 In 2017 he was appointed as the chairman for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), a new organisation uniting the three main political organisations struggling for the independence of West Papua.Wenda was born in 1975 in Pyramid Village in the Baliem Valley, in the central highlands of West Papua.In 1977 there was a rebellion of 15,000 Lani people in response to Indonesian military violence towards Papuans.