The Skouw Shopping Center
Located two hours from Jayapura, the town of Skouw twice a week becomes the main shopping center for people living at the border between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is scheduled to become the trade channel between the two countries.
January 19, 2010
FROM one end to another of the border crossing between Skouw and Wutung people are walking, many pushing metal shopping trolleys filled with rice, boxes of biscuits and bottled drinks. People are smiling and greeting each other under the hot sun. This is the normal atmosphere along the border between the Republic of Indonesia (Skouw) and Papua New Guinea (Wutung).
At least twice a week, Papua New Guineans from Sandaun province buy their weekly s
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