Special Autonomy (Otsus) Papua Province, which is mandated in the Law. 21 Year in 2001, has been running about nine years. More appropriate in today's age can already benefit the people of Papua, but in reality it reaps a lot of controversy, both from the substance, interpretation and Implementation, which is caused by so fast dynamics. Even the discourse appears to restore the special autonomy. The Indonesian government should have a good commitment in implementing the special autonomy. So the weakness in Otsus not politicized by foreign interests, government officials and separatist groups for their interests.

 

In Overcoming  the negative efforts, Neles Tebay of the Jayapura Archdiocese said the government needed to sit down with representatives of various groups in Papua to better understand the factors that have been threatening the livelihoods of Papuans, and to seek solutions to security and hunger problems that have been plaguing the resource-rich province. “A dialogue is needed between the central government and groups representing the people of Papua,” Neles said.

They are the two sides that have been fighting each other all this time, and they each have different interests: the government wants a united nation and the Papuans want freedom, he said. Giving Papua special autonomy could have been the right answer, Neles said. “But the autonomy Papua has now was not reached through a process of dialogue, or understanding with the central government. So, its implementation has become messy.” While autonomy has given the government a way to get money to the province, the government has not provided a legal framework to regulate what is done with it, Neles said. A law on special autonomy for Papua was enacted in 2001, and many saw this as a breakthrough that would appease the province’s demands for separation from Indonesia. However, after nine years the separatist movements remain active and the province continues to struggling with poverty and illiteracy, despite the Rp 30 trillion (US$3.2 billion) in special autonomy funds that have been spent on the area.

The most important thing is that all stake holders convene to dialogue to give constructive input for Papua. Therefore, the national dialogue is expected to focus on four root problems in Papua: education, health, infrastructure and prosperity." Papuan groups have also called on the central and local government, the TNI and POLRI on the one side and the OPM on the other, to engage in a cease-fire as a prerequisite to the national dialogue, saying it was impossible to prepare dialogue while the military continued its operation in the two provinces. There are unresolved problems inPapua. 1.Controversy over Papuan People's Free Choice in 1969. 2 Controversy over the military operation in Papua3. Human rights abuses during and after the New Order era . 4. Poor educational service. 5. Poor health service. 6. Poverty. 7. Migrants and social disparity. 8. Stagnant special autonomy. 9. Unfair fiscal balance. 10. Planned development of Papua into five provinces.

Sitting together and discuss all the problems in Papua to get win-win solution is better way to solve the issues of Papua. Besides that,  dialogue just involve two party are the central government and the Papuan so that they know each other  what’s  the problems was happened in Papua and both of the party have commitment to implemented the result of agreements to solve all the issues of Papua.  

Clifton/PT July 19, 2010