Papua Breakup
Monday, April 18, 2022
The government and the legislature are moving fast to carry out a plan to create new provinces in Papua. Two of Jokowi’s cabinet ministers are presiding over the deliberations on the legal umbrella for the regional expansion in the House.
SPEAKING to some Senayan politicians at Hotel Fairmont, Jakarta, in early February, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian presented the government’s stance on the planned administrative expansion in Papua. He said that the government is prepared to discuss bills for the formation of new provinces in Papua. “This meeting, which was about forming new provinces in Papua, is to be discussed this year,” said Fachrul Razi, Chai
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