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Article: SCHOOLS IN MIMIKA INTERIOR CLOSED FOR MONTHS.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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Timika, Papua, Sept 21 (ANTARA): Academic activity at schools in Mimika district's interior have been at a standstill for the past few months because their teachers have become stuck in Timika city, one of the teachers said. The principal of Jila district's junior high school (SMP), Natalis Nimbitkendik, said he and other teachers at his school were still in Timika because they had no transportation to return to Jila. "We can not return to Jila, because there is no transportation to get there," he said. He said the teachers usually travel to Jila from Timika by a PT Freeport Indonesia helicopter hired by the Amungme and Kamoro Community Development Foundation (LPMAK). ...