Papua: The reversed progress

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Papua The reversed progress

• Yulia Sugandi
• Berlin, May 2008

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The Olden Times

• Woke up on the wrong foot State vs Nation
  building as part of the historical grievances
• The impact of impoverishment on horizontal
  inequalities and social capital
• High human costs in engineered social change
  inferiority complex and security approach
• Turning point 1998 and 2001, non Java
  centralized paradigm

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Central Governments commitment through 25 years
of Special autonomy in Papua

1. to honor human rights, religious values,
   democracy, law and cultural values existing
   within adat
2. to respect variety and diversity of
   social-cultural life in the Papua community
3. to protect and respect ethics and morals
4. to protect the fundamental rights of the
   indigenous inhabitants and human rights
5. to ensure the supremacy of law
6. to maintain democracy
7. to respect pluralism
8. to resolve the problems of human rights
   violations of the indigenous inhabitants of Papua

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The cross cutting? 1

• The land of peace vs the land of rumour and
  terror
• Trust and inclusivity divergent policies,
  horizontal inequalities, polarized groups

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The cross cutting? 2

• Cargo cult increased violence against women,
  negative peace, primordial leaderships and
  circulation of elites
• Livelihood alongside security approach
  deviation, freedom of expression, restriction vs
  access to basic rights

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The cross cutting? 3

• Politics of representation lack of common
  paradigm
• Culturally incompatible policies traditional vs
  positive/modern, internal capacity to resolve
  conflict, anomic society in social change
• Commoditization and privatization of communal
  rights

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The cutting edge? 1

• Crisis prevention lull period
• Safety valve ethnodevelopment- cultural
  integrity as part of human rights, deconstruction
  of the history, transparent parameter to exercise
  freedom of expression, affirmative action on
  distributive justice, open dialogue against
  polarization

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The cutting edge? 2

• Combating inferiority complex sustainable and
  dignified social change
• Protection on vulnerable groups exclusion and
  survivors
• Resolving anomalies coping with double
  approaches, politics of representation and
  anomie, synergized effort on democratization

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Thank you!