This study examines the Appointment of Members of the Papuan
Legislative Council (DPRP) as a material consideration in determining and
implementing the policy of the regional administration in terms of empowerment,
protection and favor of the indigenous people of Papua within the Unitary State of
the Republic of Indonesia, after the enactment of Law No. 21 Year 2001 on Special
Autonomy for Papua Province as amended by Act No. 35 of 2008 on Special
Autonomy for Papua and West Papua, aims to examine how the process of
appointment of the Papuan Legislative Council and what the constraints of the
process of appointment of the Board of Representatives Papua.
This normative legal research using juridical, and historical application
tailored to the needs. These results indicate that the appointment of the Papuan
Legislative Council not through the mechanism of government policy that leads to
protection, empowerment and alignments against indigenous Papuans, because
some of the material is clearly a delegate law special autonomy should be made
insturument law on the appointment of Papuan Legislative Council was made
because there is no regulation of the norm of the law on the mechanism of
appointment of the Papuan Legislative Council can not describe a clear regulation.
The results also show besides regulatory arrangements, there are a number of other
factors cause a lack of effective local government performance