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NEW YORK — Record producer Linda Perry says she’s sorry for tweeting that Lady Gaga doesn’t deserve songwriting credit for the Oscar-nominated song “Til it Happens to You,” from the college campus sexual-assault documentary “The Hunting Ground.”

Perry said in tweets Monday that Lady Gaga only performed the song credited to Diane Warren and Lady Gaga. Perry said she has Warren’s original demo and the final version changes only one line. But Perry now says she “wasn’t in the room” when the song was being written and was wrong to comment.

Warren had disputed the songwriting allegation and said “Til it Happens to You” is “a special collaboration” between her and Lady Gaga. A publicist for Lady Gaga hasn’t commented.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences regula-tions state only the principal songwriters of a song can be nominated. (ap)

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs issued a statement promising more diversity, and quickly, after both Lee and Pinkett spoke out on Monday. In a lengthy Instagram post, Lee said he “cannot support” the “lily white” Oscars. Noting that he was writing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lee — who in November was given an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards — said he was fed up: “Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all,” he wrote. “We can’t act?!”

In a video message on Facebook, Pinkett Smith also said she wouldn’t attend or watch the Oscars in February. Pinkett Smith, whose husband Will Smith wasn’t nominated for his performance in the NFL head trauma drama “Concussion,” said it was time for people of color to disregard the Academy Awards.

“Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power,” she said. “And we are a digni-fied people and we are powerful.”

She added: “Let’s let the academy do them, with all grace and love. And let’s do us differently.” The video had amassed 4.5 million by mid-Monday afternoon.

Last year’s all-white acting nominees also drew calls for a boycott, though not from such prominent individuals as Lee and Pinkett Smith. Whether it had any impact or not, the audience for the broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, was down 16 percent from the year prior, a six-year low.

Isaacs has made a point of presenting a more inclusive show this year. The Feb. 28 broadcast will be hosted by Chris Rock and produced by “Django Unchained” producer Reginald Hudlin and David Hill. On Saturday, Rock, unveiling a new promotion for the broadcast, called the ceremony “The White BET Awards.”

The academy didn’t respond to messages left Monday.When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Isaacs

acknowledged she was “disappointed” that all 20 acting nomi-nees were again white and promised to “continue the conversa-tion” on diversity. Isaacs has worked to diversify membership for the academy, which a 2012 study by the Los Angeles Times found is overwhelming white and male. (ap)

Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees

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In a Thursday, June 25, 2015 file photo, Jada Pinkett-Smith arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Magic Mike XXL” at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars’ second straight year of mostly white nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday, Jan. 17, 2016, that they will not attend this year’s ceremony.

NEW YORK — Amid calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over its all-white acting nominees and Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith both an-nouncing they would sit out this year’s ceremony, the academy’s president said it was time for major changes — and soon.

Perry sorry for saying Lady Gaga is falsely credited on song

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Lady Gaga

DENPASAR - Over four million international tourists are expected to visit Bali in 2016, an offi-cial predicts. Head of Tourism Office of Bali Anak Agung Gede Yuniartha said on Monday that he anticipates Bali will attract some 4.2 million foreign tourists in 2016.

However, the target number of tourist visits in Bali has not been officially announced by the local authority.

The administration is now cooperating with a team from Udayana University to determine the 2016 target.

“The team has started counting, using some formulas (to determine the number),” Yuniartha said.

Bali Island attracted 4,001,654 foreigners in 2015. “The 2016 target could be higher,” he said. The 2015 visits might have been higher, but natural disasters, such as eruptions of Mount Raung of East Java and Mount Barujari of Lombok, slowed tourism.

The volcanic ash from the two eruptions disrupted flights and the tourism sector in Bali. The global economy condi-tion and the Paris terror attack might also have affected tourist visits to Bali, he said.

Official data showed that in 2015, tourists visits in Bali were dominated by Australians (965,330), followed by Chinese (687,633) and Japanese (228,035). The remainder of foreign tourists were from Malaysia (190,317), Britain (167,527), South Korea (152,244), Singapore (146,632), US (133,701), France (131,411) and Taiwan (124,072).

THROUGH-OUT 2015, B a l i s a w c r i m i n a l i n c i d e n t s , ranging from

pick pocketing and other petty

crimes to cases involving inter-national syndicates as well as violent clashes between gangs that shook the national and international com-

munity. Although Bali is a very small island, even news of the slightest of incidents makes it to peoples’ ears internationally.

Commander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, I Nyoman Cantiasa, admitted that even though the general condition of Bali is quite safe, he is still concerned about crime on the island. The Indonesian miMilitary (TNI), specifically the Military Resort, will be working

in cooperation with other security forces to create new strategies for managing the security and safety of Balinese people, so that Bali can be-come safer than in previous years.

“Coming up with security strate-gies needs to be done with consid-eration for recent developments. For example, the gang clashes that took place in Kerobokan Prison and on Jalan Teuku Umar, need to be evaluated and corrections need to

be made in terms of security,” said Cantiasa recently.

It is shocking to think of what might have happened had the large numbers of weapons that were subsequently confiscated from the prison, been left in hands of the inmates. “There would quite pos-sibly have been a massacre among fellow inmates - especially Balinese inmates. A total of 1,100 of Kerobo-kan’s prisoners could have become

involved in an “inter-cellblock civil war”. This would certainly shock people around the world, because the prison is after all a place that is meant to be a correctional facility for troubled people. Thanks God we were tipped off about their be-ing such times in the prison,” he revealed.

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Over four million international tourists are expected to visit Bali in 2016, an official predicts. Head of Tour-ism Office of Bali Anak Agung Gede Yuniartha said on Monday that he anticipates Bali will attract some 4.2 million foreign tourists in 2016.

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Bali expected to lure over four million tourists in 2016

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beau-tifully 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

COVER STORYThe IX/Udayana Military Re-

gion Resort has taken immediate measures to back up police in enforcing the law in Bali. Law en-forcement officer, and Singaraja na-tive, Cantiasa admitted that he was angry about the situation because Bali is considered to be a safe place, but apparently there are still some areas that need attention. “As for what was revealed about the prison, hopefully culprits both inside and outside the prison can be gradually minimize,” said Cantiasa.

As for sanctions against anar-chical mass organizations (gangs) in 2016 Cantiasa said that “mass organizations” need to be licensed but in Bali many of them are not. “The governor even referred to

them as thugs and so forth because their purpose is not clear. Hope-fully, in the future such attributes can be omitted so that undesirable things like ego promoting conflicts can be eliminated,” he said.

Addressing current global condi-tions, Commander of the Military Resort has backed up security at harbors and airports. His institu-tion continues to collect data about thenukber of foreigners that come in to Indonesia in general and Bali in particular. People who come to the ‘Island of the Gods’, should be monitored concerning their differ-ent intentions. Some people come here to travel or do business while others come here to commit crimes. Ngurah Rai Airport and seaports are also beeping asked to be more selective and careful about who is coming onto the island, so as to avoid national or international

criminals form operating here.The Military, police and pe-

calang are deploying all of their available personnel to monitor conditions in the field. “So far, Bali remains safe from the threat of terrorist. Nevertheless, we must remain vigilant. Otherwise, the opportunity will be used by criminals to take action. Aside from the army and the police, every member of society needs to make sure that Bali remains safe. Welfare, economy and security must all go together. We cannot de-mand welfare yet ignore security. By working these aspects, I feel confident that Bali will remain safe and comfortable,” he said.

Chief of Bali Police, Sugeng Priyanto, said that the future of Bali will be determined by the people living on this Island of the Gods -especially Balinese people.

“Where Bali will be driven to and how Bali will look in the future depends on Balinese people. We must not allow tragedies like the bombings that took place in 2002 and 2005 to happen again,” said Chief Priyanto.

He stressed that Balinese people cannot afford to be complacent as it would be most regrettable if such an incident were to happen again. Of all the criminal incidents that took place in Bali in 2015, the police point to the violent clashes that took place in Kerobokan prison as an indication that the management of the prison needs to be reviewed so that similar incidents do not occur again in 2016.

Chief Priyanto also promised to coordinate more intensively with Interpol, so as to anticipate and jointly tackle international crimes. (rah)

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According to information com-piled by Bali Post, an x-ray device worth billions of rupiahs had been placed at Gilimanuk Harbor a year ago, but because it was never used, the Bali Police took back the machine in mid-2015. Currently, strict inspections and an increased number of troops are what keep harbour entrance in Bali safe.

Recent observations at Gili-manuk, revealed that there are several ways that migrants can enter Bali freely, without passing though any kind of inspection. Foot passengers for example can go from the pier to Segara Temple by walking along a revetment and this avoid any kind of inspection, although this rout is not available at high tide.

Migrants can also hide on buses as officers are often too busy checking baggage to notice. Many other of the ports scattered along Jembrana’s coast, also need to remain alert .

Metal detectorCurrently, in addition to perform-

ing manual checks using devices such as metal detectors and sets of mirrors, K9 (police dogs), are also used at the cargo checkpoint.

Chief of Jembrana Police, Djoni Widodo, said that current security measure are in line with there stan-dard operating procedures.

Currently, at checkpoints II and III there are 20 plain clothed police officers from several units (intelligence, narcotics and crimi-nal investigation). “We do not use x-ray, but since Christmas we’ve intensified and tightened security, with the back-up of the armed mo-bile brigade,” he explained.

After the bombings in Jakarta last Thursday, the Jembrana Police have been coordinating with the 1617/Jembrana Military District Command to assist with inspec-tions and maintaining security at Gilimanuk. Also, water police now patrol the pathways that people might try to take to avoid going through security.

District police also regularly reach out to coastal communities to talk to them about the importance of

security and ask that they report any suspicious people doing anything that could lead to the disruption of social order to the police. Security is also being tightened out of Gili-manuk Harbor.

The Denpasar-Gilimanuk stripe of road that falls within the ju-risdiction of the Jembrana Police is regularly monitored by police from each station along that strip of road. “Every hour police check

the highways near their station,” he explained. Apart from highway operations, the Jembrana Police has also teamed up with the military to conduct both small and large scale patrols. (olo)

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Commander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, I Nyo-man Cantiasa

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Inspectors at Gilimanuk Harbor no longer have access to the mobile x-ray machine and so they rely on the manual inspections of passengers based on instinct information obtained through intelligence. At checkpoints II and III of GIlimanuk Harbor also use certain manual devices.

Security at Gilimanuk relies on manual inspections

INSPECTOrS at Gilimanuk Harbor no longer have access to the mobile x-ray machine and so they rely on the manual in-spections of passengers based on instinct information obtained through intelligence. At checkpoints II and III of GIlimanuk Harbor also use certain manual devices.

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BOSTON — A night at the sym-phony usually means silencing cell-phones and mobile devices before the music starts.

But as part of an effort to draw in a younger audience, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is loaning select patrons iPads loaded with content specific to each performance.

They’ll be able to view sheet music for the pieces being played, video interviews with musicians, podcasts about the composers and analysis on the works themselves. They’ll also get a close-up view of the conductor from the musicians’

point of view from video monitors set up in the hall.

The storied orchestra, which was founded in 1881, is the first to offer audience members use of customized iPads, according to Kim Noltemy, the group’s chief operating and commu-nications officer.

But other orchestras are also trying to incorporate technology.

The Philadelphia Orchestra is among a handful that has developed its own mobile application to let au-dience members follow along with program notes, like translations of vocal parts, in real time from their

personal devices.The Los Angeles Philharmonic

rolled out “VAN Beethoven,” a cus-tomized van that gave residents last fall a chance to enjoy a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony us-ing virtual reality headsets.

And the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Virginia Symphony Orchestra are among those offering “tweet seats,” specially designated sections where concertgoers are encouraged to interact on Twitter with a concert official as they gave running commentary during select performances.

Jesse Rosen, president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, an approximately 800-member group based in New York, says orchestras are trying to appeal to a new genera-tion’s changing expectations for the concert experience.

“It’s about enhancing the visual experience of listening to a symphony orchestra,” he says. “It’s also about making the experience more intimate and creating a more visible contact between the performer and the audi-ence, which is something younger audiences really seem to value.”

The Boston orchestra is rolling out

the iPads as part of a broader effort to draw patrons, particularly younger ones, to their underperforming Friday concerts.

During “Casual Fridays,” sym-phony tickets are being offered at significantly lower prices, ranging from $25 to $45, down from as much as $145, patrons are being encouraged to dress casually, and the hall is hosting pre- and post-concert receptions with live music, snacks and a cash bar.

The first performance was Jan. 15; two others have so far been scheduled for Feb. 12 and March 18. (ap)

MENLO PARK, Calif. — WhatsApp, a popular mobile messaging service

owned by Facebook, says it will drop its 99-cent subscription fee over the next

several weeks.

WhatsApp to drop renewal fees for the messaging service

The company said Monday that charging the fee after one free year hasn’t worked well.

It says that many users don’t have a credit or debit card and are

afraid of losing the service when it’s time to renew. WhatsApp says nearly a billion people around the world use the service.

Company officials say they

don’t plan to introduce ads to off-set the loss of fees. They say they will start testing tools this year to let customers communicate with banks and other businesses and

organizations, but they aren’t providing details.

Facebook Inc. paid $22 billion to buy the messaging service in 2014. (ap)

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple keeps defying a PC industry trend: While other major computer-

makers saw shipments fall in 2015, Apple increased the number of Macs it shipped worldwide last

year, according to estimates from two esearch firms on Tuesday.

Total PC shipments have been

declining, industrywide, for the last four years, as consumers are wait-ing longer to buy new models and many are turning to smartphones or tablets. Even last summer’s release of Windows 10 — Microsoft’s new operating software — failed to boost overall sales.

All told, manufacturers shipped a total of 288.7 million PCs last year, down 8 percent from 2014, according to researchers at Gart-ner. Analysts at International Data Corp., using different methodol-ogy, put the total at 276 million and the decline at 10.4 percent.

Apple, however, saw an in-crease of roughly 6 percent, according to both firms. While other major PC-makers have seen ups and downs, Apple alone has enjoyed gains in each of the last three years.

Big manufacturers like Lenovo, HP and Dell still sell far more computers than Apple. Industry leader Lenovo shipped 57 million PCs last year, while estimates for Apple are just under 21 million.

Still, analysts say Apple benefits from its reputation as a premium brand in the United States and Eu-rope. It’s also been making inroads in Asia. Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa noted that Apple has been opening retail stores in China, which is now the second-largest PC market in the world.

Experts trace the PC industry’s slump to the introduction of more powerful smartphones and tablets in recent years. Even Apple saw

a slight decline in Mac shipments in 2012, when some buyers opted for iPads instead. The slump has also hurt chipmakers like Intel and other companies that make PC components, while forcing software makers to re-design their products for smaller, mobile devices.

Nearly every major PC maker now makes tablets, as well. Le-novo has also moved into smart-phones, buying the Motorola phone business from Google in 2014. But tablet and smartphone sales are also slowing, as more people already own them.

Industry hopes are now turning to new “hybrid” computers, or tablets with detachable keyboards, which are touted as combining the best features of PCs and tablets. Sales of those devices are still small, but growing. IDC analyst Jay Chou said his firm expects industrywide shipments of tradi-tional PCs will fall another 3 per-cent this year, but the addition of hybrids could turn that total into an overall increase of 1 percent.

Analysts also blamed last year’s weak PC numbers on economic weakness in Asia and the end of a 2014 buying surge that followed Microsoft’s decision to end sup-port for Windows XP, an older version of its widely used operat-ing software. An expected boost from the new Windows 10 was undercut by Microsoft’s decision to give free software upgrades to owners of older machines. (ap)

Tech at the symphony: Boston orchestra loaning patrons iPads

Apple defies industry trend as PC sales fall again

AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File

In this Sept. 9, 2015, file photo, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide market-ing, talks about the pricing of the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus during the Apple event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

As noted in October 2015, the number of departure reached 2,283 while in the following month reached 1,852. “When made in percentage, the decrease in aircraft departure reached 18.88 percent,” said the Head of the Bali Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Panusu-nan Siregar. He said that other than the number of passenger and departure, the decline is also seen in the amount of baggage and cargo, namely from 6,777 tons to 4,980 tons or 26.51 percent.

“There are five main destination countries of the aircraft departure namely Australia, Singapore, Ma-laysia, Hong Kong and China,” he said. Of the five countries, said Panusunan Siregar, all of them showed a decrease. Moreover, the top 10 countries also experienced such similar condition. “Only South Korea experienced an increase of 10.81 percent,” he said.

For the five countries, the de-cline is seen respectively by 29.50 percent, 18.25 percent, 19.28 per-

cent and 37.50 percent. Then, the decline in the number of delivery of baggage and cargo from the five countries respectively amounted to 48.30 percent, 23.41 percent, 20.39 percent, 9.51 percent and 35.51 percent. The departure of domestic air transport from the Ngurah Rai Airport reached 2,851 or a decrease of 12.59 percent compared to the previous month.

The five main flight destina-tions are the Soekarno Hatta or Jakarta reaching 1,012 units, Sura-baya (444 units), Yogyakarta (173 units), Bandung (168 units) and Lombok Praya (147 units). Overall there is a decline in the number of passengers as much as 10.79 percent, from 355,265 people in October 2015 to 316,929 people. (kmb21)

TABANAN - Aside from wet-land plants such as rice paddy, for which Tabanan is famous, dry land crops such as cacao are also grow here very well. If managed prop-erly, cacao could help to improve the income of farmers in the region. Marga subdistrict, for instance, has many cacao plantations, unfortu-nately because they were not treated properly, hundreds of hectares of cacao did not bear fruit this year.

However, given the great poten-tial that cacao has, local farmers of Subak Semingan, Petiga village, established the Pala Werdhi farmer group who get coached in the cul-tivation, maintenance and even the marketing of cacao.

One of the coaches of the Pala Werdhi farmer group is Dr. I Wayan Alit Artha Wiguna, who said that cacao cultivation in Petiga vil-lage, Marga started two years ago. “Farmers in this area cultivate cacao but not through monoculture,” said Wiguna.

Cacao is a much sought after commodity with a relatively high selling price from farmers, that cur-rently ranges from IDR 28,000 to IDR 30,000 per kg. Unfortunately, the potential of this plant has not been optimized here, due to dam-age and pests. Wiguna explained that farmers have since been given information about cacao plant main-tenance, how to use organic fertil-izer, opening new markets and the like. “Today the Pala Werdhi group has 26 farmer members. This is just a small percentage of all the cacao farmers in Marga,” he said.

As a trial run, 13 hectares of land were planted with cacao, us-ing organic fertilizer made of bat droppings and cow dung that is provided by the Simantri (livestock farmer group).

As a result, the cacao trees that formerly had not grown well are

now growing well and producing abundant fruit. “If they are treated properly, the plants can bear over 80 pods” he said. Unfortunately, the cacao trees owned by the local farmers are already over 10 years old so they need to be replanted. “We are have asked the district and the province for help looking for seedlings but in the end we created our own nursery,” he said.

The cacao produced by the Marga of farmers are partly ab-sorbed by Wiguna’s Cau Chocolate located in Cau hamlet, Tua and by other cacao collectors. “Actually, we have a high demand for cacao, but the amount that we can produce is still limited. Therefore we would like to cooperate with other cacao farmers form outside of the district of Marga,” he said.

Despite not being able to export yet, Wiguna said that that the local market already has a great demand for cacao.

Local cacao farmers, Wayan Suena, said that he has been cul-tivating cacao since 2005. At the age of 3-5 years, his cacao plants produced good fruit. “But then the pods were damaged by pests, so we were only able to harvest some,” he said.

He recognizes however that with better treatment, his plants would be able to produce more more and better quality pods thus allowing farmers to earn more revenue.

In addition to directly contrib-uting to famers’s income, cacao cultivation is also an opportunity to cooperate with farmers at Subak Semingan to open up agro-tourism sites. This would allow farmers to earn a living and help to prevent them from converting agricultural lands, The income from this agro-tourism is divided between man-agement and the farmers at Subak Semingan. (kmb24)

International flight passenger

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Aside from wetland plants such as rice paddy, for which Ta-banan is famous, dry land crops such as cacao are also grow here very well.

Cacao in MargaHundreds of hectares of cacao plantation neglected

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The number of international flight passengers at Ngurah Rai Airport in November 2015 declined by 28.30 percent. If the passengers in October 2015 reached 410,377 people, in November 2015 they dropped to 294,525 people.

DENPASAR - The number of international flight passengers at Ngurah Rai Airport in November 2015 declined by 28.30 per-cent. If the passengers in October 2015 reached 410,377 people, in November 2015 they dropped to 294,525 people. Other than decline in the number of arrival passengers, the departure of aircraft, especially in the international routes also experienced similar condition.

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The protesters accused Hydera-bad University’s vice chancellor and a federal minister of unfairly demanding punishment for the five lower-caste students after they clashed last year with a group of students supporting the governing Hindu nationalist party.

Police are investigating whether actions by the officials contributed to the 26-year-old doctoral student’s death, which they say was a suicide. He had been a member of a group representing Dalits, the lowest caste in India’s Hindu caste hierarchy.

The demonstrations in Hydera-bad drew nationwide attention, with TV channels running updates throughout the morning. The stu-dents have boycotted their classes and were holding a sit-in in the university. “We want justice,” they shouted as scores of police stood by. Police detained eight students overnight Tuesday following day-long protests on Monday.

Students in Mumbai university also held protests Tuesday and de-manded the removal of the Hydera-bad University vice chancellor.

Rohith Vemula ‘s body was

found hanging in a hostel room, weeks after university authorities barred the five students from stay-ing in the students’ hostel or using the library or other facilities. The five had been living in a tent outside the gate of the university since their suspension on Dec. 21.

University officials had cleared the five Dalit students in a pre-liminary inquiry into the clash, but reversed that decision in De-cember and ordered that they be suspended.

The protesting students say the university’s decision to pun-ish the five was due to pressure from federal minister Bandaru Dattatreya, who sent a letter to the Human Resource Development Ministry demanding action against the Dalits.

Although caste discrimination was outlawed soon after India’s independence from Britain in 1947, it remains an influential force in Indian society. The government has worked to reverse the discrimi-nation by setting quotas for jobs and university spots for different castes. (ap)

BAGHDAD — At least 18,802 civil-ians were killed and another 36,245 were wounded in Iraq between the start of 2014 and Oct. 31 of last year as Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State group, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

The report documented a wide range of human rights abuses, including the IS group’s conscription of some 3,500 people into slavery, mainly women and children from the Yazidi religious minority captured in the summer of 2014 and forced into sexual slavery.

It said another 800 to 900 children were abducted from Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, for religious and military train-ing. It said a number of IS child soldiers were killed by the extremists when they tried to flee fighting in the western Anbar province.

The reports called the civilian death toll in Iraq “staggering.” It also detailed the various methods the IS group has employed to kill its enemies, including public beheadings, running people over with bulldozers, burning them alive and throwing them off buildings.

Such acts are “systematic and wide-

spread... abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law,” the report said. “These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.” Iraqi forces have advanced against the IS group on a number of fronts in recent months and driven them out of the western city of Ramadi.

But U.N. envoy Jan Kubis said in a statement that “despite their steady losses to pro-government forces, the scourge of ISIL continues to kill, maim and displace Iraqi civilians in the thousands and to cause untold suffering.” U.N. human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein said the civilian death toll may be considerably higher.

“Even the obscene casualty figures fail to accurately reflect exactly how terribly civilians are suffering in Iraq,” he said in a statement.

IS swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014 and still con-trols much of Iraq and neighboring Syria. It has set up a self-styled caliphate in the territories under its control, which it gov-erns with a harsh and violent interpretation of Islamic law.(ap)

UN: Nearly 19,000 civilians killed in Iraq in under 2 years

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Iraqi security forces and allied Sunni tribal fighters help trapped civilians to to cross from neighborhoods under control of the Islamic State group to neighborhoods under control of Iraqi security forces in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.

Suicide of student triggers protests in southern India

HYDERABAD — Shouting slogans and holding placards, hundreds of students on Tuesday angrily protested the death of an Indian student who, along with four others, was barred from using some facilities at his university in the southern tech-hub of Hyderabad.

AP Photo/Manish Swarup

Indian students shout slogans and burn effigies of Hyderabad University’s vice chancellor and a federal minister while protesting the death of an Indian student who, along with 4 others, was barred from using some facilities at his university in the southern tech-hub of Hyderabad, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan 19, 2016.

DENPASAR - The trial of En-geline’s murder with the defendant of her adoptive mother, Margriet Ch Megawe, started presenting an alleviating witness, Monday (Jan. 18).

Margriet through her legal coun-sel, Dion Pongkor et al., presented a witness outside the police investi-gation report, namely Loreta Ineke who is incidentally the defendant’s sister-in-law. From the beginning, the trial has been running less interestingly and kindled laughter because when the witness was asked about the address of the de-fendant by the judge Edward Harris Sinaga was confused. “This address is important. I am dizzy when the witness even does not know the address,” said the Batak-descent judge.

The witness was confused be-cause she already sold her house in Bogor, as the address of the crime scene, while in Bali or since the murder case of Engeline, she stays with the daughter of Margriet. As

the judge is dizzy with the answer of Ineke Loreta, the judge then handed over a piece of paper. “Simply write down the address here,” asked the judge. The witness often attending the murder trial even looked at the legal counsel of Margriet.

“You do not need to look at the defendant or her legal counsel. Just write down your address because it is important,” asked the judge. The witness finally took the paper and wrote her address.

In the trial, Loreta Ineke said that in daily life Margriet is good and also treats the deceased Engeline well. She knew Engeline when she lived in the house of Margriet on Jalan Sedap Malam, East Denpasar.

She also said that the defendant Margriet was angry at Agustay because he could not complete his task properly. But at the end of the trial, the judge managed to uncover the nature of the defendant from the testimony of the defendant’s sister-in-law. Although she initially told that he never saw Margriet hitting

Engeline, she was provoked when the judge asked “Have you ever seen Margriet getting angry?”

The witness Ineke Loreta finally said that she has, and it occurred when Engeline did not reply her call. Loreta even said that to have ever seen Margriet getting angry at Engeline when the witness was there. The judge then chased, when did it happen? “I do not remember the date, but in 2014,” said the witness. At that time, Engeline was trying to fend off the blows of Margriet. “When she was called by Margriet, she did not reply, so Margriet was angry. As hit by Mar-griet, of course it was rejected by Engeline,” said the witness.

Additionally, Margriet will get angry if Engeline is glaring as con-sidered to be rebellious. “So, Enge-line likes glaring, being rebellious and fending?” asked the presiding judge. “Yes, she does,” replied the witness. The witness also said that when being pointed by Margriet, Engeline would cry.

Other than the matter of fending, glaring and scolding, in the trial last Monday was also debated about the recognition of forensic laboratory of National Police Headquarters where it was mentioned that after the measurement, it is impossible for the corpse of Engeline to be put into the cupboard. The defendant’s legal counsel, Dion Pongkor, then asked the witness because she is assessed to have a small body. After being tried, she could get into the cupboard.

“Well, this statement is interest-ing. So, did the witness know if there was a body in the cupboard, it could be put into the cupboard or who killed Engeline?” asked the judge. The witness said she did not. The defendant’s legal counsel then interrupted, that he ordered to try getting into the cupboard because the description of forensic labora-tory mentioned that it is impossible for Engeline’s corpse to be put in the cupboard. It was done because after a try, in fact, the witness was

able to get into the cupboard.“Oh, so the legal counsel asked

for that, not based on the knowledge of the witness? Or perhaps Margriet asked?” asked the judge. Legal coun-sel of the defendant said it was asked to prove the forensic information. “Recognition of Agustay in the first police investigation report recognized that he put the corpse of Engeline into the cupboard,” said Dion Pongkor.

And, Dion also pointed out that forensic deliberately protected Agustay based on the recognition delivered in the police investigation report saying that it is impossible if the corpse of Engeline can be put into the cupboard. “This forensic is trying to protect Agus, whereas he is a biologist,” he said.

On the testimony of Loreta Ineke, Margriet who was asked about her responses said that all the alleviating witness’ testimonies are true. “They include the hitting and defense of Engeline?” asked the judge. With a nod of the head, Margriet agreed. (kmb37)

Improvements will be done in stages because the government of Karangasem cannot afford to do it all at once and needs to request funds front the state budget.

Suarta explained that the agency manages 17 traditional markets, most of which have very poor infrastructural conditions, that cause crowdedness and give a rundown appearance to these markets. Many of the roofs of the markets leak, causing the floors to become muddy when it rains.

He cited the markets in West Amlapura, Pesangkan at East Duda, Selat as well as Menanga as being in particular need of help. The markets at Rubaya and Selat were restored last year. “This year the market at Tukad Belatung, Ban village prioritized for restoration because it is located by a river. The renovations will be done using financing from the central government worth IDR 1.7 billion. Pres-ently the market is flooded every time it rains, the floor is made of earth, the kiosks are rickety and the roof is rusted,” said Suarta.

Apart from improving infrastructure, merchants are also being asked to provide better service to customers, so that they can com-pete with convenience stores. He added that the agency has also raised the amount of levees collected from markets. In 2015 the agency aimed to collect IDR 2.1 billion worth of levies from tradi-tional markets, but this year they plan to obtain IDR 2.3 billion.

As for the chain convenience stores that have been operating without a licence, Suarta said that letters of reprimand have been sent. The Integrated Licensing Office will also be brought in to crack down on anyone who stubbornly refuses to comply with prevailing regulations. (013)

Traditional markets threatened by modern stores

Present alleviating witnessIt’s even revealed Engeline fends Margriet’s blow

AMLAPURA - Small merchants of traditional markets in Karangasem, including those in kiosks, are threatened by the presence of modern chain stores that continue to pop up in Karangasem. Head of the Karangasem Industry and Trade Agency, IGN Suarta, announced on Monday (Jan. 18) that in order to face the onslaught modern stores, the local government has resolved to improve the infra-structure of market buildings in Karangasem.

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One of the traditional market in Bali

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PARIS - The latest industrial revolution will not only bring us 3-D printing and biotechnology advances, but the loss of five million jobs in the next five years, according to a report prepared for the Davos forum of busi-ness and political elites.

The so-called fourth industrial revolution “will cause widespread disruption not only to business models but also to labour markets over the next five years”, the World Economic Forum said announcing a study re-leased ahead of the Davos forum this week.

Following the first industrial revo-lution of steam engines, then electric-ity and assembly lines, followed by electronics and robotics, the fourth industrial revolution will include a number of developments like big data and smart systems to transform the economy.

But that transformation will lead “...to a net loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerg-ing economies,” said the WEF, after analysing the potential impact on the economies of the United States, Germany, France, China, Brazil and other countries.

It sees as many as 7.1 million jobs being lost, mostly in white-collar of-fice and administrative roles, with the creation of 2.1 million new jobs in fields such as computer engineering and mathematics.

“Without urgent and targeted ac-tion today to manage the near-term transition and build a workforce with futureproof skills, govern-ments wil l have to cope with ever-growing unemployment and inequality, and businesses with a shrinking consumer base,” the World Economic Forum’s executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, warned in a statement.

A separate study found women will be “in the firing line” of the changes, which “may have a disproportionately negative impact on women”.

While the job losses will be rela-tively equal, with 52 percent of the expected 5.1 million job losses hit-ting men, in fact men still dominate the labour markets, so at 48 percent the job losses among women will be relatively higher than their participa-tion in the jobs market.

Moreover, women are underrep-resented in the technical fields where new jobs are to be created. (afp)

France remained the world’s most popular tourist destination, followed by the United States, Spain and China, according to the Madrid-based body which tracks the number of tourists who made an overnight stay at an international des-tination.

“2015 results were influenced by exchange rates, oil prices and natural and man-made crises in many parts of the world,” the head of the UN body, Taleb Rifai, told a news conference. Falling oil prices reduced transport costs but weakened demand for travel in oil-exporting nations while the weakness in the euro currency made travel to Europe for Americans more attractive, he said.

But the sector was marked mainly by the threat of extremism in 2015 with deadly attacks in Egypt, France, Lebanon, Tunisia, Mali and other nations.

“We are facing now, with regard to safety and security, a global threat,” said Rifai, a former Jordanian tourism minister.

“We cannot anymore say this is the problem of Egypt or France or Tunisia or Turkey or Thailand or Indonesia,” he added in reference to nations that suffered attacks last year claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

“We must continue to travel. We must never allow the pretext of safety and security to curb and reverse our attitude towards making this world more open.”

The UN World Tourism Organization said 2015 was the sixth consecutive year of above-average growth in global tourism since the economic crisis.

It had initially predicted international tour-ism arrivals would increase by 3 to 4 percent

in 2015.Global tourism figures were hard hit by the

global financial crisis, declining 4 percent in 2009 as an outbreak of swine flu also contributed to cash-strapped people staying at home.

But they have risen each year since.The UN body predicts international tourism

arrivals will increase by 4 percent in 2016. It forecasts the number of tourists who make an overnight trip abroad will hit 1.4 billion by 2020. “International tourism continues to grow strongly,” said Rifai.

The attacks carried out last year “will not have any medium and long-term impact” on the growth of travel, he added.

Some destinations did suffer drops in visitor numbers last year due to fears of attacks.

The number of international visitors to Tuni-sia -- which was shaken by an attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis followed by one in the resort of Sousse that killed 59 tourists -- fell to 5.2 million last year from 7.2 million in 2014. (afp)

Next industrial revolution to lead to 5m less jobs

AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File

In this Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 photo, a Chinese tourist uses her smartphone to take a photo of her friend at a popular tourist spot which overlooks the financial and shopping district in Singapore. The number of international tourists rose by 4.4 percent worldwide in 2015 to hit a record 1.18 billion despite concerns over extremist attacks, the United Nations World Tourism Organization said Monday.

World tourism numbers hit new record in 2015 despite attack fears

MADRID - The number of international tourists rose by 4.4 percent worldwide in 2015 to hit a record 1.18 billion despite concerns over extremist attacks, the United Nations World Tourism Organization said Monday.

The block would be returned to the government after the contract expires on Oct. 24 in 2018, Execu-tive Director of Chevron IndoAsia Business Unit Chuck Taylor said in a statement on Tuesday.

“We will continue to be focused on the safety of operation and will

support handover of assets to the new operator,” Taylor said.

He said the decision to return the block to the government would not affect the commitment of continu-ing the 90-year history of partner-ship in Indonesia to carry out strategic project such as Indonesia

Deepwater Development (IDD).“We are proud of the strong

partnership with the people and government of Indonesia and com-mitment to supporting Indonesia in developing energy resources,” he said.

Chevron is operating the East Kalimantan block supplying natu-ral gas including for the Bontang Liquefied Natural Gas plant and Balikpapan oil refinery .

Based on data from the Up-stream Oil and Gas Regulator (SKK Migas) , in line with the work program and budget in 2016, the East Kalimantan block’s production target for crude oil and condensate is set at 14,470 barrels per day.

The target is lower than assump-tion set in the 2016 state budget at 17,590 barrels per day.

In term of production target,

the East Kalimantan block is the 9th largest after the Rokan block (PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia), Cepu (Mobil Cepu Limited), PT Pertamina EP, Mahakam (Total E&P Indonesie), ONWJ (PT PHE ONWJ Ltd), South East Sumatera (CNOOC SES Ltd), South Natuna Sea Block “B” (ConocoPhilips Indonesia Inc Ltd), and Ketapang (Petronas Carigali Ketapang II Ltd). (ant)

Chevron not to seek extension for East Kalimantan block contract

JAKARTA - Chevron Indonesia Company said it will not seek extension of its production sharing contract for the East Kalimantan block in 2018.

JAKARTA - A baby orangutan found abandoned and almost dead has made a swift recovery at an Indonesian rescue centre, and has been filmed playing hap-pily with another young ape.

Gito was discovered dumped in a cardboard box in August under the bak-ing sun on the Indonesian part of Borneo island, with rescuers initially believing the primate was dead due to his “mum-mified” appearance.

A team from International Animal Rescue (IAR) picked up the endangered Bornean orangutan, who had been kept as a pet by a local village head, and rushed him to their centre.

Gito -- who is less than a year old -- was suffering from multiple ailments but has recovered strongly, and was recently released from quarantine and introduced to another male baby orangutan, Asoka.

New footage released by IAR showed their first encounter, with the apes ap-pearing wary when initially introduced at the orangutan rehabilitation centre on Borneo. However, it was not long before the pair were playing happily together on a wooden climbing frame.

Asoka was also rescued on Borneo several months ago after a villager found him abandoned in the jungle and handed the ape over to IAR, although he was in a far better condition than Gito.

Gito is doing much better than when he was found suffering from dehydra-tion, malnutrition and a skin infection, but his caregivers warn there is a long road ahead.

IAR programme director for Indonesia, Karmele Llano Sanchez, said Gito would still need to take part in “jungle school” -- a scheme designed to prepare orangutans

for life in the wild -- before he could be released.

“It’s going to take five to seven years before he is ready to be released into the wild,” she told AFP.

Bornean orangutans are classified as endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and are protected under Indonesian law.

But their jungle habitats are being destroyed by the rapid expansion of palm oil and pulp and paper plantations, while locals view the apes as pests and some-times target them.

Hundreds of Bornean primates were also rescued last year as massive, smog-belching forest fires ravaged the island. The fires, started to clear land for plan-tations, are an annual occurrence, but in 2015 were the worst for some years. (afp)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has congratulated Ade Komarudin, a Golkar politician who was just installed as house speaker to replace Setyo Novanto, who had resigned after the Freeport scandal came to light.

“First of all, I want to congratulate Ade Komarudin who is installed as the new house speaker,” Jokowi stated in a meeting of the state institutions’ leadership at the State Palace on Tuesday.

He expressed confidence that under Komarudin’s leadership, the House of Representatives (DPR) could become a trusted institution in implementing its func-tions as the people’s representative and a political identity.

The state institutions’ leadership meeting was at-tended by Vice President Jusuf M. Kalla, Chairman of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Zulkifli Hasan, Deputy Chairman of MPR Oesman Sapta Odang, new House Speaker Ade Komarudin, Chairman of the Constitutional Court Arief Hidayat, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court Agung Suwardi, Chairman of the Ju-dicial Commission Maradaman Harahap, and Chairman of the State Audit Agency (BPK) Harry Azhar Azis.

Among the ministers present at the meeting were Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affaris Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli, Coordinating Minister for Human and Cultural Development Puan Maharani, and Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly.

The president explained that the meeting was aimed at strengthening the commitment to develop Indonesia toward a better future and build synergy among state institutions.

The meeting also discussed the fundamental issues being faced by the nation.

The Steering Committee of the Indonesian DPR in a meeting recently endorsed Komarudin’s appointment as the new House speaker to replace Novanto.

All political parties’ factions in the Parliament en-dorsed the appointment of Komarudin, he added.

“There is a need to fill the vacancy in the DPR lead-ership, so that it could perform and meet the public’s expectations,” Jhonny G. Plate, deputy chairman of the Nasional Democrat (Nasdem) Party, said, citing the reason for the decision.

The Golkar Party, in a letter signed by its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, and Secretary General Idrus Marham, proposed the name of Komarudin as the sole candidate to replace Novanto. (ant)

President congratulates new house speaker

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

In this Jan. 7, 2016, photo, conservationists of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation hold a baby orangutan rescued along with its mother during a rescue and release operation for orangutans trapped in a swath of jungle in Sungai Mangkutub, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. A baby orangutan found abandoned and almost dead has made a swift recovery at an Indonesian rescue centre, and has been filmed playing happily with another young ape.

Baby ape recovers after ordeal in Indonesia, finds new playmate

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Meanwhile, Head of Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Province Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati said the qual-ity of tourism destinations in Bali should be improved to lure more tourists.

“If the parking and service fa-cilities are good and clean, tourists would not be reluctant to spend more money for them,” Sukawati noted.

Bali Island was selected as one

of the world’s best island destina-tions by the US Travel+Leisure Magazine at the end of 2015.

Based on the New York-based Travel+Leisure Magazine, the rat-ings of the world¿s best islands are Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a score of 90.82, Bali of Indonesia (Score 88.98), Maldives (score: 88.53), Tasmania of Australia (score: 88.32), Santorini of Greece (score: 87.93), Moorea of French Polynesia (score: 87.90), Maui of Hawaii (score: 87.89), Kauai of Hawaii (score: 87,88), Great Barrier Reef of Australia (score: 87.31), and Malta (score: 86.90). (ant)

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In his first public remarks since international sanctions were lifted following a U.N. report that Iran had fully complied in scaling back its nuclear program, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran should “ex-ercise care the other party imple-ments its commitments.”

He added that “expressions by some U.S. politicians in recent days

are matter of pessimism,” without elaborating.

The remarks, his first since the deal was implemented over the weekend, came in a letter to Presi-dent Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday. Khamenei said Iran has paid heavy prices for concluding the deal.

On Sunday, President Barack Obama announced sanctions on 11

individuals over Iran’s ballistic mis-sile testing in October and pledged to counter Iran’s “destabilizing behavior” across the Mideast.

Khamenei, the country’s top decision maker, has praised Iran’s negotiators while continuing to express deep mistrust of the United States.

Under the deal, Iran admitted to cap its nuclear activities in return to lifting sanctions from the country. The West had long suspected Iran’s nuclear program has military dimen-sion. Iran denied the charge. (ap)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish police say a European drug ring is being broken up with 310 kilograms (682 pounds) of cocaine of “unusually high purity” seized in Denmark and six arrests in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Police spokesman Brian Voss Ol-sen says the cocaine could have been cut to up to 1.2 tons of powder and sold with estimated street value of up to 900 million kroner ($131 million).

Voss Olsen says “the largest cocaine seizure in Denmark’s his-tory” took place in the western Denmark port city of Esbjerg in July, and “likely was intended for the European market.”

He said none of those arrested were Danes, and one had already been extradited to Denmark, adding more arrests could be made. Details were disclosed only on Tuesday be-cause of the ongoing probe. (ap)

SEOUL — South Korea tough-ened its aviation security law in the aftermath of the notorious nut rage incident involving a top airline executive.

The transport ministry said the revised law went into effect Tues-day, more than a year after a Korean Airlines vice president’s tantrum over macadamia nuts delayed a flight. The executive and Korean

Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah left the airline after a public uproar.

Under the revised law, disturbing the captain or crew can be punished by up to five years in prison or up to 50 million won ($41,461) in fine. Previously, such acts faced a fine of 5 million won and no prison term. Being a nuisance to other passen-gers faces a 10 million won fine, doubled from the past. (ap)

KABUL, Afghanistan — A young woman in a remote northern region of Afghanistan had her nose cut off by her husband, officials in the region said on Tuesday. Fawzia Salimi, a hospital director in May-mana, capital of Faryab province, said 22-year-old Reza Gul was brought in early Monday having lost a great deal of blood.

Gul’s husband, 25-year-old Mo-hammad Khan, has since fled their village. Salimi said the Afghan-Turk Hospital in Maymana was trying to arrange transport for Gul to Turkey for further treatment. Domestic violence is widespread in Afghanistan, where women are often denied constitutional rights designed to protect them.

Violence has also become some-what entrenched in Afghan society after 40 years of war, with nearly

non-existent mental health care and few options or outlets for a traumatized population.

Hafizullah Fetrat, the head of Fayrab’s provincial human rights commission, said violence in the area had risen by at least 30 percent in the past year. “It’s not just in Faryab, it is across the entire north of the country — poverty, high unemployment, ignorance about marriage,” he said.

Faryab borders Turkmenistan and is among the poorest regions of Afghanistan, with many people relying on government food hand-outs. Corruption is also rife, and many residents complaining that officials pilfer the aid.

Over the past year, the Taliban’s presence in the region has grown. The militant group has intensified its campaign following the drawdown of

the international combat mission in 2014. The district where Gul’s family lives is under Taliban control, said Rahmatullah Turkistani, a member of Fayab’s provincial council.

Salimi said Khan had returned from Iran three months ago, and since then had repeatedly beaten and tortured his wife. He had also taken another wife who is just seven years old, she said.

Community elders and Taliban representatives in their village had tried mediating with the family to help sort out their problems, a traditional method of dealing with marital issues, she said.

Khan had disappeared from the village, and local security forces in-cluding the intelligence agency and police were searching for him, said the provincial governor’s spokes-man Ahmad Jawed Dedar. (ap)

Afghan woman has nose cut off by husband

AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi

Under portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, top left, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani arrives for a news con-ference in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016.

Iran’s top leader expresses ‘pessimism’

after nuclear dealTEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s top leader on Tuesday called for

vigilance in ensuring that world powers meet their commit-ments under a newly implemented nuclear deal while expressing “pessimism” about U.S. intentions, state media reported.

SKorea toughens aviation law in wake of nut rage incident

AP Photo/Francois Mori

Packages of cocaine and evidence are presented in a Police office in Paris Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 as part of 41 kilograms (90 pounds) of cocaine seized in a plane coming from the Do-minican Republic at Orly airport. Vincent Annereau, from the Paris judicial police, says the drugs seized last Friday at Orly Airport, south of Paris, are worth more than 2 million euros ($2.2 million) at current dealing prices.

Cocaine bust in Denmark, 6 arrests in Belgium, Netherlands

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TABANAN - Beratan lake (also called Lake Bratan or Danu Bratan) is located in the area of Bedugul, Candikuning village, Baturiti dis-trict, Tabanan regency Bali, ap-proximately 55 km from Denpasar city, and it’s located at an altitude ± 1240 m above sea level, the temperature in lake Beratan area (Bedugul area) at night time ± 18° c and at daytime ± 24° c.

Lake Bratan has an area of about 375.6 hectares with an average depth of 22-48 m with an area of about 12 km around, Beratan lake is the second largest lake after lake Batur on the island of Bali, Lake Bratan is very important as a main source of irrigation in central Bali.

Lake Bratan is very well known as the best tourist destination visited by many international and domes-

tic travelers. The coolness of the mountains with a stunning view of the lake, temple and mountains, becoming this place a favorite tour-ist destination and recommended while enjoying a holiday in Bali. It’s also facilitated with adequate accommodation such as hotels, villas, restaurants and water sport activities such as parasailing, ca-noeing, water skiing.

On the east side of Beratan lake there is Mount Catur (Bali-nese people used to call it Pucak Mangu) which is a very nice place for hiking.

Not far from the lake Bratan there are also attractive places of interest such as Bedugul Botanical Garden (Kebun Raya Eka Karya), Bedugul fruits and vegetables mar-ket and also lake Buyan and lake

Tamblingan.Ulun Danu temple also called

Pura Ulun Danu is located at the edge of lake Bratan, Ulun Danu temple builded in the early 17th century, which serves as the temple of Subak (Bali water irrigation sys-tem) and serve as a place to worship the Goddess of water in Balinese called Dewi Danu (worship of wa-ter for fertility).

Lake BeratanIBP/File Photo

The final 12-player roster for Rio de Janeiro will be chosen this summer. If James and Anthony are on it they would become the first American men to play in four Olympics.

The other candidates for Rio are: Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City); Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan (Clippers); Kawhi Leon-ard and LaMarcus Aldridge (San Antonio); Klay Thompson, Dray-mond Green, Andre Iguodala and Harrison Barnes (Golden State); Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love (Cleveland); Dwight Howard and James Harden (Houston); Anthony Davis (New Orleans); Paul George (Indiana); DeMarcus Cousins and Rudy Gay (Sacramento); John Wall and Bradley Beal (Washington); Jimmy Butler (Chicago); Mike Conley (Memphis); DeMar DeRo-zan (Toronto); Andre Drummond (Detroit); Kenneth Faried (Denver)

and Gordon Hayward (Utah).“The depth of talent that exists

in the national team program is extraordinary. Repeating as gold medalists at the 2016 Olympics will not be easy, but we feel confident that we have 30 finalists who offer amazing basketball abilities and special versatility,” USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said in a statement.

Kobe Bryant, who is retiring after this season, took himself out of the running for a third Olympics this weekend.

James and Anthony have already joined Hall of Famer David Robin-son as the only U.S. men to play in three Olympics, winning bronze in 2004 before leading the U.S. to gold in Beijing and London. Paul could join that list this summer.

James has said he would base his decision about playing on his health and his family’s wishes, and may not decide until after his NBA

season ends. “I haven’t thought about it,” he said at Cleveland’s shootaround before its game against Golden State on Monday.

“The last time I thought about Team USA was Kobe taking his name out of the pool. That’s the last thing I kind of really thought about, so I’m not any inch closer to playing or not any inch closer to not playing. I haven’t really thought about it much.”

After playing in five straight NBA Finals, another lengthy season could impact his interest in wearing the red, white and blue again. “The season has always kind of dictated it,” James said. Curry called it a huge honor to be selected.

“That would be a great experi-ence,” Curry said following Golden State’s 132-98 victory at Cleveland. “Obviously, there’s 30 capable, highly talented experienced guys on that list. There should some tough decisions for Mr. Colangelo and Coach K. Picking from that crop of 30 guys you’ve got some great choices there. Hopefully things work out this summer and I’ll be able to try to go for a gold medal in Brazil.” (ap)

MELBOURNE, Australia — Venus Williams tried to rally, win-ning two games and getting another break-point chance after falling a set and 5-0 behind, before her 16th trip to the Australian Open finished in a first-round loss to Johanna Konta.

The 35-year-old, seven-time major winner trudged off Rod Laver Arena, waving to the crowd at 1:55 p.m. on the second day of the tournament following a surprising 6-4, 6-2 loss to the No. 47-ranked Konta, a Sydney-born British player who was making her debut in the main draw at the Australian Open after losing twice previously in qualifying.

Andy Murray opened with a 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 win over Alexander Zverev, sand remains very much a round-by-round proposition at Melbourne Park, where he has lost the final four times. He had Amelie Mauresmo, a new mother, back in his coaching corner for the match and was happy not to get any mid-match news from home. He has said he’ll leave immediately, regardless of the stage of the tourna-ment, if his wife, Kim, goes into labor in London with their first child.

“I’m more excited than nervous now,” Murray said of the pending ar-rival. “I don’t have any news because I’ve just come off the court. I’m hop-ing my phone hasn’t been buzzing in my bag. But Kim will message my team if anything’s going on during the matches, and I’ll see what happens.”

Williams had a career comeback last season, winning three titles, finding some consistency after a long struggle with illness and finishing the year in the top 10 for the first time since 2010. She reached the quarterfi-nals at the Australian and U.S. Opens — the first and last majors of the year. In 2016, she’s 0-2 after also losing in

a warmup tournament at Auckland, New Zealand.

It was the eighth time she’s lost in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament and the third in Australia, where she reached the quarterfinals in her first appearance in 1998 and lost the final to her youngest sister, Serena, in 2003.

Konta was really going for her groundstrokes in a high-risk, high-reward approach that kept Williams, who had wrapping on her left leg, on the defensive.

“When the draw came out and I saw who I was playing I was like ‘Well, ok, I just hope to stay out there more than an hour,’” Konta said in a post-match TV interview, appar-ently as surprised as anyone after her straight sets win over the No. 8-seeded Williams.

No. 3 Garbine Muguruza needed exactly an hour to beat Estonian qualifier Anett Kontaveit 6-0, 6-4, No. 11 Timea Bacsinszky advanced over Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 7-5 and No. 15 Madison Keys, a semifinalist here last year, had to save set points in the first before beating Zarina Diyas 7-6 (5), 6-1. No. 18 Elina Svitolina, No. 19 Jelena Jankovic and No. 21 Ekaterina Makarova, who beat Venus Williams in the first round here in 2014, also advanced.

On the men’s side, No. 13 Milos Raonic followed up his win over Roger Federer in the final of the Brisbane International tune-up event with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 win over Lucas Pouille, No. 18 Feliciano Lopez beat Daniel Evans 6-1, 6-0, 6-4 and No. 32 Joao Sousa beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. No. 5 Rafael Nadal was playing fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in a rematch of the epic semifinal here in 2009. (ap)

Venus Williams loses, Murray advances at Australian Open

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

Venus Williams of the United States reacts to a lost point against Johanna Konta of Britain during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016.

AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2012, file photo, United States’ Carmelo Anthony celebrates after the men’s gold medal basketball game at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London.

James, Anthony top 30 finalists for Olympic basketball team

LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony are a step closer to a fourth Olympics, and Stephen Curry is in position for his first. The NBA stars were among 30 players selected Monday as finalists for the U.S. basketball team that will attempt to win a third straight gold medal.

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Speaking after Sunday’s 5-1 win over Sporting Gijon, Ronaldo said the results of “a week of hard work” are visible on the pitch, with the squad “in good spirits with Zidane.” Ronaldo, who scored twice, says Zidane has “a different concept” of football and “sees the game differently” to previous coach, Benitez.

Part of the change comes from Zidane’s insistence on “keeping possession of the ball in the op-

ponents’ half,” Ronaldo says.With half of the season still to

go, Ronaldo says the team hopes to reach the end of the Spanish and Champions leagues feeling as positive, adding “we are happy about how things are going.”

Under Zidane, Madrid has had two five-goal league wins, with consecutive victories over Deportivo La Coruna and Sport-ing Gijon.

“I honestly notice an improve-

ment in the team’s attitude with Zidane’s arrival,” said Ronaldo. “The players feel a little more empathy for Zidane, do not ask me why because I couldn’t tell you, that’s football.”

Ronaldo said it wasn’t that Benitez “was not doing his job well, it’s just things weren’t working out.”

Luka Modric said part of the problem was that Madrid’s squad was not fully physically fit during the early part of the season.

“We had a hectic pre-season,” said Modric. “Flying from Aus-tralia and China, we traveled more than we trained.” (ap)

SWANSEA, Wales — Swansea moved out of the relegation zone fol-lowing a slender 1-0 win over Watford in the English Premier League on Monday in front of newly-appointed head coach Francesco Guidolin.

Guidolin’s arrival was confirmed by Swansea earlier Monday and the 60-year-old was in the stands at the Liberty Stadium to see captain Ashley Williams head in the winner shortly before the half-hour mark.

Guidolin will work alongside Alan Curtis, who took over as interim man-ager after Garry Monk was fired last month.

“He’s a very experienced coach and it’s probably something we needed, an experienced leader. If he can get the performances and the results as well then I think that’s what we’re looking for,” Curtis said following his final match in sole charge.

The loss condemned Watford to its fourth straight league defeat following a run of four consecutive wins that had led to manager Quique Sanchez Flores earning the manager of the month award for December.

Watford midfielder Jose Manuel Jurado had the visitors’ best oppor-tunities to level. He almost netted an equalizer in the 66th but sent his shot wide from the edge of the area after a neat exchange with striker Odion Ighalo.

The Spaniard then missed with a volley from the edge of the area in the closing stages as Swansea held on for the win that ends a three-match run without a win.

“All the games are big for us now. We need points as quickly as possible and get up the table,” Williams said after netting his first ever Premier League goal at the Liberty.

“We heard the news last night and everyone got onto Google to try and find out as much about him. It’s given everyone a bit of a lift and to try and go out onto the field and do as much as you can,” Williams said of Guidolin’s move.

Both he and Curtis have contracts until the end of the season, with Swan-sea announcing in a statement Monday that Guidolin “will have the final say on team selection.” (ap)

LONDON — A bet that could see former England great Gary Lineker on TV in his underwear is not a normal wager. But how brave, or foolish, was the former Leicester striker to say he would host the first “Match of the Day” next season in his underpants if his old club won the Premier League?

The naked truth is that Lineker could be heading for an embarrass-ing Saturday night. After narrowly avoiding relegation at the end of last season, Leicester hired a new manager in 64-year-old Claudio Ranieri, a popular coach with a wealth of experience but a dearth of silverware. Add the modest budget for transfers, and it’s not surprising the team was firmly marked down as a prime candidate for the drop.

Instead, Leicester has spent weeks at the top of the world’s richest league, and only a goal difference of three is currently keeping the club in second place below Arsenal. If not for a missed penalty in Saturday’s draw at Aston Villa, the Foxes could well be two points clear of the chas-ing pack.

Can they keep this going and create one of the biggest shocks in English football? The simple answer is “yes.”

The arguments against them are predictable and well-rehearsed. Le-icester has no real Premier League pedigree, no star players and no prospect of any big-name signings. It’s hard to imagine a top interna-tional player joining over the next two weeks and telling reporters “ever since I was a kid, it was my dream to play for Leicester.”

And in 30 years as a coach, Ran-ieri’s trophy cabinet is certainly not cluttered. An Italian Cup in 1996 from his time with Fiorentina and the 1999 Copa del Rey with Valencia pretty much fills it.

However, none of this fazes a well-drilled Leicester side that is thoroughly enjoying its football and is free of expectations. And that’s just the point. Leicester has none of the pressure that’s now ratcheting up on Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United as players in the glamour clubs head toward the busi-ness end of the season.

And a team that plays without fear is a dangerous opponent. Leic-ester showed no fear when it hosted Premier League champion Chelsea, beating the Blues 2-1 in an impres-sive performance. The millionaire players of both Manchester clubs have been held to draws, and fourth-place Tottenham was beaten at White Hart Lane last week. Among the title contenders, only Arsenal has so far inflicted a defeat on Leicester.

On a purely footballing level, Leicester is good enough to win the

league. Arsenal, City and United fans found it amusing when “little Leic-ester” — Ranieri’s words — went to the top of the Premier League on Nov. 21 after 13 games. Nine match-es and two months later, they’re not laughing any more.

Leicester is still up with the pacesetters and showing no signs of the sudden implosion and descent to mid-table mediocrity that was so widely predicted. What’s more, the argument that “this has never been done before” carries even less weight.

Nobody had scored in 11 consecu-tive Premier League matches before Leicester’s Jamie Vardy completed the feat in late November. No team had been in last place in the Premier League on one Christmas Day and then top on Dec. 25 the following year until Leicester managed it last month.

While Vardy has not added to his 15 goals since mid-December, in large part because of a groin problem that has since required surgery, that hasn’t prevented Leicester from win-ning matches.

Supported by attacking midfielder Riyad Mahrez, arguably the other revelation of the Premier League this

season along with Vardy, Leicester’s attack carries real menace — as the stats show.

Forget Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil, United’s Wayne Rooney or City’s Sergio Aguero. The Premier League’s Player Index, essentially a ranking of individual performance across 471 registered players, has 13-goal Mahrez in first place and Vardy in second.

Offseason signing N’Golo Kante has been a combative, driving force in midfield, while the neat passing and movement going forward is well understood by all the players. Derided as “the Tinkerman” dur-ing his years at Chelsea because of his frequent changes in players and tactics, Ranieri has found a style of play and a starting line-up that has changed little since the start of the season.

That continuity has been an im-portant part of the team’s success. It’s also one of the reasons why Le-icester might yet defy gravity when the season ends.

Whether it’s Chelsea, United or City, the Premier League has often been won by sides that have long cut their rivals adrift and cruised to the title. (ap)

MADRID — Defending champion Barcelona looks set to be without three key players — including Lionel Messi — when it travels northwest for its Copa del Rey quarterfinal match at Athletic Bilbao.

With Luis Suarez suspend-ed, Jordi Alba sidelined with a right leg injury and Messi re-covering from what Barcelona said was “discomfort” in his right leg, coach Luis Enrique will need to shuffle his normal starting lineup for what will be a rematch of last year’s final.

On paper, Barcelona is the overwhelming favorite, having humbled Athletic 6-0 in the league on Sunday and come away the 3-1 winner in last season’s final.

However, Messi and Suarez are the mainstay of Luis En-rique’s attack, scoring 48 goals for Barcelona this season, with the remainder of his forwards — Neymar, Munir El Haddadi and Sandro Ramirez — con-tributing just 26.

The first leg of this season’s encounter will be in Bilbao on Wednesday, with the return match at the Camp Nou on

Jan. 27.In the other quarterfinals,

Spanish league leader Atletico Madrid travels to Celta Vigo while Valencia hosts recently promoted Las Palmas from the Canary Islands and Sevilla will welcome Mirandes, the only second-division team in the draw.

Messi spent most of Mon-day morning at a Barcelona clinic undergoing tests after having been substituted at half-t ime during Sunday’s match. Barcelona described the substitution as “a precaution” after the Argentine forward had complained of “a sore hamstring.” After the tests, a club statement ruled out a hamstring injury.

Midfielder Sergi Roberto said he hoped Messi and Alba would recover rapidly, but added he was willing to play in whatever position Enrique chose for him.

“We have to be wary of the Athletic club in the Copa because it will play at home in front of its fans who are very demanding,” Roberto said. (ap)

ZURICH - Swiss bank Ju-lius Baer has dismissed one of its client advisers as part of its internal investigation into ties with world soccer’s governing body FIFA, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The employee left the company shortly after several soccer of-ficials were arrested in Zurich last May, the source said, add-ing this was the only member of the bank’s staff to be dismissed so far in connection with its FIFA probe.

Baer said in June it had opened an internal investigation in connection with FIFA after a corruption scandal engulfed soccer’s governing body. The bank said at the time that it was fully cooperating with the authorities.

Zurich-based FIFA was

thrown into turmoil last year when U.S. authorit ies an-nounced the indictment of 14 people on May 27, seven of whom were arrested at their Zurich hotel.

Baer, Switzerland third-largest listed bank, was one of a number of banks mentioned as financial intermediaries in the U.S. Department of Justice’s May charge sheet against high-ranking FIFA individuals.

A total of 41 individuals and entities, including many for-mer FIFA officials, have now been charged with corruption-related offences in the United States. Swiss authorities are also investigating whether corruption played a role in FIFA’s awarding of World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar. (rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs

Swansea’s Kyle Naughton and Watford’s Nathan Ake

Swansea out of relegation zone after 1-0 win over Watford

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File

FILE - In this May 24, 2014 file photo, former player and current Real Madrid B team coach Zinedine Zidane lifts the Champion League trophy, at the end of the Champions League final soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid in Lisbon, Portugal.

Cristiano Ronaldo says Zidane

has raised Real Madrid spirits

MADRID — Real Madrid has trained hard under new coach Zinedine Zidane and recovered its enthusiasm fol-lowing the departure of Rafa Benitez according to star forward Cristiano Ronaldo.

Julius Baer dismisses employee

in internal FIFA probe

Barcelona could face Athletic Bilbao in

Copa without Messi

Leicester: Title contender, or just pretending?

AP Photo/Rui Vieira

Leicester City players congratulate Shinji Okazaki, center no. 20, after he scored against Aston Villa during the English Premier League soccer match between Aston Villa and Leicester City at Villa Park, Birmingham, England, Saturday, Jan. 16 2016.

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Speaking after Sunday’s 5-1 win over Sporting Gijon, Ronaldo said the results of “a week of hard work” are visible on the pitch, with the squad “in good spirits with Zidane.” Ronaldo, who scored twice, says Zidane has “a different concept” of football and “sees the game differently” to previous coach, Benitez.

Part of the change comes from Zidane’s insistence on “keeping possession of the ball in the op-

ponents’ half,” Ronaldo says.With half of the season still to

go, Ronaldo says the team hopes to reach the end of the Spanish and Champions leagues feeling as positive, adding “we are happy about how things are going.”

Under Zidane, Madrid has had two five-goal league wins, with consecutive victories over Deportivo La Coruna and Sport-ing Gijon.

“I honestly notice an improve-

ment in the team’s attitude with Zidane’s arrival,” said Ronaldo. “The players feel a little more empathy for Zidane, do not ask me why because I couldn’t tell you, that’s football.”

Ronaldo said it wasn’t that Benitez “was not doing his job well, it’s just things weren’t working out.”

Luka Modric said part of the problem was that Madrid’s squad was not fully physically fit during the early part of the season.

“We had a hectic pre-season,” said Modric. “Flying from Aus-tralia and China, we traveled more than we trained.” (ap)

SWANSEA, Wales — Swansea moved out of the relegation zone fol-lowing a slender 1-0 win over Watford in the English Premier League on Monday in front of newly-appointed head coach Francesco Guidolin.

Guidolin’s arrival was confirmed by Swansea earlier Monday and the 60-year-old was in the stands at the Liberty Stadium to see captain Ashley Williams head in the winner shortly before the half-hour mark.

Guidolin will work alongside Alan Curtis, who took over as interim man-ager after Garry Monk was fired last month.

“He’s a very experienced coach and it’s probably something we needed, an experienced leader. If he can get the performances and the results as well then I think that’s what we’re looking for,” Curtis said following his final match in sole charge.

The loss condemned Watford to its fourth straight league defeat following a run of four consecutive wins that had led to manager Quique Sanchez Flores earning the manager of the month award for December.

Watford midfielder Jose Manuel Jurado had the visitors’ best oppor-tunities to level. He almost netted an equalizer in the 66th but sent his shot wide from the edge of the area after a neat exchange with striker Odion Ighalo.

The Spaniard then missed with a volley from the edge of the area in the closing stages as Swansea held on for the win that ends a three-match run without a win.

“All the games are big for us now. We need points as quickly as possible and get up the table,” Williams said after netting his first ever Premier League goal at the Liberty.

“We heard the news last night and everyone got onto Google to try and find out as much about him. It’s given everyone a bit of a lift and to try and go out onto the field and do as much as you can,” Williams said of Guidolin’s move.

Both he and Curtis have contracts until the end of the season, with Swan-sea announcing in a statement Monday that Guidolin “will have the final say on team selection.” (ap)

LONDON — A bet that could see former England great Gary Lineker on TV in his underwear is not a normal wager. But how brave, or foolish, was the former Leicester striker to say he would host the first “Match of the Day” next season in his underpants if his old club won the Premier League?

The naked truth is that Lineker could be heading for an embarrass-ing Saturday night. After narrowly avoiding relegation at the end of last season, Leicester hired a new manager in 64-year-old Claudio Ranieri, a popular coach with a wealth of experience but a dearth of silverware. Add the modest budget for transfers, and it’s not surprising the team was firmly marked down as a prime candidate for the drop.

Instead, Leicester has spent weeks at the top of the world’s richest league, and only a goal difference of three is currently keeping the club in second place below Arsenal. If not for a missed penalty in Saturday’s draw at Aston Villa, the Foxes could well be two points clear of the chas-ing pack.

Can they keep this going and create one of the biggest shocks in English football? The simple answer is “yes.”

The arguments against them are predictable and well-rehearsed. Le-icester has no real Premier League pedigree, no star players and no prospect of any big-name signings. It’s hard to imagine a top interna-tional player joining over the next two weeks and telling reporters “ever since I was a kid, it was my dream to play for Leicester.”

And in 30 years as a coach, Ran-ieri’s trophy cabinet is certainly not cluttered. An Italian Cup in 1996 from his time with Fiorentina and the 1999 Copa del Rey with Valencia pretty much fills it.

However, none of this fazes a well-drilled Leicester side that is thoroughly enjoying its football and is free of expectations. And that’s just the point. Leicester has none of the pressure that’s now ratcheting up on Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United as players in the glamour clubs head toward the busi-ness end of the season.

And a team that plays without fear is a dangerous opponent. Leic-ester showed no fear when it hosted Premier League champion Chelsea, beating the Blues 2-1 in an impres-sive performance. The millionaire players of both Manchester clubs have been held to draws, and fourth-place Tottenham was beaten at White Hart Lane last week. Among the title contenders, only Arsenal has so far inflicted a defeat on Leicester.

On a purely footballing level, Leicester is good enough to win the

league. Arsenal, City and United fans found it amusing when “little Leic-ester” — Ranieri’s words — went to the top of the Premier League on Nov. 21 after 13 games. Nine match-es and two months later, they’re not laughing any more.

Leicester is still up with the pacesetters and showing no signs of the sudden implosion and descent to mid-table mediocrity that was so widely predicted. What’s more, the argument that “this has never been done before” carries even less weight.

Nobody had scored in 11 consecu-tive Premier League matches before Leicester’s Jamie Vardy completed the feat in late November. No team had been in last place in the Premier League on one Christmas Day and then top on Dec. 25 the following year until Leicester managed it last month.

While Vardy has not added to his 15 goals since mid-December, in large part because of a groin problem that has since required surgery, that hasn’t prevented Leicester from win-ning matches.

Supported by attacking midfielder Riyad Mahrez, arguably the other revelation of the Premier League this

season along with Vardy, Leicester’s attack carries real menace — as the stats show.

Forget Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil, United’s Wayne Rooney or City’s Sergio Aguero. The Premier League’s Player Index, essentially a ranking of individual performance across 471 registered players, has 13-goal Mahrez in first place and Vardy in second.

Offseason signing N’Golo Kante has been a combative, driving force in midfield, while the neat passing and movement going forward is well understood by all the players. Derided as “the Tinkerman” dur-ing his years at Chelsea because of his frequent changes in players and tactics, Ranieri has found a style of play and a starting line-up that has changed little since the start of the season.

That continuity has been an im-portant part of the team’s success. It’s also one of the reasons why Le-icester might yet defy gravity when the season ends.

Whether it’s Chelsea, United or City, the Premier League has often been won by sides that have long cut their rivals adrift and cruised to the title. (ap)

MADRID — Defending champion Barcelona looks set to be without three key players — including Lionel Messi — when it travels northwest for its Copa del Rey quarterfinal match at Athletic Bilbao.

With Luis Suarez suspend-ed, Jordi Alba sidelined with a right leg injury and Messi re-covering from what Barcelona said was “discomfort” in his right leg, coach Luis Enrique will need to shuffle his normal starting lineup for what will be a rematch of last year’s final.

On paper, Barcelona is the overwhelming favorite, having humbled Athletic 6-0 in the league on Sunday and come away the 3-1 winner in last season’s final.

However, Messi and Suarez are the mainstay of Luis En-rique’s attack, scoring 48 goals for Barcelona this season, with the remainder of his forwards — Neymar, Munir El Haddadi and Sandro Ramirez — con-tributing just 26.

The first leg of this season’s encounter will be in Bilbao on Wednesday, with the return match at the Camp Nou on

Jan. 27.In the other quarterfinals,

Spanish league leader Atletico Madrid travels to Celta Vigo while Valencia hosts recently promoted Las Palmas from the Canary Islands and Sevilla will welcome Mirandes, the only second-division team in the draw.

Messi spent most of Mon-day morning at a Barcelona clinic undergoing tests after having been substituted at half-t ime during Sunday’s match. Barcelona described the substitution as “a precaution” after the Argentine forward had complained of “a sore hamstring.” After the tests, a club statement ruled out a hamstring injury.

Midfielder Sergi Roberto said he hoped Messi and Alba would recover rapidly, but added he was willing to play in whatever position Enrique chose for him.

“We have to be wary of the Athletic club in the Copa because it will play at home in front of its fans who are very demanding,” Roberto said. (ap)

ZURICH - Swiss bank Ju-lius Baer has dismissed one of its client advisers as part of its internal investigation into ties with world soccer’s governing body FIFA, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The employee left the company shortly after several soccer of-ficials were arrested in Zurich last May, the source said, add-ing this was the only member of the bank’s staff to be dismissed so far in connection with its FIFA probe.

Baer said in June it had opened an internal investigation in connection with FIFA after a corruption scandal engulfed soccer’s governing body. The bank said at the time that it was fully cooperating with the authorities.

Zurich-based FIFA was

thrown into turmoil last year when U.S. authorit ies an-nounced the indictment of 14 people on May 27, seven of whom were arrested at their Zurich hotel.

Baer, Switzerland third-largest listed bank, was one of a number of banks mentioned as financial intermediaries in the U.S. Department of Justice’s May charge sheet against high-ranking FIFA individuals.

A total of 41 individuals and entities, including many for-mer FIFA officials, have now been charged with corruption-related offences in the United States. Swiss authorities are also investigating whether corruption played a role in FIFA’s awarding of World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar. (rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs

Swansea’s Kyle Naughton and Watford’s Nathan Ake

Swansea out of relegation zone after 1-0 win over Watford

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File

FILE - In this May 24, 2014 file photo, former player and current Real Madrid B team coach Zinedine Zidane lifts the Champion League trophy, at the end of the Champions League final soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid in Lisbon, Portugal.

Cristiano Ronaldo says Zidane

has raised Real Madrid spirits

MADRID — Real Madrid has trained hard under new coach Zinedine Zidane and recovered its enthusiasm fol-lowing the departure of Rafa Benitez according to star forward Cristiano Ronaldo.

Julius Baer dismisses employee

in internal FIFA probe

Barcelona could face Athletic Bilbao in

Copa without Messi

Leicester: Title contender, or just pretending?

AP Photo/Rui Vieira

Leicester City players congratulate Shinji Okazaki, center no. 20, after he scored against Aston Villa during the English Premier League soccer match between Aston Villa and Leicester City at Villa Park, Birmingham, England, Saturday, Jan. 16 2016.

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TABANAN - Beratan lake (also called Lake Bratan or Danu Bratan) is located in the area of Bedugul, Candikuning village, Baturiti dis-trict, Tabanan regency Bali, ap-proximately 55 km from Denpasar city, and it’s located at an altitude ± 1240 m above sea level, the temperature in lake Beratan area (Bedugul area) at night time ± 18° c and at daytime ± 24° c.

Lake Bratan has an area of about 375.6 hectares with an average depth of 22-48 m with an area of about 12 km around, Beratan lake is the second largest lake after lake Batur on the island of Bali, Lake Bratan is very important as a main source of irrigation in central Bali.

Lake Bratan is very well known as the best tourist destination visited by many international and domes-

tic travelers. The coolness of the mountains with a stunning view of the lake, temple and mountains, becoming this place a favorite tour-ist destination and recommended while enjoying a holiday in Bali. It’s also facilitated with adequate accommodation such as hotels, villas, restaurants and water sport activities such as parasailing, ca-noeing, water skiing.

On the east side of Beratan lake there is Mount Catur (Bali-nese people used to call it Pucak Mangu) which is a very nice place for hiking.

Not far from the lake Bratan there are also attractive places of interest such as Bedugul Botanical Garden (Kebun Raya Eka Karya), Bedugul fruits and vegetables mar-ket and also lake Buyan and lake

Tamblingan.Ulun Danu temple also called

Pura Ulun Danu is located at the edge of lake Bratan, Ulun Danu temple builded in the early 17th century, which serves as the temple of Subak (Bali water irrigation sys-tem) and serve as a place to worship the Goddess of water in Balinese called Dewi Danu (worship of wa-ter for fertility).

Lake BeratanIBP/File Photo

The final 12-player roster for Rio de Janeiro will be chosen this summer. If James and Anthony are on it they would become the first American men to play in four Olympics.

The other candidates for Rio are: Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City); Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan (Clippers); Kawhi Leon-ard and LaMarcus Aldridge (San Antonio); Klay Thompson, Dray-mond Green, Andre Iguodala and Harrison Barnes (Golden State); Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love (Cleveland); Dwight Howard and James Harden (Houston); Anthony Davis (New Orleans); Paul George (Indiana); DeMarcus Cousins and Rudy Gay (Sacramento); John Wall and Bradley Beal (Washington); Jimmy Butler (Chicago); Mike Conley (Memphis); DeMar DeRo-zan (Toronto); Andre Drummond (Detroit); Kenneth Faried (Denver)

and Gordon Hayward (Utah).“The depth of talent that exists

in the national team program is extraordinary. Repeating as gold medalists at the 2016 Olympics will not be easy, but we feel confident that we have 30 finalists who offer amazing basketball abilities and special versatility,” USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said in a statement.

Kobe Bryant, who is retiring after this season, took himself out of the running for a third Olympics this weekend.

James and Anthony have already joined Hall of Famer David Robin-son as the only U.S. men to play in three Olympics, winning bronze in 2004 before leading the U.S. to gold in Beijing and London. Paul could join that list this summer.

James has said he would base his decision about playing on his health and his family’s wishes, and may not decide until after his NBA

season ends. “I haven’t thought about it,” he said at Cleveland’s shootaround before its game against Golden State on Monday.

“The last time I thought about Team USA was Kobe taking his name out of the pool. That’s the last thing I kind of really thought about, so I’m not any inch closer to playing or not any inch closer to not playing. I haven’t really thought about it much.”

After playing in five straight NBA Finals, another lengthy season could impact his interest in wearing the red, white and blue again. “The season has always kind of dictated it,” James said. Curry called it a huge honor to be selected.

“That would be a great experi-ence,” Curry said following Golden State’s 132-98 victory at Cleveland. “Obviously, there’s 30 capable, highly talented experienced guys on that list. There should some tough decisions for Mr. Colangelo and Coach K. Picking from that crop of 30 guys you’ve got some great choices there. Hopefully things work out this summer and I’ll be able to try to go for a gold medal in Brazil.” (ap)

MELBOURNE, Australia — Venus Williams tried to rally, win-ning two games and getting another break-point chance after falling a set and 5-0 behind, before her 16th trip to the Australian Open finished in a first-round loss to Johanna Konta.

The 35-year-old, seven-time major winner trudged off Rod Laver Arena, waving to the crowd at 1:55 p.m. on the second day of the tournament following a surprising 6-4, 6-2 loss to the No. 47-ranked Konta, a Sydney-born British player who was making her debut in the main draw at the Australian Open after losing twice previously in qualifying.

Andy Murray opened with a 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 win over Alexander Zverev, sand remains very much a round-by-round proposition at Melbourne Park, where he has lost the final four times. He had Amelie Mauresmo, a new mother, back in his coaching corner for the match and was happy not to get any mid-match news from home. He has said he’ll leave immediately, regardless of the stage of the tourna-ment, if his wife, Kim, goes into labor in London with their first child.

“I’m more excited than nervous now,” Murray said of the pending ar-rival. “I don’t have any news because I’ve just come off the court. I’m hop-ing my phone hasn’t been buzzing in my bag. But Kim will message my team if anything’s going on during the matches, and I’ll see what happens.”

Williams had a career comeback last season, winning three titles, finding some consistency after a long struggle with illness and finishing the year in the top 10 for the first time since 2010. She reached the quarterfi-nals at the Australian and U.S. Opens — the first and last majors of the year. In 2016, she’s 0-2 after also losing in

a warmup tournament at Auckland, New Zealand.

It was the eighth time she’s lost in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament and the third in Australia, where she reached the quarterfinals in her first appearance in 1998 and lost the final to her youngest sister, Serena, in 2003.

Konta was really going for her groundstrokes in a high-risk, high-reward approach that kept Williams, who had wrapping on her left leg, on the defensive.

“When the draw came out and I saw who I was playing I was like ‘Well, ok, I just hope to stay out there more than an hour,’” Konta said in a post-match TV interview, appar-ently as surprised as anyone after her straight sets win over the No. 8-seeded Williams.

No. 3 Garbine Muguruza needed exactly an hour to beat Estonian qualifier Anett Kontaveit 6-0, 6-4, No. 11 Timea Bacsinszky advanced over Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 7-5 and No. 15 Madison Keys, a semifinalist here last year, had to save set points in the first before beating Zarina Diyas 7-6 (5), 6-1. No. 18 Elina Svitolina, No. 19 Jelena Jankovic and No. 21 Ekaterina Makarova, who beat Venus Williams in the first round here in 2014, also advanced.

On the men’s side, No. 13 Milos Raonic followed up his win over Roger Federer in the final of the Brisbane International tune-up event with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 win over Lucas Pouille, No. 18 Feliciano Lopez beat Daniel Evans 6-1, 6-0, 6-4 and No. 32 Joao Sousa beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. No. 5 Rafael Nadal was playing fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in a rematch of the epic semifinal here in 2009. (ap)

Venus Williams loses, Murray advances at Australian Open

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Venus Williams of the United States reacts to a lost point against Johanna Konta of Britain during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016.

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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2012, file photo, United States’ Carmelo Anthony celebrates after the men’s gold medal basketball game at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London.

James, Anthony top 30 finalists for Olympic basketball team

LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony are a step closer to a fourth Olympics, and Stephen Curry is in position for his first. The NBA stars were among 30 players selected Monday as finalists for the U.S. basketball team that will attempt to win a third straight gold medal.

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Meanwhile, Head of Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Province Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati said the qual-ity of tourism destinations in Bali should be improved to lure more tourists.

“If the parking and service fa-cilities are good and clean, tourists would not be reluctant to spend more money for them,” Sukawati noted.

Bali Island was selected as one

of the world’s best island destina-tions by the US Travel+Leisure Magazine at the end of 2015.

Based on the New York-based Travel+Leisure Magazine, the rat-ings of the world¿s best islands are Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a score of 90.82, Bali of Indonesia (Score 88.98), Maldives (score: 88.53), Tasmania of Australia (score: 88.32), Santorini of Greece (score: 87.93), Moorea of French Polynesia (score: 87.90), Maui of Hawaii (score: 87.89), Kauai of Hawaii (score: 87,88), Great Barrier Reef of Australia (score: 87.31), and Malta (score: 86.90). (ant)

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In his first public remarks since international sanctions were lifted following a U.N. report that Iran had fully complied in scaling back its nuclear program, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran should “ex-ercise care the other party imple-ments its commitments.”

He added that “expressions by some U.S. politicians in recent days

are matter of pessimism,” without elaborating.

The remarks, his first since the deal was implemented over the weekend, came in a letter to Presi-dent Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday. Khamenei said Iran has paid heavy prices for concluding the deal.

On Sunday, President Barack Obama announced sanctions on 11

individuals over Iran’s ballistic mis-sile testing in October and pledged to counter Iran’s “destabilizing behavior” across the Mideast.

Khamenei, the country’s top decision maker, has praised Iran’s negotiators while continuing to express deep mistrust of the United States.

Under the deal, Iran admitted to cap its nuclear activities in return to lifting sanctions from the country. The West had long suspected Iran’s nuclear program has military dimen-sion. Iran denied the charge. (ap)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish police say a European drug ring is being broken up with 310 kilograms (682 pounds) of cocaine of “unusually high purity” seized in Denmark and six arrests in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Police spokesman Brian Voss Ol-sen says the cocaine could have been cut to up to 1.2 tons of powder and sold with estimated street value of up to 900 million kroner ($131 million).

Voss Olsen says “the largest cocaine seizure in Denmark’s his-tory” took place in the western Denmark port city of Esbjerg in July, and “likely was intended for the European market.”

He said none of those arrested were Danes, and one had already been extradited to Denmark, adding more arrests could be made. Details were disclosed only on Tuesday be-cause of the ongoing probe. (ap)

SEOUL — South Korea tough-ened its aviation security law in the aftermath of the notorious nut rage incident involving a top airline executive.

The transport ministry said the revised law went into effect Tues-day, more than a year after a Korean Airlines vice president’s tantrum over macadamia nuts delayed a flight. The executive and Korean

Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah left the airline after a public uproar.

Under the revised law, disturbing the captain or crew can be punished by up to five years in prison or up to 50 million won ($41,461) in fine. Previously, such acts faced a fine of 5 million won and no prison term. Being a nuisance to other passen-gers faces a 10 million won fine, doubled from the past. (ap)

KABUL, Afghanistan — A young woman in a remote northern region of Afghanistan had her nose cut off by her husband, officials in the region said on Tuesday. Fawzia Salimi, a hospital director in May-mana, capital of Faryab province, said 22-year-old Reza Gul was brought in early Monday having lost a great deal of blood.

Gul’s husband, 25-year-old Mo-hammad Khan, has since fled their village. Salimi said the Afghan-Turk Hospital in Maymana was trying to arrange transport for Gul to Turkey for further treatment. Domestic violence is widespread in Afghanistan, where women are often denied constitutional rights designed to protect them.

Violence has also become some-what entrenched in Afghan society after 40 years of war, with nearly

non-existent mental health care and few options or outlets for a traumatized population.

Hafizullah Fetrat, the head of Fayrab’s provincial human rights commission, said violence in the area had risen by at least 30 percent in the past year. “It’s not just in Faryab, it is across the entire north of the country — poverty, high unemployment, ignorance about marriage,” he said.

Faryab borders Turkmenistan and is among the poorest regions of Afghanistan, with many people relying on government food hand-outs. Corruption is also rife, and many residents complaining that officials pilfer the aid.

Over the past year, the Taliban’s presence in the region has grown. The militant group has intensified its campaign following the drawdown of

the international combat mission in 2014. The district where Gul’s family lives is under Taliban control, said Rahmatullah Turkistani, a member of Fayab’s provincial council.

Salimi said Khan had returned from Iran three months ago, and since then had repeatedly beaten and tortured his wife. He had also taken another wife who is just seven years old, she said.

Community elders and Taliban representatives in their village had tried mediating with the family to help sort out their problems, a traditional method of dealing with marital issues, she said.

Khan had disappeared from the village, and local security forces in-cluding the intelligence agency and police were searching for him, said the provincial governor’s spokes-man Ahmad Jawed Dedar. (ap)

Afghan woman has nose cut off by husband

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Under portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, top left, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani arrives for a news con-ference in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016.

Iran’s top leader expresses ‘pessimism’

after nuclear dealTEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s top leader on Tuesday called for

vigilance in ensuring that world powers meet their commit-ments under a newly implemented nuclear deal while expressing “pessimism” about U.S. intentions, state media reported.

SKorea toughens aviation law in wake of nut rage incident

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Packages of cocaine and evidence are presented in a Police office in Paris Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 as part of 41 kilograms (90 pounds) of cocaine seized in a plane coming from the Do-minican Republic at Orly airport. Vincent Annereau, from the Paris judicial police, says the drugs seized last Friday at Orly Airport, south of Paris, are worth more than 2 million euros ($2.2 million) at current dealing prices.

Cocaine bust in Denmark, 6 arrests in Belgium, Netherlands

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PARIS - The latest industrial revolution will not only bring us 3-D printing and biotechnology advances, but the loss of five million jobs in the next five years, according to a report prepared for the Davos forum of busi-ness and political elites.

The so-called fourth industrial revolution “will cause widespread disruption not only to business models but also to labour markets over the next five years”, the World Economic Forum said announcing a study re-leased ahead of the Davos forum this week.

Following the first industrial revo-lution of steam engines, then electric-ity and assembly lines, followed by electronics and robotics, the fourth industrial revolution will include a number of developments like big data and smart systems to transform the economy.

But that transformation will lead “...to a net loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerg-ing economies,” said the WEF, after analysing the potential impact on the economies of the United States, Germany, France, China, Brazil and other countries.

It sees as many as 7.1 million jobs being lost, mostly in white-collar of-fice and administrative roles, with the creation of 2.1 million new jobs in fields such as computer engineering and mathematics.

“Without urgent and targeted ac-tion today to manage the near-term transition and build a workforce with futureproof skills, govern-ments wil l have to cope with ever-growing unemployment and inequality, and businesses with a shrinking consumer base,” the World Economic Forum’s executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, warned in a statement.

A separate study found women will be “in the firing line” of the changes, which “may have a disproportionately negative impact on women”.

While the job losses will be rela-tively equal, with 52 percent of the expected 5.1 million job losses hit-ting men, in fact men still dominate the labour markets, so at 48 percent the job losses among women will be relatively higher than their participa-tion in the jobs market.

Moreover, women are underrep-resented in the technical fields where new jobs are to be created. (afp)

France remained the world’s most popular tourist destination, followed by the United States, Spain and China, according to the Madrid-based body which tracks the number of tourists who made an overnight stay at an international des-tination.

“2015 results were influenced by exchange rates, oil prices and natural and man-made crises in many parts of the world,” the head of the UN body, Taleb Rifai, told a news conference. Falling oil prices reduced transport costs but weakened demand for travel in oil-exporting nations while the weakness in the euro currency made travel to Europe for Americans more attractive, he said.

But the sector was marked mainly by the threat of extremism in 2015 with deadly attacks in Egypt, France, Lebanon, Tunisia, Mali and other nations.

“We are facing now, with regard to safety and security, a global threat,” said Rifai, a former Jordanian tourism minister.

“We cannot anymore say this is the problem of Egypt or France or Tunisia or Turkey or Thailand or Indonesia,” he added in reference to nations that suffered attacks last year claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

“We must continue to travel. We must never allow the pretext of safety and security to curb and reverse our attitude towards making this world more open.”

The UN World Tourism Organization said 2015 was the sixth consecutive year of above-average growth in global tourism since the economic crisis.

It had initially predicted international tour-ism arrivals would increase by 3 to 4 percent

in 2015.Global tourism figures were hard hit by the

global financial crisis, declining 4 percent in 2009 as an outbreak of swine flu also contributed to cash-strapped people staying at home.

But they have risen each year since.The UN body predicts international tourism

arrivals will increase by 4 percent in 2016. It forecasts the number of tourists who make an overnight trip abroad will hit 1.4 billion by 2020. “International tourism continues to grow strongly,” said Rifai.

The attacks carried out last year “will not have any medium and long-term impact” on the growth of travel, he added.

Some destinations did suffer drops in visitor numbers last year due to fears of attacks.

The number of international visitors to Tuni-sia -- which was shaken by an attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis followed by one in the resort of Sousse that killed 59 tourists -- fell to 5.2 million last year from 7.2 million in 2014. (afp)

Next industrial revolution to lead to 5m less jobs

AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File

In this Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 photo, a Chinese tourist uses her smartphone to take a photo of her friend at a popular tourist spot which overlooks the financial and shopping district in Singapore. The number of international tourists rose by 4.4 percent worldwide in 2015 to hit a record 1.18 billion despite concerns over extremist attacks, the United Nations World Tourism Organization said Monday.

World tourism numbers hit new record in 2015 despite attack fears

MADRID - The number of international tourists rose by 4.4 percent worldwide in 2015 to hit a record 1.18 billion despite concerns over extremist attacks, the United Nations World Tourism Organization said Monday.

The block would be returned to the government after the contract expires on Oct. 24 in 2018, Execu-tive Director of Chevron IndoAsia Business Unit Chuck Taylor said in a statement on Tuesday.

“We will continue to be focused on the safety of operation and will

support handover of assets to the new operator,” Taylor said.

He said the decision to return the block to the government would not affect the commitment of continu-ing the 90-year history of partner-ship in Indonesia to carry out strategic project such as Indonesia

Deepwater Development (IDD).“We are proud of the strong

partnership with the people and government of Indonesia and com-mitment to supporting Indonesia in developing energy resources,” he said.

Chevron is operating the East Kalimantan block supplying natu-ral gas including for the Bontang Liquefied Natural Gas plant and Balikpapan oil refinery .

Based on data from the Up-stream Oil and Gas Regulator (SKK Migas) , in line with the work program and budget in 2016, the East Kalimantan block’s production target for crude oil and condensate is set at 14,470 barrels per day.

The target is lower than assump-tion set in the 2016 state budget at 17,590 barrels per day.

In term of production target,

the East Kalimantan block is the 9th largest after the Rokan block (PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia), Cepu (Mobil Cepu Limited), PT Pertamina EP, Mahakam (Total E&P Indonesie), ONWJ (PT PHE ONWJ Ltd), South East Sumatera (CNOOC SES Ltd), South Natuna Sea Block “B” (ConocoPhilips Indonesia Inc Ltd), and Ketapang (Petronas Carigali Ketapang II Ltd). (ant)

Chevron not to seek extension for East Kalimantan block contract

JAKARTA - Chevron Indonesia Company said it will not seek extension of its production sharing contract for the East Kalimantan block in 2018.

JAKARTA - A baby orangutan found abandoned and almost dead has made a swift recovery at an Indonesian rescue centre, and has been filmed playing hap-pily with another young ape.

Gito was discovered dumped in a cardboard box in August under the bak-ing sun on the Indonesian part of Borneo island, with rescuers initially believing the primate was dead due to his “mum-mified” appearance.

A team from International Animal Rescue (IAR) picked up the endangered Bornean orangutan, who had been kept as a pet by a local village head, and rushed him to their centre.

Gito -- who is less than a year old -- was suffering from multiple ailments but has recovered strongly, and was recently released from quarantine and introduced to another male baby orangutan, Asoka.

New footage released by IAR showed their first encounter, with the apes ap-pearing wary when initially introduced at the orangutan rehabilitation centre on Borneo. However, it was not long before the pair were playing happily together on a wooden climbing frame.

Asoka was also rescued on Borneo several months ago after a villager found him abandoned in the jungle and handed the ape over to IAR, although he was in a far better condition than Gito.

Gito is doing much better than when he was found suffering from dehydra-tion, malnutrition and a skin infection, but his caregivers warn there is a long road ahead.

IAR programme director for Indonesia, Karmele Llano Sanchez, said Gito would still need to take part in “jungle school” -- a scheme designed to prepare orangutans

for life in the wild -- before he could be released.

“It’s going to take five to seven years before he is ready to be released into the wild,” she told AFP.

Bornean orangutans are classified as endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and are protected under Indonesian law.

But their jungle habitats are being destroyed by the rapid expansion of palm oil and pulp and paper plantations, while locals view the apes as pests and some-times target them.

Hundreds of Bornean primates were also rescued last year as massive, smog-belching forest fires ravaged the island. The fires, started to clear land for plan-tations, are an annual occurrence, but in 2015 were the worst for some years. (afp)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has congratulated Ade Komarudin, a Golkar politician who was just installed as house speaker to replace Setyo Novanto, who had resigned after the Freeport scandal came to light.

“First of all, I want to congratulate Ade Komarudin who is installed as the new house speaker,” Jokowi stated in a meeting of the state institutions’ leadership at the State Palace on Tuesday.

He expressed confidence that under Komarudin’s leadership, the House of Representatives (DPR) could become a trusted institution in implementing its func-tions as the people’s representative and a political identity.

The state institutions’ leadership meeting was at-tended by Vice President Jusuf M. Kalla, Chairman of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Zulkifli Hasan, Deputy Chairman of MPR Oesman Sapta Odang, new House Speaker Ade Komarudin, Chairman of the Constitutional Court Arief Hidayat, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court Agung Suwardi, Chairman of the Ju-dicial Commission Maradaman Harahap, and Chairman of the State Audit Agency (BPK) Harry Azhar Azis.

Among the ministers present at the meeting were Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affaris Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli, Coordinating Minister for Human and Cultural Development Puan Maharani, and Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly.

The president explained that the meeting was aimed at strengthening the commitment to develop Indonesia toward a better future and build synergy among state institutions.

The meeting also discussed the fundamental issues being faced by the nation.

The Steering Committee of the Indonesian DPR in a meeting recently endorsed Komarudin’s appointment as the new House speaker to replace Novanto.

All political parties’ factions in the Parliament en-dorsed the appointment of Komarudin, he added.

“There is a need to fill the vacancy in the DPR lead-ership, so that it could perform and meet the public’s expectations,” Jhonny G. Plate, deputy chairman of the Nasional Democrat (Nasdem) Party, said, citing the reason for the decision.

The Golkar Party, in a letter signed by its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, and Secretary General Idrus Marham, proposed the name of Komarudin as the sole candidate to replace Novanto. (ant)

President congratulates new house speaker

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In this Jan. 7, 2016, photo, conservationists of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation hold a baby orangutan rescued along with its mother during a rescue and release operation for orangutans trapped in a swath of jungle in Sungai Mangkutub, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. A baby orangutan found abandoned and almost dead has made a swift recovery at an Indonesian rescue centre, and has been filmed playing happily with another young ape.

Baby ape recovers after ordeal in Indonesia, finds new playmate

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The protesters accused Hydera-bad University’s vice chancellor and a federal minister of unfairly demanding punishment for the five lower-caste students after they clashed last year with a group of students supporting the governing Hindu nationalist party.

Police are investigating whether actions by the officials contributed to the 26-year-old doctoral student’s death, which they say was a suicide. He had been a member of a group representing Dalits, the lowest caste in India’s Hindu caste hierarchy.

The demonstrations in Hydera-bad drew nationwide attention, with TV channels running updates throughout the morning. The stu-dents have boycotted their classes and were holding a sit-in in the university. “We want justice,” they shouted as scores of police stood by. Police detained eight students overnight Tuesday following day-long protests on Monday.

Students in Mumbai university also held protests Tuesday and de-manded the removal of the Hydera-bad University vice chancellor.

Rohith Vemula ‘s body was

found hanging in a hostel room, weeks after university authorities barred the five students from stay-ing in the students’ hostel or using the library or other facilities. The five had been living in a tent outside the gate of the university since their suspension on Dec. 21.

University officials had cleared the five Dalit students in a pre-liminary inquiry into the clash, but reversed that decision in De-cember and ordered that they be suspended.

The protesting students say the university’s decision to pun-ish the five was due to pressure from federal minister Bandaru Dattatreya, who sent a letter to the Human Resource Development Ministry demanding action against the Dalits.

Although caste discrimination was outlawed soon after India’s independence from Britain in 1947, it remains an influential force in Indian society. The government has worked to reverse the discrimi-nation by setting quotas for jobs and university spots for different castes. (ap)

BAGHDAD — At least 18,802 civil-ians were killed and another 36,245 were wounded in Iraq between the start of 2014 and Oct. 31 of last year as Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State group, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

The report documented a wide range of human rights abuses, including the IS group’s conscription of some 3,500 people into slavery, mainly women and children from the Yazidi religious minority captured in the summer of 2014 and forced into sexual slavery.

It said another 800 to 900 children were abducted from Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, for religious and military train-ing. It said a number of IS child soldiers were killed by the extremists when they tried to flee fighting in the western Anbar province.

The reports called the civilian death toll in Iraq “staggering.” It also detailed the various methods the IS group has employed to kill its enemies, including public beheadings, running people over with bulldozers, burning them alive and throwing them off buildings.

Such acts are “systematic and wide-

spread... abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law,” the report said. “These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.” Iraqi forces have advanced against the IS group on a number of fronts in recent months and driven them out of the western city of Ramadi.

But U.N. envoy Jan Kubis said in a statement that “despite their steady losses to pro-government forces, the scourge of ISIL continues to kill, maim and displace Iraqi civilians in the thousands and to cause untold suffering.” U.N. human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein said the civilian death toll may be considerably higher.

“Even the obscene casualty figures fail to accurately reflect exactly how terribly civilians are suffering in Iraq,” he said in a statement.

IS swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014 and still con-trols much of Iraq and neighboring Syria. It has set up a self-styled caliphate in the territories under its control, which it gov-erns with a harsh and violent interpretation of Islamic law.(ap)

UN: Nearly 19,000 civilians killed in Iraq in under 2 years

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Iraqi security forces and allied Sunni tribal fighters help trapped civilians to to cross from neighborhoods under control of the Islamic State group to neighborhoods under control of Iraqi security forces in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.

Suicide of student triggers protests in southern India

HYDERABAD — Shouting slogans and holding placards, hundreds of students on Tuesday angrily protested the death of an Indian student who, along with four others, was barred from using some facilities at his university in the southern tech-hub of Hyderabad.

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Indian students shout slogans and burn effigies of Hyderabad University’s vice chancellor and a federal minister while protesting the death of an Indian student who, along with 4 others, was barred from using some facilities at his university in the southern tech-hub of Hyderabad, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan 19, 2016.

DENPASAR - The trial of En-geline’s murder with the defendant of her adoptive mother, Margriet Ch Megawe, started presenting an alleviating witness, Monday (Jan. 18).

Margriet through her legal coun-sel, Dion Pongkor et al., presented a witness outside the police investi-gation report, namely Loreta Ineke who is incidentally the defendant’s sister-in-law. From the beginning, the trial has been running less interestingly and kindled laughter because when the witness was asked about the address of the de-fendant by the judge Edward Harris Sinaga was confused. “This address is important. I am dizzy when the witness even does not know the address,” said the Batak-descent judge.

The witness was confused be-cause she already sold her house in Bogor, as the address of the crime scene, while in Bali or since the murder case of Engeline, she stays with the daughter of Margriet. As

the judge is dizzy with the answer of Ineke Loreta, the judge then handed over a piece of paper. “Simply write down the address here,” asked the judge. The witness often attending the murder trial even looked at the legal counsel of Margriet.

“You do not need to look at the defendant or her legal counsel. Just write down your address because it is important,” asked the judge. The witness finally took the paper and wrote her address.

In the trial, Loreta Ineke said that in daily life Margriet is good and also treats the deceased Engeline well. She knew Engeline when she lived in the house of Margriet on Jalan Sedap Malam, East Denpasar.

She also said that the defendant Margriet was angry at Agustay because he could not complete his task properly. But at the end of the trial, the judge managed to uncover the nature of the defendant from the testimony of the defendant’s sister-in-law. Although she initially told that he never saw Margriet hitting

Engeline, she was provoked when the judge asked “Have you ever seen Margriet getting angry?”

The witness Ineke Loreta finally said that she has, and it occurred when Engeline did not reply her call. Loreta even said that to have ever seen Margriet getting angry at Engeline when the witness was there. The judge then chased, when did it happen? “I do not remember the date, but in 2014,” said the witness. At that time, Engeline was trying to fend off the blows of Margriet. “When she was called by Margriet, she did not reply, so Margriet was angry. As hit by Mar-griet, of course it was rejected by Engeline,” said the witness.

Additionally, Margriet will get angry if Engeline is glaring as con-sidered to be rebellious. “So, Enge-line likes glaring, being rebellious and fending?” asked the presiding judge. “Yes, she does,” replied the witness. The witness also said that when being pointed by Margriet, Engeline would cry.

Other than the matter of fending, glaring and scolding, in the trial last Monday was also debated about the recognition of forensic laboratory of National Police Headquarters where it was mentioned that after the measurement, it is impossible for the corpse of Engeline to be put into the cupboard. The defendant’s legal counsel, Dion Pongkor, then asked the witness because she is assessed to have a small body. After being tried, she could get into the cupboard.

“Well, this statement is interest-ing. So, did the witness know if there was a body in the cupboard, it could be put into the cupboard or who killed Engeline?” asked the judge. The witness said she did not. The defendant’s legal counsel then interrupted, that he ordered to try getting into the cupboard because the description of forensic labora-tory mentioned that it is impossible for Engeline’s corpse to be put in the cupboard. It was done because after a try, in fact, the witness was

able to get into the cupboard.“Oh, so the legal counsel asked

for that, not based on the knowledge of the witness? Or perhaps Margriet asked?” asked the judge. Legal coun-sel of the defendant said it was asked to prove the forensic information. “Recognition of Agustay in the first police investigation report recognized that he put the corpse of Engeline into the cupboard,” said Dion Pongkor.

And, Dion also pointed out that forensic deliberately protected Agustay based on the recognition delivered in the police investigation report saying that it is impossible if the corpse of Engeline can be put into the cupboard. “This forensic is trying to protect Agus, whereas he is a biologist,” he said.

On the testimony of Loreta Ineke, Margriet who was asked about her responses said that all the alleviating witness’ testimonies are true. “They include the hitting and defense of Engeline?” asked the judge. With a nod of the head, Margriet agreed. (kmb37)

Improvements will be done in stages because the government of Karangasem cannot afford to do it all at once and needs to request funds front the state budget.

Suarta explained that the agency manages 17 traditional markets, most of which have very poor infrastructural conditions, that cause crowdedness and give a rundown appearance to these markets. Many of the roofs of the markets leak, causing the floors to become muddy when it rains.

He cited the markets in West Amlapura, Pesangkan at East Duda, Selat as well as Menanga as being in particular need of help. The markets at Rubaya and Selat were restored last year. “This year the market at Tukad Belatung, Ban village prioritized for restoration because it is located by a river. The renovations will be done using financing from the central government worth IDR 1.7 billion. Pres-ently the market is flooded every time it rains, the floor is made of earth, the kiosks are rickety and the roof is rusted,” said Suarta.

Apart from improving infrastructure, merchants are also being asked to provide better service to customers, so that they can com-pete with convenience stores. He added that the agency has also raised the amount of levees collected from markets. In 2015 the agency aimed to collect IDR 2.1 billion worth of levies from tradi-tional markets, but this year they plan to obtain IDR 2.3 billion.

As for the chain convenience stores that have been operating without a licence, Suarta said that letters of reprimand have been sent. The Integrated Licensing Office will also be brought in to crack down on anyone who stubbornly refuses to comply with prevailing regulations. (013)

Traditional markets threatened by modern stores

Present alleviating witnessIt’s even revealed Engeline fends Margriet’s blow

AMLAPURA - Small merchants of traditional markets in Karangasem, including those in kiosks, are threatened by the presence of modern chain stores that continue to pop up in Karangasem. Head of the Karangasem Industry and Trade Agency, IGN Suarta, announced on Monday (Jan. 18) that in order to face the onslaught modern stores, the local government has resolved to improve the infra-structure of market buildings in Karangasem.

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One of the traditional market in Bali

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BOSTON — A night at the sym-phony usually means silencing cell-phones and mobile devices before the music starts.

But as part of an effort to draw in a younger audience, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is loaning select patrons iPads loaded with content specific to each performance.

They’ll be able to view sheet music for the pieces being played, video interviews with musicians, podcasts about the composers and analysis on the works themselves. They’ll also get a close-up view of the conductor from the musicians’

point of view from video monitors set up in the hall.

The storied orchestra, which was founded in 1881, is the first to offer audience members use of customized iPads, according to Kim Noltemy, the group’s chief operating and commu-nications officer.

But other orchestras are also trying to incorporate technology.

The Philadelphia Orchestra is among a handful that has developed its own mobile application to let au-dience members follow along with program notes, like translations of vocal parts, in real time from their

personal devices.The Los Angeles Philharmonic

rolled out “VAN Beethoven,” a cus-tomized van that gave residents last fall a chance to enjoy a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony us-ing virtual reality headsets.

And the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Virginia Symphony Orchestra are among those offering “tweet seats,” specially designated sections where concertgoers are encouraged to interact on Twitter with a concert official as they gave running commentary during select performances.

Jesse Rosen, president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, an approximately 800-member group based in New York, says orchestras are trying to appeal to a new genera-tion’s changing expectations for the concert experience.

“It’s about enhancing the visual experience of listening to a symphony orchestra,” he says. “It’s also about making the experience more intimate and creating a more visible contact between the performer and the audi-ence, which is something younger audiences really seem to value.”

The Boston orchestra is rolling out

the iPads as part of a broader effort to draw patrons, particularly younger ones, to their underperforming Friday concerts.

During “Casual Fridays,” sym-phony tickets are being offered at significantly lower prices, ranging from $25 to $45, down from as much as $145, patrons are being encouraged to dress casually, and the hall is hosting pre- and post-concert receptions with live music, snacks and a cash bar.

The first performance was Jan. 15; two others have so far been scheduled for Feb. 12 and March 18. (ap)

MENLO PARK, Calif. — WhatsApp, a popular mobile messaging service

owned by Facebook, says it will drop its 99-cent subscription fee over the next

several weeks.

WhatsApp to drop renewal fees for the messaging service

The company said Monday that charging the fee after one free year hasn’t worked well.

It says that many users don’t have a credit or debit card and are

afraid of losing the service when it’s time to renew. WhatsApp says nearly a billion people around the world use the service.

Company officials say they

don’t plan to introduce ads to off-set the loss of fees. They say they will start testing tools this year to let customers communicate with banks and other businesses and

organizations, but they aren’t providing details.

Facebook Inc. paid $22 billion to buy the messaging service in 2014. (ap)

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple keeps defying a PC industry trend: While other major computer-

makers saw shipments fall in 2015, Apple increased the number of Macs it shipped worldwide last

year, according to estimates from two esearch firms on Tuesday.

Total PC shipments have been

declining, industrywide, for the last four years, as consumers are wait-ing longer to buy new models and many are turning to smartphones or tablets. Even last summer’s release of Windows 10 — Microsoft’s new operating software — failed to boost overall sales.

All told, manufacturers shipped a total of 288.7 million PCs last year, down 8 percent from 2014, according to researchers at Gart-ner. Analysts at International Data Corp., using different methodol-ogy, put the total at 276 million and the decline at 10.4 percent.

Apple, however, saw an in-crease of roughly 6 percent, according to both firms. While other major PC-makers have seen ups and downs, Apple alone has enjoyed gains in each of the last three years.

Big manufacturers like Lenovo, HP and Dell still sell far more computers than Apple. Industry leader Lenovo shipped 57 million PCs last year, while estimates for Apple are just under 21 million.

Still, analysts say Apple benefits from its reputation as a premium brand in the United States and Eu-rope. It’s also been making inroads in Asia. Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa noted that Apple has been opening retail stores in China, which is now the second-largest PC market in the world.

Experts trace the PC industry’s slump to the introduction of more powerful smartphones and tablets in recent years. Even Apple saw

a slight decline in Mac shipments in 2012, when some buyers opted for iPads instead. The slump has also hurt chipmakers like Intel and other companies that make PC components, while forcing software makers to re-design their products for smaller, mobile devices.

Nearly every major PC maker now makes tablets, as well. Le-novo has also moved into smart-phones, buying the Motorola phone business from Google in 2014. But tablet and smartphone sales are also slowing, as more people already own them.

Industry hopes are now turning to new “hybrid” computers, or tablets with detachable keyboards, which are touted as combining the best features of PCs and tablets. Sales of those devices are still small, but growing. IDC analyst Jay Chou said his firm expects industrywide shipments of tradi-tional PCs will fall another 3 per-cent this year, but the addition of hybrids could turn that total into an overall increase of 1 percent.

Analysts also blamed last year’s weak PC numbers on economic weakness in Asia and the end of a 2014 buying surge that followed Microsoft’s decision to end sup-port for Windows XP, an older version of its widely used operat-ing software. An expected boost from the new Windows 10 was undercut by Microsoft’s decision to give free software upgrades to owners of older machines. (ap)

Tech at the symphony: Boston orchestra loaning patrons iPads

Apple defies industry trend as PC sales fall again

AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File

In this Sept. 9, 2015, file photo, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide market-ing, talks about the pricing of the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus during the Apple event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

As noted in October 2015, the number of departure reached 2,283 while in the following month reached 1,852. “When made in percentage, the decrease in aircraft departure reached 18.88 percent,” said the Head of the Bali Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Panusu-nan Siregar. He said that other than the number of passenger and departure, the decline is also seen in the amount of baggage and cargo, namely from 6,777 tons to 4,980 tons or 26.51 percent.

“There are five main destination countries of the aircraft departure namely Australia, Singapore, Ma-laysia, Hong Kong and China,” he said. Of the five countries, said Panusunan Siregar, all of them showed a decrease. Moreover, the top 10 countries also experienced such similar condition. “Only South Korea experienced an increase of 10.81 percent,” he said.

For the five countries, the de-cline is seen respectively by 29.50 percent, 18.25 percent, 19.28 per-

cent and 37.50 percent. Then, the decline in the number of delivery of baggage and cargo from the five countries respectively amounted to 48.30 percent, 23.41 percent, 20.39 percent, 9.51 percent and 35.51 percent. The departure of domestic air transport from the Ngurah Rai Airport reached 2,851 or a decrease of 12.59 percent compared to the previous month.

The five main flight destina-tions are the Soekarno Hatta or Jakarta reaching 1,012 units, Sura-baya (444 units), Yogyakarta (173 units), Bandung (168 units) and Lombok Praya (147 units). Overall there is a decline in the number of passengers as much as 10.79 percent, from 355,265 people in October 2015 to 316,929 people. (kmb21)

TABANAN - Aside from wet-land plants such as rice paddy, for which Tabanan is famous, dry land crops such as cacao are also grow here very well. If managed prop-erly, cacao could help to improve the income of farmers in the region. Marga subdistrict, for instance, has many cacao plantations, unfortu-nately because they were not treated properly, hundreds of hectares of cacao did not bear fruit this year.

However, given the great poten-tial that cacao has, local farmers of Subak Semingan, Petiga village, established the Pala Werdhi farmer group who get coached in the cul-tivation, maintenance and even the marketing of cacao.

One of the coaches of the Pala Werdhi farmer group is Dr. I Wayan Alit Artha Wiguna, who said that cacao cultivation in Petiga vil-lage, Marga started two years ago. “Farmers in this area cultivate cacao but not through monoculture,” said Wiguna.

Cacao is a much sought after commodity with a relatively high selling price from farmers, that cur-rently ranges from IDR 28,000 to IDR 30,000 per kg. Unfortunately, the potential of this plant has not been optimized here, due to dam-age and pests. Wiguna explained that farmers have since been given information about cacao plant main-tenance, how to use organic fertil-izer, opening new markets and the like. “Today the Pala Werdhi group has 26 farmer members. This is just a small percentage of all the cacao farmers in Marga,” he said.

As a trial run, 13 hectares of land were planted with cacao, us-ing organic fertilizer made of bat droppings and cow dung that is provided by the Simantri (livestock farmer group).

As a result, the cacao trees that formerly had not grown well are

now growing well and producing abundant fruit. “If they are treated properly, the plants can bear over 80 pods” he said. Unfortunately, the cacao trees owned by the local farmers are already over 10 years old so they need to be replanted. “We are have asked the district and the province for help looking for seedlings but in the end we created our own nursery,” he said.

The cacao produced by the Marga of farmers are partly ab-sorbed by Wiguna’s Cau Chocolate located in Cau hamlet, Tua and by other cacao collectors. “Actually, we have a high demand for cacao, but the amount that we can produce is still limited. Therefore we would like to cooperate with other cacao farmers form outside of the district of Marga,” he said.

Despite not being able to export yet, Wiguna said that that the local market already has a great demand for cacao.

Local cacao farmers, Wayan Suena, said that he has been cul-tivating cacao since 2005. At the age of 3-5 years, his cacao plants produced good fruit. “But then the pods were damaged by pests, so we were only able to harvest some,” he said.

He recognizes however that with better treatment, his plants would be able to produce more more and better quality pods thus allowing farmers to earn more revenue.

In addition to directly contrib-uting to famers’s income, cacao cultivation is also an opportunity to cooperate with farmers at Subak Semingan to open up agro-tourism sites. This would allow farmers to earn a living and help to prevent them from converting agricultural lands, The income from this agro-tourism is divided between man-agement and the farmers at Subak Semingan. (kmb24)

International flight passenger

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Aside from wetland plants such as rice paddy, for which Ta-banan is famous, dry land crops such as cacao are also grow here very well.

Cacao in MargaHundreds of hectares of cacao plantation neglected

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The number of international flight passengers at Ngurah Rai Airport in November 2015 declined by 28.30 percent. If the passengers in October 2015 reached 410,377 people, in November 2015 they dropped to 294,525 people.

DENPASAR - The number of international flight passengers at Ngurah Rai Airport in November 2015 declined by 28.30 per-cent. If the passengers in October 2015 reached 410,377 people, in November 2015 they dropped to 294,525 people. Other than decline in the number of arrival passengers, the departure of aircraft, especially in the international routes also experienced similar condition.

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beau-tifully 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

COVER STORYThe IX/Udayana Military Re-

gion Resort has taken immediate measures to back up police in enforcing the law in Bali. Law en-forcement officer, and Singaraja na-tive, Cantiasa admitted that he was angry about the situation because Bali is considered to be a safe place, but apparently there are still some areas that need attention. “As for what was revealed about the prison, hopefully culprits both inside and outside the prison can be gradually minimize,” said Cantiasa.

As for sanctions against anar-chical mass organizations (gangs) in 2016 Cantiasa said that “mass organizations” need to be licensed but in Bali many of them are not. “The governor even referred to

them as thugs and so forth because their purpose is not clear. Hope-fully, in the future such attributes can be omitted so that undesirable things like ego promoting conflicts can be eliminated,” he said.

Addressing current global condi-tions, Commander of the Military Resort has backed up security at harbors and airports. His institu-tion continues to collect data about thenukber of foreigners that come in to Indonesia in general and Bali in particular. People who come to the ‘Island of the Gods’, should be monitored concerning their differ-ent intentions. Some people come here to travel or do business while others come here to commit crimes. Ngurah Rai Airport and seaports are also beeping asked to be more selective and careful about who is coming onto the island, so as to avoid national or international

criminals form operating here.The Military, police and pe-

calang are deploying all of their available personnel to monitor conditions in the field. “So far, Bali remains safe from the threat of terrorist. Nevertheless, we must remain vigilant. Otherwise, the opportunity will be used by criminals to take action. Aside from the army and the police, every member of society needs to make sure that Bali remains safe. Welfare, economy and security must all go together. We cannot de-mand welfare yet ignore security. By working these aspects, I feel confident that Bali will remain safe and comfortable,” he said.

Chief of Bali Police, Sugeng Priyanto, said that the future of Bali will be determined by the people living on this Island of the Gods -especially Balinese people.

“Where Bali will be driven to and how Bali will look in the future depends on Balinese people. We must not allow tragedies like the bombings that took place in 2002 and 2005 to happen again,” said Chief Priyanto.

He stressed that Balinese people cannot afford to be complacent as it would be most regrettable if such an incident were to happen again. Of all the criminal incidents that took place in Bali in 2015, the police point to the violent clashes that took place in Kerobokan prison as an indication that the management of the prison needs to be reviewed so that similar incidents do not occur again in 2016.

Chief Priyanto also promised to coordinate more intensively with Interpol, so as to anticipate and jointly tackle international crimes. (rah)

From page 1Measures ...

According to information com-piled by Bali Post, an x-ray device worth billions of rupiahs had been placed at Gilimanuk Harbor a year ago, but because it was never used, the Bali Police took back the machine in mid-2015. Currently, strict inspections and an increased number of troops are what keep harbour entrance in Bali safe.

Recent observations at Gili-manuk, revealed that there are several ways that migrants can enter Bali freely, without passing though any kind of inspection. Foot passengers for example can go from the pier to Segara Temple by walking along a revetment and this avoid any kind of inspection, although this rout is not available at high tide.

Migrants can also hide on buses as officers are often too busy checking baggage to notice. Many other of the ports scattered along Jembrana’s coast, also need to remain alert .

Metal detectorCurrently, in addition to perform-

ing manual checks using devices such as metal detectors and sets of mirrors, K9 (police dogs), are also used at the cargo checkpoint.

Chief of Jembrana Police, Djoni Widodo, said that current security measure are in line with there stan-dard operating procedures.

Currently, at checkpoints II and III there are 20 plain clothed police officers from several units (intelligence, narcotics and crimi-nal investigation). “We do not use x-ray, but since Christmas we’ve intensified and tightened security, with the back-up of the armed mo-bile brigade,” he explained.

After the bombings in Jakarta last Thursday, the Jembrana Police have been coordinating with the 1617/Jembrana Military District Command to assist with inspec-tions and maintaining security at Gilimanuk. Also, water police now patrol the pathways that people might try to take to avoid going through security.

District police also regularly reach out to coastal communities to talk to them about the importance of

security and ask that they report any suspicious people doing anything that could lead to the disruption of social order to the police. Security is also being tightened out of Gili-manuk Harbor.

The Denpasar-Gilimanuk stripe of road that falls within the ju-risdiction of the Jembrana Police is regularly monitored by police from each station along that strip of road. “Every hour police check

the highways near their station,” he explained. Apart from highway operations, the Jembrana Police has also teamed up with the military to conduct both small and large scale patrols. (olo)

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Commander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, I Nyo-man Cantiasa

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Inspectors at Gilimanuk Harbor no longer have access to the mobile x-ray machine and so they rely on the manual inspections of passengers based on instinct information obtained through intelligence. At checkpoints II and III of GIlimanuk Harbor also use certain manual devices.

Security at Gilimanuk relies on manual inspections

INSPECTOrS at Gilimanuk Harbor no longer have access to the mobile x-ray machine and so they rely on the manual in-spections of passengers based on instinct information obtained through intelligence. At checkpoints II and III of GIlimanuk Harbor also use certain manual devices.

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NEW YORK — Record producer Linda Perry says she’s sorry for tweeting that Lady Gaga doesn’t deserve songwriting credit for the Oscar-nominated song “Til it Happens to You,” from the college campus sexual-assault documentary “The Hunting Ground.”

Perry said in tweets Monday that Lady Gaga only performed the song credited to Diane Warren and Lady Gaga. Perry said she has Warren’s original demo and the final version changes only one line. But Perry now says she “wasn’t in the room” when the song was being written and was wrong to comment.

Warren had disputed the songwriting allegation and said “Til it Happens to You” is “a special collaboration” between her and Lady Gaga. A publicist for Lady Gaga hasn’t commented.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences regula-tions state only the principal songwriters of a song can be nominated. (ap)

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs issued a statement promising more diversity, and quickly, after both Lee and Pinkett spoke out on Monday. In a lengthy Instagram post, Lee said he “cannot support” the “lily white” Oscars. Noting that he was writing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lee — who in November was given an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards — said he was fed up: “Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all,” he wrote. “We can’t act?!”

In a video message on Facebook, Pinkett Smith also said she wouldn’t attend or watch the Oscars in February. Pinkett Smith, whose husband Will Smith wasn’t nominated for his performance in the NFL head trauma drama “Concussion,” said it was time for people of color to disregard the Academy Awards.

“Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power,” she said. “And we are a digni-fied people and we are powerful.”

She added: “Let’s let the academy do them, with all grace and love. And let’s do us differently.” The video had amassed 4.5 million by mid-Monday afternoon.

Last year’s all-white acting nominees also drew calls for a boycott, though not from such prominent individuals as Lee and Pinkett Smith. Whether it had any impact or not, the audience for the broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, was down 16 percent from the year prior, a six-year low.

Isaacs has made a point of presenting a more inclusive show this year. The Feb. 28 broadcast will be hosted by Chris Rock and produced by “Django Unchained” producer Reginald Hudlin and David Hill. On Saturday, Rock, unveiling a new promotion for the broadcast, called the ceremony “The White BET Awards.”

The academy didn’t respond to messages left Monday.When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Isaacs

acknowledged she was “disappointed” that all 20 acting nomi-nees were again white and promised to “continue the conversa-tion” on diversity. Isaacs has worked to diversify membership for the academy, which a 2012 study by the Los Angeles Times found is overwhelming white and male. (ap)

Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees

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In a Thursday, June 25, 2015 file photo, Jada Pinkett-Smith arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Magic Mike XXL” at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars’ second straight year of mostly white nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday, Jan. 17, 2016, that they will not attend this year’s ceremony.

NEW YORK — Amid calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over its all-white acting nominees and Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith both an-nouncing they would sit out this year’s ceremony, the academy’s president said it was time for major changes — and soon.

Perry sorry for saying Lady Gaga is falsely credited on song

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DENPASAR - Over four million international tourists are expected to visit Bali in 2016, an offi-cial predicts. Head of Tourism Office of Bali Anak Agung Gede Yuniartha said on Monday that he anticipates Bali will attract some 4.2 million foreign tourists in 2016.

However, the target number of tourist visits in Bali has not been officially announced by the local authority.

The administration is now cooperating with a team from Udayana University to determine the 2016 target.

“The team has started counting, using some formulas (to determine the number),” Yuniartha said.

Bali Island attracted 4,001,654 foreigners in 2015. “The 2016 target could be higher,” he said. The 2015 visits might have been higher, but natural disasters, such as eruptions of Mount Raung of East Java and Mount Barujari of Lombok, slowed tourism.

The volcanic ash from the two eruptions disrupted flights and the tourism sector in Bali. The global economy condi-tion and the Paris terror attack might also have affected tourist visits to Bali, he said.

Official data showed that in 2015, tourists visits in Bali were dominated by Australians (965,330), followed by Chinese (687,633) and Japanese (228,035). The remainder of foreign tourists were from Malaysia (190,317), Britain (167,527), South Korea (152,244), Singapore (146,632), US (133,701), France (131,411) and Taiwan (124,072).

THROUGH-OUT 2015, B a l i s a w c r i m i n a l i n c i d e n t s , ranging from

pick pocketing and other petty

crimes to cases involving inter-national syndicates as well as violent clashes between gangs that shook the national and international com-

munity. Although Bali is a very small island, even news of the slightest of incidents makes it to peoples’ ears internationally.

Commander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, I Nyoman Cantiasa, admitted that even though the general condition of Bali is quite safe, he is still concerned about crime on the island. The Indonesian miMilitary (TNI), specifically the Military Resort, will be working

in cooperation with other security forces to create new strategies for managing the security and safety of Balinese people, so that Bali can be-come safer than in previous years.

“Coming up with security strate-gies needs to be done with consid-eration for recent developments. For example, the gang clashes that took place in Kerobokan Prison and on Jalan Teuku Umar, need to be evaluated and corrections need to

be made in terms of security,” said Cantiasa recently.

It is shocking to think of what might have happened had the large numbers of weapons that were subsequently confiscated from the prison, been left in hands of the inmates. “There would quite pos-sibly have been a massacre among fellow inmates - especially Balinese inmates. A total of 1,100 of Kerobo-kan’s prisoners could have become

involved in an “inter-cellblock civil war”. This would certainly shock people around the world, because the prison is after all a place that is meant to be a correctional facility for troubled people. Thanks God we were tipped off about their be-ing such times in the prison,” he revealed.

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Over four million international tourists are expected to visit Bali in 2016, an official predicts. Head of Tour-ism Office of Bali Anak Agung Gede Yuniartha said on Monday that he anticipates Bali will attract some 4.2 million foreign tourists in 2016.

Creating a strategy for managing security

Bali expected to lure over four million tourists in 2016