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1) Tolikara incident to be solved through legal processes: Police Chief

August 12, 2015, 2:13 am
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2) Community Leader: Don’t Doubt Papuans’ Indonesianness
3) Komala Air Crashes In Papua, 1 Killed

4) Freeport Shouldn’t Take Any Party on Blaming, Councilor Says

5) Students Reject Freeport’s Affiliated Mining Companies in Intan Jaya

6) Dark Experience of Freeport Not Be Repeated in Merauke

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1) Tolikara incident to be solved through legal processes: Police Chief
Rabu, 12 Agustus 2015 14:04 WIB | 388 Views

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Tolikara incident that led to a mosque being burnt down on July 17 would be solved through Indonesian legal processes rather than by customary law, stated Papua Police Chief Brigadier General Paulus Waterpauw.

"This case must be settled through legal processes and not on the basis of customary law," he informed journalists here on Wednesday in response to questions on how the case of the Tolikara sectarian violence would be solved.

The implementation of customary law in solving the Tolikara incident would not be unanimously accepted by all concerned parties, and it would never offer a comprehensive solution as well, he pointed out.

Waterpauw further noted that he remained optimistic in finding the mastermind behind the incident, which occurred on the day Muslims across Indonesia celebrated the Idul Fitri festivity.

He added that the police have named AK and JW as suspects for the sectarian attack in the Karubaga region of Tolikara District, Papua Province.

The two suspects were arrested on July 24 for their alleged involvement in the attack, Senior Commissioner Patrige, the spokesman of the Papua provincial police headquarters, remarked.

Patrige recently stated that the two suspects had admitted to have pelted stones at the Muslims performing Idul Fitri prayers inside the yard of Karubaga district military precinct on July 17.

The suspect, JW, is a civil servant of the Tolikara district government while AK works for a privately owned bank in the conflict-hit area, Patrige noted.

(Reported by Anita Permata Dewi/Uu.R013/INE/KR-BSR/O001)

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2) Community Leader: Don’t Doubt Papuans’ Indonesianness

By Roberth I. Vanwi on 02:23 pm Aug 12, 2015
Category Front Page, News
Jayapura. Celebrations of Indonesia’s 70 years of independence this year reflect Indonesian patriotism across the country as much as Papuans’ love for it, a senior Papuan community said on Wednesday, stressing that Papuans, too, are Indonesians.
“Have you noticed that people in Papua do respond positively to the government’s urging to raise the Indonesian flag and other Independence Day paraphernalia?” George Awi told the Jakarta Globe.
“This tells us Papuans share the outlook of a common archipelago with other Indonesians. But the government needs to continue developing this land, regardless of the obstacles. Indonesia also needs to prove it loves Papua.”
A dearth of mutual confidence is at the heart of the festering issues in Papua, George said. Only recently, he added, have Papuans started seeing Papuan faces in government offices and in other undertakings. All this was despite the insistence in Jakarta that Papua was, and continues to be, an integral part of Indonesia.
“But opportunities are now open to those who can compete; we now have a Papuan at the head of the provincial police. The government deems us trustworthy so we need to repay this by keeping Papua safe and peaceful,” George said.
“Don’t underestimate the Indonesianness of Papuans,” George added. But what of those who demand independence? “That’s the task of the government and our collective responsibility to ensure they, too, enjoy the results of an advancing Papua.”
“This country loves Papua; that much is clear. We now have the Special Autonomy Law; President Joko [Widodo] visited us three times in one year. That capable Papuans can now move Papua forward is not just hot air.”
Meanwhile, the Papuan provincial government will take a “sensible but lively” approach to the 70th anniversary of Indonesian independence.
Elia I. Loupatty, assistant for development and people’s welfare at Papua’s provincial secretariat and head of preparations for Independence Day, said, as entertainment for the locals in Jayapura traditional games will be organized as well as a marathon and an arts, sports and culture competition.
“We are mindful of the traffic and other logistical challenges so we will focus most activities at the Kusuma Trikora Military Cemetery for a public commemoration ceremony and at the Mandala-Jayapura Stadium for the flag-raising ceremony,” Elia added.
Representatives from Papua New Guinea and other neighboring countries will attend the ceremonies in Papua, similar to previous years. “They will arrive on Aug. 15 or 16, and we look forward to welcoming them as they are our close neighbors,” Elia said.
Indonesia celebrates its independence from Dutch colonial rule on Aug. 17.

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3) Komala Air Crashes In Papua, 1 Killed
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TEMPO.CO, Jayapura - Komala Air flight PAC 750 XL PK-KIG crashed during landing at Ninia Airport, Yahukimo, Papua at 9:45 am local time (12:45am GMT), Wednesday, August 12. The aircraft technician, Eka Wijaya Sumanta was killed in the incident.
“Five other victims suffered injuries and fractures, including the pilot Herman Iuno who suffered bruises on his head," Head of Jayapura Search and Rescue Jayapura said on Wednesday.
According to Ludianto, the evacuation process is ongoing. Three of the victims were being treated at Wamena General Hospital and two others to the Dian Harapan Hospital in Jayapura.
From the information obtained, he said, it was suspected that the light aircraft failed to land at the end of the runway. Ludianto suggested the accident occurred during bad and windy weather.
“The information we received said, Komala Air, owned by PT Komala Indonesia hit a residents home at the end of the runway," said Ludianto.
The plane flew from Wamena Airport, Jayawijaya, at 9:25am. The victims treated at Wamena hospital are namely Adam, Yali Pahabol, and Herman Iuno.
Two other victims were treated at the Dian Harapan Hospital in Jayapura. They are Yakyat Leobak and Laimo.
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4) Freeport Shouldn’t Take Any Party on Blaming, Councilor Says

POSTED BY: ADMIN AUGUST 11, 2015
Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Legislative Council criticized PT Freeport in the on going renegotiation process of contract of work that failed to involve the Papua Provincial Government, some local governments in the mining areas of PT. Freeport and customary people.
Some members of Papua Legislative Council from Electoral Area III including Mimika, Nabire, Intan Jaya, Deiyai, Dogiyai and Paniai said PT Freeport Indonesia and Central Government to never ignoring Papua Provincial Government, local governments in Freeport’s mining operation areas and customary people.
‘These three strengths that are Papua Provincial Government, local governments in the area surrounded Freeport mining areas and customary people should not be involved. If the customary people, provincial government and local governments are not involved, do not blame on them if there’s a problem,” Wihelmus Pigai said on Monday (10/8/2015).
According to him, today is the era of reform. Do not act as if it’s the ear of new order. The customary people should be involved. The interests of Papua Provincial Government, local governments in Freeport’s mining areas should be accommodated in the process of contract negotiation.
“Law on Mineral and Energy Resources No. 4/2004 is a regulation issued in rush without involving the interest of Papua. Therefore the reference is the Special Autonomy Law 2001. It’s true there’s Mineral and Energy Resources Law, but it’s about the natural resources in Papua. So the reference is Special Autonomy Law. The potential of natural resources is in Papua, not in Jakarta, so we should refer to Special Autonomy Law,” he said.
In addition, according to Pigai, the President Decree No.16/2015 about the assessment team of Natural Resources Management for Papua Economic Development should be more specific to cover the natural resources management.
“Economically it would give positive contribution to both provincial and local governments and local community. Currently it’s not give a benefit for Papua,” he said.
On one occasion, the Chairman of Papua Legislative Council Yunus Wonda said the Papua Provincial Government, Mimika Regional Government and related stakeholders including customary people must be involved in the discussion of Freeport’s Contract of Work. (Arjuna Pademme/rom)
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5) Students Reject Freeport’s Affiliated Mining Companies in Intan Jaya

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Jayapura, Jubi – Students from Intan Jaya Regency expressed opposition to plans by Freeport-affiliated companies do conduct operations there.
The locations for explorations are Wabu and Lokabu in Sugapa sub-district as well as Kemabu and Yabuin Homeho sub-district and Itadipab sub-district.
A student of International Relations at Cenderawasih University, Omiel Zagani , 23, said in 1961 and 1999, PT Freeport Indonesia conducted mining operations but never paid compensation to the customary people.
“We definitely reject any form of mining operations. We are still traumatized by the last experience with PT. Freeport. Before it pays compensation to the customary people, as a member of the young generation of Intan Jaya, we strongly refuse the mining operations in our region,” Zagani told reporters on last weekend.
He further appealed all relevant parties in regards to the mining issue to make a joint agreement involved the customary, community, youth, and religious leaders as well as students and mining companies. “It must be done to avoid the experience in the past decades,” he said.
When asked is that only PT Freeport Indonesia was coming to do mining operations in Intan Jaya, Zagani admitted between the periode of 1961 – 1990, PT Freeport did massive exploitation in Intan Jaya, but four mining companies affiliated with PT Freeport are now existing in the region although have not yet run the mining activities.
“Currently four Freeport’s affiliated companies are existed, namely PT. Irian Mineral, PT. Indika Energi, PT. Manersave, while I forget the name of the other one,” Zagani said.
Meanwhile, the Representative Chief of PT Freeport Indonesian in Jayapura City, Piter Tukan on telephone conversation confirmed that currently PT Freeport is trying to reduce its mining operation areas in Papua. “That information is not true. We are now reducing the operation areas and not doing expansion,” he said. (Roy Ratumakin/rom)
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6) Dark Experience of Freeport Not Be Repeated in Merauke

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POSTED BY: ADMIN AUGUST 11, 2015
Jayapura, Jubi – A member of Papua Legislative Council of the People’s Conscience (Hanura) Party faction said President Joko Widodo’s goal to make Merauke a national barns will ignore the local indigenous peoples’ rights as experienced by Kamoro and Amungme, customary owners of the mining area of ​​PT. Freeport in Mimika.
Hanura party faction member, Wilhelmus Pigai said his party urged the Papua Provincial Government to pay attention to the project seriously.
He said, this statement was based on the experience of the presence of PT. Freeport in Mimika where Amungme and Kamoro people are left behind in the management of natural resources, because of having no expertise in the company.
“Jokowi’s plan does not only focus on the rice plant, but also local food. This program must accommodate the interests and rights of indigenous peoples since it will use 1.2 million hectares of land, “Wilhelmus Pigai said to Salam Papua last weekend.
According to him, the plan will be developed 1.2 million hectares of rice fields in Merauke region within three years. Predictable, there will be conflicts between communities customary owners, financiers, and government. It also has the potential to encourage the arrival of migrants from outside Papua, because it takes a lot of workers working on paddy fields. Papuan people potentially are marginalized in their own land.
“It is feared that, if it’s too late to act, the government potentially involved getting rid of the presence of indigenous Papuans, including a supporting role in wiping out the potential of natural resources in Merauke and Papua in general,” he said.
While the chairman of the Parliament of Papua Hanura, Yan Permenas Mandenas said his party supported the central government policies and the provision of Papua to develop human resources but the program should be based on the arrangement of space and territory, paying attention to the social context and the potential resources of local communities. (Arjuna Pademme/ Tina)
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1) Tolikara case proceeds despite peace treaty

August 12, 2015, 1:57 pm
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1) Tolikara case proceeds  despite peace treaty
thejakartapost.com, Jakarta | Archipelago | Wed, August 12 2015, 4:01 PM - 
Newly appointed Papua Police chief Paulus Waterpauw said that he would continue the legal follow up of the Tolikara incident in Papua despite an announcement that the conflicting sides had made peace.
“This [incident] must be legally processed, not just dealt with by a customary settlement,” said Paulus as quoted by Antara news agency on Wednesday.
Previously on July 29, religious leaders from both Muslim and Christian groups in Tolikara gathered to sign a peace treaty, overseen by Papua's Interfaith Communication Forum (FKUB) head Lipiyus Biniluk, Evangelical Church in Indonesia (GIDI) president Dorman Wandikbo, and Papua province Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) head Tonny Wanggai.
The closure resulting from the treaty, according to Paulus, would not last long and would not be accepted by certain groups. He said he would continue to search for the intellectual actors behind the incident.
Similar tones were also voiced by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives Fahri Hamzah, both of whom want the legal process to proceed until a verdict on the actions of those responsible is reached in a courtroom.
“It is important to uphold the law. That is the sign of the state’s involvement,” Fahri said on Tuesday, before adding, “To forgive and reconcile in a customary way is another matter. What is important is for the legal process to proceed.”
So far, the police have announced two suspects, JW and AK, who were involved in the attack during Idul Fitri celebrations in Tolikara. (rad/kes)(+++)
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2) Australia-Indonesia: A marriage of inconvenience?

12 August 2015 5:00PM
'Condemned to Crisis?' is a new Lowy Institute Paper now available for purchase as an e-book or in bookstores.
Geographical proximity and the need to address shared security challenges have married Australia and Indonesia together, if inconveniently. But Ken Ward's Condemned to Crisis? warns us of the danger of putting too much expectation on the relationship. To that end, he offers some interesting observations.

First, Australian Coalition and Labor governments have both had their ebbs and flows in the relationship with Indonesia. Many in Indonesia erroneously assume that the relationship is more favourable under Labor, partially owing to Labor's support for Indonesian independence. It would be interesting to examine whether such perceived partisanship  exists on the Indonesian side too. Some argue that Jokowi has done more damage to Indonesia's reputation abroad, but few contemplate if a Prabowo presidency would have been any better.
Second, Indonesia's diversity and pluralism makes it irrelevant to talk about culture as singular, rigid, or static. Culture is often overstated to highlight differences and understated to overlook similarities. Indonesia's relationship with Malaysia, a neighbour most culturally similar to Indonesia, is at least as volatile as with Australia, while Australia's relationship with countries such as Japan and India, which are just as culturally different as Indonesia, are stable. Even though it is the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia has a challenging relationship with Saudi Arabia. None of this is to deny that Australia and Indonesia are different in many respects, but Indonesians can aspire to similar things as Australians, and Indonesia is becoming a 'normal' country. 
Third, people-to-people links could be improved on both sides. Mutual understanding comes not only from physical interactions, but also a sense of curiosity. So although more Australian tourists visit Indonesia than the other way around, for those Australians visiting Bali for the beach and beers, nothing else about Indonesian culture might attract their attention. As for Indonesia's presence in Australia, it is clearly under-represented. Singapore and Malaysia constituted the largest outbound destinations for Indonesian tourists in 2014, and few Indonesians visit Australia recreationally. Indonesians only account for 2% of total international tourists in Australia in 2014-2015, compared to Singapore (5%) and Malaysia (4.4%).
Improving ties between people could start by waiving Australian visa fees to Indonesian nationals. While not costing much, such a gesture could highlight Australia's desire to receive more Indonesian tourists. Jakarta could reciprocate this concession.
But Indonesia needs to do more to rectify the asymmetry. Rather than learning about their host, many Indonesian students come to Australia just to study their own country. There are more Indonesian studies institutions in Australia than vice versa; the Australian Studies Centre established at the University of Indonesia lasted only around a decade. Despite the plummeting interest in the Indonesian language, more Australians are still academically interested in Indonesia than Indonesians are about Australia. Perhaps reversing this trend will require an Indonesian version of the 'New Colombo Plan' obliging Indonesian students to study their neighbours, including Australia.
Fourthly, I agree with Ward's argument for better crisis management. The key word here is empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Correctly assessing how Indonesia would react to Australia's way of handling a crisis could strike a balance 'between the extremes of the insulting and the ingratiating'. Empathy can pre-empt diplomatic disagreements from being thrown into the fray of 'megaphone' diplomacy for domestic political reasons. Showing empathy is about communication, not culture. Jokowi should have picked up Tony Abbott's phone calls and explained why he would stick to his decision on the Chan and Sukumaran executions. Australia should neither have shown itself militarily triumphant over the East Timor intervention nor granted asylum to 46 Indonesians from West Papua in 2006, even though the right to asylum is within Indonesia's constitution. What is legal isn't always ethical.
Finally, both countries must appreciate their strategic confluence beyond the immediate present. Hugh White correctly asserts that the bilateral relationship 'does not exist in a vacuum' but 'is profoundly influenced by the wider regional environment in which both countries live.' The prospects of regional stability being undermined by events in the South China Sea and elsewhere could bind the strategic destinies of the two nations closer than they could possibly imagine. Such circumstances can turn the relationship into a lasting marriage of convenience. This raises the hope that a crisis-prone relationship can be consigned to the past.
Photo by Flickr user uyeah.
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More comment on ‘Condemned to Crisis?’  on Lowy Institute “The Interpreter blog
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1) El Nino Threatens Crop Failure in Merauke

August 13, 2015, 2:03 am
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2) Church Demands Jayapura Police Chief Deputy be Fired over Sunday Raid

3) HIPMI Explores Trade Opportunities in PNG

4) Military Prisoners Granted Sentence Cuts

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1) El Nino Threatens Crop Failure in Merauke

POSTED BY: ADMIN AUGUST 12, 2015
Jayapura, Jubi – A total of 8,874 hectares of ricefields in Merauke are threatened by the effects of a natural phenomenon known as El Nino, marked by rising seawater temperatures in several regions in the world.
El Nino has in the past resulted in harvest failure due to lack of irrigation.
“The drought is affecting 85 percent of 42 thousand hectares of paddy farming area in Merauke, while it has less impacted to other regencies. If it is so, it wasn’t too significant. Of 13,156 hectares of farming area, a total of 8,874 hectares is endangered of crop failure and 400 hectares were already damaged,” the Head of Plantation and Horticulture Office of Papua Province, Winarto told Jubi on Tuesday (11/8/2015).
To overcome this problem, the plantation and horticulture office is currently relying on pumping system that is applied by tide. “But it can not provide the thorough irrigation because it uses the brackish water or we can use it if the level of salt is sufficient,” he said.
Related to production, Winarto admitted about the crop failure in this season would not affect the production because his office has anticipated it earlier in last production. About artificial rain, Winarto will continue to propose it to the Central Government. However, referring to the contribution of Papua’s production at national level that is less than 1 percent, the government likely will more focus to other regions in Western Indonesia. (Sindung Sukoco/rom)
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2) Church Demands Jayapura Police Chief Deputy be Fired over Sunday Raid

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POSTED BY: ADMIN AUGUST 12, 2015
Jayapura, Jubi – The church has demanded Papua Police toremove the Jayapura deputy police chief ( Wakapolres) be fired over a raid carried out by dozens of officers around the Kingmi Church in Doyo Baru, Jayapura regency on Sunday (09/08/2015).
One of the assemblies of Ninom church, Nikius Bugiangge said Jayapura police chief deputy is responsible for the action. He said, Wakapolres should be removed because he ordered the search.
“We’ve asked and he said he sent them and this is not right and unacceptable. If the other days might be understandable, but this happened on Sunday, when the people were worshiping. It was a day of worship of Christians and must be respected, ” Nikius said via telephone to the Jubi on Tuesday (11/8/2015).
According to him, the church has written to the Papua Police and Christians of various churches in Papua will hold a peaceful demonstration at the local police. Papua Police must apologize, and explain to the public as well as remove local police chief deputy, he said.
“When police officers ransacked residents’ housing, they came as if they want to fight or look for terrorists. Some entered through the window when I could not open the doors of homes. In fact there are sick people threatened with a weapon. What does it mean?, “member of Papua Legislative Council said.
Previously, Rev. Yones Wenda who lead worship when shakedown said police entered the church when worship took place. Police surrounded the houses behind the new church that has not been inaugurated.
“At home, some family are sick. Police immediately held-arms of the front door, back door and windows. Family homeowners who are ill at gunpoint and told to stand up straight. They did not show a warrant and did not say their goal, “said Rev.Yones to Jubi, on Sunday (09/08/2015).
He further said local police chief deputy ordered his members to conduct a search for weapons and HP’s home burgled. (Arjuna Pademme/ Tina)
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3) HIPMI Explores Trade Opportunities in PNG


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POSTED BY: ADMIN AUGUST 12, 2015
JAYAPURA, JUBI – INDONESIAN YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ASSOCIATION (HIPMI) OF PAPUA MET WITH OFFICIALS FROM THE BORDER AGENCY AND FOREIGN COOPERATION AND THE PAPUAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (DPRP) TO OPEN ACCESS TO PAPUANS DOING BUSINESS IN NEIGHBORING PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PNG) TO ANTICIPATE FREE TRADE UNDER THE ASEAN COMMUNITY IN 2020.
“We’ve done the audience with the parties a few times to open our access to overseas in this case PNG, so that our Papua entrepreneurs can develop their business in the area,” chairman of the Foreign Cooperation Association Yance Mote said to Jubi in Abepura on Monday (11/08/2015).
This aims to help Papuan entrepreneurs to compete with foreign businessmen in the ASEAN Community by 2020. “We want to establish international trade cooperation to face the ASEAN Community, but on the other hand we are also challenged with MSG. Papua and PNG are Melanesian people that coexist in one big island, “he said.
Therefore, Papua Association seeks the opening of the trade route between Papua and PNG. “Well, that’s our intention to meet with the head of the Border and Foreign Cooperation. Before we also had an audience with the DPRP in this case the chairman of Papua Legislative Council “Yance Mote said.
Therefore, he hoped entrepreneurs can conduct cooperation in terms of trade with PNG in which the distance and travel time shorter than Malaysia and the Philippines. “If we could get in there, why not? Do not let the monopoly of trade conducted by other States, while we can empower our own brothers, “Yance Mote said.
During the meeting, head of Border welcomes the intent and purpose of Papua Association for trade cooperation in this case the distribution of basic food and others “I strongly support it, I will communicate with the governor of Papua so that the future could have a dialogue with the consultant in PNG,” Susi Wanggai said. (Roy Ratumakin/ Tina)

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4) Military Prisoners Granted Sentence Cuts

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POSTED BY: ADMIN AUGUST 11, 2015
JAYAPURA, JUBI – MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY WILL BE GRANTED SENTENCE CUTS , AN OFFICIAL SAID.
Papua’s Law and Human Rights Office’s correctional division head Johan Yarangga told Jubi, on Tuesday (10/8/2015) that those who have permanent legal status as a convict would be granted sentence cuts.
“The military has just asked for remissions for their members who are convicts this year,” he said.
Separately, chief of Information Military Command (Kapendam) XVII / Cenderawasih, Lt Col Tegus PR to Jubi said, until now the military has not known about the remissions mentioned.
“I do not know, I’ll check it first whether there is a remission or not. I’ll give you a call again, ” he said via cell phone.
Until this news was released, there has been no official information related to how many military prisoner will grant remission. (Roy Ratumakin/ Tina)
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1) Forum presented with five priority issues

August 13, 2015, 2:06 pm
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2) PNG claims Indonesian village

3) FDW Refuses Mobile Brigade Headquarters and Central Terminal at Wosi

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1) Forum presented with five priority issues 
Updated at 4:32 pm on 13 August 2015
The head of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat has presented five priority issues for leaders to address in regards to greater regionalism.
The issues were identified by the recently created Specialist Sub-Committee on Regionalism and have been presented to the Forum Officials Committee meeting in Suva.
In May the Sub-Committee called for public proposals and received 68 proposals.

Dame Meg Taylor says the issues raised reflected community expectations of the role Forum leaders could play.
The five issues are increased economic returns from fisheries and maritime surveillance; climate change and disaster risk management; information and communication technology; West Papua and cervical cancer.
She reminded the officials of the important role they play and said this means focussing more sharply on high priority issues and on the delivery of results that make practical and positive differences.

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2) PNG claims Indonesian village
thejakartapost.com, Jakarta | National | Thu, August 13 2015, 8:05 PM - 
Papua New Guinea has claimed Indonesian territory in Papua with its soldiers ordering local people to lower the Indonesian Red-and-White flag.
Papua border and international relations head Suzana Wanggai said on Thursday that 14 uniformed Papua New Guinea soldiers had arrived in Yakyu village in Merauke regency, Papua and ordered residents to lower the Indonesian flag.
“Their reason was that the village was part of Papua New Guinea territory. This is the report that I received from the head of neighborhood unit,” she told tempo.co.
Suzana insisted that Yakyu village was clearly in Indonesian territory because it was located in Merauke regency. The residents are mainly from the Mayna clan of the Kanum tribe, who moved to the area in the 1990s from Weyam village in Papua New Guinea. The village has been home to 19 family heads and 74 people since Jun. 22, 2011.
“They have held national identity cards from Merauke regency since last month,” she said.
The incident was confirmed by Papua’s Cendrawasih Miltary Command (Kodam) chief Syafei Kusno, who deployed 10 soldiers to the village to prevent residents from lowering the national flag.
He said that Papua New Guinea had argued that the village was a neutral area that should hoist Indonesian and Papua New Guinean flags together.
Agreeing with Susi, Syafei said that Yakyu village actually belonged to Indonesia, however, the fact that some of its residents came from Papua New Guinea had led to a different perception by the neighboring country.
To resolve the conflict, Suzana suggested the two countries meet up in a forum to discuss the issue through a diplomatic framework.
“Together, the two countries will carry out investigations to sort out this problem,” she said.
She added that efforts to resolve the conflict were still conducive, unlike the case with border conflicts with Malaysia. (ika)
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3) FDW Refuses Mobile Brigade Headquarters and Central Terminal at Wosi
POSTED BY: ADMIN AUGUST 12, 2015

JAYAPURA, JUBI – RESIDENTS OF WOSILIMO SUB-DISTRICT, JAYAWIJAYA REGENCY, HAVE EXPRESSED OPPOSITION TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO BUILD MOBILE BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS AND THE CENTRAL TERMINAL AT WOSI.
Wosilimo intellectual Sakeus Entama said he is strongly against the local government’s plan to build the Mobile Brigade headquarters and to place the Central Terminal in Wosi region on Tuesday (11/8/15) in Jayapura, Papua.
“We appeal people to well consider about the advantage of having the Mobile Brigade headquarter and Central Terminal which would only displace the planning areas of local community and increase the violence cases by military in Papua,” said Entama.
He further added people for not being provoked by Jayawijaya political elites and asked both Jayawijaya Government and local parliament to not enforce the local people to give their lands or agree on such plan.
“We have tracked those who facilitate the Jayawijaya Local Government to meet with local people and force them to agree on the plan and to give their land as well as to define a deadline therefore it was bringing a contradiction among the people,” he said.
Meanwhile, Forum Diskusi Weaksalek Jayapura Board member, Pinus Wantik said the Local Government and Parliament were elected by people and work for the people as well. They shouldn’t force people to follow their intention and neglect the people’s intention.
“Do not behalf the people for personal interest. We firmly decline this plan. The government should pay attention to the needs of students in doing the study and the development of Jayawijaya human resources for the future,” he said. (Agus Pabika/rom)
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West Papua rally at Kirribilli House Sydney on Saturday 15th August at 11am.

August 13, 2015, 4:16 pm
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West Papua rally at Kirribilli House Sydney on Saturday 15th August at 11am.
West Papuan supporters will hold a peaceful rally at the Prime Ministers Sydney residence, Kirribilli House Kirribilli Avenue, Kirribilli,  to commemorate the New York Agreement.This shameful act, the signing of the New York Agreement lead to the betrayal of the West Papuan people.




New York Agreement
On the 15 August 1962 an agreement was signed between the Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands concerning West New Guinea. 

A vote on  a Dutch/Indonesian resolution on the agreement by the UN General Assembly on the 21 of September 1962 was adopted and included this statement:

“The Agreement contains certain guarantees for the population of the territory, including detailed provisions regarding the exercise of the right of self-determination under arrangements made by Indonesia with the advice, assistance and participation of the Secretary-General who will appoint a United Nations Representative for this purpose. The act of Self-determination is to take place before the end of 1969”
UN General Assembly (Agenda item 89. August 1962, New York)


 In 1969, Indonesia chose 1025 electors (one representative for approximately every 700 Papuans) to vote in the UN sanctioned election. Under coercion the electors voted to integrate with Indonesia. The West Papuan people call this , the act, of no free choice
Australia was involved in the betrayal. 

Time to put West Papua back on the listing of UN trust territories  
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West Papua for Pacific Islands Forum agenda depends on 'thin down' process of topics: McCully'

August 13, 2015, 10:07 pm
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1) Pacific Forum Leaders: Ready to Champion West Papua where the UN has Failed

August 14, 2015, 1:50 am
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2) ULMWP welcomes recommendation to make West Papua a Forum Leaders agenda 
3) West Papua for Pacific Islands Forum agenda depends on ‘thin down’ process of topics: McCully’
4) Papua New Guinea’s military denies Indonesia border incursion to bring down flag
5) New military chief must  tackle abuses: HRW

6) Islands in focus: Indonesian  flag burned in Timika - 
7) No Justice in Sight for Rights Abuse Victims as President Touts Reconciliation Over Prosecution
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1) Pacific Forum Leaders: Ready to Champion West Papua where the UN has Failed
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In the 1960s, West Papuans were sacrificed in the name of Cold War politics – and the United Nations have done nothing about it according to Jennifer Robinson, a London-based human rights lawyer.
In the weekend, West Papua independence leader and international Free West Papua lobbyist, Mr Benny Wenda described the reality for his people.
“For over 50 years, my people have lived under illegal occupation and endured brutal oppression from the Indonesian state which has killed over 500,000 Melanesian Papuans in a ruthless genocide.
He pointed to the UN’s failure to uphold and protect the rights of West Papuans more than 40 years ago.
“Indonesia illegally occupied West Papua in 1969 by forcing 1,026 people at gunpoint to vote for Indonesian rule. Indonesia calls this ‘The Act of Free Choice’ but we West Papuans call this ‘The Act of NO Choice’ and continue to peacefully struggle for the restoration of our own independence and for the fulfilment of our fundamental right to self-determination.”
It once again brings to light that no matter how hard the United Nations pound the human rights pulpit, they are too compromised to right their 1969 West Papuan failure, today.
It is at this failed UN juncture that Pacific leaders in 2015 head to Papua New Guinea for the 46th sitting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF). A juncture where they can choose to champion West Papua and make a difference.
Earlier, in May this year, Dame Meg Taylor, the head of the Forum’s Secretariat stood in Wellington and replied with clarity on the issue of West Papua. She said that if the Forum’s 16 leaders choose to do so, they could take a leadership role in West Papua’s case.
“The West Papua issue is very important,” she told senior government officials, academics, civic and Pacific community leaders in her first official visit to Wellington, also the birthplace of the Forum back in August 1971.
She quantified how “important” West Papua’s human rights and self-determination issues are when she highlighted the reason why the Forum was founded originally.
“…in the origins of the Pacific Islands Forum, it always stood for the self-determinations of people,” she said.
“This [West Papua] is a matter that the leaders of the Forum will have to deal with. If it is raised as part of the Framework for Pacific regionalism then it will be considered by the Leaders.”
Dame Tayor, who is Papua New Guinean pointed to PNG prime minister Peter O’Neill’s comments in support of West Papua in February 2015 as a possible indicator that PNG could spearhead a discussion on West Papua when the Forum convenes next month.
“The PM for PNG has made comment on West Papua on human rights perspective and has not retracted that statement,” Dame Meg told the packed audience at Wellington’s Victoria University.
The comments she referred to are in Mr O’Neill’s speech at a leadership summit on 5 February at Port Moresby. It was the first time that an incumbent PNG prime minister has spoken directly about the rights of West Papuans in a public forum:
“Papua New Guinea today is a respected regional leader. After 40 years of undisturbed democracy, we are in a unique position to lead mature discussions on issues affecting our people in the region.
“Our leading role in encouraging Fiji to return to a democratically elected government and voicing our concerns about the plight of our people in New Caledonia are examples of our growing influence. We have also participated in the restoration of democracy and law and order in countries like Vanuatu and Solomon Islands.
“But sometimes we forgot our family, our brothers and sisters, especially those in West Papua.
“I think as a country the time has come for us to speak about oppression our people. Pictures of brutality of our people appear daily on social media and yet we take no notice. We have the moral obligation to speak for those who are not allowed to talk. We must be the eyes for those who are blindfolded. Again, Papua New Guinea, as a regional leader, we must lead these discussions with our friends in a mature and engaging manner.”
The following month, on a 31 March interview with Radio Australia, Mr O’Neill pressed his support further by saying he hoped current Indonesian president Joko Widodo would keep former Indonesian leader Mr Yudhoyono’s promises made to PM O’Neill when in Indonesia on a state visit.
“We will try and hold the Indonesian government to that, to make sure that the current government also has the same view about a reduction of presence of military on the island, and of course more autonomy for the people of West Papua,” Mr O’Neill told Radio Australia.
The likelihood West Papua will make it onto the 2015 Forum agenda was turbo boosted on 26 June when the five-country Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) granted “observer” status to the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).
Gaining ‘Observer status’ means the ULMWP now sits on the inside of the MSG organization alongside Indonesia. It is seen as an historic step toward addressing the human rights atrocities committed against West Papuans by the Indonesian army.
The significance of the decision was outlined by ULMWP Secretary General, Octovianus Mote after the 26 June vote.
“Despite not getting full membership [at MSG] we welcome the decision of the leaders as it is our first step to full political recognition.”
Full political recognition would be realized if ULMWP gains ‘Observer status’ in the Pacific Islands Forum. And these are the
The questions that may be given talk time in September: West Papua’s independence movement? And prospects of ULMWP gaining PIF ‘observer’ status? Topics that PNG’s Peter O’Neill seem very likely to push when he takes over the Chairmanship of the Forum.
Dame Taylor, heading the Forum’s operational arm hinted that both are doable.
She stated that self-determination is one of the core reasons for establishing the PIF back in 1971. And added that if the West Papua issue is raised as part of the Framework for Pacific regionalism, then West Papua will be “considered by leaders”.
Since Dame Meg’s Wellington visit, organisations supporting the Free West Papua movement from New Zealand and Australia have sent open letters to the Forum.
The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney); and West Papua Action, Auckland letters call on the 16 Forum leaders to discuss the human rights situation in West Papua and acknowledge the concerns in their official communiqué.
INFORMATION ABOUT WEST PAPUA SITUATION
West Papua has been subjected to a brutal repression by the Indonesians since 1962. Prior to that, the island of New Guinea (the eastern half now known as Papua New Guinea and the western half now known as West Papua) as well as Indonesia had been Dutch colonies until Indonesia’s own war of independence in 1949.
In 1936 while still under Dutch rule an erstberg (ore mountain) was discovered in the southwest region of New Guinea, and in 1959 alluvial gold was found just off the West Papuan coast. Another massive ore mountain was yet to be discovered deep in the West Papuan forest.
In the 1950s, plans were made by the Dutch to prepare for withdrawal including plans for West Papua to revert to indigenous rule by 1972.
Despite a West Papuan congress on independence in 1961 and the raising of the national “Morning Star” flag, Indonesia had claimed New Guinea as part of its territory. A United Nations intervention resulted in the New York Agreement in 1962 which placed the territory in UN trusteeship (without consent of the population) and required that West Papuans hold an independence vote under UN supervision.
But by the time the vote was conducted in 1969 the Indonesian military had handpicked 1,026 representatives to vote on behalf of the entire population. Having been threatened with the death of their families the vote was unanimous for Indonesian rule. The so-called “Act of Free Choice” is known to this day by indigenous West Papuans as the “act of no choice.”
When the West Papuans were making plans for independence in 1961, unbeknownst to either they or the Dutch, then-Indonesian army general Suharto was negotiating a mining deal with the American mining company Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold. Subsequent discoveries resulted in the notorious Grasberg mine—one of the largest reserves of copper and gold in the world—and is today at the center of the conflict between Indonesia and West Papua.
The Free West Papua Movement claims that over 500,000 civilian West Papuans have been killed to date. (*)



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2) ULMWP welcomes recommendation to make West Papua a Forum Leaders agenda 
By Online Editor
00:12 am GMT+12, 14/08/2015, Fiji
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has today welcomed the recommendation set by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat’s Special Sub-Committee on Regionalism (SSCR) and the Forum Officials Committee for West Papua to be one of the top priority issues of the regional agenda.
 
ULMWP Secretary General, Octovianus Mote, attributed the increasing awareness on the state of West Papua to growing ground swell of people solidarity movements in the Pacific, reflected by the media coverage of the issue, and the three submissions from various solidarity groups around the region advocating the peaceful resolution of the struggles of the people of West Papua.
 
“The Forum Officials Committee which considered the issue of West Papua yesterday we understand has taken a decision to endorse West Papua as one of the five top regional issues that will be considered by forum leaders next month in PNG during the leaders’ summit,” said Mote.
 
“In the words of the current Secretary General, Dame Meg Taylor, the forum has a history and regional role in assisting territories achieve self-determination, and we are certain our leaders will act on our plea to address the growing human rights abuse in West Papua by establishing a fact finding mission, and supporting the call by Vanuatu for the UN to appoint a special envoy to West Papua,” added Mote.
 
Mote also welcomed the decision by the Solomon Islands Government to appoint a Special Envoy on West Papua and seek West Papua’s admission to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.
 
“On behalf of the ULMWP, I extend our deepest gratitude to the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, and the solidarity movement in the Solomon Island. I would also like to thank other solidarity movement partners in the Pacific for their continued support for standing up for the people of West Papua.”
 
He said he is confident in Prime Minister Sogavare as the current chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, and under his leadership, he will steer a peaceful path for West Papua.  ULMWP respectfully urges Pacific Island leaders to join with PM Sogavare to steer a peaceful path for West Papua.

SOURCE: ULMWP/PACNEWS
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3) West Papua for Pacific Islands Forum agenda depends on ‘thin down’ process of topics: McCully’

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4) Papua New Guinea’s military denies Indonesia border incursion to bring down flag
Pacific Beat 
By Girish Sawlani
Posted about an hour ago

The Papua New Guinea Defence Force has denied reports from a senior Indonesian official that its soldiers claimed part of Indonesian territory in the bordering Papua province.
According to the Jakarta Post, Indonesia’s Papua border and International Relations chief Suzana Wanggai said 14 uniformed PNG soldiers arrived in Yakyu village in the Merauke regency and 
ordered residents to lower the Indonesian flag. 
Ms Wanggai said she received the report from the head of a neighbourhood unit who alleged the PNG soldiers moved in because they thought it was part of their country's territory.


She said the matter should be resolved through diplomatic channels.
But chief of staff of the PNG Defence Force (PNGDF) Colonel Mark Goina told Pacific Beat the incident did not happen.
“We have not received any information around PNGDF troops going to Merauke to conduct any form of activity or operation, and therefore we categorically deny any involvement of our 
service men and women and that information is not true," he said.
"I confirm there is no Papua New Guinean soldiers in or near Merauke, they are all stationed outside of the border doing their normal border duties."
The Jakarta Post also reported the incident was confirmed by Papua's Cendrawasih Military Command chief Syafei Kusno, who said it deployed 10 soldiers to the village to prevent residents from lowering the flag.
Mr Kusno told the newspaper the Indonesian troops argued the village was in a neutral area that should hoist Indonesian and PNG flags together.
PNGDF's Colonel Goina was uncertain whether Yakyu village was a part of Indonesian or PNG territory.
"At this point in time I need to confirm that, we need to confirm that on a map."
Pacific Beat contacted Ms Wanggai from the Papua Border and International Relations unit for further comment, but she is yet to respond.
The border between Indonesia's Papua provinces and Papua New Guinea largely follows the 141st meridian on New Guinea island, with one 64 kilometre break following the Fly River.
A flow of people and contraband across the porous border is not uncommon, with occasional military incursions by Indonesia occurring as recently as 2008, but border treaties signed 
in 1979 and 1986 have largely kept the peace.
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5) New military chief must  tackle abuses: HRW
thejakartapost.com, Jakarta | National | Fri, August 14 2015, 1:52 PM - 
The Indonesian Military (TNI) should take necessary and appropriate action to prevent human rights abuses by its personnel and furthermore hold perpetrators accountable, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a letter to the new TNI commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo.
“General Nurmantyo is now the responsible man for making sure that the Indonesian armed forces stop committing abuses and improve their respect for human rights,” said HRW deputy Asia director Phelim Kine in a statement on Friday.
“It’s his responsibility to ensure the military meets its international legal obligations throughout Indonesia,” he said.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo named Nurmantyo, the former Army chief of staff, as TNI commander on July 8.
Kine said Nurmantyo should ensure prompt, transparent and impartial investigations into abuses in which military personnel have been implicated, and that he should also take appropriate action against such personnel.
HRW says among the measures the new TNI commander must take is the immediate ban of so-called virginity tests. The tests are mandatory for all female recruits and fiancées of military officers in the Indonesian armed forces. However, HRW has stated that the tests violate the prohibition of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that is enshrined in international human rights law.
Another step HRW says Nurmantyo needs to take is to publicly show his support for President Jokowi’s decision to lift access and reporting restrictions on Indonesia-based, accredited foreign media entering, or trying to enter, Papua. He also needs to ensure that all armed forces in Papua are aware of, and fully respectful of, the freedom of the press, HRW says.
President Jokowi announced a complete lifting of those restrictions on May 10.
HRW says Nurmantyo should also publicly support investigations into serious human rights abuses, particularly in Papua, such as the killing of five peaceful protesters in the remote town of Enarotali on December 8, 2014.
“The new military chief should also fully cooperate with government plans to investigate the 1965-66 mass killings of alleged communists and others, as well as other past atrocities, including the Talangsari incident, the Trisakti and Semanggi I and II killings, the abduction of pro-democracy activists in 1997-98, and the May 1998 rioting,” said Kine.
He said military cooperation was crucial to determining responsibility for these abuses in order to provide justice and redress for the victims and their families. (ebf)(+++)

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6) Islands in focus: Indonesian  flag burned in Timika - 
The Jakarta Post, Jayapura | Archipelago | Fri, August 14 2015, 8:28 AM - 
An unidentified person burned an Indonesian flag in Mimika Baru, Timika city, Papua, on Thursday ahead of the 70th anniversary of independence.

“The red-and-white flag was burned at approximately 1 a.m. at the home of local resident Marthen Sulle, 54, on Jl. Seroja, Timika. The flag had been raised on a pole in front of the house on Monday,” said Papua Police chief spokesman Sr. Comr. Rudolf Patrige in Jayapura on Thursday.

“The police are investigating the incident,” said Patrige. 

Separately, an Indonesian flag hoisted in Yakyu, Rawa Biru village, Sota district, Merauke regency, Papua, was taken down by 14 Papua New Guinea soldiers who arrived in the village on Aug. 7.

The soldiers claimed that they had lowered the flag because it had been hoisted in a neutral zone and that a PNG flag should be flown alongside it.

Cenderawasih Military Command intelligence assistant Col. Syafei Kasno confirmed on Thursday the lowering of the flag by PNG soldiers, adding that a post had been set up in Yakyu to prevent a similar incident.
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7) No Justice in Sight for Rights Abuse Victims as President Touts Reconciliation Over Prosecution

Jakarta. President Joko Widodo has indicated that the Indonesian government has no intention of prosecuting perpetrators of past human rights abuses, in a state of the nation address that only briefly touched on the issue.
Speaking before the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) in Jakarta on Friday, Joko said his administration was working on setting up a “reconciliation committee for severe rights violations.”
“The government is at the moment trying to find the most judicious and noble way to resolve human rights abuse cases,” he said.
“The government wants there to be a national reconciliation so that future generations will not have to bear the burdens of history. Our children have to be free to face the wide future.”
The president’s statement fell far short of calls from human rights groups for an official apology for all past rights abuses, including the 1965-66 anti-communist purge in which up to two million people were summarily killed or disappeared by the military and state-backed militias.
Survivors and families of victims of the military’s myriad massacres and other rights abuses over the decades have long demanded that the masterminds, many of whom now occupy positions of power in Joko’s administration, be brought to justice for their crimes.
Among the latter is A.M. Hendropriyono, the former intelligence agency chief linked to, though never charged for, the 2004 murder of prominent human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. Hendropriyono, involved in the military’s massacre of 27 civilians in Talangsari, in southern Sumatra, in 1989, is close to Joko’s political patron, former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, and served as an adviser to the president-elect when preparing to take office last year.
The current intelligence chief, Sutiyoso, now the chairman of a party in Joko’s coalition, also has a checkered record, primarily stemming from his role in overseeing a deadly military raid on an opposition party compound in Jakarta in 1996.
The government’s own National Commission for Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, issued a landmark report in 2012 denouncing the anti-communist purge and other incidents as gross human rights violations, and recommended criminal inquiries into the cases. However, the Attorney General’s Office has repeatedly refused to initiate an investigation into any of the cases, saying instead that the perpetrators should be let off the hook for the nation to move forward.
“The option of reconciliation should only be available if the judicial process is technically [unfeasible],” Hendardi, the head of the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy, said in June.
“The attorney general has not yet done anything [in the way of an investigation], yet already it is choosing the path of reconciliation. Don’t try to simplify the problem, don’t be lazy and unjust.”
He warned that a national reconciliation committee “should not serve to whitewash the perpatrators’ [crimes] or provide false satisfaction for the victims. [Such a committee] would be a fraud.”
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2) TNI Sets Up Village Guard Post Following Alleged PNG Incursion

3) Tolikara Divert Attention from Rights Issues in Papua

4) Students Rally over Domination of Non-Papuans in Sorong Selatan Administration

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1) WEST PAPUA FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM AGENDA DEPENDS ON ‘THIN DOWN’ PROCESS OF TOPICS: MCCULLY

BY ERNEST TA’ASI | August 14, 2015
THE CHANCES of West Papua liberators, pushing for the human rights abuses in the Indonesian province, to go on talks at the 46th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting remains uncertain, but will depend on a list of topics on queue.
This is according to New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully, who is in the country this week.
Responding to the increasing calls for the issue to go before the important regional Forum, McCully instead, routed his government’s stand on the human rights issues in West Papua, and spoke on the Forum Officials Committee in Fiji responsible for the issues of discussion.
He said the Committee will meet this week for a “thin down” process of topics that should go on agenda.
“The Forum Officials Committee is meeting this week, as I understand it, in Fiji, to design the agenda for leaders, designed to thin down the number of topics, so that only a few important ones remain. And we certainly recognise the support and desire of Melanesian countries to ensure that this matter is understood and dealt with in a respectful way by full means,” McCully said at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.
He said he had made discussions with Sogavare earlier in their meeting.
“We very much understand that [Solomon Islands] have deep interest in this regard that the involvement of the Melanesian Spearhead Group as the key sub-regional grouping is something that we should respect and that the desire to see some sort of discussion in a wider regional environment of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting is something that we should also respect.”
New Zealand, along with Australia, has been criticized for overlooking the West Papua crisis while being very vocal on human rights abuses elsewhere but the Pacific.
Last week the Pacific Islands Forum was urged by its own Specialist Sub-Committee on Regionalism to make West Papua a priority on this year’s agenda.
This had followed other loud calls by organisations such as the Australia West Papua Association and the PNG Union for a Free West Papua, for the Pacific Islands Forum to discuss West Papua.
According to an online Free West Papua campaign, there is widespread popular support from across West Papua, Papua New Guinea and the rest of the Pacific to have the situation in West Papua raised at the Forum.
Much hope has grown for this since the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) was made an Observer Member of the sub-regional Melanesian Spearhead Group this June.   
The 46th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting will take place in Port Moresby, PNG, next month.
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2) TNI Sets Up Village Guard Post Following Alleged PNG Incursion

By Jakarta Globe on 03:42 pm Aug 14, 2015
Category Front Page, News
Jakarta. The Indonesian Military, or TNI, says it will set up a security post in the Papuan border village of Yakyu, in Merauke district, following a report that soldiers from neighboring Papua New Guinea last week ordered residents there to lower the Indonesian flag.
Brig. Gen. Supartodi, the Merauke military commander, said on Friday that the group of 14 uniformed PNG soldiers reportedly entered the village on Aug. 7.
Yakyu is located 1.2 kilometers from the Indonesia-PNG border.
“In response to this [alleged] incident, we have decided to build a [security] post in Yakyu village,” Supartodi said as quoted by Antara.
Col. Mohammad Syafei Kasno, of the Cendrawasih Military Command, which oversees the TNI’s operations in Papua, said separately that 10 soldiers had been deployed to the village.
The alleged incident was first reported on Thursday by Suzana Wanggai, the head of the provincial border office, who said that the PNG soldiers had claimed Yakyu village as part of PNG territory.
She noted that while the village lay squarely in Indonesian territory, its residents were from the Mayna clan of the Kanum tribe, who moved to the area in the 1990s from neighboring Weyam village in PNG.
“The people obtained Indonesian identity cards from Merauke district last month,” Suzana said as quoted by Tempo.
Syafei claimed that PNG officials had argued the village was on neutral ground and should hoist the flags of both countries.
However, Col. Mark Goina of the PNG Defense Force told ABC’s Pacific Beat radio program that no such incident had ever taken place.
“We have not received any information around PNGDF troops going to Merauke to conduct any form of activity or operation, and therefore we categorically deny any involvement of our service men and women and that information is not true,” he said.
“I confirm there is no Papua New Guinean soldiers in or near Merauke, they are all stationed outside of the border doing their normal border duties.”
Still, he could not say for sure whether Yakyu village lay in Indonesian or PNG territory. “At this point in time I need to confirm that, we need to confirm that on a map.”
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3) Tolikara Divert Attention from Rights Issues in Papua
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Jayapura, Jubi – The government should not divert attention from human right issues in Papua by fanning a inter-religious tensions over the Tolikara incident.
On Wednesday (12/08/2015) in Jakarta, the Civil Society Coalition for Tolikara urged those who had concerned and interest against the incident in Tolikara to more understand about the history and complicity of religious relations in Papua and Tolikara in particular.
“State is present not to maintain any conflict, or furthermore to create one, but to bridge the recovery process that already initiated by both Muslim and Christian leaders in Tolikara. This distinction should be maintained and passed on to young generation in accordance with the basic slogan of the nation about Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, Unity in Diversity. Therefore it could not become a justification on a restriction or discriminative action of one party to another in our diverse community,” a coalition member Wahyu Wagiman told representing Elsham Jakarta in the press conference held at Bakoel Café, Jakarta on Wednesday (12/8/2015).
Further he said the State also contributed in switching the focus of attention over Papua issue from the perspective of the relation between State and Papuan to become a dispute involved people and interreligious communities in Papua.
Meanwhile, another coalition member, LBH Jakarta told the national agencies such as Human Right Commission did not push the further implementation of seven agreement initiated and signed by Muslim and Christian leaders at the level of Tolikara Regency and Papua Province.
“For instance, the statement of Human Right Commission which underlined about the law enforcement was actually limited at the level of punitive justice and forget the fact that the restorative justice included into the customary law in Papua that is the law instrument set on the Article X of Special Autonomy Law No.21/2001 for Papua Province,” Public Attorney Tommy Albert representing LBH Jakarta told in the press conference.
The Civil Society Coalition for Tolikara which is consisting of Wahid Centre-Universitas Indonesia (AWC-UJ), Aliansi Nasional Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (ANBTI), ELSAM, Human Rights Working Group (HRWG), Indonesian Centre for Reconciliation (ICR), Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Jakarta, Yayasan Pusaka dan Yayasan Saut Keadilan in ending the conference urged the President Joko Widodo to immediately invite Tolikara Muslim and Christian leaders to encourage the materialization of agreement elaborated into seven point and in 29 July. (Victor Mambor/rom)
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4) Students Rally over Domination of Non-Papuans in Sorong Selatan Administration

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Sorong, Jubi – Students in Sorong Raya, criticized the policy of Sorong Selatan Regent who appointed many non-Papuans to fill positions in his administration.
He said the regent’s policy of appointing non-Papuan officials to fill strategic positions in Sorong Selatan Regency amount to marginalization of indigenous Papuans.
“In fact referring to Special Autonomy Law No. 21/2001, Papuans should be a master on their land. The regent has declined the mandate of the law. It’s risky that other people should give us an order,” he said.
The mentioned strategic positions are Acting Regional Secretary, Head of General Work Office, Head of Regional Asset and Finance Agency, Acting Head of Regional Development Planning Body, Acting Head of Education Office, Section Head of Regional Administration, Head of Public Relations, Secretary of General Work Office, Treasure of Regional Secretariat, Head Section of Education Financing, Head Section of Health Financing, Head of Environment Office, Secretary of Fishery, Head of Mining Office, Inspectorate Secretary, Secretary of Education Office and some other structural positions of echelon III and IV.
“The regent has violated the Special Autonomy Law by never empowering the native Papuans to become a master on their own land,” Yosep said. He asked the governor, West Papua People’s Assembly and Councilors from the fraction of Special Autonomy of West Papua Province to reprimand the regent. (*/rom)
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Papuan independence leader Filep Karma to be released from prison next week

August 14, 2015, 1:56 pm
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Papuan independence leader Filep Karma to be released from prison next week

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Filep Karma gives away his daughter last year while on day release. Photo: Michael Bachelard
Jakarta: Papuan independence leader Filep Karma is due to be released next week from prison, even as he resists freedom until guaranteed he can agitate for self-rule without any threat to his safety or monitoring by intelligence agencies.
Imprisoned in 2004 for 15 years for flying the banned symbol of Papuan sovereignty, the Morning Star flag, Mr Karma has been told he will be freed from Abepura prison on Indonesia's Independence Day, August 17, due to the usual remissions in his sentence for good behaviour.
But a defiant Mr Karma is bridling at the prospect of his release on the national holiday, although he says he would be happy to walk free the day after as long as his release was "unconditional".
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"Giving me remission is only to avoid international pressure and to create a good image," he told Fairfax Media.
"My point is that Indonesia must realise that it must free me unconditionally, restore my good name.
"It should also free other political prisoners in Papua and elsewhere in Indonesia and stop chasing those who are on wanted list for expressing their freedom of speech."
Mr Karma also vowed to keep campaigning for independence if he is released.
A spokesman for Indonesia's ministry of law and human rights, Ansharudin, said there were no regulations in the case where a prisoner won't leave jail.
"It's illogical. People don't like to be imprisoned. Normally people are happy to be released," he said.
He said authorities may have to convene a special meeting to determine how to respond to Mr Karma's demands.
Mr Karma's arrest for raising a flag prompted widespread international consternation, with the United Nations identifying him as a political prisoner. His sentence was three times that requested by prosecutors.
The Papua region - located to the western half on the island of Papua and sharing a border with Papua New Guinea - is rich in resources but remains one of Indonesia's poorest and most corrupt regions.
A Dutch colonial outpost even after Indonesia became a nation, it was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 after a controversial plebiscite of 1025 hand-picked Papuans held in an Indonesian military camp.
Separatist sentiment remains among many of Papua's traditional Melanesian population while the military and security services have a heavy presence, as well as widespread business interests.
About half of Papua's population are now migrants from other parts of Indonesia who dominate commercial activity.
Mr Karma rejected clemency from Indonesian president Joko Widodo earlier this year on the grounds it would require a tacit admission of guilt.
Mr Joko has said he wants to improve the welfare of Papuans, sentiments that have drawn qualified praise from Mr Karma in the past.
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Filep Karma: I Reject Remission, My Independence Day is December 1

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Hi All,
Filep Karma has just signed the below statement.  Also see Jubi report
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"I, Filep Samuel Karma, reject the offer of remitting my sentence in
celebration of Indonesia’s National Independence Day on August 17.
The independence day of West Papua, my own nation, is December 1st.

I will only accept an unconditional release.  If an unconditional
release is offered, I would be happy to walk free from Abepura Prison
on August 18th, my own personal independence day.

I did not commit any crime when I raised the Morning Star flag in
2004.  I will keep campaigning for independence once I am free.

Filep Samuel Karma


Abepura Prison
        August 2015”
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A google translate from JUBI. Be-aware google translate can be a bit erratic.

Original bahasa link at
http://tabloidjubi.com/2015/08/14/filep-karma-saya-tolak-remisi-hari-kemerdekaan-saya-adalah-1-desember/

Filep Karma: I Reject Remission, My Independence Day is December 1
Jayapura, Jubi - "I, Filep Karma rejected the offer of remission for a period of my detention in the Indonesian Independence Day on August 17. My independence day was West Papua Independence Day, December 1, "said the Filep Karma, West Papua political prisoner who was sentenced to 15 years in prison since 2014 for raising the Morning Star flag at Cendrawasih University in Jayapura, the Jubi, Friday (14/8 / 2015).


Filep Karma has insisted he would only accept the unconditional release.
"If the unconditional release is given, I will be happy to walk freely in and out of prison Abepura on 18 August," said Filep Karma.
Filep Karma believes he did not commit any error or criminal acts when he is flying the Morning Star flag. Therefore, he said he would keep campaigning for the independence of West Papua, although he has free will.
In a note Jubi, Filep Karma always rejected the remission of state. In 2008, he flatly refused remission offered by the government. Yet according to the Corrections Division Head Office of Ministry of Law and Human Rights Papua province at the time, Demianus Rumbiak together Yusak Pakage Filep Karma are two political prisoners to the attention of members of the US Congress. US lawmakers have even asked both were released.
Filep Karma also refuse remission offered by the government in next-years. He firmly rejected the principled, even though the country / state government says this obligation. According to him, the remission granted to the guilty as long as a form of forgiveness because they are well-behaved inmates.
"Well I do not feel guilty for something I did not do, but I actually punished," he said last year when the government granted remission bid.
Lastly, Filep Karma refused exemption offered by the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, in May last. At that time, the President of Indonesia to offer clemency to some prisoners, including Filep Karma who initially promised amnesty. In the end, only five political prisoners who accept the offer of the release.
On the other hand, the Head of Regional Office (Regional Office) Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) Papua, Abner Banosro said it gives the program a reduction in the period of custody or remission for prisoners who are languishing in the entire correctional Institute in Papua. According to him, remission was granted within the framework of the 70th Independence Day and the Decade remissions granted every 10 years.
"" So the total narapidan and criminal children who live freely after getting remission HUT RI 70th and remission decade as many as 45 people, "he said.
Of the 45 people, according to Abner Banosro, one of which was on behalf of political prisoners Filep Karma.
In response to this, Filep Karma expressly says he is a political offender so that he would not be degraded as perpetrators of criminal acts through the granting of remission, pardon or amnesty.
"Bids remission, parole, pardon and amnesty offered so far by the State Indonesia did not show good faith in resolving political problems in Papua, but only to avoid international political pressure on the Papua issue and for imaging the Indonesian government in the eyes of the international community," said Filep Karma.
She is still firm, Indonesia, according to him should be aware of having made a mistake in the legal proceedings against him. If he is given unconditional release, it must be followed by the rehabilitation of his reputation.
"This also includes political prisoners other Papua Organization and the Republic of South Maluku are still in the House of Detention and Prisons in Indonesia and are included in the wanted list," said Filep Karma. (Victor Mambor)
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Photos of the rally outside Kirribilli House (Sydney residence of Prime Minister Abbott) on the 15 August

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 The 'Day of Broken Promise’
On the 15 August 1962 an agreement was signed between the Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands concerning West New Guinea.  A vote on  a Dutch/Indonesian resolution on the agreement by the UN General Assembly on the 21 of September 1962 was adopted and included this statement: “The Agreement contains certain guarantees for the population of the territory, including detailed provisions regarding the exercise of the right of self-determination under arrangements made by Indonesia with the advice, assistance and participation of the Secretary-General who will appoint a United Nations Representative for this purpose. The act of Self-determination is to take place before the end of 1969”
UN General Assembly (Agenda item 89. August 1962, New York). In 1969, Indonesia chose 1025 electors (one representative for approximately every 700 Papuans) to vote in the UN sanctioned election. Under coercion the electors voted to integrate with Indonesia. The West Papuan people call this , the act, of no free choice
Australia was involved in the betrayal.  Time to put West Papua back on the listing of UN trust territories  








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1) Indo Flag Lowered at PNG Border, Armed Forces Increase Security

August 15, 2015, 1:59 pm
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3) Govt to Relaunch Transmigration Program

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1) Indo Flag Lowered at PNG Border, Armed Forces Increase Security

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Military Commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo that he will increase troops to the Papua and Papua New Guinea border after a flag lowering incident.  
“We are sending more personnels [to the PNG border],” Gatot said at the State Palace, Saturday, August 15. "It is not possible to deploy troops at every village, but we have put forward to the Ministry of Defence to file a diplomatic note of protest."
General Gatot Nurmantyo said the border between Papua New Guinea with Papua is only about 1.2 kilometers. The area is still in dispute, especially on its border with Indonesia.
Previously, 14 Papua New Guinea soldiers in camouflage uniforms and arms demanded Indonesian citizens in Yakyu, Kampung Rawa Biru, Sota District, Merauke, Papua, to lower the red-white flag. They said the village are considered within the territory of Papua New Guinea.
In fact, Yakyu village, Merauke is clearly on Indonesia soil. Inhabitants of villages and settlements were mostly from the Kanum tribe and surnamed Maywa.
There was once an exodus during the 1980s-90s to Weyam village in Papua New Guinea. The settlement was inhabited by 19 households or 74 people since June 22, 2011.
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2) West Papuans commemorate a day of betrayal

15 August 2015 | Ben Hillier

“West Papuans know this day, 15 August, as ‘Betrayal Day’.” Jacob Rumbiak, a veteran leader of the West Papuan nationalist movement, is speaking at a Melbourne commemoration of the signing of the New York Agreement. Similar protests, events and meetings have been held around the world in solidarity with the West Papuan struggle for merdeka – freedom.

On this day in 1962, the United Nations brokered the transfer of the western half of the island of New Guinea from Dutch administration to Indonesian rule. The inhabitants of West Papua, who are ethnically Melanesian (Pacific Islander), were given no say.

The Melbourne commemoration is small – only a handful or so. But Rumbiak enthuses about the growth of the global solidarity movement, the recognition of West Papua by the Melanesian Spearhead Group and, in particular, the growth of the West Papuan student movement, which this week is holding commemorations and actions across the Indonesian archipelago and in West Papua.

Rumbiak is foreign minister of the Federal Republic of West Papua, which was declared in 2011 at the third Papuan People’s Congress. The Federal Republic is one faction within the United Liberation Movement, which was formed in December to give common voice to the independence movement.

“This agreement was part of global foreign policy and resulted in genocide”, he says. “We are a victim of global policy.”

To Indonesia, which had in the late 1940s waged a successful war of independence against Dutch colonialism, the territory was known as West Irian – the latter word being an acronym for “Ikut Republik Indonesia Anti-Nederland” (follow Indonesia against the Netherlands).

That the Dutch continued to control the area for so long after their rule elsewhere in the archipelago had been overturned had been a source of angst for the leaders of the new Indonesian state. President Sukarno pledged to “liberate West Irian from the stranglehold of Dutch imperialism”.

More than 50 years of Indonesian occupation have proved anything but liberating, however. Once right wing dictator Suharto took over in 1965, the attacks became ferocious. There are an estimated 100,000 dead as a result of the slow-burn genocide. Independence leaders say the figure is half a million.

Today the struggle continues: for acknowledgement of the West Papuans’ right to self-determination, against the brutality of the Indonesian military and police forces and for basic democratic and human rights.

[For more information about the West Papuan solidarity movement, visit freewestpapua.org and tune in every Monday night at 6:30pm to The Voice of West Papua on radio 3cR, which streams live around the world. For background reading, see “MERDEKA! Struggle and survival in West Papua”.]




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3) Govt to Relaunch Transmigration Program
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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Minister of Village, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Marwan Jafar said that the government planned to revive the transmigration program.
According to him, the program is considered appropriate considering that Indonesia has a ‘demographic bonus’ thanks to is large area.
"Transmigration is an important effort to spread the population evenly because Indonesia has a big demographic bonus," he said on Saturday, August 15.
Marwan also said that transmigration is one of the ways to spread the country’s population evenly and to improve the economy. Therefore, he called on regional leaders to cooperate to support the program.
"I call on regional leaders whose regions become transmigration destinations to make this program a success,” he concluded.

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4) 13 Students Arrested in Sorong over Education Rally

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SORONG, JUBI – A TOTAL OF 13 STUDENT ACTIVISTS WHO STAGED A SOLIDARITY RALLY HIGHLIGHTING POOR EDUCATION QUALITY IN SORONG HAVE BEEN QUESTIONED BY POLICE IN SORONG CITY.
This demonstration should have taken place in the Mayor’s Office of Sorong on Thursday (13/8/2015) but it was canceled because the protestors were forcibly dispersed by police officers in front of Tio shop, Sorong city.’
The purpose of the activists who are members of the Student Association of West Papua was actually to demand head of Education and Culture of the City of Sorong to resign because over 13 years he is incapable of addressing education problems for example the expensiveness of school tuition.
The demonstration was canceled since there was no permit issued by Sorong city police officers Sorong.
Sorong city Criminal Police, Adj AKP. Amad Rumalean said, the 20 protesters were forced to dismiss because there was no license so that their actions were considered illegal.
He then added they should have valid data in order to be submitted to the police that the case be investigated “If they have valid data and submit it to us, I promise I will definitely investigate it,” he said.
While Coordinator of Papuan Intellectual in Sorong city Robertus Nauw, deplored the arrogant attitude of police officers who did not open the democratic space for them “It’s character assassination of people of Papua. Police have to be mature and to students’ context on doing this,” he added.
As many as 13 student activists were arrested by police officers, when they were heading to the Mayor’s office on Thursday at 11:00 CET. They are Naftali Kinho, Harianto Hae, Joni Malibela, Marius Bofra, Onesimus Paa, Ursianus Kinho, Herman Syufi, Raimon Yekwam, Ronal Yesnat, New Sakarias, Somon Momo, Teonardus Turot, Melianus Nau. (Niko MB / Dominggus Mampioper/ Tina)

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5) 17 People in Kwadeware Illiterate

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Sentani, Jubi – An education observer in Ines Senia Marweri Kwadeware village said a number of people in the village are illiterate.
“There are three- eleven year kids children and five housewives who are illiterate,” Marweri said to the Jubi in Sentani, Jayapura regency, Papua on Thursday (13/8/2015).
She further said they could not go to school for various reasons. For example, parents think of daily meals only and forget to think of the future of children. “His parents are busy looking for food,” she said.
In addition, there are kids who are unable to go to school because of having no father.
Single mothers are then busy working for families’ economic and could not focus on takieng care of their children. “The children are abandoned and do not go to school,” she said.
The illiterates live in Toware, Kwadeware and Doyo Baru villages. “I met them at Doyo Baru when there was church service. There are people who carried bible with them, but can not read it, “she added.
Nathan Tebay, a Papuan activist said he was very surprised to know that there are people who do not read and write in the village which categories are still included in Jayapura regency.
He further said Kwadeware village is not far from the office of Jayapura regent.
“It is only three or four kilometers away from Regent office, “he said. (Mawel Benny/ Tina)
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1) President Wants to Make Papua a Land of Peace

August 16, 2015, 1:30 am
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3) Papua TV News for July 2015

4) Leader calls for support for West Papua

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1) President Wants to Make Papua a Land of Peace

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Joko Widodo, during his state speech, said that he will give special attention to Papua by showing his strong commitment to develop that province.

"The government is committed to build Papua and to make Papua as a land of peace," he said, Friday (14/8).

Some riots in Tolikara should not be happened again in other regions. The government  protects the indigenous people of Papua and gives free access for foreign journalists to enter Papua.

"Currently the Government was trying to find a way out to resolve cases of human rights and violations in the country," he said.

The government also wants national reconciliation, so that the future generations will not keep bearing bad history. He said that Indonesian children must have a bright future.

“Those all are steps that the government take to uphold humanity in Indonesia,” he added.




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2) Jokowi told not to mess  with press freedom


thejakartapost.com, Jakarta | National | Sat, August 15 2015, 2:35 PM - 


The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has warned President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo not to mess with freedom of speech and expression and not to take the country back to the days of Soeharto's New Order era when repression of the press was common.

According to AJI chairman Suwarjono, there are three indications that Jokowi has a tendency to curb the freedom of speech and press freedom. The first is a draft of a Criminal Code (KUHP) amendment that makes insulting the president a crime, which will be submitted to the House of Representatives (DPR), a provision that was annulled by the Constitutional Court.

“If the provision is reinstated, the first victim will be the press. The provision on insulting the president is open to interpretation. If there are critical sources, including the media, the rule could easily silence them,” said Suwarjono in a press release on Saturday as quoted by tribunnews.com.

The second indication is that the government, in this case the Communications and Information Technology Ministry, has made no effort to eliminate the criminalization of free speech on the Internet. The draft revision of the Electronic Information and Transaction Law compiled by the ministry still includes criminal charges that negate freedom of opinion.

The third indication, AJI said, was Jokowi’s speech at the legislature on Friday.

In his speech, Jokowi said: “Currently there are tendencies that people feel they are ultimately free to behave and voice their opinions as they like. This is less productive when the media only pursues ratings instead of guiding the public to be virtuous and have a productive work culture.”

According to AJI, Jokowi's statement was hypocritical, since one day prior to the speech he awarded a Bintang Mahaputra Utama medal of merit to Surya Paloh, the owner of MetroTV station. In 2014, AJI announced the chief editor of MetroTV an enemy of press freedom. AJI said the award given to Surya Paloh was a bad precedent in the nation’s stance on press freedom and the independence of newsrooms. 

“In a democratic country, differences of opinion in the media are common. If parties object to a report, they have the right to respond or ask for a correction. If they are still not satisfied, then they can take the issue to the Press Council, not to the police,” said AJI’s head of advocacy Iman D. Nugroho.

Iman expressed hope that the President would not issue policies that could be used as weapons for law enforcement agencies to ensnare critical citizens.

“Freedom of opinion and press freedom are important parts of a democratic system. If they are repressed, get ready to go back to the dark ages,” said Iman. (kes)(+++)

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3) Papua TV News for July 2015

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4) Leader calls for support for West Papua

Updated at 7:51 am today



Originally aired on Sunday Morning, Sunday 16 August 2015

The exiled West Papuan dissident, Octovanius Mote, represents resistance groups in his Indonesia-ruled homeland 

and he's calling for New Zealand to support the Melanesian state in next month's Pacific Islands Forum.

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1) ANJ Agri case: prosecution demands prison sentences for indigenous protesters Obet Korie and Odi Aitago

August 16, 2015, 2:05 pm
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3) PNG Soldiers Take Down Indonesian Flag

4) Bappenas Chief Urged to See Papua as Overall Package
5) Trigana Aircraft with 54 On Board Crashes In Papua

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1) ANJ Agri case: prosecution demands prison sentences for indigenous protesters Obet Korie and Odi Aitago
By ADMIN | Published: AUGUST 16, 2015

Speaking in front of the Judges’ bench in the Sorong District Court, state prosecutor Katrina Dimara accused Obet and Obi of having violated article 170 of the Indonesian Criminal Code, and asked the council of judges to hand down prison sentences – one year for Obet Korie and eight months for Odi Aitago, less the time already spent in prison.
Obet Korie and Odi Aitago are indigenous Papuaans from the Iwaro ethnic group in South Sorong Regency, who have become victims of injustice from oil palm company PT Permata Putera Mandiri, a subsidiary company of Austindo Nusantara Jaya (ANJ) Group, which operates on land belonging to the local indigenous people.
Three subsidiary companies of PT ANJ are starting oil palm operations in South Sorong and nearby Maybrat Regencies: PT. Putera Manunggal Perkasa (PMP), PT Permata Putera Mandiri (PPM) and PT Pusaka Agro Makmur, with permits covering a total area of 91,209 hectares. ANJ also has another business unit called PT ANJ Agri Papua which manages the sago forest and associated processing industry in Metamani and Kokonau Districts of South Sorong Regency, an area of 40,000 hectares.
On 5th May 2015, Obet Korie (52 years old) and Odi Aitago (27 years old) and dozens more people from the Iwaro people who protested at the PT PPM office in Sorong City, were arrested and held at the Sorong City police station, with Obet Korie and Odi Aitago remaining in detention.
According to Simon Soren, a representative of the Iwaro students, “The people protested against the company which is unjustly seizing land and forest which rightfully belongs to the community, giving an unfair level of compensation (75,000 Rupiah (around $6) per hectare), with a lack of transparency so information is manipulated, using intimidating practices and so on, as well as the environmental crimes of damaging natural resources, destroying food sources and the source of the community’s livelihood”.
It was these injustices and development practices which violate indigenous rights which were the basis for the demands of Obet Korie and Odi Aitago, the other arrested community members, youth and students in their demonstrations and attempts to negotiate with the company. However, their demands for justice and for their rights to be upheld were not met, and instead they have been criminalised.
Simon is asking that the Council of Judges at the Sorong District Court give the lightest possible sentence, taking into account the efforts of the two men to struggle for justice and the future livelihoods of the Papuan people.
“We also want to ask law-enforcement officers and local and national government to form a team which would involve the community to investigate and examine the allegations the ANJ Group has broken the law, and impose a just penalty”, said Simon, who was also present at the hearing where the prosecution’s demands were read out.
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2) Malaysian: Is Papua Part of Indonesia?

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Kuala Lumpur, Jubi – It seems that Papua remains unfamiliar among Malaysians. Some of them thought it is the name of a country instead of a province located in the eastern region of the Republic of Indonesia.
A Malaysian taxi driver, Armahadi bin Saudi said he just heard the name of Papua during conversation with Jubi.
“Papua is a country, isn’t it? Where is it? What currency it has? Is there a Malaysian Embassy there?” Armahadi asked Jubi on Wednesday (12/8/2015).
Jubi told him that Papua is Indonesian province next to Papua New Guinea.
“What? Is it part of Indonesia? I don’t know about this fact. I’ve been to Makassar but I don’t know that Indonesia has a place called Papua,” he said. According to him, as far as he knew Indonesia has only consisted of some provinces located in Java, Sumatera, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali and so on.
“There is Malaysian too in Papua? Are people there Malay also?” he asked.
Jubi briefly told him that there’s Malaysians of Chinese origin in Papua. They came to Papua as investor of oil palm plantation. The indigenous Papuans are not Malay but Melanesian. Additionally, many Indonesian citizens from other regions came to stay in Papua.
“Is there oil palm plantation area? Papua is near to Australia, isn’t it? So people could go directly from Papua to Australia. Indigenous Papuans look like this fellow, isn’t it? he asked while point towards Jubi reporter Engel Wally.
This time, Jubi told him though Papua is located near to Australia, but people could not go directly to Australia. They must arrange their visa firs in Jakarta, then fly through Jakara or Bali. “Everything must go through Jakarta? It’s not efficient if must go from Papua through Jakarta,” he said.
Meanwhile, Jubi reporter Engel Wally said it’s normal if Malaysian citizens think Papua is not part of Indonesia, because they might be only familiar with other regions such Java, Sumatera, Sulawesi and Kalimantan. (Arjuna Pademme/rom)

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3) PNG Soldiers Take Down Indonesian Flag

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Jayapura, Jubi – Papua New Guinea soldiers have taken down  Indonesian flags at Jaknyu Village of Sota Sub-district, Merauke Regency, Papua Province.
A witness said 15 people believed to be PNG soldiers took down three Indonesian flags during a border patrol on August 7.
“They dropped down the flags in three locations, namely at in front of the church, in front of the house of the neighborhood unit chief, and at RI-PNG border. Their commander instructed them to do so, because he thought as located in the neutral international region, both Indonesian and PNG’s flags should be standing side by side,” said a witness who decline to be named.
He added the soldiers immediately lowered the Indonesia flags when local residents said they didn’t want to do it. Antara News Agency reported the Military Regional Force Chief of Cenderawih XVII, Brigadier General Tantang Sulaiman explained based on the report the Indonesian flags were being drop because the PNG soldiers thought it’s a neutral region therefore the flags of both countries should be stand side by side. Before dropping the Indonesian flag in the three locations, they were recognized to come into Indonesian area without permission. However, he said their motive is still unknown.
Meanwhile, Military District Commander of 174 Merauke, Brigadier General Supartodi admitted PNG soldiers came into Indonesian region without permission in the early of August.
“On last 7 August, a group of PNG soldiers came into Jaknyu Village and Rawa Bening Village of Sota Sub-district in Merauke Regency without prior announcement to the local government and security forces as well,” said the commander as cited by Antara News Agency on Thursday (13/8/2015). The report said they came to the villages to bring foodstuffs to eleven family units who stayed in that location.
Brigadier General Supartodi admitted those foodstuffs was given to Jaknyu Village, although the village is 1,200 meters away from the RI-PNG border. “Before this incident happened, we have coordinated this matter with the Merauke Regent and planned to replace the eleven family units to the nearest village but they refused,” he explained.
According to him, the villagers do not want to move because besides get provision from the Merauke Village, they also get attention from the Indonesian Government and PNG. For that reason they do not want to be moved,” he said by adding that in July the eleven family units consisting of 68 people has been listed and provided with ID cards. It needs six hours to reach the village by land or three hours using the motor board from Rawa Biru, Sota Sub-district, Merauke Regency (Victor Mambor/rom)
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4) Bappenas Chief Urged to See Papua as Overall Package
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Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Provincial Government expects the new National Development Planning Body Sofyan Djalil who was just inaugurated to replace Andrinof Chaniago could see Papua as a whole in determining development programs.
One of some important issues should be taken seriously by the minister is about the access of transportation to support the development of infrastructure in Papua. “The most important is, in developing Papua, the National Development Planning Body could see Papua as a whole, not partial,” the Head of Papua Transportation Head Yusuf Yambe Yabdi at Jayapura on Thursday (13/8/2015).
Besides of the access of transportation, another thing should be taken into account by Bappenas is the availability of electric as a development support. “The development of energy should be a priority. We build road because many people is still lived in the darkness. If it so, it’s just waste of time,” he said.
The sustainable management for Papua, according to Yusuf is to develop the infrastructure according to regulation, that yet to be operated by established sector. However, it needs a great human resource that could understand the regional needs instead of sector. “The human resources we already had only the understanding on sectorial instead of regional. The understanding of sectorial is needed to develop a region to be connected with others and to improve any existing potential in that region,” he said.
Earlier, the Regional Development and Planning Agency (Bappeda) considered the development in Papua Province was very different if compared with other province in Indonesia due to its unique geographical condition.
Geographical condition of Papua is very unique; so the concept of development in Papua Province is very different with other provinces in Indonesia because the development in Papua should be done on regional base. “The uniqueness of its geographical condition creates a concept of development on regional base,” Muhammad Musa’ad, the Head of Bappeda Province Papua told reporter in Jayapura on Tuesday (21/7/2015). (Alexander Loen/rom)

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5) Trigana Aircraft with 54 On Board Crashes In Papua
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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta -  An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia's remote and mountainous region of Papua on Sunday, a government official said, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian nation.
"The latest information is that the Trigana aircraft that lost contact has been found at Camp 3, Ok Bape district in the Bintang Mountains regency," Air Transportation Director General Suprasetyo told reporters. "Residents provided information that the aircraft crashed into Tangok mountain."
There was no immediate word on whether anyone survived.
Earlier, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said a twin-turboprop plane had lost contact with air traffic control as it flew over the forested area of eastern Indonesia but efforts to trace it were difficult because of failing light.
Trigana Air Operations Director Beni Sumaryanto said that within 30 minutes of hearing that the aircraft was missing, the airline sent another plane to scour the same flight path but it had found nothing because of bad weather, local media reported.
According to the official BASARNAS Twitter account, the aircraft, a short-haul ATR 42-300 airliner belonging to Trigana Air Service and built in France and Italy, was carrying 44 adult passengers, five crew and five children and infants.
The plane was flying between Jayapura's Sentani Airport and Oksibil, due south of Jayapura, the capital of Papua province.
Air transport is commonly used in Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province, where land travel is often impossible.
According to the Aviation Safety Network, an online database, the ATR 42-300 that went missing made its first flight 27 years ago. ATR is a joint venture between Airbus and Alenia Aermacchi, a subsidiary of Italian aerospace firm Finmeccanica.
The airline has been on the EU's list of banned carriers since 2007. Airlines on the list are barred from operating in European airspace due to either concerns about safety standards or the regulatory environment in their country of registration.
The airline has a fleet of 14 aircraft, according to the airfleets.com database. These include 10 ATR aircraft and four Boeing 737 Classics. These have an average age of 26.6 years, according to the database.
Trigana has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, according to the Aviation Safety Network. Excluding this latest incident, it has written off 10 aircraft.
Airline officials were not immediately available to respond to enquiries from Reuters.
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1) Hopes New Zealand will back Papua mission plan
Updated at 7:21 pm today
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua is calling on the Pacific Islands Forum leaders to send a human rights fact finding mission to the Indonesian region.
The movement is seen as the body representing the Melanesian people and recently became an observer member at the group which unites the Melanesian countries, the Melanesian Spearhead Group.
The ULMWP's secretary general, Octo Mote, who is touring New Zealand to rally support, says the backing for West Papua at last week's Forum officials meeting was a great boost.
He says the meeting got unanimous support to include the West Papua issue on the agenda at the Forum leader's summit next month in PNG.
"so we presume New Zealand will do the same thing, which is, they will not object about this humanitarian fact-finding mission; more even I am certain that the government, there is no reason for them not to support it."

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2) Freeport worried about uncertainty over contract extension

Senin, 17 Agustus 2015 11:43 WIB | 675 Views
Timika, Papua (ANTAR News) - President Director of PT Freeport Indonesia Maroef Sjamsoeddin said the U.S. mining giant was worried by uncertainty over extension of its contract. 
"Currently we are facing a very important test in the history of PT Freeport Indonesia," Maroef said when speaking as inspector of ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the countrys independence here on Monday. 
He said the parent company Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold has issued a policy of cost reduction program in facing the difficult time. 
He said the company also is facing problem with the shrinking commodity prices in the global market.
As a result the price of the company shares has fallen in international markets, he added. 
At the same time, the company needs much larger investment to continue the process of production from underground mining, and for the capacity expansion of its Gresik copper smelter in East Java. 
The company plans to build a new smelter to process its copper concentrate in Gresik to comply with the government regulation requiring mining companies to process their minerals in the country.
Maroef called for "understanding of the objective condition and support for the steps to be taken by the management to take decision."
Earlier, legislator from Papua Wilhelmus Pigai asked the government to involve the regional administration and legislators from Papua and the Council of the People of Papua in discussing renewal of the contract for PT Freeport Indonesia.
Wilhemus said the central government is not the only one having the right to discuss the renewal of the contract of PT Freeport.
Papua governor Lukas Enembe and Mimika District Head Eltinus Omaleng, therefore, need to invite all parties concerned to discuss extension of the contract of PT Freeport Indonesia.
The present contract of work signed in 1991 by President Soeharto would expire in 2021. 
Meanwhile a number of leaders of the Amungme tribes planned to meet President Joko Widodo to ask about their demand for compensations for land used by Freeport.(*)

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3) Adverse Weather Hamper Salvage Efforts of Crashed Trigana Plane
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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Treacherous weather conditions have hampered the evacuation of passengers and crews of the crashed Trigana Air Service aircraft, which disappeared from local radars on Sunday, August 16, 2015 near Oksob in the regency of Pegunungan Bintang.
Evacuation is hampered by thick fog, which has limited visibility to just two meters, said the Chief of Pegunungan Bintang District Police, Sr. Comr. Yunus Wally on Monday, August 17, 2015.
"To assist the search and rescue team lead by Lt. Col. Arif, we will dispatch some food and equipments on trucks and by foot," said Wally, who added that 11 search and rescue officials arrived at Oksibil on a Twin Otter aircraft owned by Trigana Air Service.
A makeshift helipad was going to be constructed to ease the evacuation effort, but the plan had to be scrapped for the time being due to adverse weather conditions.
It is known that AMA pilots were the ones who first noticed the wreckage at around 08:00 Eastern Indonesian Time (WIT) near the Oksob waterfall.
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4) Search team deployed to aircraft`s crash site: Military officer

Senin, 17 Agustus 2015 14:58 WIB | 453 Views
Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA News) - A 46-member search and rescue team has been deployed to the crash site of Trigana Airways ATR aircraft that lost contact during a flight from Jayapura to Oksibil, Papua Province, Sunday, a military officer stated.
The rescuers will have to walk to reach the crash site that is believed to be around Okbab waterfall in Pegunungan Bintang District area, Commander of Wamena military district Lt. Col. Moh. Aidi noted here on Monday.
Led by Lt. Col. Arif from the border security task force, members of the search and rescue mission were transported by cars before they continued their trek to the crash site, he remarked.
"We are not yet able to predict when they will reach the crash site," he said, adding that the weather conditions posed a serious challenge to the search and rescue mission.
A helicopter, sent from Timika to the crash site, was not able to land due to bad weather conditions, Aidi revealed. 
According to Pegunungan Bintang district government, the crash site of the aircraft carrying five crew members and 49 passengers, including two children and three infants, is believed to be in Tiga Village, Okpabe sub-district. 
According to the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation, the ill-fated ATR aircraft bearing flight number 267 lost contact on Sunday, at 2:55 p.m. local time.
Chief of the Sentani air base Col. I Made Susila Adyana informed Antara that his airbase, in cooperation with the search and rescue team, had mapped out the crash location of the ATR-type aircraft.
Chief of Bintang Mountain Resort Police Adjunct Senior Commissioner Yunus Wally noted that the aircraft is believed to have crashed during its flight from Jayapura to Oksibil.
The aircraft, with pilot Hasanudin and co-pilot Aryadi, was scheduled to arrive in Oksibil at 3:15 p.m. Eastern Indonesian Time after a 55-minute flight, but it failed to arrive on the scheduled time.(*)
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3) Patani to Learn from Papua Movement Activists on Diplomacy: Activist

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1) Freeport dispatches helicopter,  emergency team to recover  Trigana victims - 
thejakartapost.com, Timika | Archipelago | Tue, August 18 2015, 1:26 PM - 

US-based giant miner PT Freeport Indonesia has dispatched an Airfast Bel OCE 212 helicopter and an emergency response group (ERG) to help recover the bodies of victims of the Trigana Air plane crash in Oksob, Pegunungan Bintang regency, Papua, on Sunday, a search and rescue official has said.
The head of the Search and Rescue Agency (SAR) Timika, Joko Sungkowo, said that Freeport’s Airfast helicopter and a four-member ERG team had departed for Oksibil, Pegunungan Bintang, on Monday.
He said it was hoped that the involvement of the Airfast helicopter and ERG team could accelerate the recovery process of the Trigana crash victims.
“All search and rescue personnel at the SAR Timika office, are on stand-by. Once the SAR Jayapura requests us to dispatch personnel to Oksibil, we can do it immediately,” said Hendra as quoted by Antara on Tuesday.
He said that Freeport’s Airfast helicopter, which carried the ERG team to Oksibil, had taken quite a long trip to reach the incident area, forcing them to stop over in several locations for fuel.
After the crash site of the Trigana Air plane was found, it is reported that as of Tuesday morning, eight aircraft had been dispatched from both Sentani Airport in Jayapura and Oksibil Airport in Pegunungan Bintang to help recover the bodies of victims.
Jayapura Air Force Base commander Col. I Made Susila Adyana said the eight planes included a Pilatus Porter aircraft from Susi Air, a Twin Otter and an ATR aircraft from Trigana Air, a Grand Caravan aircraft from the Papua-based Associated Mission Aviation (AMA), an MI helicopter from the Indonesian Army and the Airfast Bell helicopter from Freeport.
Adyana said that on Tuesday morning, a Trigana Air ATR aircraft had been dispatched from Sentani Airport in Jayapura to carry assorted logistics to the crash site.
“Hopefully, the weather is good so that the evacuation process can happen immediately,” he said.
Separately, Pegunungan Bintang Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Yunus Wally confirmed that SAR teams dispatched via both air and land routes had reached the crash location of the Trigana Air plane. (ebf)(+++)
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2) KNKT urged to report preliminary investigation into Trigana plane crash

Selasa, 18 Agustus 2015 19:40 WIB | 27 Views
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesian Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan has urged the National Transportation Safety Commission (KNKT) to report within a months time the findings of its preliminary investigation into the Trigana aircraft crash, which resulted in 54 deaths.

"The commission must complete its preliminary report regarding its investigation into the crash within a month," he noted in a press statement made available to ANTARA News here on Tuesday.

Jonan stated that the names of those aboard the ill-fated Trigana Air ATR aircraft should basically not be different from those available on the passenger manifest.

In dealing with the passenger manifest issue, the related authorities need to work in tandem, and both the Papua police chief and local airbase commander had vowed to offer help, he remarked.

"The Trigana Air authority has promised to effectively solve matters related to the victims insurance. Perhaps, the issue of passenger names differing from those listed on the passenger manifest can be resolved, but it will bring shame to Indonesia," he emphasized.

Meanwhile, KNKT Chief Tatang Kurniadi affirmed that no foreign nationals were onboard the aircraft, which crashed during its flight from Jayapura to Oksibil on Sunday.

"All people aboard the aircraft were Indonesians. Therefore, we do not need to report the results of our investigation to other countries," he pointed out.

In another development, the search and rescue (SAR) team located the fuselage at the crash site of Trigana flight number IL 267, National SAR Agencys Chief Marshall Bambang Soelistyo noted.

(Reported by Juwita Trisna Rahayu/Uu.R013/INE/KR-BSR/F001)

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3) Patani to Learn from Papua Movement Activists on Diplomacy: Activist

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PATTANI / THAILAND, JUBI – JUST LIKE PAPUA, PATTANI, NARATHIWAT AND YALA PROVINCES AND OTHER FOUR DISTRICTS IN SONGKLA IN THAILAND ALSO HAVE A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF THAILAND BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION ARE MALAYS.
The resentment is developed because of injustice and deprivation over their basic rights.
Therefore, local activists thought that Patani society need to learn a lot from Papua, especially in terms of diplomacy.
“I do not know exactly what is going on in Papua, because I have not been to Papua. But, in my opinion, Papuans build stronger diplomacy than Patani. I’ve often heard the Papua issue in various international forums. And I think Patani should learn from Papua, “one a former activist of Patani Students, Youth and Students Association (Permas), Arfan Wattana when met Jubi on Saturday (15/08/2015).
According to him, he knew a lot of information from social media and other media about Papua movement. He also knew that some Papuans have ever been to Patani.
“I often follow on social media and others and found out that Papuans diplomacy in overseas is very strong as well as the support of foreign countries for Papua movement. I have known friends of Papua and also seen various pictures of violence in Papua, although different religions, but it humane, I do not agree with that, “he said.
He said, just like Papua, Patani people want independence from Thailand royal government. However, they do not speak loudly because of fear of being arrested, intimidated or military.
“Permas ever held an open forum which was attended by approximately 8,000 Patani Malay community. We did a survey and asked communities if they choose autonomy or independence. Largely choose independence, “he said.
Intellectual General Secretary of Patani (Insouth), Chareef Said stated that the issue of Papua is very strong abroad. “Hence, Patani people have to learn a lot from them, “Chareef added. (ArjunaPademme/ Tina)
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4) Papua Police Task Force Seize 252 Illegal Logs

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JAYAPURA, JUBI – PAPUA POLICE TASK FORCE HELD A TRUCK CARRYING 252 LOGS OF VARIOUS SIZES SUSPECTED TO BE ILLEGALLY SOURCED AS IT PASSED MUAIF VILLAGE, NIMBOKRANG, JAYAPURA DISTRICT.
Papua Police spokesman Patrige Renwarin said in Jayapura on last week that based on the reports received, revealed that the truck number plate DS 9566 JK driven by Supriyadin Ardin was detained on Thursday (13/8/2015) at around 21:00 p.m.
The truck was detained when the team conducted monitoring on abuse of subsidized fuel and illegal logging in Lere – Taja location, Jayapura regency.
During the examination process, the truck driver could not show documents needed so that the driver and his cargo were taken to Polda Papua to be checked.
He further said the investigators had collected information from witnesses and asked BP2HP for measuring those timbers. From the results revealed that as many as 5.0184 logs transported.
After examination, investigators then set the truck driver as a suspect, he said.
The suspect and the evidence are now secured at Papua Police Headquarters in Jayapura (*)
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Many thanks to Tia for hosting the event at the Auburn Diversity Services office.  Representatives from Koori Radio and  the Australian South Sea Islanders (Port Jackson)  organisation were also present. The group received a briefing on the situation in Fiji from  Niko Nawaikula opposition MP . Rex Rumakiek from Canberra presented on the situation in West Papua and on the MSG Campaign. A very informative event.  































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1) After 10 years in jail, West Papua activist looks set to walk free

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The West Papuan political activist, Filep Karma, is reportedly close to walking free after ten years in prison.
Indonesia's government has reportedly guaranteed Mr Karma's security and freedom of speech once he leaves prison.
Late last week, he rejected an offer of remission on Indonesia's National Independence Day, which was two days ago, saying he would only accept an unconditional release.
Mr Karma has been serving a 15-year jail sentence for treason in Papua's Abepura Prison, after he raised the banned Morning Star flag at a political rally in 2004.
He said he would be happy to walk free the day after National Day, as long as his release was "unconditional".
Mr Karma says he did not commit any crime by raising the flag, and would continue to campaign for West Papuan independence.
Indonesian CNN reports the government as signalling that once out of prison, Filep Karma is free to exercise his democratic rights.

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2) NZ MP calls for more engagement on Papua

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Carmel Sepuloni was one of around ten MPs who met with the visiting secretary-general of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Octo Mote last night in Wellington.
Mr Mote discussed what he describes as growing regional support for international recognition of West Papuans' concerns with Indonesian rule.
Ms Sepuloni says New Zealand's relationship with Indonesia shouldn't preclude it pushing for West Papuans to have their rights hopnoured and to be treated fairly by Indonesian authorities.
"Yeah I think it's something that New Zealand has to take seriously, and we need to be involved in the conversations that are happening, as our West Papuan leaders have said. The Pacific Forum and the Pacific small island states are really important in terms of progressing this issue and New Zealand needs to be part of that dialogue, so I think we should all actually be engaged with this and not scared to talk about it. "


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3) Luhut says government will  focus on Papua
Fedina S. Sundaryani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Wed, August 19 2015, 2:45 PM - 

Newly inaugurated Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that one of his first priorities will be to solve long-standing problems in the country’s easternmost province of Papua.

Speaking after a two-hour meeting with heads of the ministries and institutions under his supervision, Luhut said on Tuesday that he would step up monitoring work in the province, which he said would be the first step toward stamping out injustice, leading to the region becoming more accessible to outsiders.

“There is a problem of injustice that we must solve. We are also trying to overcome the perception by foreigners that we do not take care of Papua,” he said at the Office of Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister in Central Jakarta.

Luhut said that the perception of a neglected Papua was false, especially since the province received the largest share of the state budget. 

However, he acknowledged that one of the priorities in solving problems in Papua was to figure out where most of the provincial funds went as they had not led to any development.

“Papua receives the largest share of the state budget, but we must figure out where all of the Rp 37 trillion [US$2.6 billion] has gone to,” he said. 

He said that the central government would pay close attention to officials at the Papua provincial government, who were alleged to have misused the development funds.

“During the meeting, the home affairs minister [Tjahjo Kumolo] said that his ministry recently discovered that many of the officials [in Papua] did not even live there and were often outside of the region,” he said, adding that the time to blame the central government for lack of progress in Papua was over as locals had not done their jobs.

With regard to granting access to foreign journalists to Papua, Luhut said his office would soon set up a website explaining the situation in the restive region. 

He said that violation of no-go policies in Papua could have consequences.

“We don’t want this country to be blamed for unfairness. We also refused to be dictated to by others abroad. You can’t look at us in a negative light and violating our laws leads to certain consequences,” he said.

For the past decade, journalists intending to report on Papua were required to fill out permission request forms, which needed approvals from various government institutions. Any foreign journalists caught making news reports without permits could face criminal charges.

In 2014, two French journalists, Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat, were arrested and jailed for not having proper permits to report in Papua. The journalists were caught trying to make a documentary on the Papuan separatist movement.

Separately, Attorney General M. Prasetyo said that the Attorney General’s Office would do its part by setting up a team to monitor development in different provinces to make sure that the provincial budgets were not misused.

“The teams will be based in the center [Jakarta] and also in the regions to supervise state officials and make sure that funds are not misused, whether accidentally or otherwise,” he said.

Prasetyo said that the teams would provide legal counsel to state officials in charge of development programs to ensure that the projects would be free from graft.

Separately, National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) member Muhammad Nurkhoirun said that most of the injustice experienced by locals in Papua was due to the fact that the government had failed to protect their rights.

He said that many people in Papua lived in poverty despite the province being rich in natural resources. The paradox, Nurkhoirun said, was due to the fact that locals were not given the rights to be involved in development projects affecting their lives.

“Locals in Papua must be involved in the development of the province so that they also can benefit and understand what is happening. Right now, Papua’s development is only found in the imagination of those creating policies in Jakarta, or only benefiting the elites of Papua,” he said. -

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4) Papua Readies 24 Ambulances to Evacuate Trigana Crash Victims

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Papua Provincial Government is providing 24 ambulances to help evacuate victims of the Trigana Air plane that crashed in the Pegunungan Bintang district.
"Since Tuesday night, we had 24 ambulances in Sentani Airport ready to evacuate bodies of the Trigana crash victims," Aloysius Giyai, chief of the Papua Health Office, said in Jayapura, Wednesday, August 19.
He said that the 24 ambulances are directly coordinated by the Papua Health Office's crisis center.
The Health Office is using ambulances from a number of hospitals in Jayapura, both state and private hospitals.
"I have a team of crisis center staff who are on a 24-hour stand-by at Sentani airport—ready to help with the evacuation process," Aloysius said.
He added that his team gives him frequent updates on recent developments at the crash site and evacuation center.  
Aloysius, the former director of Papua's Abepura General Hospital, said that other supporting medical equipment for evacuation are also ready to be used.
On Sunday, August 16, a Trigana Air ATR 42-300 turboprop aircraft lost contact with air traffic control about half an hour on a flight from Jayapura.
Search planes spotted debris by the mountainside on Monday. The plane was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and five crew members. None of the people on board survived the disaster.
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Broken promise Rally , Held outside the Indonesian Embassy London 15th August 2015

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3)  Human rights in Indonesia onjust before the 70th anniversary of independence

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1) Govt’ Streamline Entry Permit for Foreign Journalist in Papua  
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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P Marsudi said that her Ministry is planning to streamline the process for foreign journalists wishing to report from Papua. "We will attempt to simplify the matter as much as we can," said Retno on Monday, August 10, 2015.
According to Retno, there will still be some due processes that journalists must go through prior to the granting of access - not dissimilar to what Indonesian journalists must go through when they wish to report from abroad. "We will apply the same sort of standard," she said.
Previously, a request made by foreign journalists must be cleared by a Clearing House, which involves elements from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Police (POLRI), the State Intelligence Agency (BIN), as well as the Coordinating Ministry for Politics, Law, and Security.
It is known that President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo had officially lifted the restrictions during his visit of Merauke on May 10, 2015 - which in essence made Papua as journalist-friendly as the rest of Indonesia.
For years, journalists who were found to have reported in Papua without an official permit from the Clearing House could face criminal charges - the most recent of which involved two French journalists, Thomas Dandois and Valentina Bourrat, who were arrested when filming a documentary on separatism on Papuan soil.
According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry's Information and Media Department, as per June 11, 2015, there were eight requests made by foreign journalists to report from Papua - all of which has been approved by the Ministry.
Prior to 2014, not all requests were granted. In 2012, only five requests have been approved out of the total of 11 that were lodged. In 2013, 28 permits were issued and seven were rejected, while throughout 2014, only five out of the 27 permits lodged were denied.
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2) Relaunching destruction in Papua: monoculture agriculture project threatens indigenous lands and livelihoods

AwasMIFEE | GRAIN | 10 August 2015 | land grabbing | Indonesia

For the last five years, the people of Merauke Regency, in Indonesia's southern Papua province, have been resisting a large-scale agriculture project that threatens the livelihoods of more than 50,000 people. Their resistance has effectively slowed the development of the 2.5 million hectares of concessions linked to the “Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate” (MIFEE) project. However, the government has recently announced new and ambitious plans that threaten the food and forests of Merauke's Malind indigenous majority.
The land allocated to the project – more than 55 per cent of Merauke’s total area – was chosen because the government considers it as “unproductive” and sparsely populated. The vast monoculture agriculture project is in line with a 2008 Presidential Decree on large-scale investment in food and agriculture. Responding to the global food crisis of the time, the government saw the development of large-scale plantations as a way to feed Indonesia's growing population as well as contributing to feeding the world.
 
MIFEE has been controversial from the start because it will destroy part of the Papuan forest, which is the world’s third largest tropical forest, and threatens the homes, food supply and forests of the indigenous Malind community.
 
While the stated goal of the project is to produce rice, corn and other food crops intended to ensure national self-sufficiency and reduce food imports, the majority of the location permits covering 1.5 million hectares (a first step to obtaining a concession) issued for Merauke as of 2014 were for crops which are usually exported. Seventeen sugar plantations cover 580,000 hectares; eight oil palm plantations occupy 266,000 hectares; seven industrial tree plantations (mostly of acacia and eucalyptus) cover a total area of 594,000 hectares; and food crops including large rice and cassava farms make up the remaining 70,000 hectares (1).

MIFEE investment plan map. This map comes from the initial planning documents from 2010. No updated maps have been published since then. Source: Merauke Promotion and Investment Agency (BAPINDA), 2010.
Strong resistance in Papua and throughout Indonesia has slowed MIFEE’s expansion. But the newly elected President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, announced during a visit to Papua in May 2015 his plans to establish the area as the nation's rice bowl over the next three years. He said that 1.2 million hectares of rice farms would be developed, producing 60 million tonnes of rice annually. He even said the area allocated to MIFEE would be expanded to 4.6 million hectares (2).
 
That announced figure is clearly impossible, as it would be equal to the total area of Merauke Regency. Even looking at the smaller but still staggering figure of 1.2 million hectares for new rice farms, it is not clear where land would be found in the Regency alongside already existing plantations, community housing areas and the Wasur National Park.
 
The announcement appears to have been spontaneous. Soon afterwards, a follow-up meeting to work out details was held between representatives of the Merauke Regency administration and agriculture minister Andi Amran Sulaiman. A local newspaper reported that Sulaiman gave the local government authorities only three days to prepare a framework for developing 1.2 million hectares of rice plantations; 250,000 hectares to be developed this year, and another 250,000 hectares every six months thereafter (3).
 
The central government said it would provide seven trillion rupiah (US$ 534 million) per semester to support the plans. The state-owned fertiliser maker, Pupuk Indonesia, has been given the task of raising the initial amount, which will be used to clear and develop 750,000 hectares of rice fields (4). Another 250,000 hectares will be managed by the Agriculture Ministry and a further 200,000 hectares will be offered to private companies.
 
President Jokowi was invited to visit Merauke by Medco, which is currently the only company actively experimenting with growing rice agriculture in the area. The company – more usually involved in oil and gas production – is one of the pioneers of MIFEE, but its record so far hasn’t been good. One of its subsidiaries involved in timber extraction, PT Selaras Inti Semesta, became well known as one of the worst companies in the area after it tricked the community of Zanegi into handing over its forest for minimal compensation. Poverty and conflict followed, and the company itself failed to make a profit and was shut down a few years later, but only after destroying a vast swathe of the forest and leaving the villagers with no forest and no income (5).
 
Other private companies are yet to publicly commit to participating in the programme, although one newspaper report mentions Wilmar International and Sinar Mas as being among the conglomerates that have expressed an interest in investing in the project (6). Both companies are among the largest in the oil palm plantation sector, with the production of palm oil as their core business.
 
Rice is a staple food for Indonesia’s population and all across Asia and it is mostly produced by small scale farmers. According to Indonesia’s 2013 agriculture survey, there are 14 million rice farming households in the country, more than half of the total of 25 million rural households. The majority are small scale farmers who own less than half a hectare of land (7). Today, small scale peasant agriculture produces nearly all of the 44 million tonnes of rice grown in the country. Developing rice cultivation on the scale announced by Indonesia's president can only be done using large-scale monocultures, with fully mechanised methods and heavy input of agrotoxins. If rice production is centralised in the hands of a few state-owned and private corporations, what will happen to the livelihoods of the country’s millions of rice farmers? The MIFEE project area covers 160 villages in Merauke. For the Papuan people it could mean the loss of their home and territory. It could also endanger their source of food – the staple here is sago rather than rice – and animals from the forest.
 
A villager from Zanegi reported that since plantations began encroaching on their territory it has become more difficult to find food. In 2013, five children died from malnutrition in one of Medco’s concession areas (8). Writing about Jokowi's relaunch of MIFEE in a local magazine, a Papuan student wrote, “On the issue of his proclamation about rice in Merauke, Jokowi is clearly ignoring the fact that the indigenous people of Papua consume sago and their livelihoods depend on the sago forest. That means that cutting down sago palm trees in order to ensure national food (rice) security is a programme that will make the survival of Merauke’s indigenous people impossible because it will destroy their staple food, sago.” (9)
 
Jokowi’s plan continues to follow a top down national food and agriculture policy, leaving no room for discussions with communities in Merauke or with Indonesia’s rice farmers in general about what they believe is needed to achieve food sovereignty. Despite the fact that during his election campaign, he talked a lot about food sovereignty. The rhetoric argument of increasing national rice production remains a simple transfer of lands from indigenous peoples to big companies.
 
With more than 1.5 million hectares of land already occupied by plantations in Merauke Regency, it is not clear where the land being talked about now will be found. The 1.2 million hectares probably refers to land originally earmarked for MIFEE in 2010. If so, it is highly unrealistic to imagine it could be developed within three years. To begin with, permits for oil palm and sugar cane plantations have already been issued for virtually the whole area. Also, in many places, Malind indigenous communities, who have rights over that land clearly stated that they will not surrender any more of their land to corporations.
 
The initial development of MIFEE has created havoc for the communities and the environment in the area. Expanding the project on such a large scale will only create more pressure for the communities and further destruction of forests. Relaunching MIFEE shows that decades of bad policies in the interest of tycoons and multinational companies to control land and natural resources remains. Enough is enough, it is time to denounce MIFEE and return the land to the Malind people.
 
 
Selwyn Moran, AwasMIFEE, awasmifee@potager.org
Kartini Samon, GRAIN, kartini@grain.org
 
From the World Rainforest Movement's monthly bulletin.
 
(1) Y.L. Franky, “Yayasan Pusaka”, Presented at limited discussion on Jokowi’s agriculture program, Jakarta, 20 May 2015. Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand hectares.
(2) “Pemerintah Siapkan Merauke Jadi Lumbung Padi Nasional” (Government prepare Merauke as National Rice Bowl),” Tempo. 11 May 2015.
(3) “Jokowi relaunches MIFEE, wants 1.2 million hectares of new ricefields within 3 years!” AwasMIFEE, 15 May 2015.
(4) Damiana Simanjuntak, “Pupuk Indonesia needs $534m for Merauke Food Estate,” Jakarta Post, 18 May 2015.
(5) “Jokowi relaunches MIFEE, wants 1.2 million hectares of new ricefields within 3 years!” AwasMIFEE, 15 May 2015.
(6) Idem
(7) National agriculture census 2013.
(8) Testimony of Zanegi villager during limited discussion on Jokowi’s agriculture program, Jakarta, 20 May 2015.
(9) Sanimala Bastian. Majalah Selangkah. Proklamasi Beras, Soal Penjajahan Pangan Indonesia. 13 May 2015.


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3)  Human rights in Indonesia onjust before the 70th anniversary of independence
Article by the LP3BH: 9 August 2015

  Since 1969, the Land of Papua has been designated as an autonomous province in accordance with Law 12/1969 and as we approach 17 August,
2015, we can note that Papua has been an integral part of the Republic of Indonesia for 52 years.

   The autonomous province of Irian Barat was subsequently named the Province of Papua according to Law 21/2001. Then the name was changed
again to the Province of Papua which was granted the status of special autonomy

  West Papua was subsequently divided into two provinces, the Province of Papua and the Province of West Papua by virtue of Law
45/1999 which was subsequently amended  by Law 35/2008 according to which they both to become autonomous provinces.
As the 70th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Indonesia approaches, we should make it clear that conditions in both
provinces are very unsatisfactory and fail to comply with the universal principles of basic human rights.

   Law 12/1999 enacted a decision to hold an Act of Free Choice even though there ere many incidents of violence used despite the enactment
of Law 26/2000 on Human Rights Courts.   Grave violations of human rights accompanied by acts  of violence occurred during the periods before, during 
and after the Act of Free
Choice in a number of cities across West Papua: Merauke, Fakfak,Sorong, Manokwari,Biak, Nabire, Jayapura and Wamena.

   We should also record the fact that there have been numerous occasions when hundreds of Papuans from various sectors of the
community - school children, students, government employees, employees in the private sector, artists, teachers and spiritual workers  - even
disappearances- - that occurred in July and August 1969.   Unfortunately, we have to say that nothing has been done during
the 70 years of Indonesian independence by the Government of Indonesia or the Head of State to take any action in accordance with the
principles of truth and law to resolve these many cases of grave human rights violations which are widely believed to have been perpetrated
by members of the security forces (TNI/Polri) during the period from 1963 to 1969.

  Indonesia now has two laws, Law 39/1999 on Basic Human Rights and Law 26/2000 on Human Rights Courts and as well as a National Human
Rights Commission (KOMNAS-HAM). However, nothing has been done to deal with these infractions in accordance with the laws in force or by 
those special agencies.     It is widely believed that these violations were perpetrated by  members of the security forces (TNI/POLRI) and yet no one has been
made accountable.

   In 2001, the Government of Indonesia granted autonomous status to the Province of Papua based on Law 21/2001. One of the purposes of the
law as stated in the Preamble is that one of the basic problems is that no respect has been shown, nor have people in the Land of Papua
been guaranteed their basic human rights In this connection, Articles 45 and 46 of Law 21/2001 clarify the
measures that the administrations of the provinces of Papua and West Papua ought to take to resolve the human rights violations that have
occurred in the Land of Papua.

  This should have been done by appointing a special representative of KOMNAS-HAM for the Land of Papua, as well as by setting up a Human
Rights Court and forming a Commission on Truth and Reconciliation (KKR).

   Although a representative of the KOMNAS-HAM for Papua has been appointed  for the Province of Papua, nothing has been done to set up
a Human Rights Court of the afore-mentioned KKR.    Moreover, during that same period, no measures were taken to
reinforce the legal powers of the Attorney-General’s Office or the High Attorney in Papua to deal with the many grave violations of human
rights as required by the laws of this country.  During the same period, nothing has been done to resolve these
various incidents  when grave human rights violations occurred for fifty years in the Land of Papua.

   Many of these incidents occurred quite recently such as the following: the Bloody Aimas Incident on 30 April 2013, the Wasior
Incident in June and July 2001, the Bloody Manokwari Incident in September  1999, the Wamena Incident in 2003, along with the incidents
which occurred  in the Central Highlands (in and around Pyramid) in 1977 and 1978 which are believed to have been genocidal, the Bloody
Biak Incident on 6 July 1998, the Enarotali -Paniai Incident on 8 December 2014, the Yahukimo Incident, the Kotaraja Incident, the
Wamena Incident, the Sorong Incident and the mysterious death of Martinus Yohame, (an activist of the National Committee of West Papua,
KNPB) and the Tolikara Incident on 17 July 2015.

  The KOMNAS-HAM which is an official state agency that has the power to investigate grave human rights violations that occur in Indonesia
in accordance with the laws in force, is always facing difficulties in taking action in accordance with its official powers to investigate
every  case  where grave human rights violations are thought to have occurred  in the Land of Papua.

  This is the core of the problem, where grave violations of human rights have occurred as would seem apparent according to the available
data and reports that have been published in the international media and via the internet as well as in the social media and the mass
media, yet (pro justitia) investigations are always confronted with a number of difficulties.

   The reason for this is that the State frequently ‘intervenes' using people who do not have the necessary competence or authority as
stipulated in Law 39/1999 on Basic Human Rights.   What I am referring to is intervention by setting up a 'joint'
Fact-Finding Team involving the security institutions (TNI/POLRI)  where there is data that suggests that these forces are involved in
the violations.

   So the question that arises is: how is it possible for those institutions which are strongly believed to have been involved in the
incidents as the ‘perpetrators' to conduct investigations that would be directed against their own institutions?

  This is why there is a growing mistrust among the Papuan people towards the Indonesian State.in guaranteeing legal protection and
respect for upholding human rights on Cenderawasih soil.  Besides, all the presidents of Indonesia since the era of
democracy (since May 1998) such as Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono and Joko Widodo, neither of whom has given assurances in the form of political
will to uphold the law in cases of human rights violations during this whole period up to the present day.

  This is what has always made it difficult to uphold the law and protect human rights in the Land of Papua ever since its integration
into Indonesia since it became independent.
Peace
Yan Christian Warinussy,
Executive Director of the LP3BH
The Institution of Research, Analyzing and /development for Legal Aid.

Translated by Carmel Budiardjo


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4) Regarding the imprisonment of four Papuans
11th August, 2015

  The LP3BH has received a message which states that the term of imprisonment  of four Papuans has been prolonged, which would be in
violations of the law. The four prisoners are: Alexander Nekenem, Maikel Aso, Narko Murib and Yoram Magai who are being held at the headquarters of the police
in West Papua. A note from  the chairman of the State Court states
that they will each spend  an additional thirty days, as decided by the chairman of the State Court in Manokwari, Maryono. SH.

   The thirty-day prolongation will be dated from 3 August until the 1st September and could be further prolonged if this is considered
necessary by the Attorney. Three of the men - Alexander Nemeken, Maikel Aso and Narko Murib who are clients of the LP3BH. complained that they were feeling unwell
when one of their lawyers, Theresje Julianty Gasperz was allowed to visit them on Thursday, 6 August at around 11am.

Peace
Yan Christian Warinussy, EXecutive Director of the LP3BH, the
Instution of Research, Analyzing and Development of Legal Rights.
Translated by Carmel Budiardjo, Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, 1995

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