Subject: People’s Motion of Distrust to the Presidium Council of Papua

RECOGNISING:

1. Political cirses in West Papua at the moment.

2. Activities of the Indonesian army and police that continuously provoke, intimidate, terrorise and murder West Papua people to block the aspiration for resolving the political status of West Papua within Indonesia by revisiting the Act of Free Choice, 1969.

3. The need to draw a clear line of struggle to channel the people’s aspiration for a democratic and peaceful self-determination process.

4. That the Presidium Council of Papua clearly sets aside the people’s aspiration for self-determination, but focusing more on the vested interests of small groups and individuals in West Papua.

5. The conspiracy between foreign investors such as Freeport McMoRan and members of Presidium Council of Papua such as the one signed on 13^th Juli, 2000 in New Orleans, the states.

6. The people’s decision on the Papua National Congress II, 2000 that the issue of West Papua should go International and it should become an international issue.

ASSESSING:

1. There is a need to take accountability for the sacrifices of resources, energy, time, and even blood for the sake of West Papua self-determination.

2. There is a need to channel the aspiration of the People that was openly declared on the Papua National Congress II, 2000.

3. There is an urgency to respond to the critalisation of the people’s demand for a self-determination this year.

4. There is a suspicion that Presidium Council of Papua mediated by FORERI is now deviating its role and activities from its early mission. People are getting worried that the Council is doing its best for the people in West Papua.

5. There are some indications that the Council is a tool of the Indonesian government to make the aspiration of the people for a democratic self-determination as a local issue, not an international one.

6. Our reliable sources confirmed that Indonesia and its army are trying to move guerrilla fighters of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) into West Papua villages, including the political refugees who now live in Papua New Guinea.

HEREBY WE DECLARE TO THE WORLD:

1. That from now on, at 11.20, date August 30^th, 2000, the office of both the Presidium Council and FORERI are closed from its activities.

2. That the leaderships of the Council and FORERI must take a clear stand on the political agenda of West Papua people by setting aside the issue of investment in this land because West Papua was given away to Indonesia on the name of investors and investment in 1969.

3. That the Council and FORERI Leaders must go to the Commander in Chief of the TPN/OPM to report the progress of their diplomacy and international lobbies because people are being killed day and night by Indonesia until today.

4. That if the Council and FORERI leaders do not respond to these demands then we will take over the leadership of diplomacy and lobby at international level to channel the voice of the people for a democratic self-determination.

5. Whoever opens the offices before the Council and FORERI responsible for their conducts will face high risks and will be accountable for the people of West Papua.

THIS STATEMENT IS APPROVDED BY ALL TRADITIONAL LEADERS OF PEOPLE IN WEST PAPUA AND MADE KNOWN TO THE WORLD.

Spokesperson for NEMANGKAWI Regional Commander in the Central Highlands

On Behalf of the Commander in Chief of the TPN/OPM West Papua

Linde B. Kogoya

Copies to:

1. All Regional Commanders of the TPN/OPM,

2. Co-ordinator of the TPN/OPM for internal affairs,

3. Chairman of the ex-Prisoners of the OPM/TPN,

4. The Penis Gourds People’s Assembly Council

5. Chairman of the AMP International and The West Papuan Community

6. Chairman of the Papua National Front,

7. Members of Presidium Council,

8. Chairpersons of the Papua Panel,

9. Commanders of the Satgas Papua

10. West Papuan Women’s Alliance

11. Chairman of West Papua Youth Fellowship

12. Dr. Otto Ondowame in Australia,

13. Mr. Jacob Prai in Sweden

14. Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom

15. Members of Congress in the United States