JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): 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.
JAKARTA The Indonesian government’s plan to administratively split the country’s easternmost region of Papua into five provinces, from the current two, has raised concerns that its forests and natural resources will be at higher risk of being plundered. The idea has been floated for several years, and picked up steam this year, with lawmakers […]
The Humanitarian Coalition for Papua says the creation of three new provinces in Papua by the Indonesian government is like repeating the management model of Dutch power during the colonial era.
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