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View all search resultsRiau Islands fully supports plan to treat injured Gazans in Galang Island
“This is a central government program, and of course we must support it. We hope that through this effort, we can strengthen ties between Indonesia and Palestine,” Riau Islands Deputy Governor Nyanyang Haris Pratamura said.
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A now closed COVID-19 hospital, which occupies a 16-hectare former Vietnamese refugee camp on Galang Island, Riau Islands province, was officially inaugurated on April 6, 2020. (courtesy/Public Works and Public Housing Ministry )
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he Riau Island administration has expressed its full support of the central government's controversial plan to use Galang Island to treat 2,000 displaced Palestinians injured during the war in Gaza.
Riau Islands Deputy Governor Nyanyang Haris Pratamura said the province “welcomes” the humanitarian initiative introduced by President Prabowo Subianto and will soon begin preparations to implement the plan on the 80-square-kilometer island.
“This is a central government program, and of course we must support it. We hope that through this effort, we can strengthen ties between Indonesia and Palestine,” Nyanyang said on Aug. 8.
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Nyanyang, a politician from Prabowo’s Gerindra Party, also stated that the provincial administration is ready to assist the central government with the program “even without being asked.”
“We will instruct our Health Agency to reactivate and prepare the COVID-19 isolation hospital on Galang Island to temporarily treat the injured Palestinians,” he said.
Nyanyang also reassured stakeholders that the program would not affect the investment climate in Batam, emphasizing that the initiative is solely humanitarian in nature and is unrelated to business or political agendas.
