| Subject: AN: Aru Regency Plans Cooperation
With Neighboring Countries
http://www.beritasore.com/ant3.14.02.05.html
Senin, 14 Februari 2005
Ambon, Maluku ( Berita ) : The administration of Aru regency is
considering cooperation with its immediate neighbors Australia and East
Timor.
Aru regency administration secretary GAA Gainau said here over the
weekend that part of Aru regency, especially South Aru, is very near to
Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, and mutually beneficial
cooperation is therefore quite feasible like a sister-city cooperation.
However, he added, the plan has yet to be discussed further in the
transitional administration, following the expansion of Aru from its
parent regency of Southeast Maluku on January 7, 2004.
He said as a flight by small aircraft from Dobo, capital of Aru regeny,
to Darwin takes only one hour and 20 minutes, a cooperation between the
two regions would be quite feasible.
A mutually beneficial cooperation would also be very useful in the
prevention of poaching in the Aru regency waters, and stealing of timber
and farm produce.
Meanwhile, Gainau said that his office is planning to expand three
subdistricts into six subdistricts in view of the great distances and
remote places which public services have to reach. The region comprises
187 islets, including 98 without a population, each separated by the vast
sea.
Aru regency has been expanded into three regencies, namely Aru Islets
with 43 villages, South Aru with 31 villages, and Central Aru with 45
villages and a total population of 70,000.(ant)
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