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        "id": 1055581,
        "msgid": "sea-games-dry-run-in-darwin-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-05-01 00:00:00",
        "title": "SEA Games dry run in Darwin",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "SEA Games dry run in Darwin JAKARTA (JP): The fourth Arafura Games in May 1997 in Darwin, Australian Northern Territory, look set to serve well as a warm- up arena for the 19th Southeast Asian Games which will be held just a few months later. The Northern Territory's Minister of Sport and Recreation Steve Hutton said here yesterday that a number of Southeast Asian countries have revealed interest in coming across for the two- yearly Arafura sporting festival.",
        "content": "<p>SEA Games dry run in Darwin<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The fourth Arafura Games in May 1997 in Darwin,<br>\nAustralian Northern Territory, look set to serve well as a warm-<br>\nup arena for the 19th Southeast Asian Games which will be held<br>\njust a few months later.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Territory's Minister of Sport and Recreation<br>\nSteve Hutton said here yesterday that a number of Southeast Asian<br>\ncountries have revealed interest in coming across for the two-<br>\nyearly Arafura sporting festival.<\/p>\n<p>\"We hope that Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia will<br>\nbe sending big teams in the build-up competition for the SEA<br>\nGames,\" Hutton told The Jakarta Post. \"Some sports in the Arafura<br>\nGames, such as swimming, shooting and basketball, are of the same<br>\nstandards as their SEA Games equivalents.\"<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia will play host to the 1997 SEA Games during<br>\nOctober's school holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Hutton, accompanied by the Arafura Games general manager Wally<br>\nMauger, paid a courtesy call to the National Sports Council on<br>\nMonday to convey an official invitation to Indonesia to take part<br>\nin the regional sporting meet.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Territory minister is scheduled to meet with his<br>\nIndonesian counterpart, Hayono Isman, today.<\/p>\n<p>No less than 5,000 sportsmen and women from 20 countries<br>\nthroughout the Asia and Pacific region are expected to compete in<br>\n28 events in Darwin, making the biggest Arafura Games ever since<br>\ntheir inception in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Territory Government's Department of Sport and<br>\nRecreation, with full support of the City of Darwin and several<br>\nsponsoring companies have provided A$2.2 million for the Games.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Territory is the underwriter of all costs of the<br>\nGames, but Hutton said that he would prompt a discussion to move<br>\nthe Games outside Australian soil during the 1997 meet. \"We,<br>\nhowever, will keep our support,\" Hutton said.<\/p>\n<p>The Arafura Games were initiated in 1991 to provide 'the<br>\nemerging sports people' a stepping stone to international events<br>\nsuch as the Commonwealth, the SEA Games and the South Pacific<br>\nGames.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia, represented by eastern provincial squads, entered<br>\nthe first two episodes of the Games, but missed the 1995 event.<br>\n(amd)<\/p>",
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