New Guinea Council

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The New Guinea Council (Dutch: Nieuw Guinea Raad) was a unicameral representative body formed in the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea in 1961. The council was inaugurated on 5 April 1961 with 28 council members, 16 of whom had been elected in elections held during January 1961.

The council was requested to make its wishes on self-determination known within a year.[1] During an emergency session the council drafted a national manifesto and symbols including the Morning Star flag for a new national identity to be known as "West Papua".[2]

Council officials[]

was Council Chairman and J. W. Trouw was Clerk of the Council.

Council building[]

A council building was built in Hollandia from 1960 to 1961 and used until the abolition of the council in 1962. Currently the building houses the regional legislature of Papua,  [id] (Indonesian: Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Papua or DPR Papua).[3]

References[]

  1. ^ newspaper report. Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 1961
  2. ^ New Guinea Council statements
  3. ^ Based on building similarities between the New Guinea Council building on 1961 Netherlands New Guinea stamps ("Nieuw Guinea 67/68 Nieuw-Guinea Raad Postfris". First Quality Stamps. Retrieved 4 February 2021.) and the current old building of DPR Papua.
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