Indonesia Must

Wait Till May

Transfer of sovereignty of West New Guinea to Indonesia earlier than May 1, 1963, the date set by the Agreement be tween Indonesia and Holland, has been turned down by UN.

THIS request by Indonesia to put forward the date of transfer co incided with a report that 1,000 Papuans had staged a peaceful demonstration outside UN head quarters in Hollandia asking to be “unconditionally incorporated” with Indonesia forthwith.

An Indonesian source reported that 18 leading personalities of West Irian had signed a petition. Accord ing to this source the leaders of the demonstration were J. Ouwe, Stokoro, L. H. Hamadi and M. Wajoi.

The first three are newcomers to the political scene (unless “J. Ouwe” is a deliberate or unintentional mis print for Jouwe, one of their pre- UNTEA leaders), but M. Wajoi could be Herman Wajoi. If they do mean Herman he must have had a big change of heart since he went to Jakarta for “reorientation” in October.

Herman Wajoi was the leader of the Parni political party and one of the founders of the National Congress that went into business just before

the UNTEA take-over on October and which was pledged to keep We’

New Guinea for West New Guinean He was also a Public Servant and tU Dutch thought highly of him.

Virtually nothing has been heas of other recognised WNG leadd since October 1, 1962. Hermn Womsiwor was last reported to “living quietly” in Biak; Maro Kaisiepo was to live in Holland as so was Nicholas louwe.

Crime Busters; The

introduction of seven Alsatian police dogs into Tonga six months ago has cut crime by 80 per cent., according to the Tongan Premier, Prince Tungi. "We can now sack half our policemen", he says jokingly. "Even on small islands where the dogs aren't used, thiev ing has been cut down out for fear that the dogs might be brought in". Four of the wonder dogs are shown here with their Tongan handlers.

Photo: Tulua Bros.