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View all search resultsReading out its ruling in a hearing presided over by Chief Justice Anwar Usman, the court said the judicial review application was “illogical” as it attempted to review the Act of Free Choice, which was acknowledged by the United Nations General Assembly under Resolution No. 2504 (XXIV).
Papuan students rallied in Yogyakarta on Sunday to commemorate what many claim was the Dec. 1 birth of West Papua, while dozens of others, accused of being linked to a pro-independence movement, were arrested in Papua arrested before they could do the same.
The issue of Papuan self-determination is even split among experts, with one side debunking it as "myth" through the 1969 Act of Free Choice (Pepera), while the other points to the same election as fomenting the controversy.
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