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Tourists walk along Legian area, Bali Island during their holiday. Drug trafficking will likely increase this year. One of the contributing factors is the estimated increase in the number of foreign and domestic tourists that will visit Bali.

DRUG trafficking will likely increase this year. One of the contributing factors is the estimated increase in the number of foreign and domestic tourists that will visit Bali. All members of the local community are therefor

being asked to introspect and those involved in the tourism industry in particular are encouraged

to keep an eye on tourists. “Bali’s tourism businesspeople need to participate in

keeping Bali free of drug abusers and traffickers. Please inform guests that they should not use drugs and that pros-ecutions of drug offenders is being intensified,” saidChief of the Provincial National Narcotic Agency (BNNP) Bali, Putu Gede Suastawa, after inaugurating Ni Ketut Masmini as Chief of BNNK Badung.

Suastawa confirmed that this year the BNNP will be focused on arresting drug traffickers and sniffing out il-licit goods syndicates. According to data obtained by the BNNP for 2015, indicates that drug trafficking in Bali is on the increase.

“Tourists bring with them the lifestyle that they are used to back home -this is beaching a phenomenon. The habits of big city dwellers form Java is also brought to Bali. So we need to act aggressively to prevent escalation and snuff out existing problems. Tourism is the largest contributing factor to the spread of drug trafficking which involves foreign and domestic visitors as well as local Balinese,” he said.

This former Director of the Bali Police Public Development underlined the fact that, currently drugs in Bali are supplied by syndicates from Jakarta, Central Java and Surabaya.

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NEW YORK - It was the glitzy, record-breaking show that launched some of the brightest entertain-ment careers in recent times, but as “American Idol” kicks off for a final season Wednesday, it is a star on the wane.

When the 15th series debuts on Fox it will rely in part on a cameo role from rap superstar Kanye West going through the motions of an audition to pull in the punters.

Tough competition, declining appetite among millennials for

live television and a new trend of signing a record deal after being discovered on YouTube means that the public has lost its taste for “American Idol.”

When the last winner of the fran-chise is crowned in April, it will be the end of what its magnetic host Ryan Seacrest optimistically calls “part of Americana” and “part of American history.”

A spin-off of popular British series “Pop Idol,” “American Idol” began in 2002 and pulled in record

audiences between 2003 and 2011, culminating in average viewing figures of 31.2 million in its 2005-06 heyday.

The format was simple: thou-sands of aspiring singers dreaming of stardom audition before a panel of celebrity judges, then fight to keep their places each week in a sing-off decided by a public vote.

TV talent shows date back to the mid-20th century. What was different was the promise of a recording contract and a new life

of stardom.“We had talent shows as far

back as the late 40s and early 50s,” says Dominic Caristi, professor of telecommunications at Ball State University.

“Talent competitions are not new. But what was new here, the show reinvigorated this idea that people could become a star.”

The first winner was Kelly Clarkson in 2002, a 20-year-old cocktail waitress from Texas at the time who went on to sell more than

10 million albums and win three Grammy Awards.

Carrie Underwood won season four in 2005, since selling nearly 60 million albums, and Jennifer Hudson, booted off the third sea-son, went on to win an Oscar and a Grammy as a singer and actress.

“We genuinely create super-stars,” said Simon Fuller, the British creator, in a clip ahead of the final season. “That’s the thing about American Idol that sets us apart.” (afp)

“The scientific community has been screaming out loud. Ninety-nine per cent of the scientific community is in agreement that man is contributing to (climate change),” DiCaprio told The Associated Press on the red carpet for his new film, “The Revenant” on Wednesday.

“The argument is over. Anyone that doesn’t believe that climate change is happening doesn’t believe in science,” said DiCaprio, who has remained an active player for the issue.

The actor previously has addressed the United Nations on climate control, donated millions of dollars to environmental causes, and narrated the 2014 short film, “Carbon,” which presents ideas for climate change solu-tions. But after the U.N. Climate Conference in Paris, which ended last month, he feels world leaders are finally willing to address the issue more seriously.

“No one has the answer what the future is going to look like, and no one can foresee the dramatic effect that climate instability will have on our planet and the biodiversity in it, but I’m just very proud for the first time we’ve taken a step in the right direction,” Dicaprio said. (ap)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Actress Kerry Washington has been named woman of the year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Hasty Pudding, the nation’s oldest collegiate theatrical organization, announced Wednesday that it had selected Washington because she is a “talented and socially engaged film, TV and stage actress who keeps breaking barriers in Hollywood.”

Washington, the first black woman to headline a network TV drama since 1974 as crisis management specialist Olivia Pope on the hit show “Scandal,” has earned Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG Best Actress nomi-nations as well as an NAACP Image Award for Best Actress.

She will be given her pudding pot following a parade through Harvard Square and roast scheduled for Jan. 28.

Previous winners include Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, and Eliza-beth Taylor. Comedian Amy Poehler won last year. (ap)

‘American Idol’ back for last time before lights out

Actress Kerry Washington earns Harvard’s Hasty Pudding award

DiCaprio happy leaders taking climate change more seriously

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NEW YORK — Leonardo DiCaprio feels optimistic that the debate over climate change has begun to wane and world leaders are finally starting to take it more seriously.

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Under the deal signed with Ko-rea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Indonesia’s defence ministry will invest about 1.6 trillion won ($1.3 billion) in the Korean Fighter Ex-perimental (KF-X) programme.

The programme is aimed at pro-ducing new, homegrown fighter jets to replace the South’s aged fleet of F-4 and F-5 fighters imported from the US.

A consortium of KAI and the US

aerospace giant Lockheed Martin last March won a 8.6 trillion-won contract to provide 120 fighter jets to Seoul’s air force.

The investment from Indonesia will account for about one fifth of the total cost of the project, with up to 100 Indonesian workers taking part in development and produc-tion, KAI said in a statement.

Indonesia will be given one prototype plane and gain access to some technical data and infor-mation involving the project, it added.

The South Korean military plans to put the new fighter jets into service by 2025 to guard against threats from the nuclear-armed North Korea. (afp)

Indonesia, South Korea sign $1.3 billion fighter jet development deal

SEOUL - Indonesia signed a $1.3 billion deal with South Ko-rea Thursday to jointly develop Seoul’s next-generation fighter jets, the South’s aircraft manufacturer said.

Tourism boosts drug trafficking in Bali

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

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

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

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

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G I A N yA r - D’green Keramas Park and Education located in Gianyar Regency. Visitors can doing so many things in this park. Visitors can play in

pools, doing flying fox, high rope climb-ing, wood climbing, ride an ATV, and doing paintball combat.

According to Assistant Manager of Kera-

mas Park, Putu Dian Anggreni, the concept of Keramas Park is to make people happy and having fun in the park. She explained, visitors can choose indoor or outdoor playground. “We focus on green education and fun educa-tion,” she said during an interview with Bali Channel Tourist TV (Bali TV).

Dian said besides fun facili-ties, Keramas Park also offers several classes for those who want to learn about Bali. There are yoga class, making offerings

class, and making Balinese cakes. In the making offerings’ class you can learn about Hindu’s offering. This class is favourite among foreign tourists who visit this park. Another favourite class for foreigner is mak-ing Balinese cakes.

According to one of visitors from USA, Mira, the Keramas Park is super fun. She admitted that she learnt many things in this park by joining some activities, such as making offerings, Balinese cakes, and doing ritual activities.

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D’green Keramas Park and EducationHe added however that board-

ing are not necessarily ‘nests’ of drug abuse, but that keeping an eye on such habitations is a preventive measure being taken based on the fact that drug syn-dicates, do in fact often use such domiciles as location for their illicit activities. During a raid of an elite boarding house on Jalan Bedugul, Sidakarya, South Den-pasar a few days ago for example, two occupants were found to be using drugs.

“The elite boarding house was targeted for the raid because it was evaluated as being vulnerable to drug abuse due to the lack of supervision by the surrounding community. We are presently focusing on boarding houses, but later we will shift our focus to other locals,” he said.

Suputra expects boarding house

owners to support the intensive ef-forts of the BNNK Denpasar to eradicate drugs in this city. Being selective in who they rent rooms to and proactively monitoring activities are just two ways that they can help. “At the very least the identity of boarding house occupants needs to be recorded. In the last week’s raid, we also found 4 dorm rooms that were each occupied by 11 people,” he lamented.

BNNK Denpasar will con-tinue to hold regular operations to combat drug trafficking, through prevention and the eradication of drug abuse (P4GN) -in line with the governments aim of rehabili-tating 100,000 drug addicts. “In order to combat the proliferation of drugs in Denpasar, we ask the public to play the very important role of keeping an eye out for any

suspicious activities - especially in boarding houses. Members of the public can serve as intel-ligence or informants and play a vital role in preventing drug abuse,” he affirmed.

Ranked fourthMeanwhile Jembarana, as

an inter-island border area, is especially vulnerable to drug trafficking. In fact, Jembrana is fourth after Denpasar, Badung and bulling in terms of being prone to narcotics use and trafficking. There have been ongoing efforts to combat the spread of narcotics into villages and schools.

Chief of the National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) Bali, Putu Gede Suastawa said that the public should be vigilant and regarding the pres-ence of drug trafficking in their midst and be aware that drugs can afflict people anywhere - include people living in remote villages.

A safe and comfortable atmo-sphere does not guarantee that there is no drug trafficking going on. Dealers will try anything to penetrate a new market - including introducing new types of drugs.

New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) are as thin as paper and can look like candy but: “when smoked it will give effect like crystal meth or ecstasy” explained Suastawa.

The public needs to be alert to the presence of NPS as they have been circulating in Bali. The drugs most commonly found on the island are: crystal meth, ecstasy heroin, morphine and paper-like NPS. One way to prevent people from becoming the victims of these drugs, is by providing education to communities, such as customary villages. That way peo-ple can protect themselves from drugs coming into Jembrana.

Chief of Jembrana Police Nar-cotic Unit, Nyoman Master, re-vealed that the number of drug disclosure cases, in Jembrana have indeed shown a marked increase over the last three years. Of the eight cases of drug addicts that where processed in Jembrana this year, six have been processed with two people in rehabilitation. Master also explained that, unlike arresting thieves, drug addicts need special handling. (rah/olo)

Suastawa also pointed to both land and sea as the lines of entry that are most vul-nerable to the transportation of drugs. “We are still facing certain obstacles in securing our borders. The harbour, for instance has so much cargo going through that it cannot all be checked manually,” he said.

The BNNP has therefor requested assistance from the BNN to acquire a crystal meth detector. This device, explained Suastawa, will make the search for crystal meth much easier. “When the device detects the presence of crystal meth, the luggage in question will then be searched manually -instead of conducting random searches. This would greatly facilitate the work of our personnel. If our proposal is rejected, we will appeal to the governor of Bali for assistance,” he said.

Suastawa insisted that the old meth-ods of investigating are no longer valid, given that the drug syndicates continue to come up with new ways of evading the law. Law enforcement officers need to be one step ahead of them. “Hope-fully, all the chiefs of the BNNP and BNNK can have access to drug detection devices,” said Suastawa.

Efforts to prevent drug use and traf-ficking in 2015, is considered to have been less than optimal as evidenced by the number of cases that were disclosed. If prevention efforts are successful, the number of disclosures should drop. “The Central BNN has allotted a special budget to BNNP Bali for them to work with customary villages in providing the public with information and briefings aimed at preventing the spread of drug use in Bali’s communities,” he said.

Former Chief of the BNNK Badung, Ni Made Asmiriwati, said that during her two years of service, it was not easy to rehabilitate drug addicts because it requires willingness on the part of the addicts, few of whom are aware or willing to check themselves into rehab centres. Clever technics are needed to draw addicts to the BNN.

“How can the family or the addicts come to us? Of the 65 people rehabili-tated in BNNK Badung this year, only 3 came of their own accord. Briefings on the dangers of drug use and other preven-tive, still need to be taken,” she said.

Asmiriwati said that she was espe-cially saddened to see a 13-year boy undergoing drug rehabilitation at BNNK Badung. Currently, the child is in the counselling process, and is still using drugs. “It is a shame to have him hos-pitalized because then he could not go to school. We need to be able to touch people’s hearts so that they care about this institution and become willing to get themselves out of the suffering that they experience using drugs,” said As-miriwati. (rah)

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Police showed evidence and drug trafficker during a raid in Bali Island. The Denpasar City National Narcotics Agency (BNNK) is becoming more and more focused on the increasing number of boarding houses springing up in the city. Drug trafficking, alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct and other criminal acts have been found to be flourishing in such places.

Fight drugs

Boarding houses get special attention

THE DENPASAr City National Narcotics Agency (BNNK) is becoming more and more focused on the increasing number of boarding houses springing up in the city. Drug trafficking, alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct and other criminal acts have been found to be flourishing in such places, revealed the Eradication Section Head of the BNNK Denpasar, Wayan Darmika Suputra, recently.

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“It’s something that was done when I worked in Paris for C h r i s t i a n L a c r o i x , ” Copping said in a backstage interview. “And I think it’s nice to

bring a little of that Parisian way of things here to New York. I think it makes the house stand alone, and that’s important these days.”

Also, the flower fit in with the show’s Hispanic theme. “This is the flower that gets thrown to the bullfighters in the bullring,” Cop-ping noted.

The designer said he drew inspi-ration for his show at the Hispanic

Society of America in Harlem, where he viewed paintings and textiles that he knew de la Renta, who died in October 2014, would have loved.

Hispanic culture was “obvi-ously something that was very close to Oscar’s heart, and I just

really wanted to think about things that Oscar was passionate about,” Copping said.

There was a carnation print in the collection — in red and white — and the colors of ruby and black were prominent, along with bottle green, saffron and seafoam, among others. Copping did not stint on the intricate embroidery and fabric work — especially with lace — that his predecessor was famous for.

The designer did introduce one thing, though, that was totally new for the house: the Spanish espa-drille, a casual shoe that Copping paired with some quite elaborate dresses.

“I thought that would give the whole collection a different twist, just to have the espadrille, which is THE Spanish shoe,” Copping said. “I just thought it would be younger and fresher.” (ap)

Carnations and espadrilles at Oscar de la Renta

The Oscar de la Renta Spring 2016 collection is modeled

during Fash-ion Week Tuesday, Sept. 15,

2015, in New York.

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NEW YORK - Guests entering the Oscar de la Renta show were pleasantly surprised to find a single red carnation on their seats. For designer Peter Copping, who was presenting only his second collection as the company’s artistic director, it was a Parisian tradition that was worth bringing to New York.

DENPASAR - Chinese consul general in Bali Hu Yin Quan has invited Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika to attend an interna-tional forum “Boao Forum For Asia” which will be held in Hainan Province on March 23 and 24, 2016.

Quan during his meeting with Governor Pastika here on Wednes-day said, Made Mangku Pastika is the only governor of Indonesia who is invited to attend the international forum.

“This is because the relationship between the two provinces (Hainan in Bali) is already well established,” Guan pointed out.

According to Quan, in the forum, there will be a meeting of governors throughout China and some governors of other countries who have cooperated with Hainan Province.

In the meantime, Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika expressed his appreciation to Chinese consul general and hoped that he will be able to attend the forum. (ant)

Being frustrated with the atti-tude of the hotelier, residents then complained to local parliament. A member of Commission II of the Buleleng House of Representatives came down to inspect the location, Tuesday (Jan. 5). Entourage of the people’s representatives was led by Chairman of Commission II, Putu Mangku Budiasa.

As observation at the scene, the House found the concrete installation is jutting into the sea at a distance of about 10 meters from mainland. The height of the revetment from the south is estimated to reach five meters and then the revetment to the north is deliberately made lower. Although the revetment in the north side is made lower, it hampers the access of fishermen crossing the shore. Bound-ary of the sea sand overlay with main-land of the hotel area is backfilled with soil. The backfilled soil looking higher than the sand thickness is then fitted with a fence made of concrete mix. Inevitably, the coastal area is like being on a plot and the access from the west to east or vice versa is hampered by the concrete revetment standing firmly.

Chairman of Commission II,

Putu Mangku Budiasa, amid the inspection said that the revetment installation jutting into the sea indi-cates if it has violated the provisions of coastal borderline. In addition, he assessed the concrete revetment installation makes fishermen dif-ficult to do their daily activities. Before the concrete revetment was installed, fishermen on the west and the east of the hotel frequently cross when going fishing out to sea. Now, the revetment makes farmers quite difficult to do their activities. Besides, the environmental impact of the revetment installation has caused heavy sea current that ends in abrasion in the west of the hotel. Some fishermen’s houses have been eroded by the pounding waves.

Local residents have put up dikes by stacking sand bags in front of their house. In addition, there are people installing permanent con-crete to block waves by using per-sonal fund. “After we observe, the installation of concrete revetment indicates a violation of coastal bor-derline. We also receive complaints from residents that the installation of concrete revetment has kindled heavy ocean currents to the west

and abrasion,” he said.Responding to the condition, this

PDI-P politician from Selat village, Sukasada, requested the hotelier to comply with the rules before build-ing. The concrete revetment disturb-ing public facilities and generating environmental impact in the sur-roundings is asked to be dismantled. If this is not heeded, the House threatened to instruct judiciary team of Buleleng district to take decisive action in accordance with the exist-ing rules. “We ask to dismantle the concrete revetment. Otherwise, we will order the judiciary team to fol-low up this case,” he said.

Responding to arrival of the parliament, the hotelier, Gede Adi Artana Wisaya, quibbled not to know if there are rules about the construction on the coast. The concrete revetment was installed to prevent abrasion in front of his hotel. It is functioned as levees to hold back the swift pound-ing waves, especially during bad weather condition.

However, since the revetment is considered to violate the rules and have environmental impacts, he promised to be ready to dismantle the concrete revetment. “Previ-ously, the waves were ferocious. Without the concrete revetment, the land in front of the hotel may have been abraded. If the concrete revetment breaks the rules, we are ready to dismantle and restore it,” he said. (kmb38)

NEGARA - Fuel prices began to decrease on Tuesday (Jan. 5). However, the decline in fuel prices did not affect the tariff of public transport in Jembrana district. As observation at Negara terminal, the tariff of intercity transport and rural transport remains unchanged.

For tariff of public transport from Gilimanuk to Denpasar, the drivers in Jembrana still set at IDR 45,000. Then, Gilimanuk-Negara terminal comes to IDR 12,000, while the tariffs of rural transport from Negara terminal-Pekutatan is IDR10,000 and Negara terminal to Yehembang remains IDR 8,000.

Such unchanged public transport tariff, according to some trans-port drivers, happens because the absence of relevant circular from the Organization of Land Transportation (Organda) regarding the tariff adjustment after the decline in fuel prices.

Besides, the slight decline in fuel prices is considered to have insignificant impact on the welfare of the transport drivers. Like-wise, the government policies to decrease fuel prices do not have significant impact on petrol station operators and community of Jembrana.

Iskandar Alfan, a manager of one of the petrol stations in Negara, said that the fuel prices at petrol station began to decrease since 00:00 a.m. He detailed the price decrease varied pursuant to fuel type, such as Premium decreased IDR 350 from IDR 7,400 to IDR 7,050 and diesel/bio-diesel decreased IDR 1,050 from IDR 6,700 to IDR 5,650. Then, Pertamax decreased IDR 150 from IDR 8,850 to IDR 8,700 and Pertalite decreased IDR 350 from IDR 8,250 to IDR 7,900. With the price decrease, he said, there was no effect on fuel sales and the number of consumers remains on any other day.

As his observation from the morning, there is no queue. He ad-mitted that even though it has not impact, on the day before he was trying to maintain the availability of fuel stocks. One of the intercity public transport (AKDP) drivers, I Gede Merta, 46, from Baluk Jati hamlet, Negara, said that he did not feel significant impact from the decline in fuel prices. Although the fuel price has decreased, the amount of passengers remains quiet. He remained difficult to get IDR 50,000 deposit each day.

For the public transport driven, he said the daily diesel expense averagely reaches IDR 80,000 to IDR 100,000 depending on the number of passengers acquired. Gede Suyadnya, another AKDP driver told that he did not dare to bring down the tariff because there is no circular from the Organda leadership. “As a driver, we do not dare to reduce the tariff,” he explained.

A local resident, Gusti Kade Arimbawa, also stated that fuel price decrease has no impact. “When purchasing 10 liters of fuel, we can get a discount of IDR 1,500 and purchasing 20 liters we get discount of IDR 3,000. How can we reduce the tariff with this condition?” he questioned. (kmb)

Fuel prices down, tariff of public

transport unchanged

Chinese Consul General invites Bali Governor to

international forum

IBP/Mudiarta

A number of fishermen at Dharmayasa hamlet, Tukadmungga, Buleleng, recently complained because the coastal access in the area is hampered by concrete revetment. Allegedly the concrete revetment was installed by hotelier in the local area.

Hotelier installs concrete jutting into the sea

SINGARAJA - A number of fishermen at Dharmayasa ham-let, Tukadmungga, Buleleng, recently complained because the coastal access in the area is hampered by concrete revetment. Allegedly the concrete revetment was installed by hotelier in the local area. Other than disrupting the access of residents, it also juts into the sea and results in severe coastal abrasion west of the hotel.

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Merkel, who last November marked a decade in office, starts 2016 facing renewed pressure from her own conser-vatives to reduce the influx of asylum seekers arriving in Germany, after a record inflow of over 1 million last year sapped their support.

“It is very important to me that we achieve both a noticeable reduction in the flow of refugees ... and at the same time preserve the free movement of people within the European Union,” she told reporters at a conference of her Bavarian allies, the CSU.

This free movement, which has resulted in 26 European countries abolishing inter-nal border controls within their ‘Schengen zone’, was “a motor for economic devel-opment and prosperity”, she said.

Germany’s northern neighbour Den-mark imposed temporary border checks on Monday, fearing that it would become the final destination for many refugees after Sweden put in place controls to stop them moving further north.

Merkel was named Person of the Year by both Time magazine and the Financial Times after opening Ger-many’s borders to refugees in August, but the resulting wave of migrants has stretched its resources and unnerved many citizens.

DROP IN SUPPORTThe Interior Ministry said on Wednes-

day that a record 476,000 migrants ap-plied for asylum last year, with the ap-

plications of another 600,000 registered migrants yet to be collected.

Despite vowing last month to reduce the numbers, Merkel is under pressure from the Christian Social Union (CSU), Bavarian sister party of her Christian Democrats (CDU), to do more. CSU leader Horst Seehofer has demanded a cap of 200,000 migrants a year.

The conservatives have been alarmed by a drop in their support from around 43 percent in mid-August to a three-year low of 36 percent in October and November. Support has begun picking up as Merkel has sought to stem the inflow.

Last October, she offered to help Tur-key’s bid to join the European Union in return for cooperation in stemming the flow of migrants and taking back those rejected by Europe. However, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday that a drop in arrivals in December was due to rough seas, not ef-forts by Turkey to prevent departures.

Merkel has resisted calls from some conservatives to close Germany’s bor-ders or cap the number of arrivals, many of whom are fleeing war in the Middle East or Afghanistan.

She argues the influx must be tackled outside Germany, through negotiations to resolve the war in Syria, by encour-aging Turkey to improve conditions for refugees there, and by convincing European partners to accept quotas of asylum seekers.(rtr)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Norway’s foreign minister visited Sri Lanka on Thursday in a sign of reviving relations since a peace deal brokered by the Nordic country failed to end a civil war.

Borge Brende’s visit is the first by a Norwegian foreign minister to Sri Lanka since 2005, when Norway was trying to hold together a fragile cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and the now-defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.

Relations soured after the cease-fire collapsed in 2006 and Sri Lanka’s then-government accused Norway of favoring the rebels. Sri Lankan troops crushed the rebels three years later.

With the election defeat last year of Sri Lanka’s hard-line President Ma-hinda Rajapaksa, the new government has sought to mend relations with Western nations that had criticized Sri Lanka’s human-rights situation during and after the civil war.

Sri Lanka has told the U.N. human rights council that it would investigate war crimes allegations against government troops and Tamil rebels.

“You are coming to Sri Lanka at a time when Sri Lanka is trying to come to terms with its past and to forge ahead,” Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera told Brende after a meeting Thursday.

“The domestic mechanisms through which we are trying to address this past are in the process of being developed and the consultation process to design these mechanisms will begin next week,” he said.

Brede is also scheduled to meet President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and participate in a business forum. (ap)

Merkel wants to stem refugee flow but keep EU borders open

WILDBAD KREUTH - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she wanted to stem the flow of refugees into the European Union while at the same time keeping open borders within the bloc, days after Denmark imposed passport checks on people entering from Germany.

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A little migrant girl cries as she wait to get on the train to Serbia, at the transit camp on the Macedonia-Greece border near Gevgelija January 6, 2016.

Norway’s foreign minister visits Sri Lanka to revive ties

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Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende speaks to journalists after his meeting with Sri Lankan foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

MANGUPURA - Members of the Kuta customary village com-munity went to Badung Maritime Affairs and Fisheries office on Wednesday (Jan. 6). Led by the chief of Kuta customary village, Wayan Suarsa, the villagers came to the government office to resolve a dispute regarding the coastal area of Jerman which is now occuried by the Holiday Inn Resort Baruna.

During the meeting it was re-vealed that the newly worked on land was formerly an eroded land. Thus,all that remained was a cer-tificate, without any actual land. The customary village therefor, was planning on restoring the land by

installing a revetment. “At that time, the hotel manage-

ment had been willing to allow the reclamation as indicated in a writ-ten agreement. But somehow, after the reclamation was completed the hotel claimed the land again,” said Chief of Kuta customary village, Wayan Suarsa.

The attitude of the hotel inves-tor, he said, made Kuta residents furious. Depsite they fury, they have refrained from taking anar-chical action for the sake of the comfort and security of the area, particularly because tourism very much depends on security. “We are always open for opportunities

for reaching the best solution for everyone. However we have not received a very good response from the hotel owner. Until now, we had never considered the owner as an enemy, but rather as part of the Kuta customary village,” said Suarsa.

Nyoman Graha Wicaksana, one of the Kuta community representa-tives who participated in the meet-ing, threatened to occupy the hotel if the owner remained adamant in his position. “If we at customary village are not shown some appre-ciation, our youth will occupy the Holiday Inn Hotel,” he said.

Wicaksana considers that the

violation of the agreement shows that the hotel owner does not appreciate the Kuta customary village. “We do not want our cus-tomary village to be trampled on, if there is no other choice we will do it (mass mobilization—Ed)” he said.

Unfortunately, no decision could be reached during the meeting, because the hotel had not sent a representative to discuss the matter. Hotel management was represented by Bagus Wicakson, claimed that the land belongs to the hotel. “We would not make such a claim if there was no basis for it. We speak based on data,” he said while confirming

that the capacity of his presence was just to give an explanations, not to make any decisions.

Chairman of Commission I of the Badung House of Representa-tives, Nyoman Dirga Yusa, was fu-rious about Wicakson’s statement. “Actually, the customary village was open to finding a solution, but why didn’t the hotel owner not pres-ent himself?” he said.

Head of the Badung Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Made Badra, requested that the working unit of the Bali-Penida River Agency work towards coming to some kind of agreement in order to clarify the problems. (kmb27)

At first glance, it looked like the passing children were going to school as usual. Some of them were accompanied by their par-ents. It was at this moment that my a desire arose in me, to know more about one child that attends the School for the Disabled (SLBN), Bangli. What activities do they do at school?

Armed with that question, this body moved towards the location of the school. After parking my bicycle on the roadside, that leads to Tembuku, my legs con-tinued to walk into the school. A security guard approached and greeted me with a friendly look, he immediately permitted me to meet with Principal Made Sudarma. The principle and I became involved in an amicable conversation.

After a few minutes, the sound “tak...tok...tak...tok” came from the southern end of the school. My cu-riosity arose: ‘what is that sound?’ I asked. The Principal explained that the noise was coming from the beat-ing of the loom being operated the SLB students. Hearing the answer, my curiosity only grew.

As I approached the looms, a number of young girls were strug-gling with thousands of strands

of yarn. Without shame and feel-ing like there were no flaws, they patiently combined the threads to produce pieces of fabric.

Tiny hands looked like they were good at moving the tools and the beating of their legs was very harmonious. The scene was very interesting to behold.

Weaving -that is usually done by women, also drew the interest of some the boys at school who tried their hand. His ability was not in doubt even though weaving his not an easy job. Sometimes errors are made in the process. However, this does not deter the children from learning. Using sign language, they call the teacher over to ask for guidance.

In order to be able to weave, chil-dren wait patiently for their turn to practice. They are willing to share the chance to experience weave, even though they only weave for a moment at a time. There is no sign of regret on their faces.The physical disadvantages of these children was erased by their carefree laughter and passion for learning.

Principle Sudarma explained that the weaving training program was initiated two years ago and that most of the participants are deaf and/or mute junior and senior high

school students. “Young people these days, rarely know how to weave. We are showing that just because these children cannot hear - they are no less superior than hear-ing children,” he said.

In addition to providing skills for students, the program is also a way to maintain and preserve this cultural heritage that has existed since ancient times. “Nowadays, people prefer to be buyers. But if possible, it is better to make your own, it also maintains this cultural

heritage,” he said.A similar opinion was also ex-

pressed by weaving coach, Agung Anggreni. It is rare to have weaving classes in schools of disabled chil-dren. The teaching process requires a lot of patience and teaching meth-ods are different than for hearing children. “We must teach them patiently, but I am happy. They can also participate in preserving culture,” said Anggreni.

Anggreni added that the woven fabrics produced by the students

are not only used to decorate the school, but also are sold to several different areas. Some of them are taken to exhibitions organized by the local government. “The woven fabrics made by our children are often involved in exhibitions. Some of them are bought by tourists,” she added.

In addition to weaving, the Bangli School for the Disabled also teaches a number of other skills, such as painting, sewing and carv-ing. (sos)

Coastal area claimed by hotelKuta customary village goes to Badung Maritime Affairs

A story of deaf students

Learning to weave, preserving cultural heritage

AS THE SUN began to shine reddish on the eastern horizon on Wednesday (Jan 6), this body of mine rushed to wake from a sound sleep. After a brief pause the desire to know what the day would bring emerged. The iron horse (bicycle) leaning against the wall was soon ridden to go explore the bustle of the town. After a short walk, enjoying the cool air, a feeling of confusion came back to haunt me: “what to look for?”, I asked myself.

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Weaving activities done by the students of School for the Disabled (SLBN), Bangli

NEW YORK — Macy’s is slashing jobs, a harbinger of hard times for retailers after a holiday season that saw a noticeable shift to online shopping and away from physical stores.

The nation’s largest department store chain, which also operates Bloomingdale’s, said late Wednes-day it is cutting up to 4,800 jobs and trimming its profit outlook after a miserable holiday season.

“I think Macy’s is likely to be a canary in a coal mine,” said Ken Perkins, president of Retail Metrics, a retail research firm. He said retail-ers witnessed an acceleration of the shift toward online and mobile holiday spending in 2015.

About 2,110 of the job cuts at Macy’s will come from reducing staffing at stores, eliminating du-plications in back-office operations and consolidating regional store groups. The remaining 2,710 job cuts will come from the store clos-ings that Macy’s announced last fall, spokesman Jim Sluzewski said.

As of Wednesday, Macy’s had about 163,000 workers.

The moves are part of Macy’s ongoing campaign to position itself to compete in a retail world where increasingly demanding shoppers are going back and forth between stores and their mobile devices. Analysts expect more retailers to announce they’re shrinking their store counts further and making other moves to make their organiza-

tions leaner.With store traffic down, stores

had to discount more. Mother Nature also hurt holiday sales too, particularly at clothing stores. Unseasonably warm weather in some regions in the U.S. squelched shoppers’ demand for cold-weather goods. Perkins expects fourth-quarter earnings to increase a mea-ger 0.3 percent for the 119 retailers he tracks, compared with a 12.5 percent increase a year ago.

Macy’s, which has corporate of-fices in Cincinnati and New York, says sales at existing stores and ex-cluding licensed departments fell 5.2 percent in November and December. It said that the warm weather was the biggest culprit. That forced Macy’s to step up discounts to clear out mounds of merchandise. Business was also hurt by lower spending by international tourists.

But, like other retailers, Macy’s is also contending with broader changes in spending habits.

Macy’s had been a stellar per-former since the recession as it localized merchandise, cut costs and developed exclusive brands that set itself apart from others. But increasingly, Amazon.com and other online rivals are becoming a threat. It also has acknowledged that customers are spending more of their money on experiences like eating out and spas, instead of on clothing. And when they do buy fashions, they are more likely to buy name brands at fat discounts at

such stores like T.J. Maxx.“In some cases, there will be

short-term pain as we tighten our belt and realign our resources,”

said Terry J. Lundgren, chairman and chief executive at Macy’s Inc. in a statement. “But our eye is on a long-term vision of Macy’s Inc.

as a dynamic retailer that serves existing customers and acquires new ones through innovative ap-proaches.” (ap)

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The benchmark Shanghai Com-posite Index tumbled 7.3 percent to 3,115.89 before new “circuit breakers” suspended trading for the day. The smaller Shenzhen Com-posite Index slumped 8.3 percent to 1,955.88.

Government measures intro-duced last year to prop up share prices after a meltdown in June are being gradually withdrawn while investors are also unnerved by pos-sible signs China’s economy is in worse condition than thought.

“The sell-off in Chinese equi-ties we have seen this week only emphasizes the point that the stock market intervention may have only delayed the sell-off,” said Angus Nicholson, market analyst at IG in Melbourne, Australia.

Chinese stock trading was also suspended on Monday after a plunge that roiled Wall Street and other global markets.

The Shanghai benchmark has dropped 12 percent so far this year, which is barely a week old. Thurs-

day’s market plunge may have been exacerbated by investors rushing to sell before they were locked out, some analysts said.

The circuit breakers trip when there are big swings in the CSI 300 index. Trading halted temporarily barely 14 minutes into the morn-ing session when stocks plunged 5 percent. When trading resumed 15 minutes later, stocks plunged further, falling more than the 7 percent limit that triggers a daylong trading freeze.

“There was some apparent panic selling with investors trying to reduce exposure before the manda-tory triggers entered into effect,” said Gerry Alfonso, trading head

at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities in Beijing.

“Sentiment seems to be rather fragile at the moment as the soft macroeconomic environment to-gether with the fear of not being able to sell during a market correc-tion causing some anxiety among investors,” he wrote in a note to clients. Nicholson said, “It’s dif-ficult to see the circuit-breakers surviving long in their current form, given they only seem to be further contributing to the volatility in the Chinese market.”

The latest slump comes after China’s government guided the yuan sharply lower, in a sign that authorities are prepared to weaken

the tightly controlled currency to boost flagging exports. The yuan rate was set Thursday morning at 6.5646 to the U.S. dollar, the weak-est in nearly five years, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing data from the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.

Among other Asian stock mar-kets, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 2.3 percent to 17,771.97 and South Korea’s Kospi lost 0.9 percent to 1,907.32. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 2.8 percent to 20,401.54 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 retreated 2.2 percent to 5,010.30. Benchmarks in Taiwan, New Zealand and Southeast Asia also fell. (ap)

Asian stocks fall as China halted after market plunge

HONG KONG — Chinese stocks nosedived on Thursday, triggering the second daylong trading halt of the week and send-ing share markets, currencies and oil prices lower as investor jitters rippled across Asia.

Job cuts at Macy’s signal hard times ahead for retailers

AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File

In this July 10, 2015, file photo, shoppers walk into a Macy’s department store at the Hanover Mall in Hanover, Mass. Macy’s is cutting up to about 4,800 jobs after disappointing holiday sales. The company also listed Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, which 40 stores it would close.

BANGLI - Recent heavy rains in Bangli have increased the damage of paddy field at Subak Aya Kawan, Bangli. In fact the water irrigation pipeline is in danger of breaking off. As a result of the condition of this subak, farmers downstream are distraught.

On Wednesday (Jan. 6), two dif-ferent parts of the paddy field could be seen to be suffering damage over areas of some 5 square meters. Some of the land in the area also looks cracked. The irrigation pipelines originally that was originally installed

on the ground, i now floating freely and could break off at any time.

Chief of Subak Aya Kawan, I Nengah Murjana, said that because the irrigation channels were clogged with rubbish, after the heavy rainfalls at the end of 2015, water overflowed. “The water flow was considerable and caused about 100 swqaure meters of the paddy field to collapse. The pipelines that was installed last year is also in danger of becoming discon-nected,” he said.

This middle-aged farmer also said that he was worried about the possi-

bility of subsequent collapses of the paddy walls. Farmers downstream are therefor thinking twice before planting their rice. “They are afraid that if the pipeline breaks that their newly planted paddy plants will be drowned,” he explained.

Murjana hopes that a sewer can be created in the irrigation channel upstream. “A sewer would allow the flow of water, during heavy rain, to be controlled,” he said.

Head of the Bangli Public Works Agency, I.B. Wediatmika, explained that sturdies need to be made, before a

sewer can be installed. “The broken-down irrigation channel had improve-ment shade to it just last year. If we provide them with more assistance this year, then other proposed projects will be delayed. It needs to be studied first, if in fact the request is approved, the funds will be allocated out of the amended budget,” he explained.

Mediatmika also explained that dealing with the blocked irrigation channel is not just the responsibility of the government. Farmers also share the obligation of maintaining the cleanness of the irrigation chan-

nels. “To prevent the channel from getting clogged, farmers and others need to keep the channels free of garbage, and not expect the govern-ment to deal with such matters,” he concluded.

The paddy fields began to break down in the middle of 2014 causing a break in the channel. At the time 7 hectares remianed unable to grow rice for three planting seasons. In order for farmers to continue to earn a living, they instead planted their rice fields with other crops such as corn, soybeans and peanuts. (kmb45)

Wayan Raka, one of the mer-chants at the Sukawati public market, claimed to have not received certain information if the revitalization plan of the Sukawati art market will be expanded to the area of the public market. “Indeed there is a lot of confusing information, saying if the public market will be refurbished.

The latest information told that we are going to be evicted as the land of this market will also be made for the art market expansion,” he said when met on Wednesday (Jan. 6).

Of all the information, he asserted to have not received any certain in-formation from the Sukawati public market chief or the government of

Gianyar. But this man selling grocer-ies did not dismiss if this time he and other merchants are uneasy because they do not get clarity of information. “We all here worry if we are evicted, how about our stuff? If we will be re-ally evicted where we will be moved because, in my mind, there is no ap-propriate location like this market,” he complained.

Similar opinion was delivered by another merchant of Sukawati public market, Ni Nyoman Yani. She said that so far all the merchants have not received certainty about the contract extension of the public market ending in 2015. “I cannot give more com-ments. Obviously, so far our contract at this public market has not been

extended. Besides, we have not got clarity in this regard,” she said.

The Head of the Gianyar In-dustry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, said that the revitalization plan of the Sukawati art market will be definitely realized this year. Next Monday (Jan. 11), he will be going to Jakarta to receive the regulation of the Minister of Trade No. 114 /M-DAG/PER/12/2015. “Everything has been signed by the Minister of Trade with a budget allocation of IDR 60 billion dated December 23. Well, next Mon-day we are asked to Jakarta to receive the regulation,” he said

Suamba explained that after re-ceiving the ministerial regulation, his agency will conduct face-to-face

meeting with all the components of customary village to merchants at Sukawati art market and public market. “Maximally next week, after getting the ministerial regulation, we will immediately provide a briefing for all the components related to this revitalization plan,” he promised.

He added that one of the important topics to be discussed in the meet-ing is the location for the temporary relocation of merchants during the revitalization activities. “Here, we will decide together where will be the appropriate location, so that later on it will not result in unrest. Moreover, the ministerial regulation has been issued and the workmanship must be realized this year,” he concluded. (kmb35)

Impact of heavy rainsBroken-down wetland at Subak Aya Kawan expands

Revitalization of Sukawati art market in sight, merchants anxious

GIANYAR - Revitalization of the Sukawati art market is ascertained to be realized in 2016. It is known after the con-firmation of budget worth IDR 60 billion from the Ministry of Trade to refurbish the traditional market built in the 1970s. On the other hand, the merchants at Sukawati public market are now overshadowed by anxiety of being evicted because in the revitalization plan, the Sukawati art market area will be expanded to the public market.

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“In 2016, we will target destruc-tive fishing practices,” the minis-try’s Director General for Supervi-sion of Maritime Natural Resources and Fisheries Asep Burhanuddin stated during a discussion on the 2015 Reflection and the 2016 Out-look on Wednesday.

His office will monitor fishing practices in the outermost islands, in particular.

Advocacy will also be provided to Indonesian fishermen facing le-

gal charges in other countries.In the meantime, the ministry

took punitive action against a total of 157 fishing boats for conduct-ing illegal fishing activities in the Indonesian waters in 2015.

The 157 boats comprised 84 foreign fishing boats and 73 Indonesian boats, Burhanuddin noted.

Of the 84 foreign boats, 46 bore Vietnam’s flag, 19 were Philippine-flagged boats, 12 flew the Malay-

sian flag, and nine had operated under the Thai flag.

The ministry, in cooperation with the Indonesian Navy and Po-lice, sank a total of 121 boats since October 2014.

The 121 boats that were sunk included 39 ships of Vietnam, 36 of the Philippines, 21 of Thailand, 12 of Malaysia, two of Papua New Guinea, one of China, and 10 of Indonesia.

Last year, the ministry had deployed 27 patrol boats that managed to supervise 5,206 fish-ing boats in the country’s waters. (ant)

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Tourists gather for a group photo as Mount Bromo erupts in the background near Nga-disari, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia January 6, 2016.

JAKARTA - The national rice stock remains sufficient until the grand harvest in March this year at numerous regions in Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi, according to Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman.

“Our national rice stock is adequate. We have 1.2 million tons of rice in the warehouses of the State Logistics Agency (Bulog), which is ready to be distributed to every region,” the minister remarked after overseeing the market operations at the Cipinang main rice market on Wednesday.

Amran noted that the rice stock will be distributed to every region in Indonesia, especially in the areas that need rice supply through market operations.

“We will distribute it to all regions across the country, espe-cially in the areas that require the supply of rice,” the agriculture minister reiterated.

Amran has forecast that 1.2 million tons of rice stock will be adequate to meet the nation’s rice needs until the grand harvest in March.

“God willing, the national stock will be sufficient, without including the imported rice since we will also harvest one mil-lion hectares of rice fields in March. This means we will harvest six million tons of rice,” he remarked.

Speaking in reference to the market operations at the Cipinang market to last until the harvest period, the minister noted that the Agriculture Ministry and Bulog will distribute 150 thousand tons of rice for the month of January.

The agriculture minister also affirmed that the market opera-tions aim to maintain the rice price within the required range or at Rp8,300 per kilogram (kg) in the market.

Amran added that the rice distributed by Bulog is of medium and premium grade. “We distribute medium to premium grade rice, with the price ranging between Rp7,500 and Rp8,300 per kg in the market to the end users,” added Amran. (ant)

JAKARTA - Head of the Capital Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Franky Sibarani said realization of investment project overshot the target of Rp519.5 trillion in 2015

“Total investment is certain to reach around Rp540 trillion exceeding the target,” Franky said in Cikarang, West Java on Thursday.

He said in the last quarter of 2015, investment soared beyond expectation.

Despite the healthy performance in 2015, BKPM would not change its investment target of Rp594.8 trillion for 2016, he said.

“We never revise target as investment climate globally includ-ing Indonesia is still fragile. We would see in the first quarter of 2016,” he said.

Based on data at BKPM investment in the first nine months of 2015 totaled Rp400 trillion, up 16.7 percent from Rp342 trillion in the same period in 2014, or 77 percent of the target in 2015.

Domestic investment made up Rp133.2 trillion of the invest-ment realization in the January-September period with foreign investment accounting for Rp266.8 trillion.

Strong growth was recorded for both domestic and foreign investment in the first nine months of 2015. (ant)

In 2015Target overshot in investment

Rice stock sufficient until grand harvest

Fishery ministry prioritizes curbing destructive fishingJAKARTA - The maritime affairs and fisheries ministry will

focus on dealing with destructive fishing practices across the Indonesian waters in 2016.

From Seoul to Washington, Beijing to the United Nations, world powers are looking at ways to punish Pyongyang for the test of what it called a new and powerful hydrogen bomb.

The loudspeaker broadcasts, which will start Friday, believed to be the birthday of young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are certain to infuriate authoritarian Pyongyang because they are meant to raise questions in North Korean minds about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family. South Korea stopped earlier broadcasts after it agreed with Pyongyang in late August on a package of measures aimed at easing animosities that had the rivals threatening war.

Experts, meanwhile, are trying to uncover more details about the detonation that drew worldwide skepticism and condemnation.

It may take weeks or longer to confirm or refute the North’s claim that it successfully tested a hydro-gen bomb, which would mark a major and unanticipated advance for its still-limited nuclear arsenal. Even a test of an atomic bomb, a

less sophisticated and less powerful weapon, would push its scientists and engineers closer to their goal of building a nuclear warhead small enough to place on a missile that can reach the U.S. mainland.

Statements from the White House said President Barack Obama had spoken to South Korean Presi-dent Park Geun-Hye and to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. The statements said the countries “agreed to work together to forge a united and strong international response to North Korea’s latest reckless behavior.”

Obama reaffirmed the “unshake-able U.S. commitment” to the security of South Korea and Japan, according to the statements.

Park’s office said she also spoke with Abe over the phone and that they vowed cooperation to ensure that the U.N. Security Council im-poses strong and effective measures against the North.

South Korean and U.S. military leaders also discussed the deploy-ment of U.S. “strategic assets” in the wake of the North’s test, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said Thursday.

Ministry officials refused to elaborate about what U.S. military assets were under consideration, but they likely refer to B-52 bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and nuclear-powered submarines.

When animosities sharply rose in the spring of 2013 following North Korea’s third nuclear test, the U.S. took the unusual step of send-ing its most powerful warplanes — B-2 stealth bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and B-52 bombers — to drills with South Korea in a show of force. B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency session and pledged to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea, saying its test was a ‘clear violation’ of previous U.N. resolutions.

Four rounds of U.N. sanctions have aimed at reining in the North’s nuclear and missile development programs, but Pyongyang has ignored them and moved ahead to modernize its ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.

When Seoul briefly restarted the loudspeaker broadcasts in August for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for land mine blasts blamed on Pyongyang that maimed two South Korean soldiers, the North threatened to attack the South. (ap)

PARIS — French President Francois Hollande says what he calls a “terrorist threat” will con-tinue to weigh on the country, which was struck a year ago by Islamic extremists.

On Jan. 7, 2015, two French-born brothers killed 11 people in-side the building where the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo operated, as well as a Muslim policeman outside. Over the next two days, an accomplice shot a policewoman to death and then stormed a kosher supermarket, killing four hostages. All three gunmen died.

In a speech to police forces charged with protecting the country against new attacks, Hollande said the government was passing new laws and ramping up security, but the threat remained high.

Hollande especially called for better surveillance of “radicalized” citizens who have joined Islamic State or other militant groups in Syria and Iraq when they return to France. “We must be able to force these people —and only these people— to fulfill certain obliga-tions and if necessary to put them under house arrest ... because they are dangerous,” he said.

Three police officers were among the 17 dead in the attacks last Janu-ary, which ended after two days of bloodshed in the Paris region. Hol-lande said officers die in the line of duty “so that we can live free.”

Following the January at-tacks, the government announced

it planned to give police better equipment and to hire more intel-ligence agents. France has been on high alert ever since, and was struck again Nov. 13 by extremists dispatched by the Islamic State group.

Survivors of the January attacks, meanwhile, are continuing to speak out. Cartoonist Laurent Sourisseau, the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo who is known as Riss, told France Inter radio “security is a new ex-pense for the newspaper budget.”

“This past year we’ve had to in-vest nearly 2 million euros to secure our office, which is an enormous sum,” he said. “We have to spend hundreds of thousands on surveil-lance of our offices, which wasn’t previously in Charlie’s budget, but we had an obligation so that employ-ees feel safe and can work safely.”

After the attacks, people around the world embraced the expres-sion “Je suis Charlie” to express solidarity with the slain journalists, targeted for the paper’s caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

“It’s a phrase that was used dur-ing the march as a sign of emotion or resistance to terrorism,” Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Corinne Rey — known as Coco — told France Inter radio. “And little by little, I realized that ‘I am Charlie’ was misused for so many things. And now I don’t really know what it means.” France remains under a state of emergency after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. (ap)

BANGKOK — Thai officials say the prime minister has ordered a ban on the registration of new double-decker buses as part of a bid to curb traffic accidents and road fatalities.

The order from Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha came after the New Year’s holiday, also known in Thailand as the “Seven Dangerous Days,” ended with the highest num-

ber of road deaths in five years.Motorcycle and car accidents

left 380 people dead from Dec. 29-Jan. 4, despite a crackdown on drunken drivers.

Thailand has the second-highest traffic fatality rate in the world, ac-cording to a 2013 survey done for the World Health Organization.

In addition to the registration

restrictions, new measures to curb road deaths include installing GPS systems in all public buses so reckless drivers can be monitored. (ap)

Thailand takes aim at double-decker buses to cut road deaths

A South Korean police officer, right, extin-guishes flames as protesters burn an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally against North Korea’s an-nouncement that it had tested a hydrogen bomb, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

South Korea announces start of anti-North

propaganda broadcastsSEOUL — In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test,

South Korea on Thursday announced it would resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with Washington that could see the arrival of nuclear-powered U.S. submarines and warplanes to the Korean Peninsula.

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

Martin Bureau, Pool Photo via AP

French President Francois Hollande delivers his New Year’s speech to police forces charged with protecting the country against new attacks, at the Paris’s police headquarters, Thurs-day Jan. 7, 2016, one year after the attack targeting the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Hollande: Threat continues year after

attacks in France

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Irving scored 10 points in a row in the fourth quarter and showed no ill effects from the injury that ended his 2015 playoffs and post-poned his season debut until mid-December. James had 10 rebounds, and J.R. Smith added 25 points for Cleveland.

Garrett Temple scored 21 points and John Wall had 20 for the Wiz-ards, who were playing without Kris Humphries, DeJuan Blair and Drew Gooden.

In other games, New York beat Miami 98-90 to end a streak of eight consecutive losses to the Heat, Oklahoma City topped Memphis 112-94, Dallas defeated New Or-leans 100-91 despite resting four starters, and San Antonio routed Utah 123-98 to match its best start in team history.

In Miami, Carmelo Anthony scored 25 points on nine of 12 shots

to lead a hot-shooting Knicks team, which was 56 percent from the field. In his first two games against the Heat this season, Anthony shot 10 for 29 and totaled 32 points.

Robin Lopez added a season-high 19 points for the Knicks, who won their third game in a row. Kevin Durant led Oklahoma City with 26 points and a season-high 17 rebounds after missing the pre-vious game with a sprained right big toe.

Durant broke loose for 17 points in the second half on 7-for-8 shoot-ing. He played 33 minutes and appeared to have no problems with mobility. Russell Westbrook added 20 points, seven rebounds and seven assists for the Thunder.

In New Orleans, Raymond Fel-ton scored 22 points to lead a short-handed Dallas squad that was without Dirk Nowitzki, Deron Wil-

liams, Zaza Pachulia and Wesley Matthews after they each played 40-plus minutes in a double-over-time victory over Sacramento on Tuesday night.

Chandler Parsons, the only usual starter in uniform, scored 19 of his 21 in the first half. San Antonio’s Tim Duncan scored a season-high 18 points to lead nine Spurs players in double figures in the win over Utah. San Antonio (31-6) matched its best start in team history by win-ning its 21st straight home game to open the season.

In other games, Chris Paul had 21 points and 19 assists to lead the Los Angeles Clippers past Portland 109-98. The Clippers won their seventh straight game despite the absence of Blake Griffin, who has missed six games because of a par-tially torn left quadriceps tendon. DeAndre Jordan had 14 points and 14 rebounds.

Indiana’s Paul George had 20 points and Monta Ellis scored nine of his 19 in the fourth quarter to lead the Pacers over Orlando 95-86. (ap)

BRISBANE, Australia — Canadian Milos Raonic opened his 2016 season with a prickly 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-4 win over Croatia’s Ivan Dodig at the Brisbane International on Thursday. The fourth-seeded Raonic, who had a first-round bye, appeared agitated at times with Dodig’s play and was seen on camera mouthing an obscenity at his opponent when Dodig hit a half-volley drop shot at the net for a winner.

Lucas Pouille of France beat sixth-seeded David Goffin of Belgium 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3 and will play Raonic in the quarterfinals. Grigor Dimitrov also advanced by beating Viktor Troicki of Serbia 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

Top-seeded and defending champion Roger Federer was scheduled to play his first match of the season late against qualifier Tobias Kamke of Germany. Fourth-seeded Angelique Kerber, the highest-ranked woman remaining in Brisbane, advanced to the semifinals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

In another quarterfinal, American qualifier Samantha Crawford beat Andrea Petkovic 6-3, 6-0 and will next play either Victoria Azarenka or Roberta Vinci. At the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, third-seeded Caroline Wozniacki moved easily into the semifinals with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Romania’s Alexandra Dalgheru in a match which lasted only 52 minutes.

Wozniacki made only eight unforced errors. “It was pretty good out there,” Wozniacki said. “I really hit it well, I went for my shots. I came to the net — I didn’t even know I could volley like that — so I was pleasantly surprised.”

Wozniacki has a 5-0 record against her semifinal opponent, Ameri-can Sloane Stephens. Fifth-seeded Stephens had a 7-6 (6), 6-3 win over qualifier Naomi Broady of Britain.

Stephens said she felt in good form and that her goal for the season would be to represent the United States at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August.

“That’s my dream and I really hope I can do that,” Stephens said. “But right now I’m really happy with my game and where I’m at.”

Earlier, Austria’s Tamira Paszek beat fellow qualifier Kirsten Flipkens 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3 in a match that lasted almost three hours.

Paszek, an Auckland semifinalist in 2008 as a teenager, saved a break point in the final game before finally converting her eighth match point. Paszek’s semifinal opponent will be Julia Goerges of Germany, who beat Nao Hibino of Japan 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-4. (ap)

Raonic wins at Brisbane, advances to quarters

AP Photo/Tertius Pickard

Milos Raonic of Canada plays a shot in his game against Ivan Dodig of Croatia during the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving (2) and forward LeBron James (23) celebrate at the start of a timeout during the second half of the team’s NBA basketball game against the Washington Wizards, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Washington. The Cavaliers won 121-115.

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BARCELONA — Zinedine Zidane will make his coaching debut on Saturday when Real Ma-drid hosts Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish league.

The former France great was promoted from managing Madrid’s reserve team, which plays in the third division, to taking over for Rafa Benitez after the Spaniard was fired following Madrid’s 2-2 draw at Valencia last weekend.

A fan favorite from his five seasons at Madrid, a warm welcome is expected for Zidane by the Santiago Bernabeu crowd. Disgruntled fans had called for Benitez to be fired following the team’s inconsistent form that has Madrid in third place, four points off the pace of provisional leader Atletico Madrid.

“The important thing is to keep the players’ spirits high, I think they’ve done a good job,” Zidane said at his first news conference on Tuesday. “We have to think that the work done by Benitez has been good and I want to wish him all the best for the future. My message is work.”

Barcelona, in second and two points adrift and with a game in hand, will have played earlier on Saturday at Camp Nou against Granada. Atletico waits until Sunday in a tough visit to fifth-place Celta Vigo.

ZIDANE’S STYLEZidane etched his place in Madrid’s lore with his

unique combination of dribbling, passing and scoring skills, which reached their pinnacle when he scored

a spectacular volley for the winning goal in the 2002 Champions League final.

He now must quiet those who question president Florentino Perez’s decision to turn the star-studded squad over to a coach whose resume is limited to a year-and-a-half in the third division and a stint as a first-team assistant.

Zidane has promised to promote an “attractive, but balanced” style, and said that he will maintain the trio of strikers formed by Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema.

“I want to bring the exciting game that this club has always had,” Zidane said. “The important thing is to play football and my job will be based on playing from the back, progressing in to the opposition half quickly and having possession of the ball.”

Besides who will start among the glut of midfielders, the question is whether Zidane will keep Bale on the right side of the attack, as opposed to his natural place on the left, after Benitez scrapped his experiment to use him as a central playmaker.

DECEPTIVE DEPORTIVOIt has been a long time since Deportivo inspired fear

in its opponents. But striker Lucas Perez, with 12 goals, and an overachieving bunch coached by Victor Sanchez del Amo has made Deportivo a formidable foe.

Seventh-place Deportivo has as many losses as Madrid does— three— and rallied for a 2-2 draw at Barcelona last month. (ap)

LIVERPOOL, England — A Merseyside derby in the English League Cup final was closer to reality after Everton beat Manchester City 2-1 in the first leg of their semifinal on Wednesday, with in-form Romelu Lukaku grabbing the winner.

Lukaku scored his 19th goal of the season when he headed home late at Goodison Park, giving Everton a deserved lead to take to City for the second leg on Jan. 27.

Liverpool, Everton’s close neighbor and biggest rival, leads Stoke 1-0 after the first leg of the other semifinal. The Merseyside clubs met in the 1984 final, which Liverpool won, during a period in which they were the dominant teams in the country.

There are still 90 minutes to go in both matchups — the second legs are in three weeks — but Ever-ton manager Roberto Martinez said his team will take confidence from the manner of this victory, outplaying City at times.

Ramiro Funes Mori put Everton ahead in first-half injury time, steering home a rebound from close range af-ter Ross Barkley’s shot w a s parried out, and the hosts were pressing for a second goal — per-haps over-zealously — when City equalized on a counterattack in the 76th.

Sergio Aguero controlled a long clearance forward and had only two defenders in front of him on the halfway line. The striker laid in a perfect- l y weighted pass for substitute Jesus Navas, who had sprinted upfield in support and met the ball with a first-time diagonal shot past goalkeeper Joel Robles.

But two minutes later Lukaku had the final say. He has failed to score in only two of his last 12 games in all competitions, making him arguably the most lethal striker in English football at the moment.

“I have always thought Romelu Lukaku is the perfect striker for our team,” Martinez said. “He wants to be the best in the world ... it’s a joy to see him enjoying his football and scoring goals.”

Lukaku hobbled off with a minor ankle injury soon after scoring, one of three Everton players to go off in the second half as England’s hectic schedule during and after Christmas continues to take its toll. Seamus Coleman and Tom Cleverley had more seri-ous calf injuries.

City started brightly but often looked sluggish, with Barkley finding plenty of space between City’s defense and midfield to instigate attacks. Gareth Barry performed an admirable job as Everton’s holding midfielder and provided the assist for Lukaku, leading Martinez to describe him as “one of the best English players ever.”

City got 90 minutes out of Aguero as he battles back to full fitness — and he wasted City’s best chances aside from the goal — but lost center back Eliaquim Mangala to a hamstring injury. With Vincent Kom-pany also out, City is short of cover in central defense.

Everton has never won the League Cup, losing the final in 1977 and ‘84. City has won it three times, most recently in 2014. (ap)

ROME — With Paulo Dybala performing like Andrea Pirlo, Ju-ventus picked up right where it left off before the holiday break. Dybala scored with a curling free kick and also set up a goal as Juventus swept aside last-place Hellas Verona 3-0 for its eighth straight win in Serie A on Wednesday.

Leonardo Bonucci and Simone Zaza also scored for the four-time defending champion, which hadn’t played in 17 days.

“The lads did well to get right back into the league, which is never easy after the holidays,” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “We weren’t very sharp, especially at the start, but we didn’t concede anything.”

Juventus remained three points behind leader Inter Milan, which won 1-0 at Empoli with a first-half goal from Mauro Icardi. Second-place Fiorentina was one point off the lead following a 3-1 win at Palermo, where Josip Ilicic scored twice.

Napoli was third, level on points with Fiorentina, after beating To-

rino 2-1 with goals from Lorenzo Insigne and Marek Hamsik. Also, Roma wasted a two-goal lead in a 3-3 draw at Chievo Verona to remain

fifth.With Mario Balotelli still

recovering from pelvis surgery, AC Milan was beaten 1-0 at home by Bologna, which got a late win-ner from Emanuele Giaccherini. Elsewhere, it was: Lazio 0, Carpi 0; Sassuolo 2, Frosinone 2; and Udinese 2, Atalanta 1.

In Turin, Dybala put Juventus in front with an accurate free kick eight minutes in, and Bonucci doubled the lead before halftime by redirect-ing a free kick from Dybala with a header.

“(Dybala) has been practicing free kicks,” Allegri said. “Being able to open up matches with a free kick is very important after a break of more than two weeks.” Zaza sealed it for Juventus after being set up by Paul Pogba eight minutes from the end.

After starting the season by win-ning only three of its opening 10 matches, Juventus appears on course for a fifth consecutive title. (ap)

ZURICH — FIFA ethics judges have formally opened a case against Jerome Valcke, who faces a nine-year ban from football.

The ethics committee’s judging chamber says it “decided to institute formal adjudicatory proceedings” against FIFA’s former secretary general after studying a prosecution file sent by ethics investigators. The judges acted one day after extending Valcke’s 90-day interim ban by 45 days.

Valcke is charged with several violations of the FIFA code of ethics while serving as President Sepp Blatter’s top aide since 2007. The charges include accepting gifts and conflicts of interest.

The judges gave no details of the case, citing Valcke’s “privacy rights and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.”

A hearing in Zurich is likely within weeks. Valcke, who denies wrong-doing, was suspended from work by FIFA in September. (ap)

REUTERS/ Juan Medina

Real Madrid’s new coach Zinedine Zidane conducts a training session in Valdebebas, outside Madrid, Spain, January 5, 2016.

Zidane debuts as Madrid coach

against Deportivo

Everton beats Man City 2-1 in 1st leg

of League Cup semi

Ramiro Funes Mori celebrates after scoring

the first goal for Everton

AP Photo/ Massimo Pinca

Juventus’ Paulo Dybala cel-ebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between

Juventus and Verona at the Ju-ventus stadium, in Turin, Italy,

Wednesday, Jan 6, 2016.

Dybala performs like Pirlo as Juventus wins 8th straight

FIFA ethics judges formally open case

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BARCELONA — Zinedine Zidane will make his coaching debut on Saturday when Real Ma-drid hosts Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish league.

The former France great was promoted from managing Madrid’s reserve team, which plays in the third division, to taking over for Rafa Benitez after the Spaniard was fired following Madrid’s 2-2 draw at Valencia last weekend.

A fan favorite from his five seasons at Madrid, a warm welcome is expected for Zidane by the Santiago Bernabeu crowd. Disgruntled fans had called for Benitez to be fired following the team’s inconsistent form that has Madrid in third place, four points off the pace of provisional leader Atletico Madrid.

“The important thing is to keep the players’ spirits high, I think they’ve done a good job,” Zidane said at his first news conference on Tuesday. “We have to think that the work done by Benitez has been good and I want to wish him all the best for the future. My message is work.”

Barcelona, in second and two points adrift and with a game in hand, will have played earlier on Saturday at Camp Nou against Granada. Atletico waits until Sunday in a tough visit to fifth-place Celta Vigo.

ZIDANE’S STYLEZidane etched his place in Madrid’s lore with his

unique combination of dribbling, passing and scoring skills, which reached their pinnacle when he scored

a spectacular volley for the winning goal in the 2002 Champions League final.

He now must quiet those who question president Florentino Perez’s decision to turn the star-studded squad over to a coach whose resume is limited to a year-and-a-half in the third division and a stint as a first-team assistant.

Zidane has promised to promote an “attractive, but balanced” style, and said that he will maintain the trio of strikers formed by Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema.

“I want to bring the exciting game that this club has always had,” Zidane said. “The important thing is to play football and my job will be based on playing from the back, progressing in to the opposition half quickly and having possession of the ball.”

Besides who will start among the glut of midfielders, the question is whether Zidane will keep Bale on the right side of the attack, as opposed to his natural place on the left, after Benitez scrapped his experiment to use him as a central playmaker.

DECEPTIVE DEPORTIVOIt has been a long time since Deportivo inspired fear

in its opponents. But striker Lucas Perez, with 12 goals, and an overachieving bunch coached by Victor Sanchez del Amo has made Deportivo a formidable foe.

Seventh-place Deportivo has as many losses as Madrid does— three— and rallied for a 2-2 draw at Barcelona last month. (ap)

LIVERPOOL, England — A Merseyside derby in the English League Cup final was closer to reality after Everton beat Manchester City 2-1 in the first leg of their semifinal on Wednesday, with in-form Romelu Lukaku grabbing the winner.

Lukaku scored his 19th goal of the season when he headed home late at Goodison Park, giving Everton a deserved lead to take to City for the second leg on Jan. 27.

Liverpool, Everton’s close neighbor and biggest rival, leads Stoke 1-0 after the first leg of the other semifinal. The Merseyside clubs met in the 1984 final, which Liverpool won, during a period in which they were the dominant teams in the country.

There are still 90 minutes to go in both matchups — the second legs are in three weeks — but Ever-ton manager Roberto Martinez said his team will take confidence from the manner of this victory, outplaying City at times.

Ramiro Funes Mori put Everton ahead in first-half injury time, steering home a rebound from close range af-ter Ross Barkley’s shot w a s parried out, and the hosts were pressing for a second goal — per-haps over-zealously — when City equalized on a counterattack in the 76th.

Sergio Aguero controlled a long clearance forward and had only two defenders in front of him on the halfway line. The striker laid in a perfect- l y weighted pass for substitute Jesus Navas, who had sprinted upfield in support and met the ball with a first-time diagonal shot past goalkeeper Joel Robles.

But two minutes later Lukaku had the final say. He has failed to score in only two of his last 12 games in all competitions, making him arguably the most lethal striker in English football at the moment.

“I have always thought Romelu Lukaku is the perfect striker for our team,” Martinez said. “He wants to be the best in the world ... it’s a joy to see him enjoying his football and scoring goals.”

Lukaku hobbled off with a minor ankle injury soon after scoring, one of three Everton players to go off in the second half as England’s hectic schedule during and after Christmas continues to take its toll. Seamus Coleman and Tom Cleverley had more seri-ous calf injuries.

City started brightly but often looked sluggish, with Barkley finding plenty of space between City’s defense and midfield to instigate attacks. Gareth Barry performed an admirable job as Everton’s holding midfielder and provided the assist for Lukaku, leading Martinez to describe him as “one of the best English players ever.”

City got 90 minutes out of Aguero as he battles back to full fitness — and he wasted City’s best chances aside from the goal — but lost center back Eliaquim Mangala to a hamstring injury. With Vincent Kom-pany also out, City is short of cover in central defense.

Everton has never won the League Cup, losing the final in 1977 and ‘84. City has won it three times, most recently in 2014. (ap)

ROME — With Paulo Dybala performing like Andrea Pirlo, Ju-ventus picked up right where it left off before the holiday break. Dybala scored with a curling free kick and also set up a goal as Juventus swept aside last-place Hellas Verona 3-0 for its eighth straight win in Serie A on Wednesday.

Leonardo Bonucci and Simone Zaza also scored for the four-time defending champion, which hadn’t played in 17 days.

“The lads did well to get right back into the league, which is never easy after the holidays,” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “We weren’t very sharp, especially at the start, but we didn’t concede anything.”

Juventus remained three points behind leader Inter Milan, which won 1-0 at Empoli with a first-half goal from Mauro Icardi. Second-place Fiorentina was one point off the lead following a 3-1 win at Palermo, where Josip Ilicic scored twice.

Napoli was third, level on points with Fiorentina, after beating To-

rino 2-1 with goals from Lorenzo Insigne and Marek Hamsik. Also, Roma wasted a two-goal lead in a 3-3 draw at Chievo Verona to remain

fifth.With Mario Balotelli still

recovering from pelvis surgery, AC Milan was beaten 1-0 at home by Bologna, which got a late win-ner from Emanuele Giaccherini. Elsewhere, it was: Lazio 0, Carpi 0; Sassuolo 2, Frosinone 2; and Udinese 2, Atalanta 1.

In Turin, Dybala put Juventus in front with an accurate free kick eight minutes in, and Bonucci doubled the lead before halftime by redirect-ing a free kick from Dybala with a header.

“(Dybala) has been practicing free kicks,” Allegri said. “Being able to open up matches with a free kick is very important after a break of more than two weeks.” Zaza sealed it for Juventus after being set up by Paul Pogba eight minutes from the end.

After starting the season by win-ning only three of its opening 10 matches, Juventus appears on course for a fifth consecutive title. (ap)

ZURICH — FIFA ethics judges have formally opened a case against Jerome Valcke, who faces a nine-year ban from football.

The ethics committee’s judging chamber says it “decided to institute formal adjudicatory proceedings” against FIFA’s former secretary general after studying a prosecution file sent by ethics investigators. The judges acted one day after extending Valcke’s 90-day interim ban by 45 days.

Valcke is charged with several violations of the FIFA code of ethics while serving as President Sepp Blatter’s top aide since 2007. The charges include accepting gifts and conflicts of interest.

The judges gave no details of the case, citing Valcke’s “privacy rights and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.”

A hearing in Zurich is likely within weeks. Valcke, who denies wrong-doing, was suspended from work by FIFA in September. (ap)

REUTERS/ Juan Medina

Real Madrid’s new coach Zinedine Zidane conducts a training session in Valdebebas, outside Madrid, Spain, January 5, 2016.

Zidane debuts as Madrid coach

against Deportivo

Everton beats Man City 2-1 in 1st leg

of League Cup semi

Ramiro Funes Mori celebrates after scoring

the first goal for Everton

AP Photo/ Massimo Pinca

Juventus’ Paulo Dybala cel-ebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between

Juventus and Verona at the Ju-ventus stadium, in Turin, Italy,

Wednesday, Jan 6, 2016.

Dybala performs like Pirlo as Juventus wins 8th straight

FIFA ethics judges formally open case

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Irving scored 10 points in a row in the fourth quarter and showed no ill effects from the injury that ended his 2015 playoffs and post-poned his season debut until mid-December. James had 10 rebounds, and J.R. Smith added 25 points for Cleveland.

Garrett Temple scored 21 points and John Wall had 20 for the Wiz-ards, who were playing without Kris Humphries, DeJuan Blair and Drew Gooden.

In other games, New York beat Miami 98-90 to end a streak of eight consecutive losses to the Heat, Oklahoma City topped Memphis 112-94, Dallas defeated New Or-leans 100-91 despite resting four starters, and San Antonio routed Utah 123-98 to match its best start in team history.

In Miami, Carmelo Anthony scored 25 points on nine of 12 shots

to lead a hot-shooting Knicks team, which was 56 percent from the field. In his first two games against the Heat this season, Anthony shot 10 for 29 and totaled 32 points.

Robin Lopez added a season-high 19 points for the Knicks, who won their third game in a row. Kevin Durant led Oklahoma City with 26 points and a season-high 17 rebounds after missing the pre-vious game with a sprained right big toe.

Durant broke loose for 17 points in the second half on 7-for-8 shoot-ing. He played 33 minutes and appeared to have no problems with mobility. Russell Westbrook added 20 points, seven rebounds and seven assists for the Thunder.

In New Orleans, Raymond Fel-ton scored 22 points to lead a short-handed Dallas squad that was without Dirk Nowitzki, Deron Wil-

liams, Zaza Pachulia and Wesley Matthews after they each played 40-plus minutes in a double-over-time victory over Sacramento on Tuesday night.

Chandler Parsons, the only usual starter in uniform, scored 19 of his 21 in the first half. San Antonio’s Tim Duncan scored a season-high 18 points to lead nine Spurs players in double figures in the win over Utah. San Antonio (31-6) matched its best start in team history by win-ning its 21st straight home game to open the season.

In other games, Chris Paul had 21 points and 19 assists to lead the Los Angeles Clippers past Portland 109-98. The Clippers won their seventh straight game despite the absence of Blake Griffin, who has missed six games because of a par-tially torn left quadriceps tendon. DeAndre Jordan had 14 points and 14 rebounds.

Indiana’s Paul George had 20 points and Monta Ellis scored nine of his 19 in the fourth quarter to lead the Pacers over Orlando 95-86. (ap)

BRISBANE, Australia — Canadian Milos Raonic opened his 2016 season with a prickly 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-4 win over Croatia’s Ivan Dodig at the Brisbane International on Thursday. The fourth-seeded Raonic, who had a first-round bye, appeared agitated at times with Dodig’s play and was seen on camera mouthing an obscenity at his opponent when Dodig hit a half-volley drop shot at the net for a winner.

Lucas Pouille of France beat sixth-seeded David Goffin of Belgium 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3 and will play Raonic in the quarterfinals. Grigor Dimitrov also advanced by beating Viktor Troicki of Serbia 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

Top-seeded and defending champion Roger Federer was scheduled to play his first match of the season late against qualifier Tobias Kamke of Germany. Fourth-seeded Angelique Kerber, the highest-ranked woman remaining in Brisbane, advanced to the semifinals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

In another quarterfinal, American qualifier Samantha Crawford beat Andrea Petkovic 6-3, 6-0 and will next play either Victoria Azarenka or Roberta Vinci. At the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, third-seeded Caroline Wozniacki moved easily into the semifinals with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Romania’s Alexandra Dalgheru in a match which lasted only 52 minutes.

Wozniacki made only eight unforced errors. “It was pretty good out there,” Wozniacki said. “I really hit it well, I went for my shots. I came to the net — I didn’t even know I could volley like that — so I was pleasantly surprised.”

Wozniacki has a 5-0 record against her semifinal opponent, Ameri-can Sloane Stephens. Fifth-seeded Stephens had a 7-6 (6), 6-3 win over qualifier Naomi Broady of Britain.

Stephens said she felt in good form and that her goal for the season would be to represent the United States at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August.

“That’s my dream and I really hope I can do that,” Stephens said. “But right now I’m really happy with my game and where I’m at.”

Earlier, Austria’s Tamira Paszek beat fellow qualifier Kirsten Flipkens 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3 in a match that lasted almost three hours.

Paszek, an Auckland semifinalist in 2008 as a teenager, saved a break point in the final game before finally converting her eighth match point. Paszek’s semifinal opponent will be Julia Goerges of Germany, who beat Nao Hibino of Japan 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-4. (ap)

Raonic wins at Brisbane, advances to quarters

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Milos Raonic of Canada plays a shot in his game against Ivan Dodig of Croatia during the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

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Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving (2) and forward LeBron James (23) celebrate at the start of a timeout during the second half of the team’s NBA basketball game against the Washington Wizards, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Washington. The Cavaliers won 121-115.

James scores 34, Irving 32 as Cavaliers top Wizards in NBA

WASHINGTON — LeBron James scored 34 points and Kyrie Irving scored 21 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the injury-ravaged Washing-ton Wizards 121-115 in the NBA on Wednesday for their fifth straight victory.

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MANGUPURA - Tanah Wuuk is the beautiful river valley of Tukad Penet, just 2 kilometers north of the Sangeh holy monkey forest of Badung Regency. Its location is off the main road, hidden behind rice field, and is a very quiet and private place to enjoy the pristine nature.

In Tanah Wuuk, you can witness by beauty of the green gorge valley of nature and like that enchant with the situation that is very calm, so that very appropriate was used as the resting place or as the activity hiking followed the gorge valley as well as the Yeh Penet River current.

You can also taste the Balinese traditional food, such as Nasi Sela, which is the combination between rice and sweet potato. The street hawkers near the tourism object also sold pork satay with peanut sauce that great combination if you eat it with the Nasi Sela.

During our dining in the street hawkers you can enjoy the scenery of Sangeh forest.

Tanah Wuuk

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“In 2016, we will target destruc-tive fishing practices,” the minis-try’s Director General for Supervi-sion of Maritime Natural Resources and Fisheries Asep Burhanuddin stated during a discussion on the 2015 Reflection and the 2016 Out-look on Wednesday.

His office will monitor fishing practices in the outermost islands, in particular.

Advocacy will also be provided to Indonesian fishermen facing le-

gal charges in other countries.In the meantime, the ministry

took punitive action against a total of 157 fishing boats for conduct-ing illegal fishing activities in the Indonesian waters in 2015.

The 157 boats comprised 84 foreign fishing boats and 73 Indonesian boats, Burhanuddin noted.

Of the 84 foreign boats, 46 bore Vietnam’s flag, 19 were Philippine-flagged boats, 12 flew the Malay-

sian flag, and nine had operated under the Thai flag.

The ministry, in cooperation with the Indonesian Navy and Po-lice, sank a total of 121 boats since October 2014.

The 121 boats that were sunk included 39 ships of Vietnam, 36 of the Philippines, 21 of Thailand, 12 of Malaysia, two of Papua New Guinea, one of China, and 10 of Indonesia.

Last year, the ministry had deployed 27 patrol boats that managed to supervise 5,206 fish-ing boats in the country’s waters. (ant)

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Tourists gather for a group photo as Mount Bromo erupts in the background near Nga-disari, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia January 6, 2016.

JAKARTA - The national rice stock remains sufficient until the grand harvest in March this year at numerous regions in Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi, according to Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman.

“Our national rice stock is adequate. We have 1.2 million tons of rice in the warehouses of the State Logistics Agency (Bulog), which is ready to be distributed to every region,” the minister remarked after overseeing the market operations at the Cipinang main rice market on Wednesday.

Amran noted that the rice stock will be distributed to every region in Indonesia, especially in the areas that need rice supply through market operations.

“We will distribute it to all regions across the country, espe-cially in the areas that require the supply of rice,” the agriculture minister reiterated.

Amran has forecast that 1.2 million tons of rice stock will be adequate to meet the nation’s rice needs until the grand harvest in March.

“God willing, the national stock will be sufficient, without including the imported rice since we will also harvest one mil-lion hectares of rice fields in March. This means we will harvest six million tons of rice,” he remarked.

Speaking in reference to the market operations at the Cipinang market to last until the harvest period, the minister noted that the Agriculture Ministry and Bulog will distribute 150 thousand tons of rice for the month of January.

The agriculture minister also affirmed that the market opera-tions aim to maintain the rice price within the required range or at Rp8,300 per kilogram (kg) in the market.

Amran added that the rice distributed by Bulog is of medium and premium grade. “We distribute medium to premium grade rice, with the price ranging between Rp7,500 and Rp8,300 per kg in the market to the end users,” added Amran. (ant)

JAKARTA - Head of the Capital Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Franky Sibarani said realization of investment project overshot the target of Rp519.5 trillion in 2015

“Total investment is certain to reach around Rp540 trillion exceeding the target,” Franky said in Cikarang, West Java on Thursday.

He said in the last quarter of 2015, investment soared beyond expectation.

Despite the healthy performance in 2015, BKPM would not change its investment target of Rp594.8 trillion for 2016, he said.

“We never revise target as investment climate globally includ-ing Indonesia is still fragile. We would see in the first quarter of 2016,” he said.

Based on data at BKPM investment in the first nine months of 2015 totaled Rp400 trillion, up 16.7 percent from Rp342 trillion in the same period in 2014, or 77 percent of the target in 2015.

Domestic investment made up Rp133.2 trillion of the invest-ment realization in the January-September period with foreign investment accounting for Rp266.8 trillion.

Strong growth was recorded for both domestic and foreign investment in the first nine months of 2015. (ant)

In 2015Target overshot in investment

Rice stock sufficient until grand harvest

Fishery ministry prioritizes curbing destructive fishingJAKARTA - The maritime affairs and fisheries ministry will

focus on dealing with destructive fishing practices across the Indonesian waters in 2016.

From Seoul to Washington, Beijing to the United Nations, world powers are looking at ways to punish Pyongyang for the test of what it called a new and powerful hydrogen bomb.

The loudspeaker broadcasts, which will start Friday, believed to be the birthday of young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are certain to infuriate authoritarian Pyongyang because they are meant to raise questions in North Korean minds about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family. South Korea stopped earlier broadcasts after it agreed with Pyongyang in late August on a package of measures aimed at easing animosities that had the rivals threatening war.

Experts, meanwhile, are trying to uncover more details about the detonation that drew worldwide skepticism and condemnation.

It may take weeks or longer to confirm or refute the North’s claim that it successfully tested a hydro-gen bomb, which would mark a major and unanticipated advance for its still-limited nuclear arsenal. Even a test of an atomic bomb, a

less sophisticated and less powerful weapon, would push its scientists and engineers closer to their goal of building a nuclear warhead small enough to place on a missile that can reach the U.S. mainland.

Statements from the White House said President Barack Obama had spoken to South Korean Presi-dent Park Geun-Hye and to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. The statements said the countries “agreed to work together to forge a united and strong international response to North Korea’s latest reckless behavior.”

Obama reaffirmed the “unshake-able U.S. commitment” to the security of South Korea and Japan, according to the statements.

Park’s office said she also spoke with Abe over the phone and that they vowed cooperation to ensure that the U.N. Security Council im-poses strong and effective measures against the North.

South Korean and U.S. military leaders also discussed the deploy-ment of U.S. “strategic assets” in the wake of the North’s test, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said Thursday.

Ministry officials refused to elaborate about what U.S. military assets were under consideration, but they likely refer to B-52 bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and nuclear-powered submarines.

When animosities sharply rose in the spring of 2013 following North Korea’s third nuclear test, the U.S. took the unusual step of send-ing its most powerful warplanes — B-2 stealth bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and B-52 bombers — to drills with South Korea in a show of force. B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency session and pledged to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea, saying its test was a ‘clear violation’ of previous U.N. resolutions.

Four rounds of U.N. sanctions have aimed at reining in the North’s nuclear and missile development programs, but Pyongyang has ignored them and moved ahead to modernize its ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.

When Seoul briefly restarted the loudspeaker broadcasts in August for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for land mine blasts blamed on Pyongyang that maimed two South Korean soldiers, the North threatened to attack the South. (ap)

PARIS — French President Francois Hollande says what he calls a “terrorist threat” will con-tinue to weigh on the country, which was struck a year ago by Islamic extremists.

On Jan. 7, 2015, two French-born brothers killed 11 people in-side the building where the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo operated, as well as a Muslim policeman outside. Over the next two days, an accomplice shot a policewoman to death and then stormed a kosher supermarket, killing four hostages. All three gunmen died.

In a speech to police forces charged with protecting the country against new attacks, Hollande said the government was passing new laws and ramping up security, but the threat remained high.

Hollande especially called for better surveillance of “radicalized” citizens who have joined Islamic State or other militant groups in Syria and Iraq when they return to France. “We must be able to force these people —and only these people— to fulfill certain obliga-tions and if necessary to put them under house arrest ... because they are dangerous,” he said.

Three police officers were among the 17 dead in the attacks last Janu-ary, which ended after two days of bloodshed in the Paris region. Hol-lande said officers die in the line of duty “so that we can live free.”

Following the January at-tacks, the government announced

it planned to give police better equipment and to hire more intel-ligence agents. France has been on high alert ever since, and was struck again Nov. 13 by extremists dispatched by the Islamic State group.

Survivors of the January attacks, meanwhile, are continuing to speak out. Cartoonist Laurent Sourisseau, the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo who is known as Riss, told France Inter radio “security is a new ex-pense for the newspaper budget.”

“This past year we’ve had to in-vest nearly 2 million euros to secure our office, which is an enormous sum,” he said. “We have to spend hundreds of thousands on surveil-lance of our offices, which wasn’t previously in Charlie’s budget, but we had an obligation so that employ-ees feel safe and can work safely.”

After the attacks, people around the world embraced the expres-sion “Je suis Charlie” to express solidarity with the slain journalists, targeted for the paper’s caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

“It’s a phrase that was used dur-ing the march as a sign of emotion or resistance to terrorism,” Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Corinne Rey — known as Coco — told France Inter radio. “And little by little, I realized that ‘I am Charlie’ was misused for so many things. And now I don’t really know what it means.” France remains under a state of emergency after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. (ap)

BANGKOK — Thai officials say the prime minister has ordered a ban on the registration of new double-decker buses as part of a bid to curb traffic accidents and road fatalities.

The order from Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha came after the New Year’s holiday, also known in Thailand as the “Seven Dangerous Days,” ended with the highest num-

ber of road deaths in five years.Motorcycle and car accidents

left 380 people dead from Dec. 29-Jan. 4, despite a crackdown on drunken drivers.

Thailand has the second-highest traffic fatality rate in the world, ac-cording to a 2013 survey done for the World Health Organization.

In addition to the registration

restrictions, new measures to curb road deaths include installing GPS systems in all public buses so reckless drivers can be monitored. (ap)

Thailand takes aim at double-decker buses to cut road deaths

A South Korean police officer, right, extin-guishes flames as protesters burn an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally against North Korea’s an-nouncement that it had tested a hydrogen bomb, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

South Korea announces start of anti-North

propaganda broadcastsSEOUL — In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test,

South Korea on Thursday announced it would resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with Washington that could see the arrival of nuclear-powered U.S. submarines and warplanes to the Korean Peninsula.

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French President Francois Hollande delivers his New Year’s speech to police forces charged with protecting the country against new attacks, at the Paris’s police headquarters, Thurs-day Jan. 7, 2016, one year after the attack targeting the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Hollande: Threat continues year after

attacks in France

NEW YORK — Macy’s is slashing jobs, a harbinger of hard times for retailers after a holiday season that saw a noticeable shift to online shopping and away from physical stores.

The nation’s largest department store chain, which also operates Bloomingdale’s, said late Wednes-day it is cutting up to 4,800 jobs and trimming its profit outlook after a miserable holiday season.

“I think Macy’s is likely to be a canary in a coal mine,” said Ken Perkins, president of Retail Metrics, a retail research firm. He said retail-ers witnessed an acceleration of the shift toward online and mobile holiday spending in 2015.

About 2,110 of the job cuts at Macy’s will come from reducing staffing at stores, eliminating du-plications in back-office operations and consolidating regional store groups. The remaining 2,710 job cuts will come from the store clos-ings that Macy’s announced last fall, spokesman Jim Sluzewski said.

As of Wednesday, Macy’s had about 163,000 workers.

The moves are part of Macy’s ongoing campaign to position itself to compete in a retail world where increasingly demanding shoppers are going back and forth between stores and their mobile devices. Analysts expect more retailers to announce they’re shrinking their store counts further and making other moves to make their organiza-

tions leaner.With store traffic down, stores

had to discount more. Mother Nature also hurt holiday sales too, particularly at clothing stores. Unseasonably warm weather in some regions in the U.S. squelched shoppers’ demand for cold-weather goods. Perkins expects fourth-quarter earnings to increase a mea-ger 0.3 percent for the 119 retailers he tracks, compared with a 12.5 percent increase a year ago.

Macy’s, which has corporate of-fices in Cincinnati and New York, says sales at existing stores and ex-cluding licensed departments fell 5.2 percent in November and December. It said that the warm weather was the biggest culprit. That forced Macy’s to step up discounts to clear out mounds of merchandise. Business was also hurt by lower spending by international tourists.

But, like other retailers, Macy’s is also contending with broader changes in spending habits.

Macy’s had been a stellar per-former since the recession as it localized merchandise, cut costs and developed exclusive brands that set itself apart from others. But increasingly, Amazon.com and other online rivals are becoming a threat. It also has acknowledged that customers are spending more of their money on experiences like eating out and spas, instead of on clothing. And when they do buy fashions, they are more likely to buy name brands at fat discounts at

such stores like T.J. Maxx.“In some cases, there will be

short-term pain as we tighten our belt and realign our resources,”

said Terry J. Lundgren, chairman and chief executive at Macy’s Inc. in a statement. “But our eye is on a long-term vision of Macy’s Inc.

as a dynamic retailer that serves existing customers and acquires new ones through innovative ap-proaches.” (ap)

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The benchmark Shanghai Com-posite Index tumbled 7.3 percent to 3,115.89 before new “circuit breakers” suspended trading for the day. The smaller Shenzhen Com-posite Index slumped 8.3 percent to 1,955.88.

Government measures intro-duced last year to prop up share prices after a meltdown in June are being gradually withdrawn while investors are also unnerved by pos-sible signs China’s economy is in worse condition than thought.

“The sell-off in Chinese equi-ties we have seen this week only emphasizes the point that the stock market intervention may have only delayed the sell-off,” said Angus Nicholson, market analyst at IG in Melbourne, Australia.

Chinese stock trading was also suspended on Monday after a plunge that roiled Wall Street and other global markets.

The Shanghai benchmark has dropped 12 percent so far this year, which is barely a week old. Thurs-

day’s market plunge may have been exacerbated by investors rushing to sell before they were locked out, some analysts said.

The circuit breakers trip when there are big swings in the CSI 300 index. Trading halted temporarily barely 14 minutes into the morn-ing session when stocks plunged 5 percent. When trading resumed 15 minutes later, stocks plunged further, falling more than the 7 percent limit that triggers a daylong trading freeze.

“There was some apparent panic selling with investors trying to reduce exposure before the manda-tory triggers entered into effect,” said Gerry Alfonso, trading head

at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities in Beijing.

“Sentiment seems to be rather fragile at the moment as the soft macroeconomic environment to-gether with the fear of not being able to sell during a market correc-tion causing some anxiety among investors,” he wrote in a note to clients. Nicholson said, “It’s dif-ficult to see the circuit-breakers surviving long in their current form, given they only seem to be further contributing to the volatility in the Chinese market.”

The latest slump comes after China’s government guided the yuan sharply lower, in a sign that authorities are prepared to weaken

the tightly controlled currency to boost flagging exports. The yuan rate was set Thursday morning at 6.5646 to the U.S. dollar, the weak-est in nearly five years, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing data from the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.

Among other Asian stock mar-kets, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 2.3 percent to 17,771.97 and South Korea’s Kospi lost 0.9 percent to 1,907.32. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 2.8 percent to 20,401.54 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 retreated 2.2 percent to 5,010.30. Benchmarks in Taiwan, New Zealand and Southeast Asia also fell. (ap)

Asian stocks fall as China halted after market plunge

HONG KONG — Chinese stocks nosedived on Thursday, triggering the second daylong trading halt of the week and send-ing share markets, currencies and oil prices lower as investor jitters rippled across Asia.

Job cuts at Macy’s signal hard times ahead for retailers

AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File

In this July 10, 2015, file photo, shoppers walk into a Macy’s department store at the Hanover Mall in Hanover, Mass. Macy’s is cutting up to about 4,800 jobs after disappointing holiday sales. The company also listed Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, which 40 stores it would close.

BANGLI - Recent heavy rains in Bangli have increased the damage of paddy field at Subak Aya Kawan, Bangli. In fact the water irrigation pipeline is in danger of breaking off. As a result of the condition of this subak, farmers downstream are distraught.

On Wednesday (Jan. 6), two dif-ferent parts of the paddy field could be seen to be suffering damage over areas of some 5 square meters. Some of the land in the area also looks cracked. The irrigation pipelines originally that was originally installed

on the ground, i now floating freely and could break off at any time.

Chief of Subak Aya Kawan, I Nengah Murjana, said that because the irrigation channels were clogged with rubbish, after the heavy rainfalls at the end of 2015, water overflowed. “The water flow was considerable and caused about 100 swqaure meters of the paddy field to collapse. The pipelines that was installed last year is also in danger of becoming discon-nected,” he said.

This middle-aged farmer also said that he was worried about the possi-

bility of subsequent collapses of the paddy walls. Farmers downstream are therefor thinking twice before planting their rice. “They are afraid that if the pipeline breaks that their newly planted paddy plants will be drowned,” he explained.

Murjana hopes that a sewer can be created in the irrigation channel upstream. “A sewer would allow the flow of water, during heavy rain, to be controlled,” he said.

Head of the Bangli Public Works Agency, I.B. Wediatmika, explained that sturdies need to be made, before a

sewer can be installed. “The broken-down irrigation channel had improve-ment shade to it just last year. If we provide them with more assistance this year, then other proposed projects will be delayed. It needs to be studied first, if in fact the request is approved, the funds will be allocated out of the amended budget,” he explained.

Mediatmika also explained that dealing with the blocked irrigation channel is not just the responsibility of the government. Farmers also share the obligation of maintaining the cleanness of the irrigation chan-

nels. “To prevent the channel from getting clogged, farmers and others need to keep the channels free of garbage, and not expect the govern-ment to deal with such matters,” he concluded.

The paddy fields began to break down in the middle of 2014 causing a break in the channel. At the time 7 hectares remianed unable to grow rice for three planting seasons. In order for farmers to continue to earn a living, they instead planted their rice fields with other crops such as corn, soybeans and peanuts. (kmb45)

Wayan Raka, one of the mer-chants at the Sukawati public market, claimed to have not received certain information if the revitalization plan of the Sukawati art market will be expanded to the area of the public market. “Indeed there is a lot of confusing information, saying if the public market will be refurbished.

The latest information told that we are going to be evicted as the land of this market will also be made for the art market expansion,” he said when met on Wednesday (Jan. 6).

Of all the information, he asserted to have not received any certain in-formation from the Sukawati public market chief or the government of

Gianyar. But this man selling grocer-ies did not dismiss if this time he and other merchants are uneasy because they do not get clarity of information. “We all here worry if we are evicted, how about our stuff? If we will be re-ally evicted where we will be moved because, in my mind, there is no ap-propriate location like this market,” he complained.

Similar opinion was delivered by another merchant of Sukawati public market, Ni Nyoman Yani. She said that so far all the merchants have not received certainty about the contract extension of the public market ending in 2015. “I cannot give more com-ments. Obviously, so far our contract at this public market has not been

extended. Besides, we have not got clarity in this regard,” she said.

The Head of the Gianyar In-dustry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, said that the revitalization plan of the Sukawati art market will be definitely realized this year. Next Monday (Jan. 11), he will be going to Jakarta to receive the regulation of the Minister of Trade No. 114 /M-DAG/PER/12/2015. “Everything has been signed by the Minister of Trade with a budget allocation of IDR 60 billion dated December 23. Well, next Mon-day we are asked to Jakarta to receive the regulation,” he said

Suamba explained that after re-ceiving the ministerial regulation, his agency will conduct face-to-face

meeting with all the components of customary village to merchants at Sukawati art market and public market. “Maximally next week, after getting the ministerial regulation, we will immediately provide a briefing for all the components related to this revitalization plan,” he promised.

He added that one of the important topics to be discussed in the meet-ing is the location for the temporary relocation of merchants during the revitalization activities. “Here, we will decide together where will be the appropriate location, so that later on it will not result in unrest. Moreover, the ministerial regulation has been issued and the workmanship must be realized this year,” he concluded. (kmb35)

Impact of heavy rainsBroken-down wetland at Subak Aya Kawan expands

Revitalization of Sukawati art market in sight, merchants anxious

GIANYAR - Revitalization of the Sukawati art market is ascertained to be realized in 2016. It is known after the con-firmation of budget worth IDR 60 billion from the Ministry of Trade to refurbish the traditional market built in the 1970s. On the other hand, the merchants at Sukawati public market are now overshadowed by anxiety of being evicted because in the revitalization plan, the Sukawati art market area will be expanded to the public market.

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Sukawati Art Market

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Merkel, who last November marked a decade in office, starts 2016 facing renewed pressure from her own conser-vatives to reduce the influx of asylum seekers arriving in Germany, after a record inflow of over 1 million last year sapped their support.

“It is very important to me that we achieve both a noticeable reduction in the flow of refugees ... and at the same time preserve the free movement of people within the European Union,” she told reporters at a conference of her Bavarian allies, the CSU.

This free movement, which has resulted in 26 European countries abolishing inter-nal border controls within their ‘Schengen zone’, was “a motor for economic devel-opment and prosperity”, she said.

Germany’s northern neighbour Den-mark imposed temporary border checks on Monday, fearing that it would become the final destination for many refugees after Sweden put in place controls to stop them moving further north.

Merkel was named Person of the Year by both Time magazine and the Financial Times after opening Ger-many’s borders to refugees in August, but the resulting wave of migrants has stretched its resources and unnerved many citizens.

DROP IN SUPPORTThe Interior Ministry said on Wednes-

day that a record 476,000 migrants ap-plied for asylum last year, with the ap-

plications of another 600,000 registered migrants yet to be collected.

Despite vowing last month to reduce the numbers, Merkel is under pressure from the Christian Social Union (CSU), Bavarian sister party of her Christian Democrats (CDU), to do more. CSU leader Horst Seehofer has demanded a cap of 200,000 migrants a year.

The conservatives have been alarmed by a drop in their support from around 43 percent in mid-August to a three-year low of 36 percent in October and November. Support has begun picking up as Merkel has sought to stem the inflow.

Last October, she offered to help Tur-key’s bid to join the European Union in return for cooperation in stemming the flow of migrants and taking back those rejected by Europe. However, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday that a drop in arrivals in December was due to rough seas, not ef-forts by Turkey to prevent departures.

Merkel has resisted calls from some conservatives to close Germany’s bor-ders or cap the number of arrivals, many of whom are fleeing war in the Middle East or Afghanistan.

She argues the influx must be tackled outside Germany, through negotiations to resolve the war in Syria, by encour-aging Turkey to improve conditions for refugees there, and by convincing European partners to accept quotas of asylum seekers.(rtr)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Norway’s foreign minister visited Sri Lanka on Thursday in a sign of reviving relations since a peace deal brokered by the Nordic country failed to end a civil war.

Borge Brende’s visit is the first by a Norwegian foreign minister to Sri Lanka since 2005, when Norway was trying to hold together a fragile cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and the now-defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.

Relations soured after the cease-fire collapsed in 2006 and Sri Lanka’s then-government accused Norway of favoring the rebels. Sri Lankan troops crushed the rebels three years later.

With the election defeat last year of Sri Lanka’s hard-line President Ma-hinda Rajapaksa, the new government has sought to mend relations with Western nations that had criticized Sri Lanka’s human-rights situation during and after the civil war.

Sri Lanka has told the U.N. human rights council that it would investigate war crimes allegations against government troops and Tamil rebels.

“You are coming to Sri Lanka at a time when Sri Lanka is trying to come to terms with its past and to forge ahead,” Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera told Brende after a meeting Thursday.

“The domestic mechanisms through which we are trying to address this past are in the process of being developed and the consultation process to design these mechanisms will begin next week,” he said.

Brede is also scheduled to meet President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and participate in a business forum. (ap)

Merkel wants to stem refugee flow but keep EU borders open

WILDBAD KREUTH - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she wanted to stem the flow of refugees into the European Union while at the same time keeping open borders within the bloc, days after Denmark imposed passport checks on people entering from Germany.

REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

A little migrant girl cries as she wait to get on the train to Serbia, at the transit camp on the Macedonia-Greece border near Gevgelija January 6, 2016.

Norway’s foreign minister visits Sri Lanka to revive ties

AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena

Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende speaks to journalists after his meeting with Sri Lankan foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

MANGUPURA - Members of the Kuta customary village com-munity went to Badung Maritime Affairs and Fisheries office on Wednesday (Jan. 6). Led by the chief of Kuta customary village, Wayan Suarsa, the villagers came to the government office to resolve a dispute regarding the coastal area of Jerman which is now occuried by the Holiday Inn Resort Baruna.

During the meeting it was re-vealed that the newly worked on land was formerly an eroded land. Thus,all that remained was a cer-tificate, without any actual land. The customary village therefor, was planning on restoring the land by

installing a revetment. “At that time, the hotel manage-

ment had been willing to allow the reclamation as indicated in a writ-ten agreement. But somehow, after the reclamation was completed the hotel claimed the land again,” said Chief of Kuta customary village, Wayan Suarsa.

The attitude of the hotel inves-tor, he said, made Kuta residents furious. Depsite they fury, they have refrained from taking anar-chical action for the sake of the comfort and security of the area, particularly because tourism very much depends on security. “We are always open for opportunities

for reaching the best solution for everyone. However we have not received a very good response from the hotel owner. Until now, we had never considered the owner as an enemy, but rather as part of the Kuta customary village,” said Suarsa.

Nyoman Graha Wicaksana, one of the Kuta community representa-tives who participated in the meet-ing, threatened to occupy the hotel if the owner remained adamant in his position. “If we at customary village are not shown some appre-ciation, our youth will occupy the Holiday Inn Hotel,” he said.

Wicaksana considers that the

violation of the agreement shows that the hotel owner does not appreciate the Kuta customary village. “We do not want our cus-tomary village to be trampled on, if there is no other choice we will do it (mass mobilization—Ed)” he said.

Unfortunately, no decision could be reached during the meeting, because the hotel had not sent a representative to discuss the matter. Hotel management was represented by Bagus Wicakson, claimed that the land belongs to the hotel. “We would not make such a claim if there was no basis for it. We speak based on data,” he said while confirming

that the capacity of his presence was just to give an explanations, not to make any decisions.

Chairman of Commission I of the Badung House of Representa-tives, Nyoman Dirga Yusa, was fu-rious about Wicakson’s statement. “Actually, the customary village was open to finding a solution, but why didn’t the hotel owner not pres-ent himself?” he said.

Head of the Badung Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Made Badra, requested that the working unit of the Bali-Penida River Agency work towards coming to some kind of agreement in order to clarify the problems. (kmb27)

At first glance, it looked like the passing children were going to school as usual. Some of them were accompanied by their par-ents. It was at this moment that my a desire arose in me, to know more about one child that attends the School for the Disabled (SLBN), Bangli. What activities do they do at school?

Armed with that question, this body moved towards the location of the school. After parking my bicycle on the roadside, that leads to Tembuku, my legs con-tinued to walk into the school. A security guard approached and greeted me with a friendly look, he immediately permitted me to meet with Principal Made Sudarma. The principle and I became involved in an amicable conversation.

After a few minutes, the sound “tak...tok...tak...tok” came from the southern end of the school. My cu-riosity arose: ‘what is that sound?’ I asked. The Principal explained that the noise was coming from the beat-ing of the loom being operated the SLB students. Hearing the answer, my curiosity only grew.

As I approached the looms, a number of young girls were strug-gling with thousands of strands

of yarn. Without shame and feel-ing like there were no flaws, they patiently combined the threads to produce pieces of fabric.

Tiny hands looked like they were good at moving the tools and the beating of their legs was very harmonious. The scene was very interesting to behold.

Weaving -that is usually done by women, also drew the interest of some the boys at school who tried their hand. His ability was not in doubt even though weaving his not an easy job. Sometimes errors are made in the process. However, this does not deter the children from learning. Using sign language, they call the teacher over to ask for guidance.

In order to be able to weave, chil-dren wait patiently for their turn to practice. They are willing to share the chance to experience weave, even though they only weave for a moment at a time. There is no sign of regret on their faces.The physical disadvantages of these children was erased by their carefree laughter and passion for learning.

Principle Sudarma explained that the weaving training program was initiated two years ago and that most of the participants are deaf and/or mute junior and senior high

school students. “Young people these days, rarely know how to weave. We are showing that just because these children cannot hear - they are no less superior than hear-ing children,” he said.

In addition to providing skills for students, the program is also a way to maintain and preserve this cultural heritage that has existed since ancient times. “Nowadays, people prefer to be buyers. But if possible, it is better to make your own, it also maintains this cultural

heritage,” he said.A similar opinion was also ex-

pressed by weaving coach, Agung Anggreni. It is rare to have weaving classes in schools of disabled chil-dren. The teaching process requires a lot of patience and teaching meth-ods are different than for hearing children. “We must teach them patiently, but I am happy. They can also participate in preserving culture,” said Anggreni.

Anggreni added that the woven fabrics produced by the students

are not only used to decorate the school, but also are sold to several different areas. Some of them are taken to exhibitions organized by the local government. “The woven fabrics made by our children are often involved in exhibitions. Some of them are bought by tourists,” she added.

In addition to weaving, the Bangli School for the Disabled also teaches a number of other skills, such as painting, sewing and carv-ing. (sos)

Coastal area claimed by hotelKuta customary village goes to Badung Maritime Affairs

A story of deaf students

Learning to weave, preserving cultural heritage

AS THE SUN began to shine reddish on the eastern horizon on Wednesday (Jan 6), this body of mine rushed to wake from a sound sleep. After a brief pause the desire to know what the day would bring emerged. The iron horse (bicycle) leaning against the wall was soon ridden to go explore the bustle of the town. After a short walk, enjoying the cool air, a feeling of confusion came back to haunt me: “what to look for?”, I asked myself.

IBP/Sosiawan

Weaving activities done by the students of School for the Disabled (SLBN), Bangli

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“It’s something that was done when I worked in Paris for C h r i s t i a n L a c r o i x , ” Copping said in a backstage interview. “And I think it’s nice to

bring a little of that Parisian way of things here to New York. I think it makes the house stand alone, and that’s important these days.”

Also, the flower fit in with the show’s Hispanic theme. “This is the flower that gets thrown to the bullfighters in the bullring,” Cop-ping noted.

The designer said he drew inspi-ration for his show at the Hispanic

Society of America in Harlem, where he viewed paintings and textiles that he knew de la Renta, who died in October 2014, would have loved.

Hispanic culture was “obvi-ously something that was very close to Oscar’s heart, and I just

really wanted to think about things that Oscar was passionate about,” Copping said.

There was a carnation print in the collection — in red and white — and the colors of ruby and black were prominent, along with bottle green, saffron and seafoam, among others. Copping did not stint on the intricate embroidery and fabric work — especially with lace — that his predecessor was famous for.

The designer did introduce one thing, though, that was totally new for the house: the Spanish espa-drille, a casual shoe that Copping paired with some quite elaborate dresses.

“I thought that would give the whole collection a different twist, just to have the espadrille, which is THE Spanish shoe,” Copping said. “I just thought it would be younger and fresher.” (ap)

Carnations and espadrilles at Oscar de la Renta

The Oscar de la Renta Spring 2016 collection is modeled

during Fash-ion Week Tuesday, Sept. 15,

2015, in New York.

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NEW YORK - Guests entering the Oscar de la Renta show were pleasantly surprised to find a single red carnation on their seats. For designer Peter Copping, who was presenting only his second collection as the company’s artistic director, it was a Parisian tradition that was worth bringing to New York.

DENPASAR - Chinese consul general in Bali Hu Yin Quan has invited Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika to attend an interna-tional forum “Boao Forum For Asia” which will be held in Hainan Province on March 23 and 24, 2016.

Quan during his meeting with Governor Pastika here on Wednes-day said, Made Mangku Pastika is the only governor of Indonesia who is invited to attend the international forum.

“This is because the relationship between the two provinces (Hainan in Bali) is already well established,” Guan pointed out.

According to Quan, in the forum, there will be a meeting of governors throughout China and some governors of other countries who have cooperated with Hainan Province.

In the meantime, Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika expressed his appreciation to Chinese consul general and hoped that he will be able to attend the forum. (ant)

Being frustrated with the atti-tude of the hotelier, residents then complained to local parliament. A member of Commission II of the Buleleng House of Representatives came down to inspect the location, Tuesday (Jan. 5). Entourage of the people’s representatives was led by Chairman of Commission II, Putu Mangku Budiasa.

As observation at the scene, the House found the concrete installation is jutting into the sea at a distance of about 10 meters from mainland. The height of the revetment from the south is estimated to reach five meters and then the revetment to the north is deliberately made lower. Although the revetment in the north side is made lower, it hampers the access of fishermen crossing the shore. Bound-ary of the sea sand overlay with main-land of the hotel area is backfilled with soil. The backfilled soil looking higher than the sand thickness is then fitted with a fence made of concrete mix. Inevitably, the coastal area is like being on a plot and the access from the west to east or vice versa is hampered by the concrete revetment standing firmly.

Chairman of Commission II,

Putu Mangku Budiasa, amid the inspection said that the revetment installation jutting into the sea indi-cates if it has violated the provisions of coastal borderline. In addition, he assessed the concrete revetment installation makes fishermen dif-ficult to do their daily activities. Before the concrete revetment was installed, fishermen on the west and the east of the hotel frequently cross when going fishing out to sea. Now, the revetment makes farmers quite difficult to do their activities. Besides, the environmental impact of the revetment installation has caused heavy sea current that ends in abrasion in the west of the hotel. Some fishermen’s houses have been eroded by the pounding waves.

Local residents have put up dikes by stacking sand bags in front of their house. In addition, there are people installing permanent con-crete to block waves by using per-sonal fund. “After we observe, the installation of concrete revetment indicates a violation of coastal bor-derline. We also receive complaints from residents that the installation of concrete revetment has kindled heavy ocean currents to the west

and abrasion,” he said.Responding to the condition, this

PDI-P politician from Selat village, Sukasada, requested the hotelier to comply with the rules before build-ing. The concrete revetment disturb-ing public facilities and generating environmental impact in the sur-roundings is asked to be dismantled. If this is not heeded, the House threatened to instruct judiciary team of Buleleng district to take decisive action in accordance with the exist-ing rules. “We ask to dismantle the concrete revetment. Otherwise, we will order the judiciary team to fol-low up this case,” he said.

Responding to arrival of the parliament, the hotelier, Gede Adi Artana Wisaya, quibbled not to know if there are rules about the construction on the coast. The concrete revetment was installed to prevent abrasion in front of his hotel. It is functioned as levees to hold back the swift pound-ing waves, especially during bad weather condition.

However, since the revetment is considered to violate the rules and have environmental impacts, he promised to be ready to dismantle the concrete revetment. “Previ-ously, the waves were ferocious. Without the concrete revetment, the land in front of the hotel may have been abraded. If the concrete revetment breaks the rules, we are ready to dismantle and restore it,” he said. (kmb38)

NEGARA - Fuel prices began to decrease on Tuesday (Jan. 5). However, the decline in fuel prices did not affect the tariff of public transport in Jembrana district. As observation at Negara terminal, the tariff of intercity transport and rural transport remains unchanged.

For tariff of public transport from Gilimanuk to Denpasar, the drivers in Jembrana still set at IDR 45,000. Then, Gilimanuk-Negara terminal comes to IDR 12,000, while the tariffs of rural transport from Negara terminal-Pekutatan is IDR10,000 and Negara terminal to Yehembang remains IDR 8,000.

Such unchanged public transport tariff, according to some trans-port drivers, happens because the absence of relevant circular from the Organization of Land Transportation (Organda) regarding the tariff adjustment after the decline in fuel prices.

Besides, the slight decline in fuel prices is considered to have insignificant impact on the welfare of the transport drivers. Like-wise, the government policies to decrease fuel prices do not have significant impact on petrol station operators and community of Jembrana.

Iskandar Alfan, a manager of one of the petrol stations in Negara, said that the fuel prices at petrol station began to decrease since 00:00 a.m. He detailed the price decrease varied pursuant to fuel type, such as Premium decreased IDR 350 from IDR 7,400 to IDR 7,050 and diesel/bio-diesel decreased IDR 1,050 from IDR 6,700 to IDR 5,650. Then, Pertamax decreased IDR 150 from IDR 8,850 to IDR 8,700 and Pertalite decreased IDR 350 from IDR 8,250 to IDR 7,900. With the price decrease, he said, there was no effect on fuel sales and the number of consumers remains on any other day.

As his observation from the morning, there is no queue. He ad-mitted that even though it has not impact, on the day before he was trying to maintain the availability of fuel stocks. One of the intercity public transport (AKDP) drivers, I Gede Merta, 46, from Baluk Jati hamlet, Negara, said that he did not feel significant impact from the decline in fuel prices. Although the fuel price has decreased, the amount of passengers remains quiet. He remained difficult to get IDR 50,000 deposit each day.

For the public transport driven, he said the daily diesel expense averagely reaches IDR 80,000 to IDR 100,000 depending on the number of passengers acquired. Gede Suyadnya, another AKDP driver told that he did not dare to bring down the tariff because there is no circular from the Organda leadership. “As a driver, we do not dare to reduce the tariff,” he explained.

A local resident, Gusti Kade Arimbawa, also stated that fuel price decrease has no impact. “When purchasing 10 liters of fuel, we can get a discount of IDR 1,500 and purchasing 20 liters we get discount of IDR 3,000. How can we reduce the tariff with this condition?” he questioned. (kmb)

Fuel prices down, tariff of public

transport unchanged

Chinese Consul General invites Bali Governor to

international forum

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A number of fishermen at Dharmayasa hamlet, Tukadmungga, Buleleng, recently complained because the coastal access in the area is hampered by concrete revetment. Allegedly the concrete revetment was installed by hotelier in the local area.

Hotelier installs concrete jutting into the sea

SINGARAJA - A number of fishermen at Dharmayasa ham-let, Tukadmungga, Buleleng, recently complained because the coastal access in the area is hampered by concrete revetment. Allegedly the concrete revetment was installed by hotelier in the local area. Other than disrupting the access of residents, it also juts into the sea and results in severe coastal abrasion west of the hotel.

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

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

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

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

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G I A N yA r - D’green Keramas Park and Education located in Gianyar Regency. Visitors can doing so many things in this park. Visitors can play in

pools, doing flying fox, high rope climb-ing, wood climbing, ride an ATV, and doing paintball combat.

According to Assistant Manager of Kera-

mas Park, Putu Dian Anggreni, the concept of Keramas Park is to make people happy and having fun in the park. She explained, visitors can choose indoor or outdoor playground. “We focus on green education and fun educa-tion,” she said during an interview with Bali Channel Tourist TV (Bali TV).

Dian said besides fun facili-ties, Keramas Park also offers several classes for those who want to learn about Bali. There are yoga class, making offerings

class, and making Balinese cakes. In the making offerings’ class you can learn about Hindu’s offering. This class is favourite among foreign tourists who visit this park. Another favourite class for foreigner is mak-ing Balinese cakes.

According to one of visitors from USA, Mira, the Keramas Park is super fun. She admitted that she learnt many things in this park by joining some activities, such as making offerings, Balinese cakes, and doing ritual activities.

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D’green Keramas Park and EducationHe added however that board-

ing are not necessarily ‘nests’ of drug abuse, but that keeping an eye on such habitations is a preventive measure being taken based on the fact that drug syn-dicates, do in fact often use such domiciles as location for their illicit activities. During a raid of an elite boarding house on Jalan Bedugul, Sidakarya, South Den-pasar a few days ago for example, two occupants were found to be using drugs.

“The elite boarding house was targeted for the raid because it was evaluated as being vulnerable to drug abuse due to the lack of supervision by the surrounding community. We are presently focusing on boarding houses, but later we will shift our focus to other locals,” he said.

Suputra expects boarding house

owners to support the intensive ef-forts of the BNNK Denpasar to eradicate drugs in this city. Being selective in who they rent rooms to and proactively monitoring activities are just two ways that they can help. “At the very least the identity of boarding house occupants needs to be recorded. In the last week’s raid, we also found 4 dorm rooms that were each occupied by 11 people,” he lamented.

BNNK Denpasar will con-tinue to hold regular operations to combat drug trafficking, through prevention and the eradication of drug abuse (P4GN) -in line with the governments aim of rehabili-tating 100,000 drug addicts. “In order to combat the proliferation of drugs in Denpasar, we ask the public to play the very important role of keeping an eye out for any

suspicious activities - especially in boarding houses. Members of the public can serve as intel-ligence or informants and play a vital role in preventing drug abuse,” he affirmed.

Ranked fourthMeanwhile Jembarana, as

an inter-island border area, is especially vulnerable to drug trafficking. In fact, Jembrana is fourth after Denpasar, Badung and bulling in terms of being prone to narcotics use and trafficking. There have been ongoing efforts to combat the spread of narcotics into villages and schools.

Chief of the National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) Bali, Putu Gede Suastawa said that the public should be vigilant and regarding the pres-ence of drug trafficking in their midst and be aware that drugs can afflict people anywhere - include people living in remote villages.

A safe and comfortable atmo-sphere does not guarantee that there is no drug trafficking going on. Dealers will try anything to penetrate a new market - including introducing new types of drugs.

New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) are as thin as paper and can look like candy but: “when smoked it will give effect like crystal meth or ecstasy” explained Suastawa.

The public needs to be alert to the presence of NPS as they have been circulating in Bali. The drugs most commonly found on the island are: crystal meth, ecstasy heroin, morphine and paper-like NPS. One way to prevent people from becoming the victims of these drugs, is by providing education to communities, such as customary villages. That way peo-ple can protect themselves from drugs coming into Jembrana.

Chief of Jembrana Police Nar-cotic Unit, Nyoman Master, re-vealed that the number of drug disclosure cases, in Jembrana have indeed shown a marked increase over the last three years. Of the eight cases of drug addicts that where processed in Jembrana this year, six have been processed with two people in rehabilitation. Master also explained that, unlike arresting thieves, drug addicts need special handling. (rah/olo)

Suastawa also pointed to both land and sea as the lines of entry that are most vul-nerable to the transportation of drugs. “We are still facing certain obstacles in securing our borders. The harbour, for instance has so much cargo going through that it cannot all be checked manually,” he said.

The BNNP has therefor requested assistance from the BNN to acquire a crystal meth detector. This device, explained Suastawa, will make the search for crystal meth much easier. “When the device detects the presence of crystal meth, the luggage in question will then be searched manually -instead of conducting random searches. This would greatly facilitate the work of our personnel. If our proposal is rejected, we will appeal to the governor of Bali for assistance,” he said.

Suastawa insisted that the old meth-ods of investigating are no longer valid, given that the drug syndicates continue to come up with new ways of evading the law. Law enforcement officers need to be one step ahead of them. “Hope-fully, all the chiefs of the BNNP and BNNK can have access to drug detection devices,” said Suastawa.

Efforts to prevent drug use and traf-ficking in 2015, is considered to have been less than optimal as evidenced by the number of cases that were disclosed. If prevention efforts are successful, the number of disclosures should drop. “The Central BNN has allotted a special budget to BNNP Bali for them to work with customary villages in providing the public with information and briefings aimed at preventing the spread of drug use in Bali’s communities,” he said.

Former Chief of the BNNK Badung, Ni Made Asmiriwati, said that during her two years of service, it was not easy to rehabilitate drug addicts because it requires willingness on the part of the addicts, few of whom are aware or willing to check themselves into rehab centres. Clever technics are needed to draw addicts to the BNN.

“How can the family or the addicts come to us? Of the 65 people rehabili-tated in BNNK Badung this year, only 3 came of their own accord. Briefings on the dangers of drug use and other preven-tive, still need to be taken,” she said.

Asmiriwati said that she was espe-cially saddened to see a 13-year boy undergoing drug rehabilitation at BNNK Badung. Currently, the child is in the counselling process, and is still using drugs. “It is a shame to have him hos-pitalized because then he could not go to school. We need to be able to touch people’s hearts so that they care about this institution and become willing to get themselves out of the suffering that they experience using drugs,” said As-miriwati. (rah)

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Police showed evidence and drug trafficker during a raid in Bali Island. The Denpasar City National Narcotics Agency (BNNK) is becoming more and more focused on the increasing number of boarding houses springing up in the city. Drug trafficking, alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct and other criminal acts have been found to be flourishing in such places.

Fight drugs

Boarding houses get special attention

THE DENPASAr City National Narcotics Agency (BNNK) is becoming more and more focused on the increasing number of boarding houses springing up in the city. Drug trafficking, alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct and other criminal acts have been found to be flourishing in such places, revealed the Eradication Section Head of the BNNK Denpasar, Wayan Darmika Suputra, recently.

IBP/Wawan

Tourists walk along Legian area, Bali Island during their holiday. Drug trafficking will likely increase this year. One of the contributing factors is the estimated increase in the number of foreign and domestic tourists that will visit Bali.

DRUG trafficking will likely increase this year. One of the contributing factors is the estimated increase in the number of foreign and domestic tourists that will visit Bali. All members of the local community are therefor

being asked to introspect and those involved in the tourism industry in particular are encouraged

to keep an eye on tourists. “Bali’s tourism businesspeople need to participate in

keeping Bali free of drug abusers and traffickers. Please inform guests that they should not use drugs and that pros-ecutions of drug offenders is being intensified,” saidChief of the Provincial National Narcotic Agency (BNNP) Bali, Putu Gede Suastawa, after inaugurating Ni Ketut Masmini as Chief of BNNK Badung.

Suastawa confirmed that this year the BNNP will be focused on arresting drug traffickers and sniffing out il-licit goods syndicates. According to data obtained by the BNNP for 2015, indicates that drug trafficking in Bali is on the increase.

“Tourists bring with them the lifestyle that they are used to back home -this is beaching a phenomenon. The habits of big city dwellers form Java is also brought to Bali. So we need to act aggressively to prevent escalation and snuff out existing problems. Tourism is the largest contributing factor to the spread of drug trafficking which involves foreign and domestic visitors as well as local Balinese,” he said.

This former Director of the Bali Police Public Development underlined the fact that, currently drugs in Bali are supplied by syndicates from Jakarta, Central Java and Surabaya.

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NEW YORK - It was the glitzy, record-breaking show that launched some of the brightest entertain-ment careers in recent times, but as “American Idol” kicks off for a final season Wednesday, it is a star on the wane.

When the 15th series debuts on Fox it will rely in part on a cameo role from rap superstar Kanye West going through the motions of an audition to pull in the punters.

Tough competition, declining appetite among millennials for

live television and a new trend of signing a record deal after being discovered on YouTube means that the public has lost its taste for “American Idol.”

When the last winner of the fran-chise is crowned in April, it will be the end of what its magnetic host Ryan Seacrest optimistically calls “part of Americana” and “part of American history.”

A spin-off of popular British series “Pop Idol,” “American Idol” began in 2002 and pulled in record

audiences between 2003 and 2011, culminating in average viewing figures of 31.2 million in its 2005-06 heyday.

The format was simple: thou-sands of aspiring singers dreaming of stardom audition before a panel of celebrity judges, then fight to keep their places each week in a sing-off decided by a public vote.

TV talent shows date back to the mid-20th century. What was different was the promise of a recording contract and a new life

of stardom.“We had talent shows as far

back as the late 40s and early 50s,” says Dominic Caristi, professor of telecommunications at Ball State University.

“Talent competitions are not new. But what was new here, the show reinvigorated this idea that people could become a star.”

The first winner was Kelly Clarkson in 2002, a 20-year-old cocktail waitress from Texas at the time who went on to sell more than

10 million albums and win three Grammy Awards.

Carrie Underwood won season four in 2005, since selling nearly 60 million albums, and Jennifer Hudson, booted off the third sea-son, went on to win an Oscar and a Grammy as a singer and actress.

“We genuinely create super-stars,” said Simon Fuller, the British creator, in a clip ahead of the final season. “That’s the thing about American Idol that sets us apart.” (afp)

“The scientific community has been screaming out loud. Ninety-nine per cent of the scientific community is in agreement that man is contributing to (climate change),” DiCaprio told The Associated Press on the red carpet for his new film, “The Revenant” on Wednesday.

“The argument is over. Anyone that doesn’t believe that climate change is happening doesn’t believe in science,” said DiCaprio, who has remained an active player for the issue.

The actor previously has addressed the United Nations on climate control, donated millions of dollars to environmental causes, and narrated the 2014 short film, “Carbon,” which presents ideas for climate change solu-tions. But after the U.N. Climate Conference in Paris, which ended last month, he feels world leaders are finally willing to address the issue more seriously.

“No one has the answer what the future is going to look like, and no one can foresee the dramatic effect that climate instability will have on our planet and the biodiversity in it, but I’m just very proud for the first time we’ve taken a step in the right direction,” Dicaprio said. (ap)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Actress Kerry Washington has been named woman of the year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Hasty Pudding, the nation’s oldest collegiate theatrical organization, announced Wednesday that it had selected Washington because she is a “talented and socially engaged film, TV and stage actress who keeps breaking barriers in Hollywood.”

Washington, the first black woman to headline a network TV drama since 1974 as crisis management specialist Olivia Pope on the hit show “Scandal,” has earned Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG Best Actress nomi-nations as well as an NAACP Image Award for Best Actress.

She will be given her pudding pot following a parade through Harvard Square and roast scheduled for Jan. 28.

Previous winners include Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, and Eliza-beth Taylor. Comedian Amy Poehler won last year. (ap)

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DiCaprio happy leaders taking climate change more seriously

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NEW YORK — Leonardo DiCaprio feels optimistic that the debate over climate change has begun to wane and world leaders are finally starting to take it more seriously.

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Under the deal signed with Ko-rea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Indonesia’s defence ministry will invest about 1.6 trillion won ($1.3 billion) in the Korean Fighter Ex-perimental (KF-X) programme.

The programme is aimed at pro-ducing new, homegrown fighter jets to replace the South’s aged fleet of F-4 and F-5 fighters imported from the US.

A consortium of KAI and the US

aerospace giant Lockheed Martin last March won a 8.6 trillion-won contract to provide 120 fighter jets to Seoul’s air force.

The investment from Indonesia will account for about one fifth of the total cost of the project, with up to 100 Indonesian workers taking part in development and produc-tion, KAI said in a statement.

Indonesia will be given one prototype plane and gain access to some technical data and infor-mation involving the project, it added.

The South Korean military plans to put the new fighter jets into service by 2025 to guard against threats from the nuclear-armed North Korea. (afp)

Indonesia, South Korea sign $1.3 billion fighter jet development deal

SEOUL - Indonesia signed a $1.3 billion deal with South Ko-rea Thursday to jointly develop Seoul’s next-generation fighter jets, the South’s aircraft manufacturer said.

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