In this interview Dr. I Ngurah Suryawan explained that one of the triggers for the recent riots was the dissatisfaction of indigenous Papuans with the Jokowi government program which had promised to solve the problem of human rights violations in Papua but to date there was no continuation. And also the government is considered to have failed with the development of Papuans where poverty rates among indigenous Papuans keep increasing.
Dr. I Ngurah Suryawan, born in Denpasar, Bali. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Literature, in the Department of Anthropology, University of Papua, and obtained his Doctoral degree through the Humanities Program (Anthropology), Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta in collaboration with the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Leiden University.
He also wrote many books about Papua and many of his experiences are outlined in his books:
Broken Soul (2012)
Search for the Morning: Ethnographic Fragments (2014)
Papua Versus Papua: Cultural Disunity and Change (2017)
Voices Abolished: Ontran-ontran Endless on Earth Papua (2018)
Dim Living Space: Concussion Ecology in Merauke, Papua (2018)
Kitong Pu Mimpi: Anthropologization and Transformation of the Papuan People (2018)
