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The Act of Free Choice (Indonesian: Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat, PEPERA, Determination of the People‘s Opinion) was a controversial plebiscite held between 14 July and 2 August 1969 in which 1,025 people selected by the Indonesian military in Western New Guinea voted unanimously in favor of Indonesian control.
July–August 1969: Act of Free Choice (Indonesian: Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat, abbreviated as PEPERA) determines Western New Guinea as sovereign territory of Indonesia. [2] June 1971: Henk de Mari reported that 55 men from two villages in North Biak were forced to dig their own graves before being shot. Published in Dutch daily De Telegraaf Oct ...
In 1969, together with Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, Ali was assigned by Suharto to make sure that the people of Papua (then known as West Irian) voted for integration with Indonesia in the Act of Free Choice. In ensuring this, Ali's focus was the Act of Free Choice Consultative Council (Dewan Musyawarah Pepera), a group of 1,025 Papuans who will vote on ...
[20] [21] Meanwhile, PEPERA in the Jayawijaya Regency (current Highland Papua) was implemented by Deliberative Council for Determining People's Opinion in Jayawijaya Regency led by Clement Kiriwaib (former member of New Guinea Council) on 16 July 1969 in Wamena, where they agreed on two decision, West Irian is an indivisible part of Unitary ...
Ohee, alongside other electors, voted unanimously in favour of Indonesian control of the region on August 2, 1969. [3] In an interview in 2018, Ohee defended the results of the Act of Free Choice (PEPERA), stating that the election is valid since it has already been confirmed by the United Nations. Ohee stated that those who disputed the ...
According to his son, Yanto Eluay, this naming was in honour of his efforts of fighting for the rights of the Papuans, and also as one of the participants in the 1969 PEPERA that help to integrate West Irian with Indonesia. [11] The airport was constructed on customary land of the Eluay family that was released to the Dutch by Nero Nihiwe Eluay ...
In 1969, the United Nations supervised the Act of Free Choice which was due to be a free vote for every single West Papuan man and woman who had the right to choose independence or integration with Indonesia. General Sarwo Edhi Wibowo instead handpicked 1025 Melanesian men out of an estimated population of 800,000 as the Western New Guinea ...
Seth Jafeth Rumkorem was born in 1933 [1] in Manduser village, eastern Biak, Dutch East Indies.His father Lucas Rumkorem [] was among the founders of the Indonesian Independence Party (PIM) in September 1945 and Tentara Tjendrawasih Tjadangan (TTT) in 1958, [2] whose aim was to incorporate Netherlands New Guinea into Indonesia.