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JAKARTA: An aircraft carrying Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Djoko Santoso was forced to return to Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusuma air base after 45 minutes of flight time on Wednesday.
The Hercules C-130 VIP took off from the air base at around 12:45 p.m. for Pontianak, West Kalimantan, but later experienced a communications cable failure, Antara news agency reported.
The TNI chief and his entourage, including other senior military officers and journalists, had to wait for a replacement aircraft at the airport.
The entourage later flew to Pontianak in a Foker-28 aircraft.
Gen. Djoko's visit was part of his Ramadan tour of several provinces in the country.
In Pontianak, he will hold a series of meetings with the West Kalimantan governor and local community leaders before providing donations to a local mosque and an Islamic boarding school. -- JP
