Deputy Governor of Papua Klemen Tinal confirmed that the proposed file for the appointment of honorers has been completed and immediately forwarded to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the near future.

"There are about 12 thousand honorary employees who are members of the National Honorary Alliance Forum at the Papua Province level, that's what we put first".

"It's because they have policies. But it will be filled by districts / cities with a quota of 20 thousand," said Klemen Tinal in Jayapura on Tuesday.

Klemen asked the district government and we can immediately finalize the proposal of honorary employee’s data.

So it is expected that in the not too long time, the process of appointment through the relevant ministerial mechanisms, can be realized immediately.

"The District and City Government hope to complete the proposal soon. So that we can process this appointment as soon as possible," he said.

Papua Regional Secretary, Dance Yulian Flassy ensured that the entire process of the proposed appointment of 12 thousand honorary employees.

He also asked the honorary employees in provinces, districts and cities to be patient waiting for the hard work of the Papua Provincial Government and the relevant districts and municipalities.

"It is a matter of time we cannot determine, because all the process must be coordinated with the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reforms but we keep working. So we hope to be patient for that" he said.

Chairman of the Papuan National Honorary Alliance, Frits Awom urged the government to give certainty of time related to the appointment of honorary employees.

"Because this concerns our fate as children of the nation," he concluded.