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Sat, 09/13/2008 - 13:01
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US ENVOY MEETS PAPUA PEOPLE'S COUNCIL LEADERS IN JAYAPURA
Jayapura, Sept 12 (ANTARA) - US ambassador to Indonesia Cameron Hume met with Papua People's Council (MRP) leaders here on Friday and had an intense discussion with them on the implementation of special autonomy in the region.
"Today US ambassador Cameron Hume came to the MRP office and discussed the implementation of Papua's special autonomy. There was nothing special in it. It was a routine activity of the ambassador in observing developmental progress in Indonesia, including in Papua. So, there was nothing special," MRP Vice Chairman Frans Wospakrik told ANTARA after the meeting.
He said one of Hume's agendas was taking a close look at the development of the implementation of Law Number 21 of 2001 on special autonomy for Papua. They wished to know its development from the MRP's perspective, he said.
He said his side had told Hume that autonomy was still being implemented and the implementation was being improved.
On the occasion, the US ambassador said that he had received information that Papua had obtained a large sum of autonomy funds and he wanted to know if they had been used well.
"Upon the question we said that there was indeed a problem but we must not only see it but also have to see how the fundamental rights of the indigenous people of Papua were met or if the indigenous people had felt they were protected well in their homeland," he said.
In addition to them one must also see if the Papuans had also been empowered to make them able to develop themselves so that their livelihood and welfare were improving.
"We have asked the US ambassador to see them too. To us they have not been implemented effectively and consistently," he said.
Regarding the autonomy funds problem Wospakrik said that it was about management but it was not the task of the MRP to control the funds. However, he said, the MRP had always encouraged the issuance of policies that underlined more effective use of the funds.
As an example he said that Papua governor Barnabas Suaebu recently decided to reverse the use of funds so that they were more fully for the people's interest than for bureaucratic purposes.
"Today US ambassador Cameron Hume came to the MRP office and discussed the implementation of Papua's special autonomy. There was nothing special in it. It was a routine activity of the ambassador in observing developmental progress in Indonesia, including in Papua. So, there was nothing special," MRP Vice Chairman Frans Wospakrik told ANTARA after the meeting.
He said one of Hume's agendas was taking a close look at the development of the implementation of Law Number 21 of 2001 on special autonomy for Papua. They wished to know its development from the MRP's perspective, he said.
He said his side had told Hume that autonomy was still being implemented and the implementation was being improved.
On the occasion, the US ambassador said that he had received information that Papua had obtained a large sum of autonomy funds and he wanted to know if they had been used well.
"Upon the question we said that there was indeed a problem but we must not only see it but also have to see how the fundamental rights of the indigenous people of Papua were met or if the indigenous people had felt they were protected well in their homeland," he said.
In addition to them one must also see if the Papuans had also been empowered to make them able to develop themselves so that their livelihood and welfare were improving.
"We have asked the US ambassador to see them too. To us they have not been implemented effectively and consistently," he said.
Regarding the autonomy funds problem Wospakrik said that it was about management but it was not the task of the MRP to control the funds. However, he said, the MRP had always encouraged the issuance of policies that underlined more effective use of the funds.
As an example he said that Papua governor Barnabas Suaebu recently decided to reverse the use of funds so that they were more fully for the people's interest than for bureaucratic purposes.
