Puncak Jaya

or Pun·tjak Dja·ja

[ poon-chahk jah-yah ]

noun

1. a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5,030 meters).

Example Sentences

On Monday, gunmen killed three people and injured two others in an attack at an airport in the Puncak Jaya area.

From Seattle Times

The past two months have seen a rash of attacks in the highland district of Puncak Jaya, one of the poorest and remotest areas of Indonesia and a hot spot for a local insurgency led by a faction of the separatist Free Papua Movement, or TPN-OPM.

From New York Times