Ujungpandang hosts youth meet

Ujungpandang hosts youth meet

JAKARTA (JP): Ujungpandang, the capital city of South Sulawesi
province, will host the Arafura Youth Games from July 28 to
August 2.

The participants are students from Australia's Northern
Territory and students from eastern Indonesian provinces. The
games, whose main purpose is to cement friendship between both
regions, feature track and field events including cross-country,
volleyball, basketball, tennis, table tennis and badminton.

The games are the junior version of the Arafura Games, which
will be held in May next year in Darwin for the fourth time and
are expected to draw participants from 20 countries throughout
the Asia and Pacific region. (arf)