Talk:Papua (province)

Name of part of island
The scope of the area referred to as "Irian Jaya" is confused. It seems historically to refer to the entire 'half' island that belongs to Indonesia. But the opening paragraph of this article conflates Papua Province and Irian Jaya, then says West Papua was split off. That might suggest Irian Jaya meant only what is now Papua Province, whereas I think Irian Jaya was the name for the entire Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea. Inkwzitv (talk) 00:59, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Irian jaya was the name of the province of papua Until the people wants a name change to papua, thus papua province was born. Then people of west papua became its own province.

Irian jaya was a former of papua province. As the indonesian side of papua used to be one province. No one uses the name irian jaya these days, reminicent of the old dictatoral soeharto days. Kaliper1 (talk) 04:17, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Updated Statistics published 2021
Updated Statistics published in 2021 are available at. Require an editor who can read or translate Indonesian to update to article. Aeonx (talk) 12:14, 9 July 2021 (UTC)


 * There is now an English version available at the same link? Not sure how long it's been up.

Edit: Any use of Indonesian statistics regarding any part of "West Papua" (both provinces) should be treated with caution, see https://apjjf.org/2017/02/Elmslie.html Jasonbrown1965 (talk) 13:21, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Article Size getting too big? Prose >100kb
I've noticed the article size may be getting too large as per WP:SIZERULE of thumb. The current prose size is 101kb; may need to consider WP:SPLIT if the article size continues to grow. Aeonx (talk) 12:18, 9 July 2021 (UTC)


 * A lot of that size must come from the table heavy with graphics and dealing with administrative districts. Could that be farmed off to a separate page? It really disjoints the flow of the article as well. Jasonbrown1965 (talk) 13:27, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

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Papua province now split into four
Clearly a restructure of this article will be needed now that Indonesia has split Papua province into four separate provinces: Papua, Central Papua, South Papua, Central Mountain Papua (many references in the media including this). I've done. Wantok (toktok) 03:33, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * , thank you for the map, but there's a minor error in that. Pegunungan Bintang Regency is no longer part of the original Papua province. It belongs to Highland Papua by now. This map is the correct one. And this is the official source for the final partition.Bluesatellite (talk) 03:09, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that makes more sense. I was misled by the list in this media article.  I'll amend the map. Wantok (toktok) 04:00, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I've updated the map and corrected the pages where I had updated the regency lists. Wantok (toktok) 04:59, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Good work! cheers. Bluesatellite (talk) 07:05, 4 July 2022 (UTC)


 * The given source does not indicate that this division is already in force (has entered into force) – usually, the effective date and the date of the decision are separate from each other. The confirmation is needed. Aotearoa (talk) 12:03, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Much of the current text, particularly in the sections dealing with geography, needs to be corrected to remove references to aspects (such as rivers, mountains, ethnic groups) which are now within the three new provinces of Central Papua, Highland Papua and South Papua. Rif Winfield (talk) 18:46, 8 August 2022 (UTC)


 * According to Mendagri Resmikan Tiga Provinsi Baru di Papua new provinces were established on November 11, not in June or July. Aotearoa (talk) 09:53, 12 November 2022 (UTC)