Free healthcare in Mimika a work in progress, says government

Markus Makur , The Jakarta Post, Timika

While the Mimika regency administration initially planned to provide free healthcare for all residents, the program has only been put into practice at community health centers (puskesmas) in 12 districts. “So far, the free healthcare program is unavailable at regency hospitals because of their high operating, infrastructure and facilities costs,” Mimika Regency Hospital director Dr. Fransiscus Tio said in a dialog with Mimika  Deputy Regent Abdul Muis at a recent free healthcare campaign in Mimika, Papua.

Towards Peaceful Dialogue

Neles Tebay of the Jayapura Archdiocese said a dialogue between the central government and the people of Papua would be a peaceful and effective way to stop violence and bloodshed in Papua.  The shooting incidents near Freeport gold mine I think have been perpetrated by a group of people who do not know how to address their problems.

One in Five Residents in Mimika Illiterate

Jakarta Post

by Markus Makur, Mimika, Papua

 

More than 22 percent of the population of the Mimika regency in Papua, or about 40,000 people there, are illiterate. Mimika, with a population of 175,000, ranks fifth in term of the illiteracy rate in the province, after Wamena, Merauke, Paniai and Nabire regencies, said Yesaya Sombuk, head of Mimika Education Agency, on Tuesday.

Papua itself has the highest illiteracy rate among the country’s 33 provinces.  The agency is offering a three-month literacy course in the regency’s 12 districts with 1,200 residents joining the program, which kicked off Tuesday. Those who are illiterate – both native Papuans and migrants – are found not only in remote areas, but also in urban areas, including in Timika, the regency’s capital. The first course, however, is targeting those in the hinterlands, mountains and coastal areas.

Mimika is home to one of the world’s richest gold mines operated by US-based company PT Freeport Indonesia.

Benny Wenda had ‘blood on his hands’.

Source : Media Papua

If you are Indonesian, no matter where you’re from, Papua, West Papua, Mollucas, Celebes, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Bali, West Timor, you will be surprise that a man named Benny Wenda who called himself  as the highest leader of West Papuan will not shake your hands.

It is simply because his two hands are to dirty, too much blood on his hands.  Benny Wenda killed a man several years ago and the his name is on the list of the Interpol… Please be careful with Benny Wenda’s innocent claim, he could do harm to you.

Papua governor’s effort in protecting forest

Friday, 30 October 2009

In overcoming deforestation in Papua, Governor o Papua, Barnabas Suebu said that all forest concession holders would have to develop wood processing facilities in Papua, as the ban on raw log exports would remain in place. They must also agree to plant five trees for every one they cut.

The regulation as effort to control because at least 7.2 million cubic metres of timber was being cut in Papua a year, rapidly shrinking its 42 million hectares of forest, which has the highest level of biodiversity in the world.

In the end, Mr. Suebu promised to save papua’s forest and manage it in a sustainable way and make money to eradicate poverty and create prosperity for all Papuan as the goal of his policy.

The Age/30 Oct 2009

West Papua : Benny Wenda, a True Liar of West Papuan

From Sidney Indymedia

It is very interesting how the benefits of conflict may also take on different forms as follow:
Economic profits, Political power, Psychological pleasure. A trustful sources from Oxford shared a shocking information about how Benny Wenda took a lot of benefits from false story about conflict in West Papua. Besides, by delivering such an oration toward international NGO or joining many art and culture festival especially in England, Benny Wenda only gives false story.

Famine-hit region of Indonesia’s Papua proposes mass-relocation

Yahukimo District Head Ones Pahabol has announced a proposal to
prevent further famine by relocating hinterlands based residents
to a location close to the district capital of Dekai.

According to Pahabol, the relocation would be completed within
10-15 years and involve 200,000 families, with priority
initially given to the Unaukam, Kemial, Mek and Yali tribes.

Calls for dialog as funds wasted

Andi Hajramurni , The Jakarta Post , Makassar | Fri, 09/11/2009 2:51 PM | The Archipelago

Papuas have urged Vice President Jusuf Kalla to act as a mediator to settle problems with the regional autonomy program and improve relations with Jakarta, an official said Thursday.

Papua governments blew Rp 30t on ‘special autonomy’: Official

Andi Hajramurni , The Jakarta Post , Makassar | Thu, 09/10/2009 6:41 PM | National

After eight years, special autonomy has yet to improve the welfare of Papuan people, partly because of incompetent governments of the two easternmost provinces, a West Papua official says.

A disaster, but not genocide

Migration has caused many problems in Papua, but it is not part of a genocidal master plan

Stuart Upton

In the second of two pieces on demographic change in Indonesian Papua, Inside Indonesia here presents an analysis by Stuart Upton that suggests – in contrast to the first piece written by Jim Elmslie –there is little hard evidence to support claims of genocide in Papua.

Urban areas are where the population is most mixed, and where the best opportunities are. Sergio Piumatti http://www.stockimagesnet.com/

Link to read complete article Inside Indonesia