[?]apuan Support For Indonesia

Hollandia, Sept. 21.

he National Congress meeting broke up on the night of September 20 in a >r-all fight, in which the police had to be called in to restore order. (For round, see story this page.) he fight between delegates began after a vote was taken on whether the ns should go for self-determination in 1963 or in 1969. he majority was in favour of 1963, but the chairman (Nicolaas Tanggahma) that it had to have a two-thirds majority, and he therefore declared the /oid according to some Parliamentary rules which delegates thought he made he went along. They disagreed with the ruling, said that if that were the then he should have stated so before they voted. ighting then broke out, led by a Papuan sub-patrol officer, who wears a and looks like Jomo Kenyatta, He is usually tight and has his hands bound ost of the time; fist fights aren't anything new to him. ‘he fighting was then taken up by some of the unofficial "observers" who been peering in through the windows from the street ever since the ress began its sitting on September 14; the police were called out. bere is an opinion held amongst some of the Papuan leaders that a plebiscite i too soon could be disastrous; they think that at present there are ient malcontents who are fed up or sour at the Dutch and what has happened em, to influence a vote in favour of permanently throwing in the Papuans' nth Indonesia. They believe, however, that after seven years of Indonesian Ihey would be anxious to be quit of them.

In any event, brawling in favour of a plebiscite in 1963 is a bit of a wasted ' at this time. No one really believes that Indonesia or the UN would allow to have anything of the sort. —JUDY TUDOR.