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                                    Tabea,

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                   DROP POINT SORONG!


                Ders, how many of you ever visited Raja   to the drop point at 9 or 10 pm,” said Pace Hasan
                Ampat? To reach Papua’s most favorite   dense with his Papua dialect.
                destination, we have to pass the city of
           JSorong beforehand. Do you know that   Within the average of 100 packages per day, the
           while you in Sorong, JDers can f nd our Drop   most-purchased products from JD.ID consists
           Point (DP) in the city? If JDers ever                             of home and
           stop at Sorong, Pace** Hasan and                                  electronic
           Pace Esau can take you for a city                                 appliances,
           tour. Pace Hasan and Pace Esau                                    fashion goods,
           are DP JX’s leader and courier in                                 wallets, and
           Indonesia’s easternmost region.                                   bags. The
                                                                             farthest delivery
           DP Sorong started to operate on                                   location is the
           November 5,                                                       sub-district of
           2018, located                                                     Mariat Pantai,
           at Jalan Ahmad                                                    62 km from the
           Dahlan Yani                                                       drop point or
           Ruko Sorpus                                                       around 4 hours
           No. 8H, Klaligi,                                                  by motorcycle.
           Sorong District.
           DP Sorong is                                                      The challenging
           the sole JX drop                                                  road condition
           point in Papua,                                                   puts particular
           particularly for                                                  diff culties
           Sorong City                                                       during the
           and Regency.                                                      delivery process.
           In four months                                                    Nevertheless,
           since it was f rst                                                such
           established, DP                                                   predicaments
           Sorong received                                                   turn into
           70-130 packages                                                   laughable
           per day, divided                                                  stories each day,
           into two                                    serving as their own consolations. Pace Esau,
     Background image: id.m.wikipedia.org  “We start (to   “Paitua (the man) said, ‘JD.ID came to Sorong! The
           delivery trips.
                                                       for example, said that he was once got yelled
                                                       for no reason by some random man while he
                                                       was on the way to deliver the packages.
           work) at 8 am Sorong local time with morning
           brief ng and handle the retention packages
                                                  sorrow is mine! My wife will spend all of our money
           by contacting the consigners. At 10 o’clock
                                                  to shop!’” he said, imitating the words that the man
           we start the f rst delivery trip. The second trip
           will be followed in the afternoon. We will back
                                                  yelled at him. That is one quite of a story, JDers!
           *Tabea means “Hello” in Papua’s language.
           **Pace derives from Papua’s local language, refers to call men around 40 years old.
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