作为政治工程的景观

LANDSCAPE AS A POLITICAL PROJECT

巴布亚省和西巴布亚省位于印度尼西亚偏远且高度边缘化的地区，二省因共同的自我认同而被统称为西巴布亚地区。在这里，公路建设不只是对技术的追求或实现进步与发展的途径。西巴布亚地区地形崎岖而多山，至少有261个巴布亚旗群因此而长期与世隔绝，这里也是世界上最后一片还未被外界记录、绘制并侵占的土地。跨巴布亚公路的建设不仅可以带来发展，同时也是记录、绘制和侵占这片难以管制区域的政治手段。作为人类学家，我有幸能够穿过这条崎岖难行、脆弱不堪的公路，认识到引领我至此的道路与因其所促生的工程建造痕迹和诸项资源开采活动之间的关联。

In West Papua, a self-identifying term that refers to the provinces of Papua and West Papua, the remote and highly marginaUzed provinces of Indonesia, road construction does not merely represent a technotogical ambition or a means to deliver progress and development. With its rugged and mountainous terrain, West Papua has kept more than 261 Papuan ethnic groups isolated for long periods of time and made it one of the last territories in the world to be charted, mapped, and occupied by foreign forces. The construction of the Trons-Papua Highway should be seen in this way; it is meant as a conduit for progress as welt as a political tool to chart, map and occupy the ungovernable. As an anthropologist, I passed through this difficult and fragile highway and drew a connection between the roads that I have taken, traces that the construction left and multiple possibilities of extraction that it allows.