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width in the forest where the speed boat man had to wait our team. There were
basically 3 groups in the team i.e. the PNG Wandouw group of people who came down
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to Sota by bicycles and on foot (1 group), the GPdI Merauke-Sota’s group (1 pastor
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from Merauke, 1 pastor and some of his church’s members from Sota) (2 group) and
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the NJE group (3 group). Coming from Jakarta and Manado were Ev. Andreas
Hartanto, Ev. Benny Gozali and Ps. Morris Watuseke while from Merauke Ps. Jeffry
Rengkung. The first group was intended and responsible for logistic transportation and
local guidance in the forest, rivers, lake and swampy areas. They had to carry, by means
of (3) bicycles and (12) men, all goods requested by them and donated by NJE such as
the rices, petrol, dry foods and spices, fans, jars, genset and electrical bulbs and fittings
and other accessories for the crusade and temporary lodging place. The second team
consisted of experienced people in forest-rivers-lake crossing who had some relatives
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near-by Wandouw, some good swimmers who could guide, interpret and help the 3
group. The first group only talked in the local dialect and needed the interpreters to
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communicate with the 3 group. Only some people spoke English in Wandouw such
as the pastors, evangelists, tribal leaders, government officers and young people
(pupils).

The journey to Wandouw village: problems and divine wisdoms.
The onshore journey was full of ‘unprecedented-and-accidental events’ such as falling
off and thrown away from the motorcycles, wheels slippery and trapped into mud, the
broken chain of one motorcycle, lack of the means of communication etc. Google map
was surely not available and definitely helpless in the forest and the cellphones could
not work as well. There was no means at all to communicate one to another. All the
motorcyclists (6 motor-riders, each of them rode with one of the group members)
were starting from the same point and riding in a successive manner just like a convoy.
Nevertheless, there was no ‘same cleared track’ which could be followed and riden on
by the motorcycles (not talking a paved path). The different routes were suddenly
available and could easily be passed by each rider according to his ‘free will and chosen
way’. Thus, it was easy to predict what would happen next.
In 10 minutes the convoy started unavoidably to lose its members. The convoy
tail was curtailed from its head, and the problem was, the convoy head did not know
or realize what had just happened (the tail knew the separation but there was no
means to contact the head). Wow, really an abrupt separation and total confusion
started to enter our minds! And it was really a desperate effort to be able to see the
other motorcyclists. Very soon both the tail and the head had been broken down into
a separated solitary motor-rider and its one passenger. The breaking and separation
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