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2cm NEWS MAKER Sendai Mayor Toru Ishii Arrested For Alleged Involvement In Bribery STATE proscutors arrested Mayor Toru Ishii, of the nothern city of Sendai, on June 29 for alleged involvement in a bribery scam, television news reports showed. The reports said Ishii is alleged to have taken some 100 million yen ($950,000) in bribes from four construction firms. Japan's scandal - wracked ruling party, facing the wide pros- pect of defeat in July 18 polls, suffered yet another setback on Tuesday with the arrest of a conservative regional leader for sus- pected bribery. The governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), its popularity almost halved due to wide spread public anger over official cor- ruption, stands to lose heavily as a result of the latest scandal development. After raiding sendai city hall and Tokyo corporate offices, aut- horities arrested nine suspects -- Ishii, two of his aides, Hazama Corp Chan Shigeru Honda and President Akira Kagami, and four senior executives from Shimizu Corp, Nishimatsu Construc- tion and Mitsui Construction. Ishii, 67, will be charged on suspicion of taking same 100 mil- lion yen ($945,000) in payoffs from the firms in April 1992 in exchange for promosing to help them win the contracts, NHK public television and other media said. Ishii, a conservative who won election late last year with bac- king from the LDP and opposition groups, could have been see- king funds for his election bid, some reports said. The public works project, worth 100 billion yen ($945 million) over 10 years, involved redevelopment of an harbour, and buil- ding trade and distribution centres. The latest episode in Japan's political corruption saga puts the spotlight once again on ties between influential politicians and big business. The LDP's fallen paymaster, Shin Kanemaru, is alleged to have hidden away billions of yens (hundreds of millions of dol- lars) in payoffs, mostly from construction firms, in return for poli- tical favours. His trial will begen on July 22. Prosecutors, who refused comment on Tuesday's case in kee- ping with policy, discovered the Sendai link while checking cons- truction firms for their alleged payoffs to kanemaru over the past four months. More disclosures could follow. "Voters are fed up with corruption... this development will prompt them to switch their support from existing (ruling and opposition) groups to newly emerged parties," said politicies. (Reuter) Halaman 10 Bali Post English Corner A Maker Of "Gamelan" From Sawan TO most visitors to Bali, the South of the island, and espe- cially the kabupaten (prefecture) of Gianyar, is where the cultural life is at its densest. The Gianyar style is reigning and imposing its norms of music, dance and even architecture on most of the other Kabupaten. In other parts of the island, though, there remain ot- her smaller centers which have kept some distinctive features. One of them is the district of Sa- wan, at the Northern foot of the Bedugul plateau, on the upper part of a small, albeit fertile coas- tal plain. Sawan's type of music has had its hours of glory when a gamelan group from the village promoted the Northern brand of Balinese music throughout Europe a few years ago. But Sawan does not only have good gamelan orchestras, it also has all the additional supportive trades. Foremost among them is gamelan smithery. The makers of gamelan in Bali are not just any ordinary people. They usually belong to a speciali- zed kinship group, the pande, whose trade is usually family run. Such a gamelan maker is Mr Made Widandra, 58, who along- side two colleagues and competi- tors, produces most of the musi- cal instruments for the Northern Balinese market. Bronte Shaping, Melting Made Widandra does not pro- duce only gamelan; he produces the whole range of instruments as well for the gong kebyar as well as for other types of orchestras such as the Gambuh flute orches- tra, the beleganjur cymbal or- chestra or the angklung bambu orchestra. As a smith and descen- dant of smiths, Made Widandra handles the most difficult part of the job, which is the shaping and melting of bronze, but, among his seven workers, are specialists of the various trades needed for the making of all these instruments, He has bamboo cutters for the making of flutes and the cutting and tuning of bamboo instru- ments as well as carvers for the decoration of the wooden frame of the bronze orchestra. The only instrument which he cannot make is the big goong of bronze. Whenever there is an order for a whole set, he has to order the big going from Java. Bronte Blades Made Widandra's job, besides Eddy Storms Australia Made Widándra says that no- wadays, most Balinese villages have their own gamelan orches- tras. Therefore, most of his or- ders are for the repairing of speci- fic parts of a gamelan orchestra. He also sells his intruments to tourists thorugh an intermediary from Denpasar. running the business, consists of tes that six months are needed the making of the bronze blades for the fabrication of a complete which produce the sound; the kebyar set. The prices are not low sound changes according to the either. It costs up to twenty mil- distance of the underneath bam- lion to get a set with carved ins- boo chamber and to the size of the truments, and twelve million blade itself. The blades are made without the carving. from bronze imported from Sura- baya, although Made Widandra prefers to remelt the used blades of old gamelans, which produce a better sound, he says. To melt the piece of metal, he uses fire-proof vessels which he himself makes out of local earth and ash dust. The mixture is resistant to high temperatures and can hold the bronze until it mellows and is In Bali, musical instruments ready for fashioning. For this operation, he uses stone molds on are said to be "alive". As such, which he puts the boiling bronze; they have their own special cele- then he closes the mold with a bration every Balinese year. This piece of metal, which puts the un- is the tumpek landep, they day of derneath bronze into shape. Then there remains to hammer it and to set it into the wooden part of the instrument. A variety of si- milar primitive fashioning is used for the other instruments. Six-month Fabrication On account of the simplicity of the techniques used, it takes time to make a whole set of instru- ments. Made Widandra calcula- the metal instruments. During that day, one should not hit the instruments and should offer them offering instead. Religion also shows in the blessing of the instrument before it is used for performing. Only after it has been blessed can the instruments "accompany the gods," as the Ba- linese say if their playing. So, who is going to buy Made Widandra's next Gamelan. (Gary Hill). Now He's Ready For The World Sydney- Steady Eddy has the sickest comedy act in Australia. He tells jokes about the handicapped and the disabled and has packed hou- ses rolling in the aisles. In just over a year his career as a comic in clubs and pubs has ta- ken off and Steady is now expor- ting his black routine abroad, ho- ping for similar success in New Zealand and Europe. Steady Eddy has no shame about ridiculing the afflicted be- cause he is disabled himself, born with cerebral palsy and institu- tionalised in a home as a child. He bills himself as the stand- up comic who can barely stand at all. On stage, his hunched body twists and jerks as he delivers withering one-liners. "My teachers used to say to me, 'Steady, you have got to be incon- spicuous to get into the mains- tream of society.' So every mor- ning a bus would come to pick me up with 'Spastic Centre' written on the side." And there's many more where that came from. "I really love being a spastic. The best thing is I can go to a party, sit on one beer all night, and still look like I have had a great time." Steady's comic career started against the wishes of his mother and his older sister, Lee, a come- dienne who now lives in Melbourne. Warehouse Worker He was a Sydney werehouse worker when he plucked up cou- rage to do a five-minute spot at the Comedy Store, a local nur- sery for would-be comics. It's a place where the audience is mer- ciless. If you die, the punters let you know it. Steady Eddy didn't die. Far from it. "They liked it, there was genuine laughter," he told Reuters. "My sister and my mother tried to talk me out of it, but I just got up and did five minutes and since then it's just got bigger and bigger," he said. role as host of a television chat show, and now an exhausting six sellout shows a week around the clubs. A video package sold out its first run of 10,000 copies earlier this year and 10,000 more will shortly go on sale. It includes two songs from his black repertoire, "Ready Steady Go" and "With Her I Don't Dribble". I "TV did wonders for my career; sold twice as many pens on the weekend," he joked. "which is good because I could afford a new wheelchair with bumper stickers like 'T'd Rather Be Walking." Serious Side But of course there is a serious side to the 24-year-old comedian who was born Chris Widdows and earned his nickname from his mates, "the normals" as he calls them, at his local surf club. "I know it's (the act's) a novelty as well as being funny, I reckon have got another two years, maybe three in Australia, which After that came a feature on is why Europe is important," he the top rating "60 Minutes", a said. He was spotted by a television producer who was looking for new comedy acts and it got him spot on a national network. a Which one do you prefer, Jip or Sedan? I tain in September. He will be performing in Bri- He can also be serious about a perceived role as a crusader for the disabled. "We joke about things like physically challe- nged, we think there should be a game show called 'Physically Challenged"." want to be seen as a spokesman He was adamant he did not for the disabled. organisations has been generally "The response from disabled positive but I try to steer clear of some of that. "You tend to get known as a flagwaver for some disability group and that's the last thing I want." Fierce Ambitious He is also fiercely ambitious and recently broke up with his girlfriend, a paraplegic victim of a car accident, in part because of his career workload. em ugn "I'm like a train going directly from A to B. I can't leave the rails, I will sacrifice anything for what RABU, 30 JUNI 1993 SADHA Royalist Leader Calls For Talks With Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh - Cambodia's militant Khmer Rouge guerilla faction should not be excluded from talks about na- tional reconciliation, the leader of the royalist Funcinpec party, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said on Tuesday. "The Khmer Rouge should not be put outside Cambodian com- munity. All of the Cambodian factions agree that the Khmer Rouge should be part of the natio- nal reconciliation," he said shor- tly after arriving back in Phnom Penh to meet outgoing prime Hun Sen. Funcinpec won a modest vic- tory in the historic May elections over its bitter rival, the Cambo- Sen. dian People's Party, led by Hun The Khmer Rouge, which tions, has opted out of the U.N.- threatened to disrupt the elec- brokered peace process it agreed to in 1991. serve as co-presidents in an inte- Ranariddh and Hun Sen will rim government led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Ranariddh's father, who is chief of state. Ranariddh rejected claims the Khmer Rouge had already been offered an "advisory role" in the interim government. "They don't ask even for an ad- visory role, so how can I make any comment on that?.. I haven't heard of this," he said. I am doing, I know what I have to Ranariddh-Hun Sen Meeting do," he said. (Reuter). Ranariddh was scheduled to In a copy of a letter obtained by Reuters and dated June 26, Siha- nouk told the leaders and mem- bers of the interim government he supported the proposal. meet Hun Sen on Tuesday after- Party, which ran a distant third noon for talks aimed at a smooth in the election. transition of power despite some oppisiton from hardline elements in the Phnom Penh government. After more than a week of wrangling and behind-the- scenes power play, Cambodia's political powers have agreed on the make-up of a 27-strong inte- rim government that will rule the country until a new constitution is drawn up. The oath calls on the country's political pledge, their "sacrifice forever" to defend "the total inde- pendence of the Cambodian mot- herland, sovereignty and territo- rial integrity of its land and sea boudaries as recognised between 1963-69 without any partition or secession." Meanwhile, Son Sann, a for- mer non-communist guerrilla leader, has called for all new poli- The oath would oblige politi- ticians to take an oath of alle- cians to work for "a liberal democ- giance to Cambodia, Son Sann is ratic government... with strict now in charge of the leadership respect for human rights." Buddhist Liberal Democratic (Reuter) Worries About Flood Of Pornography Tokyo- vernment survey published Sun- A Japanese cabinet minister day, which showed that more children had to be protected from negers have read pornographic- said on Tuesday that the nation's tahn 60 per cent of Japanese tee- a tide of pornografhic literature. comics. "We have to take care not to ex- pose children to these pornograf- Sunday's survey found that 48 hic magazines," Minister of In- per cent of parents saw the easy ternational Trade and Industry availability of pornographic co- (MITI) Yoshiro Hori told mics as unavoidable. Only about reporters. 20 per cent said they regarded e reading them as a serious problem. Pornography magazine may help contribute to the problem of juvenile delinguency, he said, ad- ministry to look at the problem. ding he had asked the aducation His comments followed a go- It said that boys and girls reac ted differently after reading co- mics, which were most popular among high school boys aged 16 to 18. (Reuter) TAKE BOTH IN ONE! RABU, 30 JUNI 199 Presiden den. (Sambungan Khusus mengenai ko Kepala Negara mengem sokoguru ekonomi nasic harus dijadikan modal memenuhi kebutuhan terutama yang masih ekonominya. Apabila jutaan bergabung dalam kopera bangkit kekuatan ekono besar. "Pasal 33 UUD 45 gaskan koperasi harus salah satu kekuatan ekon ta yang sangat penting Presiden pada acara ya hadiri Mentan Sjarifud harsjah, Menkop dan Pem Pengusaha Kecil Su Tjakrawerdaja, Mendagr SM, Menteri Negara U Mien Sugandhi dan Ment gara Kependudukan H Suyono. 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