Original sentence: General Sarwo Edhi Wibowo instead selected 1025 Melanesian men and women out of an estimated population of 800,000 as the Western New Guinea representatives for the vote, which were asked to vote by raising their hands or reading from prepared scripts, in a display for United Nations observers.The "Act of free choice" has often been criticized as the "Act of no choice", and many independence activists continuously protest for a fresh referendum for every single Papuan.The Act of Free Choice (), often disparagingly referred to as the "Act of No Choice", was an election held in August 2, 1969 in which 1,025 men and women selected by the Indonesian military in Western New Guinea voted unanimously in favor of Indonesian control
Edited sentence: General Sarwo Edhie Wibowo reportedly instead selected 1,026 local men and women out of 815,904 residents as the Western New Guinea representatives for the vote called the Dewan Musyawarah PEPERA (PEPERA Consultation Council), which were asked to vote by raising their hands or reading from prepared scripts, in a display for United Nations observers.The Act of Free Choice () was an election held in August 2, 1969 in which 1,025 men and women allegedly selected by the Indonesian military in Western New Guinea voted unanimously in favor of Indonesian control.The act has often been criticized and disparagingly referred to as the "Act of No Choice", and many independence activists continuously protest for a fresh referendum for every single Papuan.The council members consisted of as many as 400 people representing the traditional element (tribal chiefs), 360 from the regional elements, and 266 from various interest groups