Conflicting residents to reconcile in Malino

PALU: Conflicting residents of the Nunu and Tawanjuka villages in Palu are scheduled to hold a reconciliation meeting in Malino, Central Sulawesi, on Tuesday. The meeting will be held under the initiative of the Palu city administration.

Head of the Palu National Unity and Politics Agency Ajenkris said on Monday that the meeting would be presided over by Palu deputy mayor Rusdy Masturam with 20 representatives of Nunu village in West Palu and 20 others from Tawanjuka, South Palu. “They will be motivators and public figures in the two villages,” Ajenkris said.

He said that such a meeting had frequently been held involving representatives from the two villages in Palu. The last one was sponsored by
Central Sulawesi Legislative Council member HS Shaleh Muhammad Aldjufri on Sunday. “They always expressed a readiness to reconcile at every reconciliation meeting, but soon after the meetings ended they clashed again,” Ajenkris said.

Therefore, the Palu city administration took the initiative to hold the Tuesday meeting in Malino in the hope that the two conflicting sides would end their dispute and broach peace with each other.

Palu Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ahmad Ramadhan said that the reconciliation meeting was demanded by the residents themselves. “The two sides agreed to follow the model of Poso’s conflict settlement, which was marked with the Malino declaration. So the next meeting will be held in Malino to imitate the that declaration in the Poso conflict,” Ahmad said.