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PAgE 8Actors Danny DeVito and

Rhea Perlman are separating after 30 years of marriage, DeVito’s spokes-man said on Monday.

Stan Rosenfeld said the pair had split but gave no details.

DeVito and Perlman married in 1982 and have three adult children. The duo, both known for playing characters

with sharp tongues, acted alongside each other in the 1978-82 TV comedy “Taxi,” in which she had a recurring role as his character’s girlfriend, and in the 1996 children’s film “Matilda.”

Perlman is best known for her role as sarcastic waitress Carla Tortelli in the 1980s hit comedy “Cheers,” for which she won four Emmy Awards.

DeVito, who won an Emmy for his turn as the despotic dispatcher in “Taxi,” currently stars in the FX comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”

The pair also founded TV and movie production company Jersey Films, whose titles include “Pulp Fiction” and “Erin Brockovich.”

“Parenthood,” is in its fourth season, and Ritter’s character, Mark, is engaged to Graham’s character, Sarah.

“I remember I was really nervous before I started working with her,” Ritter said in a recent interview. “You can fake liking each other and having a relation-ship but it’s very difficult for me. It’s much easier if you have some kind of ground level of just liking each other, and so I was really relieved when we got along, and it’s just been so fun and I feel like I’ve learned so much. She’s so fast and funny and I’m constantly just like trying to keep up with her.”

Ritter, 32, was introduced in the first season of “Parent-hood” for a three-episode arc. It was written that he would date Sarah but they would soon break up, but the show’s producers and writers were so impressed with Ritter’s performance, they kept writing him into episodes. He left to star in the 2010 TV drama “The Event,” but they brought him back after that show was canceled.

“They just kept on sort of bringing me back,” Rit-ter said. “First of all, I love working on that show so much. I have such a fun time, and it’s so exciting and inspiring to act opposite Lauren. She’s just so fun to work with and, plus, you know, in the second season, I was getting jealous of her other (‘Parenthood’) boy-friends.”

There’s a lot to keep up with working on “Parent-

hood.” Ritter says the actors are free to ad-lib or make changes to the dialogue. Sometimes the characters talk over each other just as people often do in real life.

“Because you don’t necessarily know what someone else is going to say, it keeps you on your toes and in the mo-ment because you can’t necessarily count on anything,” Ritter said.

Ritter says he’s not sure whether Mark’s relationship with Sarah will last or whether he’ll be around for the entire season.

He does have other work, voicing a

character on the Disney animated show “Gravity Falls.” He grew up loving car-toons and recalls his parents taking him to animation festivals. (His father is the late John Ritter, who played Jack Tripper on “Three’s Company.”)

“I really enjoyed ‘He-Man’ and ‘She-Ra: Princess of Power,’” he laughed. “’Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ was one that I would watch like before I would go to school in the morning, like eat break-fast and watch that. I also watched the entire Disney afternoon lineup. I think it was “TaleSpin,” ‘’DuckTales,” ‘’Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers” and “Darkwing Duck.” I watched all four of those. For two hours. When I got home.”

Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman split after 30-year marriage

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Jason Ritter raves about TV love, Lauren Graham

Jason ritter says working with Lauren Graham on NBc’s “Parent-hood” is “one of the greatest experiences” of his life.

REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

Actor Jason Ritter (R), his mother Nancy Morgan (2nd-R), his brother Tyler (L) and his sister Carly pose together at the 2012 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 15, 2012.

But an Associated Press analysis shows the number of strikes within the country has actually risen, es-pecially since 2010, when radical imams called on their followers to focus on domestic targets rather than Westerners. The more recent

attacks have been conducted with less expertise, and the vast majority of victims have been Indonesians.

“It turns out that the terrorism problem in Indonesia is not finished yet,” said Maj. Gen. Tito Karnavian, a former counterterrorism official

recently appointed police chief of Papua province. “The quality of their attacks has decreased, but the quantity has increased.”

Since Oct. 12, 2002, when the Bali attacks killed 202 people — including 88 Australians and seven Americans — four major terror strikes were targeted at Westerners in Indonesia, causing 45 deaths. The last was in 2009, when attacks on the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton ho-tels in Jakarta killed seven people.

That compares to 15 attacks against security forces, local au-

thorities, Christians and some moderate Muslims in just the past two years. Those attacks have killed a total of 11 people — all police officers — and wounded dozens of civilians.

Although the targets may have shifted, the recruitment methods are the same. Young men are indoc-trinated to believe that as jihadist “grooms” they will reap God’s rewards for martyrdom — para-dise for the bomber and 70 family members and the gift of 72 virgin angels. It’s a belief shunned by

most Muslims.Fadlan, a convicted militant

who goes by a single alias name, was trained to be a suicide bomber in 2001 by Jemaah Islamiyah, the al-Qaida-linked group that sent two other bombers to the Bali nightclubs on a busy Saturday night. He told AP that his mentor, Imam Samudra, one of the plot masterminds, deemed it too risky to use him in the attacks because he was already wanted for an earlier botched bombing.

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A flag with pictures of victims of the October 12, 2002 Bali bomb attack is displayed on a fence of the old Sari Club, three days before a commemoration ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the attack in the Kuta tourist area near Denpasar on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on October 9, 2012. The 2002 blast, blamed on the militant Jemaah Islamiyah network linked to Al-Qaeda, tore apart a busy nightclub strip on the resort island of Bali killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Decade after Bali

Indonesian terror aims at governmentAssociated Press

BALI — ten years after terrorist attacks at two Bali night-clubs killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists, Indonesia has won international praise for its counterterrorism efforts. Militant organizations have been fractured and many of their charismatic leaders have been killed or jailed.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for September 1 through October 17, 20121 Sep Saniscara Pon Dunggulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

2 Sep Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-BalubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung3 Sep Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin-GianyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu BulelengPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan.8 Sep Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan Pura Taman Pule Mas-UbudPura Ularan Takmung-KlungkungPura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan BangliPura Dalem TegehePura Dalem TahakPura Dalem BatuajiPura Dalem Tegaljaya-BatubulanPura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-SukawatiPura Dalem Guwang-SukawatiPura Sadha KapalPura Sakenan Sakenan SeranganPura Pekendungan Kediri-TabananPura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede TabananPura Dalem Sanding TampaksiringPura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk JakartaPura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-BangliMr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-DenpasarPura Agung Blambangan BanyuwangiPura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -KlungkungDesa Adat Munggu (Mekotekan) Mengwi-BadungPura Panti Paksebali-Klungkung (Perang Jempana)Pura Penataran Agung MargoweningDesa Balong garut Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur2 Oct Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg(Meru Tumpang Sanga) BesakihPura Hyang Tibha i Batuan Sakah3 Oct Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti TabananPura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.

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Chief Representative of Bank Indonesia of Region III Bali-Nusra, Dwi Pranoto, said that Bank Indonesia had been work-ing with relevant stakeholders to discipline the illegal money changers. One of the efforts was by organizing a raid to location together with the Integrated Coordination Team of PVA es-tablished by the Decree of the Badung Regent in 2002. The team consisted of the Badung Government (public order of-ficer), High Court, Badung Po-lice, association of Bali foreign exchange traders and headman of each village.

“In the raid, the team also made socialization on-the-spot regarding the licensing of foreign exchange trader and informed that submission of the operation-

al license to Bank Indonesia was completely free of charge,” said Dwi Pranoto, Tuesday (Oct 9).

According to him, after the raid and socialization, some illegal foreign exchange trad-ers had filed a formal opening of their central office to Bank Indonesia. The number of legal foreign exchange trader in Bali reached 132 companies with 416 branch offices. Therefore, they totally amounted to 548 legal of-fice networks across Bali. Central growth of this business occurred in Badung Regency reaching 70 percent.

“We will continue to coor-dinate with the Integrated Co-ordination Team of the foreign exchange traders and conduct socialization to the illegal ones regarding the mechanism of

licensing arrangement to mini-mize the information asymmetry that might occur in the field,” he explained.

Related to decline in turnover of legal foreign exchange traders due to the rampant illegal compa-nies, Dwi Pranoto judged it was not a major factor considering the capacity or capital of the illegal foreign exchange traders was generally quite small (between IDR 5 million to IDR 10 million) so that it was not possible to deal in large amount.

“There are other factors driv-ing the turnover of foreign ex-change traders to decline such as the increasingly integrated national and international bank-ing services, so that tourists can directly take cash through the ATMs,” he said. (kmb27)

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Construction of the Klungkung Traditional Market at Galiran is cur-

rently under progress handled by partner. The project spending the budget up to billions of rupiahs will become one of the sources to get the region-ally generated revenue for Klungkung Regency. On the other hand, the traditional market traders relocated to Galiran Terminal have started to feel anxious. Their anxiety was triggered by the ubiquitous minimarket networks growing in Klungkung.

“The market has not accomplished yet, the presence of minimarket in this situation makes us disadvantaged. The government should no longer issue licenses. If this continues to grow, we can go bankrupt,” said Nengah Wenten, one of the traders in Galiran Market.

Related to the issue, Secretary of Commission B of the Klungkung House, I Wayan Buda Parwata, said on Tuesday (Oct 9) that complaint of traders in the Galiran Market was very reasonable. Necessarily, the regent should issue a moratorium for the permit of minimarket networks. “If the regent really wants to save small traders in traditional markets, the Klungkung Regency must side with the smaller traders that have given contribution to the regionally generated revenue of Klungkung. One of the measures is by issuing a moratorium for the establishment of minimarkets,” he said.

He added that Bali Regional Bylaw No. 3/2012 on the Protection, Em-powerment and Development of Cooperatives, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, the Article 4 mentioned that government protected the SMEs by protecting traditional markets. Therefore, it should be further exam-ined, so that traditional market and small traders were well protected from the consequences of the proliferation of minimarket networks. Complaints of small traders peddling in traditional markets should be heard to create an economic balance in Klungkung.

“The regent of Buleleng and Jembrana has dared to issue a moratorium for the establishment of minimarket networks. Then, when is the turn of Klungkung Regent?” asked Buda. (kmb31)

IBP/File

A man is counting dollars at a bank. Currently, Indonesian Bank is paying attention on the illegal money changer.

BI pays attention to illegal money changers in BaliDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Bank Indonesia (BI) of region III Bali-Nusra paid a serious attention to the existence of illegal money changers or foreign exchange traders (PvA) operating in Bali. As a world’s tourist destination, the Bali Island became an oasis for such a business.

IBP/File

Tourist enjoy their time in Badung Market. The increasing number of modern markets make the traditional one suffer the most.

Besieged by minimarkets

Traditional market traders at risk of bankruptcy

3Thursday, October 11, 201214 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Thursday, October 11, 2012

ROSWELL — Plans for extreme athlete and skydiver Felix Baumgart-ner to make a death-defying, 23-mile free fall into the southeastern New Mexico desert were on hold Tuesday morning because of winds, but his team was still hoping the weather would clear in time to make the jump.

The 43-year-old former mili-tary parachutist from Austria planned to take off in a 55-story, ultra-thin and easy-to-tear helium balloon that would take him into the stratosphere for a jump that he hopes will make him the first skydiver to break the sound bar-rier and shatter three other world records.

Mission meteorologist Don Day said winds on the ground were an ideal 1 to 2 mph, but were 20 mph at the balloon-top level of 700 feet before sunrise.

“We need 3 mph or less at 800 feet,” Day said, putting the chance of a launch Tuesday at “50-50.”

After sunrise, Day said there were indications the upper level winds might calm, so the team pushed the launch window from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., noon at the latest. A final decision would have to be made about 9:30 as it takes about an hour and half to fill the balloon and get Baumgartner suited up and ready.

“We are going to stick it out for another couple of hours,” he said, adding, “We’ve got everyone here. We are going to wait and see if we can take advantage of it.”

If the launch, already delayed one day by a cold front, can’t go Tuesday, Day said the next try probably wouldn’t be until Thurs-day. In addition to the wind, he said, the team was having some issues with the GPS system.

The balloon had been scheduled to launch about 7 a.m. from a field near the airport in a flat dusty town that until now has been best known for a rumored 1947 UFO landing.

If the mission goes, Baumgartner will make a nearly three-hour ascent to 120,000 feet, then take a bunny-style hop from a pressurized capsule into a near-vacuum where there is barely any oxygen to begin what is expected to be the fastest, farthest free fall from the highest-ever manned balloon.

Baumgartner spent Monday at his hotel, mentally preparing for the dan-gerous feat with his parents, girlfriend and four close friends, his team said. He had a light dinner of salmon and a salad, then had a massage. He spent Tuesday morning resting in an Air-stream trailer near the launch site.

Among the risks: Any contact with the capsule on his exit could tear the pressurized suit. A rip could expose him to a lack of oxygen and tem-

peratures as low as 70 degrees below zero. It could cause potentially lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a condition known as “boiling blood.”

He could also spin out of control, causing other risky problems.

The energy drink maker Red Bull, which is sponsoring the feat, has been promoting a live Internet stream of the event at http://www.redbullstratos.com/live from nearly 30 cameras on the capsule, the ground and a helicop-ter. But organizers said there will be a 20-second delay in their broadcast of footage in case of a tragic accident.

Despite the dangers and ques-tionable wind forecast, high perfor-mance director Andy Walshe said the team was excited, not nervous. Baumgartner has made two practice jumps, one from 15 miles in March and another from 18 miles in July.

“With these big moments, you get a kind of sense that the energy changes,” he said Monday. “It really is just kind of a heightened energy. It keeps you on your toes. It’s not nervousness, it’s excitement.”

During the ascent, Walshe said, the team will have views from a number of cameras, including one focused directly on Baumgartner’s face. Additionally, they will have data from life support and other sys-tems that show things like whether he is getting enough oxygen.

The team also expects constant communication with Baumgartner, although former Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger, whose 1960 free-fall re-cord from 19.5 miles Baumgartner hopes to break, is the only member of mission control who will be al-lowed to talk to him.

And while Baumgartner hopes to set four new world records, his free fall is more than just a stunt.

His dive from the stratosphere should provide scientists with valu-able information for next-generation spacesuits and techniques that could help astronauts survive accidents.

Jumping from more than three times the height of the average cruising altitude for jetliners, Baum-gartner’s expects to hit a speed of 690 mph or more before he activates his parachute at 9,500 feet above sea level, or about 5,000 above the ground in southeastern New Mexico. The total jump should take about 10 minutes.

His medical director is Dr. Jona-than Clark, a NASA space shuttle crew surgeon who lost his wife, Laurel Clark, in the 2003 Columbia accident. No one knows what hap-pens to a body when it breaks the sound barrier, Clark said.

“That is really the scientific es-sence of this mission,” said Clark, who is dedicated to improving as-tronauts’ chances of survival in a high-altitude disaster.

Serge Haroche of France and American David Wineland opened the door to new experiments in quantum physics by showing how to observe individual quantum particles while preserving their quantum properties.

A quantum particle is one that is isolated from everything else. In this situation, an atom or electron or photon takes on strange properties. It can be in two places at once, for example. It behaves in some ways like a wave. But these properties are instantly changed when it interacts with something else, such as when somebody observes it.

Working separately, the two scientists, both 68, developed “in-genious laboratory methods” that allowed them to manage and mea-sure and control fragile quantum states, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

“Their ground-breaking methods have enabled this field of research to take the very first steps towards building a new type of superfast computer based on quantum phys-ics,” the academy said. “The re-search has also led to the construc-tion of extremely precise clocks that could become the future basis for a

new standard of time.”Haroche is a professor at the Col-

lege de France and Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Wineland is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, and the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.

The two researchers use oppo-site approaches to examine, con-trol and count quantum particles, the academy said.

Wineland traps ions — elec-trically charged atoms — and measures them with light, while Haroche controls and measures photons, or light particles.

Haroche said he was out walk-ing with his wife when he got the call from the Nobel judges.

“I was in the street and passing a bench so I was able to sit down,” Haroche told a news conference in Stockholm by telephone. “It’s very overwhelming.”

He said his work in the realm of quantum physics could ulti-mately lead to unimaginably fast computers.

“You can do things which are prohibited by the laws of classi-cal physics,” he told The Associ-ated Press.

Haroche also said quantum re-search could help make GPS navi-gating systems more accurate.

NIST spokesman Jim Burrus said Wineland was asleep at home in Boulder when the call came in early Tuesday notifying him that he won; his wife answered the phone.

Burrus said Wineland de-scribed the news as overwhelming and wonderful.

Quantum computers could radically change people’s lives in the way that classical computers did last century, but a full-scale quantum computer is still decades away, the Nobel judges said.

“The calculations would be incredibly much faster and exact and you would be able to use it for areas like metrology and for mea-suring the climate of the earth,” said Lars Bergstrom, the secretary of the prize committee.

The physics prize was the sec-ond of the 2012 Nobel Prizes to be announced, with the medicine award going Monday to stem cell pioneers John Gurdon of Britain and Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka. Each award is worth 8 million kronor, or about $1.2 million.

Frenchman, American win Nobel for quantum physicsAssociated Press

STOCKHOLM — A French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the first steps toward building superfast computers.

AP Photo/CNRS/ Christophe Lebedinsky

This 2009 photo provided Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012 by the CNRS (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Sci-entifique) shows French physician Serge Haroche, right, and his aide Igor Dotsenko in Paris.

Skydiver’s supersonic jump on weather holdAssociated Press

Denpasar (Bali Post)-

Investors that wanted to invest in energy sectors are promised convenience and ease for their exploration permit also additional incentive which it is needed to find new gas and oil sources as stated by Minister of Energy and Min-eral Source, Jero Wacik, at Nusa Dua last Tuesday (9/10). Indonesia opened widely investments in energy sector on developing new energy potentials or renews it remem-bering the need on oil and gas in this earth is increasing. Indonesia has that new and renews energy richness such as geothermal that reaches 10,000 MW, water, solar and biomass. “For that we invite those companies who have skills in energy sector, please invest in Indonesia, we are thankful that our country almost had all the energy sources needed in this world,” Wacik invited.

If the development failed, then it will be prioritized to be used inside the country, if it succeeded then the gas from Indonesia can be exported and used inside the country. The minister also gave four points to the investors such as all investors are obligated in increasing Indonesia’s economy, creating a work field, joining in decreasing poverty and protecting the living environment. “If these investors are not obeying these, they better go back home, and never invest in Indonesia again,” Wacik exclaimed.

Meanwhile on the gas increasing need inside the country, while in the same time it’s being exported, Wacik stated this can be talked with the exploration companies operating in the country for example British Petroleum (BP) have gas exploration in Papua and about to change their agreement as the need of as in Indonesia is increas-ing. “The exploration was 100 percent for export, yet after I negotiated and explained the needs in Indonesia, in the new contract 40 percent will be allocated for domestic needs,” Wacik concluded. (kmb)

Mangrove forest stuffed with buildings

Carrying capacity of Bali increasingly overloadedDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Environmental Impact Assessment Division Head of the Environmental Research Center (PPLH) of the Udayana University, Prof. Made Sudiana Mahendra, PhD. said the carrying capacity of South Bali had been overloaded. Moreover, the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) area would be annexed and established with tourism facilities by investors. By all means, it would increase the burden of Bali. “We strongly regretted why the licensing could have been passed?” he questioned on Tuesday (Oct 9).

Prof. Sudiana doubling as the Director of the Environmental Studies Graduate Program of the Udayana University called on the government to comprehensively review the issuance of permit on the uti-lization of 102.22 hectares of mangrove forests in the area of Grand Forest Park by investors for the development of eco-tourism facilities. He also asked the Bali House to observe the issuance of principle permit by the Governor of Bali by exam-ining the environmental feasibility and permit which included four components, namely the compliance with spatial mas-terplan, principle of benefit whether it was significant to the public or only to indi-viduals or groups, what impact treatment could be taken with the implementation of technological approach when the activity harmed the environment and how the local community approval was.

Further, he said the Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 mentioned the area of Grand Forest Park was a protected forest denot-ing 0.24 percent of the total area of pro-tected forests in Bali Province covering 175,577.18 hectares or 31.15 percent of the Bali’s total area. Unfortunately, the mangrove forests constantly experienced a pressure from the encroachment. Un-til 2011, it had reached 2.561 hectares covering the backfill for roads, waste management, landfill, sewage processing,

establishment of temples, huts, houses, certificates, turtle cage and land swap. Re-cently, over 3 hectares of mangrove forest were also cleared for the development of the Benoa-Nusa Dua toll road. “Even, it is the only recorded clearing. If we recheck the current condition, definitely more mangrove forests are diminished and an-nexed for development,” he said.

Mangrove forest also contributed to the existence of the urban green open space. He said that in 2010 Denpasar had green open space covering an area of 38.5 percent. But in 2011, based on the Regional Bylaw of Denpasar No. 27/2011 on Denpasar Spatial Masterplan, the area of green open space reduced to 36.28 percent. Meanwhile, the Law No. 26/2007 on spatial masterplan implied that each provincial capital ideally had green open space coming to 30 percent of the total area. “Indeed, Denpasar is now still having green open space as mandated in the law. However, the reduction of 102 hectares of mangrove forest will reduce the green open space of Denpasar. The green open space will possibly keep diminishing in the future if the government does not want to preserve it and give permission to the investors arbitrarily,” he said.

Related to statement of the Bali For-estry Agency saying that tourism facilities would be built on vacant land that could

not be overgrown by mangroves, Prof. Sudiana hoped it was not just a trick or a reason of the government. Condition of the land should be first investigated whether it could not be planted. If it was true, it might happen due to massive contamination by liquid waste or rubbish so that condition of the soil could be repaired and re-planted with mangrove by inhibiting the source of contamination, not by stuffing the vacant land with buildings.

“If it is the habitat for mangrove plants, the possibility of not to be overgrown by mangrove is very small. There must be other factor causing the mangroves to be unable to grow in certain locations,” he said. His party would conduct a study and research in the area of Grand Forest Park as reference material related to the issuance of permit utilizing the area.

Prof. Sudiana added that in the case of mangrove forest managed by inves-tor was not only the matter of the area but also the conservation function of the area that would be disrupted. Accord-ing to him, the Grand Forest Park as conservation area was indeed allowing the utilization but it was just for public interest, not for individual or commercial interests. “If all areas are leased, in the long run our mangrove forest making us proud in the Grand Forest Park will run out,” he said. (kmb29)

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The workers are working on the highway project on the mangrove forrest in Benoa

Singaraja (Bali Post) –

The permanent house owned by Ketut Sukalegawa in Lum-banan, Sukasada Village, Sukasada was burnt last Tuesday (9/10) around 12 pm local time with nothing saved. Due to it, the man who works as Civil Worker at Sukasada Village Office experiencing IDR 500 million losses moreover his wife went hysterical and fainted after knowing the incident.

The house was empty when the incident happened. It was locals who saw the fire first and asked for help also tried ot turn it off. Yet the fire took over the house moreover a house and a shop-house next to it almost got burnt as well. Three fire brigades managed to turn it off by 1.15 pm. A witness who rented the house-shop next to it, Ketut Sukmawati, stated she herself was cooking while she saw one of the house’s windows had black smoke coming out. Turns out a big fire took place in one of the rooms and later burnt the top of the house. Sukmawati panicked, locals then helped her bringing her items out and contacted the Buleleng Fire Brigade.

Sukmawati admitted not knowing what was the fire source moreover the doors are all locked as the parents are working while the children have gone to school and she the house-shop is not in the house’s area. After the fire was turned off, victim’s wife, Komang Sugandawati, who works at Paramasidhi Hospital was totally shocked and up to now police are still investigating the cause. The incident also caused a traffic jam between Singaraja-Bedugul, luckily Sukasada Police went down to manage it. (kmb)

Sukasada Official House Burnt, Wife Hysterical As IDR 500 Million Loss

Investors at Energy Sector Promised Convenience

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WASHINGTON — The presi-dential candidates bear down Tuesday on Ohio, a state that could decide the Nov. 6 elec-tion, as the U.S. presidential race moves into its final four weeks with the Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s shift toward more moderate positions apparently narrowing the gap with President Barack Obama.

Obama has spent much of his time since last week’s first presi-dential debate trying to convince voters that Romney has suddenly and fundamentally shifted his position on income taxes. Romney had been promising to lower tax rates for all Americans, something independent experts predicted that would vastly increase the already massive U.S. deficit unless Rom-ney also increased the tax burden for middle income earners.

In the debate, Romney unex-pectedly changed course, saying he would not institute any tax cut that raised the deficit or put a greater burden on the middle class. He also presented himself as aggressive and competent during the debate, while Obama put in a poor performance.

The shift in the polls toward Romney after that first confron-tation with Obama would seem to reinforce the argument that the candidate who can win voter confidence on fixing the strug-gling U.S. economy will win the White House.

The debate win notched in his favor, Romney on Monday delivered what his campaign char-acterized as a major foreign policy speech that attacked Obama on is-sues where polling shows Obama is seen as clearly viewed as the most capable candidate. Romney sought to burnish his credentials as a potential commander in chief in his address before Virginia

Military Institute cadets, asserting that Obama’s efforts have been weak in the volatile Middle East and his leadership in world affairs lacking overall.

Tuesday’s focus on Ohio un-derscores the importance both men place on the swing state. Romney will be joined in Akron by New Jersey’s tough-talking Gov. Chris Christie. Obama will rally students at Ohio State Uni-versity in Columbus, the state capital.

Ohio is one of a handful of U.S. states where voters do not reliably vote for the presidential candidate of one party or the other. Because the president is not chosen according to the outcome of the nationwide popular vote but in state-by-state contests, Ohio and other so-called swing states will determine the outcome of the election. Romney also plans a stop in Iowa, another swing state, on Tuesday.

Both men were scrambling Monday to show their optimism and determination to win the election.

The Romney campaign ridi-culed Obama’s campaign for fo-cusing on Big Bird instead of seri-ous issues. Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg pointed to Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination in 2008, when he said, “If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.”

While Obama maintains more paths to victory in the swing states, polling shows a tightening race after more than 67 million people watched Romney shine in the Denver debate last week. The challenger’s path victory is extremely narrow, particularly without Ohio. No Republican has won the presidency without carrying the state.

Tens of thousands of demonstra-tors defied a ban on protests, gath-ering in Syntagma square to voice their displeasure with the German leader, who many blame for forcing painful cuts on Greece in exchange for two EU-IMF bailout packages worth over 200 billion euros.

Some pelted police with rocks, bottles and sticks, and tried to bust through a barricade set up to protect Merkel and her delegation, who were meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at his office sev-eral hundred meters away.

Police detained dozens of pro-testers in what they said was one of the biggest demonstrations in months.

Merkel is visiting Greece for the first time since Europe’s debt crisis erupted here three years ago to de-liver a message of support, but no new money, to a nation hammered by recession and fighting to stay in the euro.

She was given the red carpet treatment and full military honors when she arrived at Athens airport in the early afternoon. Samaras greeted her with a handshake as she exited the German air force jet

and a band played the German and Greek national anthems.

In the centre of Athens, the re-ception was less warm.

On the central square next to parliament, four people dressed in German military uniforms and riding on a small jeep, waved black-white-and-red swastika flags and stuck their hands out in the Nazi salute.

Banners read “Merkel out, Greece is not your colony” and “This is not a European Union, it’s slavery”.

Police have deployed 6,000 offi-cers, including anti-terrorist units and rooftop snipers, to provide security during the six-hour visit. German sites in the Greek capital, including the embassy and Goethe Institute, are under special protection.

After steering clear of Greece for the past five years, Merkel decided to visit now for several reasons.

She wants to show support for Samaras, a fellow conservative, as he struggles to impose more cuts on a society fraying at the edges after five years of recession.

At a joint appearance before the press, she is expected to confirm her desire to keep Greece in the

euro zone, after members of her government flirted with the idea of an exit earlier this year.

With a year to go until Germany holds an election, Merkel also hopes to neutralize opposition criticism that she has neglected Greece and contributed to its woes by insisting on crushing budget cuts.

“Her visit to Athens is primarily about political positioning, and the opportunity to clarify her position on Greece,” said Alex White, an analyst at J.P. Morgan.

Greece is in talks with its “troi-ka” of lenders - the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund - on the next tranche of a 130-billion-euro ($170-billion) loan package, its second bailout since 2010.

Without the 31.5-billion-euro tranche, Greece says it will run out of money by the end of No-vember.

Many Greeks say they cannot take more of the wage cuts and tax hikes that have left a quarter of the workforce jobless and slashed the country’s economic output by a fifth.

Ties between Germany and Greece run deep. Thousands of Greeks came to Germany after World War Two as “guest workers” to help rebuild the shattered country and more than 300,000 Greeks cur-rently reside there.

Obama, Romney focus on swing-state Ohio

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The Romney campaign ridiculed Obama’s campaign for focusing on Big Bird instead of serious issues.

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Riot police fight with demonstrators during clashes in front of the parliament in Athens on Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012.

Greek police clash with protesters during Merkel visitReuters

ATHENS - Greek police fired teargas and stun grenades at protest-ers in central Athens on Tuesday when they tried to break through a barrier and reach visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Amlapura (Bali Post) –

Many hotels or villas with beautiful view of rice fields at Sidemen are operating with no permits alias illegal yet it is heard that these accommodations are still asked for its tax payment from one hotel owner as stated by Karangasem Commission A Representative, Gusti Lanang Sidemen Endrawata, in a hearing with Head of Karangasem Permit Service Group (KP2T) last Tuesday (9/10). It is a curiousity why any investors are not bothered in getting its permits and so a research on how many of them needs to be noted as hotels or vil-las are let grown on these beautiful rice fields. “If they are ignored while the investors are ignoring any permits to be processed because Karangasem Government is letting it happen, then it is disadvantaging the government itself as all the beautiful rice fields have converted to hotels, the people don’t feel it’s advantage as the Real Regional Income from its Hotel Restaurants Taxes or other taxes are not com-ing in,” Sidemen stated.

In other hand, other Commission A member, Wayan Pandu Pra-panca Lagosa, also stated many provider towers are being built here too when actually a localization regulation on it still hasn’t been inaugurated. Pandu questions if all of these towers have its permits as one of them was stop before located at Yeh Malet, Manggis as it has no permit. Head of KP2T, Ir. Ketut Sedana Merta, M.T. stated there will be an investigation on the towers constructions also its permits. It is admitted that he did not bring the data at the time. The last stopping of a tower built did happen in Manggis which at the time Yeh Malet did not ask for any permit while Ulakan has one. (013)

It was affirmed by Headman of Sesetan, Nyoman Agus Mahardika, when encountered in the midst of supervision at location of the screen printing on Tuesday (Oct 9). Present in the monitoring was the Head of public order officer (Satpol PP) of Denpasar, IB Alit Wiradana, Subdistrict Head of South Denpasar, AA Risnawan and some officials of local village.

Agus Mahardika revealed the business actually had been running for a long time. However, previously the local residents were given the as-sistance of clean water by the screen printing business owner. Now, the water assistance had been discontin-ued by the owner of screen printing. As a result, residents re-used their

well water. Ironically, their well water had been contaminated. “We received the complaints of residents last month. It has been followed up by immediately making mediation in the headman’s office,” he said.

Before the mediation his party was also monitoring the location and found if the waste manage-ment was poor. Even, the business had no permit. From the results, it was decided to hold mediation by involving all parties, including the business owner. “The owner is will-ing to close the business temporar-ily while submitting the necessary permits,” said Mahardika.

Risnawan added that contamina-tion kindled by the screen printing

business was estimated to reach a radius of 20 to 25 meters from the location. The land area of 800 square meters had been contracted since 1992. Since then, the screen printing business had been started. Surpris-ingly, the headman, subdistrict head and public order officer just knew if the business running since 20 years ago had no permit at all.

Meanwhile, the Head of Public Order Officer of Denpasar, IB Alit Wiradana, denied if his party and the team were blamed to have been cheated. During his position as subdis-trict head of South Denpasar in 2006 there were no complaints or reports from residents related to the screen printing business. “So far, the residents were given clean water by the business owner. However, since the clean water supply was discontinued, the residents complained,” he said.

Aside from screen printing business, local residents also began complaining about the semi-permanent houses occu-pied by scavengers. Other than building a house, the location was also taken advantage as warehouse. (kmb12)

Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Results of the census made by the Central Statistic Agency (BPS) in the Social Protection Program in Bule-leng reaped a number of complaints from local residents. The results in-dicated that many poor people were declared well-off, where in reality those people were still poor.

Information compiled in the field on Tuesday (Oct 9) told that one of the alleged poor people that were inappropriate with the reality was found at Panji Anom village, Sukasada subdistrict. In 2010, at the village were listed 347 poor people. After the 2012 census, the number of poor people decreased to 299 households.

In truth, there were still many poor people at the village. Con-versely, some residents with well-off economic condition were even categorized into the poor. Even, there were government officials who were also listed as the poor.

Headman of Panji Anom, Su-kasada subdistrict, Putu Mudita,

confirmed last Tuesday if the data of poor people at his village were allegedly unsuitable with reality. Mudita said the results of census on the poor at the village were received around three months ago. After be-ing examined, in fact the data were not in accordance with the actual condition in the community.

According to the census, the number of poor people apparently reduced as many as 48 families. While according to field observa-tions, condition of poor people who were no longer listed as poor people was still relatively poor.

More than that, Mudita claimed to be surprised after seeing the results of the latest census where many well-off people were listed to be poor. Meanwhile, the really poor people were even declared well-off and no longer listed. According to Mudita, the data were feared to have an impact on the realization of social assistance by government to the poor at villages.

Even, he worried that social assistance of the government like

rice for the poor (raskin) and other assistance would not be on target. Besides, people who were really poor but did not get assistance were ascertained to protest and could kindle problems at village. “If these data are enforced, I am afraid the government social assistance will not be on target. Even, it will cause problems,” he explained.

On the other hand, Mudita said that his party had rechecked to BPS Singaraja regarding the census data. He hoped the data could be revalidated. He said that BPS told if the data were accurate and could not be corrected. Having been dis-satisfied with the explanation of the BPS Singaraja, Mudita then asked to relevant agencies in Buleleng Regency.

Unluckily, the technical agency in regency government did not give significant explanation. The agency stated if the data were obtained from central government and should be used as a benchmark in the realization of any forms of social assistance. (kmb)

Census of BPS complainedRich people listed poor, the poor declared well-off

Many illegal hotels at Sidemen, tax still requested

Contaminate environment, screen printing business temporarily closed Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Screen printing business which has been operating since 1992 on Jalan Pulau Saelus, Tengah hamlet, Sesetan, now reaps complaints from local residents. Water sources like well taken advantage by lo-cal people for daily use has been contaminated by the waste of screen printing. As evidence, the well water is no longer clear, but it has turned brownish and darker. On that account, the screen printing business owned by Budi Prasetya was temporarily closed.

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The increasing number of printing business treathen to polute the river.

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Associated Press

LUXEMBOURG — European Union finance ministers grappled Tuesday with how to support their struggling banks and ensure that failing financial institutions don’t have the power to drag down entire countries with them.

A handful of countries agreed at a meeting of Euro-pean Union finance ministers in Luxembourg to impose a tax on financial transactions in the hopes of curbing risky, speculative trades and perhaps even creating a fund that could be used to help banks in trouble. But the 11 countries that support the tax still have to hammer out exactly how it will work and submit it for approval.

France and Germany, which led the charge on the tax, had originally hoped it would be adopted by the whole European Union — but several countries, like the Britain and the Netherlands, expressed concern about its economic impact.

The piecemeal agreement on the tax illustrates how difficult it has been for European leaders to forge ahead even though there is a gernal agreement that the solution to the debt crisis crippling the 17 countries that use the euro is to move closer together and adopt uniform rules on everything from budget deficits to banks. The hope is that stricter rules will prevent the crisis from recurring and that closer coordination will give the countries the ability to respond better to future crises.

Also at the meeting, ministers were struggling to outline how a so-called banking union — one rulebook for all EU banks and a single supervisor for many of them — would take shape.

Europe is in its third year of its financial crisis, brought on in part by overspending and excessive government debt. Recessions in several countries have worsened the problem, and EU leaders have struggled to solve the twin problems of too much debt and too little growth.

Banks have played a big role in creating the euro-zone’s financial crisis. The government debt the banks had bought up during the boom times of the eurozone is now no longer considered a safe bet and the banks are struggling to unload it — usually at hefty losses. Gov-ernments have been forced to step in to prop the banks up in many cases. But rescuing banks is expensive and has added to investors’ concerns that European countries are simply spending too much.

The challenge now is to break this vicious cycle. Several countries want Europe’s new permanent bailout fund — the European Stability Mechanism — to have the power to hand money to banks directly, rather than lending it through national governments as it does now.

Leaders have agreed that for that to happen, the European Central Bank must be put in charge as the supervisor of the banks. Many countries are pushing for that to happen by the end of the year. But some coun-tries, like Germany and the Netherlands, are dragging their feet and also quibbling over which banks would be eligible.

Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said the union was important to breaking the link between the troubles of banks and those of their governments, but that speed was not the most important consideration.

“It’s important that we do it step-by-step and that the substance is leading and not the calendar,” he said, add-ing that the Jan. 1 deadline seemed too ambitious.

Sales of Japanese cars in China are in a free-fall. At the China Open last weekend, a representative of Sony Corp., which is a sponsor of the tennis tournament, was loudly booed at the title presentation for the women’s final. Chinese tourists are cancelling trips to Japan in droves. And some analysts say Japan’s economy will shrink in the last three months of the year.

The business and economic shock-waves come after Japan last month nationalized the tiny islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, which were already under Tokyo’s con-trol but are also claimed by Beijing. The move set off violent protests in China, and a widespread call to boycott Japa-nese goods.

A report by J.P. Morgan, released Tuesday, projected Japanese auto exports to China will crash 70 percent during the October-December period. The export of auto parts will slip by 40 percent — about the same drop estimated for exports of other consumer products, such as electronics, it said.

The aftermath of the latest phase of the sizzling territorial spat with China will cause Japan’s economy, the world’s third biggest, to shrink 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter, according to J.P. Morgan. It had previously forecast no growth in the quarter.

J.P. Morgan chief economist Masaaki Kanno fears the fallout could get worse in the months ahead, as the September sales numbers for Japanese automakers only account for damage that started the middle of the month.

Kanno’s report said the number of Chinese tourists would decline by 70 percent while Japanese tourists to China would fall by 30 percent.

Ayumi Kunimatu, spokeswoman for Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways, said 43,000 seats had been cancelled for flights from September through the end of November — 28,000 of them from China to Japan, and 15,000 from Japan to China. Up to now, China flights had made up a quarter of ANA’s international passengers.

A person who answered at China

International Travel Service in Beijing confirmed group tours to Japan had been called off. The Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported that more than a hundred thousand Chinese cancelled Ja-pan trips, and the number of tour groups to Japan had plunged by 40 percent.

The tourism fallout to hot springs and ski resorts is likely to deal a serious blow to Japan’s regional economies, which are already more vulnerable to such slowdowns.

China, with its growing middle class, had been one of the emerging markets that Japanese companies were counting on to boost sales amid a long stagnation in their domestic market.

Japan’s trade with China reached record levels over the last 12 months, totaling more than $340 billion. China is Japan’s biggest export market.

Although the immediate damage is being felt in Japan, the souring rela-tions and the realization of the so-called “China risks” are likely to crimp invest-ments from Japan, hurting the Chinese economy as well, in the long run. Japan not only exports to China but also was significant manufacturing investments there in areas such as autos.

Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, based in Valhalla, New York, said the territorial dispute is not going to set off a shoot-out.

11 EU countries agree to financial transaction tax

Japan economy shaky as island spat hits business

Associated Press

TOKYO — The craggy island specks in the East China Sea aren’t even an economic backwater. They have no factories, no highways, no shops, no people — only goats. But the high-pitched row between Beijing and Tokyo over their ownership is exacting a growing toll on Japan, threatening to send its recovery from last year’s disasters into reverse.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Chinese tourists take a souvenir photograph at Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. At stake are billions of dollars in investments and far more in sales and trade between Japan and China, the world’s third- and second-largest economies.

Negara (Bali Post)-

This year the focus of Negara city construction and civic center is on the gardens and parks which can be seen around the city. In making sure that they are as hoped, Vice Regent of Jembrana, I Made Kembang Hartawan, last Tuesday (9/10) raided those locations with one of them located behind the Ir Soekarno Art Building.

The gardens constructed were also for the kids of Jembrana that has minim place for playing rounds. It is hoped this area of the art building can be an education center, as there is a regional library completed with Wi-Fi connection and so the people can use the internet connection around the building. It is hoped more of these places will take place and so the people can feel comfort and easy to find an entertainment space. “If

all these times the kids had to play by bringing cash or paying, they will get it for free here. We want the people of Jembrana to have a room to play with the family, cheap but with quality. This creation and additional facilities is one way of it,” Hartawan stated.

The construction or renovation of gardens took place on the bor-ders of Negara City and Pecanga-kan Garden too. There is at least IDR 5 billion budgeted for this to create or renovate public spaces also step by step rehabs on village officials’ office which is a decade routine. Vice who was accom-panied by Head of Public Works Agency, Gusti Ngurah Mertadana, along with LHKP, Made Widana, asked the cleanliness workers at Jembrana Art Building to be in-creased. While for Gilimanuk, one of the gateways to Bali, will have its renovation next year. (kmb26)

Technical Activity Executive Officer (PPTK), Putu Sukarja, when contacted on Tuesday (Oct 9) said the execution of the building project so far had been rising quite rapidly. Even, percent-age of the progress had indicated 1.57 percent. “Implementer of the project has been success-fully completed 60.72 percent,’” said Sukarja doubling as the Division Head of Environmental Masterplan and Building, the Denpasar Urban Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP).

Sukarja said that until Monday (Oct 8) the percentage reached 59.15. Seeing the implemen-tation of the project, his party hoped the building could be completed according to the schedule set forth, namely at the end of December 2012.

However, Sukarja expected that completion of the project could be accelerated from the initial schedule. His party wanted the building could be completed by December 12, 2012. “In terms of the date, it will give a special impres-sion,” he said.

In the project implementation, said Sukarja, the partner applied the strategy of dividing

three different work areas simultaneously, for example, the execution of lift, mechanical and engineering. Nevertheless, other works such as installation of ceiling and sills were also still going on. For mechanical engineering, Sukarja said his party would make coordination with each regional working unit (SKPD) that would occupy the building such as the Licensing Office and Civil Registry Office. “Installation is also in accordance with the required facilities and infrastructure by each regional working unit,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the basement parking project on Jalan Sulawesi Denpasar had also reached 69.26 percent. In other words, it had surpassed the target of 58.35 percent. The project was once delayed due to the collapse of basement parking rim claiming two fatalities. (kmb12)

The building of the new public service building is seen in Lumintang.

DEnpaSar - Sanur tourist area has been appointed as a na-tional tourism strategic area by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy of the RI. Aside from Sanur, the ministry also selected the Wakatobi (Southeast Sulawesi), Komodo Islands (Nusa Tenggara), Toraja (South Sulawesi), and Bromo (East Java).

Chairman of the Sanur Devel-opment Foundation (YPS), Ida Bagus Gede Sidharta Putra, said the decision was conveyed by the expert staff of the Tourism Program Planning, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, not long ago. The management of YPS was asked to prepare a number of requirements needed as material of the program study.

“There are five tourist areas ap-pointed for the program, including Sanur. One of the considerations is that Sanur can promote the tourism potential owned independently and sustainably,” said IB Sidharta.

He said the expert staff of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy explained the concept of strategic national tourism and how the Sanur village was selected along with the four other areas. The five areas selected would perform the stages of research and study under-taken by a special team.

“The five areas, including Sanur, will be implemented based on the scope of destination, industry, mar-ket and institutional supporters. And we welcome and highly support the program,” he said.

He explained that tourism played a central role in creating the quality of life that was not only limited to the economy, but also the welfare in wider context. Sa-nur solidly preserving the synergy of tourism, potential of nature, art, culture and creativity of its residents had been able to make the area an international renowned tourism village.

“We are very aware of the dy-

namics on the growing tourism development. To that end, a holistic planning related to Tri Hita Karana-based village is highly required,” he said.

As known, the Ministry of Tour-ism and Creative Economy would develop 50 national tourist destina-tions until 2025. The government also prepared the National Tourism Plan which contained a systemic framework and approach in terms of the national tourism development including the development of those 50 destinations.

The fifty destinations were divid-ed into 88 national tourism strategic areas and 222 national tourism de-velopment areas considered to have a potential. For that purpose, the re-gions needed to prepare themselves and should be committed to develop the regional tourism. Meanwhile, the key to success in the develop-ment of national tourism lay in the good cooperation, coordination and planning. (BTn/kmb)

Vice Regent inspect garden construction Costing five billion rupiah

Sanur Appointed as National Tourism Strategic Area

Building project of public services speeded upDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Building construction for public services at Lumintang was feared to be delayed. How-ever, after a few months, the progress of building construction worth IDr 40.7 billion has successfully surpassed the target. after the last Eid holidays, implementation of the project was accelerated.

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The row has been marked by violent protests and calls for boy-cotts of Japanese products in China. Japanese car makers, including Toyota Motor, later reported a tumble in auto sales in the world’s biggest car market.

“We were informed two days ago that Governor Zhou’s schedule might require him to cancel his lecture in Tokyo,” an IMF spokes-woman said. “It has now been con-firmed that his deputy Yi Gang will represent him.”

Zhou had been set to deliver what amounted to a closing keynote lecture on Sunday. A Japanese government official said Zhou’s absence would

be “regrettable”.The IMF comments confirm a

report on Tuesday by Chinese state news agency Xinhua that China’s delegation will not be led by its most senior finance officials. According to Chinese protocol, only the most se-nior officials usually lead such trips. China’s delegation will be led by Yi Gang, vice head of the People’s Bank of China, and Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao, Xinhua said.

The disputed group of islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Di-aoyu in China, are located near rich fishing grounds and potentially huge oil and gas reserves. Taiwan also asserts its sovereignty over the

uninhabited islets.Japan is scheduled to host the IMF

and World Bank annual meetings for the first time in nearly half a century. About 20,000 people are expected to attend the event, making it one of the world’s largest international conferences.

“If he (Zhou) is not coming, it is regrettable that a representative of the Chinese authorities does not par-ticipate in this important international meeting in Tokyo. At all events, Ja-pan-China economic relationship is very important and Japan will continue to communicate with China from a broader standpoint,” said a Japanese government official.

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China’s Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan listens to a question at a news conference during the ongoing National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s parliament, in Beijing March 12, 2012.

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TOKYO - The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that China’s central bank governor will not lead the Chinese delegation at the IMF’s semi-annual meeting this week, in what appeared to be a snub to host Japan. Zhou Xiaochuan’s failure to attend the meeting follows a deterioration in relations between China and Japan over their competing claims to sovereignty of some islands in the East China Sea.

AntaraTIMIKA - The Ministry of

Transportation, through the Directorate General of Air Transportation, will develop a number of airports in the provinces of Papua and West Papua, according to local transportation office spokes-man Bambang Tjahjono.

“In order that more com-mercial air l ines serve the eastern Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, the Ministry of Transportation will develop airports there,” he said.

“The National Commission of Police will conduct an investigation in order to determine whether the case has been handled profession-ally,” Commissioner Edi Hasibuan said here on Tuesday.

“The commission will ask Na-tional Police Chief Timur Pra-dopo to sanction the police officials wishing to work on the case,” he stated.

“From the very beginning, we have reckoned that the Novel case was not appropriately handled. But now our decision gives an impres-sion that the police are forcing the issue,” Edi said, adding that he would also support the move to stall the case in order to avoid public outrage.

Novel was accused of being

responsible for a shooting incident in which his subordinates killed a suspect in Bengkulu in 2004.

Tensions have been rising be-tween the KPK and the police over who should investigate the alleged corruption case involving the pro-curement of driving simulators by the former chief of the National Traffic Police Corps, Inspector General Djoko Susilo.

Earlier, on Friday night, dozens of police officers arrived at the KPK building shortly after Djoko under-went questioning by KPK officials over his alleged involvement in the corruption case.

The police officers accused Novel of committing a criminal act that led to the death of the victim in Bengkulu.

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JAKARTA - The National Commission of Police (Kompolnas) will appoint a team to probe into the case involving Police Com-missioner Novel Baswedan, who has been assigned as an inves-tigator at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Several airports coming up in Papua

Bambang stated that the run-ways of Sentani in Jayapura and Sorong in West Papua would be extended.

“The runway of Sentani air-port will be extended to 3,000 metres, in addition to the de-velopment of its taxiway and a boarding bridge or garbarata,” he noted.

“The Ministry of Transpor-tation and Sorong mayor have also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the expansion of the runway of Sorong airport in West Papua,” Bambang said.

“The MoU also involves the construction of an alternative airport in Segun,” he added.

According to Bambang, other airports to be developed in Papua and West Papua in-clude those in Kaimana, Wa-mena, Manokwari, Merauke, Wagete Baru in Deiyai, and Tamanof.

“The Ministry of Trans-portation has allocated a lot of funds for the eastern In-donesian region because we give our special attention to Papua and West Papua,” he explained.

AntaraJakarta - Indonesia and Japan have agreed

on infrastructure development projects worth Rp140 trillion in Jakarta and its vicinity cities under the Metropolitan Priority Areas develop-ment program.

“We have agreed the projects to be fi-nanced 55 percent by private parties and 45 percent by public-private partnership and using the national budget and loans,” chief economic minister Hatta Rajasa said in the 4th Indonesia-Japan Joint Economic Forum here on Tuesday.

The agreement was reached in the Third Steering Committee Meeting on industrial investment under the Metropolitan Priority Areas development program.

Hatta attended the 4th Indonesia-Japan Joint Economic Forum along with industry minister MS Hidayat, tourism and creative economy minister Elka Pangestu and a number of offi-cials from various ministries and the Indone-sian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Japan in the meeting was represented by foreign minister Koichiro Gemba, economic and trade minister Yukio Edano and a number of state officials and businessmen.

“In the meeting 45 projects have been iden-tified to be finished in 2020,” he said.

The projects would be carried out along with the implementation of four MPA goals namely development of better city environment, growth of new sub-corridors and multiple gate-way and development of low-carbon energy sources which are expected to be realized in 2030 in the Jakarta Metropolitan areas.

Japanese foreign minister Koichiro Gemba told newsmen Japan has estimated it would extend around Rp125 trillion to finance the projects through Japan`s Official Development Assistance and foreign aid.

“We estimate we will extend around Rp125 trillion or one trillion yen for the next 10 years,” he said.

Japan still opens possibilities to add funding in case requested by the Indonesian govern-ment, he added.

The meeting has identified minimally five big MPA projects including the develop-ment of a mass rapid transport system, a new international-scale sea port in Cilamaya, the extension of a Soekarno-Hatta airport and the development of new research clustes and water waste canal system in Jakarta.

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Indonesian Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa

Today, Fadlan believes he would be in paradise if he had been picked.

“I still believe it ... because it’s not promised by my recruiter, but God,” Fadlan said softly in a mosque near his house in central Jakarta.

Fadlan was jailed for four years in 2006 after being found guilty of harboring terrorists, including Noordin M. Top, who was Southeast Asia’s most wanted militant before police killed him in 2009. Fadlan was released on good behavior that same year and is now part of the government’s deradicalization program, designed to reform convicted extremists.

He told AP he also was involved in two 2001 bombings at churches in eastern Jakarta that injured more than 70 worship-pers. He was never convicted in those attacks due to a lack of evidence.

Now 36, Fadlan says he’s not actively involved with any militant groups in Indonesia and no longer interested in becoming a groom there because the country is not seen as a battle ground for holy war. But he smiles broadly when asked if he would still be willing to serve as a suicide bomber on another front if called.

“Nobody refuses a reward in heaven, right?” he says. “But I live like I’m in a large aquarium now ... authorities are watching me everywhere I go, and I could not go abroad.”

A turning point for Indonesian terrorist groups came in 2010, when police raided a paramilitary jihadi camp hidden in the moun-tains of Aceh province. An anti-terrorism crackdown followed that left more than 100 suspected militants either dead or arrested.

Another alleged Bali bombings mastermind, Dulmatin, was shot to death in a raid. Radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was arrested; last year he was sentenced to 15 years in jail.

That led Indonesian extremist religious leaders to order mili-tants to change their mission. Instead of going after Westerners and American symbols they were directed to target Indonesian ‘infidels’ such as police, anti-terrorism squads, lawmakers and others deemed as obstacles to transforming the secular country into an Islamic state governed by Sharia law.

Most of Indonesia, a country of 240 million, practices a moder-ate style of Islam that condemns violence, and its government is keeping up pressure against extremists. Data from the National Police revealed more than 700 militants have been arrested over the past 10 years, including 84 last year. Dozens more have been killed since the Bali bombings.

Though the number of domestic terrorist attacks has risen, suicide bombers are more likely to act alone or in smaller groups than they did in years past.

“I don’t think there is any one person who is the current face of terrorism in Indonesia,” said Ken Conboy, a Jakarta-based expert on Southeast Asian terrorism. “Rather, the terrorists have splintered into small cells that have only fleeting contact, if that, with one another.”

That lack of organization makes it more difficult to pull off devastating attacks.

Last year, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque packed with police, injuring 30 people, and another detonated his explosives in a church in Central Java’s Solo town, dying instantly and wounding 22 worshippers.

Just last month, police arrested 10 Islamist militants and seized a dozen homemade bombs from a group suspected of planning suicide attacks against security forces and plotting to blow up the parliament building. The alleged bomb maker, Muhammad Toriq, turned himself in to police while wearing an empty suicide vest.

The explosives seized were pipe bombs, dangerous but much less powerful than those used in Bali 10 years ago. But other would-be suicide bombers remain at large.

In March, authorities received an intelligence tip that at least one jihadist “groom” had arrived in Bali. They found a note he wrote to his family, saying he would carry out a suicide mission with God’s blessing and that the family would be reunited in paradise, said Ansyaad Mbai, who heads the country’s anti-terrorism agency.

Security forces killed five suspects who were believed to be plotting several armed robberies in Bali to fund their terrorist activities. But the groom got away, and it’s unclear what attack he had planned or whether he will still attempt it.

Indonesian...

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Rafa Nadal has no timeline for his return to competi-tive tennis but on Tuesday the world number four did not completely rule out the possibility of returning from injury in time for next month’s Davis Cup and ATP World Tour finals. Nadal has not played since suffer-ing a shock second-round Wimbledon defeat to Czech Lukas Rosol in June and has yet to return to the practise court, but the 26-year-old Spaniard left the door open for a comeback before the end of the season.

He conceded, however, that the chances of appearing at the ATP World Tour final in 26 days or helping Spain against the Czech Republic in the Nov. 16-18 Davis Cup final were remote. “Impossible, no. But difficult, yes,” Nadal said during a conference call to pro-mote his participation in an exhibition match against Juan Martin del Potro in March.

“I want to go day-by-day, I go every day to the gym, the swimming pool to continue with my recovery. I am trying not to think that far.” The winner of 11 grand slam titles, including a record seven French Opens, Nadal missed the London Olympics and U.S. Open as he fights to undo some of the damage inflicted on his fragile knees from years of competing on hard courts.

Nadal spends his days in the gym, swim-ming and undergoing

therapy treatments but, while he acknowledged feeling some improvements, he is not ready to hit the practise court. “It has been very, very tough for me because I feel that my knee didn’t improve in the right way ... but the last couple of weeks the improvement in my knee is something that I can really feel,” said Nadal. “That helps me to keep working hard doing every day what I have do.

“I am working to try to comeback to practise on the tennis court in a not very long period of time.” Progress has been frustratingly slow but Nadal maintained he is not going to rush his return.

He has dealt with injuries several times throughout a career that has included a record 21 World Tour Masters

titles and an Olympic gold medal but has entered uncharted territory with the length of his current

layoff which has left him unsure what to expect or when he will be back to full fitness.

“That is something I will know when my I feel my knee completely without pain when I start to practise,” said Nadal. “I didn’t have in the past this long period of time outside of the tennis court, outside of

the competition.“I can imagine when I come back

I will need time practise and practise more and more every day, maybe that will take one month and a half.

“I don’t know, the most impor-tant thing is to continue with the treatment ... when I don’t feel nothing, hopefully that will hap-pen soon, I will comeback on the tennis court.”

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Pakraman Budaga Village, that’s the name of a village which is located one kilometer west of the City Semarapura, Klungkung. A village with an area of about 35 hectares and a

population of approximately 198 heads of households (families), or 733 souls, consists of 367 male and 366 female. Since the begin-ning of its existence, when divided into two Budaga banjar

(Banjar Budaga Klod and Budaga Kaler), the people really involved in agricultural sector as their main occupation.

But over

time, farming had abandoned by its citizens. The main reason for the dissolution of agricultural

was regeneration. Not only that, it is also because the area of agricultural land in the traditional village area has decreased as Budaga for resi-dential purposes, the area for the benefit of the traditional villages such as worship (temples), tombs and other places people try several, also be-cause the orienta-tion of the current generation In-digenous Village has also changed in response to Budaga era of development.

World agri-culture was not reliable any-more to villag-ers located at an altitude of 117 meters above sea level it. In addition to the amount of

his remaining diligent pen three families, also because not many agricultural products that can be relied on from there. The young

generation whose parents used to pursue the agricultural sector, now not again. They prefer to pursue a new world that can be done at home. If working on someone, it was still in the environment Budaga.

One area of work in recent years so engrossed Budaga Vil-lage residents after switching from agriculture is a brass handicrafts. Various types of products can be made of brass. There gongseng, gerondong, cookie cutters and vari-ous pemangku (trophy).

Especially for the Pemangku (holy priest for Hindu people), the circulation of the products are very fast because the circulation marketing presence coupled with the production of tourist trophy Kamasan village. Sales not only in Bali, but up to the outside Bali and even abroad. However, as the rise of pemangku orders, manufacturing orders are also subsided pemangku in Budaga. Craft type too, although it still use the same material switch-es, brass. Type of craft is the latest bells (banyu).

That is to say, the village is the village Pakraman Budaga vari-ous craft bells. Genta and various types of equipment Ida Pedanda plants cult, such as Nawasanga and siwakrana, currently in great demand. In addition to ordering stakeholders throughout Indonesia, was also ordered by foreign custom-ers for the benefit of accessories and souvenirs.

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Despite therefore missing the last three rounds, Stoner could still play a vital role in the championship. Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa can still seal the 2012 crown, but only if he wins the remaining four events and current points leader Jorge Lorenzo finishes third or lower.

Stoner says he will find out what level he can ride in the first practice of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. “The first session on Friday will be crucial to see how my ankle feels in the boot and the degree of move-ment I have and pressure I can apply,” he explained.

“The Motegi circuit is very stop-start with a lot of hard braking and accelerating, it’s pretty tough on the body and physically quite demanding.” Stoner said he was excited to be returning, adding: “It’s going to be great to see all my team and get back on my bike in Motegi this weekend.

“The last six weeks have been pretty tough for me, I’ve had to sit around and rest

my ankle, get some physio and try to occupy my time - thankfully I’ve had [daughter] Ally around to keep me occupied.

“I’ve been watching the races at home, I felt bad for Dani in Misano, but these things can happen - as they did for Jorge in Assen.” Pedrosa, who beat Lorenzo and Stoner to victory in last year’s race at Motegi, said he was looking forward to the weekend.

“I love Motegi, it’s a track with strong braking and strong acceleration,” he said. “It’s the most important weekend for Honda and I really enjoy the circuit. “We have now the most demanding period of races ahead, but we will keep taking things step by step, thinking race by race.

“We had a good race there last year and we will work hard with the team to be as competitive as possible.” Lorenzo, Stoner and Pedrosa have all won just once at Motegi, in respective order over the last three years.

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BELGRADE - More games and bigger arenas will enable Europe’s premier basketball competition to aim for NBA standards, Euroleague chief Jordi Bertomeu has vowed ahead of the new season starting on Thursday.

This month’s warm-up games between Euroleague teams and NBA outfits suggest the gulf between the top sides from Europe and North America has narrowed, with Fenerbahce Istanbul pulling off a shock 97-91 win over 17-times NBA champions Boston Celtics.

Bertomeu, who met with NBA commissioner David Stern in Berlin shortly before local team Alba pushed 2011 champions Dallas Mav-ericks to the limit in an 89-84 defeat on Saturday, acknowledged that looking up to the NBA and playing against the league’s top contenders has helped Europe to improve.

“These games are an opportunity to work with our NBA friends, share the experience and learn because they have already done many things that we want to do in our evolution as a professional league,” Bertomeu told the 24-team Euroleague’s official website (www.euroleague.net).

“We have different models, a different sports culture and of course different resources but we share the same vision about the importance of improving the quality of the game and the importance of basketball becoming a global sport. “Specifically in this field I have to say that the NBA has been doing a terrific job. We have in front of us a very important Euroleague season with more games, more weeks and teams moving to bigger arenas, culminating in the Final Four in London.”

The teams are divided into four groups of six in the preliminary stage and the top four from each group will advance into the last 16, where they will be divided into two groups of eight instead of four groups of four.

The top four teams from each of those groups, operating on a round-robin home and away system like the preliminary stage, will progress into the quarter-finals, whose winners will qualify for the Final Four in London’s O2 Arena from May 10-12.

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Casey Stoner cannot be confident of being competitive on his MotoGP return until he assesses his fitness in Friday practice at Motegi. The Australian has been out for six weeks after sustaining ankle fractures during qualifying at Indianapolis - although Brno was the first race he missed as he braved the pain to finish fourth on the US circuit.

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They will be looking to make amends for a poor performance in their last match, a 1-1 draw with Peru in Lima where Messi, who had scored 10 goals in his previous six internationals, had one of his quietest games for his country. South American champions Uruguay want a second successive upset over their neighbours after their Copa America quarter-final victory on penalties last year.

Uruguay’s coach Oscar Washington Tabarez does not believe in man-marking Messi, but rather in preventing Argentina from functioning in support of the Barcelona ace. “Messi is a great player, among the best seen in the history of football...so I’m not going to say too much about that because it would be redundant,” Tabarez told reporters in Montevideo on Tuesday.

“But Messi has a team around him trying to ensure be shows all his potential. “So we have to work on and counter everything Ar-gentina does for the ball to get to Messi and after Messi takes it try to mark him.”

The Uruguayans, World Cup semi-finalists in 2010, need to recover from a poor Sep-tember when they lost 4-0 away to Colombia and only managed a 1-1 draw at home to Ecuador.

Captain Diego Lugano believes this dou-ble away fixture will be the hardest trip for Uruguay, who play Bolivia at high altitude in La Paz next week, in the 16-match qualifying series. “These are key (qualifying) points, much more so after the last double-header when we didn’t do well,” Lugano said.

‘MOST DIFFICULT’

“We’re facing two matches that are surely the most difficult of the qualifying series. An Argentina-Bolivia sequence (away) is very hard and we’re practically obliged to bring back some points,” the central defender said. Uruguay have to manage without left wing back Alvaro Pereyra, who is suspended, and injured midfielders Diego Perez and Gaston Ramirez.

Argentina, who beat Paraguay 3-1 at home then drew 1-1 away to Peru last month, welcome back Sergio Agüero but have lost fellow striker Ezequiel Lavezzi to injury. Midfielder Javier Mascherano said good re-sults against Uruguay and then Chile away in Santiago four days later would put Argentina

well on course for a berth in the 2014 finals in Brazil.

“If we can get six out of six points i t would be ideal and we would be well on track to qualifying, not certain but on the right track,” Mascherano said a t Argent ina’s t r a i n i n g b a s e outside Buenos Aires.

“For us, the match against Uruguay is a classic. The last ones we h a v e p l a y e d against them were very tight (and) if we win we’d go with more confidence to Chile.” The Chileans, whose coach Claudio Borghi is serv-ing a four-match suspension for dis-sent, first travel to play Ecuador in the rarefied air of Quito nearly 3,000 metres above sea level on Friday (2100 GMT).

Colombia, with striker Falcao in red-hot scoring form, are at home to bottom team Paraguay in their favourite Carib-bean cauldron in Barranquilla (2030 GMT) and Bolivia, at home in both fixtures, host Peru in La Paz (2000 GMT).

Venezuela, in sixth place with 11 points having already played eight matches, have a bye at the halfway stage in the competition.

Messi poses headache for South American rivals

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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi from Argentina,

right, celebrates after scoring a goal

against Real Madrid’s during a Spanish

La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou Stadium,

in Barcelona, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012.

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BUENOS AIRES - Stopping Lionel Messi is the primary concern of South American teams facing Argentina in the World Cup qualifiers. This week it is Uruguay’s turn. Argentina defend their lead in the South American group at home to Uruguay in Mendoza on Friday (0100 GMT Saturday). After seven matches they have 14 points, one more than Colombia and Ecuador and two ahead of Uruguay and Chile.

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MIAMI - Key forward Landon Donovan has been ruled out of the United States’ upcoming World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday after his knee injury proved to be worse than initially feared. The U.S. play in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday and then host Guatemala in Kansas City on Tuesday as they seek a place in the final qualifying round from the CONCACAF region for the 2014 finals.

Donovan, the national team’s all-time leading goal scorer, picked up the knee injury playing for his Major League Soccer team L.A. Galaxy against Real Salt Lake on Saturday. The forward skipped practice on Monday while his knee was evaluated by medical staff from the U.S. Soccer Federation and on Tuesday was ruled out.

FC Dallas winger Brek Shea, who was suffering from an ab-dominal strain and was unlikely to feature, has also been sent back to his club for further treatment. “It’s unfortunate for Landon and Brek that they won’t be able to play,” said U.S. national team coach Juergen Klinsmann.

“Landon was very optimistic over the weekend when his knee was feeling much better, but now he needs time to recover. We knew Brek was a question mark coming in, and now we have a clear picture of where he stands.” No replace-ments were immediately named.

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MADRID - The absence of Juan Mata from Vicente del Bosque’s Spain squad is proof of the quality the

world and European champions can draw on, mid-fielder Javi Martinez said on Tuesday. Mata has been

in sparkling form for European champions Chelsea in recent weeks but was overlooked for the World

Cup Group I qualifiers in Belarus on Friday and at home to France four

days later.He is one of several Spanish

players, alongside the likes of Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla and Man-chester City’s Javi Garcia, who

have performed impressively in the English Premier League but rarely

get a look-in with the national side.“That a player like Mata is absent

shows how hard it is to get into the squad,” Martinez told a news confer-ence as the players gathered at their training camp outside Madrid. “For me he is one of the five best players in the Premier League and the fact

he is not here shows the quality we have,” added the former

Athletic Bilbao player who joined Bayern Munich in

the close season.“But we cannot all be here and

for sure many p l a y e r s

d e s e r v e a p l a c e . H e (Mata) is very strong

mentally and that will help him as he tries to im-prove and win his place back.”

Mata, who competes for a place with Andres Iniesta, David Silva, Cesc Fabregas, Pedro and Jesus Na-vas, told Spanish media on Monday he expected to be included in Del Bosque’s plans after playing a part in the triumphant 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 campaigns.

“I was excited and confident about being called up, all the more so because of the form I am in at Chelsea,” the 24-year-old said. “I am in the best form so far since arriving in London. What I need to do now is keep it up so that I can win my place back.” Spain won

their opening qualifier away to an ultra-defensive Georgia 1-0.

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LONDON - Newcastle United faced criticism from local politicians and union leaders on Tuesday after the English Premier League club signed a four-year shirt sponsorship deal with short-term loan company Wonga. The Wonga brand, taken from a slang term for cash, will ap-pear on Newcastle’s famous black and white shirts from next season in an agreement that has focused atten-tion on the interest rates the company charges on its “pay-day loans”.

In a goodwill gesture to fans, Wonga said that it would not take advantage of the stadium naming rights it had also acquired, but would allow the club to revert to the historic and popular St James’ Park name for its home, currently known as the Sports Direct Arena.

However, the sponsorship was proving contentious in one of the poorest parts of England, where many people are facing financial problems. “It’s a sad indictment of the profit-at-any-price culture at Newcastle United,” city council

leader Nick Forbes said.A local union leader called on

club owner Mike Ashley, founder of the Sports Direct retail chain, to drop the deal. “Fans and the city will not be fobbed off by the renaming of the stadium,” said Karen Reay, regional secretary of the Unite union. “Our city’s proud footballing and com-munity culture will be tarnished by this deal - it cannot go through.”

MONEY TALKS

Premier League clubs are seeking to maximise sponsorship revenues after Manchester United agreed a record $559 million deal to have the Chevrolet brand on its shirt for seven years from 2014. Newcastle last week said that it was ending its sponsorship deal with finance company Virgin Money, which was worth only 3 million pounds ($4.8 million) a year.

Full financial terms of the Wonga deal were not disclosed. Wonga will spend at least 1.5 million pounds on supporting Newcastle’s academy for young players and a separate scheme

to help to train and educate teenagers in northeast England. “We are build-ing a club that can regularly compete for top honours at the highest level,” said Derek Llambias, the Newcastle United managing director.

“As everyone knows, a strong commercial programme is vital to this goal and I am delighted to wel-come Wonga into the fold as our lead commercial partner, alongside Puma and Sports Direct.”

Wonga already sponsors the shirts of English Championship (second division) club Blackpool and Scottish Premier League club Hearts, but the link with higher-profile Newcastle has intensified debate about the loan company’s business model.

The company offers short-term loans of up to 1,000 pounds, which are intended as an alternative means of finance to credit cards and tradi-tional personal loans.

The annual percentage rate (APR) on Wonga’s loans can exceed 4,000 percent, but the company defends its policies by saying that the maximum term for its loans is only one month

Mata absence is proof of Spain quality, says Martinez

AP Photo/PA, Nick Potts

Chelsea’s Juan Mata celebrates scoring

against Arsenal during the English Pre-

mier League soccer match at the Emirates

Stadium, London, Saturday Sept. 29, 2012.

Chelsea won the match 1-2.

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Los Angeles Galaxy’s Landon Donovan, left, sits on the bench after injuring his leg during the second half of an MLS soccer match against Real Salt Lake, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, in Carson, Calif. Real Salt Lake won 2-1.

Just 14 players took the field on Tuesday for practice with other players doing gym work after trav-elling to Florida from their club action at the weekend.

Klinsmann’s team are currently

level on seven points in Group A with Jamaica and Guatemala - just two teams will go through to the round of six next year which will produce three automatic qualifiers for the finals in Brazil.

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They will be looking to make amends for a poor performance in their last match, a 1-1 draw with Peru in Lima where Messi, who had scored 10 goals in his previous six internationals, had one of his quietest games for his country. South American champions Uruguay want a second successive upset over their neighbours after their Copa America quarter-final victory on penalties last year.

Uruguay’s coach Oscar Washington Tabarez does not believe in man-marking Messi, but rather in preventing Argentina from functioning in support of the Barcelona ace. “Messi is a great player, among the best seen in the history of football...so I’m not going to say too much about that because it would be redundant,” Tabarez told reporters in Montevideo on Tuesday.

“But Messi has a team around him trying to ensure be shows all his potential. “So we have to work on and counter everything Ar-gentina does for the ball to get to Messi and after Messi takes it try to mark him.”

The Uruguayans, World Cup semi-finalists in 2010, need to recover from a poor Sep-tember when they lost 4-0 away to Colombia and only managed a 1-1 draw at home to Ecuador.

Captain Diego Lugano believes this dou-ble away fixture will be the hardest trip for Uruguay, who play Bolivia at high altitude in La Paz next week, in the 16-match qualifying series. “These are key (qualifying) points, much more so after the last double-header when we didn’t do well,” Lugano said.

‘MOST DIFFICULT’

“We’re facing two matches that are surely the most difficult of the qualifying series. An Argentina-Bolivia sequence (away) is very hard and we’re practically obliged to bring back some points,” the central defender said. Uruguay have to manage without left wing back Alvaro Pereyra, who is suspended, and injured midfielders Diego Perez and Gaston Ramirez.

Argentina, who beat Paraguay 3-1 at home then drew 1-1 away to Peru last month, welcome back Sergio Agüero but have lost fellow striker Ezequiel Lavezzi to injury. Midfielder Javier Mascherano said good re-sults against Uruguay and then Chile away in Santiago four days later would put Argentina

well on course for a berth in the 2014 finals in Brazil.

“If we can get six out of six points i t would be ideal and we would be well on track to qualifying, not certain but on the right track,” Mascherano said a t Argent ina’s t r a i n i n g b a s e outside Buenos Aires.

“For us, the match against Uruguay is a classic. The last ones we h a v e p l a y e d against them were very tight (and) if we win we’d go with more confidence to Chile.” The Chileans, whose coach Claudio Borghi is serv-ing a four-match suspension for dis-sent, first travel to play Ecuador in the rarefied air of Quito nearly 3,000 metres above sea level on Friday (2100 GMT).

Colombia, with striker Falcao in red-hot scoring form, are at home to bottom team Paraguay in their favourite Carib-bean cauldron in Barranquilla (2030 GMT) and Bolivia, at home in both fixtures, host Peru in La Paz (2000 GMT).

Venezuela, in sixth place with 11 points having already played eight matches, have a bye at the halfway stage in the competition.

Messi poses headache for South American rivals

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi from Argentina,

right, celebrates after scoring a goal

against Real Madrid’s during a Spanish

La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou Stadium,

in Barcelona, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012.

Reuters

BUENOS AIRES - Stopping Lionel Messi is the primary concern of South American teams facing Argentina in the World Cup qualifiers. This week it is Uruguay’s turn. Argentina defend their lead in the South American group at home to Uruguay in Mendoza on Friday (0100 GMT Saturday). After seven matches they have 14 points, one more than Colombia and Ecuador and two ahead of Uruguay and Chile.

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MIAMI - Key forward Landon Donovan has been ruled out of the United States’ upcoming World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday after his knee injury proved to be worse than initially feared. The U.S. play in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday and then host Guatemala in Kansas City on Tuesday as they seek a place in the final qualifying round from the CONCACAF region for the 2014 finals.

Donovan, the national team’s all-time leading goal scorer, picked up the knee injury playing for his Major League Soccer team L.A. Galaxy against Real Salt Lake on Saturday. The forward skipped practice on Monday while his knee was evaluated by medical staff from the U.S. Soccer Federation and on Tuesday was ruled out.

FC Dallas winger Brek Shea, who was suffering from an ab-dominal strain and was unlikely to feature, has also been sent back to his club for further treatment. “It’s unfortunate for Landon and Brek that they won’t be able to play,” said U.S. national team coach Juergen Klinsmann.

“Landon was very optimistic over the weekend when his knee was feeling much better, but now he needs time to recover. We knew Brek was a question mark coming in, and now we have a clear picture of where he stands.” No replace-ments were immediately named.

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MADRID - The absence of Juan Mata from Vicente del Bosque’s Spain squad is proof of the quality the

world and European champions can draw on, mid-fielder Javi Martinez said on Tuesday. Mata has been

in sparkling form for European champions Chelsea in recent weeks but was overlooked for the World

Cup Group I qualifiers in Belarus on Friday and at home to France four

days later.He is one of several Spanish

players, alongside the likes of Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla and Man-chester City’s Javi Garcia, who

have performed impressively in the English Premier League but rarely

get a look-in with the national side.“That a player like Mata is absent

shows how hard it is to get into the squad,” Martinez told a news confer-ence as the players gathered at their training camp outside Madrid. “For me he is one of the five best players in the Premier League and the fact

he is not here shows the quality we have,” added the former

Athletic Bilbao player who joined Bayern Munich in

the close season.“But we cannot all be here and

for sure many p l a y e r s

d e s e r v e a p l a c e . H e (Mata) is very strong

mentally and that will help him as he tries to im-prove and win his place back.”

Mata, who competes for a place with Andres Iniesta, David Silva, Cesc Fabregas, Pedro and Jesus Na-vas, told Spanish media on Monday he expected to be included in Del Bosque’s plans after playing a part in the triumphant 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 campaigns.

“I was excited and confident about being called up, all the more so because of the form I am in at Chelsea,” the 24-year-old said. “I am in the best form so far since arriving in London. What I need to do now is keep it up so that I can win my place back.” Spain won

their opening qualifier away to an ultra-defensive Georgia 1-0.

Reuters

LONDON - Newcastle United faced criticism from local politicians and union leaders on Tuesday after the English Premier League club signed a four-year shirt sponsorship deal with short-term loan company Wonga. The Wonga brand, taken from a slang term for cash, will ap-pear on Newcastle’s famous black and white shirts from next season in an agreement that has focused atten-tion on the interest rates the company charges on its “pay-day loans”.

In a goodwill gesture to fans, Wonga said that it would not take advantage of the stadium naming rights it had also acquired, but would allow the club to revert to the historic and popular St James’ Park name for its home, currently known as the Sports Direct Arena.

However, the sponsorship was proving contentious in one of the poorest parts of England, where many people are facing financial problems. “It’s a sad indictment of the profit-at-any-price culture at Newcastle United,” city council

leader Nick Forbes said.A local union leader called on

club owner Mike Ashley, founder of the Sports Direct retail chain, to drop the deal. “Fans and the city will not be fobbed off by the renaming of the stadium,” said Karen Reay, regional secretary of the Unite union. “Our city’s proud footballing and com-munity culture will be tarnished by this deal - it cannot go through.”

MONEY TALKS

Premier League clubs are seeking to maximise sponsorship revenues after Manchester United agreed a record $559 million deal to have the Chevrolet brand on its shirt for seven years from 2014. Newcastle last week said that it was ending its sponsorship deal with finance company Virgin Money, which was worth only 3 million pounds ($4.8 million) a year.

Full financial terms of the Wonga deal were not disclosed. Wonga will spend at least 1.5 million pounds on supporting Newcastle’s academy for young players and a separate scheme

to help to train and educate teenagers in northeast England. “We are build-ing a club that can regularly compete for top honours at the highest level,” said Derek Llambias, the Newcastle United managing director.

“As everyone knows, a strong commercial programme is vital to this goal and I am delighted to wel-come Wonga into the fold as our lead commercial partner, alongside Puma and Sports Direct.”

Wonga already sponsors the shirts of English Championship (second division) club Blackpool and Scottish Premier League club Hearts, but the link with higher-profile Newcastle has intensified debate about the loan company’s business model.

The company offers short-term loans of up to 1,000 pounds, which are intended as an alternative means of finance to credit cards and tradi-tional personal loans.

The annual percentage rate (APR) on Wonga’s loans can exceed 4,000 percent, but the company defends its policies by saying that the maximum term for its loans is only one month

Mata absence is proof of Spain quality, says Martinez

AP Photo/PA, Nick Potts

Chelsea’s Juan Mata celebrates scoring

against Arsenal during the English Pre-

mier League soccer match at the Emirates

Stadium, London, Saturday Sept. 29, 2012.

Chelsea won the match 1-2.

Donovan ruled out of World Cup qualifiers

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Los Angeles Galaxy’s Landon Donovan, left, sits on the bench after injuring his leg during the second half of an MLS soccer match against Real Salt Lake, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, in Carson, Calif. Real Salt Lake won 2-1.

Just 14 players took the field on Tuesday for practice with other players doing gym work after trav-elling to Florida from their club action at the weekend.

Klinsmann’s team are currently

level on seven points in Group A with Jamaica and Guatemala - just two teams will go through to the round of six next year which will produce three automatic qualifiers for the finals in Brazil.

Newcastle United under fire for Wonga sponsorship

Reuters

Rafa Nadal has no timeline for his return to competi-tive tennis but on Tuesday the world number four did not completely rule out the possibility of returning from injury in time for next month’s Davis Cup and ATP World Tour finals. Nadal has not played since suffer-ing a shock second-round Wimbledon defeat to Czech Lukas Rosol in June and has yet to return to the practise court, but the 26-year-old Spaniard left the door open for a comeback before the end of the season.

He conceded, however, that the chances of appearing at the ATP World Tour final in 26 days or helping Spain against the Czech Republic in the Nov. 16-18 Davis Cup final were remote. “Impossible, no. But difficult, yes,” Nadal said during a conference call to pro-mote his participation in an exhibition match against Juan Martin del Potro in March.

“I want to go day-by-day, I go every day to the gym, the swimming pool to continue with my recovery. I am trying not to think that far.” The winner of 11 grand slam titles, including a record seven French Opens, Nadal missed the London Olympics and U.S. Open as he fights to undo some of the damage inflicted on his fragile knees from years of competing on hard courts.

Nadal spends his days in the gym, swim-ming and undergoing

therapy treatments but, while he acknowledged feeling some improvements, he is not ready to hit the practise court. “It has been very, very tough for me because I feel that my knee didn’t improve in the right way ... but the last couple of weeks the improvement in my knee is something that I can really feel,” said Nadal. “That helps me to keep working hard doing every day what I have do.

“I am working to try to comeback to practise on the tennis court in a not very long period of time.” Progress has been frustratingly slow but Nadal maintained he is not going to rush his return.

He has dealt with injuries several times throughout a career that has included a record 21 World Tour Masters

titles and an Olympic gold medal but has entered uncharted territory with the length of his current

layoff which has left him unsure what to expect or when he will be back to full fitness.

“That is something I will know when my I feel my knee completely without pain when I start to practise,” said Nadal. “I didn’t have in the past this long period of time outside of the tennis court, outside of

the competition.“I can imagine when I come back

I will need time practise and practise more and more every day, maybe that will take one month and a half.

“I don’t know, the most impor-tant thing is to continue with the treatment ... when I don’t feel nothing, hopefully that will hap-pen soon, I will comeback on the tennis court.”

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Pakraman Budaga Village, that’s the name of a village which is located one kilometer west of the City Semarapura, Klungkung. A village with an area of about 35 hectares and a

population of approximately 198 heads of households (families), or 733 souls, consists of 367 male and 366 female. Since the begin-ning of its existence, when divided into two Budaga banjar

(Banjar Budaga Klod and Budaga Kaler), the people really involved in agricultural sector as their main occupation.

But over

time, farming had abandoned by its citizens. The main reason for the dissolution of agricultural

was regeneration. Not only that, it is also because the area of agricultural land in the traditional village area has decreased as Budaga for resi-dential purposes, the area for the benefit of the traditional villages such as worship (temples), tombs and other places people try several, also be-cause the orienta-tion of the current generation In-digenous Village has also changed in response to Budaga era of development.

World agri-culture was not reliable any-more to villag-ers located at an altitude of 117 meters above sea level it. In addition to the amount of

his remaining diligent pen three families, also because not many agricultural products that can be relied on from there. The young

generation whose parents used to pursue the agricultural sector, now not again. They prefer to pursue a new world that can be done at home. If working on someone, it was still in the environment Budaga.

One area of work in recent years so engrossed Budaga Vil-lage residents after switching from agriculture is a brass handicrafts. Various types of products can be made of brass. There gongseng, gerondong, cookie cutters and vari-ous pemangku (trophy).

Especially for the Pemangku (holy priest for Hindu people), the circulation of the products are very fast because the circulation marketing presence coupled with the production of tourist trophy Kamasan village. Sales not only in Bali, but up to the outside Bali and even abroad. However, as the rise of pemangku orders, manufacturing orders are also subsided pemangku in Budaga. Craft type too, although it still use the same material switch-es, brass. Type of craft is the latest bells (banyu).

That is to say, the village is the village Pakraman Budaga vari-ous craft bells. Genta and various types of equipment Ida Pedanda plants cult, such as Nawasanga and siwakrana, currently in great demand. In addition to ordering stakeholders throughout Indonesia, was also ordered by foreign custom-ers for the benefit of accessories and souvenirs.

Budaga Village

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Despite therefore missing the last three rounds, Stoner could still play a vital role in the championship. Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa can still seal the 2012 crown, but only if he wins the remaining four events and current points leader Jorge Lorenzo finishes third or lower.

Stoner says he will find out what level he can ride in the first practice of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. “The first session on Friday will be crucial to see how my ankle feels in the boot and the degree of move-ment I have and pressure I can apply,” he explained.

“The Motegi circuit is very stop-start with a lot of hard braking and accelerating, it’s pretty tough on the body and physically quite demanding.” Stoner said he was excited to be returning, adding: “It’s going to be great to see all my team and get back on my bike in Motegi this weekend.

“The last six weeks have been pretty tough for me, I’ve had to sit around and rest

my ankle, get some physio and try to occupy my time - thankfully I’ve had [daughter] Ally around to keep me occupied.

“I’ve been watching the races at home, I felt bad for Dani in Misano, but these things can happen - as they did for Jorge in Assen.” Pedrosa, who beat Lorenzo and Stoner to victory in last year’s race at Motegi, said he was looking forward to the weekend.

“I love Motegi, it’s a track with strong braking and strong acceleration,” he said. “It’s the most important weekend for Honda and I really enjoy the circuit. “We have now the most demanding period of races ahead, but we will keep taking things step by step, thinking race by race.

“We had a good race there last year and we will work hard with the team to be as competitive as possible.” Lorenzo, Stoner and Pedrosa have all won just once at Motegi, in respective order over the last three years.

Reuters

BELGRADE - More games and bigger arenas will enable Europe’s premier basketball competition to aim for NBA standards, Euroleague chief Jordi Bertomeu has vowed ahead of the new season starting on Thursday.

This month’s warm-up games between Euroleague teams and NBA outfits suggest the gulf between the top sides from Europe and North America has narrowed, with Fenerbahce Istanbul pulling off a shock 97-91 win over 17-times NBA champions Boston Celtics.

Bertomeu, who met with NBA commissioner David Stern in Berlin shortly before local team Alba pushed 2011 champions Dallas Mav-ericks to the limit in an 89-84 defeat on Saturday, acknowledged that looking up to the NBA and playing against the league’s top contenders has helped Europe to improve.

“These games are an opportunity to work with our NBA friends, share the experience and learn because they have already done many things that we want to do in our evolution as a professional league,” Bertomeu told the 24-team Euroleague’s official website (www.euroleague.net).

“We have different models, a different sports culture and of course different resources but we share the same vision about the importance of improving the quality of the game and the importance of basketball becoming a global sport. “Specifically in this field I have to say that the NBA has been doing a terrific job. We have in front of us a very important Euroleague season with more games, more weeks and teams moving to bigger arenas, culminating in the Final Four in London.”

The teams are divided into four groups of six in the preliminary stage and the top four from each group will advance into the last 16, where they will be divided into two groups of eight instead of four groups of four.

The top four teams from each of those groups, operating on a round-robin home and away system like the preliminary stage, will progress into the quarter-finals, whose winners will qualify for the Final Four in London’s O2 Arena from May 10-12.

Stoner unsure of Motegi potential as he returns from injury

Casey Stoner cannot be confident of being competitive on his MotoGP return until he assesses his fitness in Friday practice at Motegi. The Australian has been out for six weeks after sustaining ankle fractures during qualifying at Indianapolis - although Brno was the first race he missed as he braved the pain to finish fourth on the US circuit.

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Expanded Euroleague strives to rival NBA

Nadal holds out slim hope for return this season

Rafael Nadal

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The row has been marked by violent protests and calls for boy-cotts of Japanese products in China. Japanese car makers, including Toyota Motor, later reported a tumble in auto sales in the world’s biggest car market.

“We were informed two days ago that Governor Zhou’s schedule might require him to cancel his lecture in Tokyo,” an IMF spokes-woman said. “It has now been con-firmed that his deputy Yi Gang will represent him.”

Zhou had been set to deliver what amounted to a closing keynote lecture on Sunday. A Japanese government official said Zhou’s absence would

be “regrettable”.The IMF comments confirm a

report on Tuesday by Chinese state news agency Xinhua that China’s delegation will not be led by its most senior finance officials. According to Chinese protocol, only the most se-nior officials usually lead such trips. China’s delegation will be led by Yi Gang, vice head of the People’s Bank of China, and Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao, Xinhua said.

The disputed group of islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Di-aoyu in China, are located near rich fishing grounds and potentially huge oil and gas reserves. Taiwan also asserts its sovereignty over the

uninhabited islets.Japan is scheduled to host the IMF

and World Bank annual meetings for the first time in nearly half a century. About 20,000 people are expected to attend the event, making it one of the world’s largest international conferences.

“If he (Zhou) is not coming, it is regrettable that a representative of the Chinese authorities does not par-ticipate in this important international meeting in Tokyo. At all events, Ja-pan-China economic relationship is very important and Japan will continue to communicate with China from a broader standpoint,” said a Japanese government official.

REUTERS/Jason Lee

China’s Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan listens to a question at a news conference during the ongoing National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s parliament, in Beijing March 12, 2012.

Top China delegate pulls out of IMF meet amid islands rowReuters

TOKYO - The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that China’s central bank governor will not lead the Chinese delegation at the IMF’s semi-annual meeting this week, in what appeared to be a snub to host Japan. Zhou Xiaochuan’s failure to attend the meeting follows a deterioration in relations between China and Japan over their competing claims to sovereignty of some islands in the East China Sea.

AntaraTIMIKA - The Ministry of

Transportation, through the Directorate General of Air Transportation, will develop a number of airports in the provinces of Papua and West Papua, according to local transportation office spokes-man Bambang Tjahjono.

“In order that more com-mercial air l ines serve the eastern Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, the Ministry of Transportation will develop airports there,” he said.

“The National Commission of Police will conduct an investigation in order to determine whether the case has been handled profession-ally,” Commissioner Edi Hasibuan said here on Tuesday.

“The commission will ask Na-tional Police Chief Timur Pra-dopo to sanction the police officials wishing to work on the case,” he stated.

“From the very beginning, we have reckoned that the Novel case was not appropriately handled. But now our decision gives an impres-sion that the police are forcing the issue,” Edi said, adding that he would also support the move to stall the case in order to avoid public outrage.

Novel was accused of being

responsible for a shooting incident in which his subordinates killed a suspect in Bengkulu in 2004.

Tensions have been rising be-tween the KPK and the police over who should investigate the alleged corruption case involving the pro-curement of driving simulators by the former chief of the National Traffic Police Corps, Inspector General Djoko Susilo.

Earlier, on Friday night, dozens of police officers arrived at the KPK building shortly after Djoko under-went questioning by KPK officials over his alleged involvement in the corruption case.

The police officers accused Novel of committing a criminal act that led to the death of the victim in Bengkulu.

Police commission to set up team to investigate Novel caseAntara

JAKARTA - The National Commission of Police (Kompolnas) will appoint a team to probe into the case involving Police Com-missioner Novel Baswedan, who has been assigned as an inves-tigator at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Several airports coming up in Papua

Bambang stated that the run-ways of Sentani in Jayapura and Sorong in West Papua would be extended.

“The runway of Sentani air-port will be extended to 3,000 metres, in addition to the de-velopment of its taxiway and a boarding bridge or garbarata,” he noted.

“The Ministry of Transpor-tation and Sorong mayor have also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the expansion of the runway of Sorong airport in West Papua,” Bambang said.

“The MoU also involves the construction of an alternative airport in Segun,” he added.

According to Bambang, other airports to be developed in Papua and West Papua in-clude those in Kaimana, Wa-mena, Manokwari, Merauke, Wagete Baru in Deiyai, and Tamanof.

“The Ministry of Trans-portation has allocated a lot of funds for the eastern In-donesian region because we give our special attention to Papua and West Papua,” he explained.

AntaraJakarta - Indonesia and Japan have agreed

on infrastructure development projects worth Rp140 trillion in Jakarta and its vicinity cities under the Metropolitan Priority Areas develop-ment program.

“We have agreed the projects to be fi-nanced 55 percent by private parties and 45 percent by public-private partnership and using the national budget and loans,” chief economic minister Hatta Rajasa said in the 4th Indonesia-Japan Joint Economic Forum here on Tuesday.

The agreement was reached in the Third Steering Committee Meeting on industrial investment under the Metropolitan Priority Areas development program.

Hatta attended the 4th Indonesia-Japan Joint Economic Forum along with industry minister MS Hidayat, tourism and creative economy minister Elka Pangestu and a number of offi-cials from various ministries and the Indone-sian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Japan in the meeting was represented by foreign minister Koichiro Gemba, economic and trade minister Yukio Edano and a number of state officials and businessmen.

“In the meeting 45 projects have been iden-tified to be finished in 2020,” he said.

The projects would be carried out along with the implementation of four MPA goals namely development of better city environment, growth of new sub-corridors and multiple gate-way and development of low-carbon energy sources which are expected to be realized in 2030 in the Jakarta Metropolitan areas.

Japanese foreign minister Koichiro Gemba told newsmen Japan has estimated it would extend around Rp125 trillion to finance the projects through Japan`s Official Development Assistance and foreign aid.

“We estimate we will extend around Rp125 trillion or one trillion yen for the next 10 years,” he said.

Japan still opens possibilities to add funding in case requested by the Indonesian govern-ment, he added.

The meeting has identified minimally five big MPA projects including the develop-ment of a mass rapid transport system, a new international-scale sea port in Cilamaya, the extension of a Soekarno-Hatta airport and the development of new research clustes and water waste canal system in Jakarta.

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Indonesian Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa

Today, Fadlan believes he would be in paradise if he had been picked.

“I still believe it ... because it’s not promised by my recruiter, but God,” Fadlan said softly in a mosque near his house in central Jakarta.

Fadlan was jailed for four years in 2006 after being found guilty of harboring terrorists, including Noordin M. Top, who was Southeast Asia’s most wanted militant before police killed him in 2009. Fadlan was released on good behavior that same year and is now part of the government’s deradicalization program, designed to reform convicted extremists.

He told AP he also was involved in two 2001 bombings at churches in eastern Jakarta that injured more than 70 worship-pers. He was never convicted in those attacks due to a lack of evidence.

Now 36, Fadlan says he’s not actively involved with any militant groups in Indonesia and no longer interested in becoming a groom there because the country is not seen as a battle ground for holy war. But he smiles broadly when asked if he would still be willing to serve as a suicide bomber on another front if called.

“Nobody refuses a reward in heaven, right?” he says. “But I live like I’m in a large aquarium now ... authorities are watching me everywhere I go, and I could not go abroad.”

A turning point for Indonesian terrorist groups came in 2010, when police raided a paramilitary jihadi camp hidden in the moun-tains of Aceh province. An anti-terrorism crackdown followed that left more than 100 suspected militants either dead or arrested.

Another alleged Bali bombings mastermind, Dulmatin, was shot to death in a raid. Radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was arrested; last year he was sentenced to 15 years in jail.

That led Indonesian extremist religious leaders to order mili-tants to change their mission. Instead of going after Westerners and American symbols they were directed to target Indonesian ‘infidels’ such as police, anti-terrorism squads, lawmakers and others deemed as obstacles to transforming the secular country into an Islamic state governed by Sharia law.

Most of Indonesia, a country of 240 million, practices a moder-ate style of Islam that condemns violence, and its government is keeping up pressure against extremists. Data from the National Police revealed more than 700 militants have been arrested over the past 10 years, including 84 last year. Dozens more have been killed since the Bali bombings.

Though the number of domestic terrorist attacks has risen, suicide bombers are more likely to act alone or in smaller groups than they did in years past.

“I don’t think there is any one person who is the current face of terrorism in Indonesia,” said Ken Conboy, a Jakarta-based expert on Southeast Asian terrorism. “Rather, the terrorists have splintered into small cells that have only fleeting contact, if that, with one another.”

That lack of organization makes it more difficult to pull off devastating attacks.

Last year, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque packed with police, injuring 30 people, and another detonated his explosives in a church in Central Java’s Solo town, dying instantly and wounding 22 worshippers.

Just last month, police arrested 10 Islamist militants and seized a dozen homemade bombs from a group suspected of planning suicide attacks against security forces and plotting to blow up the parliament building. The alleged bomb maker, Muhammad Toriq, turned himself in to police while wearing an empty suicide vest.

The explosives seized were pipe bombs, dangerous but much less powerful than those used in Bali 10 years ago. But other would-be suicide bombers remain at large.

In March, authorities received an intelligence tip that at least one jihadist “groom” had arrived in Bali. They found a note he wrote to his family, saying he would carry out a suicide mission with God’s blessing and that the family would be reunited in paradise, said Ansyaad Mbai, who heads the country’s anti-terrorism agency.

Security forces killed five suspects who were believed to be plotting several armed robberies in Bali to fund their terrorist activities. But the groom got away, and it’s unclear what attack he had planned or whether he will still attempt it.

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LUXEMBOURG — European Union finance ministers grappled Tuesday with how to support their struggling banks and ensure that failing financial institutions don’t have the power to drag down entire countries with them.

A handful of countries agreed at a meeting of Euro-pean Union finance ministers in Luxembourg to impose a tax on financial transactions in the hopes of curbing risky, speculative trades and perhaps even creating a fund that could be used to help banks in trouble. But the 11 countries that support the tax still have to hammer out exactly how it will work and submit it for approval.

France and Germany, which led the charge on the tax, had originally hoped it would be adopted by the whole European Union — but several countries, like the Britain and the Netherlands, expressed concern about its economic impact.

The piecemeal agreement on the tax illustrates how difficult it has been for European leaders to forge ahead even though there is a gernal agreement that the solution to the debt crisis crippling the 17 countries that use the euro is to move closer together and adopt uniform rules on everything from budget deficits to banks. The hope is that stricter rules will prevent the crisis from recurring and that closer coordination will give the countries the ability to respond better to future crises.

Also at the meeting, ministers were struggling to outline how a so-called banking union — one rulebook for all EU banks and a single supervisor for many of them — would take shape.

Europe is in its third year of its financial crisis, brought on in part by overspending and excessive government debt. Recessions in several countries have worsened the problem, and EU leaders have struggled to solve the twin problems of too much debt and too little growth.

Banks have played a big role in creating the euro-zone’s financial crisis. The government debt the banks had bought up during the boom times of the eurozone is now no longer considered a safe bet and the banks are struggling to unload it — usually at hefty losses. Gov-ernments have been forced to step in to prop the banks up in many cases. But rescuing banks is expensive and has added to investors’ concerns that European countries are simply spending too much.

The challenge now is to break this vicious cycle. Several countries want Europe’s new permanent bailout fund — the European Stability Mechanism — to have the power to hand money to banks directly, rather than lending it through national governments as it does now.

Leaders have agreed that for that to happen, the European Central Bank must be put in charge as the supervisor of the banks. Many countries are pushing for that to happen by the end of the year. But some coun-tries, like Germany and the Netherlands, are dragging their feet and also quibbling over which banks would be eligible.

Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said the union was important to breaking the link between the troubles of banks and those of their governments, but that speed was not the most important consideration.

“It’s important that we do it step-by-step and that the substance is leading and not the calendar,” he said, add-ing that the Jan. 1 deadline seemed too ambitious.

Sales of Japanese cars in China are in a free-fall. At the China Open last weekend, a representative of Sony Corp., which is a sponsor of the tennis tournament, was loudly booed at the title presentation for the women’s final. Chinese tourists are cancelling trips to Japan in droves. And some analysts say Japan’s economy will shrink in the last three months of the year.

The business and economic shock-waves come after Japan last month nationalized the tiny islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, which were already under Tokyo’s con-trol but are also claimed by Beijing. The move set off violent protests in China, and a widespread call to boycott Japa-nese goods.

A report by J.P. Morgan, released Tuesday, projected Japanese auto exports to China will crash 70 percent during the October-December period. The export of auto parts will slip by 40 percent — about the same drop estimated for exports of other consumer products, such as electronics, it said.

The aftermath of the latest phase of the sizzling territorial spat with China will cause Japan’s economy, the world’s third biggest, to shrink 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter, according to J.P. Morgan. It had previously forecast no growth in the quarter.

J.P. Morgan chief economist Masaaki Kanno fears the fallout could get worse in the months ahead, as the September sales numbers for Japanese automakers only account for damage that started the middle of the month.

Kanno’s report said the number of Chinese tourists would decline by 70 percent while Japanese tourists to China would fall by 30 percent.

Ayumi Kunimatu, spokeswoman for Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways, said 43,000 seats had been cancelled for flights from September through the end of November — 28,000 of them from China to Japan, and 15,000 from Japan to China. Up to now, China flights had made up a quarter of ANA’s international passengers.

A person who answered at China

International Travel Service in Beijing confirmed group tours to Japan had been called off. The Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported that more than a hundred thousand Chinese cancelled Ja-pan trips, and the number of tour groups to Japan had plunged by 40 percent.

The tourism fallout to hot springs and ski resorts is likely to deal a serious blow to Japan’s regional economies, which are already more vulnerable to such slowdowns.

China, with its growing middle class, had been one of the emerging markets that Japanese companies were counting on to boost sales amid a long stagnation in their domestic market.

Japan’s trade with China reached record levels over the last 12 months, totaling more than $340 billion. China is Japan’s biggest export market.

Although the immediate damage is being felt in Japan, the souring rela-tions and the realization of the so-called “China risks” are likely to crimp invest-ments from Japan, hurting the Chinese economy as well, in the long run. Japan not only exports to China but also was significant manufacturing investments there in areas such as autos.

Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, based in Valhalla, New York, said the territorial dispute is not going to set off a shoot-out.

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Japan economy shaky as island spat hits business

Associated Press

TOKYO — The craggy island specks in the East China Sea aren’t even an economic backwater. They have no factories, no highways, no shops, no people — only goats. But the high-pitched row between Beijing and Tokyo over their ownership is exacting a growing toll on Japan, threatening to send its recovery from last year’s disasters into reverse.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Chinese tourists take a souvenir photograph at Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. At stake are billions of dollars in investments and far more in sales and trade between Japan and China, the world’s third- and second-largest economies.

Negara (Bali Post)-

This year the focus of Negara city construction and civic center is on the gardens and parks which can be seen around the city. In making sure that they are as hoped, Vice Regent of Jembrana, I Made Kembang Hartawan, last Tuesday (9/10) raided those locations with one of them located behind the Ir Soekarno Art Building.

The gardens constructed were also for the kids of Jembrana that has minim place for playing rounds. It is hoped this area of the art building can be an education center, as there is a regional library completed with Wi-Fi connection and so the people can use the internet connection around the building. It is hoped more of these places will take place and so the people can feel comfort and easy to find an entertainment space. “If

all these times the kids had to play by bringing cash or paying, they will get it for free here. We want the people of Jembrana to have a room to play with the family, cheap but with quality. This creation and additional facilities is one way of it,” Hartawan stated.

The construction or renovation of gardens took place on the bor-ders of Negara City and Pecanga-kan Garden too. There is at least IDR 5 billion budgeted for this to create or renovate public spaces also step by step rehabs on village officials’ office which is a decade routine. Vice who was accom-panied by Head of Public Works Agency, Gusti Ngurah Mertadana, along with LHKP, Made Widana, asked the cleanliness workers at Jembrana Art Building to be in-creased. While for Gilimanuk, one of the gateways to Bali, will have its renovation next year. (kmb26)

Technical Activity Executive Officer (PPTK), Putu Sukarja, when contacted on Tuesday (Oct 9) said the execution of the building project so far had been rising quite rapidly. Even, percent-age of the progress had indicated 1.57 percent. “Implementer of the project has been success-fully completed 60.72 percent,’” said Sukarja doubling as the Division Head of Environmental Masterplan and Building, the Denpasar Urban Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP).

Sukarja said that until Monday (Oct 8) the percentage reached 59.15. Seeing the implemen-tation of the project, his party hoped the building could be completed according to the schedule set forth, namely at the end of December 2012.

However, Sukarja expected that completion of the project could be accelerated from the initial schedule. His party wanted the building could be completed by December 12, 2012. “In terms of the date, it will give a special impres-sion,” he said.

In the project implementation, said Sukarja, the partner applied the strategy of dividing

three different work areas simultaneously, for example, the execution of lift, mechanical and engineering. Nevertheless, other works such as installation of ceiling and sills were also still going on. For mechanical engineering, Sukarja said his party would make coordination with each regional working unit (SKPD) that would occupy the building such as the Licensing Office and Civil Registry Office. “Installation is also in accordance with the required facilities and infrastructure by each regional working unit,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the basement parking project on Jalan Sulawesi Denpasar had also reached 69.26 percent. In other words, it had surpassed the target of 58.35 percent. The project was once delayed due to the collapse of basement parking rim claiming two fatalities. (kmb12)

The building of the new public service building is seen in Lumintang.

DEnpaSar - Sanur tourist area has been appointed as a na-tional tourism strategic area by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy of the RI. Aside from Sanur, the ministry also selected the Wakatobi (Southeast Sulawesi), Komodo Islands (Nusa Tenggara), Toraja (South Sulawesi), and Bromo (East Java).

Chairman of the Sanur Devel-opment Foundation (YPS), Ida Bagus Gede Sidharta Putra, said the decision was conveyed by the expert staff of the Tourism Program Planning, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, not long ago. The management of YPS was asked to prepare a number of requirements needed as material of the program study.

“There are five tourist areas ap-pointed for the program, including Sanur. One of the considerations is that Sanur can promote the tourism potential owned independently and sustainably,” said IB Sidharta.

He said the expert staff of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy explained the concept of strategic national tourism and how the Sanur village was selected along with the four other areas. The five areas selected would perform the stages of research and study under-taken by a special team.

“The five areas, including Sanur, will be implemented based on the scope of destination, industry, mar-ket and institutional supporters. And we welcome and highly support the program,” he said.

He explained that tourism played a central role in creating the quality of life that was not only limited to the economy, but also the welfare in wider context. Sa-nur solidly preserving the synergy of tourism, potential of nature, art, culture and creativity of its residents had been able to make the area an international renowned tourism village.

“We are very aware of the dy-

namics on the growing tourism development. To that end, a holistic planning related to Tri Hita Karana-based village is highly required,” he said.

As known, the Ministry of Tour-ism and Creative Economy would develop 50 national tourist destina-tions until 2025. The government also prepared the National Tourism Plan which contained a systemic framework and approach in terms of the national tourism development including the development of those 50 destinations.

The fifty destinations were divid-ed into 88 national tourism strategic areas and 222 national tourism de-velopment areas considered to have a potential. For that purpose, the re-gions needed to prepare themselves and should be committed to develop the regional tourism. Meanwhile, the key to success in the develop-ment of national tourism lay in the good cooperation, coordination and planning. (BTn/kmb)

Vice Regent inspect garden construction Costing five billion rupiah

Sanur Appointed as National Tourism Strategic Area

Building project of public services speeded upDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Building construction for public services at Lumintang was feared to be delayed. How-ever, after a few months, the progress of building construction worth IDr 40.7 billion has successfully surpassed the target. after the last Eid holidays, implementation of the project was accelerated.

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BUSINESS

Bali News International4 Thursday, October 11, 2012 Thursday, October 11, 2012 13International RLDW

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The presi-dential candidates bear down Tuesday on Ohio, a state that could decide the Nov. 6 elec-tion, as the U.S. presidential race moves into its final four weeks with the Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s shift toward more moderate positions apparently narrowing the gap with President Barack Obama.

Obama has spent much of his time since last week’s first presi-dential debate trying to convince voters that Romney has suddenly and fundamentally shifted his position on income taxes. Romney had been promising to lower tax rates for all Americans, something independent experts predicted that would vastly increase the already massive U.S. deficit unless Rom-ney also increased the tax burden for middle income earners.

In the debate, Romney unex-pectedly changed course, saying he would not institute any tax cut that raised the deficit or put a greater burden on the middle class. He also presented himself as aggressive and competent during the debate, while Obama put in a poor performance.

The shift in the polls toward Romney after that first confron-tation with Obama would seem to reinforce the argument that the candidate who can win voter confidence on fixing the strug-gling U.S. economy will win the White House.

The debate win notched in his favor, Romney on Monday delivered what his campaign char-acterized as a major foreign policy speech that attacked Obama on is-sues where polling shows Obama is seen as clearly viewed as the most capable candidate. Romney sought to burnish his credentials as a potential commander in chief in his address before Virginia

Military Institute cadets, asserting that Obama’s efforts have been weak in the volatile Middle East and his leadership in world affairs lacking overall.

Tuesday’s focus on Ohio un-derscores the importance both men place on the swing state. Romney will be joined in Akron by New Jersey’s tough-talking Gov. Chris Christie. Obama will rally students at Ohio State Uni-versity in Columbus, the state capital.

Ohio is one of a handful of U.S. states where voters do not reliably vote for the presidential candidate of one party or the other. Because the president is not chosen according to the outcome of the nationwide popular vote but in state-by-state contests, Ohio and other so-called swing states will determine the outcome of the election. Romney also plans a stop in Iowa, another swing state, on Tuesday.

Both men were scrambling Monday to show their optimism and determination to win the election.

The Romney campaign ridi-culed Obama’s campaign for fo-cusing on Big Bird instead of seri-ous issues. Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg pointed to Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination in 2008, when he said, “If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.”

While Obama maintains more paths to victory in the swing states, polling shows a tightening race after more than 67 million people watched Romney shine in the Denver debate last week. The challenger’s path victory is extremely narrow, particularly without Ohio. No Republican has won the presidency without carrying the state.

Tens of thousands of demonstra-tors defied a ban on protests, gath-ering in Syntagma square to voice their displeasure with the German leader, who many blame for forcing painful cuts on Greece in exchange for two EU-IMF bailout packages worth over 200 billion euros.

Some pelted police with rocks, bottles and sticks, and tried to bust through a barricade set up to protect Merkel and her delegation, who were meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at his office sev-eral hundred meters away.

Police detained dozens of pro-testers in what they said was one of the biggest demonstrations in months.

Merkel is visiting Greece for the first time since Europe’s debt crisis erupted here three years ago to de-liver a message of support, but no new money, to a nation hammered by recession and fighting to stay in the euro.

She was given the red carpet treatment and full military honors when she arrived at Athens airport in the early afternoon. Samaras greeted her with a handshake as she exited the German air force jet

and a band played the German and Greek national anthems.

In the centre of Athens, the re-ception was less warm.

On the central square next to parliament, four people dressed in German military uniforms and riding on a small jeep, waved black-white-and-red swastika flags and stuck their hands out in the Nazi salute.

Banners read “Merkel out, Greece is not your colony” and “This is not a European Union, it’s slavery”.

Police have deployed 6,000 offi-cers, including anti-terrorist units and rooftop snipers, to provide security during the six-hour visit. German sites in the Greek capital, including the embassy and Goethe Institute, are under special protection.

After steering clear of Greece for the past five years, Merkel decided to visit now for several reasons.

She wants to show support for Samaras, a fellow conservative, as he struggles to impose more cuts on a society fraying at the edges after five years of recession.

At a joint appearance before the press, she is expected to confirm her desire to keep Greece in the

euro zone, after members of her government flirted with the idea of an exit earlier this year.

With a year to go until Germany holds an election, Merkel also hopes to neutralize opposition criticism that she has neglected Greece and contributed to its woes by insisting on crushing budget cuts.

“Her visit to Athens is primarily about political positioning, and the opportunity to clarify her position on Greece,” said Alex White, an analyst at J.P. Morgan.

Greece is in talks with its “troi-ka” of lenders - the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund - on the next tranche of a 130-billion-euro ($170-billion) loan package, its second bailout since 2010.

Without the 31.5-billion-euro tranche, Greece says it will run out of money by the end of No-vember.

Many Greeks say they cannot take more of the wage cuts and tax hikes that have left a quarter of the workforce jobless and slashed the country’s economic output by a fifth.

Ties between Germany and Greece run deep. Thousands of Greeks came to Germany after World War Two as “guest workers” to help rebuild the shattered country and more than 300,000 Greeks cur-rently reside there.

Obama, Romney focus on swing-state Ohio

AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File

The Romney campaign ridiculed Obama’s campaign for focusing on Big Bird instead of serious issues.

AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis

Riot police fight with demonstrators during clashes in front of the parliament in Athens on Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012.

Greek police clash with protesters during Merkel visitReuters

ATHENS - Greek police fired teargas and stun grenades at protest-ers in central Athens on Tuesday when they tried to break through a barrier and reach visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Amlapura (Bali Post) –

Many hotels or villas with beautiful view of rice fields at Sidemen are operating with no permits alias illegal yet it is heard that these accommodations are still asked for its tax payment from one hotel owner as stated by Karangasem Commission A Representative, Gusti Lanang Sidemen Endrawata, in a hearing with Head of Karangasem Permit Service Group (KP2T) last Tuesday (9/10). It is a curiousity why any investors are not bothered in getting its permits and so a research on how many of them needs to be noted as hotels or vil-las are let grown on these beautiful rice fields. “If they are ignored while the investors are ignoring any permits to be processed because Karangasem Government is letting it happen, then it is disadvantaging the government itself as all the beautiful rice fields have converted to hotels, the people don’t feel it’s advantage as the Real Regional Income from its Hotel Restaurants Taxes or other taxes are not com-ing in,” Sidemen stated.

In other hand, other Commission A member, Wayan Pandu Pra-panca Lagosa, also stated many provider towers are being built here too when actually a localization regulation on it still hasn’t been inaugurated. Pandu questions if all of these towers have its permits as one of them was stop before located at Yeh Malet, Manggis as it has no permit. Head of KP2T, Ir. Ketut Sedana Merta, M.T. stated there will be an investigation on the towers constructions also its permits. It is admitted that he did not bring the data at the time. The last stopping of a tower built did happen in Manggis which at the time Yeh Malet did not ask for any permit while Ulakan has one. (013)

It was affirmed by Headman of Sesetan, Nyoman Agus Mahardika, when encountered in the midst of supervision at location of the screen printing on Tuesday (Oct 9). Present in the monitoring was the Head of public order officer (Satpol PP) of Denpasar, IB Alit Wiradana, Subdistrict Head of South Denpasar, AA Risnawan and some officials of local village.

Agus Mahardika revealed the business actually had been running for a long time. However, previously the local residents were given the as-sistance of clean water by the screen printing business owner. Now, the water assistance had been discontin-ued by the owner of screen printing. As a result, residents re-used their

well water. Ironically, their well water had been contaminated. “We received the complaints of residents last month. It has been followed up by immediately making mediation in the headman’s office,” he said.

Before the mediation his party was also monitoring the location and found if the waste manage-ment was poor. Even, the business had no permit. From the results, it was decided to hold mediation by involving all parties, including the business owner. “The owner is will-ing to close the business temporar-ily while submitting the necessary permits,” said Mahardika.

Risnawan added that contamina-tion kindled by the screen printing

business was estimated to reach a radius of 20 to 25 meters from the location. The land area of 800 square meters had been contracted since 1992. Since then, the screen printing business had been started. Surpris-ingly, the headman, subdistrict head and public order officer just knew if the business running since 20 years ago had no permit at all.

Meanwhile, the Head of Public Order Officer of Denpasar, IB Alit Wiradana, denied if his party and the team were blamed to have been cheated. During his position as subdis-trict head of South Denpasar in 2006 there were no complaints or reports from residents related to the screen printing business. “So far, the residents were given clean water by the business owner. However, since the clean water supply was discontinued, the residents complained,” he said.

Aside from screen printing business, local residents also began complaining about the semi-permanent houses occu-pied by scavengers. Other than building a house, the location was also taken advantage as warehouse. (kmb12)

Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Results of the census made by the Central Statistic Agency (BPS) in the Social Protection Program in Bule-leng reaped a number of complaints from local residents. The results in-dicated that many poor people were declared well-off, where in reality those people were still poor.

Information compiled in the field on Tuesday (Oct 9) told that one of the alleged poor people that were inappropriate with the reality was found at Panji Anom village, Sukasada subdistrict. In 2010, at the village were listed 347 poor people. After the 2012 census, the number of poor people decreased to 299 households.

In truth, there were still many poor people at the village. Con-versely, some residents with well-off economic condition were even categorized into the poor. Even, there were government officials who were also listed as the poor.

Headman of Panji Anom, Su-kasada subdistrict, Putu Mudita,

confirmed last Tuesday if the data of poor people at his village were allegedly unsuitable with reality. Mudita said the results of census on the poor at the village were received around three months ago. After be-ing examined, in fact the data were not in accordance with the actual condition in the community.

According to the census, the number of poor people apparently reduced as many as 48 families. While according to field observa-tions, condition of poor people who were no longer listed as poor people was still relatively poor.

More than that, Mudita claimed to be surprised after seeing the results of the latest census where many well-off people were listed to be poor. Meanwhile, the really poor people were even declared well-off and no longer listed. According to Mudita, the data were feared to have an impact on the realization of social assistance by government to the poor at villages.

Even, he worried that social assistance of the government like

rice for the poor (raskin) and other assistance would not be on target. Besides, people who were really poor but did not get assistance were ascertained to protest and could kindle problems at village. “If these data are enforced, I am afraid the government social assistance will not be on target. Even, it will cause problems,” he explained.

On the other hand, Mudita said that his party had rechecked to BPS Singaraja regarding the census data. He hoped the data could be revalidated. He said that BPS told if the data were accurate and could not be corrected. Having been dis-satisfied with the explanation of the BPS Singaraja, Mudita then asked to relevant agencies in Buleleng Regency.

Unluckily, the technical agency in regency government did not give significant explanation. The agency stated if the data were obtained from central government and should be used as a benchmark in the realization of any forms of social assistance. (kmb)

Census of BPS complainedRich people listed poor, the poor declared well-off

Many illegal hotels at Sidemen, tax still requested

Contaminate environment, screen printing business temporarily closed Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Screen printing business which has been operating since 1992 on Jalan Pulau Saelus, Tengah hamlet, Sesetan, now reaps complaints from local residents. Water sources like well taken advantage by lo-cal people for daily use has been contaminated by the waste of screen printing. As evidence, the well water is no longer clear, but it has turned brownish and darker. On that account, the screen printing business owned by Budi Prasetya was temporarily closed.

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The increasing number of printing business treathen to polute the river.

3Thursday, October 11, 201214 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Thursday, October 11, 2012

ROSWELL — Plans for extreme athlete and skydiver Felix Baumgart-ner to make a death-defying, 23-mile free fall into the southeastern New Mexico desert were on hold Tuesday morning because of winds, but his team was still hoping the weather would clear in time to make the jump.

The 43-year-old former mili-tary parachutist from Austria planned to take off in a 55-story, ultra-thin and easy-to-tear helium balloon that would take him into the stratosphere for a jump that he hopes will make him the first skydiver to break the sound bar-rier and shatter three other world records.

Mission meteorologist Don Day said winds on the ground were an ideal 1 to 2 mph, but were 20 mph at the balloon-top level of 700 feet before sunrise.

“We need 3 mph or less at 800 feet,” Day said, putting the chance of a launch Tuesday at “50-50.”

After sunrise, Day said there were indications the upper level winds might calm, so the team pushed the launch window from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., noon at the latest. A final decision would have to be made about 9:30 as it takes about an hour and half to fill the balloon and get Baumgartner suited up and ready.

“We are going to stick it out for another couple of hours,” he said, adding, “We’ve got everyone here. We are going to wait and see if we can take advantage of it.”

If the launch, already delayed one day by a cold front, can’t go Tuesday, Day said the next try probably wouldn’t be until Thurs-day. In addition to the wind, he said, the team was having some issues with the GPS system.

The balloon had been scheduled to launch about 7 a.m. from a field near the airport in a flat dusty town that until now has been best known for a rumored 1947 UFO landing.

If the mission goes, Baumgartner will make a nearly three-hour ascent to 120,000 feet, then take a bunny-style hop from a pressurized capsule into a near-vacuum where there is barely any oxygen to begin what is expected to be the fastest, farthest free fall from the highest-ever manned balloon.

Baumgartner spent Monday at his hotel, mentally preparing for the dan-gerous feat with his parents, girlfriend and four close friends, his team said. He had a light dinner of salmon and a salad, then had a massage. He spent Tuesday morning resting in an Air-stream trailer near the launch site.

Among the risks: Any contact with the capsule on his exit could tear the pressurized suit. A rip could expose him to a lack of oxygen and tem-

peratures as low as 70 degrees below zero. It could cause potentially lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a condition known as “boiling blood.”

He could also spin out of control, causing other risky problems.

The energy drink maker Red Bull, which is sponsoring the feat, has been promoting a live Internet stream of the event at http://www.redbullstratos.com/live from nearly 30 cameras on the capsule, the ground and a helicop-ter. But organizers said there will be a 20-second delay in their broadcast of footage in case of a tragic accident.

Despite the dangers and ques-tionable wind forecast, high perfor-mance director Andy Walshe said the team was excited, not nervous. Baumgartner has made two practice jumps, one from 15 miles in March and another from 18 miles in July.

“With these big moments, you get a kind of sense that the energy changes,” he said Monday. “It really is just kind of a heightened energy. It keeps you on your toes. It’s not nervousness, it’s excitement.”

During the ascent, Walshe said, the team will have views from a number of cameras, including one focused directly on Baumgartner’s face. Additionally, they will have data from life support and other sys-tems that show things like whether he is getting enough oxygen.

The team also expects constant communication with Baumgartner, although former Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger, whose 1960 free-fall re-cord from 19.5 miles Baumgartner hopes to break, is the only member of mission control who will be al-lowed to talk to him.

And while Baumgartner hopes to set four new world records, his free fall is more than just a stunt.

His dive from the stratosphere should provide scientists with valu-able information for next-generation spacesuits and techniques that could help astronauts survive accidents.

Jumping from more than three times the height of the average cruising altitude for jetliners, Baum-gartner’s expects to hit a speed of 690 mph or more before he activates his parachute at 9,500 feet above sea level, or about 5,000 above the ground in southeastern New Mexico. The total jump should take about 10 minutes.

His medical director is Dr. Jona-than Clark, a NASA space shuttle crew surgeon who lost his wife, Laurel Clark, in the 2003 Columbia accident. No one knows what hap-pens to a body when it breaks the sound barrier, Clark said.

“That is really the scientific es-sence of this mission,” said Clark, who is dedicated to improving as-tronauts’ chances of survival in a high-altitude disaster.

Serge Haroche of France and American David Wineland opened the door to new experiments in quantum physics by showing how to observe individual quantum particles while preserving their quantum properties.

A quantum particle is one that is isolated from everything else. In this situation, an atom or electron or photon takes on strange properties. It can be in two places at once, for example. It behaves in some ways like a wave. But these properties are instantly changed when it interacts with something else, such as when somebody observes it.

Working separately, the two scientists, both 68, developed “in-genious laboratory methods” that allowed them to manage and mea-sure and control fragile quantum states, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

“Their ground-breaking methods have enabled this field of research to take the very first steps towards building a new type of superfast computer based on quantum phys-ics,” the academy said. “The re-search has also led to the construc-tion of extremely precise clocks that could become the future basis for a

new standard of time.”Haroche is a professor at the Col-

lege de France and Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Wineland is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, and the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.

The two researchers use oppo-site approaches to examine, con-trol and count quantum particles, the academy said.

Wineland traps ions — elec-trically charged atoms — and measures them with light, while Haroche controls and measures photons, or light particles.

Haroche said he was out walk-ing with his wife when he got the call from the Nobel judges.

“I was in the street and passing a bench so I was able to sit down,” Haroche told a news conference in Stockholm by telephone. “It’s very overwhelming.”

He said his work in the realm of quantum physics could ulti-mately lead to unimaginably fast computers.

“You can do things which are prohibited by the laws of classi-cal physics,” he told The Associ-ated Press.

Haroche also said quantum re-search could help make GPS navi-gating systems more accurate.

NIST spokesman Jim Burrus said Wineland was asleep at home in Boulder when the call came in early Tuesday notifying him that he won; his wife answered the phone.

Burrus said Wineland de-scribed the news as overwhelming and wonderful.

Quantum computers could radically change people’s lives in the way that classical computers did last century, but a full-scale quantum computer is still decades away, the Nobel judges said.

“The calculations would be incredibly much faster and exact and you would be able to use it for areas like metrology and for mea-suring the climate of the earth,” said Lars Bergstrom, the secretary of the prize committee.

The physics prize was the sec-ond of the 2012 Nobel Prizes to be announced, with the medicine award going Monday to stem cell pioneers John Gurdon of Britain and Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka. Each award is worth 8 million kronor, or about $1.2 million.

Frenchman, American win Nobel for quantum physicsAssociated Press

STOCKHOLM — A French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the first steps toward building superfast computers.

AP Photo/CNRS/ Christophe Lebedinsky

This 2009 photo provided Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012 by the CNRS (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Sci-entifique) shows French physician Serge Haroche, right, and his aide Igor Dotsenko in Paris.

Skydiver’s supersonic jump on weather holdAssociated Press

Denpasar (Bali Post)-

Investors that wanted to invest in energy sectors are promised convenience and ease for their exploration permit also additional incentive which it is needed to find new gas and oil sources as stated by Minister of Energy and Min-eral Source, Jero Wacik, at Nusa Dua last Tuesday (9/10). Indonesia opened widely investments in energy sector on developing new energy potentials or renews it remem-bering the need on oil and gas in this earth is increasing. Indonesia has that new and renews energy richness such as geothermal that reaches 10,000 MW, water, solar and biomass. “For that we invite those companies who have skills in energy sector, please invest in Indonesia, we are thankful that our country almost had all the energy sources needed in this world,” Wacik invited.

If the development failed, then it will be prioritized to be used inside the country, if it succeeded then the gas from Indonesia can be exported and used inside the country. The minister also gave four points to the investors such as all investors are obligated in increasing Indonesia’s economy, creating a work field, joining in decreasing poverty and protecting the living environment. “If these investors are not obeying these, they better go back home, and never invest in Indonesia again,” Wacik exclaimed.

Meanwhile on the gas increasing need inside the country, while in the same time it’s being exported, Wacik stated this can be talked with the exploration companies operating in the country for example British Petroleum (BP) have gas exploration in Papua and about to change their agreement as the need of as in Indonesia is increas-ing. “The exploration was 100 percent for export, yet after I negotiated and explained the needs in Indonesia, in the new contract 40 percent will be allocated for domestic needs,” Wacik concluded. (kmb)

Mangrove forest stuffed with buildings

Carrying capacity of Bali increasingly overloadedDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Environmental Impact Assessment Division Head of the Environmental Research Center (PPLH) of the Udayana University, Prof. Made Sudiana Mahendra, PhD. said the carrying capacity of South Bali had been overloaded. Moreover, the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) area would be annexed and established with tourism facilities by investors. By all means, it would increase the burden of Bali. “We strongly regretted why the licensing could have been passed?” he questioned on Tuesday (Oct 9).

Prof. Sudiana doubling as the Director of the Environmental Studies Graduate Program of the Udayana University called on the government to comprehensively review the issuance of permit on the uti-lization of 102.22 hectares of mangrove forests in the area of Grand Forest Park by investors for the development of eco-tourism facilities. He also asked the Bali House to observe the issuance of principle permit by the Governor of Bali by exam-ining the environmental feasibility and permit which included four components, namely the compliance with spatial mas-terplan, principle of benefit whether it was significant to the public or only to indi-viduals or groups, what impact treatment could be taken with the implementation of technological approach when the activity harmed the environment and how the local community approval was.

Further, he said the Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 mentioned the area of Grand Forest Park was a protected forest denot-ing 0.24 percent of the total area of pro-tected forests in Bali Province covering 175,577.18 hectares or 31.15 percent of the Bali’s total area. Unfortunately, the mangrove forests constantly experienced a pressure from the encroachment. Un-til 2011, it had reached 2.561 hectares covering the backfill for roads, waste management, landfill, sewage processing,

establishment of temples, huts, houses, certificates, turtle cage and land swap. Re-cently, over 3 hectares of mangrove forest were also cleared for the development of the Benoa-Nusa Dua toll road. “Even, it is the only recorded clearing. If we recheck the current condition, definitely more mangrove forests are diminished and an-nexed for development,” he said.

Mangrove forest also contributed to the existence of the urban green open space. He said that in 2010 Denpasar had green open space covering an area of 38.5 percent. But in 2011, based on the Regional Bylaw of Denpasar No. 27/2011 on Denpasar Spatial Masterplan, the area of green open space reduced to 36.28 percent. Meanwhile, the Law No. 26/2007 on spatial masterplan implied that each provincial capital ideally had green open space coming to 30 percent of the total area. “Indeed, Denpasar is now still having green open space as mandated in the law. However, the reduction of 102 hectares of mangrove forest will reduce the green open space of Denpasar. The green open space will possibly keep diminishing in the future if the government does not want to preserve it and give permission to the investors arbitrarily,” he said.

Related to statement of the Bali For-estry Agency saying that tourism facilities would be built on vacant land that could

not be overgrown by mangroves, Prof. Sudiana hoped it was not just a trick or a reason of the government. Condition of the land should be first investigated whether it could not be planted. If it was true, it might happen due to massive contamination by liquid waste or rubbish so that condition of the soil could be repaired and re-planted with mangrove by inhibiting the source of contamination, not by stuffing the vacant land with buildings.

“If it is the habitat for mangrove plants, the possibility of not to be overgrown by mangrove is very small. There must be other factor causing the mangroves to be unable to grow in certain locations,” he said. His party would conduct a study and research in the area of Grand Forest Park as reference material related to the issuance of permit utilizing the area.

Prof. Sudiana added that in the case of mangrove forest managed by inves-tor was not only the matter of the area but also the conservation function of the area that would be disrupted. Accord-ing to him, the Grand Forest Park as conservation area was indeed allowing the utilization but it was just for public interest, not for individual or commercial interests. “If all areas are leased, in the long run our mangrove forest making us proud in the Grand Forest Park will run out,” he said. (kmb29)

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The workers are working on the highway project on the mangrove forrest in Benoa

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The permanent house owned by Ketut Sukalegawa in Lum-banan, Sukasada Village, Sukasada was burnt last Tuesday (9/10) around 12 pm local time with nothing saved. Due to it, the man who works as Civil Worker at Sukasada Village Office experiencing IDR 500 million losses moreover his wife went hysterical and fainted after knowing the incident.

The house was empty when the incident happened. It was locals who saw the fire first and asked for help also tried ot turn it off. Yet the fire took over the house moreover a house and a shop-house next to it almost got burnt as well. Three fire brigades managed to turn it off by 1.15 pm. A witness who rented the house-shop next to it, Ketut Sukmawati, stated she herself was cooking while she saw one of the house’s windows had black smoke coming out. Turns out a big fire took place in one of the rooms and later burnt the top of the house. Sukmawati panicked, locals then helped her bringing her items out and contacted the Buleleng Fire Brigade.

Sukmawati admitted not knowing what was the fire source moreover the doors are all locked as the parents are working while the children have gone to school and she the house-shop is not in the house’s area. After the fire was turned off, victim’s wife, Komang Sugandawati, who works at Paramasidhi Hospital was totally shocked and up to now police are still investigating the cause. The incident also caused a traffic jam between Singaraja-Bedugul, luckily Sukasada Police went down to manage it. (kmb)

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

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

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

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

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Chief Representative of Bank Indonesia of Region III Bali-Nusra, Dwi Pranoto, said that Bank Indonesia had been work-ing with relevant stakeholders to discipline the illegal money changers. One of the efforts was by organizing a raid to location together with the Integrated Coordination Team of PVA es-tablished by the Decree of the Badung Regent in 2002. The team consisted of the Badung Government (public order of-ficer), High Court, Badung Po-lice, association of Bali foreign exchange traders and headman of each village.

“In the raid, the team also made socialization on-the-spot regarding the licensing of foreign exchange trader and informed that submission of the operation-

al license to Bank Indonesia was completely free of charge,” said Dwi Pranoto, Tuesday (Oct 9).

According to him, after the raid and socialization, some illegal foreign exchange trad-ers had filed a formal opening of their central office to Bank Indonesia. The number of legal foreign exchange trader in Bali reached 132 companies with 416 branch offices. Therefore, they totally amounted to 548 legal of-fice networks across Bali. Central growth of this business occurred in Badung Regency reaching 70 percent.

“We will continue to coor-dinate with the Integrated Co-ordination Team of the foreign exchange traders and conduct socialization to the illegal ones regarding the mechanism of

licensing arrangement to mini-mize the information asymmetry that might occur in the field,” he explained.

Related to decline in turnover of legal foreign exchange traders due to the rampant illegal compa-nies, Dwi Pranoto judged it was not a major factor considering the capacity or capital of the illegal foreign exchange traders was generally quite small (between IDR 5 million to IDR 10 million) so that it was not possible to deal in large amount.

“There are other factors driv-ing the turnover of foreign ex-change traders to decline such as the increasingly integrated national and international bank-ing services, so that tourists can directly take cash through the ATMs,” he said. (kmb27)

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Construction of the Klungkung Traditional Market at Galiran is cur-

rently under progress handled by partner. The project spending the budget up to billions of rupiahs will become one of the sources to get the region-ally generated revenue for Klungkung Regency. On the other hand, the traditional market traders relocated to Galiran Terminal have started to feel anxious. Their anxiety was triggered by the ubiquitous minimarket networks growing in Klungkung.

“The market has not accomplished yet, the presence of minimarket in this situation makes us disadvantaged. The government should no longer issue licenses. If this continues to grow, we can go bankrupt,” said Nengah Wenten, one of the traders in Galiran Market.

Related to the issue, Secretary of Commission B of the Klungkung House, I Wayan Buda Parwata, said on Tuesday (Oct 9) that complaint of traders in the Galiran Market was very reasonable. Necessarily, the regent should issue a moratorium for the permit of minimarket networks. “If the regent really wants to save small traders in traditional markets, the Klungkung Regency must side with the smaller traders that have given contribution to the regionally generated revenue of Klungkung. One of the measures is by issuing a moratorium for the establishment of minimarkets,” he said.

He added that Bali Regional Bylaw No. 3/2012 on the Protection, Em-powerment and Development of Cooperatives, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, the Article 4 mentioned that government protected the SMEs by protecting traditional markets. Therefore, it should be further exam-ined, so that traditional market and small traders were well protected from the consequences of the proliferation of minimarket networks. Complaints of small traders peddling in traditional markets should be heard to create an economic balance in Klungkung.

“The regent of Buleleng and Jembrana has dared to issue a moratorium for the establishment of minimarket networks. Then, when is the turn of Klungkung Regent?” asked Buda. (kmb31)

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A man is counting dollars at a bank. Currently, Indonesian Bank is paying attention on the illegal money changer.

BI pays attention to illegal money changers in BaliDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Bank Indonesia (BI) of region III Bali-Nusra paid a serious attention to the existence of illegal money changers or foreign exchange traders (PvA) operating in Bali. As a world’s tourist destination, the Bali Island became an oasis for such a business.

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Tourist enjoy their time in Badung Market. The increasing number of modern markets make the traditional one suffer the most.

Besieged by minimarkets

Traditional market traders at risk of bankruptcy

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PAgE 8Actors Danny DeVito and

Rhea Perlman are separating after 30 years of marriage, DeVito’s spokes-man said on Monday.

Stan Rosenfeld said the pair had split but gave no details.

DeVito and Perlman married in 1982 and have three adult children. The duo, both known for playing characters

with sharp tongues, acted alongside each other in the 1978-82 TV comedy “Taxi,” in which she had a recurring role as his character’s girlfriend, and in the 1996 children’s film “Matilda.”

Perlman is best known for her role as sarcastic waitress Carla Tortelli in the 1980s hit comedy “Cheers,” for which she won four Emmy Awards.

DeVito, who won an Emmy for his turn as the despotic dispatcher in “Taxi,” currently stars in the FX comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”

The pair also founded TV and movie production company Jersey Films, whose titles include “Pulp Fiction” and “Erin Brockovich.”

“Parenthood,” is in its fourth season, and Ritter’s character, Mark, is engaged to Graham’s character, Sarah.

“I remember I was really nervous before I started working with her,” Ritter said in a recent interview. “You can fake liking each other and having a relation-ship but it’s very difficult for me. It’s much easier if you have some kind of ground level of just liking each other, and so I was really relieved when we got along, and it’s just been so fun and I feel like I’ve learned so much. She’s so fast and funny and I’m constantly just like trying to keep up with her.”

Ritter, 32, was introduced in the first season of “Parent-hood” for a three-episode arc. It was written that he would date Sarah but they would soon break up, but the show’s producers and writers were so impressed with Ritter’s performance, they kept writing him into episodes. He left to star in the 2010 TV drama “The Event,” but they brought him back after that show was canceled.

“They just kept on sort of bringing me back,” Rit-ter said. “First of all, I love working on that show so much. I have such a fun time, and it’s so exciting and inspiring to act opposite Lauren. She’s just so fun to work with and, plus, you know, in the second season, I was getting jealous of her other (‘Parenthood’) boy-friends.”

There’s a lot to keep up with working on “Parent-

hood.” Ritter says the actors are free to ad-lib or make changes to the dialogue. Sometimes the characters talk over each other just as people often do in real life.

“Because you don’t necessarily know what someone else is going to say, it keeps you on your toes and in the mo-ment because you can’t necessarily count on anything,” Ritter said.

Ritter says he’s not sure whether Mark’s relationship with Sarah will last or whether he’ll be around for the entire season.

He does have other work, voicing a

character on the Disney animated show “Gravity Falls.” He grew up loving car-toons and recalls his parents taking him to animation festivals. (His father is the late John Ritter, who played Jack Tripper on “Three’s Company.”)

“I really enjoyed ‘He-Man’ and ‘She-Ra: Princess of Power,’” he laughed. “’Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ was one that I would watch like before I would go to school in the morning, like eat break-fast and watch that. I also watched the entire Disney afternoon lineup. I think it was “TaleSpin,” ‘’DuckTales,” ‘’Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers” and “Darkwing Duck.” I watched all four of those. For two hours. When I got home.”

Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman split after 30-year marriage

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Jason Ritter raves about TV love, Lauren Graham

Jason ritter says working with Lauren Graham on NBc’s “Parent-hood” is “one of the greatest experiences” of his life.

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Actor Jason Ritter (R), his mother Nancy Morgan (2nd-R), his brother Tyler (L) and his sister Carly pose together at the 2012 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 15, 2012.

But an Associated Press analysis shows the number of strikes within the country has actually risen, es-pecially since 2010, when radical imams called on their followers to focus on domestic targets rather than Westerners. The more recent

attacks have been conducted with less expertise, and the vast majority of victims have been Indonesians.

“It turns out that the terrorism problem in Indonesia is not finished yet,” said Maj. Gen. Tito Karnavian, a former counterterrorism official

recently appointed police chief of Papua province. “The quality of their attacks has decreased, but the quantity has increased.”

Since Oct. 12, 2002, when the Bali attacks killed 202 people — including 88 Australians and seven Americans — four major terror strikes were targeted at Westerners in Indonesia, causing 45 deaths. The last was in 2009, when attacks on the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton ho-tels in Jakarta killed seven people.

That compares to 15 attacks against security forces, local au-

thorities, Christians and some moderate Muslims in just the past two years. Those attacks have killed a total of 11 people — all police officers — and wounded dozens of civilians.

Although the targets may have shifted, the recruitment methods are the same. Young men are indoc-trinated to believe that as jihadist “grooms” they will reap God’s rewards for martyrdom — para-dise for the bomber and 70 family members and the gift of 72 virgin angels. It’s a belief shunned by

most Muslims.Fadlan, a convicted militant

who goes by a single alias name, was trained to be a suicide bomber in 2001 by Jemaah Islamiyah, the al-Qaida-linked group that sent two other bombers to the Bali nightclubs on a busy Saturday night. He told AP that his mentor, Imam Samudra, one of the plot masterminds, deemed it too risky to use him in the attacks because he was already wanted for an earlier botched bombing.

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A flag with pictures of victims of the October 12, 2002 Bali bomb attack is displayed on a fence of the old Sari Club, three days before a commemoration ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the attack in the Kuta tourist area near Denpasar on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on October 9, 2012. The 2002 blast, blamed on the militant Jemaah Islamiyah network linked to Al-Qaeda, tore apart a busy nightclub strip on the resort island of Bali killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Decade after Bali

Indonesian terror aims at governmentAssociated Press

BALI — ten years after terrorist attacks at two Bali night-clubs killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists, Indonesia has won international praise for its counterterrorism efforts. Militant organizations have been fractured and many of their charismatic leaders have been killed or jailed.

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