JAKARTA - In the eight years that a special autonomy has been in place in Papua, the people there still do not enjoy improved welfare, partly because incompetent government actions in the two provinces. An official from West Papua said that both provincial governments had wasted some 30 trillion Rupiah (2.1 billion euro) in funds meant to support autonomy.
Jimmy Demianus Ijie said this after a meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Thursday. "To be fair, Papuan people, especially the provincial governments, have to criticize themselves for the failure of the special autonomy program in Papua. The incompetence has caused a whopping Rp 30 trillion in state losses," Jimmy told.
The biggest part of the money has been lost into bureaucracy and local government officials with only a smaller part really spent on stimulating the local economy. "The provincial governments should have rejected the special autonomy funds at that time because the central government had not yet issued regulations on the utilization of the money," said Jimmy.
He regretted that the corruption watchdog KPK did not take any action against misuses of the funds. The KPK has sent teams to Papua a few times, but nothing has come from those visits yet, Jimmy told. Jimmy brought a visit to Kalla to ask him to be the mediator in a national dialogue to address the problems in Papua and West Papua provinces. Both provinces still are listed as underdeveloped regions.
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JAKARTA - In the eight years that a special autonomy has been in place in Papua, the people there still do not enjoy improved welfare, partly because incompetent government actions in the two provinces. An official from West Papua said that both provincial governments had wasted some 30 trillion Rupiah (2.1 billion euro) in funds meant to support autonomy.
