The plan to discuss and determine the proposed amendment of Law No. 21 of 2001 on Special Autonomy for Papua is requested to see all related elements in the local area.
Among them, the components of indigenous peoples, Regional Leadership Coordination Forum, regional heads and the central government, unite perceptions related to the revised plan of this Law.
In addition, changes to the Special Autonomy Law should be made on the basis of proposals from the Papuan people through the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) and the local Papuan People's Representative Council (DPRP). So the process is considered legal and siding with the government and the people in Papua.
"This Special Autonomy changing must follow a legal process. Therefore we question the current process in the center," Chairman of MRP Timothy Murib told the press, after a Coordination Meeting with Regional Leadership Coordination Forum of Papua at the State Building, Friday (16/4/2021).
Murib also encouraged the House of Representatives to open a discussion room between the government in Papua and the center government. So that the legal products will be set based on the aspirations of Papuans.
Meanwhile, Papua Regional Secretary Dance Yulian Flassy ensured that the Papua Provincial Government supported the identification and proposal of the MRP regarding the second amendment of the Special Autonomy Law.
Thus, after the results of the improvement of the evaluation of Special Autonomy from the MRP, the Provincial Government immediately forwarded the file to the central government.
"But I need to point out that until now there is no Law for Special Autonomy volume I or II. This law has not been repealed yet so it is just a revision process for any less, as the MRP said," he concluded.