New Guinea Council
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, (Indonesian: Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Papua or DPR Papua).[3]
References[]
- ^ newspaper report. Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 1961
- ^ New Guinea Council statements
- ^ 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.
- New Guinea Council
- Defunct unicameral legislatures
- Legislatures of country subdivisions
- Dutch political institutions
- Organizations based in Netherlands New Guinea
- 1961 establishments in Netherlands New Guinea
- 1962 disestablishments in the Netherlands
- 1962 disestablishments in Indonesia