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Mangupura (Bali Post) –

Generally, Nyepi celebration inBadung and Denpasar area was inorder. The similar condition can beseen in one of the most crowdedtourism place in Bali, Kuta. Onnormal days, Kuta is packed withdomestic and foreign tourists whowant to enjoy the beautiful beachor even find entertainment in theclubs around the area.

However, during Nyepi Day, Continued on page 6

Nyepi in KutaPolice officer and Malaysian tourist arrested

the condition was completely dif-ferent. Kuta resembled a dead citywhere no one nowhere to be seen.Small incidents occurred whenseveral people were arrested due totheir ignorance on the celebrationof Nyepi.

The head of Kuta customary vil-lage, I Gusti Ketut Sudira, statedthat one police officers and a tour-ist were arrested during Nyepi. Heexplained that the police officerwas arrested when he was caught

fishing on German Beach at 10 pm.“We handed the suspect to their

superior in Kuta Police Departmentand he will receive the proper pun-ishment,” Sudira added.

Meanwhile, a tourist from Ma-laysia, Mike, was also arrested bythe local security officer, pecalang,in Kuta. He was found sleeping in aBalawista, lifeguard, post approxi-mately at 6 o’clock in the morning.

The pecalang then arrested Mikein the security post near the beach.

Mike admitted that he didn’t knowthere would be Nyepi celebration onSaturday, March 5, 2011. The vio-lation cost Mike a nigh in the prison.

After a day of peace and quiet,Kuta area is stared to be packed withtourists. In addition to enjoy thebeautiful beach, the tourists and thelocals in the area visited theMajalangu Market. The market isonly opened once a year, everyNgembak Geni or a day after Nyepi.

AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI

A Libyan rebel fighter mans a check point in the stronghold oil town of Ras Lanuf on March 5, 2011 where up to 10 peoplewere killed and more than 20 wounded in clashes between opposition and loyalists of Moamer Kadhafi forces.

Heavy machinegun firerocks Libyan capital Tripoli

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TRIPOLI – Intense automatic gunfire erupted in theLibyan capital Tripoli on Sunday, the first such outbreak inMuammar Gaddafi’s main stronghold in a two-week-old in-surrection against his 41-year-old rule.

heavy caliber, reverberated aroundcentral Tripoli along with ambulancesirens, pro-Gaddafi chants, and acacophony of car horns as vehicles

sped through the vicinity. Govern-ment spokesman Mussa Ibrahim de-nied any fighting was under way inthe capital, saying the gunfire was tomark the army’s recapture of severalcities from rebel forces.

“These are celebrations becausegovernment forces have taken con-trol of all areas to Benghazi and arein the process of taking control ofBenghazi,” Ibrahim said, referring

to Libya’s rebel-controlled secondlargest city situated in the far east.

But Benghazi and the Libyancoast east of the port city of Ras Lanufremained in rebel hands, Reuters cor-respondents there said. State televi-sion said government forces also hadretaken the important coastal citiesof Zawiyah and Misrata, to the im-mediate west and east of Tripoli.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—The threats of Eli Gattenio, 50,

to have self-immolation along withhis four daughters, made manycircles wary. It included the Indo-nesian Commission for Child Pro-tection (KPAI) of Bali Chapter.Moreover, the eldest daughter ofEli, Indigo Gattenio, 11, sent a let-ter directly to KPAI of Bali Chap-ter.

To anticipate any inconve-niences, the KPAI of Bali Chapterwrote a letter to the ImmigrationOffice to delay the deportation ofEli. The measure was taken for thesafety of the four children. If Eliwas deported without his four chil-dren, he threatened to burn himself.As planned, Eli will be going to bedeported on Monday (Mar 7).

Chairperson of KPAI of BaliChapter, AA Sri Wahyuni, said herparty had sent a letter to requestthe deportation delay. Likewise,her party had coordinated with po-lice department related to thethreats of Eli that caused wary.Moreover, Eli had prepared every-thing required to perform his self-immolation action such as kero-sene, diesel oil and so forth.

Secretary of the Indonesian Hotelsand Restaurants Association (PHRI)of Bali Chapter, Ferry Markus, statedif compared to days before the NewYear and Idul Fitri celebration becom-ing the peak seasons, the occupancyrate usually reached 90 percent. “Asthe report we received, the occupancyrate of hotels in Bali stuck at 60 per-cent,” said Ferry Markus, Thursday(Mar 3).

According to him, the occupancyrate before the celebration of CakaNew Year’s Eve every year tended tostagnate. Both foreign and domestictourists intending to watch the celebra-tion live were still fairly minimal ifcompared to before the celebration ofIdul Fitri, Christmas and New Year.

“Tourists quite understand aboutthe tradition of Nyepi in Bali. Even,they were very impressed with theBalinese people who can stop the to-tal activities during the day,” he said.

PHRI of Bali Chapter, acknowl-edged Ferry Markus, had provided aflyer of the Hindu Darma Council of

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Implementation of Nyepi fes-

tivity on Saturday posed a holy dayrespected by the Hindu commu-nity. On that account, all parties,especially the tourism businessperpetrators like hotels and restau-rants in Gianyar Regency, were ex-pected to respect the execution ofBrata Penyepian or Nyepiabstinences held for 24 hours. Itwas reminded by the Chairman ofthe Indonesian Hotels and Restau-rants Association (PHRI) ofGianyar Chapter, Dewa GedeArimbawa, Thursday (Mar 3).

On Nyepi or Day of Silence,Arimbawa mentioned that hotels asusual would provide informationfor guests staying in hotels, at leastabout provisions of dos and don’tsas well as services obtained duringtheir stay. By and large, every ho-

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One of the hotel in Nusa Dua area

Ahead of Nyepi, hotel occupancy rate in Bali lowAhead of Nyepi, hotel occupancy rate in Bali lowAhead of Nyepi, hotel occupancy rate in Bali lowAhead of Nyepi, hotel occupancy rate in Bali lowAhead of Nyepi, hotel occupancy rate in Bali lowMangupura (Bali Post)—

Nyepi Celebration of the Caka New Year 1933 did not neces-sarily affect the hotel occupancy rate in Bali. One day beforethe celebration, the hotel occupancy rate in Bali remained lownamely on the average of 55 percent to 60 percent. Such a ratewas equivalent to the occupancy rate on the previous days.

Indonesia (PHDI Bali) and the Indone-sian Broadcasting Commission (KPI).The flyer contained the procedures andrestrictions that should be obeyed byhotel management in Bali in makingthe Catur Beratha Penyepian or fourabstinences a success.

“We appeal tourists not to go out ofthe hotel and remain to stay inside, notto make noises and may turn on lightsbut not to penetrate the glass. Then, wewill provide a good understanding tothose violating the appeal,” he said.

According to Ferry Markus, PHRIof Bali Chapter had also informed allmembers to turn on lights as needed.Hoteliers were also asked to close theirrestaurant before dusk in order to re-duce the use of lightings.

Meanwhile, Chairman of PHRI ofBadung Chapter, IGN Rai Suryawijaya,stated that Nyepi package whichheavily promoted within the past twoweeks did not significantly boost theoccupancy rate. Considering, the NyepiDay was merely regarded as a regularholiday by tourists.

Delaying deportation, Child Commission writes to Immigration Office

PHRI respects implementation of Nyepi

“I predict the occupancy rates of ho-tels in Badung on Nyepi celebration willonly reach 70 percent. This can be seenfrom the trend of occupancy rate sincethe past few years,” he said.

According to him, tourists only con-

sidered Nyepi as a day to meditate. Theyalready knew that on Nyepi people werenot allowed to go out and turn on light-ing. They had different attitude towardNyepi and it was different from ad-dressing the Christmas and New Year

tel put that information in each roomso that they could understand andknow the significance of Nyepi. Simi-larly, it was intended to reduce the oc-currence of complaints to hotel.

In this regard, the PHRI itself ex-pected the hotels and restaurants to re-spect the appeal by informing theirguests not to go out of the hotel area.“Though the appeal was not deliveredspecifically, but hopefully the appealof government should be obeyed byall tourism service providers,” he ex-plained.

To the implementation of Nyepi,several hotels even reduced their ser-vices. Hotels would give informationto their guests such as there would beno cleaning service on that day asusual, except for some replacementslike dirty towels. “We are minimizingservices,” he explained.

Aside from hotels, restaurants also

enforced specific policy, such asreducing lighting so that dinnerfunction could have been settledat 7:00 p.m. Local Time. Regard-ing to reduction of services, the in-house guests remarkably under-stood about the matter. Even, theyappreciated it as a distinctive andmemorable experience.

As the analysis throughout theyears, there were not comprehen-sive data on the occupancy rate ofhotels in Ubud area on Nyepi Day.However, since during March re-mained in low season, the hotel oc-cupancy would be ranging around40 percent to 50 percent. Theywere mostly foreign guests. “Eventhough there are some hotels pro-viding special packages on Nyepiholiday, it does not significantlyboost the room occupancy rate,”he added. (kmb16)

Meanwhile, police officer wasasked to oversee and perform moni-toring against the villa inhabited byEli and his four children. All doorsand windows of the villa wereclosed and hampered from inside bywardrobe. “I have made coordina-tion with Chief of Kuta Police, IGede Ganefo, to conduct surveil-lance. Hopefully, nothing will hap-pen to them,” she explained, Thurs-day (Mar 3).

Sri Wahyuni also explainedabout the letter of Indigo asking forhelp to conduct DNA test for herand the three younger sisters. Therequest was used to prove whetherEli was their real father. “DNA testswill be conducted on Monday (Mar7),” she explained to Bali Post.

In addition, she also asked forhelp to change her birth certificate.The certificate did not mention thename of her father, only the nameof her mother. Later, she also sub-mitted another request in order shecould be made a family registrationcard (KK). And lastly, she objectedin relation to the delay given to hermother.

Moreover, the provision of sus-pension made her and her younger

sisters not quiet because her motherthreatened her. Not only that, themother was alleged to have forged

her letters and obscured the facts likethe current problem concerning withthe immigration matters. “Obviously,

holidays.“There are only a few tourists

staying in hotels just to feel the mo-ment of Nyepi festivity. Nyepi is notunusual attractions for tourists,” headded. (par)

we remain to focus on the problemof these children to prevent any in-convenience,” she added. (kmb21)

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If the atmosphere of Nyepiimplementation last years was dis-turbed by the noises of officers’ ve-hicle and ambulance, now it hardlyexisted, except for only one or twoambulances conveying patients tothe hospital.

Hindu devotees undertook thefour abstinences of Nyepi withhigher quality. At a number of vil-lages, the series of Nyepi celebra-tion was preceded by maprani wor-ship on Friday morning. Accordingto Jro Mangku Nyarikan of DalemKesiman, it was a gift to all livingbeings including humans and invis-ible beings in the universe. In theafternoon, it was followed byPengerupukan filled with mabuu-buu ritual and ogoh-ogoh (papiermache demon) parade.

Interestingly, the parade of ogoh-ogoh in Denpasar, aside from beingcentered in the Catur Muka statue, itwas also performed at respective vil-lage. By doing so, it could minimizethe physical clashes among the par-ticipants. This matter was acknowl-edged by legislator of Denpasar,Gusti Ngurah Gede, where such apattern could reduce physical colli-sion among the hamlets and resolve

RESIDENTS of SemateCustomary Village, AbianbaseVillage, Mengwi Subdistrict,Badung Regency, held a cer-emony or traditional attractionknown as Mbed-mbedan tug-off-war on Ngembak Geni, Sun-day (Mar 6). All participantsseemed to have assembled inthe local Village Temple in themorning and been commencedby saying prayers. Each villagerbrought along an oblation in theform of tipat bantal to be of-fered to local deities. After-ward, all customary villagersled to the front of the Village/Puseh Temple to organize theMbed-mbedan.

This unique tradition has notbeen held for about 40 yearsand it was just revived last year.How does the ceremony or tra-dition look like? Mbed-mbedanat Semate Customary Villageresembles to a tug of war. How-ever, the rope in use is specialstem of creeping plants, wherelocal villagers call it kalot stem.The stem widely grows in the

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The situation during ogoh-ogoh parade in Denpasar during Pengerupukan, a day before Nyepi.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Implementation of Catur Beratha Penyepian or four

abstinences of Nyepi in Denpasar on last Saturday looked morequalified. It was shown by martinet of the Hindus and guestdwellers or regional migrants respecting the four abstinences.

traffic jams. Residents living in thesuburbs would be unnecessary tothrong the Puputan Badung Squareto watch ogoh-ogoh. Meanwhile, theyoung artists along with their creativebaleganjur gamelan music composi-tion could make maximal presenta-tion before the public. Almost allogoh-ogoh attractions also featureda dance fragment.

At Kesiman Petilan, for instance,the parade was centered in front ofthe Pengerebongan Temple. It wasfollowed by all hamlets existing atthe customary village marked by thehanding over of development fundsby Village Chief Gede Dharma Putrato respective customary youth clubin each hamlet. The parade was pre-ceded by the performance of ogoh-ogoh entitled Envoy of Hanumanpresented by Bukit Buwung Ham-let, and then followed by Kala DetyaKala Maya and Gayus rats ofKedaton Hamlet. Meanwhile, theHamlet of Abianangka Klod showedoff the ogoh-ogoh entitled Kala-Nateng Dirah, Batanbuah with SiyuDemon, Dukuh Hamlet with KalaKreket, Meranggi Hamlet withDirah Anyuti Rupa and Kehen Ham-let with Wimba Pralaya. (025)

Unique tradition at Semate CustomaryVillage on Ngembak Geni

cemetery of Semate Village. Theplant itself has grown since hun-dreds of years, spreading on akroya tree.

Participants of Mbed-mbedandid not only consist of the mem-bers of customary youth club, butalso the elders. In this tradition,participants did not prioritize thestatus of win or lose. Male partici-pants faced male opponent, whilefemale participants faced femaleopponents. The ropes preparedfrom kalot stems were held byeach opponent with the samenumber of part icipants andstrength. After the start cue wasgiven, each participant showed offits strength and then the rope waspulled as strongly as possible.When participants showing offtheir strength, there was a villagerassigned to tickle the participants’body. Participants who could notstand tingling they would set freethe rope. Therefore, the strengthbecame weakened. The gameswould be declared over when par-ticipants managed to pull the ropeheld by the opponents. After

Mbed-mbedan was over, local vil-lagers then got together, enjoyedtogether the tipat bantal that hadbeen offered.

Familial relationship and to-getherness were really discernibleat the ceremony. It could be saidthat Semate customary villagersopened the first day of after Nyepiin the Caka New Year (NgembakGeni) with a new spirit of togeth-erness. Commenced with sayingprayers en masse, they were en-gaged in the implementation oftradition or heritage ceremonyand then enjoyed the tipat bantalsymbolizing the graces of localdeities. Having organized the cer-emony, it was filled with mutualforgiveness.

Chief of Semate CustomaryVillage, I Gede Suryadi, said thatMbed-mbedan had been existed atthe village for long time. Such tra-dition or ceremony had not beenheld for some 40 years. Since lastyear, it had been revived. Suchancient heritage was mentioned ina Raja Purana chronicle of SemateCustomary Village.

Mbed-mbedan was insepa-rable f rom the exis tence ofSemate Customary Village. Inthe Raja Purana was narrated thatMaharishi Bantas perform a pil-grimage to a forest densely over-grown by gelam trees. There, heencountered with the descendantrelatives of Mpu Gnijaya. Heasked the citizens why they werein the forest region. Residentsanswered that they did not agreewith the king’s actions. Since theforest was haunted, MaharishiBantas recommended them tomake a place of worship for theirsafety. In response to the sugges-tion, they organized a meeting todetermine the name of thetemple. Since they always arguedagainst one another, they finallycould not find a name. As the dis-cussion dragged on, MaharishiBantas ultimately named thesanctum Putih Semate becausethe region was overgrown bygelam trees. And, the area wasnamed Semate because local vil-lagers had united in mind andwould not submit to others and

became determined to live inthe area (in the same difficultcircumstances as others). Afterthat, the village and templewere inaugurated by a cer-emony in the Caka Year 1396or 1474 AD.

Before leaving the SemateVillage and resuming the jour-ney northwardly, MaharishiBantas said a Bhisama or reli-gious stipulation: “O, my chil-dren, since you have held a talkgoing on in long-drawn processfor making the decision, as acommemoration, you have toperform a Mbed-mbedan attrac-tion every year right on the firstdate in the tenth month (in Ba-linese calendar) or the day afterNyepi to invoke salvation andgrace of God or deities by of-fering daksina suci withsegehan oblation in the localtemple. Thus, it must be remem-bered, never forget it.”

According to Suryadi, it wasthe basis of why the local vil-lagers carried out the Mbed-mbedan tradition. (lun)

International4 Monday, March 7, 2011 News

Deputy Attorney GeneralKarunamoy Chakma said the rulingwas expected later Sunday. The gov-ernment holds 25 percent share of thebank and the remainder is owned byits borrowers. Yunus’ bank, foundedin 1983, pioneered the concept ofreducing poverty by making tinyloans to the poor. His work spurred aboom in such lending across the de-veloping world and earned him andthe bank the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Yunus, 70, an outspoken govern-ment critic, has recently been underpressure at home, where he has longhad frosty relations with Prime Minis-ter Sheikh Hasina. She has accusedGrameen Bank and other microfinanceinstitutions of charging high interestrates and “sucking blood from the poor

Agence France Presse

BEIJING – China’s state mediastepped up its criticism of recentcalls for anti-government rallies,saying stability was key amid con-cern unrest sweeping the MiddleEast could spread to the Asian na-tion. The reports come a day aftera similar comment piece was pub-lished for the first time in a state-run newspaper, amid renewedonline calls for citizens to gatherin dozens of cities to participate in“strolling” demonstrations Sunday.

“Firstly we must recognise thatsome people with ulterior motives athome and abroad are using variousmeans to incite ‘street politics’,” areport on the front page of the BeijingYouth Daily said. “They are using theInternet to create and disseminatefalse information, incite illegal gath-erings in a bid to bring the chaos inthe Middle East and North Africa toChina, to mess up China.”

A report in the Jiefang Daily,the official Communist Partymouthpiece in Shanghai, carrieda similar comment piece, urgingpeople to “maintain social har-mony and stability.”

“People must... highly cherish andconsciously maintain hard-won sta-

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO – Three weeks after Presi-dent Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyp-tians are turning their anger towardhis internal security apparatus,storming the agency’s main head-quarters and other offices Saturdayand seizing documents to keep themfrom being destroyed to hide evi-dence of human rights abuses.

What to do with Egypt’s taintedsecurity agencies remains one of themost contentious issues facing themilitary rulers who took charge af-ter Mubarak was forced to stepdown on Feb. 11 after an 18-daypopular uprising.

AP Photo/Ahmed Mohammed

In this Friday, March 4, 2011 photo state security cars smoulder afterthey were set on fire by protesters outside the police security head-quarters in Alexandria, Egypt.

Egyptians turn anger toward state security agencyThe 500,000-strong internal secu-

rity services are accused of some ofthe worst human rights abuses in thesuppression of dissent againstMubarak’s nearly 30-year rule. Theprotesters are demanding the agencybe dismantled and its leaders face areckoning. The ruling militarycouncil’s bind was evident on Fridayand Saturday when thousands of pro-testers — including some peoplewho said they were victims of abuseby security agents — marched onseveral state security buildings inAlexandria, Cairo and other cities.

Protesters stormed inside at leastsix of the buildings, including theagency’s main headquarters in

Cairo’s northern Nasr City neigh-borhood, confronting officers face-to-face and attacking some in a sur-real reversal of roles.

“We are inside, hundreds of us,”Mohammed Abdel-Fattah, one ofthe protesters who barged into theNasr City compound on Saturday,said in a telephone interview. “Weare fetching documents and we arelooking for detainees.”

Cries of “Allahu akbar,” or “Godis great,” could be heard in the back-ground, as one of the protestersfound a file with Mubarak’s nameon it. Around 2,500 people sweptinto the compound, according to thestate news agency.

AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORIN / FILES

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DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh’s High Court was set to rule Sunday on the legality of a governmentorder dismissing Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as head of the microfinance bank he founded, a movethat prompted concern at home and abroad. Bangladesh’s central bank ordered Yunus out of GrameenBank on Wednesday, saying he violated the country’s retirement laws. Yunus said he was still holding thepost and went to the court, which heard arguments challenging the legality of the order.

borrowers.” She reportedly was angeredby Yunus’ 2007 attempt to form his ownpolitical party, backed by the country’spowerful army.

The move to oust Yunus fromGrameen has sparked criticism inBangladesh and abroad. Borrowersand supporters of the bank held hu-man chain protests in parts ofBangladesh on Saturday to demandwithdrawal of the government order,local media reported.

In Washington, Sen. John Kerry,chairman of the U.S. Senate ForeignRelations Committee, expressedconcern over efforts to remove Yunusand said the international communitywould watch the situation closely. Hesaid he hoped both sides could reacha compromise that maintains

Grameen Bank’s autonomy and ef-fectiveness and that Yunus’ “lifelongwork to reduce poverty and em-power women through microloanshas deservedly received worldwideattention and respect.”

Controversy surrounded Yunusafter a Norwegian television docu-mentary that screened in Decemberaccused him of transferring Norwe-gian development funds fromGrameen Bank to another venturewithout prior approval in 1996.

Pressure by the Norwegian Em-bassy in Dhaka resulted in the fundsbeing transferred back in 1998, andthe Norwegian government has saidthere was no indication Grameenwas engaged in corruption or em-bezzlement.

(FILES) Thispicture takenon October22, 2009showsMuhammadYunus,founder of theGrameenBank, giving aspeech beforethe plenarySession of the4th EuropeanDeveloppmentDays meetingin Stockholm.On March 2,2011

AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN

A woman is questioned by a policewoman along Chang’An Av-enue near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 6, 2011 amidheightened security with the ruling Communist Party’s annualparliament underway.

Chinese state mediaslams calls for protests

bility like they take care of their owneyes,” it said. The anonymous callsfor rallies each Sunday, inspired bypopular uprisings in the Arab world,have heightened official concernabout unrest in China amid growingresentment at issues such as a yawn-ing wealth gap and corruption.

Reflecting this unease, an officialbudget report unveiled at the nation’sannual parliament session on Satur-day revealed plans to allocate 624.4billion yuan ($95.1 billion) for lawand order in 2011. This represents a13.8% jump from last year, and com-pares to a lower planned hike of12.7% for national defence spend-ing to 601.1 billion yuan.

Campaigners behind the so-called “Jasmine rallies” again calledfor people to gather in cities on Sun-day, despite no apparent signs ofprotests last weekend amid heavysecurity at designated sites inBeijing and Shanghai. Several for-eign journalists who turned up at thesite in a Beijing shopping street onFebruary 27 were roughed up, andpolice have told reporters they couldlose their permission to work inChina unless they stick by newrules. Once again, there were noobvious protests Sunday in Beijingor Shanghai.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for March 8 through March 19, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annualCeremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Ba-linese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine whicheach family possesses. Because of this practically every fewdays a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in someVillage in Bali. There are also times when the entire islandcelebrated 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 consid-ered its birth day and celebration always takes place on thesame day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When newmoon is used then the celebration always happens on new moonor full moon. The day of course can differ the religious cel-ebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some templecelebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakihtemple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and mostof the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importanceof the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed withpieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold andChinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the fourcorners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, whiteor black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped inthe shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, longflags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. Infront of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles,decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, riceand other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are thegirls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangementsof all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Everyvisitor admires the grace with which the carry their load ontheir heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

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Only those organizations that canconsistently demonstrate opera-tional practices that adhere to thehighest environmental standardsover a period of 10 years, receivethe much-coveted Platinum Certi-fication.

“Melia Bali has always been aleader in promoting sustainabletourism,” said Jim Boyles, GeneralManager of Melia Bali. “We are the

Melia Bali Earns EarthCheck PlatinumCertification for Environmental Practices

first hotel in Asia to be given thedistinction of EarthCheck Platinumand one of only five hotels in theworld ... We believe the hospitalityindustry in Bali is highly dependenton the island’s unspoiled environ-ment and the culture of its people.Visitors come especially to enjoyBali’s unique cultural heritage. Abetter living standard and quality oflife for the Balinese people will en-sure the future of Bali’s hospitalityindustry.”

Prior to achieving Certification,Melia Bali successfullybenchmarked and certified its opera-tions each year, using theEarthCheck tool. This involved theorganization submitting a year’sworth of operational data, and hav-ing it compared to that of other or-ganizations that are similar in kind.

The EarthCheck Program usesmore than a decade of factual, op-erational data, submitted by over1100 organisations in 65 countries.

By taking such a holistic view ofcompany practices, Melia Bali wasable to identify where they were out-performing others, and keep at theforefront of global sustainable tour-ism efforts.

“I congratulate Melia Bali intheir achievement of EarthCheckCertified Platinum status,” saidStewart Moore, CEO of EC3 Glo-bal. “Melia Bali is one of less thana handful of organizations in theworld to have achieved this andshould be viewed as a leader in thefield of sustainable tourism ... Plati-num Certification is not a green tickthat can be purchased or applied for.It must be duly earned over a de-cade of verifiable commitment tothe highest possible standards of op-erational practices. The resort hasrecognized a maturing of the sciencebehind climate change and environ-mental sustainability, and has dem-onstrated their belief that the planetdeserves more than half measures.”

8 MarchAnggar Kasih Perangbakat

Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - KlungkungTirta Sudamala Bebalang - BangliPaibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit - sawan -BulelengPasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - KlungkungGunung Tengsong Lombok - NTBDalem Benawah Benawah - GianyarDalem Bitra Bitra - GianyarDalem Banyuning Banyuning Timur -BulelengDalem Pauman Batan Getas Titih DenpasarTengah Padang Tegalalang - GianyarMerajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - PupuanTabananKawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa AdatPagan DenpasarHyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih - GianyarMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa -KlungkungMerajan Pasek Gelgel SelulungSelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguPura Tengkulak Tulikup - GianyarPenataran Badung Ogang Village Sidemen -Karangasem

9 MarchBuda Umanis Perangbakat

Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Tarukan PejengTampak Siring-GianyarRambut Siwi JembranaBatu Bolong Canggu - KutaPasek Marga Klaci Klaci - TabananAgung Pasek Dauh Waru JembranaRatu Pasek Sangsit Sawan - BulelengPasek Tangkas Darma Reyanggede TabananBanyuning Village Temple BanyuningBulelengSrijon TabananPasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung Petemon

Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak SiringDadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh ManuabaTegalalangPedarmaan Batursari Ngilis JeguPenebel TabananPuncak Mundi Nusa Penida

19 MarchPurnama Kedasa

Odalan Betara Turun Kabeh Besakih -KarangasemNgusaba in Bukit Jati Temple BangliBatur Kalanganyar BangliMasceti Pejeng Aji Tegalalang - GianyarDalem Tangsub Sukawati - GianyarPenambangan Badung Denpasar CityNgusaba in Lempuyab Madia TempleKarangasemNgusaba in Batur Temple BangliVillage Temple Singakerta UbudPasek Gelgel Tagtag Kukuh Marga TabananGaduh Ketapian Sumerta DenpasarPasek Bendesa Batur Tuak IlangTabananPasek Agung Tagtag Kelod Peguyangan -DenpasarAgung Pasek Bendesa Tonja Tonja - DenpasarPasek Gelgel Angsri Baturiti - TabananPasek Gelgel Bale Agung SubamiaBerabanDukuh Sari Belatung Bengkel TimpagKerambitanPusat Dukuh Sari Belatung RendangKarangasemPita Maha Palangkaraya KaltengCanda Peraba Komplek Polri JelambarJakarta BaratAgung Jagat Natha DenpasarPemerajan Agung Puri Petak GianyarDadia Agung Tangkas Kori AgungAbiansemal Badung

Monday, March 7, 20116 News

Niccolo Ghedini told reportersoutside a Milan courtroom that thedefense has asked the head ofMilan’s court to schedule hearingsfor Mondays. Berlusconi is de-fending himself in the prostitutioncase as well as in separate trials in-volving dealings stemming fromthe billionaire’s business empire.

“The premier considers it op-portune to show up in person to de-fend himself,” Ghedini said. Ital-ian law leaves it up to the defen-dant whether they want to show upin court during trial.

“We have asked the court to setaside Mondays” on its calendar forBerlusconi’s various trials, thelawyer said. “It’s the most you canexpect. For a premier, one day aweek is no small thing,” Ghedinisaid, insisting Berlusconi wasmaking the “maximum effort” tobe available.

Ghedini was awaiting the startof a preliminary hearing forBerlusconi in a case stemmingfrom the sale of film rights by oneof the premier’s media companies.

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW – Russian news re-ports say an Antonov-148 airlinerhas crashed during a test flight,killing six people including twopilots from Myanmar.

The reports citing officials inthe Emergencies Ministry and theInvestigative Committee say thecrash took place Saturday morn-ing in the Belgorod region about600 kilometers (350 miles) southof Moscow.

The Interfax-AVN military

AFP PHOTO/ LEHTIKUVA / Heikki Saukkomaa

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi leaves the European People’s Party (EPP) Summit inHelsinki on March 4, 2011. The EPP was meeting to smooth out the details among the variousconservative parties in the European parliament ahead of the eurozone summit on March 11, setto discuss, among other things, the state of the bloc’s financial safeguarding mechanisms.

Lawyer: BerlusconiLawyer: BerlusconiLawyer: BerlusconiLawyer: BerlusconiLawyer: Berlusconiaims to defendaims to defendaims to defendaims to defendaims to defendhimself in courthimself in courthimself in courthimself in courthimself in court Associated Press Writer

ROME – Silvio Berlusconi, who faces trial for allegedly paying for sex with an underage Moroc-can teenager, will defend himself in court, as long as the Italian premier doesn’t have to show upmore than once a week, his lawyer said Saturday.

Because of a technicality, that hear-ing was put off till March 28.

The most sensational trialagainst Berlusconi, set to begin onApril 6 in Milan, sees the premierdefending himself from charges heimproperly used his governmentoffice to try to cover up an allegedpaid sexual encounter at his privatevilla near Milan with a then 17-year-old nightclub dancer who goesby the nickname Ruby.

Berlusconi has denied ever pay-ing for sex. He has insisted that inthe Ruby case, as well as in sev-eral past and current criminalprobes and trials against him, he isthe innocent victim of prosecutorshe contends sympathize with theopposition left.

In a trial whose next hearing isset for March 11, Berlusconi is ac-cused of bribing British lawyerDavid Mills to lie in court in the1990s to protect the mediamagnate’s business interests. Millswas convicted in 2009 of havingtaken a $600,000 bribe, but the ver-dict was overturned last year when

Italy’s highest criminal court ruledthe statute of limitations had ex-pired.

Berlusconi said Saturday thathis Cabinet in a special meeting ina few days will work on what hehailed as “epochal” reform of theItalian justice system. Among thereforms Berlusconi would like tosee are extensive limits on use ofintercepted telephone conversa-tions by prosecutors.

Italian media recently have runintercepted conversations of youngwomen who were invited to fre-quent parties at the premier’s pri-vate residences. Berlusconi’s wife,who is divorcing from him, hascomplained of what she has calledhis infatuation with young women.

Earlier this year, Italy’s constitu-tional court watered down a law pro-moted by Berlusconi’s governmentthat shielded him from prosecution.

Critics contend that Berlusconihas used much of his energy sincebecoming premier in 2008 to pro-mote laws tailor-made to help himwith his judicial woes.

Russian airliner crashesduring test, killing 6

news agency said the Myanmar airforce has ordered two An-148s. Itwas not immediately known if theplane that crashed was to be deliv-ered to the country.

The An-148 is a regional high-wing jet with a maximum range ofabout 5,000 kilometers (3,000miles) and passenger capacity of99.

There was no information on thecause of the crash. State airlineRossiya last year criticized the An-148 for door lock and engine prob-lems.

IGN Tresna, the head of Kutaofficers, said that the market is atradition passed on from genera-tion to generation. It was startedas a small market for the localsbut it attracts the attention of tour-ists and from time to time thenumbers of visitors and sellers

While a resident in Misratainsisted the city still under rebelcontrol, the fate of Zawiyah wasunclear on Sunday after govern-ment troops and tanks launcheda series of fierce attacks therethe previous day that were re-pulsed by the rebels. Gaddafi’sforces also launched a counter-attack on Bin Jawad, a townwest of Ras Lanuf captured byrebels on Saturday.

One fighter returningwounded from the frontlinetown said the Gaddafi loyalistshad attacked with machinegunsand rocket-propelled grenades(RPGs). Asked what he hadseen, he replied: “Death.” Otherrebel fighters in Ras Lanuf saidthey had received news of theattack by phone from the front-line. “People tell us in BinJawad there are Gaddafi forces.Some rebels have been hit bysnipers,” Khamis al-Libi, a rebelfighter, said.

The resilience of Gaddafi’sforces in the face of the wide-spread rebellion and their abil-ity to counter-attack will in-crease fears that Libya is head-ing for a protracted civil warrather than a swift revolution asseen in Tunisia and Egypt. Sa-lem Ghazy, a Tripoli business-man, was part of a group of se-curity forces and civilians whowere firing into the air from au-tomatic weapons in Tripoli andbrandishing posters of Gaddafi.“Libya is united. We will fightthese forces that are trying toruin the country. These forcesare backed by outside powers,”he said.

A resident near the centralGreen Square said: “They are

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participating in the market in-creased.

Now, the market has becomeone of the interested tourism at-tractions in Kuta especially afterthe celebration of Nyepi, the newyear for the Hindus throughoutBali. (kmb25)

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shooting in celebration. It’s be-cause they said the towns wherethe rebels have been fightinghave been liberated.” Ibrahimdenied there was any fighting inTripoli.

“Everything is safe. Tripoli is100 percent under control,” hesaid, while adding: “I would liketo advise you not to go there foryour safety.” Rebel commanderAbdelwahabin said most peoplein Tripoli opposed Gaddafi.

“All Libyans are unanimousabout overthrowing Gaddafi,even in Tripoli, but they are un-able to move there as all the se-curity forces are dressed in civil-ian clothing, mixing with anyonetrying to protest,” he said. As ofSaturday night, Libyan rebelshad dug into posit ions inZawiyah after withstanding twoarmored assaults by governmentforces, but it was not possible toreach anyone in the town earlyon Sunday morning.

With rifle-toting insurgents onrooftops and manning check-points on streets leading into thecenter of Zawiyah, the rebels hadsaid they were bracing for an-other tank and artillery attack bygovernment forces on Sunday.Deputy Foreign Minister KhaledKaim told reporters late on Sat-urday that Zawiyah was “quietand peaceful. “We hope by to-morrow morning life will beback to normal.”

A doctor in Zawiyah, some 50km (30 miles) west of Tripoli,said at least 30 people, mostly ci-vilians, were killed during fight-ing on Saturday that wrecked thetown center, raising to at least 60the death toll from two days ofbattles.

Monday, March 7, 2011 7Indonesia TodayInternational

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Jazz guitarist, George Benson (67), gestures during a press conference at the annual Java Jazz Festival2011 in Jakarta, on March 5, 2011.

Antara

TEMANGGUNG - RepatriatedIndonesian workers have com-plained that they were traumatizedin Libya due to the political conflictthere.

One of the workers, Ciproni, saidhere Saturday he was traumatized byhis experience in Libya after airportofficers treated him and his co-work-ers inhumanely by confiscating hisbelongings such as money and cellphones.

“My 30 Dinar allowance and cellphone were confiscated by airportofficers. We could only carry just ourclothes. I`m traumatized by the vio-lence at the airport, those who didnot obey were beaten by the offic-

Instead, they had climbed thevolcano that erupted last yearthrough Plalangan hamlet‘s track inLencoh village, Selo subdistrict,Boyolali district, Central Java, sincetwo weeks ago, said Muh Sony, atravel guide who frequently es-corted them, here Sunday.

“Tens of climbers, including 25foreigners who are doing research,have climbed the peak of MountMerapi over these past twoweeks,” he said.

Among the foreign climberswere from Malaysia, Belgium,Germany, and France. Theyclimbed the volcano as part of theirresearch activities, he said addingthat he and other travel guides werewilling to escort them due tohigher payments they would re-ceive.

He said the amount of paymentsthey received from the foreign re-searchers was 50 percent higherthan that of the normal condition.

Those foreigners started climb-ing the mountain at about 01.00AM through Plalangan hamlet‘strack in Lencoh village, he said.

In response to the local and for-eign climbers‘ activities, a rescue

Antara

MATARAM - Two people werekilled after they had been involvedin a brawl in Mataram, capital ofWest Nusa Tenggara province,early Saturday.

The brawl which took place at01.00 a.m. followed a dispute be-tween M. Ziad and Hasbullah overunclear thing. A number of eyewit-nesses said Hasbullah stabbed MZiad in the waist. The 24-year-oldZiad was later rushed to the nearbyhospital for serious wounds in hiswaist. He was pronounced dead ataround 02.25 a.m.

Seeing that M. Ziad sustainedserious wounds hundreds of hisfriends later attacked a rentedhouse on Jalan Serayu VI No. 6 in

Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian gov-ernment has set itself the target ofhaving only 78 state-owned enter-prises (SOEs) by 2014, a spokesmansaid. At present, Indonesia had 142state-owned companies and the re-duction of the number by half was ameasure to make those companiesworld-class ones, Coordinating Min-ister for Economic Affairs HattaRajasa said here Thursday.

He disclosed the plan to slash thenumber of state-owned companiesafter a meeting with SOE MinisterMustafa Abubakar and Deputy TradeMinister Alex Retraubun at the SOEministry in Jakarta.

Rajasa said the policy of reduc-

Two killed inMataram Brawl

Mataram where Hasbullah wasbelieved to hide.

The angry mob vandalized thewindow glass of the rented houseand attacked its five tenants iden-tified as Adi Susanto, Razak, Andi,Suardi and Sebaya.

Adi Susanto sustained seriouswounds in the attack. The 20-year-old man was later rushed to theWest Nusa Tenggara ProvincialGeneral Hospital for seriouswounds. However, he was pro-nounced dead at 04.45 p.m. onSaturday.

The other four tenants of therented house who had earlier beenrushed to the Bhayangkara policehospital are being detained at theMataram police station for furtherquestioning.

Warning ofWarning ofWarning ofWarning ofWarning ofnot climbingnot climbingnot climbingnot climbingnot climbingMt Merapi‘sMt Merapi‘sMt Merapi‘sMt Merapi‘sMt Merapi‘speak ignoredpeak ignoredpeak ignoredpeak ignoredpeak ignoredAntara

BOYOLALI - Tens of Indonesians and foreigners have ignoredthe warning of not climbing the peak of Mount Merapi for theirown safety.

worker of Lencoh village,Samsuri, said the climbing activi-ties to the peak of Mount Merapiremained prohibited.

“The warning remains on thePlalangan hamlet`s notice board,”he said. However, local and for-eign climbers ignored the warningand prohibition, he said.

The Mount Merapi‘s conditionin the aftermath of its deadly erup-tions last year remains dangerouspartly due to its big amount of re-maining volcanic materials.

According to Head of the Vol-canology and Geological DisasterMitigation (PVMBG) of Energyand Mineral Resources Ministry‘sGeology Agency, Surono, theMount Merapi‘s cold lava floodsinto rivers in Magelang districtwould even remain a serious threatover the next four years.

“Volcanic materials fromMount Merapi`s 2010 eruptionsare expected to reach 150 millioncubic meters,” he said recently.

According to Surono, the volca-nic materials, which had flown intoparts of Magelang had yet to reachone third of 150 million cubicmeters of the emitted materials.

RI to have only 78 SOEs by 2014ing the number of state-owned com-panies would be implemented as thegovernment wanted them to becomespearheads of the national economy.At the meeting, he had listened toreports on the progress and currentconditions of the 142 SOEs.

Rajasa said the reduction wouldbe carried out through restructuring,re-grouping and consolidation basedon the shareholders‘ actions involv-ing mergers, holding, divestment orliquidations.

“The essence is that how the gov-ernment keeps on strengthening theSOEs to achieve world class status,despite some remaining to hold pub-lic service functions yet still theyneed to be strengthened,” MinisterRajasa said.

Minister Abubakar admitted thatthe overall performance of the SOEshad yet to reach optimum level andwas marked by lowk competitive-ness, especially in this age of fastchanging business climate in theever globalizing and free trade eras.

To date, the majority of the 142SOEs was of relatively small busi-ness scale and had been in the red infor years. SOE Ministry data showsthat up to December 31, 2010 therewere 22 big-scale SOEs whose totalassets representing to 90.5 percent ofthe total 142 SOEs, 88.92 their totalequities, 85.99 percent of their salesand 89.89 percent their net profits.

The other 119 SOES are of smallscale in business size in terms of as-sets, equities, sales and net profits.

Repatriated workers traumatizedby experience in Libya

ers,” he said.Ciproni said he was forced to

leave Libya after working there fortwo months of his one year contractdue to the national political conflict.

Ciproni is an Indonesian whoworked as a brick mason for an In-donesian building construction com-pany, Wijaya Karya, that was carry-ing out building projects in Libyasuch as hospitals, malls, mosques,hotels.

Along with his co-workers,Sudiyat was repatriated to Indone-sia for safety reasons by firstlyevacuated to Tunisia from wherethey were flown to Jakarta.

According to another Indonesianbrick mason in Libya, Sudiyat, therewere 201 Indonesians working for

Wijaya Karya Company who hadbeen repatriated.

“Every day we hear gunfire, weare still worried about the situationalthough the project director hadguaranteed our safety, and finally wewere sent home,” he said.

For safety reasons during the re-patriation effort, all of the workerswere given a red uniform with thenational red-and-white flag and “IN-DONESIA” written on their shirt sothat the security would not mistakethem for rebel activists.

“We were abandoned for 40hours at the airport without food, weeven had to drink from water taps,but under the hostile situation, In-donesian citizen managed to escapesafely from Libya,” he said.

8 InternationalMonday, March 7, 2011

Bali Today

Bali, inhabited by 3.8 millionpeople looked like a dead islandon Saturday, March 5, 2011. Theisland was quiet all day and therewas no light at night. Even thoughthe activity is started a day afterNyepi but not everything goesthrough as normal.

Many shops are still closed andthe road is not as crowded asusual. Some traditional marketsaround Denpasar are also startedto receive customers.

Bali Governor, Made MangkuPastika, give holiday to all de-partment in Bali started on Friday,March 4 through Sunday, March6, 2011.

During “Ngembak Geni”, thepeople in Bali usually visit their

The day after Nyepi is known asNgembak Geni. Meanwhile, somepeople also call it as the end of ab-stinence, release of abstinence, dis-solution of abstinence namely theend of fasting or upawasa. On theNgembak Geni, the Hindus shouldpay a visit to families and relativesto forgive one another and holddharma santhi or masima krama formaintaining social relationship.

Ngembak Geni, a timeof resurrection for Bali

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Hawkers and people crowded at Puputan Badung Park during the Ngembak Geni Day, a dayafter Nyepi Day.

Antara

Denpasar – The dau after Nyepi is usually called “Ngembak Geni”and it seems that Bali is resurrected after a peaceful and quiet dayduring the Caka New Year 1933. The activity of the society is alsobegun after they stay at home for one day during Nyepi.

families or friends or even go totourism site with their love ones.

Meanwhile, other activity isdone by the officer of DenpasarCleanliness Department wherethey must clean all garbage scat-tered in many areas. They workhard to transport the garbage fromthe housing or streets to the finalgarbage disposal unit (TPA).

Tenth of garbage trucks loadedwith garbage are transporting it tothe TPA in Suwung area. The ritualdone during the commemoration ofNyepi day left garbage especiallyduring the ogoh-ogoh parade.

During the parade, the peopledrink or eat so it crated garbageand now is the chance for the of-ficers to clean it up.

IBP/Doc

Omed-omedan tradition at Sesetan village. A unique traditionthat held a day after Nyepi Day.

Omed-Omedan, unique tradition of Sesetan VillageSuch a moment can be filled with

the reading of sloka (compilation ofSanskrit word), song, psalmody ordharma gita (song of dharma), andHindu sermon about the significanceof Nyepi. Masima krama or dharmasanthi can be executed either be-tween families or community aroundone’s residence.

For residents of Kaja Hamlet,Sesetan Village, Denpasar, the

Ngembak Geni celebration is filledwith a unique tradition and it is ea-gerly awaited, namely the imple-mentation of Med-Medan or Omed-Omedan. As the name implies, it isan attraction of ‘pulling each other’performed by two groups endingwith a ‘kiss.’ Participants of this at-traction consist of single teenagers.On that account, teenagers of KajaHamlet, Sesetan, registered as themember of customary youth club(STT) are required to join.

Procedure of implementing theMed-Medan attraction is that themembers of each group are speci-fied in advance. If male group has40 participants, the female will have60 participants to poise theirstrength. Those have not got theirturn in the first round will be placedas stand-by in the next round. Asconsequence, all existing memberswill join the group in turn.

Each group has a group head,namely a teenager placed in thefront position. Then, each partici-pants lining up in the rear shouldhug the waist of another participantin front of him or her. When com-mand of the attraction has beenstarted, the male group head holdsthe hand of the female group.

To make the play run orderly,pecalang or customary securitytaskforce divides their tasks. Someofficers will give command to start

the game, mediate and discontinuethe game by means of flushing wa-ter. Every spraying of water bypecalang, participants must stoppulling their opponent. The flushingindicates the end of the round andevery even round (II, IV, VI, and soon) is followed by exchange of po-sition for the next start.

In appropriate with the deals ofthe committee with all participants,Med-Medan will be terminated bythe officer if participants havelooked lethargic or the time hasreached around 5:00 p.m. LocalTime. Status of final, win or lose isnot added up and not announced tothe public.

Not porn actionThe Med-Medan tradition has

lasted for some hundreds of years.There are no sources mentionedwhen the tradition began to takeplace. According to I MadeMunggah, a resident of Sesetan re-searching about the tradition, priorto the 1980s the attraction was per-formed right in the afternoon onNyepi festivity. The attraction tookplace spontaneously without guid-ance and certainly it was not gov-erned by pecalang. After the 1980s,the Med-Medan tradition was ar-ranged more neatly and undertakenon Ngembak Geni.

There has been an allegation that

the Med-Medan tradition was takenadvantage as an opportunity to kissin front of the general public. Thus,they had committed pornographicaction. Such accusation was deniedby Made Munggah. It never hap-pened and there had been no suchidea. The tradition just posed an ex-pression of overflowing joy of theyouth when they carried out Med-Medan on the Ngembak Geni as anannual event of local villagers aswritten by Munggah in his book en-titled Med-Medan: Tradisi Unik dariSesetan or Med-Medan: A UniqueTradition of Sesetan published byBali Post Publisher.

Munggah added that pecalangreminded so that no single partici-pant deliberately did the kiss. Ham-let apparatus always told that suchattraction should take place well,courteously, and ethically in accor-dance with Balinese culture (Orien-tal culture). Similarly, the apparatusdid not want if the attraction led toobscene, filthy and disgusting ac-tions.

According to Munggah, Med-Medan was preceded by sayingprayers en masse, dharma santhior masima krama and then fol-lowed by performing Balinesedances. Afterwards, Med-Medanattraction was held in the localHamlet Hall and ended with hav-ing a meal together. (rta/iah)

Balinese Culture

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GULING CELENG(Suckling Pig)

OVERVIEW:If there’s just one dish that people remember after a

visit to Bali, it’s this famous delicacy, usually known byits Indonesian name, Babi Guling.

INGREDIENTS:1 suckling pig, weighing about 6-8kg1½ tbsp salt200 shallots, peeled and sliced100 gr cloves garlic, peeled and sliced50 gr ginger, peeled & chopped300 gr candlenuts, chopped350 gr fresh turmeric, peeled &chopped3 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed80 gr laos, finely chopped120 gr bird’s-eye chilies, sliced10 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced1 tbsp black peppercorns, crushed1 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted5 fragrant lime leaves, finely shredded2 salam leaves2½ tbsp oil4 tbsp turmeric water

PREPARATION:Ensure inside of suckling pig is completely cleaned

out. Season inside and outside with salt. Combine allother ingredients, except turmeric water, and mixthoroughly. Fill inside of suckling with mixture, closebelly with string or thin satay skewer. Rub the outside ofthe pig with turmeric water until the skin is shiny yellow.

Place suckling pig on roasting rack and roast in hotoven (220°C / 425°F) for approximately 1 hour. Rest for10 minutes in warm place before serving. When serving,first remove the crisp skin with a strong carving knife,then loosen meat from the bones and cut into even diceor slices. Place a heaped tablespoon of stuffing on eachserving plate, and then top with meat and skin.Traditionally this dish is eaten with Jukut NangkaMekuah and steamed rice.

Helpful hint: If you have a large barbeque withrotisserie or constantly turning spit, you can cook the pigover charcoal for an authentic Balinese flavor.

Archeological protection throughmaintenance, preservation and conser-vation, even through reconstruction aswell, has turned to be an internationalproblem not only today, but actuallyin the future. Such matters were indi-cated by the activities of UNESCO asan international institution, who con-cerned with the most important ofworld cultural heritage e.g. archeologi-cal remains. UNESCO have done alot of excellent work, which need areasonable budgets, expert, equipmentetc. and the best example is the safe-guarding of Brobudur temple. As theUNESCO member, our governmentsare concerned and responsible to pro-tect our monuments for our nationalinterest, such as Brobudur temple.

Based on the development of ar-chaeological studies and the relatedstudies especially in field of archaeo-logical protection, now such problemsis a technical matter and besed on sci-entific consideration. Facing suchproblem , Indonesian governmenthave done a number of works e.g thesafeguarding of borobudur tample {incooperation with {UNESCO},Prambanan tample ,Demak mosque,and other tamples in Bali namely PuraBesakih ,Pura Mengening , PuraPegulingan , Pura Taman Sari etc. Inthis case, our government as one ofthe ASEAN countries have carried outa coordinate programmers throughSPAFA (Sub project of archaeologyand fine art) to find out the effectiveways and means dealing with the prob-lems of archaeological protection .

Discussing the archaeological pro-tection in Bali, it should be remem-bered that Bali, even a very small is-

Archeological protection in Baliand the role of the society

land, but has a lot of archaeologicalmonuments, which most of them be-longed to living monuments. Amongthem are a number of Hindu tample,spreated nearly in the whole island, aswell as Hindu stastues , inscription etc.As the holy monuments for Balinesesociety, so the Balinese have the respon-sibility to take care their monumentsas their religious function Officially, ar-chaeological protection in Bali is doneby Bali Office for Preservation of ar-chaeological and Historical Heritage(Kantor Bali Suaka pening-gelangSejarah dan Purbakala Bali) incoordialnation and corporation with thelocal government and local people aswell. This office have done a lot of ar-chaeological reconstruction, but not yetcovered the whole of them, because ofthe limited budgets etc.

In case of protecting the archaeo-logical monuments in Bali, Bali Officefor Preservation of archaeological andHistorical Heritage has given a techni-cal guidance to the local people for re-constructing their monuments and fi-nancial support as well. As the govern-ments have a very limited budget forthese works, and as the owner of theliving monuments, so the Balinesepeople have their religious tasks andresponsibility to protect sacred monu-ments. In Bali generally each villagehave three village temples named PuraKyayangan Tiga e.g Pura Puseh,PuraDesa (sometime combined with PuraBale Agung ) and Pura dalem. Amongthem are belonged to archaeologicalmonuments and frequently in thesetemple a number of archaeologicalmonuments are preserved such as stat-ues, inscription etc. It is important to

note here that the unity of the Balinesesociety is tightly bounded by the vil-lage temples and social organization.

Based on religious reasons, actual-ity Balinese society has a strong spiritto keep their monuments in a well con-dition as holy monuments. Since a verylong time the Balinese people havemaintained and restored their monu-ments in a very traditional ways, basedon their own religious will and spirit,and for this purpose they collected thematerials, even reasonable money fromthe village members. The village mem-bers, especially the skilled members(Balinese, undagi) did the restorationand led by the village leader, withoutany payment (Balinese, ngayah). Thismutual model of works named gotongroyong is one of the Indonesian spirits,which has been developed since theearly time until today.

It is a remarkable fact since the earlytime Balinese people have done the ar-cheological protection in their tradi-tional ways, which really should be re-garded as a community based conser-vation. The most important meaning ofthese facts is the Balinese have donetheir religious task, which still contin-ued from one generation to next gen-eration and still retained until today.Therefore these facts indicated that theBalinese people from time to time haveplayed important role for protecting theirarcheological monuments, for worship-ping their ancestor’s spirit, the HinduTrinity as well as their local deities. It ishoped that this religious traditions shouldbe keep in people’s mind and increased,now and in the near future for the safe-guarding the archeological monumentsand its cultural values. (BTN/Doc)

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Tenganan village is geographically situ-ated among the hill in west and east part ofthis village. This village is located inManggis sub district and Karangasem Re-gency or about 1 hour drive from DenpasarTown. It is a small village consisted of threeBanjars (group of local community) thoseare Banjar Kauh, Banjar Tengah and BanjarPande. The regional of this village is con-sisted of three complexes those are resident,plantation and rice field complex. The his-tory of Tenganan village is expressed in afew versions. The first version is mentionedthat the resident of Tenganan village arecome from Paneges Village, a village is lo- http://www.moreindonesia.com

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BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

BRUSSELS – Europe facesmounting pressure this week tobridge a political chasm runningfrom north to south, and rightto left, over how to harmoniseeconomic policy.

While the 27-state EuropeanUnion is preoccupied by up-heaval in Libya going into anemergency summit on Friday,markets are sounding ever morepess imis t ic about progresswithin the 17-nation eurozonetowards resolving its debt cri-sis.

They are already on edgeover high oil and food prices,with the knock-on effect thathas on inf la t ion and theeurozone already has plans forits own special summit in Brus-sels later the same day.

One major concern will bethe decision by Fitch Ratings onFriday to downgrade Spain’ssovereign credit outlook at theweekend.

Fitch Ratings is one of thethree top agencies assessingborrower reliability and was aprime mover in Greece andIreland’s drift to the edge of theprecipice last year.

Fi tch moved Spain f romstable to negative, with theagency blaming a weakeconomy, banking woes andbig-spending regional adminis-trations.

Fitch also warned that Spaincould be punished if anothersummit on March 24-25 failedto produce a “credible and com-prehensive” response to i tsstated goal of deciding the size,shape and scope of a financialrescue system.

Fitch’s rating decision — andits warning on sorting out therescue mechanism — came af-ter EU leaders separated acrossold political faultlines on thehow to solve the bloc’s eco-nomic problems.

Right-wing leaders gatheredin Helsinki, while the left metin Athens Friday and Saturday.

The near 2,500-kilometredistance was more than justsymbolic.

One EU source close to ne-gotiations on the “comprehen-sive” package EU presidentHerman Van Rompuy is negoti-ating described it as a “chessgame” being played out againstthe clock.

He told AFP Germany wouldnot budge on boosting rescuefunds and allowing those fundsto buy up government bondsfrom weaker economies such as

Beijing wants to nurture self-sustain-ing growth driven by consumption anddevelop service and high-tech indus-tries, Premier Wen Jiabao said in aweekend speech outlining goals for2011. That will require reining in elitestate industry and other changes thatmight trigger a backlash within the party— hurdles Wen avoided mentioning.

“It looks great on the surface but itisn’t clear whether they have the politi-cal capital or will to push through thosechanges,” said Alistair Thornton, Chinaanalyst for IHS Global Insight.

Changes outlined by Wen coulddrive the evolution of the world’s sec-ond-largest economy from low-cost fac-tory into major consumer market. Thatmight help to narrow a yawning wealthgap between China’s elite and its poormajority and ease tensions over its tradesurplus by boosting consumer demandfor imports.

But to achieve its goals, Beijing hasto cut subsidies and low-cost bank loansto state companies, real estate develop-ers and other vested interests that haveallies in the Communist Party and mightfight back.

Wen promised unspecified “interestrate reforms” — a suggestion Beijingmight give entrepreneurs a more levelplaying field by allowing the market toset interest rates — but he gave notimeline. The government has an-nounced similar changes in past yearsbut done little toward carrying them out.

China promises sweepingChina promises sweepingChina promises sweepingChina promises sweepingChina promises sweepingeconomic changeeconomic changeeconomic changeeconomic changeeconomic changeAssociated Press Writer

BEIJING – China’s government is promising an economic overhaul that would raise the status ofconsumers and entrepreneurs but has given no sign how it will tackle its politically volatile reforms.

The government also will have toclamp down on growth driven by in-vestment, which might alienate localleaders whose development plans callfor more spending on new factories andpublic works.

The plan is in line with goals ap-proved by communist leaders in afive-year development plan in Octo-ber. It calls for shifting from the in-vestment- and export-led growth ofChina’s three-decade-old boom topromote efficiency and householdspending.

Wen said Beijing will encourageconsumer spending, including givingsubsidies to the rural poor to buyhome appliances.

“We will focus on the establish-ment of a long-term mechanism toboost domestic demand,” ZhangPing, the chairman of the Cabinet’splanning agency, the National Devel-opment and Reform Commission,told a news conference Sunday.

“In the past five-year plan period,we focused on growth. In the nextfive-year plan period, we will focuson improving people’s livelihood,”Zhang said.

Wen promised to promote technol-ogy industries from software and newenergy vehicles to environmental pro-tection. That could create higher-paidjobs but also might fuel strains withWashington and other governments thatcomplain Beijing is hampering access

to its markets in its efforts to promoteChinese technology companies.

To narrow the wealth gap, Wenpromised more social spending, ahigher minimum wage and taxes onreal estate.

New social spending could be fi-nanced by requiring major state com-panies to hand over more of theirprofits to the government, a step aCabinet official said last monthBeijing plans to take.

But that, combined with changesin access to credit and resources, couldconflict with Beijing’s campaign tocreate “national champions” in a rangeof industries from banking to oil to air-lines. Regulators who oversee China’stop companies say they are less com-petitive than their foreign counterparts,raising questions about how they willfunction without continued govern-ment support.

A Chinese think tank, the UniruleInstitute of Economics, said in a re-port this month that major state com-panies are so inefficient that if subsi-dies are factored out, their return onequity — a measure of profitability— was an annual loss of 6 percentfrom 2001 to 2008.

“It’s a question of stopping that,”said Thornton. “A lot of it is eco-nomic — changes in interest rates,cheap land and so on. But a lot of itis political and tackling those vestedinterests.”

Pressure rises as eurodebt deadline looms

Portugal, unless Chancellor An-gela Merkel could go to voterswith “commitments from othercountries to reform their econo-mies.”

In Helsinki late on Friday,Merkel rallied Europe’s conser-vative majority behind a “com-petitiveness pact” first launchedalongside French PresidentNicolas Sarkozy at an alreadyfractious summit last month.

Designed to even out gaps inperformance across theeurozone economy, it is pre-sented as a condition for furtherrescue funding guarantees post-2013.

The centre-right EuropeanPeople’s Party signed up to acall for states to open up na-tional accounts to EU scrutiny,and face “clear sanction mecha-nisms” if they failed to complywith new fiscal rules.

However, demands whichwould see everything f romwages, pensions or businesstaxation policies lurch to theright have angered the left.

In Athens on Saturday,Europe’s socialists launched“an alternative to the Sarkozy-Merkel plan, for creating eightmillion jobs in Europe,” accord-ing to Poul Nyrup Rasmussen,head of the Party of EuropeanSocialists.

“The European right wing ismissing the big picture,” theirgathering concluded. “It ignoresthe causes and dimension of themulti-faceted crisis that threatensour economy and societies.”

Other items on the socialistwish-list include the creation ofjoint eurozone bonds — whichGermany fears would lead to a fis-cal transfer union — and a tax onfinancial transactions.

But a call for a softening ofwhat the left sees as rapacious in-terest rates for the Greek and Irishbailouts seems unlikely to go thedistance.

Conservative EPP deputy headand incoming Irish TaoiseachEnda Kenny’s own calls havefailed to move their political al-lies in Helsinki.

“The real subject of the nego-tiations is what the current fundcan do,” said the EU insider of thefall-out over the Berlin-Paris pact.

“Can it buy up eurozone pub-lic debt or not? And will it be ableto offer short-term credit lines tocountries?

“On these issues, Germanyand the Netherlands aren’t mov-ing much and if nothing hap-pens there, the markets arelikely to start attacking theweakest countries again.”

AFP PHOTO

In a picture taken on March 5, 2011 a Chinese vendor waits for customers at a market in Hefei ineast China’s Anhui province.

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Neither provided details about how much financialassistance Venezuela has provided to the group. TheOscar-winning actor noted that in addition to Venezuela’sfinancial help, his organization has also received sup-port from the U.S. military. Penn called that ironic, add-ing: “We hope that this kind of collaboration can be anexample for future approaches to many other issues” —in spite of limited U.S.-Venezuelan diplomatic contacts.

The U.S. and Venezuela have been without ambas-sadors since December, when Chavez formally rejectedthe White House’s nominee for envoy in a diplomaticdispute. The U.S. government revoked the visa of Ven-ezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez in response.Penn has met four times with Chavez in recent years.Chavez has praised the actor for his critical stance to-ward U.S. foreign policy.

The leftist president said their meeting Saturday wasproductive in discussing “new plans and ideas.” “Seanis an activist of the struggles for the world’s oppressedpeoples, and he’s leaving for Haiti right now,” Chavezsaid outside the presidential palace when they emergedfrom their meeting.

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES – South Koreandirector Kim Ji-woon says his lat-est film, “I saw the Devil,” is a studyin evil he hopes will strike a chordwith US audiences as much as it didin his homeland. About a man seek-ing violent revenge against a serialkiller for slaying his pregnant girl-friend, the movie tells how, “to winover evil, the main character has tobecome evil hismelf,” he said.

“This is the first script I didn’twrite myself,” said the 46-year-old,an established filmmaker in SouthKorea, on the eve of the film’s open-ing in the United States this week-end. “There was not any specificnews that drew me to this story, butthere was a time where there weremajor serial killers in Korea,” he toldAFP in Los Angeles.

Kim is known for trying his handat a range of film types, from horrorflicks like “A Tale of Two Sisters(2003) to action movies like 2005’s“A Bittersweet Life” and “The Good,the Bad and the Weird” (2008).

This time he gets his teeth into athriller, in the form of a secret agentbent on revenging his lover’s deathby causing her killer as much painas possible before killing him. “I’vealways been interested in crossingmany genres and especially for thisfilm I was interested in thriller,which has a very distinctive visualstyle,” he said.

The film has already done the

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Miley Cyrus hasmet her “Saturday Night Live” im-pression while lampooning a fellowteen pop star herself. Cyrus hosted“SNL” on Saturday night, leadingto an inevitable face-off between the18-year-old singer and cast mem-ber Vanessa Bayer’s parody. ButCyrus appeared on Bayer’s “TheMiley Cyrus Show” not as herself,but 17-year-old Justin Bieber.

Cyrus played Bieber as too hip touse Bayer’s enthusiastic “pretty cool”catch phrase. In other sketches, Cyrusalso played Fergie and LindsayLohan. Her Lohan impression oc-curred during a sketch with cast mem-bers portraying Charlie Sheen as thehost of a TV show called “Duh! Win-ning!” with Lohan, Libyan leaderMoammar Gadhafi and fashion de-signer John Galliano as guests.

Agence France Presse

LONDON – Pop star GeorgeMichael said he deserved to bejailed for a month for crashing hiscar while high on cannabis, describ-ing his time inside as karma, in aBBC radio interview. The formerWham! singer said he was now re-ceiving therapy over his drug abuseissues and was “ashamed” to havebroken the law repeatedly.

The 47-year-old was jailed inSeptember last year after admittingdriving under the influence ofdrugs. “I was assured I wasn’t go-ing to prison but I thought I was,and it was much easier to take be-cause I felt it was deserved,” hesaid, in an interview to be broad-cast Monday.

“This was a hugely shamefulthing to have done repeatedly sokarmically I felt like I had a bill topay. I went to prison, I paid my bill.“Remarkably enough — I knowpeople must think it was a reallyhorrific experience — it’s so mucheasier to take any form of punish-ment if you believe you actuallydeserve it, and I did.”

AFP/File/Ben Stansall

George Michael (C), seen here after appearance at Highbury Cor-ner Magistrates Court in London, in August 2010.

George Michael says drugsjail term was ‘karma’

Besides his jail term, Michaelwas also been banned from driv-ing for five years and was forcedto pay fines and costs worth£1,365. The singer said he felt hewas jailed partly because “I’mGeorge Michael and the posterboy for cannabis”. Michael,whose real name is GeorgiosPanayiotou, said many fellowmusicians wrote to him in jail, in-cluding Paul McCartney, EltonJohn and Boy George.

Describing his first night inprison, he said: “It wasn’t a week-end break, put it that way. “I didn’tfeel sorry for myself. I thought,‘Oh my God, this place is abso-lutely filthy’.

“I just thought, ‘you get yourhead down’.” He said his last nightinside was “great”, with “everysingle staff member” and prisonergetting his autograph — some ofthem on headed prison paper. Thesinger — who first found fame in1980s pop group Wham! and hasgone on to sell more than 100 mil-lion records worldwide — has along history with drugs andscrapes with the law.

Miley Cyrus meets herimpression as ‘SNL’ host

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

In this Feb. 8, 2011 file photo,Miley Cyrus arrives at the pre-miere of the documentary film‘Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,’in Los Angeles.

AFP/Getty Images/File/Larry Busacca

Kim Ji-woon poses for a photo at Sundance Film Festival in Park City,Utah, in January. T

South Korean filmmaker brings diabolic tale to UStour of international film festivals,from Toronto to San Sebastian, andwas at the Sundance independentmovie fest in January. Stunninglybeautiful from the opening scene —riding in a car on a snowy night, tothe sound of melancholy guitar —it nevertheless pulls no punches indepicting violence, sometimes withalmost unbearable detail.

Far from showing his main char-acter compassionately, as a heroavenging a wrong, Kim draws himas an exterminating angel who willonly find peace after killing the mon-ster who took his gilfriend’s life inthe cruelest possible way. The filmhas been very well received in Asia,

which the director believes is due tothe psychological depth which en-riches a fairly classic man-hunt typethriller. He insists he only realized thedepths as he worked on the movie.

“As a film, as a story there is achance to make something verymuch more complete and muchmore in depth with that kind of emo-tional and psychological tension,much more so than the pure visualor the action,” he said. “What I wastrying to get in the film was that inorder to win over evil, the main char-acter has to become evil himself. Iwanted to really work this very kindof tragic chase and process of re-venge.”

AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, right, shakeshands with US actor Sean Penn at the Miraflorespresidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday,March 5, 2011.

Sean Penn thanks Venezuela’sSean Penn thanks Venezuela’sSean Penn thanks Venezuela’sSean Penn thanks Venezuela’sSean Penn thanks Venezuela’sChavez for Haiti aidChavez for Haiti aidChavez for Haiti aidChavez for Haiti aidChavez for Haiti aidAssociated Press Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela – Sean Penn thanked Ven-ezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday for sup-porting the actor’s relief organization in Haiti, sayingthe aid has helped its humanitarian work in distribut-ing medicines. Chavez met with Penn at the presiden-tial palace and praised the actor’s efforts with his J/PHaitian Relief Organization, which was founded inresponse to the catastrophic 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

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But scientists are worried. Last year,coral bleaching caused by higher seatemperatures wreaked havoc across theCoral Triangle, a region of rich tropi-cal reefs spanning much of SoutheastAsia and almost all of Indonesia.

Up to 70 percent of the coral inWakatobi, off the southeastern tip ofSulawesi island, was totally or par-tially bleached. In Aceh province, offthe northern tip of Sumatra, as muchas 90 percent was killed, scientistssaid. Experts from environmentalgroups The Nature Conservancy andWWF, as well as the Indonesian gov-ernment, returned to Wakatobi lastmonth to see if the marine park’sreefs had bounced back.

Over two weeks of diving at sites

Agence France Presse

WASHINGTON – Early ances-tors of the modern horse likely atefruit that did not require sharpmolars to grind down, a study ofhorse teeth fossils dating back 55million years has shown, scientistssaid. As land conditions evolvedover time, horses’ diets becamemore mixed and their teeth be-came tougher to be able to chewand digest grasses that may havehad gritty dust or soil mixed in,said the study in the journal Sci-ence.

The evolution of bigger,sharper molars closely follows his-torical changes in climate, but witha large enough gap between envi-ronmental shifts and dentalchanges to suggest that plenty ofhorses died off along the way, theresearch said.

“We found that evolutionarychanges in tooth anatomy lag be-hind the dietary changes by a mil-lion years or more,” said co-authorMatthew Mihlbachler of the NewYork Institute of Technology.“One of the advantages of study-ing extinct creatures like prehis-toric horses is we can look at howanimals responded to their envi-

Associated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Thespace shuttle and space station crewswill soon say goodbye. Astronautswill close the hatches between their

AP Photo/NASA

Farewells for space crews:Discovery set to undock

spacecraft Sunday afternoon. Then onMonday morning, shuttle Discoverywill undock for the final time fromthe International Space Station.

Discovery is on its final flight.When it returns to Earth on Wednes-

day, it will be retired and sent to amuseum.

The shuttle and its crew of sixhave spent more than a week at thespace station. They delivered andinstalled a new storage compart-ment, along with a humanoid ro-bot. Mission Control gave theshuttle astronauts two extra days atthe orbiting outpost. They took ad-vantage of the bonus time to emptythe storage unit of all the gear thatwas carried up.

In this March 3, 2011 photo provided by NASA, inside the U.S. labDestiny, 12 astronauts and cosmonauts take a break from a very busyweek aboard the International Space Station to pose for a joint STS-133/Expedition 26 group portrait.

AFP/File/Joe Klamar

A horse searches for pasture in Slovakia in February 2010. Earlyancestors of the modern horse likely ate fruit that did not requiresharp molars to grind down, a study of horse teeth fossils datingback 55 million years has shown, scientists said Thursday.

Early horses atesquishy fruit, not grass

ronments over millions of years —something that biologists whostudy living species cannot do.”

Mihlbacher and colleague NikosSolounias examined the fossilizedteeth of 6,500 horses representing222 different populations of morethan 70 extinct horse species, andcompared the data to record of cli-mate changes in North Americaover time.

Using a process called “dentalmesowear analysis,” they were ableto look at the wear and tear on theteeth and make an estimation ofwhat the horses ate. “The earliesthorses from (about) 55.5 millionyears ago had shortcrowned(brachydont) molars with poorlydeveloped shearing crests, suggest-ing a frugivorous (fruit-based)diet,” said the study.

Over time, grasslands becamemore predominant and horse teethgrew larger and taller with sharperedges. “High-abrasion mesowearpatterns resembling those of mod-ern horses and zebras have per-sisted for the past four to five mil-lion years,” the study said. The re-search suggests that larger andmore evolved teeth indicate higheradaptability and a greater likeli-hood of survival.

AFP/The Nature Conservancy/Rod Salm

A bed of branching coral shows theeffects of bleaching in Indonesia’sWakatobi archipelago, a thriving marineparadise, packing a bewildering abun-dance of life that supports 100,000people and contributes millions ofdollars to Indonesia’s economy.

Bleaching and resilience:Bleaching and resilience:Bleaching and resilience:Bleaching and resilience:Bleaching and resilience:can reefs survive?can reefs survive?can reefs survive?can reefs survive?can reefs survive?Agence France Presse

WAKATOBI, Indonesia – Red anthia fish and rainbow-colouredwrasse dart among the glittering reefs of Indonesia’s Wakatobi ar-chipelago, as eagle rays and barracudas cruise past in the blue depths.It’s hard to believe Wakatobi is anything but a thriving marine para-dise, packing a bewildering abundance of life that supports 100,000people and contributes millions of dollars to Indonesia’s economy.

with names like Table Coral Cityand Blue Hole, the team looked forsigns of long-term damage or re-silience, in the hope of learningmore about how reef systems re-spond to climate-related stresses.

“In Aceh about 90 percent of thecoral bleached, and that included someof the really big varieties that are hun-dreds of years old and had survivedthe (2004) tsunami but died becauseof the bleaching,” said Joanne Wilson,deputy director for science in TNC’sIndonesia Marine Programme.

“Very fortunately in Wakatobi ...it seems that only about five to 10percent of the corals actually died.We’re very lucky here.” Bleachingoccurs when corals respond to stress,

such as stronger than normal direct sun-light or elevated sea temperatures, byexpelling the algae that live inside themand give them their brilliant colours.

In normal conditions the symbioticalgae provide the corals with nutri-ents, and without them the corals turnwhite and can die within days. Theymay also recover, depending on thecircumstances. Wilson described the“eerie” experience of diving on win-try, frozen-looking reefs during theheight of the bleaching at Wakatobilast year, the warmest year on record.

“I saw that a lot of the corals wereaffected by the bleaching to variousstages. Some were completely whitebut still alive,” she said. Scientistsfeared a repeat of the 1998-1999 glo-bal bleaching that was linked to theEl Nino and La Nina weather cyclesin the Pacific Ocean. About 16 per-cent of the world’s reefs died in thatcrisis, providing a wake-up call toscientists about the dangers posed toreef systems — and the millions ofpeople who depend on them — fromglobal warming.

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The combative midfielder, who issuspended for Wednesday’s Champi-ons League clash against Tottenham,struck in the 68th minute, firing underGianluigi Buffon to cap a splendidweek for the Rossoneri who hadbeaten title-challengers Napoli 3-0 onMonday.

It was Juventus’ third defeat on thetrot and leaves them languishing inseventh position, seven points off theChampions League places with tenmatches to go. “It’s not easy to beatJuve but I thought it was another fineall-round performance,” said Milancoach Massimiliano Allegri after theclub continued their unbeaten start tothe year with a seventh win in 11games.

“We kept hold of the ball, werepatient and contained them on thebreak.” Allegri, who had lined up

Agence France Presse

MADRID – Mali interna-tional midfielder Seydou Keitascored only his second goal ofthe season as championsBarcelona moved ten points clear

AFP PHOTO / Filippo MONTEFORTE

AC Milan’s midfielder Gennaro Gattuo (R) celebrate with teammates after scoring against Juventusduring their Serie A football match in Turin’s Olympic Stadium on March 5, 2011 .

Gattuso downs Juve to sendGattuso downs Juve to sendGattuso downs Juve to sendGattuso downs Juve to sendGattuso downs Juve to sendMilan clearMilan clearMilan clearMilan clearMilan clearAgence France Presse

ROME – A rare Gennaro Gattuso goal sent leaders AC Milaneight points clear in Serie A after they dominated a poorJuventus 1-0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin on Saturday aheadof Italy’s main programme.

alongside Gattuso in his playing days,betrayed a flicker of emotion after themidfielder’s first goal in three seasons.

“He’s actually been close to scor-ing in recent games,” he added. “I’mjust happy for him because he doesn’tscore than often.”

Juventus are now 20 points behindMilan in Serie A and worse off thanthey were last season when CiroFerrara was sacked mid-season. “I’mgiving my best,” said coach GigiDelneri. “We played with more en-ergy than against Bologna and Lecce,but I can’t deny that we failed to cre-ate chances.”

The former Sampdoria coachsuggested he needed better playersbrought in. “Look at Milan today,they brought on (Clarence) Seedorfand Robinho. We need more qual-ity,” he added.

Keita strike puts Barcelona ten clear of Realof Real Madrid in the Spanishfirst division with a hard-fought1-0 home win over Real Zaragozaon Saturday.

The 31-year-old Keita, afringe player this season, scoredthe decisive goal on 43 minutes

as Barcelona made it three leaguewins in the space of eight days andpiled the pressure on Real whotravel to Racing Santander onSunday. It was a far from vintageperformance, but three points andanother clean sheet are the perfect

preparation for Barcelona’sChampions League second legshowdown with Arsenal on Tues-day as Barca bid to overturn a 2-1deficit.

“It was a difficult game and wehad to be careful of the counterattack as Zaragoza have somequick players,” said Barcelonadefender Gaby Mili to. “Wecouldn’t find as much space as wehave done in the past, but we havewon and now we can think aboutthe Champions League.”

Real Madrid are in action onSunday when they travel to Rac-ing Santander, looking to improvetheir erratic away form, but theymust do so without top-scorerCristiano Ronaldo who is missingwith a thigh muscle strain. Withthe Arsenal game in three daystime, Barca coach Pep Guardiolarested Spanish stars David Villaand Andres Iniesta allowing Keitaand Bojan Krkic a chance to shine.

Goalkeeper Victor Valdes alsoreturned between the sticks aftermissing the last three league

matches with a knee injury so JoseManuel Pinto dropped to thebench. Barca were almost given ashock in the eighth minute withGerard Pique called upon to makea decisive late tackle as NicolasBertolo was about to shoot on goal.

The hosts had their first real ef-fort in the 18th minute with PedroRodriguez’s low shot tipped wideof the post after the home side hadworked a training ground cornerroutine. Minutes later Bojan’s de-flected shot clipped the bar andKeita had a header ruled out for amarginal offside.

Keita scored again on 43 min-utes and this time the goal stood.Lionel Messi showed his trade-mark close control to get behindtwo Zaragoza defenders and cutthe ball back from the right touch-line and the ball fell kindly forKeita to stroke home only his sec-ond league goal of the season.

Zaragoza, two points above therelegation zone, almost levelledearly in the second half withBertolo going past Pique but hiscurling effort crept inches past thepost.

Pique had a header saved on thegoal line before Florent SinamaPongolle missed a glorious chanceto equalise with an outstretchedfoot from Valdes denying theFrenchman. Substitute Villa shouldhave scored a second for Barca on73 minutes but the striker blazedover after Maxwell’s shot had beenparried by Antonio Doblas but itdidn’t matter as the hosts saw outthe game.

Barcelona’s Malianmidfielder Seydou Keitajumps with a ball duringthe UEFA Spanish Leaguefootball match FCBarcelona vs RealZaragoza on March 5,2011 at Camp Nou sta-dium in Barcelona.AFP PHOTO/ LLUIS GENE

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Not bad for a guy who has com-peted twice this season and insistshe’s still not 100 percent. “In myeyes, it just feels good to be able torace and race at a good speed,”Phelps said. “After the weekend atAustin, I felt like I didn’t get onething out of it other than feelingslow and out of shape. Being ableto slingshot into this meet justshows how fast things can change.”Lochte, the world’s most dominantswimmer in 2010, got a firsthandglimpse at Phelps’ resurgence.

The feature attraction in thethree-day meet had Phelps, the two-time defending Olympic gold med-alist in the 200-meter individualmedley, pitted against Lochte, theworld record-holder in the event.Two months ago, Lochte beatPhelps in the event in Texas. Thistime, it wasn’t even close.

Phelps led Lochte by more thaneight-tenths of a second at the mid-

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ZAGREB – Big-hitting CroatIvo Karlovic set a new worldrecord with a 251km per hourserve in his country’s Davis CupWorld Group first round t ieagainst Germany, competitionorganisers said. The previousrecord of 249.4km per hour wasset by American Andy Roddick ina Davis Cup semi-final in 2004.

The 2.08m Karlovic, makinghis return from achilles surgery,on Saturday hit the monster servein the fourth set of his doubles tiewhich he and teammate IvanDodig lost 6-3, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4to Germany’s Christopher Kasand Philipp Petzschner.

Germany lead Croatia 2-1 go-ing into Sunday’s reverse singlesrubbers.

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LOS ANGELES – Rookie BlakeGriffin had 18 points, 12 rebounds anda career high nine assists and the LosAngeles Clippers overcame yet anotherinjury to leading scorer Eric Gordon tobeat the Denver Nuggets 100-94 onSaturday night. Eric Bledsoe scored 15of his career-high 20 points in the fourthquarter, to help the Clippers win theirfirst two games this month, equalingtheir victory total for February, whenthey were 2-12. Newly acquired MoWilliams had 17 points.

Nene led Denver with 25 points andtied a season high with 14 rebounds.Kenyon Martin had 11 points beforefouling out with 10.6 seconds remain-ing. The Nuggets are three games be-hind Oklahoma City for first place inthe division.

Gordon left the game with 5:08 re-maining in the second quarter after hewas fouled by Timofey Mozgov on anattempted driving layup with the Clip-pers leading 43-29 and crashed to thefloor — reaggravating the sprained rightwrist and fractured bone chip that hadsidelined him for 18 games.

Gordon wasn’t able to make his freethrows, which automatically made himineligible for the rest of the game, andhe was taken for X-rays. It wasGordon’s second game back in thelineup after missing the previous 18with a sprained right wrist that had a

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INDIANAPOLIS – Michael Phelps is back and he’s starting toget that unbeatable appearance, too. The 14-time Olympic goldmedalist beat Ryan Lochte again Saturday night, produced world-best times in two more events and left the Indianapolis GrandPrix with five gold medals — one for each event he entered.

way point, extended the margin tonearly 1 1/2 seconds at the third turnand wound up beating the fatiguedLochte by more than two full sec-onds. Phelps’ time of 1 minute, 56.88seconds also supplanted Lochte forthe No. 1 time in the world this sea-son. Lochte finished in 1:59.19, hisbest time of the year, but lost bothof his finals matchups against Phelpsin Indy.

“He’s back, there’s no doubtabout it,” Lochte said. “I don’t thinkhe’s ever not there, no matter whathe says. I feel like he can step upand race any time.”

Phelps proved it this weekend inwhat may go down as the world’sfastest meet so far this season. OnFriday, swimmers routinely postedtimes among the world’s top five,and Phelps led the pack againSaturday.The 200 IM final includedfour swimmers ranked among theseven fastest in the world.

In the 100 free, Phelps chargedback from third place with his stron-gest finish this year. His winningtime of 48.89 was another world-best. Matthew Grevers finished sec-ond in 50.01 and Olympic gold med-

alist Jason Lezak was third in 50.08.“The last 50 just felt incredible,”

Phelps said. “I felt like I really wasable to build a lot of momentum com-ing off the wall. You know, I’m neverreally satisfied, but I am happy to put

up the five fastest times in the worldhere.” Lochte, however, struggled.He swam two events Friday andthree more Saturday morning, leav-ing the 26-year-old, three-timeOlympic gold medalist exhausted.

Big-hitting Ivo Karlovic servesup new world record

Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic(above), with teammate Ivan

Dodig, returns the ball toGermany’s Christopher Kasand Philipp Petzschner (notpictured) during their Davis

Cup first round match onMarch 5, 2011 Zagreb.

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Griffin, Bledsoe lead Clipsover Nuggets 100-94

small fracture in it. On Wednesday, hescored 24 points in a 106-103 victorythat snapped Los Angeles’ five-gamelosing streak.

Gordon, who helped the U.S. na-tional team won the a gold medal at theworld championship in Turkey lastsummer, entered the game averaging24.1 points and 4.5 assists.

The Nuggets are 5-2 since tradingCarmelo Anthony and ChaunceyBillups to the Knicks in a multiplayertrade that brought them Mozgov, Wil-son Chandler, Raymond Felton andDanilo Gallinari. Mozgov faced theClippers at Staples Center for the firsttime since Nov. 20, when Griffin usedthe rookie center’s head to balance him-self with one hand as he dunked withthe other during a 124-115 loss to theKnicks.

The Nuggets opened the third quar-ter with a 16-4 run that turned a 10-point halftime deficit into a 54-52 lead.Nene helped fuel the rally with eightpoints, including a layup that capped itwith 6:51 left in the quarter. The Clip-pers entered the fourth with a six-pointlead and increased it to 78-75 when EricBledsoe hit a layup, then fed rookie Al-Farouq Aminu for an alley-oop dunkand drained a 3-pointer with 11:07 toplay. Denver went on a 14-2 run cappedby a 16-footer from Nene that broughtthe Nuggets within 80-79 with 7:32 re-maining. But the Clippers stayed infront the rest of the way.

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All three judges scored the bout 119-108 for Alvarez. The Mexican sensa-tion thanked his supporters and prom-ised the best was yet to come. “This ismy dream,” Alvarez said. “I told themI would give them world champion-ships. I would give them great fights.This is my first world championship. Iwill have more big fights to come andmore titles for Mexico.”

Hatton, the European welter-weight champion, fell to 41-5 withtwo drawn and saw his nine-fightwin streak snapped, but he gamelydenied Alvarez a 27th career knock-out, what would have been only thesecond such loss for Hatton.

Filipino superstar MannyPacquiao vacated the crown aheadof his May 7 bout with AmericanShane Mosley, prompting theMexico-based WBC to give thecrown to the winner betweenAlvarez and Hatton even through theBritish fighter had never fought inso large a division and there was acatch-weight for the bout.

“I’m a fighter through andthrough,” Hatton said. “When you getthe chance for a world title you haveto take it. I’ll move back down to wel-terweight and look for a world titleopportunity there.” Alvarez failed tomake the catch-weight of 150 poundsand forfeited $70,000, but it did notaffect his eligibility for the crown and

SEBASTIEN Ogier heads into thefinal day of Rally Mexico with a 10.5-second cushion over his Citroen team-mate Sebastien Loeb in their battle forvictory.

Loeb was quickest on both runsthrough the Leon superspecial that con-cluded Saturday’s stage line-up, but wasonly able to trim a few fractions of asecond out of Ogier’s advantage as theyounger Frenchman went second-quickest each time.

Although Ogier will be running firston the road on Sunday, the final-dayitinerary is relatively brief on this rally,with just a single loop of three stagesfor Loeb to chase down his team-mate.

With the gaps between the rest of thecars now becoming large, there were nochanges in position on the Leon stageson Saturday night.

Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala are resigned to salvagingthird and fourth places from a difficultrally for the team, while fifth-placedPetter Solberg (Solberg Citroen) is stilldetermined to get as high as possible inhis recovery drive after leg one’s elec-trical glitch, but now faces a big gap tothe four cars ahead of him.

Mexican prodigy Alvarezdowns Hatton for WBC crownAgence France Presse

ANAHEIM, California – Unbeaten Mexican prodigy Saul Alvarez became the youngest worldchampion in super welterweight history by defeating Britain’s Matthew Hatton for the vacantWorld Boxing Council crown. The 20-year-old freckled redhead, whose nickname “Canelo” isSpanish for cinnamon, on Saturday improved to 36-0 with one drawn by taking the 154-poundtitle on a unanimous decision.

Hatton agreed to fight him anyway.“He didn’t hurt me,” Hatton said.

“He was just too big in there.”Alvarez was uncertain of his nextopponent but was ready to take histime before facing one of thedivision’s superstars.

“We’ve got to wait a bit, maybetwo more fights, but we have to waitand prepare to have bigger fights andbetter fights,” Alvarez said. Alvarezpounded Hatton in the first roundand bloodied the 29-year-oldEnglishman’s nose in the second.

Hatton, cheered on at ringside byhis former world champion brotherRicky Hatton, stood toe-to-toethroughout the fight with the largerAlvarez, who was supported by themajority of the Southern Californiacrowd. Alvarez opened a gash overHatton’s left eye midway into thefourth round but lost a point in theseventh round for punching Hattonin the face as the fighters were beingpushed apart by referee Lou Moret.

“He’s a good rival,” Alvarez saidof Hatton. “People criticize him. Hewould hold onto me and hurt me. Hehad some good experience.” Hattonwas stunned by a pair of right handsto the head late in the 10th round butthe valiant Briton traded blows to thebell and battled the Mexican to thefinish. “I shared the ring with a greatfighter,” Hatton said.

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Saul Alvarez, left, of Mexico, and Matthew Hatton, of England, trade punches during the sixth roundof their WBC super welterweight title boxing match in Anaheim, Calif., Saturday, March 5, 2011.

Ogier leads into Mexican finale

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French driver Sebastien Ogier and co-pilot Julien Ingrassiasteer their Citroen DS3 WRC, during the second day of the2011 World Rally Championship in Leon, Guanajuato State,Mexico on March 5, 2011.