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Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesia51as a compromise solution for the Papuan community based onspecial history of integrity of West Irian as a part of Indonesiaterritory. But, in my opinion, the tensions in Irian Jaya willcontinue if they are people outside Asia, who play the roles byspreading propaganda that %u201cPapuan ethnic are not the samewith Indonesian%u201d. They also active spreading the issues ofhuman rights violations %u2014 although they have also doneviolations in the past, even did the %u201cethnic cleaning%u201d on a largescale towards the native people, more cruel then in Bosnia -Herzegovina. Indonesia as a plural society consists of hundredsof ethnics, which differs in language, religion and culture. ThePapuan people is one of ethnic group in the country as well asthe Javanese, the Sundanese, the Minangkabauer, the Batakand the Bugis-Makassar and others. For centuries they haverealized it, but variety of ethnics was not an obstacle to build anation-state based on an agreement and common interest. Various tension and conflicts involving religious andethnical sentiment or both, also happens in Sampit (WestKalimantan) and Poso (Central Sulawesi) which consumed theGovernment%u2019s serious attention and energy to solve them. Thelatest development in Central Sulawesi sign the new hope forsolution. Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Social Welfare,Jusuf Kalla, had taken new initiative to invite leaders of conflictcommunities %u2014 Muslims and Christians %u2014 to discuss togetherfor seeking permanent solution in that area. The round tablemeeting in Malino, South Sulawesi, had result the fruitfulsolution to the problem. Yesterday, all participant of roundtablemeeting in Malino agreed to end the conflict. The position ofthe agreement is very important, because, in my opinion, thesolution of horizontal conflicts are not merely depend on policy