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Background. South Papua has been struggling to become a separate province since 2002 and was again proposed to be a province in 2020. This is because the Government of Indonesia wants the people of Papua to progress.

Papua is the largest and easternmost province of Indonesia. It is made up of most of Western New Guinea. It is bordered by the state of Papua New Guinea to the east. According to the 2010 census by Statistics Indonesia, Papua had a population of 2,833,381, the majority of whom are Christians.

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Etymology. Papua is derived from a local term of uncertain origin. Regarding the islands of New Guinea, the Portuguese captain and geographer Antnio Galvo wrote that: . The people of all these islands are blacke, and have their haire frisled, whom the people of Maluco do call Papuas. "New Guinea" (Nueva Guinea) was the name coined by the Spanish explorer Yigo Ortiz de Retez.

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Port Moresby (930S 14712E) is the capital city and the main city of Papua New Guinea. In 2000, 255,000 people lived there. The city is on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea . The area on which the city was built was first sighted by a European in 1873 by Captain John Moresby.

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