Journal Article

dynamics of contemporary local-government policies and economic development in West Papua

Mollet, Julius Ary

2011

Overview

There have been enormous political, economic, and social changes in West Papua. Every governor of West Papua has designed programmes to boost economic development and reduce poverty. The influx of migrant workers under the ‘transmigration programme’ into West Papua has limited the job opportunities for indigenous people in the labour market. This article concludes that the local government's strategies failed to deliver suitable development programmes to the local people, which resulted in increased poverty, the continuing poor development of the education system, and the deterioration of the population's health condition, with a rise in the number of Papuans infected with HIV and AIDS.

• Publisher: Routledge,Routledge, Taylor & Francis,Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subject: Access to health care / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome / AIDS / Antipoverty Programs / Business structures / Deterioration / Development policy / Development programmes / Development Programs / Development Strategies / Economic change / Economic Development / economic policy / Economics / Education / Educational crisis / Educational Systems / Employment Opportunities / Financial investments / Governance / Governance and public policy / Government programmes / Governors / Health Care Services Policy / HIV / HIV infections / Human immunodeficiency virus / Indigenous peoples / Indigenous Populations / Indonesia / Intervention / Job opportunities / Labor Market / Labour and livelihoods / Labour market participation / Local Government / Low income groups / Markets / Migrant Workers / Migrants / Papua New Guinea / Papua, Indonesia / Politics / Poor / Population / Poverty / Poverty alleviation / Poverty relief / Professional Training / Provincial government / Public health / Public policy / Social change / South Asia / Transmigration / Villages