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#1782
Local Salesian bursars from
ITM meet in Jakarta; Dili dropped from programme
JAKARTA: 8th March 2007 -- Fr Gianni
Mazzali has arrived in Jakarta from Guwahati (India) to conduct a formation
session of several days duration for local bursars ('economers' in
Salesian-speak). He arrived on Sunday 4th March and was due to go on the
following day to Dili, East Timor, but as already reported in austraLasia, the
circumstances there in the capital especially are tense and even dangerous, and
Fr Mazzali was advised to cancel his forward trip.
Of the
eight local bursars who were due to join Fr Mazzali in Dili, just two were able
to make it to Jakarta. The meeting is being held at Tigaraksa, a Salesian
formation (prenovitiate) community on the outskirts of the sprawling capital of
Indonesia. The actual course began on Tuesday 6th and concludes today,
8th.
While in Jakarta, Fr Mazzali has had the opportunity
to visit the Post novititate, St John Bosco Parish and the FMA community located
near to each other in North Jakarta at Sunter.
Photos of
these encounters can be found on ANS or at the province level for ITM on
www.sdb.org
Indonesia has been very much in the news, in
addition to troubles further East in independent Timor Leste - a severe
earthquake (6.3) in Smatra which has killed 73 people and injured a further 194,
and a plane crash in Yogyakarta, south of Jakarta yesterday, which has killed 22
people. Salesians or Salesian personnel have not been involved in either
tragedy.
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