Download or read book Platitudes of Papua written by Bobby Anderson and published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IndonesiaÕs challenge in the Land of Papua is to provide both justice and welfare to her people and their land. And PapuaÕs resource wealth hardly guarantees development to her people, as Papua sits at the bottom of IndonesiaÕs national human development index. The book is an eyewitness account of Papua written by Bobby Anderson, an American who worked among grassroots indigenous groups in remote parts of Papua. In it he unveils the bitter fact of an almost non-existent state, and the barest of services or protections provided to a people neglected by the modern world, starting with Jakarta. Political issues, separatism, and violence are not the focus of his writing. The missing links in public services ultimately result in the denial of human security and social justice to Papuans, and this is the main focus of Bobby AndersonÕs writingÑpresented in the spirit of a common humanity, and not blaming, but rather, seeking solutions. ÐÐ Bobby Anderson is the author of ÒPapuaÕs Insecurity: State Failure in the Indonesian PeripheryÓ (East-West Center Policy Studies 73, 2015). He worked in Papua, Indonesia from 2010 until 2015; he has also worked in the Indonesian provinces of Aceh, Central Sulawesi, North Maluku, and Maluku, as well as Myanmar, Timor- Leste, Afghanistan, and the former Yugoslavia. Bobby has managed stabilization, community-driven development, ex- combatant reintegration, livelihoods, frontline service delivery, and other development projects for a variety of governments and donors; he is a graduate of the University of Bradford (UK) Department of Peace Studies, a former Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University, a former Lee Kuan Yew Scholar at the National University of SingaporeÕs Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and a former Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies.