West Papua Liberation Organization
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West Papua Liberation Organization is an organization that fights for the independence of the Republic of West Papua
Republic of West Papua
The Republic of West Papua is a proposed but unrecognised separatist state in the Western New Guinea region that was unilaterally declared during the temporary United Nations administration of the region in 1963. There are few organizations that fight for West Papuan independence. One of them is...

 from Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. It's head is John Anari
John Anari
John Anari is the leader of the West Papua Liberation Organization. He is 31 years old and he comes from a vilage named Kebar that is located on the territory inhabited by Mpur tribe....

, indigenous Papuan from Mpur tribe. The main office of WPLO is located in the city of Manokwari
Manokwari
Manokwari is a city in Indonesia. It is the largest city and, since 2003, the capital of the province of West Papua, at the western end of New Guinea. The city has many resorts and is a major tourist area. It is one of the seats of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manokwari–Sorong. It is also the...

, West Papua province. WPLO is not the only organization created for the purpose of getting independence. There are plenty of them, for example Free Papua Movement
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...

or WPNLA. WPLO contains several smaller parties inside. The organization has representatives in some countries.
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