The West Papua National Liberation Army

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West Papua National Liberation Army, founded in 1973 after the proclamation of the independence of West Papua July 1, 1971 by Set Rumkorem. Precisely March 26, 1973 TPN was established as a military wing of the OPM.

TPN was established under the interim constitution of the Republic of West Papua which has been proclaimed at that time. Chapter V of the Constitution of the Defence and Security is comprised of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

After the proclamation, OPM leader Jakop Prai and Set Rumkorem, unity has been separated. That is where the initial split in the camp to struggle OPM at the time, eventually some leaders fought each without any coordination with each other. The struggle was not unstructured although it uses the name of the organization that is TPNP-OPM, during the struggle for independence.

Leaders such Kelik Walik in Timika, Matias Wenda in Vanimo, Bernat Mawen in Merauke, Tadius Yogi in Paniai and General Goliath Tabuni in Puncak Jaya. They are against military invaders, but not structured to maintain the existence of each command are not clear.

Independence struggle did not stop, continue to be maintained. They carry a lot of meetings but not nationally, but the reunion occurred in 2012 ago.

In 2012 all military leaders throughout Papua TPN has been present at the Summit Forum on March 1 to May 5, 2012 at the headquarters of TPN Porwomi Biak. The forum improve TPN structure and reorganize all the military systems. They chose the democratic leadership of TPN in the General forum. Goliath Tabuni High Commander of the National Liberation Army of West Papua.

Forum chose Deputy Commander Lieutenant General. Gabriel M. Awom and Chief of General Staff Major General TPN. Terianus Satto and Chief of Staff of the Army John Yogi. They set up a national structure in the national forum.

Now the struggle is improving military movement TPNPB-OPM, the entire Area Command of Defence is set to fight the invaders. All Komado area has limited weapons, no weapons assistance from any party. However, TPN members belonging to the Indonesian army seized weapons are guns income way.

TPN has an official website now, first with a domain name now fix wpnla.net but blocked domain name www.komnas-tpnpb.net, want to know about the struggles of TPN all available on the website about the history, hierarchy, structure, principles of command and others . Tpnpb (talk) 04:41, 12 September 2014 (UTC)Reply