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Jimmy Demianus Ijie (21 March 1968 – 23 July 2021) was an Indonesian politician from Southwest Papua.


Biography

He was a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives from the
Indonesian Democratic Party - Struggle The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle ( id, Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan, PDI-P) is an Indonesian political party, and the party of the current President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. The PDI-P was founded and is currently led by Me ...
(PDI-P). He was elected in 2019 from the West Papua electoral district with 66,555 votes. He was born in Fategomi, Aitinyo Utara district,
Maybrat Regency Maybrat Regency is a regency of Southwest Papua Province of Indonesia. It has an area of , and had a population of 33,081 at the 2010 Census and 42,991 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 43,364. The administrative centre i ...
where he attended elementary school. In 1993, he graduated from
Hasanuddin University Hasanuddin University ( id, Universitas Hasanuddin) which is abbreviated as Unhas, is one of the largest autonomous universities in Indonesia. It is located in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Unhas was established on September 10, 1956, and n ...
in dentistry. In 2007, he completed a second bachelor in law at Jakarta University. He was working for the Center for Human Rights Education and Information in Jakarta from 1993 to 1999. From 2004 to 2014, he was working as a chairperson at the Regional People's Legislative Assembly. During a parliamentary meeting in October 2019, he cried while stating that the politics of Jakarta have forgotten the issues of Papua, referring to the
2019 Papua protests The 2019 Papua protests were a series of protests by Papuans in Indonesia that began on 19 August 2019 and mainly took place across Indonesian Papua region in response to the arrests of 43 Papuan students in Surabaya, East Java for alleged disre ...
, which have displaced thousands and resulted in 32 deaths. He died at the age of 53 on 23 July 2021 due to COVID-19.


References

1968 births 2021 deaths People from Southwest Papua Papuan people Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle politicians Members of the People's Representative Council, 2019 Hasanuddin University alumni Jakarta State University alumni Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia {{Indonesia-politician-stub