Monday, June 05, 2006

A Place without motorcycle

Asmat area in Papua, Irian Jaya, can be the only site that dont have motorcycles and cars in the area. In Asmat, there is no street for motoric vehicle, the area full of mangrove and swamp. It is very hard to make street for vehicle there. Most of the houses and government office are above the wooden deck. And to connect each other house, villagers build small bridge for walking.

Drs Yuventus Biakay, Asmat's Major dont have car in his house, and always walking to his office. But he is still optimist that Asmat will be improved and build some infrastructure.Villagers using boat to go fishing or search for crabs in rivers.

To reach Asmat from outside, people need to fly with small plane, Cessna from Timika. Then continue the journey with boat.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

bangladesh has same problem like in many villages there are not any roads. Well, in many parts of Asia, this is a common scenario and specially in the forest areas building road is not easy.

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