Jayapura: Eligible Papuans will vote in a simultaneous regional elections in 11 regions in 2020, as violence and ongoing security threats of notorious armed rebels continue to pose a challenge to the province.
This future fiesta of democracy was launched at a ceremony by Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, General Elections Commission (KPU) Chairman Arief Budiman, and the KPU chairpersons and officials from 11 regions in Jayapura on Tuesday.
Waropen, Supiori, Merauke, Yalimo, Boven Digul, Asmat, Mamberamo Raya, Nabire, Keerom, Pegunungan Bintang, and Yahukimo are the regions to participate in this simultaneous regional elections.
During the ceremony, the KPU chairpersons and officials from those 11 regions pledged to ensure the successful convening of this 2020 regional elections.
Over these past two months, a spate of violence broke out in several parts of Papua and West Papua in the upshot of the Surabaya incident and fake news that had triggered public ire among native Papuans, who in retaliation held demonstrations in several parts of the provinces of Papua and West Papua to protest the alleged racist slurs against the Papuan students in Surabaya on August 16. (Antara)
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