Next Year, Lemhannas Will Have An Escalation Of Violence In Papua, Governor Andi: Hopefully, I Can Help The Government Find Solutions

JAKARTA - The National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas) will begin reviewing Papua in 2023 after the new autonomy area (DOB).

"It will start next year for a Papua study. Especially related to the new autonomy (DOB) area," said Lemhannas Governor Andi Widjajanto, Jakarta, Wednesday, December 21.

Lemhannas will review the readiness of the DOB in Papua, namely Southwest Papua, Mountains Papua, Central Papua, and South Papua to participate in the 2024 General Election and the 2024 Simultaneous Pilkada.

"That will later be a special Papuan study," he said as quoted by Antara.

In addition to the issue of the DOB in Papua, said Andi, Lemhannas will conduct a special study regarding the escalation of violence in Papua. Lemhannas will begin reviewing the symptoms of violence first.

"Only then did he move to find structural roots in Papua, whether the structural roots were found in historical factors, identity factors or for example welfare distribution factors," he said.

Lemhannas is well aware that Papua is a complex problem and cannot be simplified so that in the study of the institution it will be carried out on a cross-level basis.

"It is hoped that our studies in 2023 on Papua can help the government find more comprehensive solutions to the economy and politics in Papua," he said.

Andi explained that Papua is one of the focuses of strategic studies conducted by Lemhannas RI in addition to five other topics, namely the consolidation of democracy, digital transformation, a green economy, a blue economy, and the development of the capital city of the archipelago (IKN).

"The sixth is Papua, the seventh is a crisis, and the eighth is geopolitical," said Andi.