Original sentence: For most of the colonial rule, there was no distinction made between Moluccans and Papuan.In 1922, Residentie Ternate was combined with Residentie Amboina and renamed Residentie Molukken.In 1935 the Residentie was renamed Gouvernement Molukken until the creation of Gouvernement Groote Oost in 1938, in which Gouvernement Molukken became residentie again.In 1949 after the Round Table conference, Netherlands kept part of its colony with the West New Guinea region known as Dutch New Guinea.In December 2014, all West Papuan independence movement groups were united under a single umbrella organization the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).In February 1961, the Dutch organised elections for the New Guinea Council a Papuan representative.In February 1961, the Dutch organised elections for the New Guinea Council a Papuan representative body to advise the Governor.In July 2019, the ULMWP claimed to have earlier in May united all West Papuan military factions under the one command forming the West Papua Army, including the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), that would be under "the political leadership of the ULMWP".On 1 December 1961, an inauguration ceremony was held for the Morning Star flag raised outside the Council building in the presence of the Governor, also the national anthem "Hai Tanahku Papua", the birds of paradise coat of arms, motto and the name of Papua Barat (West Papua) for the proposed new state.On 1 December 2020, the ULMWP announced it was forming a provisional government for the Republic of West Papua with a provisional constitution and with Benny Wenda as interim president.On 1 July 1971, Brigadier General Seth Jafeth Rumkorem, a former member of Indonesian military cadet and son of an Indonesian military officer, defected and became the leader of the militant independence movement Free Papua Movement (), proclaimed unilaterally West Papua as an independent democratic republic.On 14 December 1988, Dr.On 19 October 2011, Forkorus Yaboisembut, the head of the West Papua National Authority (WPNA), proclaimed the Federal Republic of West Papua () with the Mambruk pigeon as the symbol of state.The Council appointed a National Committee to prepare a political manifesto for the future state.The Dutch continued the formation of a council on October 19, 1961 which drafted the Manifesto for Independence and Self-Government, the national flag (the Morning Star Flag), the national stamp, the birds of paradise coat of arms, motto and the name of Papua Barat (West Papua), chose "Hai Tanahku Papua" as the national anthem, and asked people to be recognized as Papuans.The Dutch had accepted the Manifesto except the denomination of the flag recognizing it as a territorial flag not a national flag.The Dutch planned to settle most of its mixed population from Dutch East Indies in West New Guinea.The Dutch recognized this flag and song on November 18, 1961 and these regulations came into force on December 1, 1961.The Dutch stated that they had accepted the Manifesto except for the denomination of the flag recognizing it as a territorial flag, not a national flag.The Morning Star flag was declared as a national flag.The Republic of West Papua () is a de facto  state consisting of the Western New Guinea region.The Republic of West Papua was formerly a member state of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) since the organization's founding in 1991.The TPNPB released a statement in response denying that it had merged and called for a retraction and apology and said it had withdrawn from the ULMWP following a ULMWP summit in Vanuatu in 2017.The West Melanesia flag featured 14 stars with three colored bars of black, red and white.The organization is chaired by Benny Wenda.The proposal is supported by Solomon Islands and Vanuatu with the Parliament of Vanuatu passing the Wantok Blong Yumi Bill (Our Close Friends) in 2010 officially declaring that Vanuatu's foreign policy is to support the achievement of the independence of West Papua.The region has been administered by Indonesia since 1 May 1963 under several names in the following order: West Irian, Irian Jaya, and Papua.Thomas Wainggai unilaterally proclaimed the Republic of West Melanesia using the Melanesian identity of the West Papuan people the name.Today the region comprises two Indonesian provinces: Papua and West Papua.Under Dutch colonialism, West New Guinea is separated into two afdeeling, Afdeeling Nieuw-Guinea, and Afdeeling Zuid Nieuw-Guinea.Vanuatu's Parliament has proposed requesting that West Papua be granted observer status at the Melanesian Spearhead Group and Pacific Island Forum.When that plan failed, the Dutch had planned to withdraw by 1970 and began "Papuanization" to prepare for independence.With parts of New Guinea is ruled administratively under Residentie Amboina
Edited sentence: (Indonesian provinces: Papua and West Papua.Pacific Island Forum.as the symbol of state