So A Latent Problem, Coordinating Minister For Political, Legal And Security Affairs Immediately Sends A Team To Resolve Land Disputes In Papua

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD said he would send a team to Papua and Maluku. This team will be asked to resolve land conflicts which are a latent problem in the area.

"The land issue in Papua is a very basic and latent problem now in Maluku as well, so later I will send a team there," said Mahfud in a video caption that was shown on the YouTube of the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs monitored by Voi.id, Friday, January 28.

With the deployment of this team, it is hoped that this land problem can be overcome. Moreover, these problems have created conflicts in the community, as happened in Haruku Village, Maluku.

"We will try to find a solution to the land problem so that there will be legal certainty. How to build legal certainty on land in Papua and Maluku because that is always a latent problem from time to time," he stressed.

Previously, Mahfud MD had stated that the recent conflicts in the Maluku, Papua and West Papua regions did not occur because of ethnic, religious, racial, and inter-group (SARA) issues. After all, the situation in the region is now under control.

He said that recently there have been three violent incidents that occurred in Eastern Indonesia, such as conflicts between residents in Haruku Village, Maluku to the burning of entertainment venues in West Papua. However, he said this whole incident happened because of pure conflict.

"In West Papua, there were cases where people entertained conflicts, then there were fights and houses were burned, entertainment venues were burned, then 17 people died," said Mahfud.

"Then in Haruku, land conflicts between villagers who claim each other because they may be of different ethnic groups is a conflict. So it's not SARA. In the sense that SARA, which is known in politics, is pure conflict," added the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK).

As for the TNI shooting in Papua, Mahfud said it happened because of the new approach that is now defensive. So that in the future, the TNI Commander General Andika Perkasa will re-evaluate the approach he uses even though he has succeeded in minimizing civilian casualties.

"Then in Papua there have been shootings in recent times, indeed some TNI residents have died, but indeed it is a new change in the situation in the new approach, the TNI is now defensive, not offensive," he said.

"Now how to be defensive with this new approach, according to the Commander in Chief, will be evaluated and perfected immediately," he concluded.