Speaking at the Timika Inside Festival of Art in Mimika District on Thursday (July 18), Wetipo underlined that the district is home to 314 thousand multicultural people, with 38 percent of the region's population being indigenous Papuans.
In his office's statement received here on Friday, he deems it mandatory for the Mimika district government to provide the people, especially those from younger generation, with a platform that can facilitate them to augment their potential and display their diversity.
"The local government here can provide the people with a dedicated space in the form of a cultural park, a place where residents can perform cultural attractions funded by the government every weekend," he remarked.
The deputy minister expressed belief that a cultural park could help people in Central Papua hone their artistic skills and polish the province's image, dispelling the assumption that it is prone to conflicts.
"As the deputy minister of home affairs, I hope that regional governments here will make efforts to facilitate their people by providing them with public spaces," he added.
He then emphasized that human development is key to actualizing the proper development of infrastructure.
“We should not focus solely on the development of infrastructure, as it is equally important to pay attention to matters related to human development. This is because every development is driven by humans,” he added.
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