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              *     *     *     *     *      Yogyakarta, Island of Java, Republic of Indonesia      Monday, 29 th November 1993      On today’s schedule I was assigned to fly from Jakarta to Yogyakarta, Bali, Ujung Pandang, Palu, Balikpapan, Banjarmasin and return to Jakarta.  Altogether seven legs, with a total flying time of seven hours and thirty-six minutes.      First stop was Yogyakarta, at 264 miles east of Jakarta, with a flight time of 1:12 - slicing straight down the middle of the narrow Island of Java.      Twenty-five miles northwest of Yogyakarta is the world’s largest Buddhist Temple called “Borobudur.”  The same name of the five-star hotel BOURAQ put me up at in Jakarta.      The temple consists of nine stacked platform...