Certainly, regional religious, popular, and youth figures will be engaged to assist enhance the legal understanding of the city’s residents, particularly associated to the modified chapters
Jakarta – The Jayapura city administration is preparing to introduce a public awareness campaign on the renewed Papua special autonomy law by including religious, customary, and youth figures from native Papuan communities.
The awareness program is anticipated to apprise the city’s homeowners of the newly-enacted legislation and what it will involve, the Jayapura city government’s secretary, Frans Pekey, told ANTARA in a phone interview from Jakarta on Wednesday.
” Definitely, regional religious, traditional, and youth figures will be engaged to help enhance the legal understanding of the city’s homeowners, especially related to the changed chapters,” he said.
After several months of considerations, your house of Representatives (DPR) validated the costs changing the Papua Special Autonomy Law No.21 of 2001 throughout a plenary session on July 15, 2021.
The newly-enacted expense accommodates 18 modified chapters and two new chapters, according to the head of the Home’s Special Committee for Changing the Papua Unique Autonomy Law, Komarudin Watubun.
The enacted costs has accommodated the requirement to control the advantages of indigenous Papuans in political, education, health, labor, and economic sectors, as well as to support customary communities, he stated.
It uses more room to native Papuans to get associated with politics and in such organizations as the Papuan People’s Assembly (MRP) and Papua legal councils (DPRK) in districts/cities.
At least 250 seats will now be booked for native Papuans in district- and city-level Papua legislative councils (DPRK), Watubun disclosed. At the same time, 30 percent of the DPRK seats will be booked for native Papuan females, he added.
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On Wednesday, Pekey said the prepared awareness campaign belongs to confidence-building measures as several neighborhood members remain doubtful about the newly-enacted costs.
The general public awareness project will be the primary step to assist citizens comprehend the benefits of the renewed law in order that they are well-prepared for its implementation, he included.
Highlighting the value of the newly-enacted costs, House Speaker Puan Maharani earlier said it was long-awaited by native Papuan communities of Papua and West Papua.
In action to the enactment of the expense, West Papua Guv Dominggus Mandacan thanked your home members and the central federal government on behalf of his people and administration.
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The death of the modified Papua unique autonomy law by the House will be a milestone for sustainable advancement and help increase the prosperity of all native Papuans in the 2 provinces, he stated.
Speaking at a press conference in Manokwari, the capital of West Papua province on July 15, 2021, Mandacan urged all native communities in Papua and West Papua to welcome the legislation.
Native Papuans should attempt not be stired by the objections and bookings versus the extension of the Papua special autonomy law that specific parties have actually consistently echoed, he recommended.
Instead, they should support the sustainability of regional advancement programs in Papua and West Papua to help accelerate the federal government’s endeavors to improve success of all Papuans, he included.
The Papua Special Autonomy Law No. 21 of 2001, which had actually been in force for nearly two decades and had actually paved the way for a substantial quantity of funds to flow into Papua and West Papua, was set to end in November this year.
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