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REMDEC just facilitated a Training Workshop on Making Road Map of Village Owned Companies (Badan Usaha Milik Desa, BUMD) held in Bantaeng District, Province of South Sulawesi, 14-23 November 2011. The idea to form BUMD inline with decentralization policy since 1998. According to National Law No.32/2004, village --as autonomous unit-- have authority to manage local economic resources as long as not regulated yet at higher (district, province, and national) levels. For that purpose, every village can issuing a particular Village Regulation (Peraturan Desa, PERDES) and should establish BUMD as their implementing agency. To what extent this idea have and can actually implemented in reality? In the Training Workshop, discussion among participants have rising some important and interesting issues.
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On November 4, 2011, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have launched their primary annual document, i.e. the report on human development index of the year (2011). Under the title of Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All, the report already covers almost of the countries around the world. Indonesia was put on the list at rank of 124 of 187 countries, so, came into category of 'medium level'. The rank was dropped down from previous year (2010), 108 of 169 countries. Since there are 18 new countries was added in the list --beside some changes in its method and composite indices-- have triggered a public debate here: is Indonesia actually 'upgraded', 'not moved', or even 'depromoted'?
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Recently, criticism on the performance of police in Papua appears again in the headlines of national mass media. Massive riots in Timika, especially around mining concession area of Freeport, triggering the issue. Some analysisi even came to the conclusion that the upheaval reaffirm the failures of Indonesian government and security forces, especially police, to enforce law within the frame of human rights and social justice in Papua. Two years ago, from January to March 2009, in cooperation betwen the Indonesian National Police (Kepolisian Republik Indonesia, POLRI) and International Organization for Migration (IOM), REMDEC have conducted an extensive study on community policing in Papua, covering all of 26 regencies both in Papua and Papua Barat Provinces. One of the most important and main findings is that presence of police in Papua still need an extra efforts to shift the old 'security approach' towards a new paradigm of 'fulfilling community sense of safety and justice' particularly for Papuan people. Here is an excerpt of some parts of the report of the study...
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