Divide and Protest
Tuesday, September 2, 2003
Dividing a region, in obvious opposition to the concept of special autonomy, is sure to adversely affect the Papuans.
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THE government's decision to speed up the division of Papua Province is altogether wrong. It is the wrong time and the wrong way of doing it; it is using the wrong legal basis and who knows, even its intentions may have been wrong. Since the new province of Central Irian Jaya was declared on Saturday, August 23, fighting in Timika has broken out between the supporters of the division and those who oppose it. Their use of traditional weapons,
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