Bouraq's president dies

JAKARTA (JP): Jerry A. Sumendap, president of the private airline PT Bouraq Indonesia, died in Jakarta yesterday afternoon from heart failure. He turned 68 last December.

The Antara news agency reported that Sumendap, who was also president of Bali Air and concurrent chairman of the Federation of ASEAN Fishery Associations, was hospitalized at the Harapan Kita Hospital in West Jakarta for ten days following a heart attack.

Sumendap is laid out at his home on Jl. Terusan Hang Lekir II/5, South Jakarta, and, according to a family member, he will be buried in the Menteng Pulo graveyard in South Jakarta tomorrow morning.

Born in Sangihe Talaud, North Sulawesi, on Dec. 20, 1926, Sumendap is survived by his wife, four sons and one daughter. (riz)