East Papua regency seeks more planes

East Papua regency seeks more planes

JAYAPURA, Papua: The administration of Puncak Jaya is considering
hiring planes from a Canadian and a New Zealand airline, to help
it break the isolation of the East Papua regency.

Puncak Jaya regent Elieser Renmaur said over the weekend that
he hoped to add the flight frequency to and from the regency now
served by a number of small sized Twin Otter planes.

He did not say which Canadian or New Zealand airline the
regency approached or what planes they planned to hire, but said
they were looking for planes bigger than the Twin Otter.

So far Puncak Jaya has no airport on which larger planes like
a Hercules or Fokker 27 could land, even though it relies on air
transportation. The dependence on small planes is driving up the
cost of various products sold in Puncak Jaya capital Mulia.

Now the regency also plans to build a road connecting it with
Jayawijaya. The planned road, Elieser said, would link Mulia with
the Jayawijaya capital of Wamena. -- Antara

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World's longest market to open

YOGYAKARTA: The world's longest market stretching some 23
kilometers is set to open on Tuesday (today) along the main road
of the Kulongprogo regency in Yogyakarta.

The non government organization Fortuna in cooperation with
the Kulongprogo administration said that it wanted to present the
world's longest market to promote local various products.

"Through this event we want to promote handicraft products,
agricultural commodities and other various local made products,"
said a member of the market's organizing committee Hermanto on
Monday.

He said the market would open for 17 days starting Tuesday.

Local vendors and those from outside the regency were free to
join and display their products at the designated areas along the
road, Hermanto said.

The market would start from the Bantar bridge in the Sentolo
district and end in the district of Temon, covering a distance of
23 kilometers. -- Antara

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Blood donation for Iraq

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: The Red Cross office at the South
Sulawesi capital Makassar have collected 300 bags of blood
donations from locals who want to help Iraqi war victims.

"When the war in Iraq raged, the Muslim and non Muslim
community here came to the South Sulawesi Red Cross office to
have their blood taken as a show of solidarity toward the
oppressed people of Iraq," said the province's Red Cross head
Andi Nurdin Mappewali on Monday.

Thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed or injured in
the Gulf war which broke out late March. Fighting stopped since
mid April, but many hospitals in Baghdad and other Iraq cities
still face various shortcomings to treat wounded people.

Andi said that the local Red Cross office was waiting for its
headquarter in Jakarta to pick up the 300 bags. -- Antara

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Jambi drug dealer arrested

JAMBI, Jambi: Police here have arrested an alleged drug dealer
whom they suspect of being a member of a network selling drugs in
major cities in Indonesia.

Jambi Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Bambang Sudarisman said on
Monday that Ali Haryono, 52, was arrested in his hotel room in
the city last Sunday.

Police found in his possession 54 ecstasy pills and three
grams of shabu shabu or crystal metamphetamine.

"We'll keep questioning him, because so far he has not told us
where he obtained the drugs," Bambang said.

He said that Ali was likely a professional drug dealer, noting
that he had appeared calm throughout the arrest.

Suspecting that Ali might be part of a network operating in
major cities, he said the police would check whether his name
would turned out in other past police drug operations. -- Antara