ABSTRACT
On January 27, 2003, President Megawati Sukarnoputeri issued Instruksi President No. 1calling for the division of West Papua into three separate provinces ( Kompas 2003b). The presidential fiat determined the boundaries among the three provinces, gave guidance on the creation of provincial legislatures, and activated the positions of governor and other parts of the bureaucracy for the new provinces (ICG 2003: 7).
