On Youtefa Bay, Jayapura, opening into the Pacific Ocean, spans the Youtefa Bridge at 732 meters long. It serves as then-president Joko Widodo’s first infrastructure project in West Papua, as part of the Trans-Papua road network, to ‘unite’ the nation through connectivity’. The bridge is at the epicentre of a multilayered series of socio-ecological problems, intertwining indigenous populations, the State, and the environment.