesters, led by relatives of victims of the ferry disaster, tried unsuccessfully to march to the presidential Blue House. More than 70 police buses used to block a downtown street leading to the Blue House were damaged or vandalized, said an official from the National Police Agency, who spoke on condition of ano-nymity, citing office rules. The official said around 80 people were being questioned over the demonstration. Twenty others who were also detained have
been released.The demonstration capped off
a week of vigils and rallies com-memorating the anniversary of the ferry disaster. A total of 304 people — most of them students from a single high school — died when the ferry Sewol sank off South Korea’s southwest coast on April 16, 2014.
There’s frustration among South Koreans who see their government as having failed to make meaningful improvements to safety standards and hold
high-level officials accountable for a disaster blamed in part on incompetence and corruption.
The relatives of the victims and their supporters have been calling for the government to ac-cept a more thorough investiga-tion into the cause of the sinking and provide a more detailed plan to salvage the ship.
Prosecutors have blamed neg-ligence by crew members, exces-sive cargo and improper storage for the sinking, along with slow rescue efforts. Relatives of the victims say the prosecution’s investigation was insufficient and have called for the establish-ment of an independent commit-tee to look more deeply into the government’s responsibility for the sinking and the high death toll. (ap)
NASHUA, New Hampshire — Republican presidential hopefuls clashed over foreign policy at a conference Saturday in New Hamp-shire — the small Northeastern state that plays an outsized role in the presidential nominating process.
Sen. Rand Paul, a first-term senator from Kentucky, lashed out at military hawks in the Republican Party. The libertarian-minded Paul, who favors a smaller U.S. footprint in the world, said that some of his Republican colleagues would do more harm in international affairs than would leading Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“The other Republicans will criticize the president and Hillary Clinton for their foreign policy, but they would just have done the same thing — just 10 times over,” Paul said on the closing day of a New Hampshire Republican conference that brought about 20 presidential prospects to the first-in-the-nation primary state. “There’s a group of folks in our party who would have troops in six countries right now, maybe more,” Paul said.
Foreign policy looms large in the presidential race as the U.S. struggles to resolve diplomatic and military conflicts across the globe. The Republican presidential class regularly rails against President Barack Obama’s leadership on the world stage, yet some would-be contenders have yet to articulate their own positions, while others offered sharply different visions.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose brother, President George W. Bush, authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq, declined to say whether he would have done anything different then. Yet Jeb Bush acknowledged a shift in his party against new military action abroad.
“Our enemies need to fear us, a little bit, just enough for them to deter the actions that create insecurity,” Bush said earlier in the con-ference. He said restoring alliances “that will create less likelihood of America’s boots on the ground has to be the priority, the first priority of the next president.” Republican hawks were well represented at the event, led by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and several lesser-known White House prospects.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham addressed the question of put-ting U.S. troops directly in the battle against the Islamic State group militants by saying there is only one way to defeat the militants: “You go over there and you fight them so they don’t come here.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz suggested an aggressive approach as well. “The way to defeat ISIS is a simple and clear military objective,” he said. “We will destroy them.”
Businesswoman Carly Fiorina said, “The world is a more dangerous and more tragic place when America is not leading. And America has not led for quite some time.”
There were few specifics offered in the conference, which came as several presidential candidates accelerate their political operations. Clinton began her campaign last week, and the emphasis on foreign affairs suggests her time as secretary of state will play prominently in the contest. (ap)
Republican hopefuls bicker over America’s role in world
AP Photo/Jim ColeRepublican presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks at the Re-publican Leadership Summit Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Nashua, N.H.
Park Dong-wook/Newsis via APIn this Saturday, April 18, 2015, photo, riot police officers spray water to disperse protesters after a rally to commemorate the first anniversary of the Sewol ferry sinking in Seoul, South Korea.
South Korean police question dozens after violent ferry protest
SEOUL — South Korean police said Sunday that they were questioning dozens of protesters after violence broke out at a rally denouncing the government’s handling of a ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people a year ago. Police used water cannons and pep-per spray to break up thousands of protesters in the capital, Seoul, on Saturday night. Dozens of police officers and protesters were injured during the demonstration.
BANGLI - The idea of carv-ing craft is usually expressed by the artists on wood or stone me-dium. However, different thing is carried out by the artist Nyoman Sukanta from Bangli. He chooses eggshell for the medium of carving. Armed with his artistic talent, this 53-year-old man is capable of processing eggshells often considered useless into a very beautiful work of art.
Met at his house on Jalan Nu-santara Bangli, Sukanta acknowl-edged that it is not easy to make the eggshell as a medium for carving artwork. As it is known, eggshell has a fragile texture so that it is required special techni-cal expertise to carve.
So far, he expresses his art talent through the medium of eggshell of cassowary, ostrich and emu (a large lightless fast-running Australian bird resem-bling the ostrich). Their eggs have a larger size than the size of chicken. Besides, in terms of hardness, they are also harder than other types of eggs. On those eggshells, he often expresses the puppetry stories with the famous Balinese carving style known to be intricate.
Although he does not open a gallery or art shop, the results of his artwork has been already known to many high officials at home and the art lovers overseas. One of them was the former In-terior Minister of the RI, Yogi S Memet. His work has been recog-nized since the New Order era.
Sukanta said that consumers wishing to have the eggshell carving of his work must make reservation in advance. In addi-tion, consumers must also bring their own raw materials. “All this time I just do the carving, while the raw materials are brought by consumers,” he explained.
To carve an eggshell, he will take for approximately one and a half months because the en-graving work is done manually without the help of machine. Ac-cording to him, manual work will result in a higher quality artwork. Although the quality of his work of art has been recognized by many high officials of the coun-try, this artist does not take much advantage. For an eggshell carv-ing, he just sets the rate of IDR 1.5 million. This rate is certainly very cheap for such a high quality artwork. (kmb40)
Confiscation of liquor belonging to class A was carried out by the officers of Buleleng Police. The targets are traders, mini market, ca-fés and bars along the road section of Lovina, Singaraja. The sales of liquor are alleged to have violated the regulation of the Minister of Trade No.06/M.DAG/PER/1/2015 on the second amendment to the Regulation of the Minister of Trade No.20/M-DAG/PER/4/2014 on the Control and Supervision against Procurement, Distribution, and Sale of Liquor. In Article II, paragraph (1) when the ministerial regulation comes into force, the certificate of seller for liquor belonging to class A (SKP-A) to minimarket and other retail stores is declared invalid. After that, the Article II, paragraph (2) states that minimarket and other retailers of liquor must have with-drawn from circulation their liquor
products belonging to class A not later than three (3) months.
The Chief of the Buleleng Police Quick Response Unit (Sabhara), I Nyoman Kartika, said the confisca-tion of hundreds of bottles of liquor belonging to class A is conducted under the rules of the Minister of Trade. Withdrawal of the liquor can actually be done from Thurs-day (Apr. 16). Any minimarket known to still sell liquor belonging to group A should be secured and then taken to Buleleng Police. “We refer to the applicable rules. Liquor of the group A has to be withdrawn from circulation. We found many locations distributing or selling the liquor without the support of administration and they will be given a misdemeanor,” said Kartika, Friday (Apr. 17).
His party added that field exami-nation will still be performed. Such
condition should be understood by society, so that arguments about the rules must not occur in the field. “We continue to conduct operations against the liquor of group A. The rules are clear and we will continue to discipline until further provi-sion is issued. We can understand the complaints of the traders,” he added.
In the meantime, a trader of liquor at minimarket, Made Rudi Artana, considered to have been aggrieved over the application of the regulation of trade minister that has seized the liquor sold every day to foreign guests at Lovina tourist area. With his wife, Luh Wiwik, Ar-tana insisted on requesting tolerance to police officers. He argued to have communicated to the integrated service office (KPT) of Buleleng re-lated to the sale of liquor at Lovina. “Obviously I object, I’ve asked to the KPT if selling liquor of group A is allowed at Lovina. As a result, I’m now losing and get information if the distributing company of the liquor will back up in court,” he said. (kmb34)
Cassowary eggshell carving in Bangli
IBP/SuasrinaCassowary eggshell carving
IBP/FileThe officers are inspecting a store that usually sell liquor
Liquor wholesalers complain on confiscation
SINGARAJA - Traders of drink at Lovina tourist area complained about the confiscation of their drinks belonging to group A, whose circulation is banned by the Minister of Trade. The traders argued to have make communication to local relevant agency in Buleleng County to follow up on the liquor banned by the government.
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BERLIN - Thousands of pro-testers took to the streets in Europe on Saturday to oppose the world’s biggest free trade pact between the US and European Union.
Resistance to the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Invest-ment Partnership (TTIP) is fierce in Germany, with tens of thou-
sands joining demonstrations across the country, a spokesman for lobby group Attac Germany said.
In southern Germany’s Munich alone, 23,000 people joined the protest, while 2,000 turned up in Leipzig, 1,000 in Stuttgart and 700 in Frankfurt.
Demonstrations in other Eu-ropean cities also drew protest-ers, including 2,000 in Brussels, 1,000 in Madrid and Helsinki, and around 300 in Warsaw and Prague.
The protests came as US and EU officials are set to resume a new round of negotiations in New
York on Monday.The EU-US trade deal would
not just slash the already low trade tariffs the two parties share but would also harmonise regula-tions to an unprecedented degree, affecting goods and services as far-ranging as Roquefort cheese and accounting.
But campaigners in Europe are convinced that powerful interests are selling the consumer short in the secret negotiations.
The most contentious part of the deal includes a clause which allows corporations to sue govern-ments in tribunals that are above national law. (afp)
The Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, held a series of talks with finance officials on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the 188-nation IMF and World Bank, trying to settle his country’s latest crisis. Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, said it was “urgent” to resolve the dispute between Greece and its creditors.
A default, he said, would send the global economy into “uncharted waters” and the extent of the pos-sible damage would be hard to estimate. He told reporters that he did not want to even contemplate the chance of a default.
Earlier in the week, IMF Man-aging Director Christine Lagarde rejected suggestions that her agency might postpone repayment deadlines for Greece. On Saturday, she cited constructive talks with Varoufakis and said the goal was to stabilize Greece’s finances and assure an eco-nomic recovery and “make sure the whole partnership hangs together” between Greece and its creditors. In its closing communique, the policy-setting panel for the World Bank expressed concerns about the unevenness of global growth and pledged to work with the IMF to provide economic support for poor nations that have been hit hard by falling commodity prices.
But the international aid group Oxfam expressed disappointment
that the IMF and World Bank did not devote more time to exploring ways to lessen widening income gaps.
“Given that rising inequality continues to make the headlines ev-erywhere in the world, it is surpris-ing how the issue remained almost totally absent from these spring meetings,” said Nicolas Mombrial, head of the Washington office of Oxfam International.
Greece is in negotiations with the IMF and European authori-ties to receive the final 7.2 billion euro ($7.8 billion) installment of its financial bailout. Creditors are demanding that Greece produce a credible overhaul before releas-ing the money. The country has relied on international loans since 2010. Without more bailout money, Greece could miss two debt pay-ments due to the IMF in May and run out of cash to pay government salaries and pensions.
Fears that Greece could default and abandon the euro currency group sent shockwaves through global markets Friday. After being down nearly 360 points, the Dow Jones industrial average recovered a bit to finish down 279.47.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said that a Greek default would “create immediate hardship” for Greece and damage the world economy.
In a speech Saturday to the IMF panel, Lew urged South Korea, Ger-many, China and Japan to do more to increase consumer demand in their own countries instead of rely-ing on exports to the United States and elsewhere for growth.
“We are concerned that the glob-al economy is reverting to the pre-crisis pattern of heavy reliance on U.S. demand for growth,” Lew said. “As we all know, such a pattern will not lead to strong, sustainable and balanced global growth.”
The negotiations over Greece’s debt have proved contentious but all sides have expressed optimism that the differences can be resolved.
A number of countries directed criticism toward the U.S. for the failure of Congress to pass the legislation needed to put into effect IMF reforms that would boost the agency’s capacity to make loans and increase the voting power of such emerging economic powers as China, Brazil and India.
Agustin Carstens, the head of Mexico’s central bank and the chair of the IMF policy panel, said that “pretty much all of the members expressed deep disappointment” that a failure of the U.S. Congress to act is blocking implementation of the reforms. The policy panel directed IMF officials to explore
whether any interim reforms could be put into effect pending congres-sional action.
The finance ministers urged central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve to clearly com-municate future policy changes to avoid triggering unwanted turbu-lence in financial markets.
Lagarde told reporters Saturday that the Federal Reserve had made it clear that it planned to “always communicate and help everybody anticipate” its future moves on interest rates.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen along with Lew represented the U.S. at the finance meetings. (ap)
Thousands march in Europe against US-EU free trade pact
Finance officials see rising risks to economic recovery
WASHINGTON — World finance officials said Saturday they see a number of threats on the horizon for a global economy still claw-ing back from the deepest recession in seven decades, and a potential Greek debt default presents the most immediate risk. After finance officials wrapped up three days of talks, the International Monetary Fund’s policy committee set a goal of working toward a “more robust, balanced and job-rich global economy” while acknowledging growing risks to achieving that objective.
AP Photo/Jose Luis MaganaInternational Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meets at the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 18, 2015.
MIxEd cassava cake is one of the simple and affordable cakes of the Hindu community in Bali. Rural people love very much this kind of cake. Moreover, farmers often enjoy it as a substitute for rice. Its main ingredient is cassava mixed with sticky rice, grated coconut, brown sugar and salt.
In the past, people made the cassava a staple food. Understandably, the rice was very expensive at that time, even it was hard to get. At least, the cassava was cut into small pieces and then boiled and sprinkled with salt. To get different flavors, people made the cakes in various preparations. One of them is this mixed cassava cake.
The making of it is very simple. First of all, cassava is peeled and cut into small elongated shape. Alterna-tively, people can also use a slicer. Before that, prepare sticky rice at adequate amount. It is then soaked for 24 hours and then drained. The cassava
and sticky rice are steamed for about 10 minutes. Take out when they have been cooked.
Afterward, prepare brown sugar sauce and grated coconut. Add a little salt to the grated coconut so that it has a flavor. How to serve it? At first, pre-pare a dish and banana leaf as the base. Take an adequate amount of cassava cake and mixed with grated coconut. Having well mixed, top it with brown sugar sauce to taste.
Children really like this kind of cassava cake sprinkled with brown sugar sauce. Unlike the old people, they sometimes are reluctant to sweet foods. Recently, it is difficult to find this king of cake, let alone at urban areas. However, traditional markets usually still sell it. Nevertheless, the urban communities are often longing for enjoying this cake. If they happen to have a promenade to village, they usually buy it. (kmb)
According to Hindu community in Bali, the inter-section is made sacred so that it is bordered with a fence. When people pass through the area, they will certainly pause to deliver an offering. Aside from being done by local community, such a practice is also car-ried out by other people wishing to travel to Gianyar, Bangli and Ubud.
Standing at this intersection will make you perceive different vibration. Its magical aura is strong. Based on stories of local people, bizarre incidents frequently happened at the location. Residents living around the baby statue believe that it will cry at mid-night on full moon. A crying baby is often heard by non-native residents.
In addition, saying rude and behaving arrogant are not allowed at the location. Otherwise, undesired incident will occur to the violator.
In the past, someone from Klungkung took his son to pass through the intersection leading to Denpasar. When arriving at the site, the old man said if his son was the same as the statue. As an impact, his son kept crying until he arrived home. Ultimately, the man then apologized to the statue by delivering an oblation. According to local people, before the statue establishment, several accidents occurred around the intersection. However, after establishing and conse-crating the statue, the accident diminished.
According to a medium, the highway was formerly traversed by holy men, so that it was prone to be passed through specifically by people having bad intention. Meanwhile, some people said if the baby statue had something to do with the Hayang Tibha Temple located in the west of the statue. Divine ray of Lord Hayang Tibha lay in the statue. It was confirmed by the testimony of local temple priest that always paid devotional works at the statue area. (kmb)
Mixed cassava cake
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Baby statue at Batuan
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GIANYAR - If you happen to travel to Ubud vil-lage through Batuan village, you will surely pass the intersection of Belah Tanah hamlet, Batuan Kaler village, Sukawati subdistrict, Gianyar. Right in the midst of the intersection is established a statue of a giant baby. At the edges grows a large blackboard tree considered a sacred tree and commonly used to make sanctified barong mask.
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Chief of the presidential staff Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, who is in charge of the anniversary commemoration of the conference said Indonesia will take the initiative to discuss drug issue at the meeting.
“In Indonesia drug abuse is the biggest enemy,” Luhut said when after the opening of an exhibition on Asian African coop-eration as one of the highlights of the anniversary commemora-tion.
He said drug threat has become a big concern and alarming , adding data from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said drug kills 33 Indonesian every day.
“Drug issue is a concern of all people of any countries, re-ligions and ethnic groups. All countries should cooperate to eliminate the drug crime,” he said.
He said the AAC delegations will also discuss humanitarian is-sue in Middle East and ISIS issue would be high in the agenda.
Indonesia, which is rich in culture will share its experience in developing tolerance.
“We will share our experience, how we, despite difference in cultures , could show great tolerance, not killing each other,” he said.
Earlier, the foreign ministry said the delegations would address three main issues -- Bandung message, new partnership of Asia Africa, and support for independence of Palestine that a more concrete products are expected to come out of the meeting.
The result of the discussions on the three issue would be brought to a ministerial meeting and then to an Asian African Leaders Summit. (ant)
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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (R) congratulates the country’s new National Police Chief Badrodin Haiti after he was sworn in at the presidential palace in Jakarta April 17, 2015. President Widodo inau-gurated Haiti as police chief today after he was forced to withdraw his previous nominee due to his tainted graft record.
JAKARTA - The French ambassador in Jakarta on Friday warned Indonesia that executing a Frenchman on death row on drugs charges would have “conse-quences” for the bilateral relationship.
“If the execution is carried out, it will not be without consequence for our bilateral relationship,” ambassador Corinne Breuze told reporters in Jakarta, adding that France, which abolished the death penalty in 1981, was opposed to capital punishment in every circumstance.
Serge Atlaoui, 51, was arrested near Jakarta in 2005 in a secret laboratory producing ecstasy and sentenced to death two years later.
Imprisoned in Indonesia for a decade, the father-of-four has always denied the charges, saying he was installing industrial machinery in what he thought was an acrylics factory.
He has appealed his case before the Supreme Court, and a verdict is expected imminently.
If rejected, his execution and that of other foreign-ers -- including citizens from Australia, Brazil, Philip-pines, Ghana, Nigeria -- could be very soon.
The Indonesian government has already compiled a list of those to face the firing squad next after conducting a round of executions in January, the first since 2013.
In the Atlaoui case, eight others arrested alongside the Frenchman were also sentenced to death.
But “what appears shocking to us is that our compatriot is the only one on the list to be executed”, said the ambassador.
“I recall Serge Atlaoui was convicted as a chem-ist, when he was a solderer with a minor role in this affair,” she said, adding the French government were “prepared to assist Indonesia in its fight against drug trafficking”.
Drug laws in Indonesia are among the toughest in the world. President Joko Widodo, who took office in October, has rejected all requests for clemency from drug dealers sentenced to death, claiming the country is facing a narcotics emergency.
However Indonesia has been actively trying to save its citizens on death row abroad. Jakarta pro-tested the execution this week of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia. Atlaoui’s wife Sabine pleaded with the president, saying her husband did not deserve to die and her family had been living through “psychological torture”.
“A member of the prosecutor’s office has already asked us for my husband’s measurements for his fu-ture coffin, which is unimaginable and inconceivable given the situation we are in,” she said. (afp)
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Indonesian soldiers stand guard outside the venue of the Asian African Conference Commemoration in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, April, 19, 2015. Indonesia is hosting the conference until April 24.
Indonesia to raise drug issue in Asia-Africa Conference
JAKARTA - Indonesia will raise drug issue at the 60th anniversary commemoration of Asian African Conference (AAC) held in Jakarta and Bandung, April 19-24, 2015.
Paris warns Indonesia of consequences if Frenchman executedPrime Minister Narendra Modi
has said existing rules, established in 2013 to protect land owners from land grabbing and forced re-location, were creating obstacles that were spooking investors. He and industrial leaders say the rules should be simplified to entice foreign business and boost manufacturing in India.
Modi passed an executive order in December doing away with some of the rules. The unilateral move upset opposition parties and rights groups that had long fought for legal safeguards on land acquisition, and they vowed to fight any effort to make the changes permanent after the order expired earlier this month.
Rights activists, labor unions and many among India’s hundreds of millions of farmers say the changes effectively trample the rights of the poor. They accuse Modi of catering to corporate interests, and worry changing the law will leave them vulnerable to
poor compensation packages or forced relocation from ancestral lands.
“With the single-minded agen-da of kneeling before the cor-porates ... this government has shown that it simply does not care for the poor and toiling people, for our land, agriculture and nature,” the National Alliance of People’s Movements said in a statement.
The opposition Congress party — in power when the 2013 law was passed — has seized on the issue as it struggles to repair its political image following its stunning election defeat last year to Modi and his Hindu national-ist Bharatiya Janata Party. Both Gandhi family scion Rahul and his mother, party leader Sonia, addressed the rallying farmers at a protest park in central New Delhi on Sunday. Rahul accused Modi of winning the election with funding from industrialists he now needs to pay back.
“How will he pay back the loan
now? He will do it by giving your lands to those top industrialists. He wants to weaken the farmers, then snatch their land and give it to his industrialist friends,” Rahul Gandhi, speaking Hindi, told more than 50,000 cheering farmers who came to the rally from all over India. Many have questioned how the Congress party planned to counter Modi’s election-winning promise of rapid economic growth.
Former Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh said Modi’s order was intended to hurt farmers’ interests, and Sonia Gandhi ac-cused the government of being against farmers, the helpless and the poor.
Just an hour earlier, however, Modi pre-empted the rally by telling lawmakers from his party, “Lies are being spread on the land bill by perverted minds. Some people have decided not to speak, see or hear anything good about our government.” (ap)
ROME — A boat crowded with migrants capsized in the sea north of Libya overnight, leaving at least 24 confirmed dead with the death toll expected to rise into the hundreds, Italy’s Coast Guard said Sunday.
The Coast Guard said in a state-ment that the migrants’ 20-meter (66-foot) vessel was reported to be sinking as a Portuguese-registered merchant ship, the King Jacob, approached to attempt a rescue. It picked up 28 passengers, but the boat then capsized, sending hundreds more tumbling into the water.
The Coast Guard’s command and rescue coordination center in Rome said the boat may have overturned “because its occupants moved to the side closest to the cargo ship.”
The Italian news agency ANSA said the boat may have held 700 passengers. But the Coast Guard and other authorities said they had no im-mediate way to determine how many were aboard or how many might still be rescued. The estimated death toll was expected to be clarified as offi-cers interviewed survivors, although many bodies were expected never to be recovered.
Pope Francis was among those following the news. “There are fears
there could be hundreds of dead,” Francis told the faithful in St. Peter’s Square. He bowed his head in silent prayer as did many of the tens of thousands in the crowd. Wreckage of the boat was spotted in the sea.
“There are large fuel stains, pieces of wood, life jackets,” Italian Border Police Gen. Antonino Iraso, whose force has boats deployed in the res-cue effort, told Sky TG24 TV.
When asked whether the boat capsized because the migrants rushed to one side as the Portuguese vessel pulled alongside, Iraso re-plied: “The dynamics aren’t clear. But this is not the first time that has happened.”
Italy is the No. 1 destination for illegal immigration to the European Union, and the numbers of migrants attempting the dangerous cross-ing by sea from Libya swells as the springtime weather improves, providing calmer seas and warmer water temperatures. But the smug-glers’ boats are invariably over-crowded and often too small for the open seas. So far this year, more than 900 have died in failed cross-ings. Last week, 400 people were presumed drowned when another boat capsized. (ap)
CAIRO — An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 soccer fans to death in the retrial of over 70 defendants ac-cused in a soccer riot in 2012 that left 74 people dead.
Judge Mohammed el-Said said his final ruling for the 11 and the other defendants, including nine police of-ficers, will come on May 30.
All death sentences in Egypt re-quire the advisory opinion of the country’s top religious authority, the
Grand Mufti.Some 21 fans were initially sen-
tenced to death and seven police officers acquitted in 2013, setting off violent protests by fans in Cairo who torched a police club and the soccer federation’s headquarters. Earlier protests outside the prison in the city of Port Said where the defendants were held resulted in violent clashes with police that left 40 protesters dead. (ap)
HELSINKI — Finns are voting in parliamentary elections that will determine which coalition of parties can lead the country out of a three-year recession.
Conservative Prime Minister Alexander Stubb acknowledges economic reforms should have been made earlier by the govern-ment during its four-year term. Campaigning for Sunday’s election was dominated by arguments over unemployment, benefit cuts and the
rising national debt.Recent opinion polls give the
lead to the opposition Center Party led by Juha Sipila, a self-effacing millionaire businessman who turned to politics only four years ago.
The two main government part-ners, Stubb’s conservative Nation Coalition Party and the Social Dem-ocrats, are both vying for second place alongside the populist Finns Party, which opposes European bailouts and immigration. (ap)
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Indian farmers shout slogans as India’s opposition Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi addresses them during a rally against land bill in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 19, 2015.
Indian farmers protest gov’t plans to ease land acquisition
NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of flag-waving farmers rallied in India’s capital Sunday to protest a government plan to ease rules for obtaining land for industry and development projects.
24 dead, 28 safe, hundreds missing as Med migrant boat sinks
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DENPASAR - Deluang Sari, a little delta overgrown by mangrove forests with coastal white sand and calm waves, is situated overlooking the sea recreation center of Benoa Harbor. Since it has an intact ecological sys-tem, clean beaches and lush mangrove
forests, this place was then developed for breeding sea turtles. At low tide, we can get there on foot in the sidelines of the mangrove trees of Tanjung Benoa, while at high tides we have to cross by boat from Benoa Harbor for about 10 minutes. Aside from seeing turtle
breeding, visitors coming here can also see different types of fighting cocks, animals and wild birds as well as a small temple, As a tourist destination, this small island has also been equipped with restaurants, souvenir shops and animal attractions.
Turtle Breeding at Deluang Sari
Stephen Curry scored 34 points and the Warriors went up big be-fore holding off the New Orleans Pelicans 106-99 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series. Klay Thompson added 21 points, and Draymond Green and Australian center Andrew Bogut dominated down low as the Warriors looked every bit like the NBA’s top seed — at least for three quarters.
They smothered Anthony Davis and the Pelicans with the league’s best defense, leading by 15 after the first quarter, 18 at the half and 25 late in the third. Curry finished 13 of 25 shooting, though he was just 4 of 13 from 3-point range.
“I was locked in and focused the whole night,” he said. “In those situations, you want to get the crowd back into it. There’s a weird kind of tension, especially in the second half when they made a couple runs. But in the playoffs, you have to expect anything.” The Pelicans pulled within four in the final minute behind Davis, who scored 20 of his 35 points in the final quarter, to make the contest seem closer than it really was.
In Houston, James Harden had 24 points and Corey Brewer scored 13 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Rockets past the Dallas Mavericks 118-108. Brewer made three 3-pointers in a three-minute span in the fourth to keep the Mavericks at bay. He added another three points when he made a layup and a free throw to give Houston a 109-95 lead with three minutes left. Dirk Nowitzki had 24 points for the Mavericks, who are in the playoffs
for the 14th time in the last 15 sea-sons. It’s the third time these Texas rivals have met in the postseason and the first time since Dallas won their first-round series in 2005.
In the East, Paul Pierce scored five of his 20 points in overtime as the Wizards beat the Toronto Rap-tors 93-86 in Game 1 of their series. Pierce hit a 3-pointer, his fourth of the game, to begin the extra session, further tormenting a Raptors team he eliminated with Brooklyn in last year’s playoffs, then derided this week by saying, “I don’t feel they have the ‘It’ that makes you wor-ried,” in an interview with ESPN.
Pierce was badgered by taunts from the sellout crowd in Toronto, and drew the ire of Toronto’s gen-eral manager. Masai Ujiri, who was fined $25,000 after he used a profanity about Brooklyn at the start of last year’s series, used another profanity in a pregame speech to thousands of fans watching on a big screen outside the arena. This time, Ujiri’s off-color comment referred to Pierce’s recent “It” remark. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who attended the game, told Canadian broadcaster TSN that Ujiri’s com-ments were “not appropriate.”
Amir Johnson scored 18 points and DeMar DeRozan had 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Raptors, who have yet to win the open-ing game of a first-round series in seven postseason appearances. In Chicago, Derrick Rose had 23 points and seven assists in his first postseason game in three years and Jimmy Butler scored 25 points as
the Bulls topped the Milwaukee Bucks 103-91. “I only had three goals tonight — to have fun, to have no expectations and to compete,” Rose said.
The Bulls believe they are poised
to make a run now that they finally have Rose playing in the postsea-son. The last time they had him for the duration of the playoffs in 2011, he led them to the Eastern Confer-ence finals.
The Bulls won despite com-mitting 19 turnovers. They out-rebounded Milwaukee 52-41, with Pau Gasol grabbing 13 and Joakim Noah and rookie Nikola Mirotic 11 apiece. (ap)
MONTE CARLO - Although comprehensively beaten by Novak Djokovic on the Monte Carlo semi-finals, claycourt king Rafa Nadal believes he is on the right path as his beloved French Open looms. The Spaniard, looking to clinch a record-extending 10th
title at Roland Garros, lost 6-3 6-3 to the world number one in the European claycourt season opener.
The third seed’s defence was sometimes impressive but he never managed to take control of the contest. But Nadal, who has had an below par start to the season, notably losing to Fernando Verdasco in the third round at the Miami Masters, was not worried. “The way that I played yesterday (against David Ferrer) and for
moments today is the way that I want to play,” he told a news conference.
“Just with more matches play-ing like this, I will be enough confident to play. “I go into the next tournament with the feeling that I made a big improvement in my game. I hope this tourna-ment is a key moment for my season.”
Nadal, who usually wears down his opponents, especially on clay, the slowest surface, admitted
he had trouble coping with the physicality of the game. He took a great start, enjoying a 2-0 lead in the opener and setting up a break point in the third game, before gradullay fading away.
“I get a little bit tired and a little bit too early. Then when you get little bit tired, you play a little bit shorter. Then it is impossible against him, no?” he explained. “If I’m able to play like the beginning for three hours, I can do it, then it is a different story, no?” (rtr)
Nadal confident he on right path despite loss to Djokovic
Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts during his semi-final match against Novak Djokovic of Ser-bia at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco April 18, 2015. REUTERS/Jean-
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Warriors, Rockets open NBA playoffs with wins
The Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets won their opening games in the NBA playoffs with relative ease on Saturday, while the Washington Wizards pulled off an upset on the road in Toronto. The Chicago Bulls were also winners in Derrick Rose’s first postseason appearance since he tore a knee ligament in the opening game of the 2012 playoffs.
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He also tops the Champions League with Cristiano Ronaldo with 75 goals each from the group phase on. Ronaldo made up for a missed a penalty by likewise scoring in injury time to reach the 50-goal mark for a fifth consecutive season as Real Madrid beat Malaga 3-1 at home to stay two points behind Barce-lona with six rounds left.
“They have the advantage, but we have to try with every match to keep the pressure on,” Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said. “I hope it comes down to the final round.” Madrid’s win, however, proved costly with both Gareth Bale and Luka Modric picking up injuries four days before it hosts Atletico Madrid in their second-leg Champions League quarter-final with the tie poised at 0-0. Suarez netted his 12th goal in his last 12 appearances as Barcelona went ahead just 55 seconds into the match at Camp Nou.
But Valencia dominated the rest of the first half and the hosts needed goalkeeper Claudio Bravo to save Dani Parejo’s pen-alty in the 10th minute. Valencia striker Paco Alcacer went close several times before Barcelona settled down after halftime, and Messi sealed the win right before
the final whistle.“It’s a great result and a day
to congratulate my players for leaving it all on the pitch,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. “From the first day, I have seen my players set on winning titles.” Barcelona next turns to the Champions League for its home match against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday, when it will aim to protect a 3-1 lead in their second-leg quarterfinal.
Atletico’s Antoine Griezmann also struck a brace as the defend-ing champions strengthened their hold on third place with a 2-1 victory at Deportivo La Coruna. Atletico coach Diego Simeone was red-carded apparently for complaining just before halftime as his team moved four points clear of fourth-place Valencia following its first loss in 11 rounds.
Athletic Bilbao’s Aritz Aduriz struck two goals on either side of halftime to lead its 4-0 win over 10-man Getafe after Emiliano Velazquez was red-carded for fouling the striker with only the goalkeeper to beat in the 44th. Barcelona had a perfect start when Suarez used one touch to drive Messi’s pass under goal-keeper Diego Alves and finish off
a counterattack started by Sergio Busquets.
But Valencia’s pressure pro-duced poor passes from Barce-lona players as Nuno Espirito Santo’s side besieged Bravo’s goal. “We are sad, hurt and an-gry because we sought the win,” Espirito Santo said. “In the first half we had so many chances to take away this result.”
Messi curled a free kick off the corner of the goalframe in the 64th, but he had to wait until Valencia’s entire team except its goalkeeper went forward in hope of a last-gasp equalizer. That left Messi all alone to beat Diego Alves after he saved Messi’s initial chip shot. Despite having an easier time with Malaga, the worry was palpable at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium after Bale and Modric limped off.
Bale hurt his left calf two minutes into the match, and Mo-dric went down after tweaking his right knee in the 57th, with Madrid winning 1-0. Ronaldo set up Sergio Ramos 24th-minute opener from a free kick. Ronaldo then fired a spot kick off the post in the 67th, but James Rodriguez worked two one-two passing com-binations to score two minutes later. Juan Jimenez hit back im-
MILAN — Runaway leader Ju-ventus took another important step towards the Serie A title as it eased to a 2-0 win over second-place Lazio on Saturday. Carlos Tevez scored a league-leading 18th goal, and Leon-ardo Bonucci added the second within 29 minutes at Juventus Stadium, blowing away Lazio’s hopes of a ninth successive victory.
Lazio midfielder Danilo Cataldi was sent off late on for a dangerous tackle on Tevez. “I’m happy with what the lads did, not just tonight, but
throughout the season,” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “Lazio is physically fit-ter than us, they have played several games fewer. But we
had the maturity to manage the match well.
“It was an important match tonight, we’re closer to the title. Now we need to win at least three more.” There have been reports again recently that Tevez will return to Boca Juniors at the end of the season to be with his family. “It’s normal to feel nostalgic for home, friends and family. I feel it,
and I’m only three hours away from Livorno,”
Allegri said. “But now we need to think only of the
league, Italian Cup, and Champions League and, to me, he appears focused on these aims.”
Juventus moved 15 points clear of Lazio, which could be overtaken by city rival Roma when it hosts Atalanta on Sunday. “We wanted to control the match, we played well in parts,” Lazio coach Stefano Pioli said. “It’s not like we didn’t make mistakes in the previ-ous eight matches, just they weren’t against Juventus.
“In the situations where we could have done damage we had less preci-sion than normal. But we put on a good performance and that wasn’t easy. After we went 2-0 down, the team continued to play with personality and the right spirit.” Victory also boosted Juventus ahead of Wednesday’s trip
LONDON - Chelsea have a squad brimming with world-class players but it is the tactical astuteness of manager Jose Mourinho that has given them a clear edge in the Premier League title race. Mourinho’s side opened up a 10-point gap at the top of the table with a 1-0 win over a rejuvenated Manchester United on Saturday built on steely defensive resolve and lethal counter-attacking highlighted by Eden Hazard’s goal.
It was a vastly improved United side who arrived in west London on a six-match winning run in the league but they were blunted by Mourinho’s tactical nous. Louis van Gaal’s side enjoyed 70 percent possession and had 15 shots to Chelsea’s seven but many were speculative long-range efforts and only two were on target. Mourinho deployed defender Kurt Zouma -- rather than the attacking Willian -- alongside Nemanja Matic at the heart of his midfield.
The imposing pair nullified the at-tacking threat of Marouane Fellaini, one of the Premier League’s most improved players this season, and the towering Belgian was a peripheral figure throughout. Wayne Rooney, deployed in midfield, and Ashley Young were well marshalled by Chel-sea’s watertight defence and Radamel Falcao was physically dominated by John Terry.
“It was difficult, but less than you
think,” Mourinho told reporters. “Con-trol their direct football to Marouane Fellaini and control the wingers from making crosses on the inside foot. “When we know Wayne Rooney plays in midfield, we control his progression into the box. Control set-pieces and don’t give away direct free-kicks as they have three specialists. “Wait for a mistake and score a goal. We were able to make their important players disappear. Nobody saw them. They were in our pockets.”
Since Mourinho returned to Stam-ford Bridge in 2013 Chelsea are unbeaten in 11 games against Arsenal, United and Manchester City, taking 23 points from a possible 33.
The 52-year-old, who relishes the relentless and punishing grind of a title race, said last week that people did not like Chelsea because they were bor-ing. Saturday’s clean sheet was their 102nd in 190 matches under him in the Premier League.
While even the most ardent Chel-sea fan would concede some sides play a more attractive, attacking brand of football, their relentless march towards a fourth Premier League title is brutally efficient. “We prepared for it to be like this,” Mourinho added. “It was the game we wanted and expected.” Chelsea need eight points from their last six games to win the title for the first time since 2010. (rtr)
PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain showed it can cope with injuries and without top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic as it won 3-1 at Nice on Saturday to pressure Lyon in the close-fought French title race. Midfielder Javier Pastore scored twice, either side of cap-tain Mathieu Bodmer’s equalizer for Nice, and forward Edinson Cavani sealed the win with a penalty.
PSG was one point ahead of Lyon with six games remaining. Lyon can reclaim top spot if it beats bitter rival Saint-Etienne
at home on Sunday, but will have played one more game than PSG.
Third-p lace Monaco los t ground to PSG as it conceded a last-minute goal in a 1-1 home draw with Rennes ahead of the re-turn leg of its Champions League quarterfinal against Juventus. PSG was missing captain Thiago Silva and midfielder Thiago Motta through injury, while Ibrahimovic started his three-match ban for insulting match officials follow-ing a defeat to Bordeaux.
“We are battling against men-
tal and physical fatigue. The first half was very tricky for us b e -cause Nice p l a y e d s o m e good foot-b a l l , ” PSG coach Lauren t Blanc said. “I told my players at halftime that we couldn’t be satisfied with how we were playing, that we’d come to Nice to take the three points.”
Pastore soothed the nerves with goals in each half. Before halftime, he gave a crisp finish to a cross from winger Lucas. After
halftime, he restored the lead put-ting away a rebound save. Blanc rested left back Maxwell and key midfielder Blaise Matuidi for Tuesday’s Champions League return leg against Barcelona, where PSG faces a massive task against the Spanish league leader after losing the first leg 3-1 at home.
PSG, which has already se-cured the League Cup, remains in competition for the domestic tre-ble, and is through to the French Cup final. “We knew we had a full program because we wanted to
give our all in every competition,” Blanc said. “We could have done things another way but I think we were right.”
Bernardo Silva put Monaco in front of Rennes in the 29th minute after making the most of a bad clearance from Edson Mexer, but the hosts failed to hold onto their lead when forward Habib Habibou scored his third goal this season from Kamil Grosicki’s as-sist. Monaco needs to overturn a 1-0 deficit against Juventus after Arturo Vidal scored a controver-sial penalty in Turin. (ap)
MADRID — Real Madrid will be without injured midfielder Luka Mo-dric as the season enters a critical phase with both the Champions League and Spanish league titles at stake.
Madrid says medical tests show the Croatia international has a “strain to the medial collateral ligament of his right knee” after he hurt his leg
and needed to be substituted in the 57th minute of Saturday’s 3-1 win over Malaga.
The club did not say how long it expects him to be out but Spanish media says he is expected to miss six weeks.
Madrid hosts Atletico Madrid on Wednesday in the Champions League
with their quarterfinal poised 0-0.A left thigh injury sidelined Modric
for three months earlier this season.Gareth Bale also left Saturday’s
match with a left calf injury. The club has yet to report on his condition.
Madrid trails Barcelona by two points in la Liga with six rounds left. (ap)
Madrid’s Modric has injured knee ligament
Runaway Serie A leader Juventus beats 2nd-place Lazio 2-0
to Monaco for the second leg of their Champions League quarterfinal.
Earlier, Sampdoria was held to a goalless draw at home by relegation-threatened Cesena, despite playing with four strikers as it attempted to improve its chances of qualifying for Europe. Lazio knew a club-record ninth successive win would cut Ju-ventus’ lead to a not-impossible nine points, with seven rounds remaining.
Juve had slumped to a shock 1-0 defeat at bottom club Parma last week-end ahead of the first leg of its Cham-pions League quarterfinal — which it won 1-0 following a controversial penalty — and was keen to avoid mak-ing the same mistakes. Alvaro Morata was rested and replaced by Alessandro Matri in a strong starting XI, while Lazio was missing key players such as Stefan de Vrij, Marco Parolo, Stefan Radu, Filip Djordjevic and suspended duo Pedro Luis Cavanda and Diego Novaretti.
The match was also a preview to the Italian Cup final between them in June. Tevez broke the deadlock in
the 17th minute with his first touch, springing the offside trap onto a long ball flicked on by Arturo Vidal and firing into the bottom right corner. Tevez was also involved in the sec-ond, making a darting run to fool the Lazio defence and allowing Bonucci to sprint forward from the halfway line before drilling hard and low past Federico Marchetti.
In half an hour, Lazio had conceded as many goals as it had during its entire run of eight successive wins. Lazio’s misery was complete in the 89th minute when Cataldi was shown a straight red card. In Genoa, Samuel Eto’o, Luis Muriel, Stefano Okaka and Eder all started for Sampdoria but couldn’t finish off the home side’s numerous chances.
Sampdoria was also denied by a goal-line clearance when former de-fender Stefano Lucchini hooked Ales-sio Romagnoli’s header off the line. Sampdoria provisionally moved level on points with fourth-place Napoli, while Cesena was third from bottom, but a point closer to safety. (ap)
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Juventus’ Leonardo Bonucci celebrates after winning the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Lazio at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015.
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Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho holds up his hands during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Saturday, April 18, 2015.
Master tactician Mourinho sets Chelsea apart
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FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi,
left, duels for the ball
against Valen-cia’s Nicolas
Otamendi
during a Spanish La
Liga soc-cer match
at the Camp Nou stadium
in Barcelo-na, Spain, Saturday,
April 18, 2015.
Messi scores 400th goal for Barcelona in 2-0 win vs Valencia
BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi set up Luis Suarez’s first-minute opener then notched his 400th goal for Barcelona in stoppage time to give the Spanish league leaders a hard-fought 2-0 win over Valencia on Sat-urday. The 27-year-old Argentine is the all-time leading scorer for both Barcelona and the Spanish league. His 400th goal in his 471st match for the Catalan club was also his 278th goal in La Liga.
Pastore scores twice as PSG wins 3-1 at Nice to go top
medi-ate ly f o r M a l -a g a i n t h e 76th. Ron-aldo tapped Javier Hernandez’s cross into the open net for his competition leading 39th goal of the season.
Griezmann moved into third place on the season’s
top-scorer list af-ter he struck with
a s c i s s o r
kick to put Atletico ahead in the fifth and added his 20th league goal in the 22nd. Deportivo’s Oriol Riera scored with a header in
the 78th. (ap)
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He also tops the Champions League with Cristiano Ronaldo with 75 goals each from the group phase on. Ronaldo made up for a missed a penalty by likewise scoring in injury time to reach the 50-goal mark for a fifth consecutive season as Real Madrid beat Malaga 3-1 at home to stay two points behind Barce-lona with six rounds left.
“They have the advantage, but we have to try with every match to keep the pressure on,” Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said. “I hope it comes down to the final round.” Madrid’s win, however, proved costly with both Gareth Bale and Luka Modric picking up injuries four days before it hosts Atletico Madrid in their second-leg Champions League quarter-final with the tie poised at 0-0. Suarez netted his 12th goal in his last 12 appearances as Barcelona went ahead just 55 seconds into the match at Camp Nou.
But Valencia dominated the rest of the first half and the hosts needed goalkeeper Claudio Bravo to save Dani Parejo’s pen-alty in the 10th minute. Valencia striker Paco Alcacer went close several times before Barcelona settled down after halftime, and Messi sealed the win right before
the final whistle.“It’s a great result and a day
to congratulate my players for leaving it all on the pitch,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. “From the first day, I have seen my players set on winning titles.” Barcelona next turns to the Champions League for its home match against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday, when it will aim to protect a 3-1 lead in their second-leg quarterfinal.
Atletico’s Antoine Griezmann also struck a brace as the defend-ing champions strengthened their hold on third place with a 2-1 victory at Deportivo La Coruna. Atletico coach Diego Simeone was red-carded apparently for complaining just before halftime as his team moved four points clear of fourth-place Valencia following its first loss in 11 rounds.
Athletic Bilbao’s Aritz Aduriz struck two goals on either side of halftime to lead its 4-0 win over 10-man Getafe after Emiliano Velazquez was red-carded for fouling the striker with only the goalkeeper to beat in the 44th. Barcelona had a perfect start when Suarez used one touch to drive Messi’s pass under goal-keeper Diego Alves and finish off
a counterattack started by Sergio Busquets.
But Valencia’s pressure pro-duced poor passes from Barce-lona players as Nuno Espirito Santo’s side besieged Bravo’s goal. “We are sad, hurt and an-gry because we sought the win,” Espirito Santo said. “In the first half we had so many chances to take away this result.”
Messi curled a free kick off the corner of the goalframe in the 64th, but he had to wait until Valencia’s entire team except its goalkeeper went forward in hope of a last-gasp equalizer. That left Messi all alone to beat Diego Alves after he saved Messi’s initial chip shot. Despite having an easier time with Malaga, the worry was palpable at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium after Bale and Modric limped off.
Bale hurt his left calf two minutes into the match, and Mo-dric went down after tweaking his right knee in the 57th, with Madrid winning 1-0. Ronaldo set up Sergio Ramos 24th-minute opener from a free kick. Ronaldo then fired a spot kick off the post in the 67th, but James Rodriguez worked two one-two passing com-binations to score two minutes later. Juan Jimenez hit back im-
MILAN — Runaway leader Ju-ventus took another important step towards the Serie A title as it eased to a 2-0 win over second-place Lazio on Saturday. Carlos Tevez scored a league-leading 18th goal, and Leon-ardo Bonucci added the second within 29 minutes at Juventus Stadium, blowing away Lazio’s hopes of a ninth successive victory.
Lazio midfielder Danilo Cataldi was sent off late on for a dangerous tackle on Tevez. “I’m happy with what the lads did, not just tonight, but
throughout the season,” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “Lazio is physically fit-ter than us, they have played several games fewer. But we
had the maturity to manage the match well.
“It was an important match tonight, we’re closer to the title. Now we need to win at least three more.” There have been reports again recently that Tevez will return to Boca Juniors at the end of the season to be with his family. “It’s normal to feel nostalgic for home, friends and family. I feel it,
and I’m only three hours away from Livorno,”
Allegri said. “But now we need to think only of the
league, Italian Cup, and Champions League and, to me, he appears focused on these aims.”
Juventus moved 15 points clear of Lazio, which could be overtaken by city rival Roma when it hosts Atalanta on Sunday. “We wanted to control the match, we played well in parts,” Lazio coach Stefano Pioli said. “It’s not like we didn’t make mistakes in the previ-ous eight matches, just they weren’t against Juventus.
“In the situations where we could have done damage we had less preci-sion than normal. But we put on a good performance and that wasn’t easy. After we went 2-0 down, the team continued to play with personality and the right spirit.” Victory also boosted Juventus ahead of Wednesday’s trip
LONDON - Chelsea have a squad brimming with world-class players but it is the tactical astuteness of manager Jose Mourinho that has given them a clear edge in the Premier League title race. Mourinho’s side opened up a 10-point gap at the top of the table with a 1-0 win over a rejuvenated Manchester United on Saturday built on steely defensive resolve and lethal counter-attacking highlighted by Eden Hazard’s goal.
It was a vastly improved United side who arrived in west London on a six-match winning run in the league but they were blunted by Mourinho’s tactical nous. Louis van Gaal’s side enjoyed 70 percent possession and had 15 shots to Chelsea’s seven but many were speculative long-range efforts and only two were on target. Mourinho deployed defender Kurt Zouma -- rather than the attacking Willian -- alongside Nemanja Matic at the heart of his midfield.
The imposing pair nullified the at-tacking threat of Marouane Fellaini, one of the Premier League’s most improved players this season, and the towering Belgian was a peripheral figure throughout. Wayne Rooney, deployed in midfield, and Ashley Young were well marshalled by Chel-sea’s watertight defence and Radamel Falcao was physically dominated by John Terry.
“It was difficult, but less than you
think,” Mourinho told reporters. “Con-trol their direct football to Marouane Fellaini and control the wingers from making crosses on the inside foot. “When we know Wayne Rooney plays in midfield, we control his progression into the box. Control set-pieces and don’t give away direct free-kicks as they have three specialists. “Wait for a mistake and score a goal. We were able to make their important players disappear. Nobody saw them. They were in our pockets.”
Since Mourinho returned to Stam-ford Bridge in 2013 Chelsea are unbeaten in 11 games against Arsenal, United and Manchester City, taking 23 points from a possible 33.
The 52-year-old, who relishes the relentless and punishing grind of a title race, said last week that people did not like Chelsea because they were bor-ing. Saturday’s clean sheet was their 102nd in 190 matches under him in the Premier League.
While even the most ardent Chel-sea fan would concede some sides play a more attractive, attacking brand of football, their relentless march towards a fourth Premier League title is brutally efficient. “We prepared for it to be like this,” Mourinho added. “It was the game we wanted and expected.” Chelsea need eight points from their last six games to win the title for the first time since 2010. (rtr)
PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain showed it can cope with injuries and without top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic as it won 3-1 at Nice on Saturday to pressure Lyon in the close-fought French title race. Midfielder Javier Pastore scored twice, either side of cap-tain Mathieu Bodmer’s equalizer for Nice, and forward Edinson Cavani sealed the win with a penalty.
PSG was one point ahead of Lyon with six games remaining. Lyon can reclaim top spot if it beats bitter rival Saint-Etienne
at home on Sunday, but will have played one more game than PSG.
Third-p lace Monaco los t ground to PSG as it conceded a last-minute goal in a 1-1 home draw with Rennes ahead of the re-turn leg of its Champions League quarterfinal against Juventus. PSG was missing captain Thiago Silva and midfielder Thiago Motta through injury, while Ibrahimovic started his three-match ban for insulting match officials follow-ing a defeat to Bordeaux.
“We are battling against men-
tal and physical fatigue. The first half was very tricky for us b e -cause Nice p l a y e d s o m e good foot-b a l l , ” PSG coach Lauren t Blanc said. “I told my players at halftime that we couldn’t be satisfied with how we were playing, that we’d come to Nice to take the three points.”
Pastore soothed the nerves with goals in each half. Before halftime, he gave a crisp finish to a cross from winger Lucas. After
halftime, he restored the lead put-ting away a rebound save. Blanc rested left back Maxwell and key midfielder Blaise Matuidi for Tuesday’s Champions League return leg against Barcelona, where PSG faces a massive task against the Spanish league leader after losing the first leg 3-1 at home.
PSG, which has already se-cured the League Cup, remains in competition for the domestic tre-ble, and is through to the French Cup final. “We knew we had a full program because we wanted to
give our all in every competition,” Blanc said. “We could have done things another way but I think we were right.”
Bernardo Silva put Monaco in front of Rennes in the 29th minute after making the most of a bad clearance from Edson Mexer, but the hosts failed to hold onto their lead when forward Habib Habibou scored his third goal this season from Kamil Grosicki’s as-sist. Monaco needs to overturn a 1-0 deficit against Juventus after Arturo Vidal scored a controver-sial penalty in Turin. (ap)
MADRID — Real Madrid will be without injured midfielder Luka Mo-dric as the season enters a critical phase with both the Champions League and Spanish league titles at stake.
Madrid says medical tests show the Croatia international has a “strain to the medial collateral ligament of his right knee” after he hurt his leg
and needed to be substituted in the 57th minute of Saturday’s 3-1 win over Malaga.
The club did not say how long it expects him to be out but Spanish media says he is expected to miss six weeks.
Madrid hosts Atletico Madrid on Wednesday in the Champions League
with their quarterfinal poised 0-0.A left thigh injury sidelined Modric
for three months earlier this season.Gareth Bale also left Saturday’s
match with a left calf injury. The club has yet to report on his condition.
Madrid trails Barcelona by two points in la Liga with six rounds left. (ap)
Madrid’s Modric has injured knee ligament
Runaway Serie A leader Juventus beats 2nd-place Lazio 2-0
to Monaco for the second leg of their Champions League quarterfinal.
Earlier, Sampdoria was held to a goalless draw at home by relegation-threatened Cesena, despite playing with four strikers as it attempted to improve its chances of qualifying for Europe. Lazio knew a club-record ninth successive win would cut Ju-ventus’ lead to a not-impossible nine points, with seven rounds remaining.
Juve had slumped to a shock 1-0 defeat at bottom club Parma last week-end ahead of the first leg of its Cham-pions League quarterfinal — which it won 1-0 following a controversial penalty — and was keen to avoid mak-ing the same mistakes. Alvaro Morata was rested and replaced by Alessandro Matri in a strong starting XI, while Lazio was missing key players such as Stefan de Vrij, Marco Parolo, Stefan Radu, Filip Djordjevic and suspended duo Pedro Luis Cavanda and Diego Novaretti.
The match was also a preview to the Italian Cup final between them in June. Tevez broke the deadlock in
the 17th minute with his first touch, springing the offside trap onto a long ball flicked on by Arturo Vidal and firing into the bottom right corner. Tevez was also involved in the sec-ond, making a darting run to fool the Lazio defence and allowing Bonucci to sprint forward from the halfway line before drilling hard and low past Federico Marchetti.
In half an hour, Lazio had conceded as many goals as it had during its entire run of eight successive wins. Lazio’s misery was complete in the 89th minute when Cataldi was shown a straight red card. In Genoa, Samuel Eto’o, Luis Muriel, Stefano Okaka and Eder all started for Sampdoria but couldn’t finish off the home side’s numerous chances.
Sampdoria was also denied by a goal-line clearance when former de-fender Stefano Lucchini hooked Ales-sio Romagnoli’s header off the line. Sampdoria provisionally moved level on points with fourth-place Napoli, while Cesena was third from bottom, but a point closer to safety. (ap)
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Juventus’ Leonardo Bonucci celebrates after winning the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Lazio at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015.
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Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho holds up his hands during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Saturday, April 18, 2015.
Master tactician Mourinho sets Chelsea apart
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FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi,
left, duels for the ball
against Valen-cia’s Nicolas
Otamendi
during a Spanish La
Liga soc-cer match
at the Camp Nou stadium
in Barcelo-na, Spain, Saturday,
April 18, 2015.
Messi scores 400th goal for Barcelona in 2-0 win vs Valencia
BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi set up Luis Suarez’s first-minute opener then notched his 400th goal for Barcelona in stoppage time to give the Spanish league leaders a hard-fought 2-0 win over Valencia on Sat-urday. The 27-year-old Argentine is the all-time leading scorer for both Barcelona and the Spanish league. His 400th goal in his 471st match for the Catalan club was also his 278th goal in La Liga.
Pastore scores twice as PSG wins 3-1 at Nice to go top
medi-ate ly f o r M a l -a g a i n t h e 76th. Ron-aldo tapped Javier Hernandez’s cross into the open net for his competition leading 39th goal of the season.
Griezmann moved into third place on the season’s
top-scorer list af-ter he struck with
a s c i s s o r
kick to put Atletico ahead in the fifth and added his 20th league goal in the 22nd. Deportivo’s Oriol Riera scored with a header in
the 78th. (ap)
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DENPASAR - Deluang Sari, a little delta overgrown by mangrove forests with coastal white sand and calm waves, is situated overlooking the sea recreation center of Benoa Harbor. Since it has an intact ecological sys-tem, clean beaches and lush mangrove
forests, this place was then developed for breeding sea turtles. At low tide, we can get there on foot in the sidelines of the mangrove trees of Tanjung Benoa, while at high tides we have to cross by boat from Benoa Harbor for about 10 minutes. Aside from seeing turtle
breeding, visitors coming here can also see different types of fighting cocks, animals and wild birds as well as a small temple, As a tourist destination, this small island has also been equipped with restaurants, souvenir shops and animal attractions.
Turtle Breeding at Deluang Sari
Stephen Curry scored 34 points and the Warriors went up big be-fore holding off the New Orleans Pelicans 106-99 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series. Klay Thompson added 21 points, and Draymond Green and Australian center Andrew Bogut dominated down low as the Warriors looked every bit like the NBA’s top seed — at least for three quarters.
They smothered Anthony Davis and the Pelicans with the league’s best defense, leading by 15 after the first quarter, 18 at the half and 25 late in the third. Curry finished 13 of 25 shooting, though he was just 4 of 13 from 3-point range.
“I was locked in and focused the whole night,” he said. “In those situations, you want to get the crowd back into it. There’s a weird kind of tension, especially in the second half when they made a couple runs. But in the playoffs, you have to expect anything.” The Pelicans pulled within four in the final minute behind Davis, who scored 20 of his 35 points in the final quarter, to make the contest seem closer than it really was.
In Houston, James Harden had 24 points and Corey Brewer scored 13 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Rockets past the Dallas Mavericks 118-108. Brewer made three 3-pointers in a three-minute span in the fourth to keep the Mavericks at bay. He added another three points when he made a layup and a free throw to give Houston a 109-95 lead with three minutes left. Dirk Nowitzki had 24 points for the Mavericks, who are in the playoffs
for the 14th time in the last 15 sea-sons. It’s the third time these Texas rivals have met in the postseason and the first time since Dallas won their first-round series in 2005.
In the East, Paul Pierce scored five of his 20 points in overtime as the Wizards beat the Toronto Rap-tors 93-86 in Game 1 of their series. Pierce hit a 3-pointer, his fourth of the game, to begin the extra session, further tormenting a Raptors team he eliminated with Brooklyn in last year’s playoffs, then derided this week by saying, “I don’t feel they have the ‘It’ that makes you wor-ried,” in an interview with ESPN.
Pierce was badgered by taunts from the sellout crowd in Toronto, and drew the ire of Toronto’s gen-eral manager. Masai Ujiri, who was fined $25,000 after he used a profanity about Brooklyn at the start of last year’s series, used another profanity in a pregame speech to thousands of fans watching on a big screen outside the arena. This time, Ujiri’s off-color comment referred to Pierce’s recent “It” remark. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who attended the game, told Canadian broadcaster TSN that Ujiri’s com-ments were “not appropriate.”
Amir Johnson scored 18 points and DeMar DeRozan had 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Raptors, who have yet to win the open-ing game of a first-round series in seven postseason appearances. In Chicago, Derrick Rose had 23 points and seven assists in his first postseason game in three years and Jimmy Butler scored 25 points as
the Bulls topped the Milwaukee Bucks 103-91. “I only had three goals tonight — to have fun, to have no expectations and to compete,” Rose said.
The Bulls believe they are poised
to make a run now that they finally have Rose playing in the postsea-son. The last time they had him for the duration of the playoffs in 2011, he led them to the Eastern Confer-ence finals.
The Bulls won despite com-mitting 19 turnovers. They out-rebounded Milwaukee 52-41, with Pau Gasol grabbing 13 and Joakim Noah and rookie Nikola Mirotic 11 apiece. (ap)
MONTE CARLO - Although comprehensively beaten by Novak Djokovic on the Monte Carlo semi-finals, claycourt king Rafa Nadal believes he is on the right path as his beloved French Open looms. The Spaniard, looking to clinch a record-extending 10th
title at Roland Garros, lost 6-3 6-3 to the world number one in the European claycourt season opener.
The third seed’s defence was sometimes impressive but he never managed to take control of the contest. But Nadal, who has had an below par start to the season, notably losing to Fernando Verdasco in the third round at the Miami Masters, was not worried. “The way that I played yesterday (against David Ferrer) and for
moments today is the way that I want to play,” he told a news conference.
“Just with more matches play-ing like this, I will be enough confident to play. “I go into the next tournament with the feeling that I made a big improvement in my game. I hope this tourna-ment is a key moment for my season.”
Nadal, who usually wears down his opponents, especially on clay, the slowest surface, admitted
he had trouble coping with the physicality of the game. He took a great start, enjoying a 2-0 lead in the opener and setting up a break point in the third game, before gradullay fading away.
“I get a little bit tired and a little bit too early. Then when you get little bit tired, you play a little bit shorter. Then it is impossible against him, no?” he explained. “If I’m able to play like the beginning for three hours, I can do it, then it is a different story, no?” (rtr)
Nadal confident he on right path despite loss to Djokovic
Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts during his semi-final match against Novak Djokovic of Ser-bia at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco April 18, 2015. REUTERS/Jean-
Paul Pelissier
Warriors, Rockets open NBA playoffs with wins
The Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets won their opening games in the NBA playoffs with relative ease on Saturday, while the Washington Wizards pulled off an upset on the road in Toronto. The Chicago Bulls were also winners in Derrick Rose’s first postseason appearance since he tore a knee ligament in the opening game of the 2012 playoffs.
AP Photo/Nam Y. HuhChicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose, right, controls the ball against Milwaukee Bucks guard Michael Carter-Williams during the first half in Game 1 of the NBA basketball playoffs Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Chicago.
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Chief of the presidential staff Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, who is in charge of the anniversary commemoration of the conference said Indonesia will take the initiative to discuss drug issue at the meeting.
“In Indonesia drug abuse is the biggest enemy,” Luhut said when after the opening of an exhibition on Asian African coop-eration as one of the highlights of the anniversary commemora-tion.
He said drug threat has become a big concern and alarming , adding data from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said drug kills 33 Indonesian every day.
“Drug issue is a concern of all people of any countries, re-ligions and ethnic groups. All countries should cooperate to eliminate the drug crime,” he said.
He said the AAC delegations will also discuss humanitarian is-sue in Middle East and ISIS issue would be high in the agenda.
Indonesia, which is rich in culture will share its experience in developing tolerance.
“We will share our experience, how we, despite difference in cultures , could show great tolerance, not killing each other,” he said.
Earlier, the foreign ministry said the delegations would address three main issues -- Bandung message, new partnership of Asia Africa, and support for independence of Palestine that a more concrete products are expected to come out of the meeting.
The result of the discussions on the three issue would be brought to a ministerial meeting and then to an Asian African Leaders Summit. (ant)
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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (R) congratulates the country’s new National Police Chief Badrodin Haiti after he was sworn in at the presidential palace in Jakarta April 17, 2015. President Widodo inau-gurated Haiti as police chief today after he was forced to withdraw his previous nominee due to his tainted graft record.
JAKARTA - The French ambassador in Jakarta on Friday warned Indonesia that executing a Frenchman on death row on drugs charges would have “conse-quences” for the bilateral relationship.
“If the execution is carried out, it will not be without consequence for our bilateral relationship,” ambassador Corinne Breuze told reporters in Jakarta, adding that France, which abolished the death penalty in 1981, was opposed to capital punishment in every circumstance.
Serge Atlaoui, 51, was arrested near Jakarta in 2005 in a secret laboratory producing ecstasy and sentenced to death two years later.
Imprisoned in Indonesia for a decade, the father-of-four has always denied the charges, saying he was installing industrial machinery in what he thought was an acrylics factory.
He has appealed his case before the Supreme Court, and a verdict is expected imminently.
If rejected, his execution and that of other foreign-ers -- including citizens from Australia, Brazil, Philip-pines, Ghana, Nigeria -- could be very soon.
The Indonesian government has already compiled a list of those to face the firing squad next after conducting a round of executions in January, the first since 2013.
In the Atlaoui case, eight others arrested alongside the Frenchman were also sentenced to death.
But “what appears shocking to us is that our compatriot is the only one on the list to be executed”, said the ambassador.
“I recall Serge Atlaoui was convicted as a chem-ist, when he was a solderer with a minor role in this affair,” she said, adding the French government were “prepared to assist Indonesia in its fight against drug trafficking”.
Drug laws in Indonesia are among the toughest in the world. President Joko Widodo, who took office in October, has rejected all requests for clemency from drug dealers sentenced to death, claiming the country is facing a narcotics emergency.
However Indonesia has been actively trying to save its citizens on death row abroad. Jakarta pro-tested the execution this week of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia. Atlaoui’s wife Sabine pleaded with the president, saying her husband did not deserve to die and her family had been living through “psychological torture”.
“A member of the prosecutor’s office has already asked us for my husband’s measurements for his fu-ture coffin, which is unimaginable and inconceivable given the situation we are in,” she said. (afp)
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Indonesian soldiers stand guard outside the venue of the Asian African Conference Commemoration in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, April, 19, 2015. Indonesia is hosting the conference until April 24.
Indonesia to raise drug issue in Asia-Africa Conference
JAKARTA - Indonesia will raise drug issue at the 60th anniversary commemoration of Asian African Conference (AAC) held in Jakarta and Bandung, April 19-24, 2015.
Paris warns Indonesia of consequences if Frenchman executedPrime Minister Narendra Modi
has said existing rules, established in 2013 to protect land owners from land grabbing and forced re-location, were creating obstacles that were spooking investors. He and industrial leaders say the rules should be simplified to entice foreign business and boost manufacturing in India.
Modi passed an executive order in December doing away with some of the rules. The unilateral move upset opposition parties and rights groups that had long fought for legal safeguards on land acquisition, and they vowed to fight any effort to make the changes permanent after the order expired earlier this month.
Rights activists, labor unions and many among India’s hundreds of millions of farmers say the changes effectively trample the rights of the poor. They accuse Modi of catering to corporate interests, and worry changing the law will leave them vulnerable to
poor compensation packages or forced relocation from ancestral lands.
“With the single-minded agen-da of kneeling before the cor-porates ... this government has shown that it simply does not care for the poor and toiling people, for our land, agriculture and nature,” the National Alliance of People’s Movements said in a statement.
The opposition Congress party — in power when the 2013 law was passed — has seized on the issue as it struggles to repair its political image following its stunning election defeat last year to Modi and his Hindu national-ist Bharatiya Janata Party. Both Gandhi family scion Rahul and his mother, party leader Sonia, addressed the rallying farmers at a protest park in central New Delhi on Sunday. Rahul accused Modi of winning the election with funding from industrialists he now needs to pay back.
“How will he pay back the loan
now? He will do it by giving your lands to those top industrialists. He wants to weaken the farmers, then snatch their land and give it to his industrialist friends,” Rahul Gandhi, speaking Hindi, told more than 50,000 cheering farmers who came to the rally from all over India. Many have questioned how the Congress party planned to counter Modi’s election-winning promise of rapid economic growth.
Former Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh said Modi’s order was intended to hurt farmers’ interests, and Sonia Gandhi ac-cused the government of being against farmers, the helpless and the poor.
Just an hour earlier, however, Modi pre-empted the rally by telling lawmakers from his party, “Lies are being spread on the land bill by perverted minds. Some people have decided not to speak, see or hear anything good about our government.” (ap)
ROME — A boat crowded with migrants capsized in the sea north of Libya overnight, leaving at least 24 confirmed dead with the death toll expected to rise into the hundreds, Italy’s Coast Guard said Sunday.
The Coast Guard said in a state-ment that the migrants’ 20-meter (66-foot) vessel was reported to be sinking as a Portuguese-registered merchant ship, the King Jacob, approached to attempt a rescue. It picked up 28 passengers, but the boat then capsized, sending hundreds more tumbling into the water.
The Coast Guard’s command and rescue coordination center in Rome said the boat may have overturned “because its occupants moved to the side closest to the cargo ship.”
The Italian news agency ANSA said the boat may have held 700 passengers. But the Coast Guard and other authorities said they had no im-mediate way to determine how many were aboard or how many might still be rescued. The estimated death toll was expected to be clarified as offi-cers interviewed survivors, although many bodies were expected never to be recovered.
Pope Francis was among those following the news. “There are fears
there could be hundreds of dead,” Francis told the faithful in St. Peter’s Square. He bowed his head in silent prayer as did many of the tens of thousands in the crowd. Wreckage of the boat was spotted in the sea.
“There are large fuel stains, pieces of wood, life jackets,” Italian Border Police Gen. Antonino Iraso, whose force has boats deployed in the res-cue effort, told Sky TG24 TV.
When asked whether the boat capsized because the migrants rushed to one side as the Portuguese vessel pulled alongside, Iraso re-plied: “The dynamics aren’t clear. But this is not the first time that has happened.”
Italy is the No. 1 destination for illegal immigration to the European Union, and the numbers of migrants attempting the dangerous cross-ing by sea from Libya swells as the springtime weather improves, providing calmer seas and warmer water temperatures. But the smug-glers’ boats are invariably over-crowded and often too small for the open seas. So far this year, more than 900 have died in failed cross-ings. Last week, 400 people were presumed drowned when another boat capsized. (ap)
CAIRO — An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 soccer fans to death in the retrial of over 70 defendants ac-cused in a soccer riot in 2012 that left 74 people dead.
Judge Mohammed el-Said said his final ruling for the 11 and the other defendants, including nine police of-ficers, will come on May 30.
All death sentences in Egypt re-quire the advisory opinion of the country’s top religious authority, the
Grand Mufti.Some 21 fans were initially sen-
tenced to death and seven police officers acquitted in 2013, setting off violent protests by fans in Cairo who torched a police club and the soccer federation’s headquarters. Earlier protests outside the prison in the city of Port Said where the defendants were held resulted in violent clashes with police that left 40 protesters dead. (ap)
HELSINKI — Finns are voting in parliamentary elections that will determine which coalition of parties can lead the country out of a three-year recession.
Conservative Prime Minister Alexander Stubb acknowledges economic reforms should have been made earlier by the govern-ment during its four-year term. Campaigning for Sunday’s election was dominated by arguments over unemployment, benefit cuts and the
rising national debt.Recent opinion polls give the
lead to the opposition Center Party led by Juha Sipila, a self-effacing millionaire businessman who turned to politics only four years ago.
The two main government part-ners, Stubb’s conservative Nation Coalition Party and the Social Dem-ocrats, are both vying for second place alongside the populist Finns Party, which opposes European bailouts and immigration. (ap)
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Indian farmers shout slogans as India’s opposition Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi addresses them during a rally against land bill in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 19, 2015.
Indian farmers protest gov’t plans to ease land acquisition
NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of flag-waving farmers rallied in India’s capital Sunday to protest a government plan to ease rules for obtaining land for industry and development projects.
24 dead, 28 safe, hundreds missing as Med migrant boat sinks
Egypt court sentences 11 to death for deadly soccer riot
Finns expected to vote for change in recession-hit country
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BERLIN - Thousands of pro-testers took to the streets in Europe on Saturday to oppose the world’s biggest free trade pact between the US and European Union.
Resistance to the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Invest-ment Partnership (TTIP) is fierce in Germany, with tens of thou-
sands joining demonstrations across the country, a spokesman for lobby group Attac Germany said.
In southern Germany’s Munich alone, 23,000 people joined the protest, while 2,000 turned up in Leipzig, 1,000 in Stuttgart and 700 in Frankfurt.
Demonstrations in other Eu-ropean cities also drew protest-ers, including 2,000 in Brussels, 1,000 in Madrid and Helsinki, and around 300 in Warsaw and Prague.
The protests came as US and EU officials are set to resume a new round of negotiations in New
York on Monday.The EU-US trade deal would
not just slash the already low trade tariffs the two parties share but would also harmonise regula-tions to an unprecedented degree, affecting goods and services as far-ranging as Roquefort cheese and accounting.
But campaigners in Europe are convinced that powerful interests are selling the consumer short in the secret negotiations.
The most contentious part of the deal includes a clause which allows corporations to sue govern-ments in tribunals that are above national law. (afp)
The Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, held a series of talks with finance officials on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the 188-nation IMF and World Bank, trying to settle his country’s latest crisis. Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, said it was “urgent” to resolve the dispute between Greece and its creditors.
A default, he said, would send the global economy into “uncharted waters” and the extent of the pos-sible damage would be hard to estimate. He told reporters that he did not want to even contemplate the chance of a default.
Earlier in the week, IMF Man-aging Director Christine Lagarde rejected suggestions that her agency might postpone repayment deadlines for Greece. On Saturday, she cited constructive talks with Varoufakis and said the goal was to stabilize Greece’s finances and assure an eco-nomic recovery and “make sure the whole partnership hangs together” between Greece and its creditors. In its closing communique, the policy-setting panel for the World Bank expressed concerns about the unevenness of global growth and pledged to work with the IMF to provide economic support for poor nations that have been hit hard by falling commodity prices.
But the international aid group Oxfam expressed disappointment
that the IMF and World Bank did not devote more time to exploring ways to lessen widening income gaps.
“Given that rising inequality continues to make the headlines ev-erywhere in the world, it is surpris-ing how the issue remained almost totally absent from these spring meetings,” said Nicolas Mombrial, head of the Washington office of Oxfam International.
Greece is in negotiations with the IMF and European authori-ties to receive the final 7.2 billion euro ($7.8 billion) installment of its financial bailout. Creditors are demanding that Greece produce a credible overhaul before releas-ing the money. The country has relied on international loans since 2010. Without more bailout money, Greece could miss two debt pay-ments due to the IMF in May and run out of cash to pay government salaries and pensions.
Fears that Greece could default and abandon the euro currency group sent shockwaves through global markets Friday. After being down nearly 360 points, the Dow Jones industrial average recovered a bit to finish down 279.47.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said that a Greek default would “create immediate hardship” for Greece and damage the world economy.
In a speech Saturday to the IMF panel, Lew urged South Korea, Ger-many, China and Japan to do more to increase consumer demand in their own countries instead of rely-ing on exports to the United States and elsewhere for growth.
“We are concerned that the glob-al economy is reverting to the pre-crisis pattern of heavy reliance on U.S. demand for growth,” Lew said. “As we all know, such a pattern will not lead to strong, sustainable and balanced global growth.”
The negotiations over Greece’s debt have proved contentious but all sides have expressed optimism that the differences can be resolved.
A number of countries directed criticism toward the U.S. for the failure of Congress to pass the legislation needed to put into effect IMF reforms that would boost the agency’s capacity to make loans and increase the voting power of such emerging economic powers as China, Brazil and India.
Agustin Carstens, the head of Mexico’s central bank and the chair of the IMF policy panel, said that “pretty much all of the members expressed deep disappointment” that a failure of the U.S. Congress to act is blocking implementation of the reforms. The policy panel directed IMF officials to explore
whether any interim reforms could be put into effect pending congres-sional action.
The finance ministers urged central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve to clearly com-municate future policy changes to avoid triggering unwanted turbu-lence in financial markets.
Lagarde told reporters Saturday that the Federal Reserve had made it clear that it planned to “always communicate and help everybody anticipate” its future moves on interest rates.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen along with Lew represented the U.S. at the finance meetings. (ap)
Thousands march in Europe against US-EU free trade pact
Finance officials see rising risks to economic recovery
WASHINGTON — World finance officials said Saturday they see a number of threats on the horizon for a global economy still claw-ing back from the deepest recession in seven decades, and a potential Greek debt default presents the most immediate risk. After finance officials wrapped up three days of talks, the International Monetary Fund’s policy committee set a goal of working toward a “more robust, balanced and job-rich global economy” while acknowledging growing risks to achieving that objective.
AP Photo/Jose Luis MaganaInternational Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meets at the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 18, 2015.
MIxEd cassava cake is one of the simple and affordable cakes of the Hindu community in Bali. Rural people love very much this kind of cake. Moreover, farmers often enjoy it as a substitute for rice. Its main ingredient is cassava mixed with sticky rice, grated coconut, brown sugar and salt.
In the past, people made the cassava a staple food. Understandably, the rice was very expensive at that time, even it was hard to get. At least, the cassava was cut into small pieces and then boiled and sprinkled with salt. To get different flavors, people made the cakes in various preparations. One of them is this mixed cassava cake.
The making of it is very simple. First of all, cassava is peeled and cut into small elongated shape. Alterna-tively, people can also use a slicer. Before that, prepare sticky rice at adequate amount. It is then soaked for 24 hours and then drained. The cassava
and sticky rice are steamed for about 10 minutes. Take out when they have been cooked.
Afterward, prepare brown sugar sauce and grated coconut. Add a little salt to the grated coconut so that it has a flavor. How to serve it? At first, pre-pare a dish and banana leaf as the base. Take an adequate amount of cassava cake and mixed with grated coconut. Having well mixed, top it with brown sugar sauce to taste.
Children really like this kind of cassava cake sprinkled with brown sugar sauce. Unlike the old people, they sometimes are reluctant to sweet foods. Recently, it is difficult to find this king of cake, let alone at urban areas. However, traditional markets usually still sell it. Nevertheless, the urban communities are often longing for enjoying this cake. If they happen to have a promenade to village, they usually buy it. (kmb)
According to Hindu community in Bali, the inter-section is made sacred so that it is bordered with a fence. When people pass through the area, they will certainly pause to deliver an offering. Aside from being done by local community, such a practice is also car-ried out by other people wishing to travel to Gianyar, Bangli and Ubud.
Standing at this intersection will make you perceive different vibration. Its magical aura is strong. Based on stories of local people, bizarre incidents frequently happened at the location. Residents living around the baby statue believe that it will cry at mid-night on full moon. A crying baby is often heard by non-native residents.
In addition, saying rude and behaving arrogant are not allowed at the location. Otherwise, undesired incident will occur to the violator.
In the past, someone from Klungkung took his son to pass through the intersection leading to Denpasar. When arriving at the site, the old man said if his son was the same as the statue. As an impact, his son kept crying until he arrived home. Ultimately, the man then apologized to the statue by delivering an oblation. According to local people, before the statue establishment, several accidents occurred around the intersection. However, after establishing and conse-crating the statue, the accident diminished.
According to a medium, the highway was formerly traversed by holy men, so that it was prone to be passed through specifically by people having bad intention. Meanwhile, some people said if the baby statue had something to do with the Hayang Tibha Temple located in the west of the statue. Divine ray of Lord Hayang Tibha lay in the statue. It was confirmed by the testimony of local temple priest that always paid devotional works at the statue area. (kmb)
Mixed cassava cake
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Baby statue at Batuan
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GIANYAR - If you happen to travel to Ubud vil-lage through Batuan village, you will surely pass the intersection of Belah Tanah hamlet, Batuan Kaler village, Sukawati subdistrict, Gianyar. Right in the midst of the intersection is established a statue of a giant baby. At the edges grows a large blackboard tree considered a sacred tree and commonly used to make sanctified barong mask.
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The protesters, led by relatives of victims of the ferry disaster, tried unsuccessfully to march to the presidential Blue House. More than 70 police buses used to block a downtown street leading to the Blue House were damaged or vandalized, said an official from the National Police Agency, who spoke on condition of ano-nymity, citing office rules. The official said around 80 people were being questioned over the demonstration. Twenty others who were also detained have
been released.The demonstration capped off
a week of vigils and rallies com-memorating the anniversary of the ferry disaster. A total of 304 people — most of them students from a single high school — died when the ferry Sewol sank off South Korea’s southwest coast on April 16, 2014.
There’s frustration among South Koreans who see their government as having failed to make meaningful improvements to safety standards and hold
high-level officials accountable for a disaster blamed in part on incompetence and corruption.
The relatives of the victims and their supporters have been calling for the government to ac-cept a more thorough investiga-tion into the cause of the sinking and provide a more detailed plan to salvage the ship.
Prosecutors have blamed neg-ligence by crew members, exces-sive cargo and improper storage for the sinking, along with slow rescue efforts. Relatives of the victims say the prosecution’s investigation was insufficient and have called for the establish-ment of an independent commit-tee to look more deeply into the government’s responsibility for the sinking and the high death toll. (ap)
NASHUA, New Hampshire — Republican presidential hopefuls clashed over foreign policy at a conference Saturday in New Hamp-shire — the small Northeastern state that plays an outsized role in the presidential nominating process.
Sen. Rand Paul, a first-term senator from Kentucky, lashed out at military hawks in the Republican Party. The libertarian-minded Paul, who favors a smaller U.S. footprint in the world, said that some of his Republican colleagues would do more harm in international affairs than would leading Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“The other Republicans will criticize the president and Hillary Clinton for their foreign policy, but they would just have done the same thing — just 10 times over,” Paul said on the closing day of a New Hampshire Republican conference that brought about 20 presidential prospects to the first-in-the-nation primary state. “There’s a group of folks in our party who would have troops in six countries right now, maybe more,” Paul said.
Foreign policy looms large in the presidential race as the U.S. struggles to resolve diplomatic and military conflicts across the globe. The Republican presidential class regularly rails against President Barack Obama’s leadership on the world stage, yet some would-be contenders have yet to articulate their own positions, while others offered sharply different visions.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose brother, President George W. Bush, authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq, declined to say whether he would have done anything different then. Yet Jeb Bush acknowledged a shift in his party against new military action abroad.
“Our enemies need to fear us, a little bit, just enough for them to deter the actions that create insecurity,” Bush said earlier in the con-ference. He said restoring alliances “that will create less likelihood of America’s boots on the ground has to be the priority, the first priority of the next president.” Republican hawks were well represented at the event, led by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and several lesser-known White House prospects.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham addressed the question of put-ting U.S. troops directly in the battle against the Islamic State group militants by saying there is only one way to defeat the militants: “You go over there and you fight them so they don’t come here.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz suggested an aggressive approach as well. “The way to defeat ISIS is a simple and clear military objective,” he said. “We will destroy them.”
Businesswoman Carly Fiorina said, “The world is a more dangerous and more tragic place when America is not leading. And America has not led for quite some time.”
There were few specifics offered in the conference, which came as several presidential candidates accelerate their political operations. Clinton began her campaign last week, and the emphasis on foreign affairs suggests her time as secretary of state will play prominently in the contest. (ap)
Republican hopefuls bicker over America’s role in world
AP Photo/Jim ColeRepublican presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks at the Re-publican Leadership Summit Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Nashua, N.H.
Park Dong-wook/Newsis via APIn this Saturday, April 18, 2015, photo, riot police officers spray water to disperse protesters after a rally to commemorate the first anniversary of the Sewol ferry sinking in Seoul, South Korea.
South Korean police question dozens after violent ferry protest
SEOUL — South Korean police said Sunday that they were questioning dozens of protesters after violence broke out at a rally denouncing the government’s handling of a ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people a year ago. Police used water cannons and pep-per spray to break up thousands of protesters in the capital, Seoul, on Saturday night. Dozens of police officers and protesters were injured during the demonstration.
BANGLI - The idea of carv-ing craft is usually expressed by the artists on wood or stone me-dium. However, different thing is carried out by the artist Nyoman Sukanta from Bangli. He chooses eggshell for the medium of carving. Armed with his artistic talent, this 53-year-old man is capable of processing eggshells often considered useless into a very beautiful work of art.
Met at his house on Jalan Nu-santara Bangli, Sukanta acknowl-edged that it is not easy to make the eggshell as a medium for carving artwork. As it is known, eggshell has a fragile texture so that it is required special techni-cal expertise to carve.
So far, he expresses his art talent through the medium of eggshell of cassowary, ostrich and emu (a large lightless fast-running Australian bird resem-bling the ostrich). Their eggs have a larger size than the size of chicken. Besides, in terms of hardness, they are also harder than other types of eggs. On those eggshells, he often expresses the puppetry stories with the famous Balinese carving style known to be intricate.
Although he does not open a gallery or art shop, the results of his artwork has been already known to many high officials at home and the art lovers overseas. One of them was the former In-terior Minister of the RI, Yogi S Memet. His work has been recog-nized since the New Order era.
Sukanta said that consumers wishing to have the eggshell carving of his work must make reservation in advance. In addi-tion, consumers must also bring their own raw materials. “All this time I just do the carving, while the raw materials are brought by consumers,” he explained.
To carve an eggshell, he will take for approximately one and a half months because the en-graving work is done manually without the help of machine. Ac-cording to him, manual work will result in a higher quality artwork. Although the quality of his work of art has been recognized by many high officials of the coun-try, this artist does not take much advantage. For an eggshell carv-ing, he just sets the rate of IDR 1.5 million. This rate is certainly very cheap for such a high quality artwork. (kmb40)
Confiscation of liquor belonging to class A was carried out by the officers of Buleleng Police. The targets are traders, mini market, ca-fés and bars along the road section of Lovina, Singaraja. The sales of liquor are alleged to have violated the regulation of the Minister of Trade No.06/M.DAG/PER/1/2015 on the second amendment to the Regulation of the Minister of Trade No.20/M-DAG/PER/4/2014 on the Control and Supervision against Procurement, Distribution, and Sale of Liquor. In Article II, paragraph (1) when the ministerial regulation comes into force, the certificate of seller for liquor belonging to class A (SKP-A) to minimarket and other retail stores is declared invalid. After that, the Article II, paragraph (2) states that minimarket and other retailers of liquor must have with-drawn from circulation their liquor
products belonging to class A not later than three (3) months.
The Chief of the Buleleng Police Quick Response Unit (Sabhara), I Nyoman Kartika, said the confisca-tion of hundreds of bottles of liquor belonging to class A is conducted under the rules of the Minister of Trade. Withdrawal of the liquor can actually be done from Thurs-day (Apr. 16). Any minimarket known to still sell liquor belonging to group A should be secured and then taken to Buleleng Police. “We refer to the applicable rules. Liquor of the group A has to be withdrawn from circulation. We found many locations distributing or selling the liquor without the support of administration and they will be given a misdemeanor,” said Kartika, Friday (Apr. 17).
His party added that field exami-nation will still be performed. Such
condition should be understood by society, so that arguments about the rules must not occur in the field. “We continue to conduct operations against the liquor of group A. The rules are clear and we will continue to discipline until further provi-sion is issued. We can understand the complaints of the traders,” he added.
In the meantime, a trader of liquor at minimarket, Made Rudi Artana, considered to have been aggrieved over the application of the regulation of trade minister that has seized the liquor sold every day to foreign guests at Lovina tourist area. With his wife, Luh Wiwik, Ar-tana insisted on requesting tolerance to police officers. He argued to have communicated to the integrated service office (KPT) of Buleleng re-lated to the sale of liquor at Lovina. “Obviously I object, I’ve asked to the KPT if selling liquor of group A is allowed at Lovina. As a result, I’m now losing and get information if the distributing company of the liquor will back up in court,” he said. (kmb34)
Cassowary eggshell carving in Bangli
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Liquor wholesalers complain on confiscation
SINGARAJA - Traders of drink at Lovina tourist area complained about the confiscation of their drinks belonging to group A, whose circulation is banned by the Minister of Trade. The traders argued to have make communication to local relevant agency in Buleleng County to follow up on the liquor banned by the government.
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For American tourists, the dollar’s strength translates into a discount of around 25 percent compared with this time last year. China’s currency has risen some 20 percent against the euro over the past year.
And eurozone residents feel-ing the pinch from their sluggish economies are more likely to stay inside the bloc, where they won’t feel the currency changes.
That means the ingredients are in place for “a great year for tourism” in Europe, says Nick Greenfield, head of tour opera-tor relations at the London-based European Tour Operators As-sociation.
The euro has fallen against many currencies in recent times, but its drop has been particularly pronounced against the dollar. The euro was trading at $1.057 on Wednesday, having been as high as $1.40 a year ago. Tim Cooper, a global economist at BMI Research in London, says his company expects the euro and dollar to reach parity later this year.
The European Central Bank’s policies have been weakening the euro, while those of the U.S. Fed-eral Reserve have been bolster-ing the dollar. The euro has also been dragged down by fears over Greece’s debts and the bloc’s muted economic growth.
U.S. bookings to some Euro-pean countries have risen by up to 20 percent so far, European tourism officials and American travel companies report.
Lyssandros Tsilidis, president of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agents, said Greece has seen a 15-20 percent increase in reservations from the U.S. — Europe’s biggest long-haul market — compared to the same time last year. Spain saw a 12 percent increase in January and almost 19 percent in Febru-ary. Officials anticipate more growth, which they attribute to the dollar’s strength.
The exchange rate “certainly makes things easier to enjoy,” said Bob Homeyer, a retired businessman from San Diego on vacation in Madrid with his wife. “We have had some fine meals for what worked out to be reasonable prices, and our visit to the Prado Museum worked out at 7 euros ($7.48) each, which is a
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People line up to enter St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 15, 2015.
Weak euro adds to Europe’s vacation lure for tourists
LISBON — Vacations in Europe have a new attraction: the euro’s steep drop in value is making the continent much cheaper for tourists from across the world, especially the United States and China.
real bargain,” he said outside the Madrid landmark.
Among individual cities, Paris is a top attraction, pulling some 2 million Americans tourists last year. Officials hope to make it 2.2 million this year - and “encour-age them to spend more” while the exchange rate is favorable, says Francois Navarro, general manager of the city’s tourism committee.
If trends hold, Navarro said, Americans could well return this year to the top spot among foreign tourists in the Paris area — for the first time in about a decade. “It’ll be a big deal,” he
said.But a new generation of Chi-
nese tourists is shaking up Paris’ forecasts, Navarro said. They’re aged 25 to 40, travel alone, and spend on high-end hotels and restaurants, unlike the previous generation that wanted mainly to shop. And a Chinese visitor spends four times as much on average as Americans.
The United States is also the biggest source of tourists for Rome, which recorded a 7 per-cent increase in American visi-tors in January, the latest figures available, compared with the same month last year.
U.S. tour company Liberty Travel says its New York City outlets are reporting a year-on-year 17 percent jump in bookings to Europe. That includes marked growth in travel to usually less-visited European cities, including Dublin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid and Athens, the company said.
Vacationers have a broad vari-ety of options to choose from: the eurozone encompasses countries from Portugal to Finland and from Greece to Ireland.
Europe is now competing for American business with popular U.S. destinations, says Joseph A. Moscone, Booking.com’s senior manager for public relations in the Americas.
The company compared room
prices this year in Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Ber-lin with last year’s prices, using the euro-dollar exchange rate last month and in March 2014. It con-cluded that the average price in U.S. dollars for a night in a 4-star hotel in those cities is 21 percent lower, and down 17 percent for 5-star accommodation.
That means, Booking.com calculates, that for the price of seven days in Palm Springs, an American could spend 14 days in Barcelona.
Vacations in Europe are “not only affordable, but even a rela-tively inexpensive option in comparison to some pricier U.S. destinations,” Moscone said in emailed comments to the AP. (ap)
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Tourists listen to a guide as they stand in front of the Erech-theion temple during a visit at the Acropolis hill in Athens, on Wednesday, April 15, 2015.
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Roberts family from left, Dan, Trevor, Tyler Mayes and Angie, from Colombus, OH. stand in front of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris, France.
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In this picture taken Friday, April 10, 2015, a South Korean tourist poses for a photo taken by her friend in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain.
BANGLI – One of the Kinta-mani dog breeders, I Wayan Dwika Pratama Putra, said on Sunday that the demand of Kintamani dog is constantly increasing over time. He explained that the demand is not only from the area of Bali, but also from outside the region, such as Jakarta. “Interested people from outside the area continue to increase,” he explained.
High appeal of Kintamani dog to be made a pet makes a number of animal lovers have an initiative to breed it in order to go interna-tional. This proliferation is also taken advantage as one of the busi-ness opportunities having a bright prospect.
He said further that people are interested in the dog due to the intelligent and brave nature of the dog. Physically, the Kintamani dog is recognized to have many privileges. In terms of its fur, this dog has a specific mane, white and thick fur as well as a tail resembling a crescent moon. Besides, the dog also has almond-like eyes with inverted v-shaped ears. In addition, the posture is straight and it tends to resemble wolf. In terms of its na-ture, Kintamani dog has intelligence exceeding the other types of dogs as well as good agility.
On the other hand, the dog origi-nating in the cool climatic region is very good at dancing and responsive when trained. It happens due to the sharp instinct possessed. “This dog is very different from the other dogs and its own characteristics become the main attraction,” said the man from Tanjung Benoa, Badung.
He added that high demand cannot be fully fulfilled. This hap-pens because he cannot breed the Kintamani dog in large numbers. However, when there is a demand, he will make collaboration with other breeders. By that way, the
According to Rumawan, gov-ernment action, particularly in matters of environmental conser-vation tend to remain theoretical or are done half-heartedly. Everyone must work together to ensure that Bali’s sources of water are main-tained.
Despite the fact that the map-ping of new water sources has been done, as of yet there has been no real or sustained effort to work on tho potential. “As a consequence,
we must now act strategically and in consideration of available water and potential alternatives, particu-larly in regards to developments in Bali,” said Rumawan.
To date, there remains extreme inequality in terms of water usage. Apparently mega projects and tour-ist accommodations are guaranteed access to water, either through the services of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) or artesian wells. Meanwhile the general
population often has to wait hours or sometimes days for access to clean water. This is another issue regarding water in Bali that needs to be addressed.
The re-orientation of develop-ment projects in general must be geared toward being genuinely eco-friendly and not just appear to be so on paper. The most press-ing issue is the environment. Ru-mawan pointed out that the clean and green program launched by the
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Government urged to take actionDENPASAR - Many people have been concerned about the decreasing amounts of ground
water available in Bali. Udayana University academic Putu Rumawan Salain said on Sunday that it is time for the government to enact a strategy to address this problem.
government some time ago, is not enough to deal with the problem. Planting trees is certainly a good thing, however it takes years to see the results. Water sources need to be protected immediately.
The enormous amounts of water that the tourism industry uses, has depleted the water table and cause sea water intrusion. In Denpasar, sea water has already seeped as far as North Sesetan. This Udayana academic, and others, worries that with the addition of even more tourist accommodations, particu-larly big projects like the Benoa Bay reclamation project, the nega-
tive impact on the community will be even more pronounced. “We cannot just keep expanding the tourism sector without protecting out water sources. The government must be considerably stricter in is-suing building permits,” he said.
Rumawan added that it is im-perative that a critical study be done regarding water in Bali. University and government depart-ments need to work together and not shy away from collaborations so that this problem can be solved. There needs to be a recalculation of the carrying capacity of Bali now. (kmb25)
Kintamani dog increasingly in demanddesire of pet lovers to collect the dog can be fulfilled.
Other than Pratama Putra, the other breeder of Kintamani dog is I Wayan Syartama Hadi Nugraha. He also revealed similar opinion. The man who has just pursued in breeding the Kintamani dog for few years explained that the real interest to raise or breed the dog never goes out.
Through the years, the inter-ested people continue to grow. Unfortunately, he cannot transform it into a business opportunity be-cause the puppy produced remains
in a small number. “I want to focus first on the breeding. After having more puppies, I will make it into a business,” said the student of the Veterinary Department, Udayana University.
The intention of Hadi Nugraha to breed the Kintamani dog is inseparable from of his identity originating from Kintamani.
According to him, as a local community he should help to preserve the dog. He also added to be proud of doing things at the moment and would like to bring the dog to a wider sphere. “I want
to preserve this dog, so that it will not come into extinction,” he explained.
The high intention to breed the dog from cool climatic region is inseparable from the number of recognitions obtained by this Kin-tamani dog, such as the recognition as the Indonesian species by the All Indonesian Kennel Club (Perkin) in 2006. Later, in February 2012 the Kintamani dog got recognition in the Asian level from the Asian Kennel Union (AKU). After that, in 2014 the dog received another recognition from the Ministry of
Agriculture as the native dog spe-cies to Indonesia based on the de-cree of the Minister of Agriculture No.581/Kpts/SR.120/4/2014.
The existence of Kintamani dog is not only preserved by the dog lovers. The government of Bangli through the Livestock and Fisher-ies Agency also continues to work for Kintamani dog so that it can achieve the recognition from the Federation Cynologique Interna-tionale (FCI) as a dog species of the world. The effort having been made since 2011 is to perform breeding of the Kintamani dog in cage especially made by the Livestock and Fisheries Agency. (kmb45/kmb40)
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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According to the Head of the Badung Livestock Agency, I Gde Asrama, this mass vaccination by the government, will reach all dogs in these two areas. “The door-to-door method is more effective than call-ing people to meet at their hamlet halls, because sometimes people feel reluctant to show up for any number of reason,” he said.
Asrama estimates that their are 55,000 dogs in Badung, most of which are in North Kuta, Meng-wi, Abiansemal, Petang and Kuta. Although there are en estimated 55,000,only 50, 00 dogs were vac-cinated. The remaining 5,000 will be
vaccinated once the 2015 budget has been amended,. “Each dog vaccina-tion costs IDR 20,000, so if we mul-tiply that by 50,000 we find that IDR 1 billion is required to conduct the mass vaccination,” he explained.
According to Asrama, South Kuta is considered a red zone or high risk zone because there are so many stray dogs. “Yes indeed South Kuta is a high risk zone, so a special team made up of officers from the county as well as the provincial livestock agency are dealing with matters there,” he explained.
The vaccination started in Dalung village. The combined budgets of
the local, provincial and central goverment’s, allotted to the mass vaccination -which will be taking place over the next three months, amounts to approximately amounts to IDR 1 billion.
“The budget worth IDR 1 bil-lion is broken down as follows: the ergional budget of Badung allocates for 30,000 dogs, the provincial gov-ernment for15,000 dogs, and the state budget for 5,000 dogs,” he said.
The vaccination program being held from April until July 2015, tar-gets all of Badung including Petang, Abiansemal, Mengwi, North Kuta, Kuta and South Kuta. (kmb27)
Environmentalist, Dr. Luh Kartini, said genuine Balinese people should view Benoa Bay as a sacred area. “We have been given directives or signs by the ancestors, based on the concept of nyegara-gunung (mountainward-seaward), which states that the oceans, mountains, seas, lakes, bays and springs must be sanctified. That which is implicitly signified by ‘sanctified’ means more than -but at the very least, that it should be maintained,” she said.
Kartini asserted that Benoa Bay will be better off if it remains a conservation area. Moreover, the people of this area believe there is a Dalem Karang Temple under the wa-ters of Benoa Bay. The flow of tourist dollars into Bali is inseparable from the traditions and faith of Hinduism related to the sanctified places.
“Secondly, all the people of Bali and the leaders of Bali must do some serious introspection. What will happen if all the proposed projects are built in Bali- including the toll road? Our society and culture is based on agriculture, so if all the arable land is built on this will obviously change everything, including the available water - Bali functions as one eco-system. The issue of our carrying capacity is very problematic,” she said. (kmb32)
NEGARA - Mangosteen farmers in Jembrana admit to feel lethargic within the past month. It is triggered by the selling price of their crops that plummeted in the market whereas this month is the harvest peak of mangosteen orchard. Farmers are forced to sell their crops at low price.
As perceived by mangosteen farmers at Pohsanten vil-lage, Mendoyo subdistrict, they claimed that the price of mangosteen dropped in the past month so that they are very upset. Mangosteen commonly sold in the range of IDR 8,000 per kg dropped to IDR 3,000 to IDR 2,500. “It dropped drastically, whereas it was once sold at IDR 15,000. Now, it’s very cheap,” said Gusti Komang Suartama, a mangosteen farmer.
According to him, it was the lowest price within the past several years as long as he harvested mangosteen. The price drop happened because the harvest of mangosteen occurred at the same time in a number of areas in Jembrana. As a result, the stock of mangosteen turned abundant and had an impact on the price.
Similar condition is also experienced by farmers at Gunung Sekar, Mendoyo Dauh Tukad and Pancaseming, Batuagung. The mangosteen orchard owners at these two villages also have the impact on the decline in the price of mangosteen. Indeed there are several types of mangosteen sought after and the price is more expensive. According to them, it is difficult to produce the demanded fruit. “At least some can meet the requirement, but the price will also drop when the price in the market drops,” said Ida Bagus Yuli, one of the farmers at Batuagung. According to him, the price decline has occurred at the collector level because the price in the market also falls. (kmb36)
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Government door-to-door dog vaccination
MANGUPUrA – The government of Badung through the Badung Livestock Agency performed a mass vaccination on Friday (Apr. 17). In order to reach more dogs, officers being sent out to each ham-let to go door-to-door looking for dogs to vaccinate. North Kuta and other parts of Badung are being targeted first, because of the large number of dogs in these areas.
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The “Iron Man” and “Shakespeare in Love” star was challenged by ce-lebrity chef Mario Batali to live on the equivalent of the average US govern-ment food stipend for low-income families. The goal was to raise funds and public awareness for the Food Bank For New York City, which pro-vides millions of free meals to New Yorkers in need.
With $29, Paltrow filled her grocery basket with a healthy-looking mix of eggs, black beans, lettuce, kale, a tomato, some avocados and corn tortillas.
“As I suspected, we only made
it through about four days, when I personally broke and had some chicken and fresh vegetables (and in full transparency, half a bag of black licorice),” she wrote on her Goop.com blog Thursday.
Giving herself a C minus for her ef-forts, Paltrow blamed income inequal-ity between men and women for the difficulties that “hardworking moth-ers” face in feeding their families.
Paltrow, a mother of two, was seen Tuesday at a Los Angeles film promotion event that featured with an $80-a-head prix fixe menu -- although it’s unclear if she ate from it, the E!
showbiz network reported.One in seven Americans, or 46
million people, live on what the US government officially calls the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The US Depart-ment of Agriculture, which oversees SNAP, puts the weekly cost of food for a young family of four at between $151 to $247.
If Paltrow, 42, was trying to prove the near-impossibility of living on food stamps alone, the point was missed by many critics on social media. “Looks like Paltrow did some conscious un-coupling from her food stamp week,” snickered one cynic on Twitter, riffing off the way she and Coldplay front-man Chris Martin labeled their 2014 divorce. (afp)
CLEVELAND — Ringo Starr was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a little help from one of his famous friends. The mop-topped drum-mer who kept the beat for the Beatles, Starr was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on Saturday night during a ceremony jammed with scintillating performances and touching moments.
Starr was the last of the Beatles to be inducted for his individual work, getting in after bandmates Paul Mc-Cartney, John Lennon and George Harrison. He was always the fourth Beatle — John, Paul, George ... and Ringo — but now he’s been immortal-ized as a frontman.
Starr was inducted along with Green Day, underground-icon Lou Reed, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, soul singer-songwriter Bill Withers, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The “5’’ Royales.
The 74-year-old Starr was inducted by McCartney, and then stepped to the podium and said: “My name is Ringo and I play drums” — as if anyone didn’t know.
He was then joined on stage by Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh on “It Don’t Come Easy” before McCartney came out to play bass, the two living Beatles jamming again, to “A Little Help From My Friends.”
With plenty of punk attitude and energy, Green Day thrashed its way into the Rock Hall. The Bay Area trio, which formed as teenagers and helped make punk rock radio friendly in the 1990s, briefly turned the star-studded event into one of their high-intensity shows with a powerful set of some of their most memorable hits.
From the opening power chords of “American Idiot,” Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool had the crowd at Cleveland’s Public Hall dancing in the aisles.
Brash and belligerent, Green Day blasted onto the music scene just as Seattle’s grunge sound was growing stale. The band borrowed riffs from punk pioneers like The Stooges and Sex Pistols, flavored them with some power chords and pop hooks and helped redefine a genre.
Reed was both daring and provoca-tive as a songwriter and lyricist, pushing boundaries with ballads about forbidden subjects like drugs, prostitution and sui-cide. Reed’s songs like “Walk On The Wild Side,” ‘’Vicious” and “Heroin” remain vibrant today. Although he died in 2013, Reed continues to influence a young generation of musicians touched by his rebel ways. (ap)
Billie Joe Armstrong, front, and Mike Dirnt, from Green Day perform
at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Saturday, April
18, 2015, in Cleveland.
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Ringo Starr, Green Day rock their way into Rock Hall
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The number of rooms available in the richest county in Bali has ballooned to 61,206 rooms. There are 98 star hotels that account for 16,360 rooms. In 2009 there were 505 non-star hotels, but by 2014 this number had already increased to 855 hotels with a total of 34,815 rooms.
The problem is that elite area ac-commodations do not buy there wa-ter from the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM), but instead drill into the water table (ABT). If there are more parge scale projects, such as the mega project proposed for Benoa Bay, the ground water will most certainly be severely depleted.
Secretary General of the Indo-nesia Hotel and Restaurant Asso-ciation (PHRI) of Badung Chapter, Gusti Kade Sutawa, argues that a water crisis will obvioussly have an impact on the sustainability of
tourism. For this reason, he hopes there will be no more mega projects built in South Badung. “We know the area is already over saturated with hotels, so building anymore poses a threat to water sources, because nearly all such projects tap into the groundwater,” said Kade Sutawa when contacted over the weekend.
According to Sutawa, tourism industry players in South Badung have been trying to reduce their use of underground water by increasing the amount of water that they get from the Municipal Waterworks. A number of five-star accommo-dations have been managing their waste water so that it can be reused. “The tourism industry has been using this breakthrough method (of recycling waste water-Ed),” he said.
However, he added that the pro-
cessed water has yet to be used for bathing, cooking and drinking be-cause of the negative connotations associated with such water.
“Processed waste water is only intended for watering lawns and for the fire hydrants. It has not been used for drinking water because it comes from urine and other waste, so it is inappropriate for human consumption,” he explained.
Sutawa, who is also Operations Manager for the Puri Saron Group, hopes that the government is pre-paring regulations to prevent any-more hotels from going up. “If the number of hotel rooms continues to rise, it is not impossible that South Badung will face a drought. If this happens, tourism will go bankrupt,” he predicted.
A member of the Badung Tour-ism Promotion Board (BPPD), I Putu Anom, said that Bali’s car-rying capacity for tourism, has been noted in a study made by the Center for Tourism Research at Udayana University in 2000. “The number of hotel rooms that the
study predicted up until 2010 has been far exceeded. A water short-age has occurred due to the rampant development of the tourism sector as well as housing construction in general,” he explained.
This Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Intellectual Association (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, suggests that the government conducts a study about the carrying capacity of Bali, so that development can be done with proper planning and in relation to the results of such a study. “Currently a water crisis has already hit South Bali. Therefore, the government needs to exercise extreme caution in issuing any more permits for accommodations, particularly for projects that require lots of water and land,” he said.
In the meantime, the Regent of Badung A.A. Gde Agung said that he has arranged for clean water to be supplied to meet the demands of people in South Badung. The clean water service of Penet River has been running properly through funding assistance from the central
government, while the pipeline construction is being financed by the province of Bali and Badung County. The development of this drinking water provision system (SPAM) is meant to meet the needs for water in South Badung. “The multi-year project has not been fully completed as it still faces constrainst in the matter of the pipeline installa-tion. After completion, it will allow for 300 liters of water per second. South Badung requires a total of 150 liters,” he explained.
Additionally, the government of Badung is also building a clean water facility at Tegeh Sari. Hope-fully, South Badung can start enjoy-ing this clean water in April 2016. (kmb27)
Rapid growth of hotel rooms in South Badung triggers wasteful use of underground water. Con-
sequently, it is not impossible for the area relied to produce regionally generated revenue
(PAD) will be hit by water crisis.
More hotels in South Badung threat of water crisis
MANGUPURA - The increasing number of hotel rooms in South Badung, and the groundwater depletion that they bring, means that this region, which has been relied on to produce “re-gionally generated revenue” (PAD) will be hit by water crisis.
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