Building a New Papua
Development in Papua has been showing slow progress for 50 years. The enormous size and difficult geography of the region made decision makers in Papua change their development strategy. Villages now become the focus of growth.
March 10, 2009
UNDER the National Program for Community Empowerment of Self-reliance Community (PNPM Mandiri), hundreds of local young people are committed to a prosperous Papua. They are willing to live in isolated villages with limited access and services. They have only one mission: to build a new Papua. They are the soul, backbone, and blood of Papua.
Common people, they have no dreams to work in fancy buildings. They deal with bad roads, mud, and security
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