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He said that the forum will be-come the addition of other press forum. He hoped that the forum will give positive contribution to the de-velopment of media and also toward the nation. Bagir emphasized on the

importance of the role of journalist. “I hope that the role of journalist will never change in the development of technology,” he added.

Bagir also said that the forum must be able to give positive input

to the government. The event itself is joined by around 350 participants from all around Indonesia.

Meanwhile, the head of the com-mittee Muhammad Ikhsan said that the background of the event is the growing economy in Indonesia. Furthermore, the freedom of press is also must be maintained properly. For that reason, the chief editors must discuss the matter so the eco-nomic growth can be utilized.

There will be signing of pledge to develop a stronger Indonesia. While the head of Chief Editor Forum Wahyu Muryadi said that

the forum is the very first time to discuss the problems that emerge in the past few years. “The event is thinking about ourselves or press and the commitment for the coun-try,” he added.

The event will be held for 2 days and will be closed today. The topics of the event are bank, infrastructure, food, energy, and information and technology. The discussion will also about economics with a few speak-ers such as Surya Paloh (Metro TV), Agung Prasetio (CEO Kompas Gra-media Group), Fikri Jufri (Tempo), Sukamto Hartono (SCTV), and

Dahlan Iskan (Jawa Pos).Wahyu explained that Indonesian

President Susilo Bambang Ydhoyono will be present today to do a dialog with the participants. The president is also the main speaker during the second day of the event. “The Presi-dent said that he is very enthusiastic to join the event,” he added.

Several Ministers is also sched-uled to speak in the forum. The discussion is focusing on the steps taken by the leaders to make a stron-ger Indonesia. For that reason the chief editors agreed to support and guide the action plans. (kmb18)

Chairman of Press Council of Indonesia, Prof. Bagir Manan, strik-ing the gong to inaugu-rating the opening of Chief Editors Forum’s Meeting in Nusa Dua, Thursday, June 13, 2013.

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First Chief Editor Forum held

Bagir Manan : Journalists must keep on fightingIn the development of technology and the increasing func-

tion of press, the role of journalist is expected to stay on the right course. The journalist must keep on doing their func-

tion as the voice of the helpless, against all kind of stereotype, and supporting differences. The statement was said by the

head of Press Council Bagir Manan on the Opening Ceremo-ny of the first Indonesia Chief Editor Forum which was held

on Thursday, June 13, in Nusa Dua.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)-After capturing Junaedi as the robber and sexual offender

towards Leylani Kate Taylor from Australia, now police has found his jockey initialed KAI as confirmed by Head of Badung Police, GAPC I Komang Suartana last Wednesday (12/6). KAI was captured on Tuesday (11/6) and will have its case developed from Thursday (13/6).

According to an officer at Badung Police, KAI was the one that drove Junaedi to commit his act and to make sure of KAI involve-ment; investigators are on the move towards it by investigating the two intensively. As told before, North Kuta Police managed to have captured the robber and sexual offender of Leylani (28) at the Damais Village, North Kuta, Badung named Junaedi (30) is from Darmaji Village, Kopang, Central Lombok in his living place at Kusuma Bangsa IV No. 1C, Room No. 7, Pemecutan Kaja, North Denpasar. When the case was developed, Junaedi tried to escape and got shot on the foot after three warning shots were ignored. (kmb21)

It was announced by Chairman of the AIDS Prevention Com-mission (KPA) Buleleng doubling as Deputy Regent of Buleleng, Nyoman Sutjidra, in the opening of the revitalization training for Supervising Teachers Forum (FGP) for Student Group Caring for HIV/AIDS and Drugs (KSPAN) at the Lakshmi Graha Women’s Building in Singaraja, Wednesday (Jun 12).

According to Sutjidra, closing operation of the localizations in the cities such as Bandung and Surabaya had resulted in the migration flow to some regions of the comfort women, including to Bali, where most of them were HIV positive.

He added the prostitutes were very difficult to be distinguished whether they had been exposed to HIV or not. Moreover, those women worked as lady escort in dimly lit cafés or in certain places. To that end, he left a message to all stakeholders includ-ing the community leaders to take an active role in keeping the area from the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

He also explained that most people living with HIV/AIDS belonged to productive age, between 20 to 40 years. Therefore, it was the duty of all parties such as parents and teachers at school to refresh the memory and disseminate the hazards of the incur-able HIV/AIDS. Moreover, in Buleleng County was reported that 1,694 people had been affected by HIV/AIDS up to April.

“On that account, the role of KSPAN at each school in each subdistrict is highly expected to make synergy with the local government as well as the NGOs, community leaders and media to actively promote the impact caused by the incurable HIV/AIDS,” he said. (kmb15)

DESTINY of three terminals in Tabanan is truly apprehensive. Since the past three years, these public facilities have relied on stu-dents and vegetable traders as their passenger. As a result, the income of urban public transportation and rural transportation continued to decline. Due to being deserted of passengers, the three terminals are all dead faint. Being so deserted, the terminals even turn into pros-titution area. The three terminals in Tabanan are respectively the Pesiapan, Kediri and Tuakilang. Of the three, the Pesiapan Terminal lies in the category B, while the remaining two terminals belong to category C. The three terminals serve both urban and rural routes.

Decline in passenger traffic is complained by urban transport drivers. They claimed the interests of people to utilize public trans-port had decreased since 2000. As the impact, more than 20 public transports had stopped operating.

“In the past, there were 84 public transports, while today they only remain 64 units. Moreover, they rarely operate,” said one of the public transport drivers at Pesiapan Terminal, Wednesday (Jun 12). The man claimed that the driver could only get income of IDR 20,000 per day. Even, it only happened dur-ing school days, while on school holidays they got no passenger. All this time, the drivers only relied on the students for their passengers, while the remaining was vegetable traders. Though only earning me-diocre income, a number of public transport drivers were still desper-ate to survive because they had no another job.

Meanwhile, amidst the lonely passenger, the Pesiapan Terminal remains to show off little activi-ties. One of them is serving as the marketplace of vegetable trade. Besides, it is also taken advan-tage to park trucks. Almost every day, the terminal nestling at the

west corner of Tabanan town is never lonely with a row of parked trucks. Uniquely, after the day break the terminal looks to remain active with different activity. It is resumed with prostitution located at the stalls of west row. “It is said there is dimly-lit service, but I do not know exactly,” said one of the terminal visitors.

The Head of Tabanan Trans-portation, Communications and Informatics Agency, Made Agus Harta Wiguna, some time ago justified the lack of passengers at Pesiapan Terminal whereas the bus transport actually remained to come into the terminal and served passengers. However, the interest of passengers was still deserted. “As usual, the terminal is still de-serted. Instead, it is made vibrant by vehicles of vegetable traders and parking trucks,” he said. Vehicles entering the terminal were charged with parking ticket for the sake of terminal operations. (kmb30)

Prostitutes suspected to migrate to Buleleng Singaraja (Bali Post)—

The closure of numerous commercial sex worker (PSK) localizations in some cities outside Bali was suspected to have an impact on the development of entertainment sector in Buleleng. As a result, the prostitutes or comfort girls that had lost their jobs migrated to several regions, including Bali and Buleleng.

Junaedi’s jockey found

Passengers disappear

Terminal taken advantage for parking trucks

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The Pesiapan Terminal, one of the terminal in Tabanan Regency.

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MANGUPURA - Badung County has not owned a water zonation and marine protected areas (KKP) whereas both are very important in reducing the exploitation and development of coastal territories dominated by tourism interests.

A legislator of the Badung House, I Made Dharma, claimed to be sad on Wednesday (Jun 12) with the current condition of the coastal territories that were mostly exploited for tourism interests.

According to him, the exploi-tation of coastal territory for tour-ism had been too long neglected so that the other interests such as for customary, religious, cultural, agricultural and fishery interests seemed to have been given small portion. It seemed the coastal territories were only sold for tourism.

This politician from Jimbaran said there was something wrong with the management of coastal territories all this time in Bali es-pecially in Badung. Government gave too great opportunities for the sake of tourism.

“The government should not only think and focus on tourism alone. The beach has run out for tourism, either for the accom-modation or tourist attraction. Even, when a religious ceremony is held, melasti for example, the solemnity of people is at stake. So, before it is destroyed, the government should immediately react,” he said.

He said that government should

The head of state and his entourage left Halim Perdanakusuma airport here at 11.20 am on Thursday and was scheduled to arrive at Ngurah Rai airport in Bali at around 2 pm local time.

“President Yudhoyono starts his working visit to Bali for the Forum of East Asia and Latin American Countries (FEALAC), and then to meet with the chief editors of the media in Indonesia, and to attend cultural parade,” Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi said.

He said Indonesia this year hosted the cooperation Forum of East Asia and Latin American Countries.

East Asia and Latin American countries contribute 30 percent to the world trade, and 24 percent of foreign direct investment in the world are in FEALAC.

Silalahi said the head of state will also open the 35th Bali Art Festival which is to be enlivened by four partner countries namely India, Timor Leste, Japan, and the United States.

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono started his four-day working visit to Bali from June 13-16, 2013 on Thursday.

President starts working visit to BaliAntara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono started his four-day working visit to Bali from June 13-16, 2013 on Thursday.

Coastal territories ‘run out’ for tourism needs

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Brunei’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Bolkiah (foreground) holds a baby green turtle at a beach during turtle release in Nusa Dua on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on June 13, 2013. The Forum for East Asia-Latin America Coorporation (FEALAC) 6th Foreign Minister Meeting will be held in Bali on June 13-14.

immediately set up the zonation of coastal territories. In the zona-tion set up, the entire community had to be involved so that all aspects and interests could be accommodated and considered. The government should protect the interests of the sector beyond tourism especially with regard to the environmental sustainability, culture and traditional livelihoods through particular zones. Later on, those zones should not even be mixed-up.

Meanwhile, the Head of Ba-dung Livestock, Fisheries and Maritime Agency, I Made Badra, said that so far his party re-mained in the formulation stage of the water zonation and marine protected areas draft. A work-ing group consisting of various components of the community was still working. According to him, the team had been doing a ground check and determined the boundaries of waters. after determining the boundaries, it was resumed with the mapping of waters.

“As scheduled, the working group will have a meeting next month to prepare the final report. Having completed the draft, it will be exposed to public,” he said.

After getting public approval, in the next process the regent would further prepare and pro-pose the draft to the minister for approval and made a legal instru-ment. He said the establishment of the KKP had been mandated by the Act No. 27/2007 concerning with the management of coastal territories and small islands. The

water zonation and marine pro-tected areas of Badung County would be completed this year.

Meanwhile, regarding to the zonation, Badra claimed to have not had a specific target to com-plete. According to him, the draft of Badung water zonation had entered the final stage. Zona-

tion team was being stabilized and waiting for the decree of the regent to start working the discussions.

He explained further that utilization of waters and coastal territories in Badung would be ar-ranged based on certain zonation, whether it would be for farming,

tourism, culture and others. It would serve as guidelines for the development and spatial plan of coastal territories and prevent the beach from any exploitation of single interest. “We do not want as the current condition where the beach is blocked for a single interest,” he said. (kmb25)

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Semarapura (Bali Post)-

Knowing the many pratima (religious statues) stolen already in Klungkung, three temples or Pura at Nyalian Village, Banjarangkan, each Pura Dalem Sila Adri, Pura Subak Puncak Sari and Pura Melanting got robbed as well last Wednesday (11/6). From the action, their pratima layered with gold and diamonds were left not sparkling anymore. One witness, I Dewa Gede Arjana (30) last Thursday stated that around 2.45 pm local time he was about to take a television in the Dalem Sila Adri Temple yet sasw some of the shrines and safe doors opened or damaged. Knowing that, he then told I Dewa Gede Arum (30) and the temple’s elderly which then forwarded to the Banjarangkan Police.

After checked by police, a number of gold and dia-monds were missing from two rambut sedana statues, two rambut sedana lingsir statues also sacred masks of Rangda. There were also golden flowers weighing three grams, two gold karas, gold diamonds, silver flower weighing six grams also IDR 20,000 from the sesari box missing totaling IDR 16 million loss.

Not only here, the same happened to the other two temples. Puncak was known to have been robbed by I Wayan Sukama (45) at 5.50 pm local time where a canting and sangku one had diamonds on it had it scattered under the balai piasan. The incident was then reported to Head I Nyoman Surepo (40) which then to the police with the Head of Village. After checked, nine diamonds totaling IDR 4 million, padma silvers 300 grams totaling IDR 3 million, IDR 300,000 cash from the sesari box, sangku valued IDR 500,000, two bokor valued IDR 1 million and pencanangan from selaka IDR 1 million were missing totaling IDR 10 million loss. In Melanting, NI Ketut Sari (37) was turning on the lights around 7.30 pm local time when she was shocked that the safe place in the temple was opened. Inside everything was a mess and a number of kepeng coins were missing after police have checked it.

Head of Klungkung Police Public Relation, APC I Made Sudanta, confirmed that there have been these incidents. The cases are now developed by Banjarang-kan and Klungkung Police. Before the case of pratima robbery here was at Pangi Village where they robbed three of nine pura in the complex last 23rd March which are Pura Puseh, Pura Pasek and Pura Tangkas Kori Agung. Pura Sida Rahayu located on the north of IB Mantra By Pass, Banjar Sidayu Tojan, Takmung Vilalge, Banjarangkan was also robbed last 10th April. In the pura a number of pratima taken from the three meters high locked safe. From all the cases, none of its robbers have been captured. Head of PHDI Klungkung, Mangku Wayan Sura, demands Klungkung Police to reveal it soon so it will put public at ease. (kmb31)

In the opening attended by several leaders from South Asian and African countries, the Deputy Prime Minister of China, Ma Kai, affirmed his commit-ment to cooperation with the countries in South Asia.

He said that China was making improvement and opening up its econ-omy to foreign investment. One of the policies undertaken was establishing a comprehensive partnership with the countries in South Asia. Currently, said Deputy Prime Minister, China had built a railway system connecting China to Vietnam and Bangladesh.

He said that South Asia, including the ASEAN member countries, had a great potential of investment and investors that could invest in China. Asia, he add-ed, had been highly regarded in terms of the regional economic growth.

As an illustration, the economic cooperation of China with South Asia previously reached approximately USD 4.5 billion, but today had reached around USD 93 billion. “China will continue to open its economy so that it needs a comprehensive and multidimensional cooperation developed to achieve the purpose,” he said.

The activity was claimed to be the

largest ever held by China because the expo lasting on June 6-10 simultane-ously organized 8 activities at once. Aside from the exhibition, it was also organized a business meeting to es-tablish a networking between business people from South Asia, Southeast Asia, South Korea as well as the surrounding areas and China. The third activity was the promotion of investment providing an opportunity for participants to at-tract foreign investment and encourage China’s companies to enter into the global market.

The event was also accompanied with the China-South Asia Business Forum, China-South Asia Economic and Trade Forum, China-South Asia Think Tank Forum and China-South Asia Friend-ship Organization Forum. Ultimately, it was also graced with an annual event conducted in Kunming known as the Kunming Fair. It was the twenty-first implementation.

No half-heartedly, there were about 2,420 booths divided into 5 categories in the recent expo, namely the South Asian zone, ASEAN zone, zone for the countries from outside the South Asian and the Asian region, machinery and electronics zone and biological

sources zone. At least, around 2,000 companies from 32 countries attended the exhibition. A day was not enough to have a look at the exhibitors displaying various products. Aside from provid-ing many booths, the exhibition was also held at 8 indoor locations and 2 outdoor locations for displaying heavy equipment.

It can be imagined how extensive the area to be visited. Even though the area is very vast and can accommodate a variety of products on display, visitors were difficult to move because many people wanted to see the exhibition. As soon as it was opened, visitors had been snaking at the entrance gates. Such condition continued to happen until the closing. Even, the number of visitors was estimated to increase sharply at the closing and caused congestion around the exhibition venue.

A variety of automotive products could be found in the exhibition, ranging from cranes to motorcycles. One of the international companies participating in the exhibition was the Tata Group from India. In accordance with the theme wishing to promote the cooperative re-lations between China and South Asia, the participation of Tata Group drew a great attention.

Besides, it also presented an elec-tronic exhibition displaying new prod-ucts from a variety of countries, ranging from television, computer to mobile phones. Uniquely, the exhibition also presented typical trinkets from various countries becoming the target of visi-tors. They did not need to visit various countries because in the exhibition had been displayed numerous products char-acterizing the participating countries. Once making a visit, they could walk around and collect products from 32 countries. (iah)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Indonesia has a wealth of tradi-tional cuisines or various archipelagic cuisines that can become the main attraction for tourism development. However, so far the hotel manage-ment does not give adequate oppor-tunity for promotion and presentation of the archipelagic or local cuisines. As a result, the local cuisines are not well known by travelers.

According to an expert in archipe-lagic cuisines, William W. Wongso, such condition also happened to hotels in Bali. “We have not found any hotels that have really presented the typical Indonesian menus well.

Presentation of local cuisines at hotel remains very minimal. By all means, it was very ironic because they prefer to present foreign cuisines,” he said, Wednesday (Jun 12).

He added that hotel often mar-ginalized the presentation of local cuisines and did not provide enough space for local culinary chef whereas star hotels often brought in chef from Italy, France and Japan to cook food from those countries and passed on their knowledge to the hotel chef. “The hotel should also bring in local culinary chef,” he said. He also asked the hotels to give more spaces as well as more aggressively promote and present the local cuisines where the

hotels operated.Further, he said that traditional

cuisines in this archipelago amount-ed to thousands, but until now the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy had just documented 30 cuisines of the archipelagic icon. Various efforts had been made to in-troduce or promote the archipelagic cuisines, both at home and overseas. “We hope the 30 archipelagic cui-sines can continue to be promoted, both at home and overseas to sup-port the development of local cui-sines and tourism,” he said.

He hoped the stipulation of 30 archipelagic cuisines, including the twisted satay, could be a guide

and a pilot project to explore and display the culinary peculiarities of each region. “Tourists visiting Bali do not only enjoy the natural and cultural beauty or the others, but also search for the local cuisines. Therefore, local cuisines must be explored and promoted to tourists,” he concluded.

An academician and tourism observer from the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali, Dr. Wisnu Bawa Tarunajaya, said the entrepreneurs in the culinary field and hospitality in Bali should start heavily promoting and offering the local cuisines as an effort to sup-port the local cuisine introduction

to tourists. “Serving traditional cuisines at hotels in Bali remains very rare. The entrepreneurs indeed always think in terms of business and market demand. However, we urge they begin to introduce tradi-tional cuisines because their flavor is not necessarily less competitive against the European cuisines or the others as long as they are processed and presented in an appropriate way,” he said.

He also hoped that hospitality schools were able to open the de-partment of archipelagic cuisines in order that the potential of lo-cal cuisines could be discovered. (kmb29)

Hotels in Bali remain to serve a few local cuisines

From CSA Expo I in Kunming

Heavy Equipment up to snacks from 32 countries on display

Three Pura at Nyalian robbed

SINCE stating to open its economy to investment from foreign inves-tors, China really shows a remarkable progress. To demonstrate its

seriousness in opening up, the country formerly dubbed as the Bamboo Curtain country held the China-South Asia (CSA) Expo in the Kunming

International Convention and Exhibition Center.The first CSA Expo was opened on Thursday (Jun 6) in Kunming,

China, while the closing was held on Monday (Jun 10). In the event claimed to be most grandiose in Kunming was exhibited a variety of

products ranging from heavy equipment for construction until snack products and accessories from 32 countries.

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Bali PostAMLAPURA - The Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, has not dare to

target the certain time when the harbor could have been berthed by large cruise ships. Geredeg said on Wednesday (Jun 12) that his party had not thought about the development of casino related to the development of the Tanah Ampo cruise ship harbor in Karangasem.

He said that casino was classified into gambling. Therefore, his party should act carefully because casino had not been received by the majority of our so-ciety. Actually the casino house like Genting Island was only visited by a few Singaporeans. Indeed, most of the visiting gamblers were strangers, around 60 percent to 70 percent.

“We have not thought that far to open a casino, for example, because it be-longs to gambling and it is prohibited. However, as a future study, it is required as tourist entertainment, so that we can minimize our foreign exchange from going out. But, it all depends on our readiness when we have been prosperous like Singapore or Malaysia. It opened a casino where the gamblers are not its citizens but foreign citizens,” he said.

Regent Geredeg also said there was usually entertainment including casino arena in a large cruise ship owned by foreigners. Since in the large foreign-flagged cruise ships there had been such an entertainment, his party did not think of developing a casino at Tanah Ampo cruise harbor.

He did not explain when the Tanah Ampo cruise harbor could be operated and could recline directly the cruise’s door to drop off passengers onto the quay floor. He already knew that central government had provided a budget worth IDR 45 billion, but was unclear when the construction would be resumed.

However, he said the central government had been moving through the Na-tional Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), where next week it would hold a market sounding. At that time, a number of investors would be invited to be offered the potentials related to the construction and development of the Tanah Ampo cruise ship harbor. He said a lot of potentials could be worked on in relation to the harbor development. However, it was admitted that not all of them would want and have an interest. Whoever won the tender, the investor was obliged to cooperate with the PT Karangasem Sejahtera, a regional enterprise that would manage the harbor. (013)

Now, in harmony with the rapid development of hotel accommoda-tion services providing beach area as a place for tourist activities such as sunbathing with very minimal clothes it seems to become an inter-esting issue to be observed together. Moreover, the Hindus also hold a ritual procession at the same time and place.

Related to this matter, a lecturer from the Hindu University of Indo-nesia (Unhi), Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Gunadha, said that Bali had started losing its taksu or sacred vibration. It happened because the coastal area serving as a place to build the ancestral spiritual vibrations was no longer maintained.

According to him, it was re-quired an attention and arrange-ment to coastal areas when at the

same time was also implemented the Hindu religious activities such as melasti or mekiyis. He said the hotel management and customary village organizing the ritual were supposed to sterilize the coastal areas of all tourist activities before and during the ritual took place. Therefore, the ritual implemented could run quietly and the solem-nity of people throughout the ritual could be well maintained.

He added that such thing should also get attention from all parties, including the govern-ment. “Such a thing should get our attention, and the government officials in particular must be able to protect and give good attention to it,” he said.

According to him, if it did not get good protection and attention,

it would probably have an impact on the reduction of people’s trust to the sanctity of the region.

“Do not blame tourists. Let’s realize that we all have destroyed it because we have not been main-taining the sanctity,” he said.

Thus, he appealed to all the people and the government to realize in maintaining the sanctity of the spiritual zones. “Even, if the government is not aware, then the other party we can expect is the customary village as the last bas-tion to save Bali,” said Gunadha.

Regarding the implementa-tion of rituals in Bali, he added the customary village should also be equipped with a kind of protocol legislation to regulate all the matters relating to the implementation of ritual.

AFP PHOTO/SONNY TUMBELAKA/FILES

In this photograph taken on March 9, 2013, tourists wearing bikinis sunbathe while Balinese devotees walk in a religious procession at Kuta beach on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.

Beaches in Bali needs a zonation for spiritual activities Bali Post

DENPASAR - BEACH is one of the principal spiritual areas of the Hindus aside from the mountain. The beach is believed to be a sacred spiritual place being capable of evoking spiritual vibrations of the Hindu community in Bali. Many Hindu ceremonies are organized at the coastal area, such as melasti or mekiyis. Indirectly, the ritual uniqueness of Hindu community at coastal area becomes one of the attractions making tourists always visit the beaches in Bali.

Tanah Ampo not yet ready berthed by large cruise ships

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The Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, has not dare to target the certain time when the harbor could have been berthed by large cruise ships. Geredeg said on Wednesday (Jun 12) that his party had not thought about the development of casino related to the development of the Tanah Ampo cruise ship harbor in Karangasem.

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At least 117 Tibetans have set themselves alight in protest against Chinese rule since 2009, mostly in heavily Tibetan areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces rather than in what China terms the Tibet Autono-mous Region. Most have died. “It’s a sad thing that happens. Of course it’s very very sad. In the meantime, I express I doubt how much effect (there is) from such drastic actions,” the Dalai Lama told reporters during a visit to Australia.

A Chinese official in March ac-cused the Dalai Lama of providing money to encourage people to set themselves on fire, and said there was evidence to prove the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was orches-trating the self-immolations. The

Dalai Lama, 77, has called the acts “understandable,” but says he does not encourage them.

Several Tibet scholars have criticized his stance, saying his re-luctance to tell his people to stop has strengthened their resolve to continue the fiery protests. Bei-jing considers the Dalai Lama, who fled from China in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule, a violent separatist. The Dalai Lama says he is merely seeking greater autonomy for his Himalayan homeland.

The Dala i Lama said the immolations were a sensitive political issue, but said Tibetans were not sacrificing their lives because of simple social or fam-ily grievances.

“I express this as a symptom of

some causes of Chinese officials. They must investigate what is the cause of this symptom, of these events. It’s not the solution just to blame someone, including the Dalai Lama,” he said. China has tightened already strict controls in Tibet since the self-immolations began two years and has all but banned visits by foreign journal-ists.

Tibet has also been a cause of diplomatic friction, especially with the United States, where meetings between the Dalai Lama and U.S. presidents have infuri-ated China.

The U.S. State Department has urged China to allow Tibetans to “express grievances freely”, while calling on Tibetans to “end self-immolations”.

Associated Press Writer

JOHANNESBURG — Former President Nelson Mandela began responding better to treatment Wednesday morning for a recurring lung infection following “a difficult last few days,” South Africa’s president said.

President Jacob Zuma told parliament that he is happy with the progress that the 94-year-old is making following his hospitalization on Saturday. Mandela spent a fifth straight day Wednesday in a Pretoria hospital, where he was visited by one of his daughters and two grand-daughters.

Zuma noted that Wednesday marked the 49th anniversary of the sen-tencing of Mandela to life in prison in 1964. He said “our thoughts” are with Mandela and his family “on this crucial historical anniversary.”

“We are very happy with the progress that he is now making follow-ing a difficult last few days,” Zuma said. “We appreciate the messages of support from all over the world.”

Zuma on Wednesday applauded the legacy of Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists. South Africa’s government disbanded its official policy of apartheid — racial segregation and discrimination — in 1994.

“Our country is a much better place to live in now than it was before 1994, even though we still have so much work to do,” Zuma said.

Mandela, the leader of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule. He was freed in 1990, and then embarked on peacemaking efforts during the tense transition that saw the demise of the apartheid system and his own election as South Africa’s first black president in 1994.

His admission to a hospital in Pretoria, the capital, is Mandela’s fourth time being admitted to a hospital for treatment since December. Presi-dent Barack Obama and Michelle Obama wished Mandela a “speedy recovery” on Tuesday.

Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, visited his grandfather on Wednesday and said the family has been deeply touched by the outpour-ing prayers and messages of goodwill from around the world. He said the family is satisfied with the care Mandela is receiving.

Zuma used Wednesday’s budget address to parliament as an oc-casion to highlight the work carried out by the African National Congress, the party that Mandela led to South Africa’s presidency, over the last 19 years.

Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican put a new coin on sale last week to commemorate its historic papal transition. Too bad overseas collectors won’t be able to buy it for months.

The Associated Press has learned that the Vatican still hasn’t fully resolved an embarrassing shutdown in credit card services, despite announcing four months ago that systems were back up. The impact has been far worse than the Vatican ever let on, costing the Holy See lost sales at a time when Pope Benedict XVI’s shock resignation and Pope Francis’ surprise election laid the groundwork for a bonanza in Vatican-minted papal memorabilia.

It’s all emblematic of the continued troubles plaguing the Holy See’s financial system, rocked by allegations of incompetence and corruption. But the new president of the Vatican bank, while acknowledging the delays and losses stemming from the credit card shutdown, is brushing off the fiasco.

“So sales will be up in the second half of the year,” Ernst von Freyberg told the AP in an interview, laughing.

The truth is, however, that the credit card woes represent yet another headache for the Vatican as it works to improve its reputation internationally through a painful transition to financial transparency in the fight against money laundering.

In an interview this week, von Freyberg revealed that he was weighing whether to introduce some sort of tax reporting obliga-tions on the bank — known as the Institute for Religious Works — to stem accusations that it’s a tax haven.

“It may well be that having done a thorough legal review,” von Freyberg said, “I come to the conclusion that we should pay more proactive attention to it.”

REUTERS/David Gray

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) responds with a traditional salutation known as a “namaste” as an Australian Aboriginal man approaches him during a media conference in Sydney June 13, 2013.

Tibetan self-immolations having little effect, Dalai Lama saysReuters

SYDNEY - Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule are having little effect on Beijing’s policies, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Thursday, while urging China to look harder at the reasons behind the incidents.

SAfrica: Mandela ‘responding better to treatment’

Vatican credit stop emblematic of finance woes

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But the team believes it made some improve-ments to the situation at the medium-speed Montreal. And that means its confidence is lifted for the next race at Silverstone, where the high-speed corners will provide a stern test for its tyre management.

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, well aware of how his drivers struggled at Barcelona, said: “I think that obviously set-up wise we made some progress here, and we hope that that will continue into the Silverstone weekend.

“Malaysia also had very quick corners and we were strong there, so I think we have understood some of the issues we have had in Barcelona, and hopefully we can carry this form into the next few races.”

Red Bull has been surrounded by sugges-tions this season that its car would be dominant if the 2013 tyres allowed its drivers to push to the maximum throughout the race.

In Montreal, low degradation on the smooth surface meant drivers were better able to drive

near the maximum - which duly allowed Vettel to lead from start to finish. Horner believes that his team’s performances going forward remain dependent on what is still an unpredictable tyre situation.

“It has been a strong performance here like it was in Bahrain, and like it was in Malaysia,” he said.

“We see with these tyres that once you are in the window with them, then you can extract a lot of lap time.

“We were certainly in the right window here, and it was a shame with Mark that his race was compromised by the backmarker because otherwise I am convinced we would have had him on the podium here too.”

VALENTINO Rossi says it is imperative to fight back from his first-lap crash at Mugello and end a string of poor results in MotoGP’s forthcoming race at Barcelona. Since scoring a podium in the first grand prix of his Yamaha return at Qatar, Rossi has come home inside the top five just once, at Jerez.

He has also crashed twice in the past two races. At Le Mans he was able to recover to 12th, but at Mugello he suffered an early exit after making contact with Alvaro Bautista heading into Turn 3, Pog-gia Secco, on the opening lap.

Team-mate Jorge Lorenzo meanwhile took a dominant win, and with it moved onto 91 points, almost double Rossi’s total.

“The Barcelona race will be very important, especially after recent results,” Rossi said. “I want to get on the podium in Spain. “For a few days after I had the crash at Mugello, I hurt everywhere.

“Fortunately I was able to start training immediately and I did not waste any time. “It will be very important to make a good qualify-ing [in Spain] and start from the front.”

Yamaha team director Massimo Meregalli backed Rossi to arrest his recent slide, adding: “Valentino needs a good result here as he has had some bad luck in the last two races.

“We are ready for him to re-cover what he has lost over the last two rounds and perform as we know he can in Catalunya.”

Associated Press Writer

SAN ANTONIO — Tony Parker, along with all of San Antonio, spent a restless night worrying about a right hamstring that ham-pered him in Game 3 of the NBA Finals and threatened the momentum the Spurs seized with a drubbing of the Miami Heat.

A day later, Parker said he got some good news. Just how good the news is probably won’t be known until Game 4 begins on Thursday night. Parker had an MRI on Wednesday that revealed a Grade 1 strain of his hamstring, the mildest level of strain. He’s listed as day to day.

“I was just hoping it was not a tear,” Parker said. “The good news is it’s not a tear or a defect. So that’s the good news. Now I just have to see how I feel tomorrow.”

Parker was injured early in the second half of Game 3, which the Spurs won 113-77 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. He was limited to six points and eight assists in 27 minutes and left the game early in the fourth quarter with the outcome

already decided.Parker did not participate in the portion

of practice on Wednesday that was open to the media, instead watching his teammates go through a light workout while spending much of the time in conversation with Spurs coach Gregg Popovich.

“We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. We’ll talk with Pop,” Parker said. “I know Pop is always going to prefer to take low risk.”

When asked about Parker’s outlook, Popovich said, “a lot of it will be what he feels, I think.”

Parker’s injury somewhat muted the celebration in San Antonio following the Spurs’ decisive bounce-back victory that put them two wins shy of the franchise’s fifth championship.

While the Spurs’ role players have been playing incredibly well in these finals, they know they will need Parker’s leader-ship, guts and unparalleled mastery of the pick-and-roll to bury LeBron James and the Heat. Danny Green, Gary Neal and Kawhi Leonard have been revelations so far in this

series, scoring the same number of points (130) through the first three games that the Heat’s vaunted trio of James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh have managed.

Neal filled in brilliantly for a slowed-down Parker on Tuesday night, scoring 24 points and hitting six 3-pointers to pick up the slack. The Spurs have two more games at home — on Thursday and then Game 5 on Sunday — to try to close out the Heat and avoid having to head back to Miami.

“A lot of the Miami defense is focusing on me and my teammates are taking advantage of it,” Parker said. “They’re playing great and hopefully they can keep it going.”

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, left, and guard Tony Parker,

right, of France, talks during a practice, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in San An-tonio. San Antonio will face the Miami Heat in game 4 of the NBA Finals bas-

ketball game Thursday. San Antonio leads the best-of-seven series 2-1.

Rossi wants immediate fightback

REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel (front) of Germany drives ahead of Marussia Formula One driver Max Chilton of Britain during the Canadian F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal June 9, 2013.

Red Bull says high-speed tracks not a worry anymore

Red Bull says it is no longer so fearful about its performance on high-speed tracks, in the wake of Sebastian Vettel’s dominant performance in Canada. The Milton Keynes-based outfit has found the pace of its RB9 has been limited on faster circuits because it cannot manage its tyre degradation as well as some other cars.

Parker has mild hamstring strain, hopeful for Gm 4

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After facing difficulties get-ting its stadiums ready for the Confederations Cup, the warm-up tournament that begins in Brasilia on Saturday, Brazil is promising that things will be dif-ferent ahead of the World Cup.

FIFA said it won’t accept it any other way, and Brazilian authorities and local organiz-ers say the delays that plagued construction work before the Confederations Cup won’t be an issue next year.

A clock displaying the count-down to the World Cup was unveiled on Wednesday at Copa-cabana Beach in the presence of FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, World Cup ambassador Pele and local organizers.

“This is another memorable milestone in our preparations for Brazil 2014,” said local World Cup organizing committee presi-dent Jose Maria Marin. “It’s a reminder that the big event is just round the corner. In 12 months’ time we’ll be staging a football

festival involving teams from 32 countries and fans from the four corners of the globe.”

Brazil just barely got six stadi-ums ready for the Confederations Cup. Only two of them were com-pleted by the original deadline in December, and in some cases there was time for only one test event before the venues hosted official matches in the tournament for continental champions.

That was what happened in Brasilia and in Rio de Janeiro, home of the final at the renovated Maracana Stadium on June 30.

“I do believe we could have delivered them sooner to allow for the realization of more test events, which could have antici-pated some of the problems that arose during those test events,” Brazil Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo said. “Apart from that, I believe that all requirements were executed in accordance with expectations and that we will have a Confederations Cup that will be held as expected.”

FIFA has already made it clear that Brazil will have to do a bet-ter job for the World Cup, when the expectations will be much higher and the number of visi-tors will increase significantly compared to the eight-team Con-federations Cup.

The Brazi l ians said FIFA should not worry about the deliv-ery of the remaining six stadiums being built for the World Cup.

“This first delivery was actu-ally the hardest deadline to meet,” Rebelo said on a conference call this week. “The evolution of the construction work of these (World Cup) stadiums ... indicates that, yes, they can and will be deliv-ered in December (2013). We have been in close contact with the responsible parties for these stadiums to make sure that those deadlines are fulfilled.”

The government said infra-structure projects which were not ready in time for the Confedera-tions Cup will also be finalized by the World Cup.

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MADRID - Serie A club Fiorentina have agreed to buy former Spain winger Joaquin from La Liga side Malaga pending a medical, the two clubs said on Wednesday. Joaquin, who will be 32 next month, began his professional career at Real Betis and joined Malaga in 2011 after a five-year stint at Valencia.

He became a firm favourite with the fans and scored several vital goals on the Qatar-owned club’s run to the last eight of the Champions League last season.

Neither club disclosed financial details of the deal but Joaquin is valued at 3.5 million euros ($4.7 mil-lion) on website Transfermarkt.com, which tracks soccer transfers.

“Malaga would like to thank Joaquin for his dedication, professionalism and commitment to the club and wish him good luck in his first professional experience outside Spain,” the club said on their website (www.malagacf.com).

Fiorentina finished fourth in Serie A last season and qualified for the Europa League, the continent’s second-tier club competition.

Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona’s Ar-gentina forward Lionel Messi and his father denied wrongdoing on Wednesday after the Spanish tax authorities accused them of de-frauding the state of more than four million euros ($5.3 million).

The World Player of the Year and his father Jorge allegedly filed fraudulent tax returns for the years 2006 to 2009, according to Jose Miguel Company, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office for tax crimes in Catalonia.

“We learned about the action begun by the Spanish prosecutor through the media,” Rosario-born Messi, who has been resident in Barcelona since 2000 and gained Spanish citizenship in 2005, wrote in a statement on his official Face-book page.

“It is something that surprises us because we have never committed

AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo

Brazilian football icon Pele cheers during the unveiling of the Hublot Countdown Clock designed by the late architect Oscar Niemeyer, at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The event marks the start of the one-year countdown to the opening 2014 World Cup game in Brazil.

With WCup a year away, Brazil vows to be readyAssociated Press Writer

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil is a year from the World Cup, admitting to mistakes in its preparations but vowing to be ready in time.

Messi and father accused of tax fraud in Spainany offence,” the statement added. “We have always fulfilled all our tax obligations following the advice of our tax consultants, who will take care of clarifying this situation.”

Via a complex web of shell com-panies in Uruguay, Belize, Swit-zerland and the United Kingdom, income from the sale of Messi’s image rights was effectively hid-den from the Spanish authorities, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The pair could face up to four years in jail if found guilty, accord-ing to Spanish law. Messi, who will be 26 this month, is one of the world’s highest-paid athletes with a salary of just over $20 mil-lion a season, according to Forbes magazine.

On top of his Barca wages, he pulls in about $21 million in en-dorsements from sponsors including Adidas, PepsiCo and P&G and is 10th on Forbes’ latest list of top-

earning athletes.As well as income he received

from the three companies men-tioned above, Messi also avoided paying tax on earnings from sell-

ing his image rights to the Aspire Academy in Qatar and from a trip he made with Barca team mates to Uzbekistan in 2008, the prosecu-tor’s office said.

Messi came on for the final half-hour of Argentina’s World Cup 2014 qualifier against Ecuador in Quito on Tuesday, which ended in a 1-1 draw.

Fiorentina agree to buy winger Joaquin from Malaga

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Associated Press Writer

Nigeria will head to the Confed-erations Cup in Brazil with its place in the final round of World Cup qualifiers in Africa still undecided after a 1-1 draw in Namibia.

Malawi now has an outside chance of overhauling the African champion in Group F and taking the spot in the decisive playoffs if it wins in Nigeria in the final round of group games in September.

Victory in Namibia on Wednes-day would have made sure of Nigeria’s progress to Africa’s final two-legged playoffs for Brazil 2014 after Malawi’s home draw with Kenya. Wrapping up a place in those playoffs would have eased the pressure on the well-traveled Cup of Nations winner ahead of the Confederations Cup.

But the Nigerians had to battle for a point in Windhoek through defender Godfrey Oboabona’s 83rd-minute equalizer after Na-mibia led in the 77th through substitute Deon Hotto Kavendji.

Nigeria now travels to Brazil after having drawn with Mexico in a friendly in the United States on May 31 and then played two World

Cup qualifiers in a week, in Kenya and Namibia. Fatigue could start to set in for Stephen Keshi’s squad ahead of the Confederations Cup, which starts on Saturday.

Nigeria plays its first game at the Confederations Cup in nearly 20 years on Monday against Ta-hiti, before matches with Uruguay and world champion Spain. Nige-ria last played at the World Cup warm-up tournament in 1995 but returns this year after February’s victory over Burkina Faso in the African Cup final.

In Blantyre, Malawi twice led Kenya before substitute Chi-mango Kayira’s own goal in the 90th minute ensured the 2-2 draw. Having never been to a World Cup, Malawi’s hopes rest on a surprise win in Nigeria in the final round of games, which would take it through to the final playoffs for one of Africa’s five places at next year’s World Cup.

Group F fixtures were brought forward because of Nigeria’s Confederations Cup appear-ance. The remaining penultimate group games in African qualify-ing are set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Reuters

PETAH TIKVA, Israel - A rampant Spain beat the Netherlands 3-0 on Wednes-day to set up a semi-final against Norway in the Euro Under-21 championships.

Three Spain strikers scored in a flowing performance as a much-changed Nether-lands side, who will now clash with Italy in the second semi-final, were less tight in defence than in their two previous tourna-ment outings.

Real Madrid’s Alvaro Morata slotted home an easy chance in the 26th minute to set the dominant Spaniards on course for victory. Malaga playmaker Isco hit the second on 32 and Alvaro Vasquez of Getafe made it 3-0 in the 90th minute.

The Dutch had their moments, but failed to convert a number of chances against

AP Photo/Armando Franca, File

FILE - In this Feb. 3 2013 file photo, Nigeria’s head soccer coach Stephen Keshi, center, reacts to the final whistle of their African Cup of Nations quarterfinals match with Ivory Coast at the Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa.

Nigeria’s WCup hopes on hold ahead of Confed Cup

AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

Spain’s Álvaro Vázquez shoots by Mike Van Der Hoorn during a Eu-ropean U21 Soccer Championship Group B match in Petah Tikva, Israel, Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

Spain hit three against the Netherlands in Euro Under-21s

Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea, who twice had the crossbar to thank for maintaining his record of not conceding throughout the tournament.

“We are delighted to be in the semi-finals. It would show a lack of respect to say we prefer to play Norway... Against a team as physically imposing as Norway it’s something to take into account,” Spain coach Julen Lopetegui said.

Germany beat Russia 2-1 in the second group match in Netanya between the two eliminated teams. Alan Dzagoev put Rus-sia ahead in the 22nd minute but Germany hit back through Patrick Hermann in the 34th and a Sebastian Rudy penalty in the 69th minute.

Italy finished top of Group A, which was completed on Tuesday, with two wins and a draw, after they equalised late in injury time to edge Norway into second spot.

Spain, who are defending the trophy they won two years ago, will play Norway in the earlier of Saturday’s two semi-finals in Netanya, while the Netherlands return to Petah Tikva to face Italy. The final will be played in Jerusalem on June 18.

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IBP

Gua Gajah (Elephant Cave) is located in west side of Bedulu countryside, Blah Batuh Sub district and Gianyar Regency. It is about 27 km from Denpasar town. This cave is built at crevasse edge from the federation of 2 rills that is called Pangkung River, where the irrigation is mixed with Petanu River flow. The federation area of two riv-ers is called Campuhan/Mixture. It owns the magi-cal energy on the basis of Rwabineda Concept/two different matters on this basic concept hence Gua Gajah (Elephant Cave) is intentionally built among two rivers.

The word of Gua Gajah is anticipated coming from the word of Lwa Gajah, the name of Buddhist Temple or hermitage for Buddhist monk. The Gua Gajah’s name is written on Negarakeertagama pa-pyrus which is compiled by Mpu Prapanca on 1365 M. Lwa or Lwah/loh mean the river and it reflect to the meaning that the hermitage is located at Gajah River or in Air Gajah. In the year inscription 944 Saka, it is mentioned with the name of ‘ser ring Air Gajah’ that is meaning the Subak leader in Air Gajah. The word has mentioned that the hermitage of Lwa Gajah is located in Subak Air Gajah.

There is a relief which is almost looking like the form of mountain on the entrance of this cave. It was carved many designed on the relief like grove with the stick, close leaf, animal for example forest pig, tortoise and specters. The cave mouth is decorated by the bas-relief with the eye turn around to the right or west side. There is an article letter of Kediri type from the early of 11 century was written on the wall left side or east side. There is a pool (Patirthaan) as a place to take the holy Tirtha water for Hindu ceremony which is located in the middle of the cave courtyard. This Holy Pool is previously piled up by land and it has been found on 1954 by Krijgsman from the Ancient Department. The Holy pool is equipped by the statue douche which is parallel arranged in two groups.

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AntaraJAKARTA - Vice President

Boediono said many housing sub-sidies provided by the government in various forms of incentives for developers were still off targets because they were not enjoyed by poor families but by middle income people.

“The government has provided various forms of assistance by extending subsidies but they are not received by the correct people,” the Vice President said while opening the Fourth National Working Meeting of the Indone-sian Housing and Resettlement Developers Association (Apersi) at the Vice Presidential Palace here on Thursday.

The opening of the Apersi na-tional working meeting was also attended by Public Housing Min-ister Djan Faridz, Apersi Chair-man Eddy Ganefo and Apersi provincial executives.

Boediono said that many of the Indonesian people were now entering the middle class who had money and purchased houses which should be have allocated to the needy.

He said that the middle income people purchased houses not for residing but for investment.

“They think it is better for them to buy houses as investment than saving money in deposit form so that the housing purpose misses the target,” the Vice President said.

Boediono also touched on the Jakarta regional government’s efforts to build flat houses but it turned out that they were not bought and resided by people who really needed them.

“There are owners who sell or rent their flats to other people,” said Boediono.

He said that the government would continue to support the

efforts made by Apesi to provide housing for poor people.

Eddy Ganefo said Apersi was a housing and resettlement develop-ers association which provides 90 percent of its houses for low-income people.

“We have endlessly developed houses for low-income people. All poor families should have their own houses,” Eddy said.

In the current national working meeting, Apersi is determined to become a pillar for developers who build houses for the poor.

We also appreciate the hous-ing minister who up to now had issued a very good regulation for the people in lower the income bracket.

One of the constraints faced by Apersi members in developing houses is the price of lands which tend to increase very rapidly in line with the increase in the price of houses.

The central bank’s board of governors made the decision after the BI Rate had been maintained at 5.75 percent for the past 16 months.

The bank’s governor, Agus Mar-towardojo, said the decision was part of the combination of policies taken as a preemptive response to increasing inflation expectation and to maintain macro-economic stability and the stability of the financial system in the midst of current uncertainty in the global financial market.

He said Bank Indonesia mean-while would continue stabilizing the rupiah exchange rate in line with the fundamental conditions and maintaining the sufficiency of liquidity in the domestic foreign

currency market.Bank Indonesia will also con-

tinue strengthening monetary operations by enriching monetary instruments and deepening inter-vention in the rupiah and foreign currency market.

Apart from that macro-pruden-tial policies would also be prepared to prevent increasing excessive risks in certain sectors, he said.

Coordination with the govern-ment would also be strengthened with focus put on efforts to mini-mize potential inflationary pres-sures to maintain macro-economic and financial stability, he added.

Agus said BI had also decided to maintain the deposit facility rate and the lending rate at respectively 4.25 percent and 6.75 percent.

The rupiah exchange rate against the US dollar has dropped 0.74 percent month-to-month to Rp9,795 or at an average 0.36 month-to-month to Rp9,758.

The rupiah exchange rate has been pressured especially because of repositioning of financial assets in the emerging markets in connec-tion with the possibility of monetary stimulus adjustment by the Fed and sentiment over domestic fiscal and current account deficits.

Currencies in the Asia regions have also suffered depreciation. Bank Indonesia would continue stabilizing the rupiah exchange rate in line with fundamental conditions and maintain the suf-ficiency of liquidity in the foreign currency market.

Agence France-Presse

BANDA ACEH - A British energy worker kidnapped in the restive In-donesian province of Aceh has been released unharmed after just one day in captivity, embassy and police officials said Thursday.

Malcolm Primrose was abducted on Tuesday by a group of armed men who stopped his car as he was being driven to a work site in Lubuk Pempeng, a village in East Aceh district, at around 11:00 am (0400 GMT).

The kidnappers tied up his Indonesian driver before taking Primrose away in their car.

Primrose, in his early 60s, phoned his Indonesian wife on Wednesday evening to convey a ransom demand from his captors, provincial police spokesman Gustav Leo told AFP.

They initially demanded one billion rupiah ($100,000) but in a later con-versation with his wife raised the figure to five billion, according to East Aceh district police chief Muhajir, who goes by one name.

The kidnappers then dropped the figure to 250 million rupiah but when their demands were not met immediately, they quickly gave up.

“They just got fed up and released him without ransom” late on Wednes-day, said Muhajir.

Leo said Primrose was freed in the middle of a palm oil plantation in the Perlak area of East Aceh.

“Police found him this morning in a good condition. He was unharmed.”A spokesman for the British embassy in Jakarta said: “We are delighted

to confirm that Malcolm Primrose has been released. Embassy officials are with Mr Primrose and are providing consular assistance.”

Muhajir said he had picked up the Briton after he was discovered alone at a security checkpoint in the plantation and security forces were still hunting for the kidnappers.

Primrose had been working as a sub-contractor for a subsidiary of Indone-sian oil and gas company Medco Energi Internasional. A company spokesman also confirmed his release.

Authorities had launched a massive search for Primrose, with more than 150 police and soldiers deployed.

He had been working on a drilling project to explore for gas in the jungles of resource-rich Aceh and Tuesday was meant to be his last day in the province, according to a source familiar with the case.

Muhajir said he suspected the kidnappers were former fighters from Aceh’s three-decade separatist struggle.

The conflict ended in 2005, but observers have long warned that weapons left over from the fighting could pose a threat in the area.

Keith Loveard, a risk analyst with Jakarta-based Concord Consulting, said he regarded the kidnapping as “one-off” likely carried out by former members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), the group that fought against the government.

“What is driving this is that you have these former GAM combatants who have not got much to do with themselves,” he told AFP.

Such individuals were likely short of money but had easy access to weap-ons, he said. “It all comes down to economics -- how you put food on the table for your family.”

There have been previous kidnappings in Aceh -- in 2008 five Chinese nationals were held hostage for two days. But in general abductions are rare in Indonesia.

The 2005 peace deal that ended the separatist conflict in Aceh granted the province broad autonomy, allowing it to become the only province to imple-ment strict Islamic laws.

Bank Indonesia raises rate by 25 basis pointsAntara

JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia raised its reference rate by 25 basis point from 5.75 to 6.0 per-cent here on Thursday.

Many subsidy incentives for housing still off targets

Freed kidnap victim Brit-ish energy worker Mal-colm Primrose (R) and his Indonesian wife, Inur (L) appear at a press confer-ence at East Aceh district police station after he was released unharmed by unidentified kidnapers on June 13, 2013.

kidnappers release Briton unharmed

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PARIS - The 50 largest European companies are all heavily present in tax havens with an average of 117 offshore subsidiaries each, a French NGO said on Wednesday. The report by non-governmental organisation CCFD-Terre Solidaire and CERAS, an organisation that analyses social issues, comes after France’s government pledged to act against tax havens in the light of a tax fraud scandal. CCFD went through the accounts and activity reports of the listed companies, which include the banks HSBC, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank, carmakers such as Peugeot and Volk-swagen as well as Siemens and Vodafone.

It found that all of the 50 companies -- the biggest in Europe by turn-over -- were present in tax havens with the number of subsidiaries there accounting for 29 percent of their overall subsidiaries abroad.

“Just in the Cayman Islands, they have more subsidiaries than they have in Brazil and twice as many as in India. And in Luxembourg nearly as many as in China,” said the report, titled “In the paradise of lost taxes”.

“While this does not constitute proof of tax evasion, this massive con-centration of offshore subsidiaries goes hand-in-hand with an opacity in accounting that makes it hard to localise the 208-billion-euro ($277-billion) profits of these firms in 2012.” The two organisations called on G8 nations, which are meeting in Northern Ireland next week, as well as on the rich and emerging countries of the G20, to take measures to fight the trend.

“The Financial Conduct Author-ity is aware of these allegations and has been speaking to the relevant parties. However, we can’t com-ment further at this time,” an FCA spokesman told AFP.

The Financial Times, citing sources, said the FCA had requested information from several banks with large London foreign ex-change businesses following allega-tions that lenders had traded ahead of customer orders and attempted to manipulate benchmarks.

Citigroup and Deutsche Bank, the two largest players in the foreign exchange market with a combined

market share of about 30 percent, are among the banks which have been asked for information on the matter.

However, there was no sugges-tion that the two banks were being specifically targeted, the business daily added. The FCA would not confirm any names.

The development meanwhile comes as the European Commis-sion is shortly expected to present proposals to tighten up oversight of key financial market benchmarks, especially of interest rates, in the wake of last year’s Libor interbank rate-rigging scandal.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Chief ex-ecutives of top US companies are slightly more upbeat about the na-tion’s economic outlook but say political uncertainties are cramping growth, according to a survey re-leased Tuesday.

The Business Roundtable’s sec-ond-quarter 2013 CEO Economic Outlook Survey showed the business leaders expect a minor improve-ment in economic output over the next six months, with modestly brighter expectations for sales and hiring offsetting a decline in capital investment.

CEOs expected the economy to grow at a 2.2 percent pace, edging up from 2.1 percent seen in the first-quarter survey, said the pro-business lobby.

“Overall, CEOs see the US econo-my still on a slow road to recovery,” said Jim McNerney, the head of aerospace giant Boeing.

“Relative to economic condi-tions, business performance remains strong, but the US government’s unresolved long-term fiscal path and an uncertain political environment are key obstacles to more robust economic growth and hiring.”

The May 13-31 survey was based on responses by 141 CEOs.

The survey’s composite index for the next six months of sales, capital spending and employment jumped to 84.3 in the second quarter from 81.0 in the first quarter.

Though it was the highest reading in a year, the number “signals modest economic expansion,” McNerney said in a conference call.

He said he was “hopeful” that Congress, which has taken up im-migration reform, would pass a bal-anced law that would help fill both higher-skill and lower-skill jobs that currently go begging.

“I see it in my world, in the sci-ence engineering and math capability that we need,” he said of the lack of

highly skilled job applicants.But McNerney was less optimistic

about entitlement reform affecting the US social safety net for retire-ment and health care, crucial to long-term deficit reduction.

“There has been nothing substan-tive that’s any closer to legislation than there was two months ago,” he said.

John Engler, the president of the Business Roundtable and a former Republican governor of Michigan, lamented the political uncertainty in Washington, with Congress dead-locked for months over passing the US budget for the fiscal year begin-ning October 1 and increasing the country’s borrowing ceiling.

“Certainly the progress has been nonexistent, and in some ways is going in the opposite direction,” he said in the conference call.

“The pressure points are building for the fall,” he said.

“They’re not going to deal with it until they’re up against the wall with the deadline right in front of them.”

AP Photo/Richard Drew

n this Monday, June 10, 2013 photo, traders Joel Lucchese, left, and Brandon Barb confer on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Chief executives of top US companies are slightly more upbeat about the na-tion’s economic outlook but say political uncertainties are cramping growth, according to a survey released Tuesday.

CEOs a bit more upbeat about US economy

Britain probes allegations of forex manipulationAgence France-Presse

LONDON - Britain’s markets watchdog is holding talks with “relevant parties” over allegations of foreign exchange market ma-nipulation by banks, a spokesman said on Thursday.

Biggest European groups are big in tax havens

BUSINESS

Friday, June 14, 2013 13International RLDW

The latest outburst indicates Pyongyang may seek a return to confrontation rather than dialogue, some observers said.

Earlier this year, North Korea threatened nuclear and missile strikes against South Korea and the United States after it was hit with U.N. sanctions for its February nuclear weapons test.

This week’s aborted talks had been intended to reopen a closed joint industrial zone with the South in what would have been a confidence-building measure between two countries that remain of-ficially at war.

The talks were canceled when the two Koreas disagreed over the rank of the officials to head the delegations that were to meet in Seoul.

“The problem ... is not a simple issue related to the level of the head of the delegation to the talks but a manifestation of its sinister intention to make the talks between authorities abortive,” the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement carried by the KCNA news agency.

Seoul had wanted senior ruling Workers’ Party

official Kim Yang-gon, a close advisor to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, to attend the meeting. Pyongyang said that was unheard of in protocol terms as the official was too senior to meet with Seoul’s Unification Minister who was heading the South’s delegation.

Capitalist and democratic South Korea, one of the world’s richest countries, and the impover-ished North, now led by the third generation of a “socialist” ruling family, both claim to be the sole legitimate rulers of the entire Korean peninsula.

Korea was divided after the Second World War and the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice rather than a permanent peace treaty, leaving the two countries technically at war.

“The war of nerves means it does not look like there will be an easy breakthrough that will lead to dialogue any time soon,” said Yang Moo-jin of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.

Singling out a specific person to be the North’s chief delegate may have touched a nerve in the status-conscious North, Yang said.

North Korea appeared to have hunkered down on Wednesday after the talks collapsed. It stopped answering a phone line it re-established on Friday that had been severed in April.

Experts say the North often alternates from threats of military action to negotiations in a bid to extract aid. Its long term aim is to win diplomatic recognition from the United States and to be rec-ognized as a nuclear weapons state.

Reuters

ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Hun-dreds of anti-government demonstra-tors chanted and sang in Istanbul’s Taksim Square early on Thursday after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdo-gan’s AK party floated the offer of a referendum on development plans that stirred two weeks of protests.

The night passed peacefully, with young men playing soccer on the square at dawn, after several days of fierce clashes between police and protesters opposed to Erdogan. But it was not clear if the referendum offer would quell protests.

The pro-government Star newspa-per declared in a front page headline: “The way out is a referendum”.

“Referendum game”, said Cumhu-riyet newspaper, which is fiercely critical of Erdogan, whom it portrays as an increasingly authoritarian figure in Turkish politics.

The deputy chairman of Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, Huseyin Celik, said late on Wednesday that the protesters should withdraw from Gezi Park, a leafy corner of the square where they have set up a ramshackle settlement of tents.

At the same time, he made a concession by offering a referendum on the redevelopment plans for the square that first stirred the unrest.

A heavy-handed police crackdown on Gezi Park nearly two weeks ago triggered an unprecedented wave of protest against Erdogan and his AK Party - an association of centrists and conservative religious elements - drawing in secularists, nationalists, professionals, unionists and students.

Riot police looked on from the fringes as crowds mingled late into the night, some protesters chanting and dancing, others applauding a concert pianist who took up residence with a grand piano in the middle of the square.

Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran — A former

Iranian president who was blocked from a comeback bid is urging voters not to boycott Friday’s election.

Many reform-minded Iranians say they will snub the election over crackdowns by Iranian authorities and the decision to keep former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsan-jani from the ballot.

Rafsanjani’s stature rose sharply with liberals after he criticized hard-line tactics used in 2009 against

protesters following the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again this time because of term limits.

A Thursday report by the pro-reform Etemad newspaper quotes Rafsanjani as saying that people “should not boycott” the vote. Several other newspapers reported similar comments.

Six candidates are on Friday’s ballot, including former nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani, a close ally of Rafsanjani who is backed by reformist leaders.

Former Iran president opposes election boycott

REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Protesters dance in Gezi park in Istanbul’s Taksim square early June 13, 2013.

Turkish protesters party in square despite ruling party call

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

A South Korean soldier breaks stone plates by his arm during an anti-terror drills ahead of the 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Incheon, which starts from the end of June, in Incheon, west of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, June 13, 2013.

North Korea says South’s ‘sinister’ moves caused talks collapseReuters

SEOUL - North Korea blamed the South on Thursday for scuttling fresh dialogue that aimed to ease tensions between the rival Koreas, saying Seoul deliberately torpedoed reconciliation talks planned for this week.

Friday, June 14, 201314 InternationalFashion

On the court, of course, they’re in uniform, with a lot of red and black donned by the Miami Heat, and silver and black on the San Antonio Spurs, during the NBA Finals. But actual play time is only 48 minutes, leaving a whole lot of time for a statement wardrobe.

And what statements they’ve been making of late: Capri pants, polka dots and floral prints, fe-dora hats and lens-less glasses are among the looks that have garnered them almost as much attention as their hard-court moves. Some of the top players now have styl-ists, and you’ll find players like Dwyane Wade, Tyson Chandler, Amar’e Stoudemire, Rajon Rondo and Russell Westbrook in the front row of fashion shows.

In fact, Wade is already plan-ning a trip to Milan Fashion week after his Miami Heat wrap up their attempt to defend their title in the NBA Finals (it remains to be seen

whether he’ll be going in a celebra-tory mood; the Heat lost Game 1 of the seven-game series, which resumes on Sunday).

Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks, who describes his own style as “a little edgy,” is a fashion show front-row regular who finds that world intriguing.

“Fashion is a very different world than basketball. ... It all hap-pens so quick,” said Anthony, the league’s leading scorer this season, in a recent interview. “There’s all that time they put in for a three-minute fashion show.”

The 6-foot-8 star, who gets many of his threads custom-made, came into the NBA already a fan of fashion. He doesn’t consider all the attention and energy that goes into it a distraction: “I just like it, I like to look good and I feel good about myself.”

The high-fashion, even nerd-fashion sported by the NBA’s top

athletes are a far cry from the hip-hop, baggy-pants street style that permeated the league in the 1990s, best exemplified by the likes of Allen Iverson.

The league frowned upon that look, and in 2005, instituted a dress code that demanded players dress in “business casual” attire when they were on league business.

But instead of wearing uniform suits, many NBA players have used the opportunity to showcase their individuality. Westbrook’s shirts, which have ranged from leopard-print to bright cartoon designs, could hardly be described business-like, but they are certainly casual and unique.

Wade took a lot of flak when he started down the more flamboy-ant route, says Calyann Barnett, Wade’s stylist, but now it seems everyone else is nipping at his Christian Louboutin wingtip-sneaker heels.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Vera Wang, arguably the queen of red-carpet dressing, didn’t go into the fashion business with stars in her eyes. She knew about its unglamorous side, the hard work and, especially, the risks. And there were plenty of doubts along the way.

But every time one person — and, she says, it really just takes one — understands what she’s trying to express with a certain drape of a fabric, a particular color or a new silhouette, she’s reminded of the reason why she became involved in fashion, and why she’s still in it: There’s an indefinable payoff that comes when she’s helped a woman look and feel her best.

“I didn’t come into this like all these teenagers who don’t know better. I wasn’t a ‘young, new designer,’ but I was a new designer and had to go through those growing pains. The risks were apparent to me, and I had seen so many of my friends go through ups and downs,” Wang said in a recent interview.

Wang, 63, was honored for lifetime achievement by the Council of Fashion Designers at its star-studded awards show Monday night at Lincoln Center. She accepted the award from her mentor (and former employer) Ralph Lauren.

“To all the women and men I have dressed, thank you for your trust,” she said during her acceptance speech.

There’s rarely a Hollywood event or an A-list wed-ding where Wang’s name doesn’t come up. You probably couldn’t go into a shopping mall without seeing it, either.

Her hit parade includes the lavender skirt actress Sharon Stone paired with a Gap shirt at the Oscars in 1998, Chelsea Clinton’s crystal-waistband wedding gown in 2010 and the rose-printed gray jacquard chiffon blouse and evening robe worn with gray rose-printed pants that closed her last catwalk show at New York Fashion Week.

She has a lower-priced line at Kohl’s and another one

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — The crowd cheered fashion’s top talent at the Council of Fash-ion Designers of America awards, but the most love in the room seemed to go to Hil-lary Rodham Clinton.

Clinton received a stand-ing ovation at Monday night’s ceremony at Lincoln Center before she presented the CFDA’s highest honor, its Founder’s Award, to Oscar de la Renta, whom she called “a dear friend.”

Then, de la Renta said he thought she could be the next U.S. president, and there was enthusiastic applause.

Clinton recalled first meeting de la Renta as first lady in 1993. The designer approached her in a White House receiving line and said “that’s one of my dresses.”

The big competitive CFDA winners were Proenza Schouler for womenswear, Thom Browne for menswear and Phillip Lim for acces-sories.

Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP, file

FILE - This Feb. 8, 2013 file photo, NBA star Tyson Chandler and his wife Kim Chandler are seen at the Fall 2013 Alexander Wang Runway Show, in New York. Tall, trim and wearing cat-walk clothes: Pro basketball stars have stepped up their style to become influential tastemakers.

NBA stars up their style game off the courtAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Tall, trim and wearing catwalk clothes: Pro basketball stars have stepped up their style to become influential tastemakers.

Vera Wang honored for her lifetime fashion passion

FILE - This May 5, 2013 file photo shows fashion design-er Vera Wang at a special screen-ing of “The Great Gatsby” in New York.

Photo by Evan Agostini/

Invision/AP, file

at David’s Bridal. She’s developed a fragrance business and home-goods collection. And she has branded FTD flower bouquets.

Fashion world applauds de la Renta _ and Clinton

Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Designer Tory Burch attends the 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall on Monday, June 3, 2013 in New York.

Friday, June 14, 2013 15International Activities

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for May 1 through June 19, 2013

1 May Buda Kliwon Pahang

Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Desa Bangli

Baturiti

Pura Silayukti Padang Bai Karangasem

Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati

Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan Sukawati

Pura Penataran - Batuyang Batubulan

Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati

Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Kediri Tabanan

Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar

Pura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem Karangasem

Pura Sad Khayangan Batu Medahu Desa Swana

Nusa Penida

Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih Denpasar

Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem

Karangasem

Pura pasek Bendesa Tagtag Peguyangan

Pure Pulesari - Bantas Kelod Desa Sibang Gede

Abiansemal

Pura Batur Sari Ubud

Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati

Pura Panti - Kucupin Ketewel Ketewel

6 May Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Dlod Yeh Mengwi

Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas Gianyar

9 May Tilem Sasih Jiyestha

Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Gumbrih Jembrana

Pura Dalem Desa celuk

11May Tumpek Klurut

Pura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Tengah Buleleng

Pura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik Tojan

Klungkung

Pura Pedarman bujangga Waisnawa Besakih

Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunung Sari Penebel

tabanan

Pura Dalem Tarukan - Bebalang Bangli

Pura Benua Kangin Besakih

Pura Merajan Kangin (Ida Betara Empu Baradah)

Besakih

12 May R edite Umanis Merakih

Pura Parangan Tengah Ceningan Kangin Lem-

bongan Nusa Penida

Pura Desa Ubud

15 May Buda Wage Merakih

Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan

Pura Natih Banjar Kalah Batubulan

Pura Desa lan Puseh Silakarang Singapadu

Pura Dalem Petitenget Kerobokan Kuta

Pura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan Gianyar

Pura Kubayan - Kepisah Pedungan Denpasar

Selatan

Pura Pasek Gelgel - Tanah Pegat Tabanan

Pura Paibon lan Pura Bengkel Sumerta Den-

pasar

Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar

Pura Panti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding Tam-

pak Siring

Pura Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken Kaba

Kaba

Pura Dadia Buda Cemeng Pulasari Batuan

Sukawati

21 May Anggar Kasih Tambir

Pura Dalem Puri Batuan Sukawati

Pura Dalem kediri Silakarang Singapadu

Pura Dalem Sukawati

Pura Dalem Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati

Pura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan Ubud

Pura Puseh Ngukuhin Kramas Gianyar

Pura Pamerajan Agung Ki Telabah Tuakilang

Tabanan

Pura Karang Buncing Blahbatuh

Pura Dalem Bubunan Seririt Buleleng

Pura Desa Badung Kota Denpasar

Pura Luhur Pedenganan Bedha Bongan Ta-

banan

Pura Pucak Payogan - Lungsiakan Kedewatan

Ubud Gianyar

Pura Tanah Kilap “Griya Anyar” Suwung Kauh

Denpasar Selatan

Pura Selukat Keramas Blahbatuh Gianyar

Pura Dalem Tampuagan Peninjoan Tembuku

Bangli

Pura Waturenggong Desa Taro

Pura Dalem Bentuyung Desa Ubud

Pura Puseh Ubud

Pura Dalem Puri Peliatan Ubud

Pura Batur Hyang Bulan Muntig Karangasem

22 May Buda Umanis Tambir

Pura Sari Banjar Titih Kapal

Pura Gulamanikan Bendesa Manik Mas Serongga

Gianyar

24 May Purnama Sasih Sadha

Pura Amrta Sari Rempoa Jakarta Selatan

Pura Maospahit Banjar Grenceng Denpasar

5 Jun Buda Kliwon Matal

Pura Puseh lan Desa Sukawati

Pura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin Sawan Buleleng

Pura Maspahit Sesetan Denpasar Selatan

Pura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran

Tegallalang

Pura Panti Pasek Gaduh Sesetan

Pura Pedharaman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

15 Jun

Pura Puseh lan Desa Kota Gianyar

Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan

Pura Sang Hyang Tegal (TARO) Tegallalang

19 Jun Buda Cemeng Menail

Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Suka-

wati

Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja

Gianyar

Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Bangli

Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Baler Pura Sada

Pemebetan Kapal Mengwi

Pemerajan Agung Ubud

Pura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud

bridges, himself lover of good wines, “and our terrace is a perfect spot to spend some happy, carefree time”.

Divine Fridays are a great opportunity to try excellent wines, to learn more about them from the specialists on site – like the French wine expert Antoine Olivain - or just simply to enjoy, relax and have fun with friends and like-minded people. They are also a perfect spot for celebration parties - be it birthday, graduation, bachelor party. The jubilee gets the tasting package of the evening for free.

The Divine Fridays are launched on Friday, 14 June, 16:00-19:00, on bridges terrace and outdoor bar. Special lounge music and compli-mentary canapes. IBP/Courtesy of Bridges

Divine Fridays at BridgesIBP

In addition to the popular daily Divine Hour, Bridges’ wine bar and cellar is hosting a special happy hour on the beautiful outside terrace and bar. For every Friday, a special theme will be chosen, for example a certain wine region, a grape varietal or a wine producer. The themes will, however, not be limited to wines only, but can also be focusing on different spirits and learning what can be done with them. “Bridges has the most extensive wine list in and around Ubud. Sometimes our guests do not want to order a whole bottle but would still like to try the jewels on our list. To enable this, we came up with the idea of focusing on one theme every Friday in a party atmosphere and have prepared great tasting sets at very interesting prices, for example five Sauvignon blancs at Rp.200,000++ for the first Divine Friday” says Claude Chouinard, founder of

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

EntertainmentFriday, June 14, 2013

The entertainer spoke Wednesday at the Cable Show, a com-munications convention, ahead of new programming set to launch July 18 on the NUVOtv network. Lopez serves as chief creative officer of the English-language Latino channel.

“It’s an extension of who I am as an artist,” she said about her new role in an interview with The Associated Press. “As I grow

in this business, I’ve been in the business close to 20 years now, that creative spark that you have doesn’t go away. It keeps growing almost.” Lopez said working behind the scenes is just— if not

more— rewarding than performing.“Singing and acting and dancing and performing live, it’s always going to be my passion,” she said. “But at the end of the day when you’re given the opportunities to be

more creative, to create things more from the ground up, to really, really do things like NUVO, which is, really for me empowering a community that means so much to me.”

She added, “It feels bigger than me. It feels bigger than just a television show. It’s something

that can change the world, the face of television, the way people feel about themselves, how they’re inspired, what they aspire to do and to be.” The actress-singer-dancer said these are exciting times across the board for Latinos.

“There’s a big revolution going on, it’s like a media and cultural revolution of Latinos here in the United States,” she said. “We’re realizing our power. We’re realizing that we matter here. You know, we’re not just, you know, the guys working behind the scenes in the kitchens and as a plumber. You know what I mean. We really have influence. We’re really growing as a community and we’ve come into a place where we deserve to be considered and served and catered to and that’s an exciting thing for Latinos right now.”

Lopez was meeting later Wednesday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the National Council of La Raza and Sens. Harry Reid and Bob Menendez.

She said businesses are getting on board too because of the tremendous buying power of Latinos, which is why she is also the creative chief officer of the Viva Movil brand for Verizon. The entertainer is opening a chain of 15 cell phone stores with bilingual staffers starting this month to cater to the Hispanic market.

Jennifer Lopez: ‘We’re realizing our power’Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Jennifer Lopez says Latinos in the United States are starting to realize their power in politics and media, and that makes the timing good for her latest undertaking: Lobbying for greater diversity in TV programming.

FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows actress and recording artist Jennifer Lopez at a news conference announc-ing Viva Movil by Jennifer Lopez in Las Vegas.

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LONDON — The Duchess of Cambridge will officially name the new “Royal Princess” cruise liner at a gala cer-emony.

The former Kate Middleton plans to board the vessel for the naming ceremony, which will include a blessing and the traditional smashing of a bottle across the hull.

The ceremony in Southampton on Thursday will include a brief tour of the ship for the duchess, who is expected to give birth to her and Prince William’s first child in mid-July.

It is expected to be her final planned solo event before the birth. The new 3,600-passenger ship is scheduled to begin cruising the Mediterranean this summer.

Kate to formally name ‘Royal Princess’ cruise ship

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