Jayawijaya to pay Rp 12b for training

Jayawijaya to pay Rp 12b for training

JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: The Jayawijaya administration has allocated
Rp 12 billion for human resources development in the regency for
the 2002 fiscal year to train young people in the regency.

The head of the governmental section of the Jayawijaya
administration, Yerry Wetipo, disclosed here on Thursday night
that the funds would be taken from the regency's targeted revenue
in the next fiscal year.

The funds will be used to finance Papuan students who were
undergoing undergraduate and postgraduate programs in a number of
universities and academies in Java, Sulawesi and overseas.

Wetipo admitted that Jayawijaya lagged far behind other Papuan
regencies because the regency was located in isolated regions and
mountainous areas of the province.

"It is necessary, therefore, for the central government to
give special attention to the development programs in Jayawijaya,
where people still live in severe backwardness and poverty,"
Wetipo stated. --Antara