Jakarta – Not all parts of Papua are besieged by armed violence, chief of the National Police’s Security Intelligence Company, Insp.Gen.Paulus Waterpauw, stated at a workshop arranged by Muhammadiyah University’s student executive body on Tuesday.
Waterpauw, a native Papuan, discussed the existing scenario in the province at the workshop at the invitation of the university’s student executive body.
Papuan separatists are unleashing acts of horror in several districts, but all of Papua is not in the grip of armed violence, Waterpauw observed, quoted by National Cops representative Insp.Gen.Argo Yuwono in a press statement that ANTARA received in Jakarta on Tuesday.
” Therefore, not all areas in Papua are in the grip of armed violence. The violence simply takes place in such districts as Puncak, Intan Jaya, Nduga, and Mimika,” Yuwono priced estimate Waterpauw as saying
Besides sharing views on security concerns, Waterpauw also explained Papua from historic, cultural, geographical, and sociological point of views at the seminar, Yuwono said.
In spite of its plentiful natural deposits, Papua province is still dealing with disparities in local development and struggling to enhance the quality of its human capital, as shown by its low score on the Person Advancement Index, Waterpauw said.
ANTARA has earlier reported that Indonesia has been focusing on establishing Papua considering that the Soekarno age and defending it to guarantee territorial sovereignty.
The government, which has actually continued to concentrate on Papua’s development, has actually even extended a special autonomy bundle to Papua and West Papua, paving the way for a substantial volume of funds to flow into the 2 provinces.
The Papua special autonomy law, which has been in force for nearly two decades, will end in November this year.
Information from the Finance Ministry suggests that during the implementation of the Papua special autonomy law, the government paid out Rp13865 trillion towards Papua and West Papua’s special autonomy funds and additional funding for facilities projects.
Regional transfers and town funds amounting to Rp7023 trillion were allocated by the government to the 2 provinces between 2002 and 2021, Individuals’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) speaker Bambang Soesatyo has actually disclosed.
Regardless of the main government financing, Papua and West Papua are still struggling to improve the quality of their human capital, as reflected by their ratings on Indonesia’s 2020 Human Advancement Index, which have stayed under the nationwide average of 71.94
According to Statistics Indonesia (BPS), Papua and West Papua have scored 60.44 and 65.09, respectively, on the 2020 Human Being Development Index.
BPS information released in February this year has pegged the hardship rates in Papua and West Papua at 26.8 percent and 21.7 percent, respectively. (INE)
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