RAMSES OHEE: Long before Independence, Papua was already part of the Republic of Indonesia

Stories about Papua are always interesting. Not only the uniqueness of its customs and culture, but also its history, such as the testimony of the living witnesses of Pepera and Ondofolo Ramses Ohee to the Commander of the Silas Papare Jayapura Air Force Base, Marsma TNI Dr. Budhi Achmadi, in Waena Jayapura, Papua.
 
Papua as part of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia cannot be contested by anyone, that is absolute. Because Ramses Ohee said that he had gone through a democratic political process, namely with the holding of the People's Opinion (Pepera) in 1969. The Act which was implemented under the mandate of the United Nations at that time resulted in the majority of Papuans choosing to join the Republic of Indonesia.

Ramses Ohee, Chairman of the Red and White Front and one of the living witnesses of Pepera and Ondofolo who said that the history of Papua being part of the Republic of Indonesia had actually been sparked since the Youth Pledge in 1928.

This is evidenced by the presence of a Papuan figure, Poreu Ohee (father of Ramses Ohee) at the Youth Pledge congress, in Jakarta in 1928. At that time Poreu Ohee was present with the capacity as a Papuan youth leader, namely the Head of Sentani Papua Village (1927), his position as Village Head occupied by the appointment of the Sultan of Tidore, because Papua at that time was under the rule of the Sultanate of Tidore.

This fact also confirms that Papua was already part of the Kingdom in the Archipelago (Tidore) in the pre-independence period (the document of appointment by Sultan Tidore as Lurah Sentani in 1927).

"When I was a child, my father used to tell me how he was present at the Youth Pledge in Jakarta in 1928 representing the youth of Papua," said Ramses Ohee to the Danlanud Silas Papare, Jayapura.

In a press release sent by the editor of MEPAGO.CO, last night Ramses Ohee regretted that, at that time, the documentation system had not been managed properly, so the story of a Papuan youth named Poreu Ohee joining the Youth Pledge was not stored properly, and only became a hereditary story in the Ohee family. in Sentani.

Ramses Ohee has indeed received the Satya Lencana Pepera, but he has not succeeded in fighting for his father Poreu Ohee to become a hero until now.

source: https://www.mepago.co/politik/ramses-ohee-far-before-kemerdekaan-papua-already-part-nkri/