The Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has called on the Indonesian government not to use the noken voting system again for regional elections in Papua and West Papua, saying that it violates democratic principles.
Noken, a voting system named after a traditional Papuan bag, has been implemented as a decision-making procedure in a particular community led by a tribal chief. However, It is not the tribal chief who chooses a leader; consensus has to be reached before members of the community come to a decision.