It is not only representing papuan groups but also migrants from other Indonesia islanders.
The Presidium presides the Papua Council, which is claimed as a re-emerged form of the New Guinea Council, established in 1961, which was approved and gazetted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands [citation needed].
The Papua Council has four pillar groups: political detainees and prisoners (Tapol/Napol), women, the TPN/OPM, and West Papuan Youth and Customary Council of West Papua.
Theys Eluay was one of the heads of the PDP until his killing by Kopassus in 2001.
[1] The legitimacy of the council has been challenged by the West Papua New Guinea National Congress, a rival organisation.