Obviously, even BPS 2021 data shows that extreme poverty is also on the island of Java. So if it is true that expansion is a "cure" for poverty, it should be East Java, with a population of nearly 50 million, that is being expanded, not Papua!
Next, financial capability. October 2020 Cenderawasih University released its study on the NAR plan in Papua. Uncen concluded that all regions in Papua did not meet the requirements for expansion, because the amount of PAD was not more than 50% and only hoped from central transfers. Uncen even concluded that the current districts such as Nduga, Mulia, Yahukimo, and Pegunungan Bintang should be merged back into the parent district. In West Papua, Maybrat, Arfak Mountains, Tambrauw, etc., should also be merged because the PAD is not more than 2%.
So expansion in Papua will only increase the burden on state finances and eventually the state debt will increase. The regime is keen on NAR Papua due to the bourgeoisie's strategy to legalize crazy investment in Papua to drain Papua's natural wealth under the pretext of "supporting development".
In addition, forced expansion in Papua will be followed by expansion of police structures and extra-territorial commands ranging from Kodam-Polda to Polsek and Koramil. In Papua I Made Supriatna reported the results of his study that 40 people are supervised by 1 military person. Expansion = strengthening of militarist restraints on Papuans' freedom of movement, speech and assembly.
Lastly: area. With the pretext that Papua is three times the size of Java, Papua can be divided into several DOBs. Expansion for whom, if the population is lacking? Clearly not for the people of West Papua, let alone OAP and indigenous peoples.
Fourth, expansion is not a solution to conflict. The Indonesian Institute of Sciences has concluded that there are four main problems related to Papua: the exclusion of the indigenous population, development failures, state violence and human rights violations, and the unfinished political status of Papua. The exclusion is clearly due to massive occupation from outside Papua, expansion will exacerbate this problem, not provide a solution.
The failure of development, 60 years of Indonesia occupying Papua, various programs that according to Indonesia build have been given. Then why haven't the Papuan people, who number no more than three million, prospered? Is it possible that development is not for Papuans but to facilitate capitalist and imperialist companies to exploit the Papuan people, extract natural resources, by destroying the environment? Filep Karma sarcastically emphasized at the April 2021 Â rejection rally that "Papuans are already a minority in two provinces, let alone making many provinces?"
As for violence and human rights violations, since Indonesia first occupied Papua on December 19, 1961 until 2000, 15 military operations have been carried out in Papua. According to Gemima Harvey 500,000 Papuans were killed during these operations. Even today, military operations are still ongoing in Nduga, Intan Jaya, Lani Jaya, Oksibil, Yahukimo, Maybrat, and almost all of Papua, where violence occurs every day. Amnesty International's latest report revealed that throughout 2018-2021 there were 95 civilians who were victims of unlawful violence by TNI / Polri officers. This is not the total number of victims since 2000. The main perpetrators are TNI / Polri. So the regime must withdraw the military, not NAR which actually adds troops.
Regarding political status, the struggle for Papua between Indonesia and the Netherlands which took place from the 1950s to the 1960s is the root of the Papuan conflict which continues to be debated and fought for by the West Papuan people to this day. Whereas December 1, 1961 the West Papuan people through the New Guinea Council declared the independence of West Papua.
The United States, eager to steal Papua's gold deposits in Timika, then acted as a mediator to bring the Dutch and Indonesians together without involving a single Papuan on August 15, 1962. The result was the New York Agreement, an agreement consisting of 29 articles that generally regulates the transfer of power from the Netherlands to the UN and then the UN to Indonesia and then Indonesia organizes the determination of the Papuan people's opinion (PEPERA). Article XVIII, especially parts a and d, regulates the election mechanism in PEPERA. Particularly article d emphasizes that those entitled to vote are indigenous Papuans, both men and women.
In 1969 PEPERA was held, and in accordance with Article XVIII section d all adult Papuans, or 800,000 at the time, should have been involved in voting. But in practice Indonesia only selected 1,025 people to vote. In the end, Indonesia won the PEPERA, or more precisely, the "raw deception" event.
