Muchamad Nafi, Jakarta – The Peoples' United Front Struggle of West Papuan proposed five demands regarding PT Freeport's continuation on their land. The proposal was read when the Front held a demonstration at the Plaza 89 building in Kuningan, South Jakarta, the office of Freeport's Rio Tinto.

The action's coordinator, Marthen Goo, said that the five demands were to close the PT Freeport-Rio Tinto operation completely; audit and investigate the company entirely, pull back all of the non-organic Indonesian National Army (TNI) and the Police in Papua, and strictly investigate the statement of the Indonesian government through Vice President Jusuf Kalla. "This concerns the instruction to add TNI troops to secure the mining area of PT Freeport-Rio Tinto," said Marthen.

The fourth demand is the unconditional release of all the captives in the Timika and Plaza 89 Kuningan cases. The last one is critical of the US-European Union domination on the possession and destruction of the natural resources and the economy-politics in Papua.

Marthen emphasized that if the demands are not fulfilled, they will generate solidarity action of a total national strike in Papua in the form of stopping all kinds of activity. In Jakarta, the demonstration lasted three days. "We will fight and it must be closed," said Marthen.

The demonstation was joined by about two hundred people. They brought various posters and banners, among them was written: 'Close Down Freeport Now', 'Freeport is the Root of Papuan Problems', and 'Stop Sending the Troops'.