Dreams of Visiting the Border
My visit in Port Moresby coincided with the Indonesia-PNG Annual Border Meeting. I met with officials from a number of districts in Papua Province, located along the Indonesian-PNG border.
Map of the borders of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia. A number of small Australian islands, such as Saibai and Boigu, are close to the PNG mainland.
“Did you know that Australia is only three kilometers away from PNG? From the coast of PNG, you can even see Australia!” an Australian visitor said on the day I arrived in Papua New Guinea [PNG].
I didn\'t believe it. On the map, PNG looks very far from Australia. However, if you look more closely, just south off the coast of Western Province are indeed small islands that belong to Australia, such as Saibai Island and Boigu Island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelgo, only an inch from PNG on the map.