Community-Driven Development is a social planning concept aimed at changing the
behaviour and attitude of marginalized communities in other to empower them. This means with
their own ability they can collectively solve social and economic problems in their environment.
By using various participatory approaches, that are considered most suitable in the postmodern
planning era, this development concept is expected to increase the welfare of underprivileged
communities. This concept is also applied in the development of traditional communities,
especially for customary tradition communities, but has not yet had a significant impact. This
study uses existing literature to show the general results of community-driven development in
traditional communities, especially traditional communities in Papua. Many development
programmes were run by the government using participatory approaches. The study shows that
the desired social change is not yet observed for traditional communities in Papua, who have
obtained community-driven development programmes for so many years. These communities
still have the lowest level of welfare in Indonesia. The social learning that was expected to
happen in any community-driven development program with participatory approaches happens
very slowly in Papua.