Press Release: West Papua Media Alerts

Chronology Of The Events Leading Up To The July 8 Demonstration In West Papua

1. June 9-10 2010 open forum convened by the MRP and Traditional Papuan people. Consensus reached that Otsus has “totally failed”.

2. 15 June 2010 MRP publicise the results of the public deliberations and a list of demands.

3. 18 June 15,000 Papuans from 7 districts coordinated by the United Democratic Forum of Papuan People (popularly known as Forum Demokrasi or FORDEM) converge on the DPRP to officially hand over the people’s decision. All components of the struggle, including previously competing resistance groups are involved. A list of demands was received by the head of the DPRP and head of parliamentary commissions A and C as well as by other parliamentarians. However, all members of the DPRP were not present.SOURCE Selanjutnya