The Testimony of Putra Asli Papua: Long Before the OPM Morning Star Flag was in existence, the Red and White Flies in Irian Jaya

The Testimony of Putra Asli Papua: Long Before the OPM Morning Star Flag was in existence, the Red and White Flies in Irian Jaya

The Free Papua Organization (OPM) and its criminal gang, KKB always echo if the Morning Star flag represents their cultural symbol.

But that assumption is mistaken.

The Morning Star itself was used by Dutch New Guinea from 1 December 1961 to 1 October 1962 when Tanah Merah was under the administration of the United Nations Provisional Executive Authority (UNTEA).

Quoting the Little Heaven's Facebook account that fell to Earth, Saturday (2/22/2020) the Morning Star flag itself adapted the colors Red and Blue and Blue with the Star which adapted the Dutch flag.

Even worse, it turns out that the Morning Star flag is in fact the banner of a Dutch football club in Port Numbay (Jayapura).

The Morning Star flag created by Dutch hands in 1961 was claimed by the OPM as a symbol of their native culture.

Though Papuan culture existed before the Dutch set foot in the archipelago.

Furthermore, almost all ethnic groups in Papua do not recognize the symbol of the Star as a symbol of divinity, and even stars are not used in literature in any media.

The meaning of the media, namely in the carvings, paintings, and graffiti of the original Papuan cultural body, does not depict any star symbol.

Instead the religious symbol itself is described as Human, Tree and Animal.

Moreover, the ancestors of the Papuan children only knew pitih, black and brown colors.

This can be found in carved ornaments, paintings, canvas bark, sculptures to streaks on the body when carrying out traditional ceremonies and wars.

Especially when the Morning Star was made by the Dutch, not many Papuans (sorry) wore clothing and still wore traditional clothes as ancestral culture.

So the existence of cloth is not widely known by local residents.

Then a Papuan grandfather named Saul Jenu gave his testimony in 1956 he was detained by the Dutch in Sorong.

Because, Saul tore a blue color on the Dutch flag and hoisted the Saka Merah Putih in Hollandia (Irian Jaya).

"I was detained in Sorong for raising the Red and White flag"

"At that time the Dutch army said that if they wanted to make their own Red and White flag, they could not tear the Dutch flag"

"After that the Dutch army hit me until I had this lip (blood) comat," said Saul.

Then Saul made a shocking confession if he knew that the Papuan nation was part of Indonesia since October 28, 1928.

The reason is there is someone who said that Saul's birth date is the same as the Youth Pledge where at that time a man born in Serui named Silas Papare represented his ancestral land to be one Indonesian.