The chairman of the Papua and Aceh special autonomy supervisory team, Priyo Budi Santoso, urged the Indonesian government to summon the British Ambassador for Indonesia to offer clarification about the conference by the International Lawyers for West Papua (ILWP), which took place in Oxford on Tuesday.
A press release available on the ILWP website stated that the conference was attended by Papuan independence leaders, international lawyers, parliamentarians and NGOs.
"I urge the government to summon the British Ambassador [for Indonesia] because we have had a good relationship with England," he said.
He added that he was "vexed" that British members of parliament attended such an event.
He further said that the Indonesian government needed clarification on the event, as well as the role played by the British parliamentarians, to prevent "the heating-up of Indonesia-British relations".
"We [Indonesia] have to save Papua as an inseparable part [of our country]. We will not allow even an inch of land to be separated from the motherland," he added.