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President Joko Widodo (centre left) . plan to split up the Papuan territory into five provinces has been branded by critics as a gross human rights violation. Image: JakPost The politics of divide and rule and how Indonesia’s attempt to separate indigenous Papuans is an irrational and unrealistic proposal that will damage the cultural values of kinship and togetherness as Melanesian people, writes Dr Socratez Yoman. By Dr Socratez Yoman The Indonesian coloniser has become an ignorant ruler with deaf ears and with evil intention in fighting for the addition of new Papuan provinces without the population numbers to justify this. ....