The Consociational Addition to Indonesia’s Centripetalism as a Tactic of the Central Authorities: The Case of Papua
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2016
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Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
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In 2001 the Indonesian government agreed to the introduction in the Indonesian Papua of regional, consociational elements of power-sharing, despite the fact that the dominant model of this system in Indonesia is centripetalism. The so-called special autonomy for the Indonesian Papua has never been fully implemented, however. The article seeks to test the thesis that the Indonesian authorities' institution of consociational arrangements for Papua, and their subsequent failure to fully implement those arrangements, were in fact tactical moves serving to reduce the threat arising from growing pro-independence aspirations among the Papuans and to firmly attach Papuan territory to Indonesia. This article has been published in "Hemispheres" 2016, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 5-20.
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Papua West Papua Indonesia Indonesian politics consociational consociationalism centripetal centripetalism power sharing power-sharing hybrid power-sharing hybrid power sharing autonomy special autonomy ethnic parties economic power-sharing Indonesian Papua Papua New Guinea Irian Jaya West Irian New Guinea West New Guinea Melanesia Papuan cultural autonomy Papuans Dutch East Indies Dutch New Guinea transmigration Free Papua Movement OPM Papuan autonomy Papua People’s Awakening Party PKRP Papua People’s Assembly ethnic
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Trzciński, Krzysztof. The Consociational Addition to Indonesia’s Centripetalism as a Tactic of the Central Authorities: The Case of Papua. Hemispheres 31, no. 4 (2016): 5-20.