ASEANEWS-HEADLINE | Paper Edition: INDONESIA- House seeks speedy deliberation to establish new provinces in Papua

Papuan students protest against the Indonesian government’s plan to develop new administrative areas in the country’s easternmost Papua province, in Malang, East Java on March 21, 2022.(AFP/Putri)

 

The House of Representatives is pushing to quickly pass a set of bills that will create new provinces in Papua, despite criticism that the government has been neglecting indigenous people’s voices in the bill’s deliberation process.

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In a plenary session last week, lawmakers unanimously endorsed three bills that will stipulate the establishment of the provinces of South Papua, Central Papua and Papua Central Highlands.

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The lawmakers’ endorsement, which was made before the House entered recess, means that the three bills are listed as a House initiative and will be open to be deliberated with the government in the next sitting session.

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If the bills are passed, they will redraw the administrative territory of the existing Papua and West Papua provinces.

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Nur Janti

The Jakarta Post
Tue, April 19, 2022

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