Jakarta – Young Papuan intellectual in the mountains, Charles Kossay, said that he appreciates the seriousness of President Jokowi’s government in accelerating Papua’s development through the New Autonomous Region (DOB) of Papua.
According to him, currently President Joko Widodo’s government is very serious about developing Papua, including the expansion of the Papua region through 4 new autonomous regions in Papua. Apart from that, Charles Kossay also invited all elements of society in Papua to work together hand in hand to build the progress of the Earth of Cendrawasih.
“As a young Papuan and Indonesia’s golden generation, I am very optimistic that President Joko Widodo’s government is currently very serious about developing the Land of Papua, so that all the components in the Land of Papua work together to build the progress of the Land of Papua,” said Charles Kossay when met at Jakarta Monday (18/9/2023).
On the same occasion, Charles Kossay said that the New Autonomous Region (DOB) of Papua, which consists of the provinces of Central Papua, South Papua, Southwest Papua and Mountain Papua, has good benefits for the progress and welfare of the Papuan people.
“I see that the expansion of Papua is very good for the welfare of indigenous Papuans,” he said.
According to him, with the Papua region being so vast and large, there needs to be expansion to shorten the vulnerability of government administrative control, and meet the needs of the Papuan people in various sectors.
“Moreover, Papua is very vast and large, so there needs to be expansion to reduce the vulnerability of government administrative control and also to the needs of the indigenous Papuan community in the economic, education, infrastructure and health sectors as mandated by the Papua Special Autonomy Law,” said Kossay.
The Papuan Mountains intellectual hopes that with the existence of the Papua Special Region, Papua can be even more advanced and catch up with other provinces in Indonesia.
“My hope is that with the existence of this new new autonomous region, Papua will be more advanced and better, the same as other provinces in Indonesia,” he said.
Meanwhile, young Papuan mountain intellectual Charles Kossay said the Papuan Terrorist Separatist Group (KST Papua) was an obstacle to development in the New Autonomous Region (DOB) Papua. For this reason, Charles asked the security forces to be able to eradicate KST Papua so that they no longer disturb the Papuan people with their cruel actions that kill civilians and also destroy public facilities and residents’ homes.
“I see that the obstacle to the development of Papua is the KST group, so we hand everything over to law enforcement officials so that they can secure and monitor the situations that occur in Papua,” he said.
Apart from that, Charles Kossay also expressed his condolences over the murder of Papuan female activist Michelle Kurisi carried out by KST Papua. The young Papuan mountain intellectual hopes that security forces can immediately arrest the perpetrator of the murder.
“Recently, regarding what happened to Michelle Kurisi, I personally express my condolences and I hope that the family left behind will be given courage and forgiveness from God, and I also hope that the perpetrator of the murder will be caught and prosecuted according to the applicable law,” concluded Kossay.
