Abstract For decades, Indonesia has designed, deployed, and shifted various policies, agendas, and strategies to sustain peace in Papua. Indonesia has produced new security policies, enacted development strategies, made a special region for Papua, employed reterritorialization, and announced the possibility of dialogues. Yet the outputs and outcomes of building peace in Papua have not been satisfying. The practice of building peace as argued by this article remains entangled in the complexities of internal and external social processes. The key internal social process identified in this article affecting peace is in governing legitimacy. Meanwhile, the external social process identified herein, which shapes the contours and direction of peace, has been geopolitics. By disentangling the complexities of two processes, this article aims to understand how social processes are impacting peace.
I Ketut Putra Erawan (Fri,) studied this question.