For placing advertisment, please contact: Eka Wahyuni 0361-225764 HOTLINE PAGE 6 CITY TEMPERATURE O C WEATHER FORECAST 23 - 31 24 - 33 19 - 29 22 - 31 24 - 33 DENPASAR JAKARTA BANDUNG YOGYAKARTA SURABAYA SUNNY BRIGHT/CLOUDY RAIN PAGE 8 PAGE 12 Wednesday, August 18, 2010 16 Pages Number 156 2 st Year e-mail: [email protected]online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. I N T E R N A T I O N A L Price: Rp 3.000,- Stallone’s ‘Expendables’ storm US, Canadian box office “The pilot informed us that we were going to land in San Andres, we buckled our seat belts, we settled in — and a second later, boom! A big bang,” said 25-year- old survivor Alvaro Granados, BALI as one of the famous tourism destination throughout the world will be filled with new in- habitants in the next few years. Currently the number of inhabit- ants of Bali is 3.9 million people. The number is increasing com- pared to several years ago which was 3.4 million. In 2011, the number of people live in Bali is predicted will be around 4 million people. While the ideal number of Bali’s inhabitants AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia A police officer stands by a crashed plane sitting on the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died. 6 badly injured in ‘miracle’ crash flown to Bogota Continued on page 6 Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Colombia – Survivors say everything seemed normal as a jetliner with 131 people on board prepared to land in a storm on a Caribbean resort. Suddenly it plunged to earth, killing one person — a death toll so low the island’s governor called it a miracle. who was flying with his wife and two children. “When my wife and I stood and looked behind us we saw that the back of the plane was missing.” Authorities say it happened so quickly the pilot didn’t report an emergency to the control tower at Colombia’s San Andres Island. Experts are trying to figure out why the Aires airline Boeing 737 jetliner hit the ground short of the runway on Monday — and how 130 of the people on board survived as the aircraft skidded on its belly with its fuselage fracturing and its land- ing gear and at least one engine rip- ping off. After the jet ground to a stop, pas- sengers scrambled from their seats or were helped to safety. Authorities said firefighters quickly doused flames that broke out on a wing. Continued on page 6 Pecalang can not forget their origin is 1.5 million people. For that rea- son, everyone must take part in pre- serving Bali as a safe, secure, and peaceful place. The statement was said by Bali’s Governor, Made Mangku Pastika, during the gathering between Bali Post and the local security officers or Pecalang in Besakih on Monday, August 16 th 2010. On the occasion, Bali Post also gave the donation by Bali Post readers to Besakih village. The number of people in Bali in- crease rapidly and it is not because the high birth rate but because the high number of migration. Bali can not forbid anyone to enter or stay in Bali because Bali is a part on Indonesia and every Indonesian citizen has the right to stay anywhere in the nation. “It is obviously will cause prob- lems such as the lack of land to build housing and carry out businesses,” the governor said. Village as the smallest unit in Bali has important role in preserving safety and peace. It is needed to attract tourists to visit Bali because the island depends on tourism to support the local economy. “There are small security distur- bances but it is in small scale. How- ever, we can not tolerate any kind of security disturbances,” he added. The pecalang gathering is one of the steps to preserve the safety in Bali especially after the 65 th anniversary of Indonesia Independence Day. Indonesia cuts Australia drug runners’ sentences Smog again creeps into Russian capital
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“The pilot informed us that wewere going to land in San Andres,we buckled our seat belts, wesettled in — and a second later,boom! A big bang,” said 25-year-old survivor Alvaro Granados,
BALI as one of the famoustourism destination throughout theworld will be filled with new in-habitants in the next few years.Currently the number of inhabit-ants of Bali is 3.9 million people.The number is increasing com-pared to several years ago whichwas 3.4 million.
In 2011, the number of peoplelive in Bali is predicted will bearound 4 million people. While theideal number of Bali’s inhabitants
AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia
A police officer stands by a crashed plane sitting on the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, MondayAug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnightlocal time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.
6 badly injured in ‘miracle’crash flown to Bogota
Continued on page 6
Associated Press Writer
BOGOTA, Colombia – Survivors say everything seemed normal as a jetliner with 131 peopleon board prepared to land in a storm on a Caribbean resort. Suddenly it plunged to earth,killing one person — a death toll so low the island’s governor called it a miracle.
who was flying with his wife andtwo children. “When my wife andI stood and looked behind us wesaw that the back of the plane wasmissing.”
Authorities say it happened so
quickly the pilot didn’t report anemergency to the control tower atColombia’s San Andres Island.
Experts are trying to figure outwhy the Aires airline Boeing 737jetliner hit the ground short of the
runway on Monday — and how 130of the people on board survived asthe aircraft skidded on its belly withits fuselage fracturing and its land-ing gear and at least one engine rip-ping off.
After the jet ground to a stop, pas-sengers scrambled from their seats orwere helped to safety. Authorities saidfirefighters quickly doused flamesthat broke out on a wing.
Continued on page 6
Pecalang can not forget their originis 1.5 million people. For that rea-son, everyone must take part in pre-serving Bali as a safe, secure, andpeaceful place.
The statement was said by Bali’sGovernor, Made Mangku Pastika,during the gathering between BaliPost and the local security officersor Pecalang in Besakih on Monday,August 16th 2010. On the occasion,Bali Post also gave the donation byBali Post readers to Besakih village.
The number of people in Bali in-
crease rapidly and it is not becausethe high birth rate but because the highnumber of migration. Bali can notforbid anyone to enter or stay in Balibecause Bali is a part on Indonesiaand every Indonesian citizen has theright to stay anywhere in the nation.
“It is obviously will cause prob-lems such as the lack of land to buildhousing and carry out businesses,”the governor said. Village as thesmallest unit in Bali has importantrole in preserving safety and peace.
It is needed to attract tourists to visitBali because the island depends ontourism to support the localeconomy.
“There are small security distur-bances but it is in small scale. How-ever, we can not tolerate any kindof security disturbances,” he added.
The pecalang gathering is one ofthe steps to preserve the safety in Baliespecially after the 65th anniversaryof Indonesia Independence Day.
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Semarapura (Bali Post)—Known as the hill ranges, dry and
barren territory, Nusa Penida undeni-ably retains a variety of potentials. Notonly of maritime, has it also storedabundant island potentials across theterritory. Aside from being arable tocrops, the non-irrigated dry field ricebelonging to gogo rancah variety is alsoone of the potential commodities ofNusa Penida.
“Formerly, the Nusa Penida resi-dents widely cultivated gogo rancah ricevariety,” said a field extension workers(PPL) of Batumadeg and BatukandikVillage, East Nusa Penida, WayanDanaya, when met in Nusa Penida, lastSunday (Aug 15). Danaya said thatgogo rancah rice cultivation was stillbeing developed in East Nusa Penidauntil the 1980s. The proceedings couldbe categorized into good. Other thanearmarked for the need of family con-sumption, the residents of Nusa Penidacould also set it aside for sale and ex-changed for other needs. “Texture of
“I came to Bali in August to seethe celebration of Indonesian Inde-pendence Day,” he added. Benuil alsosaid that he had seen many activitiesdone by the people in Bali to celebratethe Independence Day. “It is my sec-ond time to see the celebration of In-donesian Independence Day. I amvery attracted to see the celebrationin addition to visit tourism site in Bali.The costumes of the participants ofthe ceremony are varied,” he said.
Denpasar (Bali Post)—Governor of Bali Made Mangku
Pastika opened the implementation ofDevelopment Exhibition of Bali Prov-ince 2010 at the Denpasar Art Center,last Saturday (Aug 14) night. The ex-hibition held in the series of the 52ndAnniversary of Bali Province and the65th Independence Anniversary of theRI was also carried out in conjunctionwith the Utsawa Dharma Gita (HinduPsalmodic Festival) of Bali Province2010 taking the theme Through theBali Provincial Development Exhibi-tion 2010 We Strengthen the Commit-ment to Develop Bali Heading for BaliMandara. Meanwhile, the UtsawaDharma Gita featured the theme SantiKinenyepi Tutur standing for deepen-ing the Dharma Gita to reinforce thenational characters.
Governor Mangku Pastika in hisspeech expected the development ex-hibition to be more informative andeducative other than being able to serveas a medium of entertainment for thecommunity because implementation
Singaraja (DenPost)—Hard work of Buleleng Mobile De-
tective Unit (Buser) for less than a weekfinally managed to reveal the perpetra-tor of burglary at Pawnshop Officewithin the complex of HardysSingaraja. The culprit was no other thanI Gede Mertayasa alias Bagler, 36, aresident living on Jalan Gajah Mada,Penataran Hamlet, Kendran Village,Singaraja. Mertayasa was arrestedaround 11:00 am Local Time when hewas passing through Jalan WRSupratman Singaraja. The man tattooedon his arm was then taken to Headquar-ters of Buleleng Police for further ex-amination.
Although denied when he was ex-amined, but finally the man whoplanned to marry a girl from Bandungwas finally admitted his deeds, namelyburglarizing the Pawnshop Office aswell as doing the persecution to MirzaResti Nirmala, 24, the Pawnshop staffwho was on duty at the time. Interest-ingly, the perpetrator confessed hisreckless action purely intended to getmoney used to finance a cafe girl namedTina for homecoming to Bandung, WestJava. Even, gold jewelries stolen in thePawnshop Office were also partly pre-sented as gift for the cafe girl admittedto be his girlfriend. Then, how did thesuspect who had brought his girlfriend
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Denpasar – Foreign tourists were watching the 65th anniversary of Indonesian IndependenceDay on Puputan Margarana, Denpasar, Bali on Tuesday, August 17th 2010. Benuil Alfino, atourist from France said that he was amazed to see the ceremony.
The similar thing was also statedby Qpoloq Yupu, a tourist fromMexico. “It is very amazing. Thepeople of Indonesia love their coun-try very much. Every place is deco-rated with red and with flags and or-naments. It is quite different from mycountry,” he said.
Bali Governor, Made MangkuPastika was the head of the ceremony.On the speech, the governor urgedeveryone to fill the independence with
development to increase the welfareof the society. Bali Ida BagusKompyang, the head of Veteran Le-gion for Bali regency (LVRI) said thatafter being an independent country, thestruggle is still the same as when thearmy fought to gain it.
“We hope that the young genera-tions still want to fight today but tofill the independence such as by gain-ing knowledge to compete with othernation,” he said.
Governor opens Development ExhibitionExpected, it’s more informativeand communicative
of such exhibition was also jazzed upwith various cultural performances.Asserted, the development exhibitionwas one of the most effective media todisseminate information in order to en-hance the community participation inthe development. “I do hope all mes-sages and information could be packedas attractive and objective as possibleso as to give the truth to the public. Bydoing so, the integration of our mea-sures in implementing the vision of BaliMandara could be more stabilized,” heasserted. According to him, the devel-opment exhibition getting involved thecircles of small and medium entrepre-neurs (SMEs) and small and mediumindustries (SMIs) could be utilized as avenue of product promotion for thoseSMEs and SMIs existing in Bali.Through the event was also expectedto move the wheels of the economywhich in turn could improve the wel-fare of the entire people of Bali.
Meanwhile, Utsawa Dharma Gitadenoting a competition for the Hinduliterati in the mastery of aesthetics and
the meaning of religious literary val-ues could be used as a means of dis-semination as well as preservation ofthe existing Hindu literature support-ing the implementation of ritual activi-ties. “Philosophical and ethical valuespresented in high aesthetic make theliterature as the right universal phenom-enon in building the national characteras well as language being acceptableto all elements of society,” he affirmed.
On that occasion, the Chairman ofthe Exhibition Development, I MadeSantha, emphasized that the develop-ment exhibition of Bali Province 2010would be held during the 10 days start-ing from August 14 to 23, 2010 andUtsawa Darma Gita would be con-ducted for three days on August 14-16,2010. It was said the participants ofUtsawa Dharma Gita were from re-gency/city throughout Bali amountingto 378 people. Meanwhile, exhibitorsinvolved consisted of four pillars ofdevelopment namely government, pri-vate enterprises, community and aca-demician with 162 participants/booths.
Bagler, the burglar ofPawnshop in SingarajaResults given to a café girl from Bandung
to Bandung perform the action?Chief of Buleleng Police Yudi
Hartanto when asked for his confirma-tion, last Saturday (Aug 14), said thearrest of the suspect was started fromthe information given by a cellularphone shopkeeper located aroundSukasada saying that there was a mancarrying a cell phone and wanted todelete the photos of a woman. Face ofthe woman was very similar to RestiNirmala Mirza becoming the robberyvictim in the Pawnshop Office. Basedon that information, police suspected ifthe man deleting those photos was therobbery suspect. In the incident, otherthan taking the money and gold, the bur-glar also took the cell phone belongingto the victim.
Having been identified, in fact theman was Mertayasa living on JalanGajah Mada, Singaraja. Suspicion ofpolice was getting stronger because,according to information, Mertayasasuspected in fact has departed toBandung to accompany his girlfriendhomecoming. The Mobile DetectiveUnit also continued to chase him up toBandung. Unfortunately, Bagler whoalready had a wife and son has returnedto Bali since his uncle died. Police de-cided to wait for the suspect at NgurahRai Airport, dogged him and finallyambushed him in Singaraja City. (118)
Nusa Penida potential tocultivate gogo rancah rice
land here (in Nusa Penida—ed) alsoenables for the development of gogorancah rice variety,” he added.
However, after the 1980s there wasa great climate change making the gogorancah rice cultivation was no longerproviding adequate benefits for resi-dents. In fact, people lose money be-cause the maintenance cost turned muchmore expensive than the results ob-tained. “Climate change caused increas-ingly erratic and less rainfall in NusaPenida. Farmers usually cultivated ricebased on rainfall estimates. Apparently,their estimate misses the target becauseit did not rain accordingly. Finally, therice could not grow well,” said Danaya.
Such a condition had an impact on thedeclining number of residents that plantedthe gogo rancah variety. Meanwhile, thosepersisting were also distraught. They didnot only lack for water, but should alsoface the attack of wild birds getting morevicious. “Birds also become a constraintfor the development of gogo rancah ricevariety,” he said. (kmb20)
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Mangupura (Bali Post) –Poverty’s causing factor is com-
plex not only the people’s quality,access or the government’s avail-ability, but also the people’s men-tal behavior. At least, this is alsoone that made Badung region’spoverty prevention program hadproblems. Until now it’s still foundpeople who are lazy, won’t use anopportunity and wait for someone’shelp instead.
Head of Commission C of theBadung Regence House of Repre-sentatives, I Nyoman Satria, men-tioned there are actually job oppor-tunities in Badung mostly on tour-ism as it’s the most important andproved to be a Region’s Trusted In-come (PAD) contributor for 93 per-cent. This means tourism movesdynamically and became the cen-ter to the people’s development.
Even though, tourism is not theonly option. A multiplier effectfrom tourism can be used as a guar-anteed opportunity. For examplethe Micro and Middle Business(UMKM), “Only now, is the pub-lic going to use these opportunitiesgiven or not.”
According to Satria, thesepeople are still disadvantaged andnot bothered to grab an opportunitygiven caused by their lazy “dis-ease”. More over, many of them are“proud” to be poor as in some whoseem advantaged admits disadvan-taged. They did this to wait for ei-ther government or non govern-ment kindly help. And so the helps
During work days, the govern-ment central became bureaucratsplace to do its activities and alsoas Badung’s representatives’place working. And during thistime, the gate is always opened.Of course there are security yetpublic doesn’t have to ask for per-mits when going in.
During holidays it’s different.It became a sporting place fromjogging to cycling and also for thepublic’s hang out place. Teenag-ers also hanged out there, takepictures, dating or wrongly usedit as a place to show off their mo-torcycling.
Number of officials such as theRegent himself was exercising inthis area. The Regent always usedhis spare time to jog around and
Traffic Union of Denpasar PoliceDepartment has officially started theDriving License (SIM) mobile re-newing system and has been sched-uled. For this August 2010, there aresix locations picked. This is to easeDenpasar residents to renew theirSIM type C (motorcycle driver) andA (car driver).
Head of the Union, Police Com-missioner Wahyu Tri Cahyono, SIK,mentioned the six locations pickedwere fishing competition areal atTukad Melati Street, Legian, Kuta(1st August), Tiara Dewata parkingspace at Sutoyo Street (2nd, 9th, 16th,30th August), in front of Renon Po-lice Post in Denpasar (3rd, 10th, 24th,
Amlapura (Bali Post) –The drying Kudu area residents
were thankful and in grieve as longrain season hits the area. They arethankful it decreased the clean watercrisis yet in grieve its cashew andmango fruits harvest are threaten.This was stated by Head of BanjarTamanasari, West Tianyar, Kubu,Karangasem, Gede Daryana, lastSunday (15/8) at Kubu. He admittedthe rain season was longer this yearand in the south part of Karangasemwas often hit by heavy rain but inKudu itself one to two times a day.With dry season should’ve been uponus, the flowering cashew and mangotrees had its flowers damaged as ev-ery time rain stops, the sun comes outand causes flowers to fall, “The con-dition is threatening cashew andmango trees which are the main cropsfor farmers from Kubu, Abang andsome other areas in Karangasem andnow has its harvest threaten.”
There’s a different atmosphere when coming in Badung’s government central, ManguprajaMandala at Sempidi especially during holidays as a month ago it was still opened for public.Lately, it became much haunted as Badung Police Civil Service officials tighten the security. It’salways closed and those who want to come in have to have the officials’ permit. What happened?Is this connecting to the incident affecting Badung Regent AA Gde Agung?
enjoying the view of the paddy-field joint to the central’s area asit is a quite comfortable place forsports. According to a worker inthe government central said, onetime the Regent was enjoying jog-ging then all of a sudden a motor-bike ridden by a youngster almosthit him. Apparently it was theyoungster who was being carelessand so spontaneously the Regentwas shocked and angry. Not sureif the Regent told off the young-ster, yet not long after he went tothe Police Civil Service and or-dered at that time to close the gatesduring holidays, “His order was,just the important ones are al-lowed. If it’s for sports or hangingout you’re allowed. But motor-bikes have to be put near the po-
lice post in the front gate.”So, since this incident, its secu-
rity during holidays was tightenedand must report to the guard post.
Head of Public Relation and Pro-tocol, Badung Regional Secretary, IGede Wijaya, on Sunday (15/8) con-firmed has heard the incident yetdon’t know the truth as he doesn’tknow it himself, “I also heard of it,yet I don’t know if it’s true or not.And it doesn’t have anyting to dowith the central government.”
Wijaya mentioned, this tightensecurity is to keep the place se-cure and comfortable. People areallowed to use it but has to guardits security and environment pres-ervation more, “Of course it’s stillopened. People can join in toguard it and preserve it.” (ded)
Public’s Mental BehaviorBecame the Biggest Challenge
go to the wrong target.The Badung Regence House of
Representatives Vice Leader, IKetut Suiasa, stated the same thing.Some of the poverty factors inBadung are such as urbanization,global economic influencing con-sumers and the public’s mental be-havior or character. From all ofthem, the toughest challenge wasthe public’s mental behavior mostinfluenced by the social diseasesuch as gambling. It still needs ex-tra effort to change this behaviorand its little fighting spirit espe-cially for working.
This public’s way of thinkingwas also admitted by BadungRegence Economy and Develop-ment Board Assistant, I WayanSuambara. The man who works asHead of Badung Regional Devel-opment and Research Board(Bappeda and Litbang) mentioned,this mental behavior became theproblem in the region government’spoverty prevention program, “Thisalso became the problem to data thedisadvantaged people.”
Suambara clarif ied, thegovernment’s help is not a mea-surement. In taking care of pov-erty besides giving stimulus ma-terially it’s also given throughmorally. Of course it’s not easy tochange the people’s way of think-ing yet united efforts are beingdone.
Suiasa also mentioned, thegovernment’s act in changing thepeople’s character is very vital as
government shouldn’t just do awhile pragmatic effort instead itcontinues. For example, if gov-ernment only gives business train-ing or built a training center onlywithout thinking its distribution,it will expire. So the continuityhas to be thought through, “If it’staken seriously and there are jointwork relations with all sides, thenthe effort to prevent poverty willbe more effective.”
Suambara mentioned, 2009 datamentioned there are 3266 Disad-vantaged Families (RTM). Thisnumber significantly decreased37,20 percent from four years agowhich was 5,201 RTM. From forthe 14 indicators to classify dis-advantaged people nationally,Badung was much tighter only us-ing 9 indicators. Which meanse, if14 of them applied, the number ofRTM in Badung is much less thanwhat’s in the data now.
Even though, the poverty pre-vention quality is not gettinglower. The Badung government istaking steps and integrated withconnected boards in tackling it.The budget for this in year 2010reached IDR 101,4 Billion. Thiscame from Badung Regence Bud-gets and Expenses with IDR 78,7Billion, from Bali Province Bud-gets and Expenses IDR 11,6 Bil-lion and Country’s Budget IDR 10Billion, “With this composition itbecame the mirror of the Badunggovernment’s fighting effort intackling RTM.” (ded)
Long Rain SeasonCashew and Mango HarvestThreaten in Karangasem
One of the farmers from BaantasKubu, Made Surung, both plants arefarmers’ harvest hopefuls during dryseason as in this season farmers can’tplant anything such as arable crops.
Daryana added saying, the threathas caused farmers loss on medicineand fertilizer as farmers in Tamansariare mostly farmer staffs that only relyon the harvest, “If its harvest failed,what can they hope for?”
Daryana said the condition couldcause food crisis and people pooreras the cashew trees started to diecaused by white root mushrooms(JAP) which can’t be treated. Thevictimized cashew trees will bendlower, weaker, has it leaves fallingthen die. There’s some that felldown before it died as the rootswere first rotten and couldn’t barethe high speed wind, “At south partof Kubu almost no cashew treesgrew there which was caused by thedeadly mushroom.” (013)
Scheduled, Driving LicenseRenewing Goes Mobile
31st August), Hardys parking arealat Sesetan Main Street (Jalan Raya)in Denpasar (4th, 11th, 25th August),Carrefour Supermarket parking ar-eal at Sunset Road Street in Kuta (6th,13th, 27th August) and Tragia Super-market at Nusa Dua, South Kuta,Badung (5th, 12th, 26th August), “Wehave scheduled for August, also forthe coming month.”
It was said, this service is from 11am wita until finished. And for thosefinding brand new license they need togo to the Denpasar Police Departmentas candidates need to go through tests,theory and practical, “With this servicescheduled, people can get ready to re-new their type C and A SIM.” (jay)
AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA
Convicted Australian drug smuggler Renae Lawrence (R)participates in a game at Kerobokan prison in Denpasar,Bali on August 17, 2010.
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The massive morning blast tookplace just outside the former IraqiMinistry of Defense building thatnow houses the army’s 11th divi-sion headquarters. The site receivesabout 250 new recruits each weekas Iraqi security forces try to bol-ster their ranks to prepare for theU.S. military’s looming withdrawalafter seven years of war.
Blown-off hands and legs couldbe seen among pools of blood at thescene, which Iraqi soldiers closed
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SYDNEY (AFP) – Australiashould become a republic whenQueen Elizabeth dies, Prime Min-ister Julia Gillard said Tuesday incomments which may revive along-running debate just daysahead of national polls.
Gillard, whose centre-left La-bor Party is in a tight electoral raceagainst a conservative coalition,said the queen’s death would be an“appropriate” time for Australia tomove away from having a Britishmonarch as head of state.
“I believe that this nation shouldbe a republic. I also believe thatthis nation has got a deep affec-tion for Queen Elizabeth,” Gillard,Australia’s first woman prime min-ister, told reporters.
“What I would like to see asprime minister is that we work ourway through to an agreement on amodel for the republic, but I thinkthe appropriate time for this nationto move to being a republic is whenwe see the monarch change.”
Australians voted against turn-ing the former colony into a repub-lic in a 1999 referendum, and de-
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LONDON (AFP) – Tony Blair,the prime minister who led Brit-ain into the Iraq and Afghan wars,will give the multi-million dollarproceeds of his autobiography toa veterans’ charity, his spokesmansaid on Monday.
The move was warmly wel-comed by the charity itself, but peacecampaigners said the money wouldnot “wash the blood” from the handsof the leader who has defendedBritain’s role in the invasions sincestanding down three years ago.
The book, entitled “A Journey”,will be published on September 1and, as Blair’s first personal ac-count of his decade in power at the
Australian PM backsrepublic after queen’s death
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File photo shows Queen Elizabeth II (left) along with her husbandPrince Philip on a state visit to Germany
bate on the issue has often proveddivisive.
“Obviously I’m hoping forQueen Elizabeth that she lives along and happy life and havingwatched her mother, I think there’severy chance that she will live along and happy life,” Gillard said.
“But I think that’s probably theappropriate point for a transition toa republic.”
A January visit by Prince Will-iam, second in line to the throne,proved wildly popular with thepublic, in what some commentatorssaw as a boost for the monarchistmovement.
“Prince William, in his two-daycharm offensive in Sydney, mayhave done more to set back the re-publican cause than anything sincethe 1999 referendum,” The SydneyMorning Herald wrote at the time.
Gillard’s challenger inSaturday’s elections is TonyAbbott, who once led Australiansfor Constitutional Monarchy, thecountry’s main movement oppos-ing a republic. The prime ministeris polling just four percentagepoints ahead of Abbott in the finaldays of campaigning.
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BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday amongdozens of Iraqi army recruits who had gathered near a military head-quarters in downtown Baghdad in a devastating strike that officialssaid killed 51 people and wounded 119.
off. U.S. helicopters hovered over-head as frantic Iraqis showed up tosearch for relatives.
The recruits were gathered in anopen area next to Maidan Square incentral Baghdad as they waited to belet through the main gates in smallgroups, according to two Iraqi policeofficials who spoke on condition ofanonymity. At least three soldiers wereamong the dead and eight among thewounded, the police officials said.
Officials at four Baghdad hospi-
tals confirmed the casualties.The officials spoke on condition
of anonymity because they were notauthorized to talk to the media.
Iraqi security forces have beentrying to boost their numbers as theU.S. military begins to leave thecountry. All but 50,000 U.S. troopswill go home by the end of August,with the rest to follow by the end of2011 under a security agreementbetween Baghdad and Washington.
But insurgents determined tohighlight the Iraqi government’sstruggle to protect the nation havebeen stepping up attacks in recentweeks. Iraqi army, police and othersecurity forces have been targeted,but civilians also have been killed bythe hundreds.
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Former prime minister Tony Blair
Blair to give memoir proceeds to veterans’ charityhead of a Labour government, is ex-pected to become a bestseller.
According to reports, the formerpremier has already received a 4.6-million-pound advance for the bookwhich should generate an even big-ger sum.
A spokesman for Blair said Mon-day that all the proceeds will be do-nated to a project funded by veterans’charity the Royal British Legion thatprovides rehabilitation services forseriously injured members of thearmed forces.
“Tony Blair decided on leaving of-fice that he would donate the proceedsof his memoirs to a charity for thearmed forces as a way of marking theenormous sacrifice they make for thesecurity of our people and the world,”
he said.“The Royal British Legion is just
such a cause.“In making this decision, Tony
Blair recognises the courage andsacrifice the armed forces demon-strate day in, day out.
“As prime minister he witnessedthat for himself in Iraq, Afghani-stan, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leoneand Kosovo. This is his way ofhonouring their courage and sacri-fice.”
Royal British Legion directorgeneral Chris Simpkins said Blair’sdonation was “very generous” andit was “much appreciated and willhelp us to make a real and lastingdifference to the lives of hundredsof injured personnel”.
Hotel Activities Wednesday, August 18, 2010 5International
There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners -Denpasar General Hospital(RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah SakitWongaya and Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.
RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Itsfacilities have improved since the emergency ward had beenbuilt in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become aproblem anymore since it has complete equipments. It islocated on Jl. KesehatanSelatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with :Phone : 227 911 – 15Fax : 226 363
Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters forless serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, ane-mia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equippedto care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl.Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.Phone : 223 036Fax : 268 690.
Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit)Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.Phone : 222 142.
HOSPITALHonorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286
Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735
Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775
Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310
Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978
Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223
Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520
IBP
NUSA DUA - The Private SpaWellness Center (TPSWC) proudlyhosted the monthly Bali Spa andWellness Association (BSWA) gath-ering July 30, 2010. As the foundingmember of BSWA, Erika Dewi, Di-rector of Operations TPSWC, wel-comed spa managers and industrypartners for the first time since ThePrivate Spa Corporation built the two-storey wellness centre. This spa is oneof the first spas in the world that isdevoted to balancing the body’s vi-brational frequencies. Ritual thera-pies from ancient times have beenrecreated to manage stress related ill-nesses. The rituals include the hydro-thermal biotherapy treatments,chakra balancing treatments, andmore.
BSWA members toured the sevenexclusive treatment rooms and high-end spa facilities such as vitality pool,steam room and far sauna, lead byTPWSC Spa Manager, RirinWidarsih. It was a stimulating jour-ney for the spa managers to see theTaj Mahal inspired Indian room, Ara-bian princess inspired Moroccanroom, as well as the well-equippedVictorian room with Vichy shower,European room with pulse light andLED machine, and Thai room with
The Private Spa hostedBSWA gathering
handle bars for the bare foot Thaimassage.
The spa menu is tailored by ex-perts, with 50 years of combinedexperience in the industry to cre-ate a spa ritual beyond pampering.The Recovery and refreshmentlounges are designed for guests tolinger in the spa in between andafter treatment. Healthy, fresh foodand beverages are also served ondemand for those who wish tospend the day in the spa.
This environmentally friendlyspa strives to become “The” vibra-tional frequency ritual treatmentspa in Bali and beyond. This spa isa turnkey project of The PrivateSpa Corporation, a global hub ofexpertise covering all aspects of aspa development, from the initialconceptualizing until the final de-livery of specially crafted spa treat-ments and equipments. TheWellness Centre will display theCorporation’s visions of a defini-tive spa journey to ensure everytreatment has a positive impact onthe guest’s wellbeing.
“We take great pride in welcom-ing fellow spa professionals in Balito show our spa even before it’sopen. We are very excited to bringBali as the world’s spa capital tothe next level,” says Erika. *
Monday, August 16, 20106 News
“At the moment it looks like itcould be a hung parliament,”Michele Levine, chief executive ofthe Roy Morgan polling group, toldAFP on Sunday.
The latest Roy Morgan poll,which surveyed close to 1,000 vot-ers across the country on Saturday,found centre-left Labor had the sup-port of 51 percent of voters and theright-leaning Liberal/National coa-lition some 49 percent.
Former lawyer Gillard has con-ceded that she is heading into oneof the tightest races in the nation’shistory, after a Nielsen poll releasedSaturday put her ahead 53 to 47 per-cent and a Newspoll found shewould just scrape into government.
“I’m keenly aware that as we gointo the final week, if today’s pollsare right, then Mr Abbott could endup prime minister by the end of thenext Saturday,” 48-year-old Gillardsaid ahead of Monday’s campaignlaunch. Polling in recent weeks hasfound that Labor is losing groundagainst Abbott, an unlikely chal-lenger nicknamed the “Mad Monk”who only became opposition leaderlast year after bruising party infight-ing on climate change.
Levine said voters appeared un-easy about Gillard’s brutal wrestingof power from her former leader
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(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, left, signs her autographs for apprentices and construc-tion workers during the campaign trail in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Australians willgo to the polls on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010 to vote in the federal election.
Agence France Presse
SYDNEY – Australia was Sunday heading for a knife-edge election, with no party streakingahead in opinion polls with less than a week to go, raising the prospect of the first hung parliamentin 70 years. As Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the first woman to lead the country, battles anenergised conservative opposition headed by the plain-speaking Tony Abbott, polls predict thatthe August 21 contest could go down to the wire.
Kevin Rudd in her own party coupin late June.
“That really plagued the whole ofthe Labor Party’s first few weeks,”Levine said. “There’s a clear indica-tion, in both our national polling andour marginal seat polling, that thereis a move to the coalition,” she added.Although the candidates are starklydifferent — Welsh-born Gillard is acareer woman who has never mar-ried or had children while Abbott isa conservative family man who oncetrained to become a Catholic priest— the campaign has been criticisedas uninspiring.
Labor is leaning heavily on itsperformance during the global finan-cial crisis — arguing that its massivestimulus package kept the economyout of recession and saved tens ofthousands of jobs.
It is promising to develop infra-structure — including a high-speednational broadband Internet network— and improve Sydney’s congestedrail links if reelected.
On climate change — a key factorin the 2007 election which sawLabor’s Rudd topple conservativeprime minister John Howard, endinghis 11-year-rule — Gillard has repeat-edly said she believes climate changeis real and wants to put a price on car-bon emissions.
The outspoken and gaffe-proneAbbott, a former Rhodes scholar andminister in the Howard government, hasmeanwhile vowed to cut governmentspending to reduce national debt and“stop the boats” of asylum seekers.
Political analyst ClementMacintyre said while it was an his-toric vote because it was the first timeAustralians have a chance to vote fora party led by a woman, the campaignhas been lacklustre.
“While the polling is so close bothsides are conscious that one mistakecould cost office and they are lessbold and adventurous,” Macintyre,who is head of politics at the Univer-sity of Adelaide, told AFP.
The last time Australia faced ahung parliament was in September1940 when the United AustraliaParty/Country Party coalition and thecombined Labor parties each won 36seats, leaving the balance of powerwith two independents.
Haydon Manning, head of politicsat Flinders University in South Aus-tralia, said a similar result in 2010 wasunlikely, but Saturday’s electioncould leave the Greens holding thebalance of power in the upper house.
“As a consequence ... whoeverforms government in the lower house,will have to go cap in hand frequentlyto negotiate with the Greens,” he said.
Agence France Presse
LOURDES, France – A bombscare forced the evacuation of theRoman Catholic sanctuaries in theFrench pilgrimage destination ofLourdes on Sunday as 30,000 wor-shippers celebrated the Feast ofthe Assumption. “A bomb warn-ing was received at the police sta-tion, announcing that four bombswere going to go off at around3.00pm in the sanctuaries,” thesite’s press officer Pierre Adias
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM – The Israeli mili-tary says it is removing a concretebarrier erected nine years ago to pro-tect a Jewish neighborhood inJerusalem from Palestinian gunfire.
The neighborhood of Gilo is lo-cated in southern Jerusalem on landcaptured by Israel in 1967 along withthe rest of east Jerusalem and the ad-jacent West Bank. The removal is asign of the relative calm that has
Thousands evacuatedin Lourdes bomb scare
(AFP/Pascal Pavani)
Pilgrims queue to visit the Grotto of the Apparitions, also calledGrotto of Massabielle as part of the Assumption festivities inthe Sanctuary of Our Lady in the French southwestern city ofLourdes.
told AFP just before 2.00pm (1200GMT).
“We’re trying to evacuate theshrines and to prevent those peoplewho left to have lunch from comingback in. This is proceeding calmly,”he said.
On August 15, Catholics celebratethe Virgin Mary’s ascent to heaven,and Lourdes — a southern Frenchtown where the faithful believe theVirgin Mary appeared in a vision 152years ago — is a popular site to markthe event.
In sign of calm, Israelremoves gunfire barrier
(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
An Israeli army crane loads a part of a concrete wall in the Jew-ish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010.
taken hold in the West Bank. Thewall was erected in 2001, at theheight of Israeli-Palestinian vio-lence. It was meant to protect Giloresidents from Palestinian militantsfiring from a nearby West Bank vil-lage.
An Israeli military statement Sun-day said the wall was removed be-cause of “a reduced security threat”and increased cooperation betweenIsraeli and Palestinian securityforces.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational
Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s presi-dent said on Monday that wantsSoutheast Asia’s biggest economy tostop being a “caged tiger” and un-leash annual growth of nearly eightpercent by 2014.
“It’s time that Indonesia not onlywalks, but walks faster and beginsto run. It’s time that we don’t remainas a caged tiger but be a nation thatis competitive on the internationalscene,” President Susilo BambangYudhoyono said.
Yudhoyono said Indonesiashould aim to hit growth of 7.7 per-cent in four years, which he saidwould create 10.7 million new jobsand slash poverty by 8-10 percent.
“With careful planning and properimplementation, we are optimistic inreaching the target,” he said in aspeech to parliament on the eve ofIndonesia’s independence day.
“Accelerating economic growthis expected to increase job opportu-
The source, who refused to benamed, said Bashir orchestratedthe training exercise withDulmatin — considered one of themasterminds of the 2002 Balinightclub bombing.
“Together with Dulmatin, hedesigned and set up the trainingexercise in Aceh. He distributedthe training’s video footage toraise money and managed to col-lect 800 million rupiah (88,800dollars) from supporters,” he toldAFP.
Dulmatin was killed in Marchfollowing the discovery of thecamp the previous month.
The source alleged that Bashirinitially provided 5,000 dollars toset up the camp. It is not knownwhere the money come from.
Police have arrested 102 terrorsuspects, of whom 66 were de-tained, in a series of nationwideraids.
Bashir, who was arrested lastweek, could face a death sentenceover allegations of funding andtraining extremists who were plan-ning a wave of attacks in Jakarta.
According to the police, theplot was inspired by the siege ofthe Indian city of Mumbai by Is-lamist militants who killed 166people in November 2008.
The 71-year-old remainedtight-lipped over terror allegations
Agence France-Presse
SURABAYA - Neglect and in-fighting between the management ofIndonesia’s largest zoo cost the livesof hundreds of animals, including arare Sumatran tiger over the week-end, an official said Monday.
“The deaths of the animals werea result of neglect in the zoo as theofficials were busy fighting over who
Hundreds of animals die in Indonesian zoowould manage the facility,” Surabayazoo’s interim management memberTony Sumampau told AFP.
A 20-year-old critically endan-gered Sumatran tiger died on Satur-day. A lioness died on Wednesdayand female Papuan kangaroo twodays earlier.
Between June and August alone,20 animals died from illnesses andpoor living conditions such as over-
crowded cages, he said.“In January, 13 baby Komodo
dragons died due to overcrowdedcages and lack of sunlight,” he said.
Sumampau recorded 362 animaldeaths in 2008, and 327 last year,attributing the majority to treatableillnesses including pneumonia, di-arrhoea and malnutrition.
Thousands of animals in the zooare languishing in cramped anddirty cages, he said.
Due to internal conflicts, thezoo’s management had not reno-vated the cages for about 20 years,although the government allocatedbillions of rupiah annually for thezoo’s upkeep, Sumampau said.
In this photo taken on August 14, 2010 the skin of a dead Sumatrantiger lies on a table in a veterinary clinic at Surabaya Zoo after it wasskinned from the carcass to be preserved. The 20-year-old criticallyendangered Sumatran tiger died earlier in the day as neglect andinfighting between the management of Indonesia’s largest zoo costthe lives of hundreds of animals, zoo official said on August 16, 2010.AFP PHOTO
JAKARTA - Indonesian Islamist preacher Abu Bakar Bashir raisedtens of thousands of dollars by distributing videos of an extremisttraining camp in Aceh province, a police source alleged Monday.
during police interrogations.He served almost 26 months for
conspiracy over the 2002 attacks byJemaah Islamiyah on Balinightspots that killed 202 people,before being cleared and releasedin 2006.
The cleric was jailed by theSuharto regime from 1978 to 1982for inciting people to reject thesecular national ideology in favourof an Islamic state.
AFP PHOTO/BAY ISMOYO/FILES
In this photograph taken onAuguist 9, 2010, Elite anti-terrorpolice escort arrested radical Is-lamist preacher Abu BakarBashir (C) on his arrival at policeheadquarters in Jakarta.
Indonesian president aims foreconomy to be ‘uncaged’
nities and reduce the unemploymentlevel,” the president added.
Later Monday, Yudhoyono pre-sented his draft budget for 2011 inwhich he forecast a deficit of 1.7percent of gross domestic productnext year, wider than the 1.5 percentgap expected this year.
He also proposed to increasecapital spending next year by 28percent to 121.7 trillion rupiah (13.5billion dollars), mainly to financeinfrastructure projects such as irri-gation, transport, housing, and wa-ter resources.
He added that total infrastructureinvestment between 2010 and 2014is expected to be 161 billion dollars.
Indonesia’s infrastructure hassuffered from years of neglect,which is hindering economicgrowth, and analysts blamed a lackof legal clarity and difficulties inland clearing as the main obstaclesfor investment in the country.
Yudhoyono said the governmentaimed to earn 1,086 trillion rupiah
in revenue next year, and spend1,202 trillion.
The government will finance thedeficit by issuing bonds and borrow-ing from multilateral lenders, he saidwithout giving details.
Indonesia’s economy will likelyexpand 6.3 percent next year, fasterthan the six percent expected in2010, with foreign investment soar-ing 46 percent in the first six months,as confidence grows after the globalfinancial crisis.
The dollar is expected to average9,300 rupiah next year, higher thanthe 9,200 predicted for this year.
Parliament and the governmentwill discuss the budget draft beforethe new fiscal year begins on Janu-ary 1.
Indonesia emerged safely fromthe global downturn and its stockmarket is one of the best-perform-ing in Asia because of strong domes-tic demand and strong exports ofresources such as coal, palm oil andnatural gas.
Indonesian activist(L) burns a poster aMalaysian flagduring an anti-Malaysia protest inJakarta on August17, 2010 followingthe arrest of threeIndonesian maritimeofficers over anapparent borderdispute. Indonesia ishighly sensitiveabout its territorialintegrity sincelosing the tinyislands of Sipadanand Ligitan off thenortheastern coastof Borneo —disputed since 1969— to Malaysiafollowing a 2002ruling by theInternational Courtof Justice.
AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational
Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s presi-dent said on Monday that wantsSoutheast Asia’s biggest economy tostop being a “caged tiger” and un-leash annual growth of nearly eightpercent by 2014.
“It’s time that Indonesia not onlywalks, but walks faster and beginsto run. It’s time that we don’t remainas a caged tiger but be a nation thatis competitive on the internationalscene,” President Susilo BambangYudhoyono said.
Yudhoyono said Indonesiashould aim to hit growth of 7.7 per-cent in four years, which he saidwould create 10.7 million new jobsand slash poverty by 8-10 percent.
“With careful planning and properimplementation, we are optimistic inreaching the target,” he said in aspeech to parliament on the eve ofIndonesia’s independence day.
“Accelerating economic growthis expected to increase job opportu-
The source, who refused to benamed, said Bashir orchestratedthe training exercise withDulmatin — considered one of themasterminds of the 2002 Balinightclub bombing.
“Together with Dulmatin, hedesigned and set up the trainingexercise in Aceh. He distributedthe training’s video footage toraise money and managed to col-lect 800 million rupiah (88,800dollars) from supporters,” he toldAFP.
Dulmatin was killed in Marchfollowing the discovery of thecamp the previous month.
The source alleged that Bashirinitially provided 5,000 dollars toset up the camp. It is not knownwhere the money come from.
Police have arrested 102 terrorsuspects, of whom 66 were de-tained, in a series of nationwideraids.
Bashir, who was arrested lastweek, could face a death sentenceover allegations of funding andtraining extremists who were plan-ning a wave of attacks in Jakarta.
According to the police, theplot was inspired by the siege ofthe Indian city of Mumbai by Is-lamist militants who killed 166people in November 2008.
The 71-year-old remainedtight-lipped over terror allegations
Agence France-Presse
SURABAYA - Neglect and in-fighting between the management ofIndonesia’s largest zoo cost the livesof hundreds of animals, including arare Sumatran tiger over the week-end, an official said Monday.
“The deaths of the animals werea result of neglect in the zoo as theofficials were busy fighting over who
Hundreds of animals die in Indonesian zoowould manage the facility,” Surabayazoo’s interim management memberTony Sumampau told AFP.
A 20-year-old critically endan-gered Sumatran tiger died on Satur-day. A lioness died on Wednesdayand female Papuan kangaroo twodays earlier.
Between June and August alone,20 animals died from illnesses andpoor living conditions such as over-
crowded cages, he said.“In January, 13 baby Komodo
dragons died due to overcrowdedcages and lack of sunlight,” he said.
Sumampau recorded 362 animaldeaths in 2008, and 327 last year,attributing the majority to treatableillnesses including pneumonia, di-arrhoea and malnutrition.
Thousands of animals in the zooare languishing in cramped anddirty cages, he said.
Due to internal conflicts, thezoo’s management had not reno-vated the cages for about 20 years,although the government allocatedbillions of rupiah annually for thezoo’s upkeep, Sumampau said.
In this photo taken on August 14, 2010 the skin of a dead Sumatrantiger lies on a table in a veterinary clinic at Surabaya Zoo after it wasskinned from the carcass to be preserved. The 20-year-old criticallyendangered Sumatran tiger died earlier in the day as neglect andinfighting between the management of Indonesia’s largest zoo costthe lives of hundreds of animals, zoo official said on August 16, 2010.AFP PHOTO
JAKARTA - Indonesian Islamist preacher Abu Bakar Bashir raisedtens of thousands of dollars by distributing videos of an extremisttraining camp in Aceh province, a police source alleged Monday.
during police interrogations.He served almost 26 months for
conspiracy over the 2002 attacks byJemaah Islamiyah on Balinightspots that killed 202 people,before being cleared and releasedin 2006.
The cleric was jailed by theSuharto regime from 1978 to 1982for inciting people to reject thesecular national ideology in favourof an Islamic state.
AFP PHOTO/BAY ISMOYO/FILES
In this photograph taken onAuguist 9, 2010, Elite anti-terrorpolice escort arrested radical Is-lamist preacher Abu BakarBashir (C) on his arrival at policeheadquarters in Jakarta.
Indonesian president aims foreconomy to be ‘uncaged’
nities and reduce the unemploymentlevel,” the president added.
Later Monday, Yudhoyono pre-sented his draft budget for 2011 inwhich he forecast a deficit of 1.7percent of gross domestic productnext year, wider than the 1.5 percentgap expected this year.
He also proposed to increasecapital spending next year by 28percent to 121.7 trillion rupiah (13.5billion dollars), mainly to financeinfrastructure projects such as irri-gation, transport, housing, and wa-ter resources.
He added that total infrastructureinvestment between 2010 and 2014is expected to be 161 billion dollars.
Indonesia’s infrastructure hassuffered from years of neglect,which is hindering economicgrowth, and analysts blamed a lackof legal clarity and difficulties inland clearing as the main obstaclesfor investment in the country.
Yudhoyono said the governmentaimed to earn 1,086 trillion rupiah
in revenue next year, and spend1,202 trillion.
The government will finance thedeficit by issuing bonds and borrow-ing from multilateral lenders, he saidwithout giving details.
Indonesia’s economy will likelyexpand 6.3 percent next year, fasterthan the six percent expected in2010, with foreign investment soar-ing 46 percent in the first six months,as confidence grows after the globalfinancial crisis.
The dollar is expected to average9,300 rupiah next year, higher thanthe 9,200 predicted for this year.
Parliament and the governmentwill discuss the budget draft beforethe new fiscal year begins on Janu-ary 1.
Indonesia emerged safely fromthe global downturn and its stockmarket is one of the best-perform-ing in Asia because of strong domes-tic demand and strong exports ofresources such as coal, palm oil andnatural gas.
Indonesian activist(L) burns a poster aMalaysian flagduring an anti-Malaysia protest inJakarta on August17, 2010 followingthe arrest of threeIndonesian maritimeofficers over anapparent borderdispute. Indonesia ishighly sensitiveabout its territorialintegrity sincelosing the tinyislands of Sipadanand Ligitan off thenortheastern coastof Borneo —disputed since 1969— to Malaysiafollowing a 2002ruling by theInternational Courtof Justice.
AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO
8 InternationaWednesday, August 18, 2010
Bali Today
“On national holidays, even ifno special security operations arenecassary, we always raise our stateof alertness in accordance with stan-dard operation procedures,” SeniorCommissioner Gde Sugianyar, chiefof the Bali Regional Police’s publicrelations division, said here Monday.
The general police alertnesswas observed starting at the timepreparations were made for the na-tional holiday events until the con-clusion of the celebrations, he said.
In Bali, police especially re-mained alert towards the possibilityof infiltration by terrorist elements,he said.
“We always try to anticipateacts of terrorism, especially on na-tional holidays when all our person-nel are on standby for duty,” he said.
Asked how many men the Balipolice had prepared for duty on the
Agence France-Presse
DENPASAR - Two Australian drugtraffickers serving 20 years in jail onthe resort island of Bali received sen-tence cuts Tuesday as part ofIndonesia’s Independence Day celebra-tions, an official said.
Schapelle Corby and RenaeLawrence received a five-month re-mission for “good behaviour”, Bali’sKerobokan prison chief Siswanto toldAFP.
“It’s confirmed they each receivedremission of five months. It’s thefourth time for Corby and fifth forRenae,” he said, adding the sentencecuts would total up to 17 months forCorby and 23 months for Lawrence.
Well-behaved prisoners tradition-ally receive sentence reductions on thenation’s Independence Day.
More than 58,000 prisoners, includ-
Indonesia cuts Australiadrug runners’ sentences
Antara
DENPASAR - Thousands of cy-clists flooded Denpasar on Sunday tomark the first anniversary of the Bi-cycle Joint Secretariat (Samas).
Among the cyclists wereDenpasar Mayor I B Rai Mantra andBangli District Head Made Gianyar.
The event was part of the activi-ties to ensure the success of a car-freeday campaign launched by theDenpasar mayor in 2009, Dewa MadeMerthakota, chairman of the event’sorganizing committee, said.
Dewa said he would never giveup encouraging the public to lead ahealthy and economic life through acar-free day program.
Themed cycling, green and unityprogram, the event was designed to
Antara
DENPASAR - Around 200 highschool students from Bali took partin the celebration of InternationalYouth Day (IYD) 2010.
Dr. Wayan Sayoga, AnandAshram foundation chairman, saidthe IYD celebration highlighted witha workshop themed “Youth Chal-lenges and Empowerment”, wasaimed at empowering the youngpeople by first knowing their ownpotentials.
The IYD 2010 was organizedby Anand Ashram foundation in co-operation with the Bali RegionalEducation and Sports Office,
“The activity’s objective is tohelp the young people know their
In a file picture takenon April 22, 2008Australians SchapelleCorby (R) and ReneeLawrence (L) attend aceremony insideKerobokan prison inDenpasar on Baliisland. The twoAustralian drugtraffickers serving 20years in jail on theresort island of Balieach received asentence cut of five-months for goodbehaviour on August17, 2010 as part ofIndonesia’s Indepen-dence Day celebra-tions, an official said.
ing militants, drug smugglers andpeople convicted of corruption, weregranted remissions by the Justice andHuman Rights Ministry, prison offi-cial Suherman said.
Corby, 33, was found guilty of traf-ficking 4.1 kilograms (nine pounds)of marijuana in 2005.
She has always maintained her in-nocence and claims international drugsmugglers placed the marijuana in herluggage.
She submitted a clemency appealto President Susilo BambangYudhoyono in July asking for a sen-tence reduction. Her lawyers hadasked that she be released on humani-tarian grounds because of mental ill-ness.
Australian Foreign MinisterStephen Smith said Australia sup-ported the plea.
Justice and Human Rights Minis-
ter Patrialis Akbar confirmed Tuesdaythat the appeal had been sent toYudhoyono but refused to give details.
“Yes, that (the appeal) is being pro-cessed. I don’t want to make further com-ments. We’ll just wait,” he told AFP.
Siswanto said the remission and herclemency appeal were separate mat-ters.
“Remission is granted on the occa-sion of Independence Day... there’s norelation to her clemency appeal whichwill be decided by the president,” hesaid.
Lawrence, 33, is one of the so-called “Bali Nine,” a group of Austra-lians convicted over a plot to smuggle8.3 kilograms of heroin from Bali intoAustralia in 2005.
Five gang members are serving lifesentences and three others on death rowhave launched a final appeal for theirsentences to be reduced to 20 years.
Bali policealways on alerton nationalholidaysAntara
DENPASAR - The Bali police always raise their state ofalertness, especially toward the threat of terrorism, on nationalholidays; include Independence Day on August 17, a spokes-man said.
occasion of Inndependence Day,Sugianyar would not mention a fig-ure and only said the number wouldbe adjusted to the existing need.
Sugianyar said police wouldtighten security in areas consideredvulnerable such as Bali’s gateways,including harbors, tourist hubs, andactivity centers.
But the police spokesman alsosaid the success of the IndependenceDay celebrations would not dependonly on what the police do but alsoon the people’s support for the effortsto maintain conducive situation inBali.
“Let us together keep the situa-tion in Bali conducive, so that Bali asa world tourism destination will be-come even more attractive to tourists.Thereby, we will contribute to theimprovement of the Balinese people’seconomy”, he said.
Thousands of cyclistsflood Denpasar
campaign for the use of bicycles as oneof the cheap and environmentallyfriendly transportation modes, he said.
What was more, the municipalgovernment had provided speciallanes on certain roads in the city tomake the car-free day program a suc-cess, he said.
Dewa said at least 90 groups ofcyclists were ready to join the secre-tariat, meaning that the public had highinterests to have bicycles as cheap andenvironmentally friendly transportationmeans.
The international community weretrying to deal with the impact of globalwarming by among others reducingcarbon dioxide emissions, he said.
Therefore, cycling was one of themost profitable alternatives to reducingcarbon dioxide emissions, he said.
AFP PHOTO/Sonny TUMBELAKA
Hundreds of students celebrateinternational youth day
own potentials which could be em-powered for the interests of our na-tion and country,” Sayoga said on thesidelines of the activity.
He explained that when enter-ing the free market in 2015, the In-donesian youth would face chal-lenges especially of how they wouldbe able to compete in various fields.
He said if they could not an-ticipate those challenges, they wouldonly be spectators in their own coun-try.
“If the youth don’t want to bespectators in our own country, theymust first improve their capabilitiesand creativity before the free mar-ket era arrives,” he said.
Whereas, on the benefits ofthe workshop program, he said it was
for enabling the youth to be holisti-cally healthy, smart and responsible,building their self-confidence andbeing able to select the right actionsand avoid the wrong ones.
The most important thing wasto make the youth aware of their po-tential as early as possible, he said.
The head of Bali Regional Edu-cation and Sports Office, AA NgurahGde Sujaya, said he welcomed theactivity because it would help theyouth empower themselves throughthe potential that they possess.
“In the future, the youth musthave positive thinking and disregarddifferences so that they would beable to give meanings to their livesand be useful for our nation andcountry,” he stressed
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Luhur Watukaru temple or PuraBatukaru is one of the biggest HinduTemples in Bali (Sad Kahyangan)with Catur Lokapala Temple andPadmabhuwana Temple status. It isset in the plateau area with lush tropi-cal rain forest surround it. It is situ-ated in the peaceful area which is farfrom the local resident that is ide-ally for worship. There are sometemple building spread out throughthe tranquility of rain forest and thebig mountain of Batukaru as a backdrop.
Watukaru or Batukaru Templeis located at Wangaya Gede coun-tryside, Penebel District andTabanan regency, and west part ofBali Island. It is located right onthe foot of Mount Batukaru andabout 1.30 hours from DenpasarAirport.
The history of this temple is dif-ficult to be found out even in theancient omission exists in thistemple. For example some profilearea like harpoon own the Ancient
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Batukaru TempleBatukaru TempleBatukaru TempleBatukaru TempleBatukaru TempleBali type, but no written data foundit. The effort study and research ofthis temple history remain to finddifficulties. The temple festival atLuwur Watukaru or BatukaruTemple is executed every six-monthor 210 days which is every Thurs-day Umanis Wara Dungulan (Ba-linese Calendar), just the day afterGalungan Day (the biggest BalineseHindu Holidays). The extension dayof temple festival is executed dur-ing eleven day, to give the opportu-nity for Hindu public society espe-cially in Bali to come for praying.Pengempon (the society who takecare of the temple) has the obliga-tion to take care of the temple in-clusive of ceremony execution. Thisfact is one of characteristic poweroutside of physical of Watu KaruTemple.
Kubayan is commissioned holyoccupation lead the temple cer-emony and his status higher than allpriests in Pretending pertinent An-cient. In the execution of prayingduring the temple festival or thecertain day ceremony, it has to be
preceded by doing pray in BejiTemple which is located in eastsideof Watu Karu Temple or inside ofMadya Mandala (middle area) andNista Mandala (outside area). Afterdoing pray in Beji Temple, then thepraying is continued in the maintemple building located in the cen-ter of temple area. This is also notneed again clean the hand and garglebecause, it has been conducted thehallowing of body by conductingpray in Beji Temple. This is specifi-cation of praying procession inWatukaru Temple.
The three elements temple area ofWatukaru or Batukaru is equal toother temples in Bali generallywhich is consisted of outside area(Nista Mandala), Middle area(Madya mandala) and Center area(Utama Mandala). After refurbish-ing three temples are of this templein some years ago, the element con-ception and structure of these threetemple areas are progressively be-come everlasting and conceptual.This is especially in outside areawhere we can meet the existence of
Wantilan building (Meeting Hall)which can be used for multifunctionand it is located on the right of theentrance gate. The refurbishment atthe parking area has made easy forthe Hindu society or all tourists who
pay a visit to this temple. It is alsoother public facilities like toiletwhich is located at outside templearea or the left side of entrance gateis in good condition and cleansenough.
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BUSINESS
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - The IMF askedMalaysia Friday to take “decisive”action on reforms under a model pro-gram aimed at revamping a controver-sial four-decade-old affirmative actionpolicy.
Malaysian Prime Minister NajibRazak announced in March a “NewEconomic Model” or NEM, aimed atreforming elements of the policyfavouring the country’s majority eth-nic Malays in a bid to boost economiccompetitiveness.
Details of the reform program, in-cluding its timing, have not been an-nounced yet.
The Washington-based Interna-tional Monetary Fund said Friday itwas looking forward to the NEM’srollout.
In a report after annual consulta-tions between the IMF executive boardand the Malaysian government, thefund acknowledged the “ambitious vi-sion” of Najib’s administration for afar-reaching economic transformationover the longer term.
The board directors “agreed that thecomprehensive structural reformagenda, at the heart of the New Eco-nomic Model, holds out promise offaster and inclusive growth,” the re-port said.
“Directors looked forward to a de-cisive effort and sustained momentumin implementing this agenda,” it said.
They also called for an “effectivecommunication strategy” to forge“broad public support” for these ef-forts.
“Further gradual liberalization ofproduct and labor markets will helpexploit policy complementarities, en-courage private investment and har-ness the benefits of reform,” the re-port said.
The Federal Open MarketCommittee’s decision Tuesday tomaintain rates at zero to 0.25 per-cent, a policy adopted since De-cember 2008, was adding to uncer-tainty over US economic recoveryprospects, said Thomas Hoenig,president of the Federal ReserveBank of Kansas City.
“As much as I want short-termimprovement, I am mindful of pos-sible longer-term consequences ofzero interest rates and further eas-ing actions,” Hoenig said at a com-munity gathering in Nebraskastate.
“Zero rates during a period ofmodest growth are a dangerousgamble,” he said.
Hoenig is the only one of theFOMC’s 10 members who has atall its meetings this year votedagainst the decision to keep inter-est rates extraordinarily low for an“extended period.”
“Rather than improve economicoutcomes, I worry that the FOMC
Agence France-Presse
TOKYO - Japan Prime MinisterNaoto Kan said Saturday he wouldmonitor closely the strength of the yenand hinted at holding talks with the cen-tral bank chief amid the recent rise ofthe unit, Jiji Press reported.
“I want to continue to closely watch”currency market moves, Kan wasquoted by Jiji as telling reporters afterthe dollar hit a 15-year low of 84.73yen before easing earlier this week.
The greenback rose back above the86-yen level on news that Japanese of-ficials showed concern over the unit’sstrength, which poses a threat to theexport sector driving Japan’s fragileeconomic rebound.
Americans hold up “I want to work” placards as they join a protest of several thousand peopledemanding jobs outside City Hall in Los Angeles on August 13, 2010.
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - The lone dissenter on the US Federal Reserve’s policy-making body lashedout Friday at its decision to keep interest rates at virtually zero percent, warning such a policycould boomerang.
is inadvertently adding to ‘uncer-tainty’ by taking such actions,” heargued, citing previous recessions.
The US economy began grow-ing in the middle of last year af-ter a brutal recession but expan-sion has moderated in recentmonths, raising the prospect of theeconomy contracting again inwhat many call a double-dip re-cession.
Analysts said the remarks byHoenig, the longest-serving of theFederal Reserve’s 12 district bankpresidents, were an unusuallyscathing attack on US monetarypolicy by a FOMC member.
“I have to say that I have never,in nearly 20 years of watching theFed, seen a speech quite like thisfrom a member of the FOMC,” re-marked analyst Stephen Stanley ofPierpont Securities.
“Within the constraints of howFederal Reserve officials operate,I would call this a scathing cri-tique of monetary policy now and
over the last 10 years.”Hoenig said the recession that
struck the US economy in Decem-ber 2007 was not caused by highinterest rates “but by low ratesthat contributed to excessive debtand leverage among consumers,businesses and government.”
He said he agreed that the Fed-eral Reserve needed to keep itspolicy rate accommodative butpointed out that the economy now“is improving and is growing” ata rate faster than the last two re-coveries.
“We need to get off of the emer-gency rate of zero, move rates upslowly and deliberately. This willalign more closely with theeconomy’s slow, deliberate recov-ery so that policy does not lag therecovery.
“In trying to use policy as acure-all, we will repeat the cycleof severe recession and unemploy-ment in a few short years by keep-ing rates too low for too long.”
Japan’s PM to watch closelystrength of yen: Jiji
Kan also voiced hope of holdinga meeting with Bank of Japan gov-ernor Masaaki Shirakawa on foreignexchange rates, saying: “I have notdecided when and how, but want tohave necessary forms of communi-cations.”
Finance Minister Yoshihiko Nodahas earlier said he wanted the Bank ofJapan to “cooperate” more with thegovernment to tackle the rising yen, ina sign of fresh pressure on the bodyfrom officials.
For every one-yen rise in thecurrency’s value against the dollar,companies can lose tens of billions ofyen earned overseas when repatriated,threatening a sector that Japan dependson to offset its weak domestic picture.
IMF asks Malaysia to take”decisive” action on reforms
Najib, who came to office last year,said the New Economic Model wasdesigned to boost growth, create ahigh-quality workforce, and attractbadly needed foreign investment.
The model also aims to stemMalaysia’s “brain drain” with mea-sures to retain skilled professionals,and make markets more competitiveby phasing out price controls and sub-sidies.
The affirmative action policy whichhands Malays privileges in housing,education and business has beencriticised as uncompetitive and im-properly benefiting the elites.
Under the planned changes to thepolicy, the government will seek toraise the income levels of all disad-vantaged groups, rather than focusingsolely on ethnic Malays, the dominantethnic group in the Southeast Asiannation.
Najib’s reforms face oppositionfrom conservative Malay rightsgroups.
The country has sizeable ethnicIndian and Chinese minorities, whomostly deserted Najib’s ruling coali-tion in 2008 elections.
The IMF also said that Malaysia’snear-term growth prospects were fa-vorable.
The economy was projected to ex-pand by 6.7 percent in 2010 but growthis expected to moderate to 5.3 percentin 2011, the IMF report said.
It also said that IMF staff feltMalaysia’s ringgit currency appearedto be “weaker than its equilibriumlevel in real effective terms.”
The IMF executive board, accord-ing to the report, agreed with the Ma-laysian authorities’ view that a stron-ger ringgit could boost over time therole of domestic demand as a growthdriver and promote a shift towardhigher-value added industries.
Entertainment InternationalWednesday, August 18, 201012
Steve Tilston was just 21 in 1971when the megastar read an interviewhe had done with a magazine calledZigZag.
Lennon penned a hand-writtenletter to the aspiring singer justmonths after the Beatles split up in1970, telling him not to worry aboutbecoming wealthy because it wouldnot change what he felt inside.
The correspondence was signedby Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono.
He sent the letter to Tilston andthe reporter who interviewed him atthe magazine’s offices, but for somereason it never reached the musician.
LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning US actor Michael Dou-glas, 65, is fighting throat cancer and will undergo chemo-therapy, People magazine reported Monday.
Hollywood royalty Douglas, a son of screen legend KirkDouglas, was set to receive eighta weeks of radiation and che-motherapy treatment, his spokesman told People online.
His doctors expect Douglas to make a full recovery, thespokesperson added.
“I am very optimistic,” Douglas was quoted as saying in astatement.
His spokesperson did not immediately confirm the report to
LOS ANGELES - SylvesterStallone roughed up rival flicks ashis “The Expendables” took the topspot at the North American box of-fice in its debut weekend, netting34.8 million dollars, final figuresshowed Monday.
The film, about a group of mer-cenaries out to topple a SouthAmerican dictator, stars Stallone,Jason Statham and Jet Li.
“Eat, Pray, Love,” RyanMurphy’s warmly lit adaptation ofElizabeth Gilbert’s novel about adivorcee’s jaunt to Italy, Indonesiaand India starring Julia Roberts,was in second place in its premierweekend with 23.1 million, saidindustry tracking firm ExhibitorRelations.
Buddy comedy “The OtherGuys,” about two officers who takeover a high-profile investigation,meanwhile pulled in 17.4 milliondollars in ticket sales for thirdplace.
It outpaced the slick thriller “In-ception,” the sci-fi summer block-buster co-starring Marion Cotillardand Ellen Page, which neverthelesspulled in 11.3 million dollars fromFriday to Sunday, totaling nearly248.5 million dollars in ticket salessince it first opened.
In the fourth place, flickDiCaprio stars as a thief who spe-cializes in infiltrating dreams. The
AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY
Gifts left by thousands of Elvis Presley fans left on his grave August 16, 2010 at Graceland Mansion, hisresidence in Memphis. Elvis died at Graceland on August 16, 1977. Graceland is celebrating the 75thanniversary of Elvis’ birth - all year long.
John Lennon’s letterJohn Lennon’s letterJohn Lennon’s letterJohn Lennon’s letterJohn Lennon’s letterto British singerto British singerto British singerto British singerto British singerarrives 34 years latearrives 34 years latearrives 34 years latearrives 34 years latearrives 34 years late
LONDON - A British folk singer who expressed fears that successand wealth could ruin his songwriting revealed Monday how JohnLennon sent him a letter of reassurance — but it did not reach him for34 years.
The first time he saw it was in2005 when an American collectorcontacted him to verify whether theletter — estimated to be worth 7,000pounds (11,000 dollars, 8,500 euros)— was genuine.
It was 25 years after Lennon hadbeen shot dead.
“It was so frustrating becauseLennon even included his homephone number on the top of the let-ter,” said the 60-year-old. “I knowit’s silly but I wanted to ring him upacross the ages.”
Tilston added he “felt rather an-gry to start with to think that some-
one had just sold the letter ratherthan passing it on to me, but youhave to let these things go.”
Lennon wrote to Tilston: “Beingrich doesn’t change your experiencein the way you think.
“The only difference, basically,is that you don’t have to worry aboutmoney — food — roof etc.
“But all other experiences —emotions — relationships — are thesame as anybodies, I know, I’vebeen rich and poor, so has Yoko (rich— poor — rich) so whadya think ofthat.
“Love John and Yoko.”Despite not receiving Lennon’s
reassuring words, Tilston still wenton to record more than 20 albumsand will mark his 40-year careerwith a special concert next month.
Screen star Michael Douglas in fight with throat cancer
Stallone’s ‘Expendables’storm US, Canadian box office
movie has impressed critics with itscomplex science fiction concepts.
In its first weekend, “Scott Pil-grim Vs The World,” the EdgarWright film with Michael Cera andMary Elizabeth Winstead, netted10.6 million for a fifth place finish.
The romantic comedy wastrailed by blockbuster “DespicableMe,” which earned seven milliondollars. The 3-D animated filmfrom Universal Pictures stars SteveCarell as the voice of Gru, a vil-lain bent on snatching the moon.
Disney dance movie “Step-Up3-D,” which was praised for its useof 3-D technology but panned forits paper-thin plot, was in seventhplace with 6.9 million.
Eight place went to the latestSteve Carell vehicle “Dinner forSchmucks,” about a quest to findthe dumbest guy possible to inviteto a dinner meal, which earned 6.3million dollars.
Trailing was “Salt,” starringHollywood’s biggest female actionsuperstar Angelina Jolie, playing acaptivating CIA agent accused ofbeing a Russian spy. It netted 6.2million dollars, and 103.4 millionoverall since it opened four weeksago.
Kids’ comedy “Cats & Dogs:The Revenge of Kitty Galore,”scored the 10th place spot earning4.2 million dollars.
AFP.Douglas has starred in hits such as “Fatal Attraction” (1988),
“Wall Street” (1988), “War of the Roses” (1990), “Basic In-stinct” (1992) and “Traffic” (2001).
In September he will appear in the “Wall Street” sequel byOliver Stone “Money Never Sleeps.”
Douglas has been married since 2000 to Welsh actressCatherine Zeta-Jones. They have two children. He has a sonCameron, from his earlier marriage to Diandra Douglas.Cameron was in April sentenced to five years in jail for drugtrafficking.
International Wednesday, August 18, 2010 13Life Style
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Dim the lights, turn onthe schmoozy music, and log on... Adults whohave Internet access at home are more likelyto be in romantic relationships than adults whodon’t, a study presented Monday found.
Just over 82 percent of adults who haveInternet access at home also had a spouse orromantic partner, compared to just under 63 per-cent of adults who did not have access to theworldwide web, the study presented at the an-nual meeting of the American Sociological As-sociation says.
“Our research suggests that Internet accesshas an important role to play in helping Ameri-cans find mates,” said Michael Rosenfeld, anassociate professor of sociology at StanfordUniversity and the lead author of the study.
In addition to finding that people are morelikely to be in romantic relationships if theyhave Internet access in their homes, the re-searchers found that the Internet is gaining
The oar was discovered in mudland in Changnyeong, 240kilometres (140 miles) southeast ofSeoul, the Gimhae National Mu-seum said.
“This is a very rare find, not only
Agence France-Presse
ARENZANO - “Jesus Is Number One!”shouts deejay priest Don Roberto Fiscer ashe lines up the latest number by Lady Gagafor parishioners gathered at a beach resort innorthwestern Italy.
In Fiscer’s unique way of spreading thegospels, he proclaims over throbbing discomusic: “I have a message for you that comesstraight from heaven: without Jesus there isno future, without Jesus we have no love, nojoy.”
Fiscer’s flock, ranging in age from sevento 77, go wild in appreciation.
On this summer evening, Fiscer, 33, sportsa lemon yellow T-shirt emblazoned with animage of the Virgin Mary and child and thewords: “You are my river of love.”
In seventh heaven himself, the priest re-wards his admirers with the latest hit by Ital-ian singer Jovanotti, “Baciami Ancora” (“KissMe Again”), Dorothy Norwood’s “Shake theDevil Off” or Britney Spears’ “123”.
“I alternate the classics that you hear innightclubs with remixed religious music,”Don Roberto told AFP.
“Music is what young people like the most.Through music, Jesus reaches their hearts,”said the priest, who was a cruise ship enter-tainer before going to seminary at age 23.
The event, held each Wednesday atArenzano’s San Pietro resort since mid-June,has a solid following.
“Some people here in Arenzano find it bi-zarre, even a bit surprising, but it’s really agreat thing because these evenings bring to-
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Agence France-Presse
SEOUL - South Korean archaeologists said Tuesday they have un-earthed a rare neolithic period wooden boat oar, believed to date backabout 7,000 years but still in good condition.
in South Korea but also in theworld,” museum researcher YoonOn-Shik told AFP.
“We have to check with Chineseartefacts to confirm whether it is theoldest watercraft ever found in the
world.”One of the oldest boats or related
artefacts was found in China’sZhejiang province in 2005 and wasbelieved to date back about 8,000years.
The oar, which was found intactin its entirety, is 1.81 metres (nearlysix feet) long.
“The oar was well preserved be-cause fine mud layers completelyblocked oxygen from decaying it,”
Yoon said.It was uncovered on August 11 at
a site where experts in 2004 unearthedthe fragments of what is believed tobe two up to 8,000-year-old canoe-like boats, which are believed to havebeen 13.1 feet long in their originalstate.
The oar and boats were made frompine trees, Yoon said.
The technique that made them in-dicate there might have been a cer-
tain form of neolithic period tradeusing boats between Japan and theKorean peninsula.
“With this set, we can picturetrade between the Korean peninsulaand Japan, sailing techniques and alifestyle back then,” Yoon said,pointing to a similar find in Japan.
Japanese archaeologists discov-ered an oar, believed to date backabout 6,000 years, on the Sea ofJapan (East Sea) coast in 1999.
Internet at homegoes hand-in-handwith romance
AFP PHOTO / FILES / Pal PILLAI
This file photo taken on April 2, 2009 shows a model diplaying gold bridalwearand jewellery during a promotional event of an upcoming wedding carnival inMumbai. With weddings traditionally the central focus of Indian life, the new waveof money in Indian society has created ever-higher demands for lavish, uniquemarriage celebrations.
Deejay priest gets them rockingfor Jesus on Italian beach
gether children, parents, families — and that’swhat’s most important,” said Patrizia Rossi,who turned up in a multi-coloured dress withher son Filippo in tow.
“He’s great, he’s a super person who’s alot of fun,” said Filippo, around 10.
“Believing in God doesn’t mean you haveto be sad,” said Don Roberto, who says hismission is to “find young sheep who have losttheir way by meeting them on their ownground.”
Friends who work in area holiday campshelp Don Roberto by organising line dancessuch as the 1995 craze “La Macarena” for thedozens of revellers, making the event seem attimes more like a gym class.
Alcoholic drinks are available at a nearbybar, but the participants tend to prefer sodasand ice cream.
“If you knew how much the Virgin Maryloved you, you would weep with joy,” DonRoberto shouts, readjusting his headphones.
Don Roberto got the go-ahead for theweekly shindig from Angelo Bagnasco, theinfluential archbishop of Genoa who alsoheads the Italian Catholic Church. “He trustsme,” Don Roberto said.
While dancing and music dominate theunusual event, religion is never far off. “Re-member, Father Jan is available for confes-sion over there behind the sun umbrellas,”Don Roberto says between two numbers.
Father Jan, a Polish priest, doles out abso-lution to those who approach him on the beachchairs. Back at the dance floor, Don Robertoregales them: “With Jesus, you’re always onholiday.”
importance as a place where couples meet,and especially same-sex couples.
“It is possible that in the next severalyears the Internet could eclipse friends asthe most influential way Americans meettheir romantic partners, displacing friendsout of the top position for the first time sincethe early 1940s,” Rosenfeld said.
Among couples who met online, 61 per-cent were same-sex couples, the study said.
“Couples who meet online are muchmore likely to be same-sex couples, andsomewhat more likely to be from differentreligious backgrounds,” Rosenfeld said.
“The Internet is not simply a new andmore efficient way to keep in touch with ourexisting networks; rather the Internet is anew kind of social intermediary that mayreshape the kinds of partners and relation-ships we have,” he said.
Rosenfeld and colleagues analyzed datafrom a national survey of 4,002 adults forthe study.
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Wednesday, August 18, 201014 InternationalSport
United had a comfortable ad-vantage over last season’sChampionship winners by halftime even though it proved tobe another frustrating night forWayne Rooney, who remainsgoalless for club and countrysince scoring against BayernMunich in a Champions Leaguematch in March.
United manager Sir AlexFerguson was especially im-pressed by veteran midfielderPaul Scholes and delighted withthe result against what hetermed a tough outfit. “Theygot into the Premier League lastseason by being a determinedand a good unit with a goodwork ethic,” said Ferguson.
“We were wasteful withsome chances. DimitarBerbatov could have scoredthree or four, but his perfor-mance was excellent. The threepoints is always important inyour first home match. It was asteady performance.”
Berbatov finished off a finemove with just over half anhour gone before Fletcher’sclose-range effort made it twoat the interval. And substitute
Agence France Presse
BERLIN - Werder Bremen faceItalian giants Sampdoria on Wednes-day for a Champions League placewhile fighting to keep rising star MesutOzil with Real Madrid tabling a re-ported bid worth 20 million euros. NoItalian team has ever won at Bremen’sWeser Stadium and Werder will be de-termined to keep the record intact whenthey welcome Sampdoria to northernGermany for the first leg of their Cham-pions League play-off.
But the Bundesliga side’s mostpressing concern is to hold onto theirprize asset and Germany’s rising starOzil. The 21-year-old attackingmidfielder played a key role in helpingGermany claim third place at lastmonth’s World Cup and is set to be oneof the brightest stars of the newBundesliga season, which begins onFriday.
But, according to German dailyBild, Spanish giants Real Madrid havetabled a bid worth 20 million euros (26million US dollars) for Bremen’s play-maker, who is under contract until June2011.
Bremen risk losing Ozil on a freetransfer next summer and with the
Agence France Presse
PARIS - Two of the five playerssummonsed to a hearing by the FrenchFootball Federation (FFF) over thestrike that shamed the World Cup fi-nals squad arrived early Tuesday fortheir day of reckoning. World Cup cap-tain Patrice Evra - who had an earlystart after playing impressively forManchester United on Monday nightin the 3-0 canter over Newcastle - andLyon midfielder Jeremy Toulalan, whowas responsible for wording the state-ment which was humiliatingly read outby then coach Raymond Domenechwere seen arriving.
Toulalan compiled the letter with hispress advisor when the players - someless willing than others - chose to strikein one of their final training sessionsahead of their last group match withhosts South Africa in protest at the ex-pulsion from the squad of strikerNicolas Anelka for a foul mouthed out-burst at Domenech at half-time of thematch with Mexico.
The other three players called toappear before the disciplinary commis-sion vice-captain Franck Ribery,Barcelona defender Eric Abidal andAnelka had not yet arrived, though onlyAbidal was expected to turn up asRibery’s club Bayern Munich refusedto release him.
Among those due to testify wasformer deputy managing director of theFFF Jean-Louis Valentin, who was oneof the few to emerge with his dignityintact at the finals having quit in tearsin disgust the day they went on strike.
“We are slowly emerging from anepisode that must never be repeated,”
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Manchester United’s Welsh midfielder Ryan Giggs (R) shoots and scores the third goal duringthe English Premier League football match against Newcastle United at Old Trafford in Manches-ter, north-west England on August 16, 2010.
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MANCHESTER - Dimitar Berbatov, Darren Fletcher and Ryan Giggs scored as Manches-ter United began their Premier League campaign with a 3-0 win over Newcastle here onMonday giving the losers a sharp reminder of the gulf in class between the Championshipand the elite league.
Giggs extended the advantagewith a third goal with five min-utes remaining maintaining his ex-traordinary record of havingscored in all 19 seasons he hasplayed in the top flight.
Chelsea ended United’s run ofthree successive Premier Leaguetitles with their victory last sea-son but began their attempts towin the crown for a record 19thtime in some style.
Newcastle’s survival chanceswill never be judged on trips toOld Trafford but they showed theyare well-organised and AndyCarroll looks like he might man-age the step up to the top flight.They began by managing to con-tain their hosts and Rooney’shopeful curled effort as the onlyoccasion that the Old Trafford sidethreatened in the early stages.
And the newly-promoted sideshould have taken the lead whenCarroll met Joey Barton’s cornerunmarked from six yards butglanced his header wide.
Nani had a long-range effort de-flected wide and then thumped a freekick into the wall as the home side’sfrustration continued.
Carroll went close again with a
25-yard drive that was held by goal-keeper Edwin van der Sar. Evenwhen James Perch and MikeWilliamson were guilty of slackclearances, Nani failed to take ad-vantage for United.
But the Portuguese did force ascrambling punch from Steve Harperwith a lofted cross to the far post forBerbatov. And Rooney also lifted ashot over the bar after Berbatov headeddown Antonio Valencia’s cross.
But just after the half hour, thehome team grabbed the lead whenValencia robbed Jonas Gutierrez inmidfield, and John O’Shea fedScholes, who slid through forBerbatov to find the corner of the net.Barton tested van der Sar once againwith a powerful strike to the nearpost.
But United doubled their lead be-fore the interval thanks to fine workby Patrice Evra. The French defenderburst into the area and his low crosshad too much on it for Rooney, butFletcher fired in on the turn.
Two of the home team’s veteranscombined to put the game well be-yond Newcastle. A short corner wasworked in-field and Scholes pickedout Giggs, who found the corner witha placed volley.
Bremen’s Real fight to keep Ozilas Sampdoria loom
Spanish giants looming, Werder’s di-rector of sport Klaus Allofs admits theyhave rejected an initial offer from Real,but he expects further negotiations.
Real are eager to sign Ozil beforeWednesday’s Champions League play-off, because, should he play againstSampdoria, the midfielder would beunable to play for the Spanish giants inthe group phases, if he transfers toMadrid.
“We have nurtured players like Di-ego (who now plays for Juventus) andMiroslav Klose (of Bayern Munich)into top players. The same applies toOzil. And that must be honoured byany club he goes to,” Allofs told alocal paper.
Real Madrid star Kaka is expectedto be out for up to four months with aknee injury from the World Cup andnew coach Jose Mourinho wants Ozilto replace the Brazilian play-maker. ButAllofs has said Ozil will play againstSampdoria, unless Madrid can raisetheir offer.
“If a change is not clear, then he willdefinitely play,” said Allofs. Ozil him-self refused to speak to reporters aftertraining on Monday. The second-legwill take place at Sampdoria’s StadioComunale Luigi Ferraris next Tuesday.
French strikers arrivefor Day of Judgement
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(FILES) A picture taken on June20, 2010 shows France’s coachRaymond Domenech speakingwith captain Patrice Evra (R) onthe pitch where the team wassupposed to be training at theFields of Dreams stadium inKnysna during the 2010 WorldCup football tournament.
said Valentin on arriving at the FFFheadquarters. “I await more an accep-tance of their responsibilities than pun-ishment. I will simply tell the truth.”
Domenech, who the FFF are seek-ing to sack altogether from his contractwith the National Technical Direction(DTN) without paying him any com-pensation for what is perceived to bebehaviour unbecoming of a Frenchnational coach, ran into the buildingwhile former FFF president Jean-PierreEscalettes also arrived. The commis-sion is expected to announce their find-ings either on Tuesday evening or onWednesday morning.
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Schnyder outlasted France’sVirginie Razzano 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 6-3 to book a second-round dateagainst Danish second seedCaroline Wozniacki.
US stars Serena and Venus Wil-liams are absent with injuries, withVenus pulling out after beingnamed the third seed, allowingChina’s Li Na to receive a bye as aninth seed.
Agence France Presse
DETROIT - Tracy McGrady,who has played only 65 games in thepast two NBA seasons due to kneeinjuries, signed a one-year free agentdeal with the Detroit Pistons worth1.3 million dollars on Monday. The31-year-old guard struggled last sea-son in 24 games for the New YorkKnicks, averaging only 9.4 points asa starter after averaging 22.1 pointsa game in 12 prior NBA seasons.
“I was coming back from an in-jury and I wasn’t healthy enough toplay the way that I will be able toplay this season,” McGrady said.“The difference between my kneelast year and this year is night and
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Patty Schnyder, of Switzer-land, returns the ball toVirginie Razzano, from
France, during a match at theRogers Cup tennis tourna-ment in Montreal, Monday,
Aug. 16, 2010.
Associated Press Writer
SINGAPORE – Iran was ac-cused of putting politics beforesports at the inaugural Youth Olym-pics by withdrawing from ataekwondo final against Israel onSunday.
The dispute came the same dayIran’s girls’ soccer team beat PapuaNew Guinea 1-0 after reaching acompromise on Islamic headscarves. Iran’s girls were finally ableto concentrate on soccer in the six-team tournament. FIFA, the sport’sgoverning body, agreed to let themwear a head covering, long-sleevedshirt and leggings. FatemehArdestani scored two minutes intothe second half.
At taekwondo, the Iranian delega-tion told the games’ internal newsservice that Mohammad Soleimanididn’t compete because of injury.Israel called the withdrawal politi-
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MONTREAL - Czech qualifier Iveta Benesova and Swiss veteran Patty Schnyder progressedto meetings with the top two seeds here after recording first-round triumphs on Monday at thetwo million-dollar WTA Montreal Cup. Benesova ousted Italy’s Sara Errani 6-3, 6-2 to book asecond-round date with top seed Jelena Jankovic, who along with seven other top seeds has afirst-round bye at the last major hardcourt tuneup event for the US Open.
Li will open with a second-roundmatch against Australian qualifierJarmila Groth, who eliminatedUkraine’s Alona Bondarenko 7-6(11/9), 6-2.
Kazakhstan’s YaroslavaShvedova rallied to oust Germany’sAngelique Kerber 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-4, and give herself a second-roundmatch against eighth seed VeraZvonareva of Russia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)
McGrady signs one-yeardeal with Pistons
day.”McGrady’s stops have included
three seasons in Toronto, four in Or-lando and five with Houston.McGrady has never played on a teamthat advanced past the first round ofthe NBA playoffs.
McGrady won NBA scoring crownsin 2003 and 2004, averaging a career-best 32.1 points a game in Orlando in2003 and 28.0 points a game the fol-lowing season before being traded toHouston. In recent seasons, theplaymaker has struggled with backwoes and microfracture knee surgery.
“It’s not like I’m 41 or even 35,”McGrady said. “I just turned 31. Noone has come down and stolen awaymy talent. I still have a lot in the tank.”
Iran wins in soccer butwithdraws from taekwondo
cally motivated. The news servicesaid Mohammad Soleimani wastaken to a hospital.
IOC spokesman Mark Adamssaid it is “my understanding is thathe was taken to hospital and unableto compete.” Soleimani did not ap-pear at the medals ceremony along-side Gili Haimovitz of Israel.
“When Gili won the semifinal, weknew the Iranian was making the fi-nal,” said Daniel Oren, head of theIsraeli delegation. “Already, weknow that the Iranians would notcome. ... On one hand, we got thegold medal. It’s every exciting forus. On the other hand, we would pre-fer winning by competing.”
The World Taekwondo Federa-tion confirmed Haimovitz’s victorywithout elaborating. When contactedby The Associated Press, a federa-tion spokesman denied a politicalmotive. An Iranian official did notrespond to calls to his cell phone.
Haimovitz, a 17-year-old highschool student, won Israel’s firstgold medal at the Youth Games.
“Actually, I don’t want to get intopolitics or that kind of thing,” hesaid. “I don’t know. I was a readyfor a fight. If he came out or not, Idon’t care.”
Alex Gilady, an IOC memberfrom Israel who handed out medalsfor the competition, said he doubtedSoleimani was injured and neededhospitalization. He insisted this wasa strategy to ensure Iran didn’t vio-late Olympic rules.
Gilady said that once Soleimaniwas deemed injured he would win thesilver medal and would have “to standon the podium and listen to the Israelianthem and see the Israeli flag overthe Iranian flag.” “They put him in anambulance so at least they would notcreate a crisis that would have de-manded further action,” he added. “Soit looks like everything is OK.”
The girls soccer
team of Iran pose
for photographers
during the Youth
Olympics Games
Girls’ Preliminaries
Group A soccer
match between
Turkey and Iran on
Thursday, Aug. 12,
2010, in Singapore.
(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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30 minutes earlier Yamaha hadearlier announced, via a press re-lease, that Rossi would be leavingafter the completion of his seventhseason with the Japanese brand -ending a partnership that yielded in-stant title success in 2004 and threefurther world crowns.
“We are delighted to announce thatValentino Rossi will be with us from2011,” commented Gabriele DelTorchio, President of Ducati MotorHolding. “He is a paragon of excel-lence in the world of motorcycling,coherent with our Italian companywhich is a standard-bearer for “madein Italy” excellence. These are key val-ues for success in technology, designand sportsmanship.
“In addition to the strong and pas-sionate intent of both parties, this agree-ment has been made possible by thecommitted support of our shareholderInvestindustrial and all the sponsorsassociated with the Ducati MarlboroTeam, sponsors which have believedin this opportunity and share and sup-port our choices.”
“Firstly, Valentino is a great fanof motorcycles and so it has alwaysbeen a pleasure for me to listen hisopinions,” added Filippo Preziosi,Ducati Corse General Director. “Un-til the Valencia GP he will remain acompetitor, one so great that he hasalways given a special value to ourvictories, but as soon as he rides theDucati for the first time, we will worktogether on every single detail thatwill develop a bike capable of show-ing his huge talent. Working with
DANI Pedrosa admits he is slightly disappointed atbeing unable to take the fight to Jorge Lorenzo in theCzech Grand Prix, but was otherwise satisfied to beback on the podium.
The Brno pole man led into the first corner but cau-tious braking into turn three enabled both Lorenzo andBen Spies to overtake him. Although he secured sec-ond back off Spies shortly afterwards, he was unable todo anything more than stay close to Lorenzo.
Eventually fading as the race wore on, Pedrosa main-tained second position to the chequered flag to improvehis identical placing in the overall standings.
“It’s good to be back on the podium after the crash atthe last race at Laguna Seca so I’m happy about this.My start was good and I was in first place through thefirst corner but in the first left-hander I was a little bittoo concerned about my tyre temperature and brakedtoo early, which allowed Ben and Jorge to get past.
“When I was in second place behind Jorge again Iwas trying as hard as possible to stay close, which Icould do for a few laps, but for some reason I wasn’tquite able to go as fast as yesterday - I had quite a lot ofwheelspin and was struggling to get good drive out ofthe corners. I tried to adjust my riding to improve thisbut Jorge was gradually able to open the gap.
“So it wasn’t the best result for us, but still the po-dium is ok and we can build on this result. After the testwe go to Indianapolis and I was strong there last year -
Ducati confirms Valentino RossiTHE careful sequence of events surrounding the ‘handover’ of Valentino Rossi is now
complete, after the issuing of an official statement from Ducati confirming that the ItalianMotoGP megastar will join its factory team for 2011 and 2012.
Valentino is one of the most excitingthings for every Engineer and it’sgood to know we will have this greatopportunity next season.”
Rossi, who already holds the recordfor 500cc/MotoGP race wins (78),needs one more title to tie GiacomoAgostini’s record of eight premier-classchampionships and is 18 race wins shortof Agostini’s all time record of 122grand prix wins in all grand prix classes.
By switching to Ducati, Rossi canalso try to become the only rider everto win the 500cc/MotoGP crown forthree different manufacturers.
Since joining MotoGP in 2003,Ducati has taken 28 race wins, but20 of them have been with CaseyStoner - who handed Ducati its firstand so far only MotoGP crown in2007 and is leaving the team forHonda at the end of this year.
Rossi thus replaces Stoner and lookscertain to ride alongside Nicky Hayden.Rossi and 2006 world championHayden raced together at Honda in2003 and a contract for the Americanto remain a Desmosedici rider for a thirdseason is seen as a formality.
Rossi and Ducati will be desper-ate to work together at the Valenciatest, held in November - immediatelyafter the end of the racing season -but that will depend upon permissionfrom Yamaha.
What is known is that Rossi will stilltest for Yamaha at Brno on Monday,but any 2011 parts are likely to behanded to present team-mate Lorenzoand possibly Ben Spies, who will takeRossi’s place at the factory team.
AP Photo/Petr David Josek
Yamaha Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi from Italy concentrates during the first free practice atthe circuit in Brno, Czech Republic, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. The Grand Prix of Czech Republic isscheduled for Sunday Aug. 15, 2010.
Pedrosa loses ground butremains ‘happy with result’
despite the mistake in the race - so I’m confident we canbe competitive again at the next race.” Pedrosa is now77 points adrift of Lorenzo in the standings.
CrashThe Repsol Honda rider, second in Sunday’s race,
has both a Honda test bike and his usual RC212V to trytoday and the fall occurred while using his 2010 ma-chine. As of 3.00pm local time, Pedrosa is third fasteston the timesheets with the RCV test bike, 0.675sec be-hind Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) and 0.1sec behind CaseyStoner (Ducati). Pedrosa’s best time on his 2010 bike is0.48sec slower than on the test bike. Team-mate AndreaDovizioso is eighth fastest.
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Dani Pedrosa walked away from a crash dur-ing Monday’s MotoGP test session at Brno
