35 Comments on “You’re Outta Here!”

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1. Chris says:
   December 31st, 2010 at 10:53 am

   Bali now has the highest rates of sexually transmitted disease in Indonesia thanks to UN not requiring its staff from known high HIV rates to undergo blood tests before deployment.

   Actually, I thought it was Papua:

   http://www.indonesiamatters.com/12089/hiv-aids-papua/

   (However, Bali is #2).

   I read somewhere else it was Indonesian soldiers’ frequent use of prostitutes and reluctance to use condoms that was the biggest contributing factor to Papua being #1. NB It is Indonesian soldiers from other parts of Indonesia.

2. Oigal says:
   December 31st, 2010 at 1:02 pm

   Hi Chris, I have read that personally I think that’s a pretty dodgy figure built up as part of the painting Papuan’s as backward, dirty people by the Government. I have been to Papua and there is just not the numbers in the cities to compare with Bali

3. Chris says:
   January 1st, 2011 at 12:27 pm

   I tried to find another source of information.

   Here is one:

   West Papuans suffer the poorest health standards of any Indonesian citizens and receive the lowest level of health care. In the highlands, with a population of over 400,000 people there is only one hospital with 70 beds. There are only 15 other health centres where a doctor is supposedly in attendance. Infant mortality rates, as reported by AusAid, are 98 per 100,000 in the highlands region (compared to the Indonesian average of 40 per 100,000), although other reports have put this figure as high as 250 per 100,000. The life expectancy of women is only 50.3 years compared to an Indonesian national average of 62.7 years. A relatively new looming problem for the Papuans is HIV/AIDS. For example the combined HIV/AIDS rate in 2002 was 40 times higher than the Indonesian average. A recent AusAid study found that, on current projections, over seven per cent of West Papuans will have the disease by 2025. The health and fertility challenges that West Papuans face are only growing worse.

   There is also this:

   http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-82/logging-soldiers-and-sex

4. Arie Brand says:
   January 2nd, 2011 at 8:30 am

   Cholera occurred for the first time in Papua during the UNTEA period. It was thought that this had been brought by the foreign troops – either the Indonesian infiltrators (who, under the terms of the “Bunker Agreement” were allowed to stay – and surreptitiously augmented) or the official Peacekeepers viz. the Pakistani.

   In retrospect it appears to have been only the first of the disasters as far as public health is concerned (not to speak of the other ones) that “pembebasan” had in store for them.

5. Chris says:
   January 13th, 2011 at 3:38 pm

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