When he was born, his parents handed him over to Arnold Sawaki, an evangelist who was conducting a mission in Kurima, a small village in the Yahukimo Regency.

[1] Mamoribo then brought him to Jayapura and enrolled him at an elementary school owned by the Paulus Christian Education Foundation.

[2] While he was in elementary school, his stepfather was elected as the Speaker of the Irian Jaya (now Papua) Regional People's Representative Council in 1971.

However, not long after his graduation from junior high school, his father died in Jakarta after a work trip to New York.

[2] A year after he graduated from junior high school, Hesegem began to work as an honorary employee at Irian Jaya's regional secretariat.

[2] Hesegem was nominated as a candidate for the Irian Jaya Regional People's Representative Council (the province's parliament) in the 1997 Indonesian legislative election.

[4] Hesegem was seated in Commission IV of the People's Representative Council, which handles law, human rights, and security.

He was involved in the discussion of various legislative pieces, such as the bill on water resources, formation of the East Sulawesi Province, and the special autonomy of Papua.

[7] Enembe disputed the results, stating that he won the election instead and requesting the Supreme Court to recount the votes.

[8] A similar allegation were later brought by the third-place pair John Ibo and Pascalis Cossi, but was met by the same decision from the Supreme Court.

[22][23] Hesegem died on 20 June 2021, at the Jayapura Hospital after being treated for three days due to complications from diabetes and pneumonia.