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The weekend’s lone new release, Paramount’s “Paranormal Activity” spinoff “The Marked Ones,” debuted with $18.3 million. The top 10 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater loca-tions, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak, are:

1. “Frozen,” Disney, $19,575,525, 3,318 locations, $5,900 average,

$296,691,729, 7 weeks.2. “Paranormal Activity: The Marked

Ones,” Paramount, $18,343,611, 2,867 locations, $6,398 average, $18,343,611, 1 week.

3. “The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug,” Warner Bros., $15,675,220, 3,730 locations, $4,202 average, $229,059,642, 4 weeks.

4. “The Wolf Of Wall Street,” Para-mount, $13,230,353, 2,557 locations, $5,174 average, $63,125,467, 2 weeks.

5 . “American Hust le ,” Sony, $12,404,207, 2,518 locations, $4,926 average, $87,923,123, 4 weeks.

6. “Anchorman 2,” Paramount, $10,633,959, 3,407 locations, $3,121 average, $108,713,472, 3 weeks.

7. “Saving Mr. Banks,” Disney, $8,694,891, 2,110 locations, $4,121 average, $58,958,280, 4 weeks.

8. “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty,” 20th Century Fox, $8,001,717, 2,922 locations, $2,738 average, $45,470,954, 2 weeks.

9. “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” Lionsgate, $7,051,309, 2,143 lo-cations, $3,290 average, $407,139,699, 7 weeks.

10. “Grudge Match,” Warner Bros., $5,325,423, 2,856 locations, $1,865 average, $24,835,480, 2 weeks.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Director Jane Campion, the only woman to have won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, will lead the jury for the prestigious event this year. Festival organizers announced Tuesday that Campion will succeed Steven Spielberg, who led the jury last year.

New Zealander Campion was awarded the Palme d’Or prize in 1993 for “The Piano,” and earlier won Cannes’ top short film award. While several women have presided the jury before, most films presented have been directed by men.

Festival director Gilles Jacob, in a statement, describes Campion as “a true master,” who wowed juries with films “shot through with such cour-age and humanity and captured such a unique world.” Campion, looking ahead to the May 14-25 festival, said: “I can’t wait.”

U.S. director Martin Scorsese, left, poses with Cannes film festival

general delegate Thierry Fremaux as they arrive for the party of The Wolf of Wall Street, in Paris, Mon-

day, Dec. 9, 2013.


BEIJING — Cui Jian’s manager says the Chinese rocker has been asked to appear on state television’s Chinese New Year gala.

Cui fell out of favor with the government after he sid-ed with protesting students during the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations.

While the invitation could be seen as finalizing Cui’s political rehabilita-tion, it also points to efforts by China Central Television

to revive interest in the New Year gala.

Known as the godfather of Chinese rock, Cui won fame in the late 1980s with songs such as “Nothing to my Name.”

He played in Tiananmen Square in May 1989, days before the government sent in tanks to crack down on the protests.

His manager You You said there was never any specific ban on his per-formances, although he sometimes was refused permission.

Chinese rocker Cui Jian invited to sing on TV gala

Campion to preside over Cannes Film Festival jury

AP Photo/Francois Mori

In 7th week, ‘Frozen’ tops box office with $19.6MAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Disney’s “Frozen” stayed warm despite frigid week-end temperatures across much of the country, regaining the top spot at the box office with $19.6 million in its seventh week of release. Several of the weekend’s top films saw slight dips from winter conditions in the Northeast and Midwest in final box office numbers released Monday.

Chairman of the SIPCO of Bali Chapter, Putu Juarez Robin Putra, said on Monday (Jan 6) that his party was committed to con-tinuously maintaining the Island of the Gods as a MICE destination promoting the charms of Balinese culture. Such commitment was always embodied in the training held every year.

“Balinese culture remains to be featured in conducting MICE bidding. Formerly, I predicted the MICE will be booming in 2014. With the success of Bali to become as a host in 2013, the MICE market will continue to develop,” he said.

It was said that SIPCO Bali with 250 alumni and members as well as stakeholders of GIPI would con-

tinue to incorporate the elements of Balinese culture in the MICE activities. “Aside from maintaining Bali as cultural tourist destination, Bali must prepare professional per-sonnel in the field of MICE carried out through training so as not to be a spectator,” he said.

Other than having commitment to maintaining Bali as a cultural tourist destination, SIPCO Bali, said Putu Juarez, would continue to give prior-ity to local wisdom in each MICE activity by involving local commu-nities as a part of the activity.

“We are indeed unable to impose the MICE players to empower the

local elements, but SIPCO will continue to urge the members to prioritize local elements. For ex-ample, it involves a gamelan troupe in the Bali MICE activities,” he exclaimed.

According to him, to work on the MICE market, SIPCO Bali also required the role of local as-sociations such as the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Bali, the Indonesian Tour Guides Association (HPI) Bali and Bali Tourist Transport Association (Pawiba). “We cannot work alone without the local roles like in the preparation of transportation, tour

guide and hotels including the art performances,” he said.

As mentioned, the SIPCO Bali had scheduled a number of promo-tional events overseas from January to December 2013. In the promo-tion, his party remained to bring along Bali as a tourist destination with the vision of Balinese culture.

“For the beginning of this year, we have not had MICE agendas of large scale to be held in Bali. Typi-cally, the MICE demand begins to increase in the middle of the month such as in October and November until the end of the year,” he said. (kmb27)

IBP/File Photo

A barong dance was performed not long ago in Bali Island. Balinese culture remains to become an attractive selling point in 2014. Even, the Society of Indonesian Professional Convention Organizers (SIPCO) of Bali makes Balinese culture an attractive package in any MICE event.

2014, SIPCO preserves Balinese culture-based MICE

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DENPASAR - Balinese culture remains to become an at-tractive selling point in 2014. Even, the Society of Indonesian Professional Convention Organizers (SIPCO) of Bali makes Balinese culture an attractive package in any MICE event.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014

1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem

16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ulun Kulkul Besakih

31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang

6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih

14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih

15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan SesetanPura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarman Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarman Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar

26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

Ulu Shanti Wedding Pavilion is the collaboration between The Royal Sant-rian and Watabe Wedding Corporation from Japan. It is a visually inspiring glass structure surrounded by an infin-ity-edge pool of crystal clear water.

The pavilion is just footsteps from the white sand beach of Tanjung Benoa and is blessed with stunning views of the Indian Ocean. Ulu Shanti Wed-ding Pavilion was designed by Mr. Shinya Yamaji of Living Design to accommodate up to 32 guests. It is a contemporary structure that contrasts harmoniously with the surrounding en-vironment. Bathed in natural sunlight, the pavilion provides an enchanting venue where couples can exchange their vows and commit to the traditions of true love.

With its uplifting architecture and refreshing sense of spaciousness, Ulu

Shanti Wedding Pavilion caters to in-timate ceremonies of the heart. Guests attending the launch were invited to inspect the pavilion that had been decorated with exotic blooms and other charming touches especially for the oc-casion. This showcased just one of the many decorative wedding day options that are now available at the resort.

“The Royal Santrian understands that every wedding day is special, and therefore we go out of our way to tailor personalized celebrations filled with precious memories to last a lifetime. Melly Suksmihati, Sales Manager The Royal Santrian promoted “Ulu Santi Wedding Pavilion complements the full range of wedding services now avail-able at the resort. Couples can relax and enjoy the experience of getting married on the island of Bali as we will take care of every single detail.” Melly added. IBP/File Photo

The Royal SantrianIBP

To fulfill and giving more facilities for tourists and tourism indus-try, The Royal Santrian officially launched of elegant new facility Ulu Shanti Wedding Pavilion on early September 2013 in the royal Santrian resort’s tropical garden.

One of the Kamasan coin crafts-men, Made Sukma Swacita, said on Monday (Jan 6) that he was confused with the government stance. Formerly, the artisans were encouraged to immediately switch from kerosene to LPG. After us-ing it, in fact the price was even skyrocketing. Since the appeal, he gradually started changing his work patterns by using LPG, so he was forced to change the system of making the coins. When smelt-ing, for instance, he previously used kerosene and then shifted to LPG. Today, since the price of gas was soaring, he was forced to use diesel fuel. “As for finishing pro-cess, we still use LPG,” he said.

To get around the condition, Sukma claimed to partially use the 3-kg LPG. Meanwhile, the

other half process was still using the 12-kg LPG. Such measures were taken to minimize the losses. If he continued to suffer a loss, his employees could no longer work. “It is also used to secure all the employees,” he said. It was impossible for him to raise the price of products because it had been raised due to the price hike of raw materials. If it would be increased again, he was afraid that no people would purchase his product because it was considered too expensive. Nevertheless, his business cur-rently still survived.

Quality of the workmanship should still be maintained. Other than maintaining consumer trust, the perforated coin was also very closely related to holy sacrifice

Bali PostDENPASAR - Based on the

data of Badung Police, a total of 19 gambling cases were handled by Criminal Detective in 2013. However of all the cases, the revealed cases were only illegal Toto gambling, while the cock-fighting was not touched at all. “From these data, the performance of police officers is questionable in their action to take action against cockfight because Bali-nese tradition remains to organize cockfighting,” said an academi-cian from Faculty of Law, War-madewa University, Dr. I Made Suwitra, Monday (Jan 6).

Based on data of the Badung Police, throughout the year 2013 there were 19 reports on gambling

where they included 14 cases of illegal Toto, 1 dice gambling and 4 common gambling. Out of the cases, a total of 10 cases could have been resolved. “Although the data of police authority did not specify about cockfight gam-bling, it cannot be interpreted if the gambling does not exist,” he added.

Similar opinion was also deliv-ered by Chairman of the Garuda Pemuda Nasdem of Bali, IGN Bagus Eka Subagiartha. Related to the rampant gambling cases, es-pecially in Badung, he judged that police only secured the gambling perpetrators of smaller class, while the elite class getting in-volved in the cockfight gambling could be free from the touch of

law. “It is common knowledge that the elite perpetrators of gam-bling or croupiers are backed by security forces,” he explained.

Especially for cockfight gam-bling, said Subagiartha, was al-leged to be often carried out in several places in Badung. Even, this gambling activity was openly known to police, but it was ig-nored because it had been bribed with levies as security permit. “Since having given bribery to individual police officers, the gambling activity can take place,” explained the politician from Badung.

Ironically, there was indication if the individual police officers commonly taking the bribery were still wearing police uniform. This

phenomenon often occurred, so it was considered as one of the reasons why gambling was diffi-cult to be eradicated. “Individual police officer gets accustomed to take it, while wearing police uni-form. It is a commonplace for the individual police officers to get involved and back the gambling activities,” he said. He added that other than cockfighting gam-blers from Badung County, many gamblers of upper middle class also from outside the Badung region came to join the cockfight gambling.

Subagiartha hoped the in-struction of the National Police Chief, Police General Sutarman, on decisive action against police officers showing an indication

to ignore the gambling could be enforced properly by police chief in the region. “Instruction of the National Police Chief should be supported, so the status as police officers will not only serve as a guise,” he hoped.

At separate location, Chief of Badung Police Criminal Detective, Wisnu Wardana, when asked for his confirmation regarding the data of gambling said his party had not got any report related to cockfight beyond tabuh rah or ritual-related cockfighting. “Indeed, there has been no report on cockfight gam-bling beyond tabuh rah or ritual-related cockfight,” he said while adding that any officers found to back up such gambling would soon be dealt with firmly. (nik)

IBP/File

The police officer inspect a store whch sells LPG

LPG skyrockets, craftsmen at edge of bankruptcyBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Skyrocketing price of the 12-kg LPG to IDR 130,000 per cylinder at consumer level threatened the existence of perforated coin craftsmen in Klungkung. Today, they begin to get confused considering the 12-kg LPG is almost unaffordable because such expensive price is very burdensome to craftsmen. It happens because 80 percent of the making of the Klungkung typical souvenir uses LPG.

Cockfight gambling has not been touched by police

in Bali. So, he still attempted to maintain the quality of the prod-ucts. Meanwhile, responding to the price hike of LPG, he could

only address it by implementing efficiency. He hoped the review against the price of LPG could be soothing for craftsmen because

the skyrocketing price of LPG had a very great impact on artisans like himself and other sectors that used the 12-kg LPG. (kmb31)

3Wednesday, January 8, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTechnology Wednesday, January 8, 2014

“Bali is comfortable with the cur-rent good conditions, but in the future many things should be considered. One of them is the high enough depen-dence of Bali on food supplies,” said Benny Siswanto in Denpasar.

It was said that many needs for food in Bali were met by imported supplies, either brought in from the other islands or overseas. However, it was unique that high uptake of food products from outside was not necessarily enjoyed by the people of Bali.

“Bali is unique because in fact the imported foods from overseas do not exist in traditional markets. All of them are in the supermarket and hotels. Meanwhile, the foods in traditional markets are brought in from some other provinces such as NTB. The imports are to meet the consumption of the com-munity from outside,” he said.

According to him, the high absorp-tion of outside food products coming into traditional markets would have an impact on inflation because to

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Issues on the large number of unlicensed luxury vil-las in the tourism area of Nusa Penida, Klungkung, were seriously addressed by the Regent Nyoman Suwirta. Having been checked and made data collection on Saturday (Jan 4), it was revealed there were 106 unlicensed villas. Meanwhile, the licensed only

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

Buyers picked up banana at banana market on Bali Island. Banana is one of commodities that Bali still dependent on supply from outside the island. Dependence of food supplies to meet the needs of Balinese people remains fairly high.

Bali stays dependent on food supplies from outsideBali Post

DENPASAR - Dependence of food supplies to meet the needs of Balinese people remains fairly high. Chief Representative of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali Nusra, Benny Siswanto, stated that such condition should be watched out because it would have an impact on the economic stability of Bali.

determine the inflation was measured from the price in traditional market. “Bali is rather unique, where one of which is the foodstuff dependency is high enough whether this will be main-tained or not. Property is also booming here. How Bali will look like because groceries are expensive and shows a disparity,” he said.

Nevertheless, according to Benny, the economic growth in 2014 was esti-mated to improve in the range of 5.8 to 6.2 percent. The prospect was shored up by improved export in line with the improving global economy and domestic demand. Projection of the ongoing balance sheet transaction and potential downside risk of economic growth still needed attention consid-ering the global economic slowdown process was still ongoing.

In terms of price, he estimated that inflation in 2014 would be back under control at 4.5 +1 percent of target range. It was influenced by positive impact of various policies of the gov-

ernment and Bank Indonesia. Inflation of foodstuff and administered prices was projected to be stable again and sustained by the hope on the improved

supply and distribution of food, with the assumption there would be no price hike of strategic goods / services. Core inflation was estimated to remain

under control due to sustained avail-ability of supply, the stable exchange rate of rupiah and maintained inflation expectation. (kmb27)

106 illegal villas found at Nusa Penidaamounted to 40 villas. He called it was a source of high leakage in the regionally generated revenue (PAD) in the field of tourism.

The regent admitted to be disap-pointed when seeing such a reality, Monday (Jan 6). All this time, the Cul-ture and Tourism Agency, Klungkung Revenue Service and Public Asset Management and the Office of Inte-grated Licensing gave him less valid

reports. Supposedly, the data presented by the subordinate were re-checked by the head of each agency, thus they provided real data pursuant to the real-ity in the field. Such condition led to a high enough revenue leakage from the tourism sector. “Klungkung has tremendous loss of revenue from the tourism sector,” he said. Even, such condition was deplored because it had taken place for long enough.

Apart from being furious about the leakage of the regionally generated revenue, the regent also highlighted the submission of permit by the em-ployers of villas and lodging there. For instance, there were employers who had diligently submitted the permit, but it had never been issued. Even, he also heard that a lot of employers sub-mitted a license through broker. Sup-posedly, the process should be made transparent and clear. As the rules, all the villas and lodgings should have a license. With the license, Klungkung government could maximize the rev-enue from tourism sector through hotel and restaurant taxes (PHR).

Other than the above issues, his party also heard that all this time there had been a levy collected by other party. Such condition was very worry-ing because it was the same as illegal levy. His party would investigate who did the collection and where the levies collected to the villas and lodging went to. “As the unlicensed status implies, so the levy is also illegal. Later on, we will explore them by degrees,” he said.

This regent from Ceningan Island admitted that in the near future he

would come again to the tourism area of Nusa Penida, especially to Lem-bongan, Jungut Batu and Ceningan to resolve the polemic on the unlicensed villas and lodging in the area. His party would summon the investors or own-ers of the villas and accommodation in order to explain and disseminate the licensing process on January 25. The issues on licensing of villas and lodg-ings were targeted to complete in the mid of 2014. By that way, the leakage of regional revenue from the tourism sector could soon be minimized.

The Head of Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, recognized that many villas and inns were unli-censed. However, the agency was only entitled to collect the levy charges. As for the hotel and restaurant taxes, it was the authority of the Revenue Service and Regional Asset Manage-ment. Sujana judged the Culture and Tourism Agency, Revenue Service and the Office of Integrated Licensing should work together to maximize the tourism potential of Nusa Penida. On that account, the data and earn-ings from the tourism sector could be ascertained. (kmb31)

Issues on the large number of unlicensed luxury villas in the tourism area of Nusa Penida, Klung-kung, were seriously addressed by the Regent Nyoman Suwirta. Having been checked and made data collection on Saturday (Jan 4), it was revealed there were 106 unlicensed villas. IBP/Gie

Its mission was to plug in at four gleaming white Supercharger units the company had just installed in the motel’s courtyard. The visit was part of a test of a planned coast-to-coast route of quick-charge stations for Tesla vehicles. The Palo Alto, California-based company plans dozens more across the middle of the continent in the months ahead to make it more feasible for the electric car to go from seashore to seashore.

Some folks in Lusk are cau-tiously hoping that the stations will bring a steady stream of wealthy motor tourists. In the meantime, if and when the next Tesla shows up, locals who commonly plug in their cars and trucks to keep their engines from freezing may be left wonder-ing about the visitors who plug in their cars to charge them.

After all, there’s no shortage of skepticism about electric cars out here — it’s not the kind of place for electric cars. First, people are


LAS VEGAS — Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of computer processors, says its processors are now free of minerals from mines held by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It’s the first major U.S. technology company to make such a claim about its prod-ucts. It’s the fruit of four years of work by the company to determine the sources of four crucial metals widely used in electronics manufacturing: tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold.

Eastern Congo is rich in minerals, and economic activity other than mining has been disrupted by nearly two decades of fighting between the government, rogue soldiers and different ethnic groups. There’s been widespread concern that foreign purchases of minerals from mines held by armed groups are fueling the conflict, though many experts say the minerals are not the root cause of the fighting. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich made the announcement Monday in a keynote speech ahead of the opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

A U.S. law passed in 2010 requires U.S. public companies to report whether their products contain minerals from rebel-held mines in Congo. Compliance is difficult for many electronics manufacturers, since a single product like a cellphone can contain components from hundreds or thousands of suppliers. Intel relies on relatively few suppliers for its chips.

There’s been concern that the law has amounted to a de facto embargo on minerals exports from an area with millions of people living at a subsistence level. Carolyn Duran, manager of Intel’s “conflict minerals” program said that Intel still buys minerals from the region, as long as it’s comfortable the mines are in good hands.

AP Photo/Hannah Dreier

Brazilian Formula One driver Lucas di Grassi stands on a new all-electric race car, the Spark-Renault SRT 01E Formula E, before taking it on a demonstration drive on the grounds of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, Jan. 6, 2013.

Tesla station to bring electric cars to WyomingAssociated Press Writer

LUSK, Wyoming — In the least populated county in the least populated state, old Ford and Chevy pickup trucks roam — and rule — the roads. Finding a Tesla, the sleek and pricey all-electric car, around these ranching towns is about as likely as spotting the mythical jackalope. And yet, one day last month, a Model S sedan pulled quietly in at the America’s Best Value Inn Covered Wagon Motel in Lusk, population 1,557.

partial to the pickup truck because of its ability to tow heavy loads and endure the rattling rides of going off-road. Second, Wyoming is famous for its open ranges, ter-rain that has worried electric car owners because they could end up being stranded. The Model S, which begins at $70,000 but with options can top $100,000, can drive a long way for an electric car: Up to 265 miles (426 kilometers) on a single charge. Draining the battery pack and recharging it all the way takes more than four hours with the best available home charger.

The company’s Supercharg-ers — Wyoming’s first are at the Covered Wagon — offer a trade-off that makes long-distance trips more feasible. The stations can charge a run-down Tesla battery pack to 90 percent in just 45-50 minutes. In Lusk, that’s enough time to grab a burger at the nearby Outpost Cafe or Triangle 4 Cafe & Steakhouse, or visit the

antiques stores downtown.The Supercharger station will be

a critical stepping-stone between stations in Cheyenne and Rapid City, South Dakota. Highlights on the first coast-to-coast route — to be followed, Tesla says, by a couple more cross-country options

by the end of this year — include the scenic Four Corners region and Mount Rushmore. “That’s kind of the thought behind this first, initial route, is enabling the great Ameri-can road trip,” Tesla spokesman Patrick Jones said.

New Supercharger stations

also are going in across Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania to connect existing facilities on the coasts. Tesla owners use the stations free of, well, charge. Te-sla picks up the electric bill.

Intel says its processors are now ‘conflict-free’AP Photo/Jack Dempsey

Mooly Eden, senior vice president and percep-tual computing general man-ager from Intel, shows the size of their new Intel embedded 3D camera next to a poker chip during the Intel news confer-ence at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, in Las Vegas.

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The girl’s death on New Year’s Eve in West Bengal came more than a year after a deadly gang rape in New Delhi raised awareness and outrage over chronic sexual violence in India and government failures to protect women. The New Delhi rape was considered a major reason for why voters ousted the capital’s government last month, and a furious response to the West Bengal case suggests that with general elections just months away, politicians are anxious to impress voters who are demanding that women’s safety become a police priority. The teen’s family, allegedly run out of town by her assailants, accuses police of trying to cover up the crimes.

Improving sensitivity by police officers and medical workers is cru-cial to improving women’s safety in this country of 1.2 billion, activists say. Even as the government has promised to improve justice for rape victims, some trying to report sexual crimes have said they were harassed by officers making lewd comments, demanding bribes or

simply shooing them away.The girl reported being gang

raped on Oct. 25 and 26, but Kol-kata police did not arrest anyone until the girl ended up in a hospital Dec. 23 with severe burn injuries. Doctors then determined she was pregnant. Police initially told re-porters she had attempted suicide, but the girl’s family disputed that, saying she was set on fire by as-sociates of those who had gang raped her.

After the girl’s death led to a public uproar, police arrested and charged six suspects in the gang rapes and another two accused by the girl of setting her alight. A fast-track court will hold a first hearing in the both cases Jan. 15. Meanwhile, a forensic laboratory is determining the age of the girl’s fetus in order to establish whether she became pregnant from the rapes. The case has reinforced the widespread view in India that police are a major part of India’s chronic problem with sexual violence.

Massive protests erupted in Kolkata, with critics including

artists, rights activists and opposi-tion politicians saying authorities ignored the family’s complaints of harassment and moved too slowly to arrest the suspects.

Critics question why police filed a case over the first reported gang rape, but not t h e second. Both the op-position and the girl’s taxi driver father are demanding that federal investigators take over the case.

“The fact that politicians and public figures are speaking in such strong terms is surpris-ing,” said Abhilasha Kumari, a New Delhi-based sociologist and women’s right’s activist. “Historically, the con-cerns of women have never mattered much to the political community, but in the past year safety and security of women have become a political issue, and it will be even more so now with elections coming.”

The girl’s family accused police of trying to cover up the crimes, and even of hijacking the hearse carrying his daughter’s body in an attempt to take it for cremation against the family’s wishes. A street brawl broke out as opposition sup-porters tried to block police from taking the body from the mortuary, where protesters had planned a rally to criticize a lack of sensitivity by authorities.


WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden spoke by phone Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his frequent parliamentary critic, in a show of U.S. angst about escalating, al-Qaida-linked violence in Iraq two years after the U.S. pulled out of Iraq.

As al-Maliki was urging residents of Fallujah to expel al-Qaida fighters or face all-out battle, Biden lent his support to Iraq’s fight against the local al-Qaida branch, and said he was concerned about those suffering from terrorism. He spoke positively about recent co-operation between Iraq’s military and tribal forces in Anbar, on the Syrian border, where al-Qaida fighters are among the most formidable trying to topple President Bashar Assad.

“Prime Minister Maliki affirmed the importance of working closely with Iraq’s Sunni leaders and communities to isolate extremists,” the White House said in a statement.

With the U.S. concerned about the sectarian nature of the growing violence, Biden also spoke with Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, a Sunni leader and frequent critic of al-Maliki’s Shiite-led govern-ment. The two discussed ways to sustain cooperation between Sunni communities and the Shiite-led government, and al-Nujaifi said he was committed to fighting terrorism, the White House said.

For Biden, who was President Barack Obama’s point-man on the Iraq war, the phone calls reflected the unpleasant reality that two years after American forces departed, violence tied to religious extremism in Iraq has spiked. Late last year, al-Maliki came to the Oval Office requesting weapons and intelligence help to fight insurgents but left without any new announcement by Obama.

Meanwhile, the White House has come under criticism in the U.S. by those who question whether Iraq would be better off today had the U.S. left a military presence in Iraq, as it is attempting to do in Afghanistan while it winds down its war there.

Biden calls Iraqi leaders amid sectarian violence

AP Photo/Cliff Owen, FileFILE - In this Dec. 10, 2013, file photoVice President Joe Biden addresses the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Centennial Celebration luncheon in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

AP Photo/Bikas Das, FileFILE - In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 file photo, activists of Indian National Congress with black bands around their mouths block traffic during a protest against a gang rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl at Madhyamgram, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Kolkata in West Bengal, India.

Political swipes in India show rape a voter issueAssociated Press Writer

NEW DELHI — The 16-year-old reported that she had been gang raped, only to be raped again by the same men the next day and later threatened for going to the police in eastern India. By the time charges were filed more than two months later, she had been set on fire and died from her injuries.

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SINGARAJA - After claiming a fatality suspected to die from ra-bies at Umajero village, Busungbiu subdistrict, local residents asked the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency to hold a mass vaccination at local village again. On the other hand, the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency also requested its counterpart the Tabanan Livestock Agency to do vaccination in the area of Pupuan, Tabanan, located adjacent to Umajero village.

The Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, admitted on Monday (Jan

6) to have made a checking directly to Umajero village, Sunday (Jan 5). At that time, the residents urged the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency to re-organize a mass vacci-nation as done in the mid of 2013. To that end, his party made data collec-tion of the dogs owned by residents. “We will do mass vaccination in the near future to dogs at Umajero village and nearby villages,” he said.

He said that his party would also coordinate with the Tabanan Agriculture and Livestock Agency through the Bali Livestock Agency. Similarly, the Tabanan Agriculture and Livestock Agency would be asked to conduct a mass vaccination

in the region of Pupuan, Tabanan. The dog bite case occurred at the border between the Cemara hamlet of Umajero village and Pupuan area in Tabanan.

According to Swatantra, from the narrative of residents, the dog biting the victim at Umajero was about four months old. The dog was found in the woods adjacent to the area of Pupuan, Tabanan. “Location where the resi-dents were bitten by the dog was not at the part of Umajero village, but at ridge area. It is called Cemara hamlet directly adjacent to Tabanan. It is a rarely populated area and located on the hills,” he said.

Previously, a resident Umajero,

Nengah Swastika, 47, died after being bitten by a dog suspected to have been infected by rabies. He was bitten by a dog on December 1. At that time, he was with Wayan Kariada and found a stray puppy around his home. As looking funny, Swastika and Kariada were moved to capture the dog to be taken care of. When arrested, the puppy bit Swastika and Kariada. Both were bitten on the fingers and caused injury. At that time, the wound was only washed with detergent and then smeared by using topical oil.

On December 31, Swastika had a fever and the bite wound on his hand was swollen. Then, on January

1, he experienced tightness, anxiety and cough. Seeing such condition, Swastika was then rushed to Buleleng Hospital on January 2 and died on Friday (Jan 3). Seeing the symptoms experienced by Swastika, he was con-sidered to die from the suspect of ra-bies. While Kariada remained healthy until last Monday. Nevertheless, he was directly injected with anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) after knowing that Swastika was a suspect of rabies. Other than Kariada, in fact dozens of other residents of Umajero village thronged to Buleleng Hospital to ask for VAR for fear of being infected by rabies because they had contact with the victim Swastika. (kmb15)

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SINGARAJA - One by one of the delayed projects in Buleleng were revealed. After the road and bridge project in Sawan subdis-trict and the building project of Civil Registration Office, it was the time for renovation project of Air Sanih tourist attraction in Kubutambahan that was also found to get delayed.

Actually, the Air Sanih project should have been completed on December 25, 2013. However, un-til last Monday (Jan 6) the project was still worked on. Although the project was touted to find obstacle due to natural factors, the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency who owned the project remained to im-pose fines to the contractor.

The contractor had been imposed with a fine worth IDR 7.8 million, calculated from December 25 to December 31, 2013. Meanwhile, the fines per January 1, 2014, had

not been counted until Monday.The Head of Buleleng Culture and

Tourism Agency, Ketut Warkadea, said on Monday (Jan 6) the arrange-ment project of the Air Sanih tourist attraction indeed got delayed due to natural factors. Contractor got dif-ficulty in controlling the water com-ing out from the source. Every time the contractor dug, the water always came out from the spring and could not be blocked.

As a result, the contractor could only work with the patch up speed. Warkadea said the contractor had been imposed with penalty that was calculated up to December 31, 2013. For the fine per January 1 to the project completion would be deducted directly in the payment. So far, Warkadea estimated the arrangement project of Air Sanih tourist attraction had been reached 90 percent of completion. As the promise of the contractor, the proj-ect was expected to be completed on January 15. (kmb15)

“We are still reviewing whether it will be renovated or built a new classroom. Obviously, the SDN 3 Songan gets the priority in our im-provement this year,” said the Head of Bangli Education Agency, Nyoman Sumantra, Monday (Jan 6).

He explained his party was still waiting for the review of the Public Works and General Affairs of the Re-gional Secretariat of Bangli regarding the building condition of the SDN 3 Songan. If later on the building was still considered feasible, it would be

refurbished. However, if it would be more suitable for the construction of new classroom, the old building would be deleted. “If it tends to build new classroom, there must be the elimination of the previous building,” he said.

Sumantra added, by considering the condition of the SDN 3 Songan, it was no longer possible for imple-menting a horizontal development. Then, the only way was to make a multi-storey school building. More-over, all this time the school learning system implemented a double shift because the existing classrooms were unable to accommodate the number of students as it exceeded the capac-ity. “The possible solution to take at the location is to make multi-storied building. Moreover, the school all this

time has applied a double shift where the students learn in the morning and afternoon,” he added.

Sumantra added that aside from the SDN 3 Songan, other schools becoming the priority target in this year was SDN 6 Songan. How-ever, the school located at Serongga hamlet, Songan village, Kintamani, was currently still in the assessment phase regarding the status of land. He did not know for sure the target of rehabilitation and construction of classroom this year. (ina)

To tackle rabiesBuleleng asks Tabanan Livestock Agency to do vaccination in Pupuan

IBP/FileThe damage SDN 3 Songan will soon be repaired by the local government

Renovation project of Air Sanih object delays

SDN 3 Songan becomes a focus of repair by Education AgencyBali Post

BANGLI - The Bangli Education Agency currently claims to have focused on the improvement of SDN 3 Songan elementary school. Condition of the school located at Yeh Panes hamlet, Songan B village, has been severely damaged as it collapsed after hit by heavy rains some time ago. However, so far the government has not been able to ascertain whether the damaged classrooms will be renovation or built a new classroom.

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LAS VEGAS - Motorola is pushing all the buttons to regain prominence in the smartphone market, including aggressive pricing, chief ex-ecutive Dennis Woodside says.

Woodside, in an interview Monday with AFP on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, said the Google-owned unit is seeking to gain ground against rivals includ-ing Apple and Google.

“Consumer tastes change, and we actually think that there’s a huge undercurrent of con-sumers who are saying, ‘I don’t want to pay as much for my phone ... that’s actually a great opportunity,” he said.

Motorola is far behind the market leaders now but is “tapping into the next five billion consumers who can’t afford a $600 dollar phone,” he added.

Since being acquired by Google, Motorola has introduced the Moto X, the flagship device aimed at the US market, and the Moto G, a less expensive phone geared to cost-conscious consumers worldwide.

“There will be different phones at different price points but we’re going to be very aggres-sive there,” Woodside said.

“When we priced Moto X at $399 in the US as a promotion, we sold tens of thousands of units in a matter of eight minutes.”

The Moto X was originally introduced at $599 unlocked, without a contract, while the Moto G was priced at $179 in the US.

Motorola, once among the leaders in the mo-bile phone market, has been struggling in recent years as makers like Apple and Samsung grab most of the market share and profits. Surveys indicate it is not among the global leaders in smartphones and has only around seven percent of the US market.

While some analyst see Motorola cutting prices due to weak sales, Woodside said the company makes a profit

“Costs are really important in the business and we’ll always be focused on costs, but right now the priority is growing the top line,” he said.

“This is a business where scale matters and what’s been really important for us to start putting products out there that we’re excited about and get consumers excited about. That’s what we’ve done with Moto X and Moto G,” he added.

“We’ve got more on the way and we’re focus-ing on growing that base, the bottom line will take care of itself, once we get to the scale that we need to be.”

He said that younger consumers appear to like to use Moto Maker, which allows for a custom design and color of the smartphone: 80 percent of those customers are under 35, he said.

Woodside declined to provide specific sales figures but maintained that since launching the Moto X and Moto G “we are seeing our best days ever for smartphones.”

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GIANYAR - Apart from being famous for the Cak Dance, Bona village also became the center of palm leaf handicrafts. It offered diverse kinds of products such as bags, hats, slippers, souvenirs and worship supplies. Consumers could order various customized product. “According to our ancestors, the palm-leaf handicrafts have become the source of livelihood of the people of this village,” said Sira.

Sira said the tourism development in Bali was very influential to the palm-leaf craftsmen. Local communities made different products at their home and then were submitted to collectors who had a shop in the main street of the village. “This type of handicraft is widely looked for by many store owners in Ubud, Denpasar and Kuta,” he added.

Aside from palm-leaf handicrafts, Bona village also has a beautiful weaving cloth that has emerged since 1980s. The cloth is available in various designs and regularly exhibited at the Art Center Denpasar in conjunction with the implementation of the Bali Arts Festival.

President Barack Obama’s nominee earned bipartisan support in the bitterly divided chamber, but the 56-26 vote was still among the closest in the 100-year history of the institution.

Several senators who supported Yel-len, currently Fed vice-chair, arrived too late for the vote.

Yellen, 67, will replace current Chairman Ben Bernanke, who steps down on January 31 after eight years in the job, during which the pair dealt with the country’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Bernanke’s successor’s main task will be ensuring the US economy does not slip backwards at a time when other countries

are beset by weakness.Especially crucial will be further

pushing down the American jobless rate, which fell to 7.0 percent in November, still significantly higher than Bernanke, Yellen and other Fed policymakers have deemed satisfactory.

Obama cheered the Senate approval, saying Yellen would serve the central bank and the country well.

“The American people will have a fierce champion who understands that the ultimate goal of economic and financial policymaking is to improve the lives, jobs and standard of living of American workers and their families,” he said in a statement.

“As one of our nation’s most respected economists and a leading voice at the Fed for more than a decade -- and vice chair for the past three years -- Janet helped pull our economy out of recession and put us on the path of steady growth.”

Yellen has built a strong reputation as an academic economist, and as a vet-eran policymaker at the Fed she is not expected to veer far from the policies set by Bernanke.

Married to economics Nobel Prize winner George Akerlof, she has a long-term interest in the impact of joblessness on the economy, and has helped keep Fed policy focused on bringing down unemployment.

Motorola eyes ‘aggressive’ moves in smartphones

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Yellen become 1st woman to chair Federal ReservesAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The US Senate on Monday confirmed Janet Yellen as the new leader of the Federal Reserve, marking the first time a woman has headed the world’s most powerful central bank.

“The defendant is charged for unlawful possession of Class I narcotic,” Public Prosecutor I Gusti Nyoman Widana stated.

Widana reported that the police arrested the defendant with meth placed in a used cigarette pack at the Tantular Street, in Denpasar, on

December 11 last year.The defendant admitted that he

bought the contraband from his friend, who is still at large.

The defendant confessed that he left the meth in a ditch in front of the Bros Hospital, in Denpasar, fearing that the police will arrest him.

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Ngaben or cremation ceremony is arguably the most documented Balinese ceremony among hun-dreds of Balinese religious cer-emonies. And of course the prima ballerina of Balinese cremation is the cremation tower or well known as Bade or Wadah. Bade or wadah is a tower which is used to carry the body of the deceased to the cremation ground.

Bade or Wadah is a pagoda-like structure with multi-tiered roof, constructed by a group of special craftsmen known as sangging with specific material such as bamboo, paper mace and cotton. The size, proportion and the structure of the bade is strictly

governed by the ancient rules of bade construction. The height of the Bade could reach up to 25 meters and the weight around 10 ton. It is required a few hundreds of man to carry it.

Bade shows the social status of the deceased in the community, it is shown by the number of the tier of the bade roofs. The number of the roof of the bade is always odd (3, 5, 9, and 11). A commoner or sudra is forbidden to use bade in his cremation. The gentry usually use 3 up to 9-roof bade depend of his or her social status; higher social status means higher and more elaborate bade. The 11-roof bade is reserved especially for a king.

The Bade represents the an-

cient Balinese cosmogony the Bedawang Nala (The world turtle) as its base, surrounded by the two dragons, Naga Basuki and Ananta boga as the symbol of safety and perpetual foods. Above them on the backside of the Bade is a big, grotesque mask of Bhoma with its outstretched wings symbol of the lofty forest and mountains. At the very top is the receding size of the multi tiers of roof, symbol of the heaven. The turtle and the dragons live in the lower world named Bhur, and the above is the world of man called Bwah, symbolized with the Bhoma. At the top is the world of heaven, Swah and it is symbolized by the tiers of roof at the Bade itself.

Domestic helper tried for possesing methAntara

DENPASAR - On Monday, the Denpasar district court in the Bali province, tried a domestic helper charged for possessing 0.36 grams of crystal methamphetamine (sabu-sabu).

Bona a handicraft center

IBP/File PhotoApart from being famous for the Cak Dance, Bona village also became the center of palm leaf handicrafts.

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Villagers start their morning routine as Mount Sinabung releases volcanic materials into the air in Perteguhan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. The 2,600-meter (8,530-foot) volcano has sporadically erupted since September.

It is the first reported instance in which the new Australian gov-ernment has turned a boat back without Indonesian cooperation, and could add to recent tensions between Jakarta and Canberra sparked by a spying row.

The boat was carrying 45 im-migrants, mostly from Somalia and Sudan, and arrived on Rote Island in eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, Rote Ndao district police chief Hidayat told AFP.

“Based on interviews with the asylum seekers, they had entered Australian waters near (the Aus-tralian territory of) Ashmore Reef on January 4 and were intercepted by an Australian naval boat,” said Hidayat, who like many Indone-sians goes by one name.

“The Australian boat accompa-nied the vessel and pushed it back to Indonesian waters towards Rote island,” Hidayat said, adding the asylum seekers were given life vests and a water pump.

He said he did not know how far the Australian vessel had ac-companied the boat and whether it had entered Indonesia’s search and rescue zone or its territorial waters.

“Australian authorities didn’t alert us that the boat would be pushed back to the island,” he added.

However, he denied reports that the boat had run out of fuel and run aground. Earlier reports also said the boat was forced back to Indo-nesian waters in mid-December, not this week.

In November, Indonesia re-fused to accept a group of some 60 asylum seekers who were picked

up by an Australian vessel south of the main island of Java.

Canberra eventually agreed to take them to the Australian terri-tory of Christmas Island.

Jakarta has been irked by Can-berra’s hardline Operation Sover-eign Borders, which helped propel conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott to power in September, warning it could breach Indone-sian territorial sovereignty.

The policy involves sending asylum seeker boats back to Indo-nesia, and buying and destroying boats from fisherman to prevent them being used to ferry asylum seekers to Australia.

Australian Immigration Min-ister Scott Morrison on Tuesday refused to discuss the boat turn-back, in line with his conser-vative government’s policy of not commenting on “on water” operations.

But he insisted: “It is not the policy or practice of the Australian government to violate Indonesian territorial sovereignty. Any sug-gestion to the contrary is false.”

Hundreds of people have died in fatal sinkings in recent years, often after boarding rickety, wooden boats in Indonesia to try and make the treacherous sea crossing to Australia.

Australia has been trying to repair ties with Indonesia since allegations emerged in November that Canberra attempted to tap the phones of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and inner circle.

Jakarta has frozen cooperation with Canberra in a number of ar-eas due to the row, including on people-smuggling.

AntaraJAKARTA - The National Com-

mission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will summon the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) Chairman Ansyaad Mbai to inquire into the shooting of suspected terror-ists, an act of human rights violation.

“We are going to summon the BNPT chairman and the National Police Headquarters to examine and discuss the evidence of suspected terrorists who were shot dead during a raid in South Tangerang recently,” Komnas Ham Commissioner Nur Kholis stated on Monday.

Nur Kholis noted that he would also try to meet the families of the victims to gather information related to the shooting.

“We will try to meet with the families of the victims to discuss the evidence found during the raid, and to learn about other important matters related to the recommendation from various parties about the theology and teachings,” he explained. “There are some important evidences, which in my opinion, is related to the theology and teachings that we want to examine with BNPT and then hand over the result to the House of Representatives’ Commission-III,” he noted.

In a bid to examine and learn about the evidence, Nur explained that he would use the approach of enforce-ment and prevention aspects to find out if the Ciputat incident in South Tangerang violated human rights.

Nur suspected that the terrorist

activity had something to do with theology because during the raid they had discovered some books by Abu Bakar Ba’asyir about the teaching of “Tadzkirah” that indicated that robbing or stealing for the acts of ter-rorism was permitted.

On New Year’s Eve in Ciputat, South Tangerang, Banten province, six terrorist suspects were shot dead dur-ing an encounter with the anti-terrorist police squad.

National Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar stated on Wednesday that prior to the New Year’s eve raid, the police had arrested a terrorist suspect named Anton in Banyumas, Central Java province, who had provided information about his accomplices living in the Ciputat area.


JAKARTA - Seventeen have died and nine are fighting for their lives after drinking bootleg alcohol to cel-ebrate New Year’s Eve on the main island of Java, police said Monday.

Police have arrested a couple who are suspected of producing and distrib-uting the alcohol to roadside stalls in the town of Mojokerto in eastern Java, where the victims bought it.

It is thought the locally produced alcohol, believed to be made from palm tree sap or rice, contained poisonous methanol, Awi Setiyono,

police spokesman for East Java prov-ince, told AFP.

Those that drank the alcohol to cel-ebrate New Year began falling ill in the following days and the first death was recorded on Friday, said Setiyono.

A total of 17 people have now died -- including two on Monday -- and nine people are in critical condition in local hospitals, he said. “We suspect that the drink contains methanol but we can only confirm that after we have the results of laboratory tests,” he said.

The couple that were arrested are in police custody, he added.

There have been many previous cases where alcohol containing metha-nol -- which is sometimes added to drinks to make them stronger -- has proved fatal in Indonesia.

In 2009, 25 people including four foreigners died after drinking methanol-laced palm wine on the resort island of Bali.

The small proportion of those who consume alcohol in Muslim-majority Indonesia sometimes opt for homemade drinks, because le-gally produced alcohol is relatively expensive as it is heavily taxed and much is imported.

Australia turns asylum boat back to IndonesiaAgence France-Presse

KUPANG - The Australian navy has turned an asylum-seeker boat back to Indonesia without first informing authorities there, Indonesian police said Tuesday, as part of Canberra’s hardline border policies that have angered Jakarta.

Komnas HAM to summon BNPT chairman

17 die after drinking bootleg alcohol

In Aberystwyth in Wales, sea-front homes, businesses and stu-dent residence halls were evacu-ated as high tides hit the Welsh coast. The Met Office, Britain’s weather forecasting body, warned of wind gusts up to 70 mph (113 kph) and exceptionally large

waves along the coasts of Wales, southwest England and Northern Ireland.

At least seven people have died in a wave of stormy weather that has battered Britain since Decem-ber, including a man killed when his mobility scooter fell into a river

in Oxford, southern England.The Environment Agency is-

sued three severe flood warnings Monday — meaning there is a threat to life and property — for the county of Dorset in southwest-ern England, as well as more than 300 less serious flood alerts.

Reuters

JERUSALEM - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has more secrets to reveal that relate to Israel, the journalist who first brought his leaks to the world’s attention said on Monday. Among allegations aired by Snowden last year were that the U.S. Na-tional Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ had in 2009 targeted an email address listed as belonging to then-Israeli Prime Min-ister Ehud Olmert and monitored emails of senior defense officials.

Israel played down the disclosures. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the matter examined and that “there are things that must not be done” between allies.

Glenn Greenwald, who as a writer for Britain’s Guardian met face-to-face with the fugitive Snowden and has written or co-authored many of the newspaper’s stories based on his material, was asked in an Israeli television interview whether the ex-contractor had more secrets to tell that related to Israel.

“Yes. I don’t want to preview any stories that aren’t yet published, but it is definitely the case that there are a huge number of very signifi-cant stories that are left to report,” said the Brazil-based Greenwald, speaking to Channel Ten TV by video link.

“We have only had these documents for seven months, which, given their volume and complexity, is not a very long time. There definitely are stories left that involve the Middle East, that involve Israel. The reporting is going to continue at roughly the same pace that has been happening.” Last month, several Israeli cabinet members and lawmak-ers said news of U.S. spying on Israel was an opportunity to press Washington to free jailed Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard.

Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was sentenced to a life term in 1987 in the United States for spying for Israel. A succession of U.S. presidents have spurned Israeli calls for his pardon.

In what appeared to be a bid to calm the clamor, Netanyahu said Israel constantly sought Pollard’s release and did not need a “special occasion” to discuss his case with Washington. Greenwald voiced understanding for the Pollard linkage.

“I think you are absolutely right to contrast the Jonathan Pollard case with revelations of American spying on their closest allies within the Israeli government, because it does underlie, underscore exactly the hypocrisy that lies at the center of so much of what the U.S. govern-ment does,” he said.


ANKARA, Turkey — Tur-key’s state-run news agency says some 350 police officers have been removed from posts in the capital Ankara, as the govern-ment continues to battle a cor-ruption scandal that has ensnared former Cabinet ministers.

Claiming that it is the target of a conspiracy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s govern-ment has dismissed hundreds of police chiefs and officers since police launched raids targeting close Erdogan allies on Dec. 17. He has alleged that followers of an Islamic movement led by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gu-

len have infiltrated the judiciary and police and are using their powers to attack the govern-ment.

The Anadolu Agency said the 350 were removed from posts Tuesday. The private Dogan news agency said they were reassigned to traffic departments or police stations outside the city.

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Water covers the coastal roads at Clevelys near Blackpool, England as large waves crash over the sea defenses as high tides and huge waves hit the west coast of the UK, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Waves up to 27 feet (8.2 meters) high slammed into Britain’s western coast on Monday as the storm that pummeled the U.S. Northeast with snow sped across the Atlantic to dump intense rain on the U.K.



LONDON — Waves up to 27 feet (8.2 meters) high slammed into Britain’s southwestern coast on Monday, as lashing winds and heavy rain battered parts of the U.K. and coastal residents braced for another round of flooding. The monster waves were recorded at Land’s End, the southwestern tip of the U.K.

Turkey dismisses 350 police officers in Ankara

Snowden has more U.S.-Israel secrets to expose: Greenwald

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FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guard-ian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his “mission’s already accomplished” after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveil-lance policies.

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IBP

Beratan Lake is a shallow lake with the high caldera about 1231 meter above sea level and it is located at Bedugul, the famous tourist destina-tions in Bali.

Tourist can access the Beratan Lake through the dock which have been provided or desist around Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. In this place, the visitor can do various activities like doing recreation to look around in dock or do the other outdoor activities. The various water recreation activities can also be conducted here, for example riding the boat to circle the lake, parasailing, ca-noeing with the traditional boat, banana boating, water skiing, and others. Fishing activities are

also available in this places for ones who love fishing in the lake.

Beratan Lake is situated in the plateau area with cool atmosphere surround it. It is an ideal place for relaxation while enjoy the beautiful panorama of lake. The accommodations are also available in this area where is the perfect place for overnight stay, resting and enjoy the beautiful panoramic of lake with the Ulun Danu Temple as a magnificence. The small scale of agriculture activities are likely conducted around this lake and can be perceived at the same time circle around it. If we encircle it, we can take photograph with the beautiful background view or make the picture sketch in mini studio at the lakeside as a souvenir.

Beratan Lake

Bosnian star Mirza Teletovic scored 16 points and Alan Anderson added 14 starting in place of the injured Deron Williams as the Nets moved to 2-0 on a four-game homestand that finishes with visits from Golden State on Wednesday and Miami on Friday. Despite yet an-other injury to a key player, the Nets look ready to test themselves against those powerful teams after matching their three consecutive victories from Dec. 7-12.

Paul Millsap scored 16 points for the Hawks, who lost their third in a row to equal their worst stretch of the season. The teams meet again on Jan. 16 in London in what’s considered a home game for the Hawks. Minnesota’s Kevin Love scored 16 of his 26 points

in a dominant third quarter and Nikola Pekovic had 16 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves.

Kevin Martin scored 18 points and Corey Brewer had 15 to help the Tim-berwolves move back to .500 (17-17). Thaddeus Young scored 20 points for the Sixers, who had won the final four games of a six-game road trip.

The Clippers, meanwhile, enjoyed one of their best defensive efforts of the season after surrendering 70 first-half points in each of their previous two games against Dallas and San Antonio.

Darren Collison scored 19 of his 21 points in the first half and had seven assists in his second start at point guard since Paul separated his right shoulder

in Friday’s win at Dallas. He is expected to be sidelined for at least six weeks. Blake Griffin had 16 points, eight re-bounds and six as-sists, and DeAndre Jordan added 17 re-bounds and 14 points.

Brooklyn Nets’ Joe Johnson re-acts after sinking a three-point-er during the second half of the

NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers at the

Barclays Center Monday, Dec. 16, 2013 in New York.

Johnson scores 23 as Nets win 3rd straight


NEW YORK — Joe Johnson broke out of a slump with 23 points against his former team as the Brooklyn Nets beat the Atlanta Hawks 91-86 on Monday for their third straight victory. Elsewhere in the NBA, the Min-nesota Timberwolves ended the Philadelphia 76ers’ four-game winning streak with a 126-95 victory and the Los Angeles Clippers, playing without the injured Chris Paul, routed the Orlando Magic 101-81.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Bernard Tomic of Australia hits a forehand to Marcel Granollers of Spain during their men’s singles match at the Sydney Internation-al tennis tournament in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014.

Reuters

SYDNEY - The presence of his banned father watching from courtside boosted Bernard Tomic’s game as he opened the defence of his Sydney Inter-national title with a 6-3 6-0 demolition of eighth seed Marcel Granollers on Tuesday. “Having my dad there is a very good feeling,” Tomic told reporters after the victory over his Spanish opponent.

“Obviously winning my first title here gives a lot of memories to me. I’m happy the way I played today. Having my dad there for the first time in a while, it’s good. “I know his ban will finish very soon, in a few months, and back to help-ing me. I’m happy. I played very good. Felt very good. I’m happy to be back playing like this.”

Former taxi driver John Tomic has not watched his son play since he was banned last May from all ATP events, which includes next week’s Australian Open, after he was charged with head-butting his son’s former training partner Frenchman Thomas Drouet and breaking his nose.

He was convicted and sentenced to eight month’s imprisonment by a Spanish court for assault last September though was not required to serve jail time be-

cause his sentence was under two years in length.

MELBOURNE BANWhile he is banned from receiving

accreditation, which entitles him into official areas, he was allowed to buy a ticket as a member of the public at the discretion of the tournament director.

“The ATP has banned John Tomic - as is public knowledge - which excludes him from getting credentials and being in other accreditable areas,” Sydney International director Craig Watson told Australian media. “There is nothing that prohibits the events agreeing to John be-ing in public areas of the ground and I’ve agreed to allow that to happen.”

Australian Open organisers have already said he would not be entitled to purchase a ticket for Melbourne Park, though the younger Tomic said that would not be a problem.

“Obviously he can’t come in (at Mel-bourne),” Tomic said. “But that’s fine. I’ll see him at home. If there is anything I need to hear, he’ll tell me. It’s very good.

“He’s the one that you taught me to play like this. Spent hours with him that I probably won’t spend with no one in my life. “He knows me the best.”

Father just the Tomic in Sydney despite ban

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“He was very close to me and helped me a lot,” Ronaldo said of his countryman. “He is a mythic figure, and for me today is a very sad day.” Before the match Ronaldo locked arms with his teammates on the center circle and turned his gaze upward during a minute of silence for Eusebio at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Hours before in Lisbon, tens of thou-sands of people turned out to pay tribute to the 1965 Ballon d’Or winner, who is considered among the best players of all time.

“I appreciate the acts of homage made here at the stadium and throughout Spain,” Ronaldo said. “It’s important to feel the sympathy from Spain and the rest of the world.” Ronaldo moved one goal ahead of Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa as the Spanish league’s top scorer by finding the net in the 82nd minute and again in stoppage time from a cross by substitute Gareth Bale on his return from a three-week injury layoff.

Celta’s attack, led by midfielder Rafina Alcantara, created the clearest chances of the match until Benzema broke through from close range in the 67th with his ninth goal in league play this campaign. Madrid’s win after the league’s two-week winter break left

it five points behind Barcelona and Atletico, who play each other in the next round in the Spanish capital.

“In the first half we were a little slow and the team wasn’t well balanced,” said Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti. “They had too many counterattacks. (But) it’s normal after the Christmas break. In the second half we played with more intensity.” Also, Villarreal striker Ikechukwu Uche scored a hat trick and Jeremy Perbet added two more goals in a 5-2 win at Rayo Vallecano.

Celta, coached by former Madrid and Bar-celona player Luis Enrique, played the hosts to a standstill in the first half while enjoying the best scoring opportunities. Striker Charles had a great look six minutes in but failed to beat goalkeeper Diego Lopez one-on-one, and Rafina, younger brother of Bayern Munich’s Thiago, had a shot that looked goal-bound when it deflected off a defender in the 37th.

Bale had been warming up on the touchline since the half-hour mark, and coach Carlo Ancelotti sent him on in the 65th. Charles wasted Rafina’s through ball moments later by sending his chip shot well wide, and soon the game swung in the hosts’ favor when Benzema

fended off his marker and redirected substitute Jese Rodriguez’s short pass into the net.

“The truth is we had problems in the first half, but I think you could see the change after Bale and I went on,” Jese said. With Celta still threatening to equalize, Ronaldo charged for-ward to meet Dani Carvajal’s cross and sweep it home. Ronaldo struck again in added time, banging in a cross from Bale to complete his brace a week before FIFA announces the Ballon d’Or winner. Ronaldo is a finalist along with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Franck Ribery of Bayern.

“They have some of the best players in the world, and they punish you if you give them half a chance,” Rafina said. The defeat pushed Celta into the relegation zone.

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal, centre, celebrates his goal during a Spanish La Liga

soccer match between Real Ma-drid and Celta Vigo at the Santiago

Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014.

Ronaldo dedicates goals to Eusebio in Madrid winAssociated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice Monday to help Real Madrid beat Celta Vigo 3-0 to stay in touch with the top of the Spanish standings, and then dedicated his goals to the memory of Portuguese great Eusebio. Ronaldo said his league-leading 19th and 20th goals of the season “were for Eusebio,” the former Benfica star who died on Sunday at the age of 71.


LONDON — Arsenal winger Theo Walcott will miss the World Cup for Eng-

land after being ruled out for six months on Monday with a torn knee ligament, an injury that also deals a major setback to his club’s hopes of winning the Premier League. Wal-cott ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee as he made a tackle toward the end of Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Tottenham in the FA Cup on Saturday.

“Theo will have surgery in London in the near future and is expected to be out for at least six months,” Arsenal said in a state-ment, “therefore missing the remainder of

the season and the World Cup in Brazil in the summer.” It keeps up Walcott’s unfortunate luck at World Cups — he was a surprise selec-tion for the 2006 tournament in Germany as a 17-year-old but wasn’t used, before being left out of the squad in 2010.

He would have been a guaranteed pick by England coach Roy Hodgson for this sum-mer’s tournament, likely competing with Andros Townsend for the right-wing berth.

Walcott had been in brilliant form for Ar-senal since returning in November after two months out with an abdominal injury, scoring five goals in his last five league games to help his team stay top of the standings heading into 2014. Arsenal leads Manchester City by

a point after 20 games. The injury to Walcott deprives Arsene Wenger’s side of one of its best goal threats and a back-up to leading striker Olivier Giroud, who is currently out injured.

With Nicklas Bendtner also out, possibly for a month, it leaves Wenger with few op-tions up front. Currently, Lukas Podolski is the only fit forward in the squad and he usu-ally plays on the left wing.

It may prompt Wenger to make a move in the January transfer market, with Arse-nal facing a busy second half of the season after reaching the last 16 of the Champions League, where it will play Bayern Munich. Arsenal hasn’t won a trophy since 2005.

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Arsenal’s Theo Walcott, is carried from the pitch on a stretcher after an injury during the English FA Cup third round soccer match between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur at the Emirates Stadium in London, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014.


GENEVA — FIFA President Sepp Blatter criticized Brazil’s slow prep-arations for the World Cup, calling the country further behind than any other hosting the international event during his tenure. Brazil has com-pleted only six of the 12 World Cup stadiums despite a FIFA deadline to finish by the end of 2013.

“Brazil has just realized what it means to organize a World Cup,” Blatter said in an interview with Swiss newspaper 24 Heures. “They started a lot too late. It is the country which is the furthest behind since I’ve been at FIFA and moreover, it’s the only one that had so much time — seven years — to prepare itself.”

Six of the stadiums were ready for last year’s Confederations Cup.

One of the remaining six was sym-bolically delivered on New Year’s Eve, although it won’t be fully ready until the end of the month. Delays have included financial problems, worker safety issues and construction-site accidents. Three construction workers died at stadiums late last year.

“The information arriving at the Ministry of Sports, informa-tion sent by the authorities in the host cities, and details gathered by the minister himself — who visits the sites every three months — shows that the country will be ready on time,” Brazil Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo said. “Bra-zil has worked to prepare the World Cup since it was chosen to host the tournament.”

Blatter said he believes there will be more of the protests, similar

to those that marred the Confederations Cup. But he doesn’t think they will impact the World Cup.

“I’m an optimist, not someone who worries,” the 77-year-old Blatter said. “So I’m not worried. But we know that there will be more demonstrations, more protests.

“The last ones, during the Confederations Cup in this same country, stemmed from social networks. There was no goal, no real demands, but during the World Cup they will maybe be more concrete, more structured. But the foot-ball will be protected, I believe the Brazilians won’t attack the football directly. Because for them, it’s a religion.”

Reuters Udinese and former Italy striker Antonio

di Natale said he would retire at the end of the season.

The 36-year-old played for Italy 42 times and scored 11 goals before quitting international football after the 2012 Euro-pean Championship.“I’ve already made the decision, I’ve talked about it with my family and my agent,” Di Natale told Sky Sports Italia after Udinese’s 3-1 home defeat by Verona on Monday.

“The club will know soon but I’ll stop playing in June.”

Di Natale, who started his career at Empoli and joined Udinese in 2004, twice finished as Serie A’s leading scorer.

Reuters

Hamburg SV goalkeeper Rene Adler will be sent back from a mid-season training camp after aggravating an ankle injury, the Bundesliga club said on Tuesday. Adler, one of several goalkeepers battling for a position as understudy to Manuel Neuer in the Ger-man national side, sat out Hamburg’s last two Bundesliga games before the winter break with the injury.

“I’ve tried everything to be fit again as quickly as possible,” Adler told Hamburg’s website (www.hsv.de). “We thought that it would be fine after the 10 day (Christmas) break, but it got worse during the very first training session.”

Hamburg said that Adler would fly home from Abu Dhabi, the second stop on their winter getaway after Indonesia, for further ex-amination and treatment. Adler, Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Ron-Robert Zieler in the mix for the two reserve positions in Germany’s World Cup squad behind Neuer, the undis-puted first choice.

Adler missed the 2010 World Cup after suffering a broken rib before the tournament. He was Germany’s number one goalkeeper at the time and Neuer has never looked back since taking his place in South Africa.

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

FIFA president Sepp Blatter answers to question of jour-nalists during a news confer-ence at the Club World Cup soccer tournament in Mar-rakech, Morocco, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013.

Blatter: Brazil far behind in WCup preparationsFormer Italy striker Di Natale to quit at end of season

Adler sent back from Hamburg training camp with injury

Walcott ruled out for 6 months with knee injury

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IBP

Beratan Lake is a shallow lake with the high caldera about 1231 meter above sea level and it is located at Bedugul, the famous tourist destina-tions in Bali.

Tourist can access the Beratan Lake through the dock which have been provided or desist around Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. In this place, the visitor can do various activities like doing recreation to look around in dock or do the other outdoor activities. The various water recreation activities can also be conducted here, for example riding the boat to circle the lake, parasailing, ca-noeing with the traditional boat, banana boating, water skiing, and others. Fishing activities are

also available in this places for ones who love fishing in the lake.

Beratan Lake is situated in the plateau area with cool atmosphere surround it. It is an ideal place for relaxation while enjoy the beautiful panorama of lake. The accommodations are also available in this area where is the perfect place for overnight stay, resting and enjoy the beautiful panoramic of lake with the Ulun Danu Temple as a magnificence. The small scale of agriculture activities are likely conducted around this lake and can be perceived at the same time circle around it. If we encircle it, we can take photograph with the beautiful background view or make the picture sketch in mini studio at the lakeside as a souvenir.

Beratan Lake

Bosnian star Mirza Teletovic scored 16 points and Alan Anderson added 14 starting in place of the injured Deron Williams as the Nets moved to 2-0 on a four-game homestand that finishes with visits from Golden State on Wednesday and Miami on Friday. Despite yet an-other injury to a key player, the Nets look ready to test themselves against those powerful teams after matching their three consecutive victories from Dec. 7-12.

Paul Millsap scored 16 points for the Hawks, who lost their third in a row to equal their worst stretch of the season. The teams meet again on Jan. 16 in London in what’s considered a home game for the Hawks. Minnesota’s Kevin Love scored 16 of his 26 points

in a dominant third quarter and Nikola Pekovic had 16 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves.

Kevin Martin scored 18 points and Corey Brewer had 15 to help the Tim-berwolves move back to .500 (17-17). Thaddeus Young scored 20 points for the Sixers, who had won the final four games of a six-game road trip.

The Clippers, meanwhile, enjoyed one of their best defensive efforts of the season after surrendering 70 first-half points in each of their previous two games against Dallas and San Antonio.

Darren Collison scored 19 of his 21 points in the first half and had seven assists in his second start at point guard since Paul separated his right shoulder

in Friday’s win at Dallas. He is expected to be sidelined for at least six weeks. Blake Griffin had 16 points, eight re-bounds and six as-sists, and DeAndre Jordan added 17 re-bounds and 14 points.

Brooklyn Nets’ Joe Johnson re-acts after sinking a three-point-er during the second half of the

NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers at the

Barclays Center Monday, Dec. 16, 2013 in New York.

Johnson scores 23 as Nets win 3rd straight


NEW YORK — Joe Johnson broke out of a slump with 23 points against his former team as the Brooklyn Nets beat the Atlanta Hawks 91-86 on Monday for their third straight victory. Elsewhere in the NBA, the Min-nesota Timberwolves ended the Philadelphia 76ers’ four-game winning streak with a 126-95 victory and the Los Angeles Clippers, playing without the injured Chris Paul, routed the Orlando Magic 101-81.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Bernard Tomic of Australia hits a forehand to Marcel Granollers of Spain during their men’s singles match at the Sydney Internation-al tennis tournament in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014.

Reuters

SYDNEY - The presence of his banned father watching from courtside boosted Bernard Tomic’s game as he opened the defence of his Sydney Inter-national title with a 6-3 6-0 demolition of eighth seed Marcel Granollers on Tuesday. “Having my dad there is a very good feeling,” Tomic told reporters after the victory over his Spanish opponent.

“Obviously winning my first title here gives a lot of memories to me. I’m happy the way I played today. Having my dad there for the first time in a while, it’s good. “I know his ban will finish very soon, in a few months, and back to help-ing me. I’m happy. I played very good. Felt very good. I’m happy to be back playing like this.”

Former taxi driver John Tomic has not watched his son play since he was banned last May from all ATP events, which includes next week’s Australian Open, after he was charged with head-butting his son’s former training partner Frenchman Thomas Drouet and breaking his nose.

He was convicted and sentenced to eight month’s imprisonment by a Spanish court for assault last September though was not required to serve jail time be-

cause his sentence was under two years in length.

MELBOURNE BANWhile he is banned from receiving

accreditation, which entitles him into official areas, he was allowed to buy a ticket as a member of the public at the discretion of the tournament director.

“The ATP has banned John Tomic - as is public knowledge - which excludes him from getting credentials and being in other accreditable areas,” Sydney International director Craig Watson told Australian media. “There is nothing that prohibits the events agreeing to John be-ing in public areas of the ground and I’ve agreed to allow that to happen.”

Australian Open organisers have already said he would not be entitled to purchase a ticket for Melbourne Park, though the younger Tomic said that would not be a problem.

“Obviously he can’t come in (at Mel-bourne),” Tomic said. “But that’s fine. I’ll see him at home. If there is anything I need to hear, he’ll tell me. It’s very good.

“He’s the one that you taught me to play like this. Spent hours with him that I probably won’t spend with no one in my life. “He knows me the best.”

Father just the Tomic in Sydney despite ban

AP Photo/Daniel Munoz

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Villagers start their morning routine as Mount Sinabung releases volcanic materials into the air in Perteguhan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. The 2,600-meter (8,530-foot) volcano has sporadically erupted since September.

It is the first reported instance in which the new Australian gov-ernment has turned a boat back without Indonesian cooperation, and could add to recent tensions between Jakarta and Canberra sparked by a spying row.

The boat was carrying 45 im-migrants, mostly from Somalia and Sudan, and arrived on Rote Island in eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, Rote Ndao district police chief Hidayat told AFP.

“Based on interviews with the asylum seekers, they had entered Australian waters near (the Aus-tralian territory of) Ashmore Reef on January 4 and were intercepted by an Australian naval boat,” said Hidayat, who like many Indone-sians goes by one name.

“The Australian boat accompa-nied the vessel and pushed it back to Indonesian waters towards Rote island,” Hidayat said, adding the asylum seekers were given life vests and a water pump.

He said he did not know how far the Australian vessel had ac-companied the boat and whether it had entered Indonesia’s search and rescue zone or its territorial waters.

“Australian authorities didn’t alert us that the boat would be pushed back to the island,” he added.

However, he denied reports that the boat had run out of fuel and run aground. Earlier reports also said the boat was forced back to Indo-nesian waters in mid-December, not this week.

In November, Indonesia re-fused to accept a group of some 60 asylum seekers who were picked

up by an Australian vessel south of the main island of Java.

Canberra eventually agreed to take them to the Australian terri-tory of Christmas Island.

Jakarta has been irked by Can-berra’s hardline Operation Sover-eign Borders, which helped propel conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott to power in September, warning it could breach Indone-sian territorial sovereignty.

The policy involves sending asylum seeker boats back to Indo-nesia, and buying and destroying boats from fisherman to prevent them being used to ferry asylum seekers to Australia.

Australian Immigration Min-ister Scott Morrison on Tuesday refused to discuss the boat turn-back, in line with his conser-vative government’s policy of not commenting on “on water” operations.

But he insisted: “It is not the policy or practice of the Australian government to violate Indonesian territorial sovereignty. Any sug-gestion to the contrary is false.”

Hundreds of people have died in fatal sinkings in recent years, often after boarding rickety, wooden boats in Indonesia to try and make the treacherous sea crossing to Australia.

Australia has been trying to repair ties with Indonesia since allegations emerged in November that Canberra attempted to tap the phones of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and inner circle.

Jakarta has frozen cooperation with Canberra in a number of ar-eas due to the row, including on people-smuggling.

AntaraJAKARTA - The National Com-

mission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will summon the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) Chairman Ansyaad Mbai to inquire into the shooting of suspected terror-ists, an act of human rights violation.

“We are going to summon the BNPT chairman and the National Police Headquarters to examine and discuss the evidence of suspected terrorists who were shot dead during a raid in South Tangerang recently,” Komnas Ham Commissioner Nur Kholis stated on Monday.

Nur Kholis noted that he would also try to meet the families of the victims to gather information related to the shooting.

“We will try to meet with the families of the victims to discuss the evidence found during the raid, and to learn about other important matters related to the recommendation from various parties about the theology and teachings,” he explained. “There are some important evidences, which in my opinion, is related to the theology and teachings that we want to examine with BNPT and then hand over the result to the House of Representatives’ Commission-III,” he noted.

In a bid to examine and learn about the evidence, Nur explained that he would use the approach of enforce-ment and prevention aspects to find out if the Ciputat incident in South Tangerang violated human rights.

Nur suspected that the terrorist

activity had something to do with theology because during the raid they had discovered some books by Abu Bakar Ba’asyir about the teaching of “Tadzkirah” that indicated that robbing or stealing for the acts of ter-rorism was permitted.

On New Year’s Eve in Ciputat, South Tangerang, Banten province, six terrorist suspects were shot dead dur-ing an encounter with the anti-terrorist police squad.

National Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar stated on Wednesday that prior to the New Year’s eve raid, the police had arrested a terrorist suspect named Anton in Banyumas, Central Java province, who had provided information about his accomplices living in the Ciputat area.


JAKARTA - Seventeen have died and nine are fighting for their lives after drinking bootleg alcohol to cel-ebrate New Year’s Eve on the main island of Java, police said Monday.

Police have arrested a couple who are suspected of producing and distrib-uting the alcohol to roadside stalls in the town of Mojokerto in eastern Java, where the victims bought it.

It is thought the locally produced alcohol, believed to be made from palm tree sap or rice, contained poisonous methanol, Awi Setiyono,

police spokesman for East Java prov-ince, told AFP.

Those that drank the alcohol to cel-ebrate New Year began falling ill in the following days and the first death was recorded on Friday, said Setiyono.

A total of 17 people have now died -- including two on Monday -- and nine people are in critical condition in local hospitals, he said. “We suspect that the drink contains methanol but we can only confirm that after we have the results of laboratory tests,” he said.

The couple that were arrested are in police custody, he added.

There have been many previous cases where alcohol containing metha-nol -- which is sometimes added to drinks to make them stronger -- has proved fatal in Indonesia.

In 2009, 25 people including four foreigners died after drinking methanol-laced palm wine on the resort island of Bali.

The small proportion of those who consume alcohol in Muslim-majority Indonesia sometimes opt for homemade drinks, because le-gally produced alcohol is relatively expensive as it is heavily taxed and much is imported.

Australia turns asylum boat back to IndonesiaAgence France-Presse

KUPANG - The Australian navy has turned an asylum-seeker boat back to Indonesia without first informing authorities there, Indonesian police said Tuesday, as part of Canberra’s hardline border policies that have angered Jakarta.

Komnas HAM to summon BNPT chairman

17 die after drinking bootleg alcohol

In Aberystwyth in Wales, sea-front homes, businesses and stu-dent residence halls were evacu-ated as high tides hit the Welsh coast. The Met Office, Britain’s weather forecasting body, warned of wind gusts up to 70 mph (113 kph) and exceptionally large

waves along the coasts of Wales, southwest England and Northern Ireland.

At least seven people have died in a wave of stormy weather that has battered Britain since Decem-ber, including a man killed when his mobility scooter fell into a river

in Oxford, southern England.The Environment Agency is-

sued three severe flood warnings Monday — meaning there is a threat to life and property — for the county of Dorset in southwest-ern England, as well as more than 300 less serious flood alerts.

Reuters

JERUSALEM - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has more secrets to reveal that relate to Israel, the journalist who first brought his leaks to the world’s attention said on Monday. Among allegations aired by Snowden last year were that the U.S. Na-tional Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ had in 2009 targeted an email address listed as belonging to then-Israeli Prime Min-ister Ehud Olmert and monitored emails of senior defense officials.

Israel played down the disclosures. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the matter examined and that “there are things that must not be done” between allies.

Glenn Greenwald, who as a writer for Britain’s Guardian met face-to-face with the fugitive Snowden and has written or co-authored many of the newspaper’s stories based on his material, was asked in an Israeli television interview whether the ex-contractor had more secrets to tell that related to Israel.

“Yes. I don’t want to preview any stories that aren’t yet published, but it is definitely the case that there are a huge number of very signifi-cant stories that are left to report,” said the Brazil-based Greenwald, speaking to Channel Ten TV by video link.

“We have only had these documents for seven months, which, given their volume and complexity, is not a very long time. There definitely are stories left that involve the Middle East, that involve Israel. The reporting is going to continue at roughly the same pace that has been happening.” Last month, several Israeli cabinet members and lawmak-ers said news of U.S. spying on Israel was an opportunity to press Washington to free jailed Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard.

Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was sentenced to a life term in 1987 in the United States for spying for Israel. A succession of U.S. presidents have spurned Israeli calls for his pardon.

In what appeared to be a bid to calm the clamor, Netanyahu said Israel constantly sought Pollard’s release and did not need a “special occasion” to discuss his case with Washington. Greenwald voiced understanding for the Pollard linkage.

“I think you are absolutely right to contrast the Jonathan Pollard case with revelations of American spying on their closest allies within the Israeli government, because it does underlie, underscore exactly the hypocrisy that lies at the center of so much of what the U.S. govern-ment does,” he said.


ANKARA, Turkey — Tur-key’s state-run news agency says some 350 police officers have been removed from posts in the capital Ankara, as the govern-ment continues to battle a cor-ruption scandal that has ensnared former Cabinet ministers.

Claiming that it is the target of a conspiracy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s govern-ment has dismissed hundreds of police chiefs and officers since police launched raids targeting close Erdogan allies on Dec. 17. He has alleged that followers of an Islamic movement led by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gu-

len have infiltrated the judiciary and police and are using their powers to attack the govern-ment.

The Anadolu Agency said the 350 were removed from posts Tuesday. The private Dogan news agency said they were reassigned to traffic departments or police stations outside the city.

AP Photo/PA, John Giles

Water covers the coastal roads at Clevelys near Blackpool, England as large waves crash over the sea defenses as high tides and huge waves hit the west coast of the UK, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Waves up to 27 feet (8.2 meters) high slammed into Britain’s western coast on Monday as the storm that pummeled the U.S. Northeast with snow sped across the Atlantic to dump intense rain on the U.K.



LONDON — Waves up to 27 feet (8.2 meters) high slammed into Britain’s southwestern coast on Monday, as lashing winds and heavy rain battered parts of the U.K. and coastal residents braced for another round of flooding. The monster waves were recorded at Land’s End, the southwestern tip of the U.K.

Turkey dismisses 350 police officers in Ankara

Snowden has more U.S.-Israel secrets to expose: Greenwald

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FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guard-ian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his “mission’s already accomplished” after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveil-lance policies.

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LAS VEGAS - Motorola is pushing all the buttons to regain prominence in the smartphone market, including aggressive pricing, chief ex-ecutive Dennis Woodside says.

Woodside, in an interview Monday with AFP on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, said the Google-owned unit is seeking to gain ground against rivals includ-ing Apple and Google.

“Consumer tastes change, and we actually think that there’s a huge undercurrent of con-sumers who are saying, ‘I don’t want to pay as much for my phone ... that’s actually a great opportunity,” he said.

Motorola is far behind the market leaders now but is “tapping into the next five billion consumers who can’t afford a $600 dollar phone,” he added.

Since being acquired by Google, Motorola has introduced the Moto X, the flagship device aimed at the US market, and the Moto G, a less expensive phone geared to cost-conscious consumers worldwide.

“There will be different phones at different price points but we’re going to be very aggres-sive there,” Woodside said.

“When we priced Moto X at $399 in the US as a promotion, we sold tens of thousands of units in a matter of eight minutes.”

The Moto X was originally introduced at $599 unlocked, without a contract, while the Moto G was priced at $179 in the US.

Motorola, once among the leaders in the mo-bile phone market, has been struggling in recent years as makers like Apple and Samsung grab most of the market share and profits. Surveys indicate it is not among the global leaders in smartphones and has only around seven percent of the US market.

While some analyst see Motorola cutting prices due to weak sales, Woodside said the company makes a profit

“Costs are really important in the business and we’ll always be focused on costs, but right now the priority is growing the top line,” he said.

“This is a business where scale matters and what’s been really important for us to start putting products out there that we’re excited about and get consumers excited about. That’s what we’ve done with Moto X and Moto G,” he added.

“We’ve got more on the way and we’re focus-ing on growing that base, the bottom line will take care of itself, once we get to the scale that we need to be.”

He said that younger consumers appear to like to use Moto Maker, which allows for a custom design and color of the smartphone: 80 percent of those customers are under 35, he said.

Woodside declined to provide specific sales figures but maintained that since launching the Moto X and Moto G “we are seeing our best days ever for smartphones.”

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GIANYAR - Apart from being famous for the Cak Dance, Bona village also became the center of palm leaf handicrafts. It offered diverse kinds of products such as bags, hats, slippers, souvenirs and worship supplies. Consumers could order various customized product. “According to our ancestors, the palm-leaf handicrafts have become the source of livelihood of the people of this village,” said Sira.

Sira said the tourism development in Bali was very influential to the palm-leaf craftsmen. Local communities made different products at their home and then were submitted to collectors who had a shop in the main street of the village. “This type of handicraft is widely looked for by many store owners in Ubud, Denpasar and Kuta,” he added.

Aside from palm-leaf handicrafts, Bona village also has a beautiful weaving cloth that has emerged since 1980s. The cloth is available in various designs and regularly exhibited at the Art Center Denpasar in conjunction with the implementation of the Bali Arts Festival.

President Barack Obama’s nominee earned bipartisan support in the bitterly divided chamber, but the 56-26 vote was still among the closest in the 100-year history of the institution.

Several senators who supported Yel-len, currently Fed vice-chair, arrived too late for the vote.

Yellen, 67, will replace current Chairman Ben Bernanke, who steps down on January 31 after eight years in the job, during which the pair dealt with the country’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Bernanke’s successor’s main task will be ensuring the US economy does not slip backwards at a time when other countries

are beset by weakness.Especially crucial will be further

pushing down the American jobless rate, which fell to 7.0 percent in November, still significantly higher than Bernanke, Yellen and other Fed policymakers have deemed satisfactory.

Obama cheered the Senate approval, saying Yellen would serve the central bank and the country well.

“The American people will have a fierce champion who understands that the ultimate goal of economic and financial policymaking is to improve the lives, jobs and standard of living of American workers and their families,” he said in a statement.

“As one of our nation’s most respected economists and a leading voice at the Fed for more than a decade -- and vice chair for the past three years -- Janet helped pull our economy out of recession and put us on the path of steady growth.”

Yellen has built a strong reputation as an academic economist, and as a vet-eran policymaker at the Fed she is not expected to veer far from the policies set by Bernanke.

Married to economics Nobel Prize winner George Akerlof, she has a long-term interest in the impact of joblessness on the economy, and has helped keep Fed policy focused on bringing down unemployment.

Motorola eyes ‘aggressive’ moves in smartphones

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Yellen become 1st woman to chair Federal ReservesAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The US Senate on Monday confirmed Janet Yellen as the new leader of the Federal Reserve, marking the first time a woman has headed the world’s most powerful central bank.

“The defendant is charged for unlawful possession of Class I narcotic,” Public Prosecutor I Gusti Nyoman Widana stated.

Widana reported that the police arrested the defendant with meth placed in a used cigarette pack at the Tantular Street, in Denpasar, on

December 11 last year.The defendant admitted that he

bought the contraband from his friend, who is still at large.

The defendant confessed that he left the meth in a ditch in front of the Bros Hospital, in Denpasar, fearing that the police will arrest him.

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Ngaben or cremation ceremony is arguably the most documented Balinese ceremony among hun-dreds of Balinese religious cer-emonies. And of course the prima ballerina of Balinese cremation is the cremation tower or well known as Bade or Wadah. Bade or wadah is a tower which is used to carry the body of the deceased to the cremation ground.

Bade or Wadah is a pagoda-like structure with multi-tiered roof, constructed by a group of special craftsmen known as sangging with specific material such as bamboo, paper mace and cotton. The size, proportion and the structure of the bade is strictly

governed by the ancient rules of bade construction. The height of the Bade could reach up to 25 meters and the weight around 10 ton. It is required a few hundreds of man to carry it.

Bade shows the social status of the deceased in the community, it is shown by the number of the tier of the bade roofs. The number of the roof of the bade is always odd (3, 5, 9, and 11). A commoner or sudra is forbidden to use bade in his cremation. The gentry usually use 3 up to 9-roof bade depend of his or her social status; higher social status means higher and more elaborate bade. The 11-roof bade is reserved especially for a king.

The Bade represents the an-

cient Balinese cosmogony the Bedawang Nala (The world turtle) as its base, surrounded by the two dragons, Naga Basuki and Ananta boga as the symbol of safety and perpetual foods. Above them on the backside of the Bade is a big, grotesque mask of Bhoma with its outstretched wings symbol of the lofty forest and mountains. At the very top is the receding size of the multi tiers of roof, symbol of the heaven. The turtle and the dragons live in the lower world named Bhur, and the above is the world of man called Bwah, symbolized with the Bhoma. At the top is the world of heaven, Swah and it is symbolized by the tiers of roof at the Bade itself.

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DENPASAR - On Monday, the Denpasar district court in the Bali province, tried a domestic helper charged for possessing 0.36 grams of crystal methamphetamine (sabu-sabu).

Bona a handicraft center

IBP/File PhotoApart from being famous for the Cak Dance, Bona village also became the center of palm leaf handicrafts.

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The girl’s death on New Year’s Eve in West Bengal came more than a year after a deadly gang rape in New Delhi raised awareness and outrage over chronic sexual violence in India and government failures to protect women. The New Delhi rape was considered a major reason for why voters ousted the capital’s government last month, and a furious response to the West Bengal case suggests that with general elections just months away, politicians are anxious to impress voters who are demanding that women’s safety become a police priority. The teen’s family, allegedly run out of town by her assailants, accuses police of trying to cover up the crimes.

Improving sensitivity by police officers and medical workers is cru-cial to improving women’s safety in this country of 1.2 billion, activists say. Even as the government has promised to improve justice for rape victims, some trying to report sexual crimes have said they were harassed by officers making lewd comments, demanding bribes or

simply shooing them away.The girl reported being gang

raped on Oct. 25 and 26, but Kol-kata police did not arrest anyone until the girl ended up in a hospital Dec. 23 with severe burn injuries. Doctors then determined she was pregnant. Police initially told re-porters she had attempted suicide, but the girl’s family disputed that, saying she was set on fire by as-sociates of those who had gang raped her.

After the girl’s death led to a public uproar, police arrested and charged six suspects in the gang rapes and another two accused by the girl of setting her alight. A fast-track court will hold a first hearing in the both cases Jan. 15. Meanwhile, a forensic laboratory is determining the age of the girl’s fetus in order to establish whether she became pregnant from the rapes. The case has reinforced the widespread view in India that police are a major part of India’s chronic problem with sexual violence.

Massive protests erupted in Kolkata, with critics including

artists, rights activists and opposi-tion politicians saying authorities ignored the family’s complaints of harassment and moved too slowly to arrest the suspects.

Critics question why police filed a case over the first reported gang rape, but not t h e second. Both the op-position and the girl’s taxi driver father are demanding that federal investigators take over the case.

“The fact that politicians and public figures are speaking in such strong terms is surpris-ing,” said Abhilasha Kumari, a New Delhi-based sociologist and women’s right’s activist. “Historically, the con-cerns of women have never mattered much to the political community, but in the past year safety and security of women have become a political issue, and it will be even more so now with elections coming.”

The girl’s family accused police of trying to cover up the crimes, and even of hijacking the hearse carrying his daughter’s body in an attempt to take it for cremation against the family’s wishes. A street brawl broke out as opposition sup-porters tried to block police from taking the body from the mortuary, where protesters had planned a rally to criticize a lack of sensitivity by authorities.


WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden spoke by phone Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his frequent parliamentary critic, in a show of U.S. angst about escalating, al-Qaida-linked violence in Iraq two years after the U.S. pulled out of Iraq.

As al-Maliki was urging residents of Fallujah to expel al-Qaida fighters or face all-out battle, Biden lent his support to Iraq’s fight against the local al-Qaida branch, and said he was concerned about those suffering from terrorism. He spoke positively about recent co-operation between Iraq’s military and tribal forces in Anbar, on the Syrian border, where al-Qaida fighters are among the most formidable trying to topple President Bashar Assad.

“Prime Minister Maliki affirmed the importance of working closely with Iraq’s Sunni leaders and communities to isolate extremists,” the White House said in a statement.

With the U.S. concerned about the sectarian nature of the growing violence, Biden also spoke with Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, a Sunni leader and frequent critic of al-Maliki’s Shiite-led govern-ment. The two discussed ways to sustain cooperation between Sunni communities and the Shiite-led government, and al-Nujaifi said he was committed to fighting terrorism, the White House said.

For Biden, who was President Barack Obama’s point-man on the Iraq war, the phone calls reflected the unpleasant reality that two years after American forces departed, violence tied to religious extremism in Iraq has spiked. Late last year, al-Maliki came to the Oval Office requesting weapons and intelligence help to fight insurgents but left without any new announcement by Obama.

Meanwhile, the White House has come under criticism in the U.S. by those who question whether Iraq would be better off today had the U.S. left a military presence in Iraq, as it is attempting to do in Afghanistan while it winds down its war there.

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AP Photo/Cliff Owen, FileFILE - In this Dec. 10, 2013, file photoVice President Joe Biden addresses the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Centennial Celebration luncheon in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

AP Photo/Bikas Das, FileFILE - In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 file photo, activists of Indian National Congress with black bands around their mouths block traffic during a protest against a gang rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl at Madhyamgram, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Kolkata in West Bengal, India.

Political swipes in India show rape a voter issueAssociated Press Writer

NEW DELHI — The 16-year-old reported that she had been gang raped, only to be raped again by the same men the next day and later threatened for going to the police in eastern India. By the time charges were filed more than two months later, she had been set on fire and died from her injuries.

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SINGARAJA - After claiming a fatality suspected to die from ra-bies at Umajero village, Busungbiu subdistrict, local residents asked the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency to hold a mass vaccination at local village again. On the other hand, the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency also requested its counterpart the Tabanan Livestock Agency to do vaccination in the area of Pupuan, Tabanan, located adjacent to Umajero village.

The Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, admitted on Monday (Jan

6) to have made a checking directly to Umajero village, Sunday (Jan 5). At that time, the residents urged the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency to re-organize a mass vacci-nation as done in the mid of 2013. To that end, his party made data collec-tion of the dogs owned by residents. “We will do mass vaccination in the near future to dogs at Umajero village and nearby villages,” he said.

He said that his party would also coordinate with the Tabanan Agriculture and Livestock Agency through the Bali Livestock Agency. Similarly, the Tabanan Agriculture and Livestock Agency would be asked to conduct a mass vaccination

in the region of Pupuan, Tabanan. The dog bite case occurred at the border between the Cemara hamlet of Umajero village and Pupuan area in Tabanan.

According to Swatantra, from the narrative of residents, the dog biting the victim at Umajero was about four months old. The dog was found in the woods adjacent to the area of Pupuan, Tabanan. “Location where the resi-dents were bitten by the dog was not at the part of Umajero village, but at ridge area. It is called Cemara hamlet directly adjacent to Tabanan. It is a rarely populated area and located on the hills,” he said.

Previously, a resident Umajero,

Nengah Swastika, 47, died after being bitten by a dog suspected to have been infected by rabies. He was bitten by a dog on December 1. At that time, he was with Wayan Kariada and found a stray puppy around his home. As looking funny, Swastika and Kariada were moved to capture the dog to be taken care of. When arrested, the puppy bit Swastika and Kariada. Both were bitten on the fingers and caused injury. At that time, the wound was only washed with detergent and then smeared by using topical oil.

On December 31, Swastika had a fever and the bite wound on his hand was swollen. Then, on January

1, he experienced tightness, anxiety and cough. Seeing such condition, Swastika was then rushed to Buleleng Hospital on January 2 and died on Friday (Jan 3). Seeing the symptoms experienced by Swastika, he was con-sidered to die from the suspect of ra-bies. While Kariada remained healthy until last Monday. Nevertheless, he was directly injected with anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) after knowing that Swastika was a suspect of rabies. Other than Kariada, in fact dozens of other residents of Umajero village thronged to Buleleng Hospital to ask for VAR for fear of being infected by rabies because they had contact with the victim Swastika. (kmb15)

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SINGARAJA - One by one of the delayed projects in Buleleng were revealed. After the road and bridge project in Sawan subdis-trict and the building project of Civil Registration Office, it was the time for renovation project of Air Sanih tourist attraction in Kubutambahan that was also found to get delayed.

Actually, the Air Sanih project should have been completed on December 25, 2013. However, un-til last Monday (Jan 6) the project was still worked on. Although the project was touted to find obstacle due to natural factors, the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency who owned the project remained to im-pose fines to the contractor.

The contractor had been imposed with a fine worth IDR 7.8 million, calculated from December 25 to December 31, 2013. Meanwhile, the fines per January 1, 2014, had

not been counted until Monday.The Head of Buleleng Culture and

Tourism Agency, Ketut Warkadea, said on Monday (Jan 6) the arrange-ment project of the Air Sanih tourist attraction indeed got delayed due to natural factors. Contractor got dif-ficulty in controlling the water com-ing out from the source. Every time the contractor dug, the water always came out from the spring and could not be blocked.

As a result, the contractor could only work with the patch up speed. Warkadea said the contractor had been imposed with penalty that was calculated up to December 31, 2013. For the fine per January 1 to the project completion would be deducted directly in the payment. So far, Warkadea estimated the arrangement project of Air Sanih tourist attraction had been reached 90 percent of completion. As the promise of the contractor, the proj-ect was expected to be completed on January 15. (kmb15)

“We are still reviewing whether it will be renovated or built a new classroom. Obviously, the SDN 3 Songan gets the priority in our im-provement this year,” said the Head of Bangli Education Agency, Nyoman Sumantra, Monday (Jan 6).

He explained his party was still waiting for the review of the Public Works and General Affairs of the Re-gional Secretariat of Bangli regarding the building condition of the SDN 3 Songan. If later on the building was still considered feasible, it would be

refurbished. However, if it would be more suitable for the construction of new classroom, the old building would be deleted. “If it tends to build new classroom, there must be the elimination of the previous building,” he said.

Sumantra added, by considering the condition of the SDN 3 Songan, it was no longer possible for imple-menting a horizontal development. Then, the only way was to make a multi-storey school building. More-over, all this time the school learning system implemented a double shift because the existing classrooms were unable to accommodate the number of students as it exceeded the capac-ity. “The possible solution to take at the location is to make multi-storied building. Moreover, the school all this

time has applied a double shift where the students learn in the morning and afternoon,” he added.

Sumantra added that aside from the SDN 3 Songan, other schools becoming the priority target in this year was SDN 6 Songan. How-ever, the school located at Serongga hamlet, Songan village, Kintamani, was currently still in the assessment phase regarding the status of land. He did not know for sure the target of rehabilitation and construction of classroom this year. (ina)

To tackle rabiesBuleleng asks Tabanan Livestock Agency to do vaccination in Pupuan

IBP/FileThe damage SDN 3 Songan will soon be repaired by the local government

Renovation project of Air Sanih object delays

SDN 3 Songan becomes a focus of repair by Education AgencyBali Post

BANGLI - The Bangli Education Agency currently claims to have focused on the improvement of SDN 3 Songan elementary school. Condition of the school located at Yeh Panes hamlet, Songan B village, has been severely damaged as it collapsed after hit by heavy rains some time ago. However, so far the government has not been able to ascertain whether the damaged classrooms will be renovation or built a new classroom.

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“Bali is comfortable with the cur-rent good conditions, but in the future many things should be considered. One of them is the high enough depen-dence of Bali on food supplies,” said Benny Siswanto in Denpasar.

It was said that many needs for food in Bali were met by imported supplies, either brought in from the other islands or overseas. However, it was unique that high uptake of food products from outside was not necessarily enjoyed by the people of Bali.

“Bali is unique because in fact the imported foods from overseas do not exist in traditional markets. All of them are in the supermarket and hotels. Meanwhile, the foods in traditional markets are brought in from some other provinces such as NTB. The imports are to meet the consumption of the com-munity from outside,” he said.

According to him, the high absorp-tion of outside food products coming into traditional markets would have an impact on inflation because to

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SEMARAPURA - Issues on the large number of unlicensed luxury vil-las in the tourism area of Nusa Penida, Klungkung, were seriously addressed by the Regent Nyoman Suwirta. Having been checked and made data collection on Saturday (Jan 4), it was revealed there were 106 unlicensed villas. Meanwhile, the licensed only

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Buyers picked up banana at banana market on Bali Island. Banana is one of commodities that Bali still dependent on supply from outside the island. Dependence of food supplies to meet the needs of Balinese people remains fairly high.

Bali stays dependent on food supplies from outsideBali Post

DENPASAR - Dependence of food supplies to meet the needs of Balinese people remains fairly high. Chief Representative of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali Nusra, Benny Siswanto, stated that such condition should be watched out because it would have an impact on the economic stability of Bali.

determine the inflation was measured from the price in traditional market. “Bali is rather unique, where one of which is the foodstuff dependency is high enough whether this will be main-tained or not. Property is also booming here. How Bali will look like because groceries are expensive and shows a disparity,” he said.

Nevertheless, according to Benny, the economic growth in 2014 was esti-mated to improve in the range of 5.8 to 6.2 percent. The prospect was shored up by improved export in line with the improving global economy and domestic demand. Projection of the ongoing balance sheet transaction and potential downside risk of economic growth still needed attention consid-ering the global economic slowdown process was still ongoing.

In terms of price, he estimated that inflation in 2014 would be back under control at 4.5 +1 percent of target range. It was influenced by positive impact of various policies of the gov-

ernment and Bank Indonesia. Inflation of foodstuff and administered prices was projected to be stable again and sustained by the hope on the improved

supply and distribution of food, with the assumption there would be no price hike of strategic goods / services. Core inflation was estimated to remain

under control due to sustained avail-ability of supply, the stable exchange rate of rupiah and maintained inflation expectation. (kmb27)

106 illegal villas found at Nusa Penidaamounted to 40 villas. He called it was a source of high leakage in the regionally generated revenue (PAD) in the field of tourism.

The regent admitted to be disap-pointed when seeing such a reality, Monday (Jan 6). All this time, the Cul-ture and Tourism Agency, Klungkung Revenue Service and Public Asset Management and the Office of Inte-grated Licensing gave him less valid

reports. Supposedly, the data presented by the subordinate were re-checked by the head of each agency, thus they provided real data pursuant to the real-ity in the field. Such condition led to a high enough revenue leakage from the tourism sector. “Klungkung has tremendous loss of revenue from the tourism sector,” he said. Even, such condition was deplored because it had taken place for long enough.

Apart from being furious about the leakage of the regionally generated revenue, the regent also highlighted the submission of permit by the em-ployers of villas and lodging there. For instance, there were employers who had diligently submitted the permit, but it had never been issued. Even, he also heard that a lot of employers sub-mitted a license through broker. Sup-posedly, the process should be made transparent and clear. As the rules, all the villas and lodgings should have a license. With the license, Klungkung government could maximize the rev-enue from tourism sector through hotel and restaurant taxes (PHR).

Other than the above issues, his party also heard that all this time there had been a levy collected by other party. Such condition was very worry-ing because it was the same as illegal levy. His party would investigate who did the collection and where the levies collected to the villas and lodging went to. “As the unlicensed status implies, so the levy is also illegal. Later on, we will explore them by degrees,” he said.

This regent from Ceningan Island admitted that in the near future he

would come again to the tourism area of Nusa Penida, especially to Lem-bongan, Jungut Batu and Ceningan to resolve the polemic on the unlicensed villas and lodging in the area. His party would summon the investors or own-ers of the villas and accommodation in order to explain and disseminate the licensing process on January 25. The issues on licensing of villas and lodg-ings were targeted to complete in the mid of 2014. By that way, the leakage of regional revenue from the tourism sector could soon be minimized.

The Head of Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, recognized that many villas and inns were unli-censed. However, the agency was only entitled to collect the levy charges. As for the hotel and restaurant taxes, it was the authority of the Revenue Service and Regional Asset Manage-ment. Sujana judged the Culture and Tourism Agency, Revenue Service and the Office of Integrated Licensing should work together to maximize the tourism potential of Nusa Penida. On that account, the data and earn-ings from the tourism sector could be ascertained. (kmb31)

Issues on the large number of unlicensed luxury villas in the tourism area of Nusa Penida, Klung-kung, were seriously addressed by the Regent Nyoman Suwirta. Having been checked and made data collection on Saturday (Jan 4), it was revealed there were 106 unlicensed villas. IBP/Gie

Its mission was to plug in at four gleaming white Supercharger units the company had just installed in the motel’s courtyard. The visit was part of a test of a planned coast-to-coast route of quick-charge stations for Tesla vehicles. The Palo Alto, California-based company plans dozens more across the middle of the continent in the months ahead to make it more feasible for the electric car to go from seashore to seashore.

Some folks in Lusk are cau-tiously hoping that the stations will bring a steady stream of wealthy motor tourists. In the meantime, if and when the next Tesla shows up, locals who commonly plug in their cars and trucks to keep their engines from freezing may be left wonder-ing about the visitors who plug in their cars to charge them.

After all, there’s no shortage of skepticism about electric cars out here — it’s not the kind of place for electric cars. First, people are


LAS VEGAS — Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of computer processors, says its processors are now free of minerals from mines held by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It’s the first major U.S. technology company to make such a claim about its prod-ucts. It’s the fruit of four years of work by the company to determine the sources of four crucial metals widely used in electronics manufacturing: tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold.

Eastern Congo is rich in minerals, and economic activity other than mining has been disrupted by nearly two decades of fighting between the government, rogue soldiers and different ethnic groups. There’s been widespread concern that foreign purchases of minerals from mines held by armed groups are fueling the conflict, though many experts say the minerals are not the root cause of the fighting. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich made the announcement Monday in a keynote speech ahead of the opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

A U.S. law passed in 2010 requires U.S. public companies to report whether their products contain minerals from rebel-held mines in Congo. Compliance is difficult for many electronics manufacturers, since a single product like a cellphone can contain components from hundreds or thousands of suppliers. Intel relies on relatively few suppliers for its chips.

There’s been concern that the law has amounted to a de facto embargo on minerals exports from an area with millions of people living at a subsistence level. Carolyn Duran, manager of Intel’s “conflict minerals” program said that Intel still buys minerals from the region, as long as it’s comfortable the mines are in good hands.

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Brazilian Formula One driver Lucas di Grassi stands on a new all-electric race car, the Spark-Renault SRT 01E Formula E, before taking it on a demonstration drive on the grounds of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, Jan. 6, 2013.

Tesla station to bring electric cars to WyomingAssociated Press Writer

LUSK, Wyoming — In the least populated county in the least populated state, old Ford and Chevy pickup trucks roam — and rule — the roads. Finding a Tesla, the sleek and pricey all-electric car, around these ranching towns is about as likely as spotting the mythical jackalope. And yet, one day last month, a Model S sedan pulled quietly in at the America’s Best Value Inn Covered Wagon Motel in Lusk, population 1,557.

partial to the pickup truck because of its ability to tow heavy loads and endure the rattling rides of going off-road. Second, Wyoming is famous for its open ranges, ter-rain that has worried electric car owners because they could end up being stranded. The Model S, which begins at $70,000 but with options can top $100,000, can drive a long way for an electric car: Up to 265 miles (426 kilometers) on a single charge. Draining the battery pack and recharging it all the way takes more than four hours with the best available home charger.

The company’s Supercharg-ers — Wyoming’s first are at the Covered Wagon — offer a trade-off that makes long-distance trips more feasible. The stations can charge a run-down Tesla battery pack to 90 percent in just 45-50 minutes. In Lusk, that’s enough time to grab a burger at the nearby Outpost Cafe or Triangle 4 Cafe & Steakhouse, or visit the

antiques stores downtown.The Supercharger station will be

a critical stepping-stone between stations in Cheyenne and Rapid City, South Dakota. Highlights on the first coast-to-coast route — to be followed, Tesla says, by a couple more cross-country options

by the end of this year — include the scenic Four Corners region and Mount Rushmore. “That’s kind of the thought behind this first, initial route, is enabling the great Ameri-can road trip,” Tesla spokesman Patrick Jones said.

New Supercharger stations

also are going in across Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania to connect existing facilities on the coasts. Tesla owners use the stations free of, well, charge. Te-sla picks up the electric bill.

Intel says its processors are now ‘conflict-free’AP Photo/Jack Dempsey

Mooly Eden, senior vice president and percep-tual computing general man-ager from Intel, shows the size of their new Intel embedded 3D camera next to a poker chip during the Intel news confer-ence at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, in Las Vegas.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014

1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem

16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ulun Kulkul Besakih

31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang

6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih

14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih

15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan SesetanPura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarman Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarman Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar

26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

Ulu Shanti Wedding Pavilion is the collaboration between The Royal Sant-rian and Watabe Wedding Corporation from Japan. It is a visually inspiring glass structure surrounded by an infin-ity-edge pool of crystal clear water.

The pavilion is just footsteps from the white sand beach of Tanjung Benoa and is blessed with stunning views of the Indian Ocean. Ulu Shanti Wed-ding Pavilion was designed by Mr. Shinya Yamaji of Living Design to accommodate up to 32 guests. It is a contemporary structure that contrasts harmoniously with the surrounding en-vironment. Bathed in natural sunlight, the pavilion provides an enchanting venue where couples can exchange their vows and commit to the traditions of true love.

With its uplifting architecture and refreshing sense of spaciousness, Ulu

Shanti Wedding Pavilion caters to in-timate ceremonies of the heart. Guests attending the launch were invited to inspect the pavilion that had been decorated with exotic blooms and other charming touches especially for the oc-casion. This showcased just one of the many decorative wedding day options that are now available at the resort.

“The Royal Santrian understands that every wedding day is special, and therefore we go out of our way to tailor personalized celebrations filled with precious memories to last a lifetime. Melly Suksmihati, Sales Manager The Royal Santrian promoted “Ulu Santi Wedding Pavilion complements the full range of wedding services now avail-able at the resort. Couples can relax and enjoy the experience of getting married on the island of Bali as we will take care of every single detail.” Melly added. IBP/File Photo

The Royal SantrianIBP

To fulfill and giving more facilities for tourists and tourism indus-try, The Royal Santrian officially launched of elegant new facility Ulu Shanti Wedding Pavilion on early September 2013 in the royal Santrian resort’s tropical garden.

One of the Kamasan coin crafts-men, Made Sukma Swacita, said on Monday (Jan 6) that he was confused with the government stance. Formerly, the artisans were encouraged to immediately switch from kerosene to LPG. After us-ing it, in fact the price was even skyrocketing. Since the appeal, he gradually started changing his work patterns by using LPG, so he was forced to change the system of making the coins. When smelt-ing, for instance, he previously used kerosene and then shifted to LPG. Today, since the price of gas was soaring, he was forced to use diesel fuel. “As for finishing pro-cess, we still use LPG,” he said.

To get around the condition, Sukma claimed to partially use the 3-kg LPG. Meanwhile, the

other half process was still using the 12-kg LPG. Such measures were taken to minimize the losses. If he continued to suffer a loss, his employees could no longer work. “It is also used to secure all the employees,” he said. It was impossible for him to raise the price of products because it had been raised due to the price hike of raw materials. If it would be increased again, he was afraid that no people would purchase his product because it was considered too expensive. Nevertheless, his business cur-rently still survived.

Quality of the workmanship should still be maintained. Other than maintaining consumer trust, the perforated coin was also very closely related to holy sacrifice

Bali PostDENPASAR - Based on the

data of Badung Police, a total of 19 gambling cases were handled by Criminal Detective in 2013. However of all the cases, the revealed cases were only illegal Toto gambling, while the cock-fighting was not touched at all. “From these data, the performance of police officers is questionable in their action to take action against cockfight because Bali-nese tradition remains to organize cockfighting,” said an academi-cian from Faculty of Law, War-madewa University, Dr. I Made Suwitra, Monday (Jan 6).

Based on data of the Badung Police, throughout the year 2013 there were 19 reports on gambling

where they included 14 cases of illegal Toto, 1 dice gambling and 4 common gambling. Out of the cases, a total of 10 cases could have been resolved. “Although the data of police authority did not specify about cockfight gam-bling, it cannot be interpreted if the gambling does not exist,” he added.

Similar opinion was also deliv-ered by Chairman of the Garuda Pemuda Nasdem of Bali, IGN Bagus Eka Subagiartha. Related to the rampant gambling cases, es-pecially in Badung, he judged that police only secured the gambling perpetrators of smaller class, while the elite class getting in-volved in the cockfight gambling could be free from the touch of

law. “It is common knowledge that the elite perpetrators of gam-bling or croupiers are backed by security forces,” he explained.

Especially for cockfight gam-bling, said Subagiartha, was al-leged to be often carried out in several places in Badung. Even, this gambling activity was openly known to police, but it was ig-nored because it had been bribed with levies as security permit. “Since having given bribery to individual police officers, the gambling activity can take place,” explained the politician from Badung.

Ironically, there was indication if the individual police officers commonly taking the bribery were still wearing police uniform. This

phenomenon often occurred, so it was considered as one of the reasons why gambling was diffi-cult to be eradicated. “Individual police officer gets accustomed to take it, while wearing police uni-form. It is a commonplace for the individual police officers to get involved and back the gambling activities,” he said. He added that other than cockfighting gam-blers from Badung County, many gamblers of upper middle class also from outside the Badung region came to join the cockfight gambling.

Subagiartha hoped the in-struction of the National Police Chief, Police General Sutarman, on decisive action against police officers showing an indication

to ignore the gambling could be enforced properly by police chief in the region. “Instruction of the National Police Chief should be supported, so the status as police officers will not only serve as a guise,” he hoped.

At separate location, Chief of Badung Police Criminal Detective, Wisnu Wardana, when asked for his confirmation regarding the data of gambling said his party had not got any report related to cockfight beyond tabuh rah or ritual-related cockfighting. “Indeed, there has been no report on cockfight gam-bling beyond tabuh rah or ritual-related cockfight,” he said while adding that any officers found to back up such gambling would soon be dealt with firmly. (nik)

IBP/File

The police officer inspect a store whch sells LPG

LPG skyrockets, craftsmen at edge of bankruptcyBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Skyrocketing price of the 12-kg LPG to IDR 130,000 per cylinder at consumer level threatened the existence of perforated coin craftsmen in Klungkung. Today, they begin to get confused considering the 12-kg LPG is almost unaffordable because such expensive price is very burdensome to craftsmen. It happens because 80 percent of the making of the Klungkung typical souvenir uses LPG.

Cockfight gambling has not been touched by police

in Bali. So, he still attempted to maintain the quality of the prod-ucts. Meanwhile, responding to the price hike of LPG, he could

only address it by implementing efficiency. He hoped the review against the price of LPG could be soothing for craftsmen because

the skyrocketing price of LPG had a very great impact on artisans like himself and other sectors that used the 12-kg LPG. (kmb31)


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The weekend’s lone new release, Paramount’s “Paranormal Activity” spinoff “The Marked Ones,” debuted with $18.3 million. The top 10 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater loca-tions, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak, are:

1. “Frozen,” Disney, $19,575,525, 3,318 locations, $5,900 average,

$296,691,729, 7 weeks.2. “Paranormal Activity: The Marked

Ones,” Paramount, $18,343,611, 2,867 locations, $6,398 average, $18,343,611, 1 week.

3. “The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug,” Warner Bros., $15,675,220, 3,730 locations, $4,202 average, $229,059,642, 4 weeks.

4. “The Wolf Of Wall Street,” Para-mount, $13,230,353, 2,557 locations, $5,174 average, $63,125,467, 2 weeks.

5 . “American Hust le ,” Sony, $12,404,207, 2,518 locations, $4,926 average, $87,923,123, 4 weeks.

6. “Anchorman 2,” Paramount, $10,633,959, 3,407 locations, $3,121 average, $108,713,472, 3 weeks.

7. “Saving Mr. Banks,” Disney, $8,694,891, 2,110 locations, $4,121 average, $58,958,280, 4 weeks.

8. “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty,” 20th Century Fox, $8,001,717, 2,922 locations, $2,738 average, $45,470,954, 2 weeks.

9. “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” Lionsgate, $7,051,309, 2,143 lo-cations, $3,290 average, $407,139,699, 7 weeks.

10. “Grudge Match,” Warner Bros., $5,325,423, 2,856 locations, $1,865 average, $24,835,480, 2 weeks.


PARIS — Director Jane Campion, the only woman to have won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, will lead the jury for the prestigious event this year. Festival organizers announced Tuesday that Campion will succeed Steven Spielberg, who led the jury last year.

New Zealander Campion was awarded the Palme d’Or prize in 1993 for “The Piano,” and earlier won Cannes’ top short film award. While several women have presided the jury before, most films presented have been directed by men.

Festival director Gilles Jacob, in a statement, describes Campion as “a true master,” who wowed juries with films “shot through with such cour-age and humanity and captured such a unique world.” Campion, looking ahead to the May 14-25 festival, said: “I can’t wait.”

U.S. director Martin Scorsese, left, poses with Cannes film festival

general delegate Thierry Fremaux as they arrive for the party of The Wolf of Wall Street, in Paris, Mon-

day, Dec. 9, 2013.


BEIJING — Cui Jian’s manager says the Chinese rocker has been asked to appear on state television’s Chinese New Year gala.

Cui fell out of favor with the government after he sid-ed with protesting students during the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations.

While the invitation could be seen as finalizing Cui’s political rehabilita-tion, it also points to efforts by China Central Television

to revive interest in the New Year gala.

Known as the godfather of Chinese rock, Cui won fame in the late 1980s with songs such as “Nothing to my Name.”

He played in Tiananmen Square in May 1989, days before the government sent in tanks to crack down on the protests.

His manager You You said there was never any specific ban on his per-formances, although he sometimes was refused permission.

Chinese rocker Cui Jian invited to sing on TV gala

Campion to preside over Cannes Film Festival jury

AP Photo/Francois Mori

In 7th week, ‘Frozen’ tops box office with $19.6MAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Disney’s “Frozen” stayed warm despite frigid week-end temperatures across much of the country, regaining the top spot at the box office with $19.6 million in its seventh week of release. Several of the weekend’s top films saw slight dips from winter conditions in the Northeast and Midwest in final box office numbers released Monday.

Chairman of the SIPCO of Bali Chapter, Putu Juarez Robin Putra, said on Monday (Jan 6) that his party was committed to con-tinuously maintaining the Island of the Gods as a MICE destination promoting the charms of Balinese culture. Such commitment was always embodied in the training held every year.

“Balinese culture remains to be featured in conducting MICE bidding. Formerly, I predicted the MICE will be booming in 2014. With the success of Bali to become as a host in 2013, the MICE market will continue to develop,” he said.

It was said that SIPCO Bali with 250 alumni and members as well as stakeholders of GIPI would con-

tinue to incorporate the elements of Balinese culture in the MICE activities. “Aside from maintaining Bali as cultural tourist destination, Bali must prepare professional per-sonnel in the field of MICE carried out through training so as not to be a spectator,” he said.

Other than having commitment to maintaining Bali as a cultural tourist destination, SIPCO Bali, said Putu Juarez, would continue to give prior-ity to local wisdom in each MICE activity by involving local commu-nities as a part of the activity.

“We are indeed unable to impose the MICE players to empower the

local elements, but SIPCO will continue to urge the members to prioritize local elements. For ex-ample, it involves a gamelan troupe in the Bali MICE activities,” he exclaimed.

According to him, to work on the MICE market, SIPCO Bali also required the role of local as-sociations such as the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Bali, the Indonesian Tour Guides Association (HPI) Bali and Bali Tourist Transport Association (Pawiba). “We cannot work alone without the local roles like in the preparation of transportation, tour

guide and hotels including the art performances,” he said.

As mentioned, the SIPCO Bali had scheduled a number of promo-tional events overseas from January to December 2013. In the promo-tion, his party remained to bring along Bali as a tourist destination with the vision of Balinese culture.

“For the beginning of this year, we have not had MICE agendas of large scale to be held in Bali. Typi-cally, the MICE demand begins to increase in the middle of the month such as in October and November until the end of the year,” he said. (kmb27)

IBP/File Photo

A barong dance was performed not long ago in Bali Island. Balinese culture remains to become an attractive selling point in 2014. Even, the Society of Indonesian Professional Convention Organizers (SIPCO) of Bali makes Balinese culture an attractive package in any MICE event.

2014, SIPCO preserves Balinese culture-based MICE

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DENPASAR - Balinese culture remains to become an at-tractive selling point in 2014. Even, the Society of Indonesian Professional Convention Organizers (SIPCO) of Bali makes Balinese culture an attractive package in any MICE event.

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