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Comments: Religious leaders hope for peaceful Papua
May 20, p5Religious leaders across the country have expressed their hope that the next president will be able to restore peace and maintain national unity, particularly in Papua
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Religious leaders across the country have expressed their hope that the next president will be able to restore peace and maintain national unity, particularly in Papua.
The leaders were speaking during the Sixth National Conference of the Indonesian Inter-Faith Network (JAII) in Sentani, Jayapura, Papua.
Your comments:
'Hope' may be good for the religious but the army and police should never use it to pursue peace and justice for all.
There are laws and regulations that govern behavior and acceptable norms anywhere and everywhere in the world.
If our political leaders focus on getting rich and ignore the plight of people against terrorists and deviants, divisions and strife will continue to flourish.
That's for sure.
Pauloh
Let us hope this will be the case. Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon Islands have proved to be failures as independent countries. Since independence and despite billions in aid money, the position of PNG in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has declined (from number 77 to around 150).
The Solomon Islands' capital of Honiara is once again subject to looting and violence.
Jagera
