Decision-making in the indigenous group : a case study of Papua, Indonesia

Abstract

Papua is one of the provinces in Indonesia that has the privilege in running the local government and development through the enactment of Special Autonomy which one of purposes is the guarantee of the respect and protection toward the basic rights of the Indigenous Peoples of Papua. Since then, various projects for the utilization of natural resources in Papua have been planned and implemented that carried out in the customary territories of the indigenous peoples with limited of participation of the decision-making process to determine the land utilization. Indigenous peoples in the Tablasupa village area once reclaim their customary lands by using customary decision-making mechanisms. This process can also be used to see the extent to exercise indigenous peoples’ right to culture that recognized by the state.