Lanny Jaya allocates IDR 7 billion for teacher contracts for indigenous Papuans

The government of Lanny Jaya Regency, Papua Province has budgeted around Rp. 7 billion to finance contract teachers from Papuan people who are distributed throughout the district.

Head of the Lanny Jaya Education Office, Tan Wanimbo, when he was in Wamena, Thursday said the funds were an allocation from the Lanny Jaya Smart program.

"The appointment of contract teachers, which has been running so far, is still using the smart Lanny Jaya. It almost costs IDR 6-7 billion for 500 Lanny Jaya contract teachers," he said.

There are 500 teachers who are natives of Lanny Jaya Regency or are not migrants or Papuans from other districts.

"His name is Lanny's native (OAL) because all of them are Lanny Jaya's children," he said.

Tan ensures that this year there will be no more hiring of new contract teachers because the old ones are enough and have been distributed to fill the shortage of teachers at the PAUD, TK to SD levels.

"We will evaluate this local teacher for the contract period. If it goes as we expected or helps the education office, we get satisfactory or good results, so it will continue," he said.

The government recruited the indigenous Lanny Jaya people in the hope that they would be directly involved in developing the area.

"We hope that Lanny Jaya's child contract teacher must be able to bring satisfaction to the government but also to the Lanny Jaya community," he said