The Papua Presidium Council (Presidium Dewan Papua) is 31 member umbrella group that was established to represent West Papua. It is commonly referred to as PDP among the Papuans.

The Presidium presides the Papua Council, which is described as a re-emerged form of the Nieuw Guinea Raad or New Guinea Council, established in 1961, which was approved and gazetted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands .

The Presidium members are chosen from members of the Panel of Papua. Papua Panel itself consists of pillar groups. The Papua Council has four pillar groups: (1) Political Detainees and Prisoners (Tapol/Napol), West Papua Women, the TPN/OPM

Free Papua Movement

The Free Papua Movement is a militant organisation established in 1965 to encourage and effect the violent overthrow of the current governments in the Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia, formerly known as Irian Jaya to secede from Indonesia, and to reject economic development and...

, and West Papuan Youth and Customary Council of West Papua. Theys Eluay

Theys Eluay

Theys Eluay was born in Sere Village in Sentani, in what was then Dutch New Guinea. He went to the “Jongensvervolgschool” in Yoka, a boarding school, led by the Dutch missionary Izaak Samuel Kijne. After the JVS he followed a course in meteorology and worked then as a meteorological assistant...

 was one of the heads of the PDP, until his killing by Kopassus

Kopassus

Kopassus is an Indonesian Army special forces group that conducts special operations missions for the Indonesian government, such as direct action, unconventional warfare, sabotage, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, and intelligence gathering.Kopassus was founded on April 16, 1952...

 in 2001.

The legitimacy of the council has been challenged by the West Papua New Guinea National Congress, a rival organisation.