The Grand Committee of National Sports Week ensures that local products will be the top choice to be designated as the official merchandise list of the four-yearly event.

According to Chairman II of National Sports Week Committee 2021 in the field of Marketing, ICT, HR and Security, Roy Letrora said merchandise selection process is still ongoing. Many local products are now in the selection stage

"There are many local products that we selected, such as Wamena Honey, Noken, hats, bags and others. There is also bottled drinking water. The point is we have to make a selection so that later what is determined is the best but locally made of course," he said in Jayapura, Thursday (1/7/2021).

If it is planned, he said, the official merchandise list of National Sports Week XX Papua will be announced at the end of August.

The merchandise will include the National Sports Week XX logo or mascot. "However, there is no application of Intellectual Property Rights (HAKI) of KONI Papua to Papuan merchandise".

"There is a provision for KONI's intellectual property rights that every commercial product we return 20 percent of the margin to KONI as the holder of IPR. But there must be special exceptions for local Papuan products" he said.

Roy on that occasion ensured that every selected local product was made and produced, raw materials came from Papua. Therefore, for products that use raw materials from outside the area, it automatically falls.

'It's obviously not possible that everyone will come in. But surely the artificial products must be actually produced and the raw materials from Papua. Do not take raw materials here and then produce outside then bring back here, it does not fit the criteria," he said.