Foreign Elements in the Papuan Problem
By: Mustakim ( Former Indonesian diplomat) BENNY Wenda, a fugitive from the OPM (Free Papua Organization) in the UK who identified himself as the Chair of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP – United Liberation Movement for West Papua), claimed to be the interim president of West Papua on December 1, 2020. Benny Wenda's confession was only so that the issue of West Papua remains a global concern after the issue that was re-expressed by Vanuatu in the UN SU from 2016 to 2021 did not receive a response at the UN. Regrettably, Benny Wenda, a criminal from Indonesia, has been sentenced for the attack on the police station in Abepura on 7 December 2000, which resulted in the death of six people from the police and civil society. Benny Wenda escaped from the Abepura Penitentiary (LP) on 27 October 2002 and has been able to live in the UK since 2003, and has carried out activities that are detrimental to Indonesia. In good relations between countries, of course, in a
