Dekai is a town in the province of

Highland Papua Highland Papua ( id, Papua Pegunungan) is a province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago, shortened to La Pago. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,408,641 according to the official es ...

, Indonesia, and the actual administrative center of

Yahukimo Regency Yahukimo Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in the Indonesian province of Highland Papua. It covers an area of 17,152 km2, and had a population of 164,512 at the 2010 Census, but this figure more than doubled to reach 350,880 at the 2 ...

. The official administrative center of Yahukimo Regency is Sumohai. Sumohai is located 25 kilometers north of Dekai, and due to the lack of infrastructure in Sumohai, the administrative center of Yahukimo Regency is in Dekai. In the 2010 census, Dekai's Suma District ( id, Distrik Sumo) had a total of 3,419 people.Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. The town is located on the Bulaza River ( id, Sungai Brazza) and the Dykno Puglia Airport is located in the northwest of the town.

Transportation

The town has its own airport Nop Goliat Dekai Airport.

Climate

Dekai has a

tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...

(Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

References

Populated places in Highland Papua Districts of Highland Papua Regency seats of Highland Papua {{HPapua-geo-stub