INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PAPUAN CULTURAL DIVERSITY 2010

An international event will take place in November 2010 in Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia, consisting of two parts: a conference and a festival.

Part (1): INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PAPUAN CULTURAL DIVERSITY 2010
Location : Gedung Sasana Krida dan Sasana Karya, Kantor Gubernur Papua, Jln. Soa Siu, Jayapura, Papua – Indonesia Date : 8 - 11 November 2010 Participants: Speakers and guests from Papua, Indonesia, and abroad, especially from countries within the Melanesian cultural context such as Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and others.
Part (2): MELANESIAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL 2010 Location: Lapangan PTC Entrop, Jayapura, Papua - Indonesia Date: 11 - 14 November 2010 Participants: Cultural groups and guests from Papua / Eastern Indonesia, and from abroad, especially from countries within the Melanesian cultural context such as Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and others.

LIPI: Papua Bisa Bernasib Sama dengan Timor Leste

VHRmedia, Jakarta – Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI) memprediksi Papua memiliki potensi bernasib sama dengan Timor Leste. Meningkatnya kasus kekerasan dan pembangunan sosial ekonomi yang tidak merata dikhawatirkan memaksa pemerintah mengambil jalan referendum seperti dalam kasus Timor Timur (sekarang Timor Leste).

Pemerintah pusat, terutama Kementerian Koordinasi Politik Hukum dan HAM, terjebak dalam kepentingan integritas negara kesatuan, UU Otonomi Khusus, dan mengabaikan akar konflik di Papua. Pemerintah belum melakukan otokritik dan koreksi atas kegagalan kebijakan politik, hukum, dan keamanan di Papua.

”Kekhawatiran utama tim Papua LIPI jika pemerintah gagal mengatasi konflik akan dipaksa oleh keadaan seperti Timor Timur,” kata Muridan S Widjojo, ketua tim peneliti LIPI, dalam peluncuran buku Papua Road Map, Kamis (12/8).

Menurut Muridan, hilangnya kepercayaan antara institusi di Jakarta dan Papua membuat kepemimpinan politik dan praktik pemerintahan tidak efektif. ”Papua dan Jakarta hanya saling menyalahkan. Terhalang untuk menemukan jalan keluar.”

Muridan menilai konflik Papua harus diselesaikan melalui dialog Jakarta - Papua. Karena, pemerintah pusat dan warga Papua memiliki perbedaan pandangan soal akar masalah di Papua serta cara mengatasinya. ”Kalau hubungan politik buntu, jalan kekerasan makin terbuka. Tanda-tanda kekerasan politik terbukti terus meningkat,” katanya.

Pemda Mimika Send five students to China Lecture

Timika - Government District (regency), Mimika, Papua, this year sent five children graduated from secondary school (high school) for college to China. Students are selected based on the selection results will dikuliahkan at a cost of Mimika regency. The five students are Yansen H Boyau, Onisimus Yemaro, Norbertha Douw that students who graduate from state high schools are one of Mimika, along Apretina Tinal and Delson Mandela.

Department of Secondary Education (Dispenmen) will soon take care of their departure to China. "Five students are indeed prepared to leave for the Chinese government. The cost of their education we help you, the hope when he returned to serve in government Mimika, "said Head Dispenmen Mimika District, Drs. Isaiah Sombuk, met Radar Timika (JPNN group) in his office, yesterday (11 / 8).

Sombuk explained, his side has the departure of five students to discuss problems with the regents. Dispenmen will seek quick effort, so that five children will attend school at the University of China may soon go to Jakarta, for the debriefing of languages and related processing of their visa.

He explained that the five students that will follow 20 students from West Papua who had departed earlier and had participated in debriefing of Chinese in Jakarta. "Staying Mimika are not leaving. Soon I will report to the regents for the Mimika also go to Jakarta soon," he said.

Explained Sombuk, five students who will be dispatched to China had been advised to take economics and finance majors. "Because there is good to learn finance, in the hope that after they graduate can, go in the finance department because of the part, yet there are people of Papua," he explained.


The students are given one week to prepare for either file a diploma, letter of health and self-identification as well as others, and later required to lecture in China. "I am very proud and grateful to the Government of Mimika, which my child has chosen to continue their education abroad," said Lies Boyau, whose son was elected to lecture in China.