The Forum for Regional Heads in the Customary Lands of Tabi and Saireri agreed that Otsus Papua would continue

This support was stated in the mutual agreement after a workshop on the evaluation of Papua's Special Autonomy in the Tabi and Seireri Adat areas at the Sunni Garden Lake Sentani Hotel, Jayapura Regency, Monday (24/8/2020).

In the agreement, there were 11 points signed by 8 regents and 1 mayor in the customary territories of Seireri and Tabi.

Namely the Regent of Jayapura, the Mayor of Jayapura, the Regent of Keerom, the Regent of Supiori, the Regent of Biak Numfor, the Regent of Sarmi, the Regent of Yapen Islands, and the Regent of Waropen.

The eleven points of the collective agreement are recommendations for the improvement and rearrangement of Special Autonomy Volume II, namely; Structuring and regulating government affairs which fall under the authority of the Regency / City within the framework of Papua's special autonomy.

There must be an agency or ministry that regulates special autonomy at the center, there must be a Special Autonomy Budget Priority List (DPA), there must be a Development Coordination Meeting (RAKORBANG) which is special for regional development planning.

Furthermore, there must be a Grand Design Otsus for 5 (five) main programs (education, health, economy, infrastructure).

The amount of the special autonomy fund originating from the 2% ceiling of the DAU and the Additional Infrastructure Fund must be increased from the current arrangement in the provisions of article 34 of Law Number 21 of 2001 concerning Special Autonomy for Papua Province.

Reorganizing the distribution mechanism for Infrastructure Supplementary Funds between Provinces and Districts / Cities. Then, there must be a special arrangement for regional head elections.

The election of members of the Provincial DPRD and Regency / Municipal DPRDs must be specifically regulated. Establishment of a New Autonomous Region (Province) in the indigenous territories of Ha-Anim, Lapago, Mepago. The positions of Regional Head and Regional Representative at the Regency / City level are filled by native Papuans.

The Regent of Yapen Islands, Tony Tesar, told the media crew on the occasion that the request to increase the amount of special autonomy funds was to boost development in Papua.

"Earlier it was conveyed by the governor's expert staff that currently the Papua special autonomy fund allocation is 2 percent of the National DAU. This is still very small, so an agreement is proposed for 10 percent. With this nominal, the acceleration of Papua development can be equal to other regions can be done, and 10 percent that I think is very appropriate, "said Tony.

Even so, his party hopes that the central government can consider the regional proposal. Although it is said that the most important thing about Otsus is its proper use.

"We want to say that, the most important thing is the good management of the special autonomy fund. We all know that based on the BPK examination, there is a Papua Province silva fund, which is the remaining funds for the 2018-2019 budget stored in Bank Papua amounting to Rp1, 8 trillion. This is if we share it. it can get Rp200 billion per regency / city. So good management is more important, so that the Special Autonomy funds are really used for the welfare of the Papuan people, "he concluded.