EVENT INFORMATION

5
April
1961

New Guinea Council opens under Dutch administration

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📅 5 April 1961 📍

The Dutch colonial administration inaugurated a representative council whose members included both elected and appointed representatives. It created a limited forum for Papuan political participation, but the colonial government retained ultimate authority and the Council did not control the territory’s future.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Nicolaas Jouwe

Papuan council members

Governor Jan Platteel

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

New Guinea Council

Netherlands New Guinea administration