Megawati to kick off jamboree

Mon, 27 Oct 2003, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

PONTIANAK, Central Kalimantan: President Megawati Soekarnoputri
is set to open the seventh national meeting of the Indonesian Boy
Scouts (Pramuka) in Pontianak on Dec. 15, an official has said.

Some 1,200 guests, including ministers, governors and foreign
envoys, will attend the ceremony, the chairman of the Central
Kalimantan provincial's boy scouts, Henri Usman, said here on
late Friday.

After the ceremony, President Megawati will officiate a
project to build a bridge over Kapuas River in Pontianak. Kapuas
is the largest river in Kalimantan.

The jamboree will be held in Sintang district, 425 kilometers
east of Pontianak. Some 700 Indonesian and foreign boy and girl
scouts will participate in the jamboree. -- Antara

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