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Ulayat Rights

Chapter 69 The Right of Ulayat

PT. Blue Marine Papua is located in Holtekamp Village, Muara Tami District, Jayapura city. The company stands on an area of 200 hectares, just on the beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It is about 60 minutes from Skow, the border of Papua New Guinea and 15 minutes from downtown Jayapura.

From the land area used for fabrication facilities, both open and closed spaces, including office buildings and employee messes, as much as 100 hectares will be used as green open space.

Here also built Training Center as one of the contents of the MoU with the government and indigenous communities with the company as a form of participation of companies in building a competitive and competent Papuan community, especially in the oil and gas industry.

And Azka knew where he would build a palace for his beloved wife. With the topographic condition of the land of Jayapura city which is mostly hills, he has determined the point where the palace will be built. From the area of 200 hectares of his, in it almost 70 hectares are hills that line the shoreline. From home, to the north, we will find a magnificent view of the Pacific Ocean stretching far. From the west, the beauty of the sunset and the blinking of urban lights will spoil the eyes from evening to morning. From the east, the misty green forest in the morning will say hello. And to the south, of course, there will be yard activity that will also not be less interesting from above an altitude of about 50 to 100 meters above sea level.

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As Azka and Aldo's car approached the entrance of the office, dozens of people were standing there with arrows and samurai in hand holding their cars. Aldo was forced to pull over the car and went out to meet the people who gathered and it was seen they had done a wooden crossing at the gate of the office.

In traditional Papuan law, ulayat rights are communal ownership rights over land based on clans and based on the combination of several clans. Customary law already regulates ownership of land, forests, mountains and everything in it throughout the land of Papua.

Furthermore, customary land rights should be registered to the local land office. But the indigenous legal community refused on the grounds that it would degrade the authority of indigenous leaders, and so on. That is what has always been the problem as if Papua customary law is an obstacle to development.

In land rights disputes that occur in Papua are more dominant settled by local chieftains or Ondoafi.

Problems or conflicts are often complained by the heads of offices or project leaders related to development projects in Papua, because in the development fund derived from the government budget does not accommodate costs in case of cross-pollination by local residents. Though the cost of completion is very large or significant drain project funds.

Sometimes disputes that occur are difficult to understand logically. There are also incidents, an office head has resolved the issue of customary land rights at considerable cost. But when the head of the office was replaced with a new one, there was another wood cutting at the office.

As has been often experienced by the government and other entrepreneurs, now the same problem faced Azka. There is one clan of indigenous peoples who claim to have not been involved in land acquisition. They are demanding extraordinary damages that make no sense. They really took advantage of this moment cruelly where the company has almost 95% completed and the plan is one more month to operate.

As usual, these communities let the project run after the land acquisition process is completed. But at the end, when the project is ready to operate, then there will be clans who come to claim to have rights to the land and have not received compensation so they feel entitled to do the crossing.

Inevitably, the project owner is forced to meet their demands, it is impossible not to leave something that has been built with difficulty just like that?

Seeing that Aldo was overwhelmed by the emotions of society that seemed difficult to control because most of them were under the influence of alcohol, Azka finally approached them and asked their representatives to join Azka into the company.

Unfortunately, they refused, they wanted the problem solved right now and in that place as well. The atmosphere grew hotter when this part of society began to provoke and be provoked.

Meanwhile, the hundreds of workers inside the yard also began to gather with combat equipment that was not arguably as makeshift. If allowed to drag on, war could not be avoided.

The atmosphere really started to grip when one of the people pulled Azka's body to follow her. Sontak Aldo and other employees do not accept and have fled the office area.

Tension was inevitable, some arrows had already been glued to the target, some people were starting to get injured. Luckily, the TNI and Brimob troops soon came and managed to stop the war.

Azka and Aldo were also wounded by samurai sabetage while trying to escape the siege of society. This incident made the atmosphere of the city of Jayapura again gripping when the immigrant community did not accept the casualties and some houses around the company were burned by the mob.

Ambulance passed carrying victims to the hospital, dozens of employees were injured. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but 5 employees are still in critical condition at this time.

Dea who heard the news immediately lean boneless in her room stared at the news report she was watching. After rediscovering his consciousness, with tears streaming down, he kept calling Azka's phone but it went unanswered, as did Aldo.

His phone is now ringing, but from Aya's mother who is very worried about them. Mother Aya tries hard to calm Dea down and says that Azka is fine after Arga's father gets the news directly from the employees at the office.

Soon his phone rings again.

"Assalamu'alaikum.nang Azka.bu.hiks.."

"Wa'alaikum greetings, dear. Don't cry, brother is fine. You calm down, okay.oke.this look, brother is fine." Azka's speech calmed Dea down by making her phone slightly away so that the camera could take most of her body.

"Hikss.hikksss. I'm scared, bang. I.hikss..hikss.." Dea was already unable to continue her words as she could not hold back her sobbing.

"Yes.iya.brother is fine. Brother is now in the hospital accompanying the injured workers. You wait there, brother near, this is in the hospital near the hotel, but you have to meet all the victims first and then you have to go to the police station to settle this matter. Mother and father are already heading here, you wait there well, dear."

Dea wiped her tears and nodded.

"That's all right there."

"You too, take care of our son."

Dea nodded again and tried to stop her crying.

"Be careful, I love you, daddy!"

Degs..

Azka's heart skipped a beat, her smile expanded, she even had time to forget the pain in her arm due to getting the expression of love from Dea. How not, this is the first time Dea who first said these words to him, all this time Azka who always revealed them first and then answered by Dea, so far, sometimes even just answered a nod or smile by Dea.

"I love you, too. mommy. I love you, I always love you, more and more." His words were glazed over and was met with a smile by Dea.

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Sorry, there is no tendency to corner indigenous peoples or OAP (native people of Papua) here. The author only tells about the bad habits that often occur here and this is not always wrong with the community because most entrepreneurs who invest here are quite naughty and take advantage of the situation to the detriment of the country. One of them is illegal logging that damages the forests of Papua that occur throughout the land of Papua today.

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