The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, Tue, 11/15/2011
Instead of
sending another official to Papua to organize dialogue, some Papuan tribe
elders expected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono himself to meet the Papuan
people.
“The Papuan
people have been longing to talk directly to the President,” A tribe elder from
Lapago region, John Haluk, said on Tuesday as quoted by kompas.com.
He said
that in order to make sure that the local administration didn’t ignore this
aspiration he intended to stage a mass rally in front of the local legislative
council building on Wednesday morning.
SBY has
sent his former colleague in the army Lt. Gen. (ret) Bambang Dharmono to begin
dialogue with the Papuan people as a response to the recent tensions in the
easternmost province that have claimed the lives of more than 10 people and
injured dozens of others.
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