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GOVT URGED TO PAY MORE SERIOUS ATTENTION TO PAPUA DEVELOPMENTS
Jakarta, Aug 29 (ANTARA) - The head of a district adminsitration in Papua has urged the government to pay more serious attention to developments in Indonesia's most-eastern province where, he said, conditions were becoming "more and more precarious."
Yusak Yaluwo, head of the Boven Digoel district adminsitration, was referring to a number of incidents that had recently happened in Papua, namely sporadic skirmishes between unidentified armed groups and security forces, the flying of the flag of the sepratist OPM (Free Papua Orgnaization) and indications of the separatist movement growing more solid after setting up their headquarters in a 15-storey building in Fiji.
Yaluwo, who headed the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono-Boediono ticket's Papua success team in the July presidential election, said separatism in Papua actually posed greater risks than the secessionist movement in Aceh in the past.
In Aceh, the problem was not too complex because to a certain extent there were still cultural and religious affinities between the insurgents and the government.
"What we are facing in Papua is something much different from the Aceh situation in the past, and therefore Papua must be handled in a very special way, in which many sensitive factors must be taken into account, including a polarization of international forces in the Pacific, especially in the south Pacific," he said.
Yaluwo said what the government had done about Papua so far was actually already correct, such as enacting the special autonomy law for the region, initiating development programs through special presidential instructions, allocating large funds for infrastructure development, education, public health and economic empowerment of the people.
"However, in practice and on the ground, all these things are not implemented effectively nor efficiently, and even triggering conflicts of interest that only tend to deepen resentment against central government policies," he said.
He said what the government should do to solve the present problems in Papua, according to various studies, was to form a special body that could be named Papua Development Acceleration Board (BPPTP).
"This body must function under and be directly respsonsible to the president, bypassing the existing ministries at central governemnt level. It is this body that should manage all things related to the acceleration of development in Papua, including the organization and funding of developmental activities down to district or municipal level, bypassing the standard departmental offices at provincial level," he said.
This body should be set up as soon as possible through a Governemnt Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) such as was issued to declare the Batam-Bintan-Kairumun islands in Riau Islands province a Free Trade Zone (FTZ), Yaluwo said.
If this body could be created, he said, the various precarious conditions in Papua could be defused and the region would gradually be able to adjust to a new situation.***
Yusak Yaluwo, head of the Boven Digoel district adminsitration, was referring to a number of incidents that had recently happened in Papua, namely sporadic skirmishes between unidentified armed groups and security forces, the flying of the flag of the sepratist OPM (Free Papua Orgnaization) and indications of the separatist movement growing more solid after setting up their headquarters in a 15-storey building in Fiji.
Yaluwo, who headed the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono-Boediono ticket's Papua success team in the July presidential election, said separatism in Papua actually posed greater risks than the secessionist movement in Aceh in the past.
In Aceh, the problem was not too complex because to a certain extent there were still cultural and religious affinities between the insurgents and the government.
"What we are facing in Papua is something much different from the Aceh situation in the past, and therefore Papua must be handled in a very special way, in which many sensitive factors must be taken into account, including a polarization of international forces in the Pacific, especially in the south Pacific," he said.
Yaluwo said what the government had done about Papua so far was actually already correct, such as enacting the special autonomy law for the region, initiating development programs through special presidential instructions, allocating large funds for infrastructure development, education, public health and economic empowerment of the people.
"However, in practice and on the ground, all these things are not implemented effectively nor efficiently, and even triggering conflicts of interest that only tend to deepen resentment against central government policies," he said.
He said what the government should do to solve the present problems in Papua, according to various studies, was to form a special body that could be named Papua Development Acceleration Board (BPPTP).
"This body must function under and be directly respsonsible to the president, bypassing the existing ministries at central governemnt level. It is this body that should manage all things related to the acceleration of development in Papua, including the organization and funding of developmental activities down to district or municipal level, bypassing the standard departmental offices at provincial level," he said.
This body should be set up as soon as possible through a Governemnt Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) such as was issued to declare the Batam-Bintan-Kairumun islands in Riau Islands province a Free Trade Zone (FTZ), Yaluwo said.
If this body could be created, he said, the various precarious conditions in Papua could be defused and the region would gradually be able to adjust to a new situation.***
