Thu, 21 Feb 2002

Minister calls for closure of Terminal III: Minister of Manpower Jacob Nuwa Wea wants to close down Terminal III at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. He said the terminal, which was set up to accommodate returning Indonesian migrant workers, had become a hotbed of extortion. "The airport is like a state within a state, we just can't control it," Jacob said, as quoted by Antara. He is proposing to construct a new center run by his office in Ciracas, East Jakarta, to facilitate returning workers. -- JP