The Community is Waiting for Special Autonomy for Papua Volume II

The government has given a signal to extend Papua's Special Autonomy. The community also supports the sustainability of Special Autonomy for Papua Volume II because it has proven to be able to bring prosperity to the people.

If we refer to law 21/2001 regarding the special autonomy (otsus) of Papua, the autonomy funds will only be given for 20 years and will end in the next 2021.

This has provoked a question mark, considering that there are still development problems in Papua, even though through Otsus the government has poured trillions of rupiah for the provinces of Papua and West Papua.

These two provinces are still listed as regions with high poverty rates and low HDI when compared to other provinces. In fact, the Papua region is also experiencing economic growth conditions of minus 15.72 percent in 2019.

This kind of situation can certainly be an irony if it is related to the amount of the special autonomy fund allocation and the authority held by regional governments in the governance of regional development.

The central government has decided that the Papua Special Autonomy, especially the distribution of the special autonomy fund, will be continued through submitting a revision of the Papua Special Autonomy Law which is now included in the DPR Prolegnas for the 2019-2024 period.

Through this revision, it is hoped that various problems stemming from the weakness of the special autonomy regulation and its derivative regulations can be corrected so that the autonomy can provide maximum benefits for the Papuan people and the various deviations that have occurred previously can be avoided.