In West Papua, which encompasses the Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia, adat has been codified as an integral part of decentralised governance and development policies. Unlike other places where adat has been institutionalised, the institutionalisation of adat governance in West Papua is marked by contestation not only between different forms of adat institutions but also by competing political ideologies of national liberation. By tracing the history of various institutional frameworks in which adat and ‘adat communities’ are accommodated by the state, and elucidating non-state institutionalisation, this article demonstrates how adat remains a political battleground for various political actors in West Papua, including the Indonesian central government and Papuan independence movements. My article argues that the case of West Papua sets the limit for Indonesian adat discourses particularly in addressing Papuan articulations of their indigeneity and in accommodating demands for sovereignty.

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阿达特制度化，国家与西巴布亚的自决权

在包括印度尼西亚的巴布亚和西巴布亚省的西巴布亚，阿达特已被编纂为权力下放的治理和发展政策的组成部分。与其他已将adat制度化的地方不同，西巴布亚的adat治理制度化不仅以不同形式的adat制度之间的竞争为特征，而且以民族解放的竞争政治意识形态为特征。通过追溯由国家容纳adat和“ adat社区”的各种制度框架的历史，并阐明非国家制度化，本文证明了adat仍然是西巴布亚包括印度尼西亚中部在内的各种政治角色的政治战场政府和巴布亚独立运动。