West Papua (Personal Overview)

A 2015 road survey. 

We found this rest area through information from local people we had met before. The weather was so cold, we are in the arfak mountains which is near to the couples lake. 

Team were divided into 3 main divisions, each of them had it's own function. So with our vehicles. Sometimes we rent a motorcycle and bring it together, to reach location which is unreachable by car. 

The three main divisions was named as follows :

Naasra team, RCS team and RNI team. 

There was no first survey, so it was a challenge for us to explore west Papua provincial road. We had only a list of road name along with GPS point. No assistment from the owner of projects, a quiet bad condition. 

Our purposes was as follows :

1. Get IRI value for all paved provincial road

2. Get condition data (percentage a good, medium and bad road). 

3. Get main road network for each road we passed. 

4. A mapping roads. 

5. A suggestions for the owners.

6. Lastly we had to make a full report, presented to the owner. 

Back to the field. 

West Papua were rich with its natural beauty. Local people with their culture also has its own value enriching our cultural variety. 

A vast land with many potential resources. Sadly I have to say that, there was lack of human resources there, and a little attention from main government from Jakarta. Rights, this was a personal opinion I have to say. 

The infrastructure here was also lack attention from central government which only for several places. That also was include for educational facilities. Even for elementary schools.

Today west Papua had begun a multi ethnic place, in which people come and go to do some business from others place in Indonesia here. 

Some of them to be mentioned are Sundanese, Javanese, Manadonese, Padangnese, and other ethnic. 

Including government's staff and securiti's staff which is in charge or obliged to do their job here. 

Road overview

Unpaved road were dominated west Papua in provincial status, an exception for main road as stated or decreed by west Papua governor. 

Maybe now it has some progress. Due to annual expansion program for the unpaved road and their maintenance program. 

Valid tekstual data about this survey had been hand it over to the ministry of public works of West Papua. 

Globally that all paved road were in medium condition at was time. Unpaved road need to be improved. 2015 road survey.