JAKARTA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's West Papua province should use special autonomy status wisely to build the region, representatives of the region said on Tuesday.

    Jimmy Daminanus Ijie, vice deputy of Local House of Representatives, said that the province's elites need to change their mentality, which were vindictive and often forgetting who they are.

    "The issue of separatism never sleeps for years as the local elites do not change their mentality to build their own region," Ijie told the press in the parliamentary building.

    Yorris Raweyai, a member of parliament, said that the separatism issue in the region never sleeps during 45 years.

    "The government should find a correct formula to handle the issue," said Raweyai. 

Indonesia needs to return to its genuine way of life: experts

    JAKARTA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Leaders and senior officials in Indonesia were urged to return in abiding Pancasila instead of practicing the pragmatic liberalism values in carrying out their tasks, experts said here on Tuesday.

    Speaking in a seminar entitled "Indonesia Next, New Hope" discussing the government's political moves exercised at the moment, experts said that the current democracy and western-style liberalism was not fit for the country.  Full story