Vice President Ma'ruf Amin Want A New Design For Papua's Development, Like What?

Waprea Ma'ruf Amin (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin compiled a system and a new, more effective program design to accelerate development in Papua and West Papua Provinces.

"We have to build a new system and design, a more effective way of working in order to be able to produce leaps in welfare progress for the people of Papua and West Papua," said Vice President Ma'ruf at the Vice Presidential Palace in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Wednesday, December 16.

In a meeting of the Steering Committee for the Integrated Team for the Acceleration of Welfare Development in Papua and West Papua Provinces, the Vice President asked his staff to immediately draft the new system so that it could be implemented starting in 2021.

The vice president said the new design for the development of Papua and West Papua emphasized a cultural approach, with priority targets on seven customary areas.

"The priority targets are seven customary areas," he said.

Development in the two eastern provinces of Indonesia is the government's attention through Presidential Instruction (Inpres) Number 9 of 2020 concerning the Acceleration of Welfare Development in Papua and West Papua Provinces and Presidential Decree (Keppres) Number 20 of 2020 concerning the Integrated Coordination Team for the Acceleration of Welfare Development in Papua Province and West Papua Province.

The Vice President also conveyed at the meeting related to the problem of poverty which is still high in the two provinces.

"Therefore, we need to put this Inpres policy perspective into a new spirit and design for Papua, in accordance with the President's direction at the Papua meeting on March 11, 2020," he said.

The Vice President also emphasized that the objective of the Presidential Instruction was to create an advanced, prosperous, peaceful and dignified community for the Papua and West Papua Provinces.

"I need to reiterate that the rationale and purpose of this determination is to prioritize the improvement of the welfare of the people of Papua and West Papua," he said.

Also attending the meeting were Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani, Minister of National Development Planning (PPN) / Head of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Suharso Monoarfa, Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko, Head of the Secretariat of the Vice President (Kasetwapres) Mohamad Oemar, and Special Staff of the Vice President, Bambang Widianto.