MICHAEL Sirait took his two nieces, Ester Yoshephine and Yunita Sihombing, to Soewondo Air Base, formerly the Polonia Airport, in Medan, on Tuesday morning last week. During their school vacation, the two sisters wanted to visit their parents at Natuna Regency in the Riau Archipelago.

Ester and Yunita's father, Sahata Sihombing, is in the Indonesian Army, stationed in Natuna for the past seven years. Ester and her younger sister live in Medan whe