Jayapura
Americannoun
noun
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Yeimo is being treated at a Jayapura hospital after a court ordered he receive medical attention.
From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2021
Unrest has flared in the restive Indonesian region of Papua with police firing shots during a protest by hundreds of university students in the provincial capital, Jayapura.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2020
The pilot, Joyce Chaisin Lin, 40, of Ohio, apparently had technical problems two minutes after takeoff from Sentani airport in the provincial capital of Jayapura, Papua police spokesman Ahmad Musthofa Kamal said.
From Washington Times ● May 12, 2020
His arrest led police to six other suspects who were captured in the past week in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2019
Pacific Island history is encapsulated for me in an incident that happened when three Indonesian friends and I walked into a store in Jayapura, the capital of Indonesian New Guinea.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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