Problematic of Local Politic Party Formation in Papua

Post-reforms, governments in Indonesia have the passion to improve existing systems of virtually authoritarianism into democracy, which previously was centralized into decentralized. Therefore the statute of 21 years 2001 on special autonomy for the province of Papua. In chapter 28 a quo provides an opportunity for papuan people to form a political party, but until the rule a quo was changed in 2021, Papua's local political party could not be formed. The study examined two aspects, first, how the formation of a local political party in Papua has developed? Second, what impediment to the formation of a local political party in Papua? The study used the empirical law study method. The result of this study was: first, Papua, a region that was granted special autonomy authority, had an opportunity to form a local political party, but the political social relationship between the central government and the region was not so well defined that the hopes of recreating a local political party in Papua could not be implemented; Second, political will's disharmony between the central government and the local government made it difficult to realize the local political party in Papua.