{"id":30873,"date":"2025-08-28T21:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suaranewspapua.com\/?p=30873"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:06:47","slug":"papua-rising-ngo-urges-citizens-to-focus-on-economic-development-not-political-euphoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/papua-rising-ngo-urges-citizens-to-focus-on-economic-development-not-political-euphoria\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPapua Rising NGO Urges Citizens to Focus on Economic Development, Not Political Euphoria\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jayapura<\/strong> \u2013 Hengky Jokhu, Chairman of the Papua Rising NGO, delivered his message following the Repeat Gubernatorial Election (PSU) in Papua. He emphasized that democracy in Papua should be a platform for unity, not a trap for debates over ethnicity or religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis gubernatorial election is nothing new for us. Special Autonomy clearly stipulates that the Governor must be an Indigenous Papuan and elected democratically. We have followed that rule. If there are still those dissatisfied, the legal process is the proper avenue\u2014not the spread of sectarian issues,\u201d Hengky stated firmly yet calmly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Hengky, politics should remain a healthy space for competition. He warned that linking leaders to their ethnic, religious, or racial backgrounds could become a poison that undermines democracy. \u201cIn North Maluku, people can practice democracy without sectarian narratives. Why can\u2019t we do the same in Papua?\u201d he asked pointedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hengky underlined that anyone who runs for office\u2014as long as they are Indigenous Papuan\u2014has the same right to be elected. \u201cThis is a five-year political mandate. If their performance is good, the people will re-elect them. There is no need for division simply because of different political choices,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further reminded the public not to be carried away by political euphoria that could trigger fragmentation. According to him, Papua\u2019s main challenge today is no longer identity politics but rather economic development in the wake of the establishment of new autonomous regions (DOB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet us put an end to negative narratives. We must not allow the Papuan people themselves to become the victims. Let us focus on building the economy, because it is through that path that stability and growth can be achieved together,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayapura \u2013 Hengky Jokhu, Chairman of the Papua Rising NGO, delivered his message following the Repeat Gubernatorial Election (PSU) in Papua. He emphasized that democracy in Papua should be a platform for unity, not a trap for debates over ethnicity or religion. \u201cThis gubernatorial election is nothing new for us. Special Autonomy clearly stipulates that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6854],"tags":[7948,7949],"class_list":["post-30873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headline-news","tag-papua-rising-ngo-urges-citizens-to-focus-on-economic-development","tag-not-political-euphoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30874,"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30873\/revisions\/30874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suaranewspapua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}