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  • 9 Anggota Parlemen NZ Teken Deklarasi Referendum Papua

    9 Anggota Parlemen NZ Teken Deklarasi Referendum Papua

    Anggota parlemen Selandia Baru, Catherine Delahunty. keempat dari kanan, bersama sejumlah anggota parlemen Selandia Baru lainnya, seusai penandatanganan deklarasi mendukung penentuan nasib sendiri Papua. Tampak juga hadir Benny Wenda, juru bicara ULMWP (Foto: akun Facebook Catherine Delahunty)
    Anggota parlemen Selandia Baru, Catherine Delahunty. keempat dari kanan, bersama sejumlah anggota parlemen Selandia Baru lainnya, seusai penandatanganan deklarasi mendukung penentuan nasib sendiri Papua. Tampak juga hadir Benny Wenda, juru bicara ULMWP (Foto: akun Facebook Catherine Delahunty)

    WELLINGTON, SATUHARAPAN.COM – Sedikitnya sembilan anggota parlemen Selandia Baru (New Zealand) menandatangani deklarasi untuk menyerukan dan memberi dukungan bagi penentuan nasib sendiri rakyat Papua.

    Penandatanganan itu dilaksanakan di Wellington, Rabu (10/05), disponsori oleh anggota parlemen dari Partai Hijau Selandia Baru, Catherine Delahunty. Penandatanganan tersebut disaksikan oleh Benny Wenda, juru bicara United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), organisasi yang menjadi wadah berbagai elemen rakyat yang pro-referendum Papua.

    “Tadi malam diam-diam sejarah terjadi di Parlemen Selandia Baru, seiring dengan sembilan anggota parlemen menandatangai Deklarasi Westminster bagi referendum Papua yang diawasi oleh PBB,”

    tulis Delahunty lewat akun Facebooknya, Rabu (10/05).

    Ia juga menerangkan bahwa dirinya senang Benny Wenda dapat hadir dan turut meluncurkan acara itu.

    “Saya sangat bangga dengan anggota parlemen kita dari Partai Hijau, Partai Buruh, dan satu dari (partai) Nasional yang menandatanganinya tadi malam, dan juga Marama Fox dari Partai Māori dan Aupito S’ua William Sio, yang tidak dapat hadir tetapi telah menandatanganinya hari ini,”

    lanjut Delahunty.

    Delahunty tidak menyebut secara rinci siapa saja para anggota parlemen Selandia Baru yang menandatangani deklarasi. Namun di laman FB-nya ia menampilkan sejumlah foto acara penandatanganan itu. Belakangan berdasarkan siaran pers Green Party, diketahui nama-nama anggota parlemen yang menandatangani adalah Catherine Delahunty, Barry Coates, Mojo Mathers, Jan Logie dan Steffan Browning dari Green Party; Louisa Wall, Carmel Sepuloni dan Adrian Rurawhe dari Partai Buruh; dan  Chester Burrows dari Partai Nasional. Deklarasi juga ditanda tangani Co-leader dari Māori Party, Marama Fox, dan anggota parlemen dari Partai Buruh lainnya yang menanda tanganinya keesokan harinya, Aupito S’ua William Sio.

    Deklarasi Westminster pertama kali diluncurkan di London tahun lalu. Ketika itu sejumlah anggota parlemen dari negara-negara Pasifik dan Inggris turut menandatangani deklarasi yang menyerukan dilakukannya referendum rakyat Papua.

    Benny Wenda yang sedang beranda di Selandia Baru beberapa hari terakhir,  mengatakan dukungan terhadap penentuan nasib sendiri Papua terus tumbuh dari berbagai kalangan. (Berbeda dengan data Delahunty, dia menyebut ada 11 anggota parlemen NZ yang menandatangani deklarasi).

    Menurut dia, salah satu pemicu pertumbuhan itu adalah upaya Pacific Coalition for West Papua yang terdiri dari tujuh negara Pasifik, yang dipimpin oleh Perdana Menteri Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare.

    Menurut Benny Wenda, inisiatif Sogavare telah membawa isu Papua hingga ke level PBB.

    Koalisi negara-negara Pasifik itu terdiri dari Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, Palau dan Marshall Islands.

    Tahun lalu, tujuh negara ini menyampaikan pernyataan di Sidang Majelis Umum PBB yang mendesak pemerintah RI membuka pintu bagi pelapor khusus PBB ke Papua terkait pelanggaran HAM yang terjadi di pulau paling timur RI itu.

    Awal bulan ini, tujuh negara tersebut juga mengeluarkan pernyataan bersama di Brussels, dalam pertemuan tingkat menteri kelompok negara yang tergabung dalam African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP). Dalam pernyataan bersama itu mereka menyatakan keprihatinan atas pelanggaran HAM di Papua serta mendukung penentuan nasib sendiri.

    “Jadi terjadi perubahan besar saat ini. Kami juga telah mendapat dukungan dari African Carribean and the Pacific (ACP). Telah terjadi pertumbuhan jumlah dan solidaritas di seluruh dunia,” kata Benny Wenda, dikutip dari radionz.co.nz.

    Benny Wenda mengatakan dukungan anggota parlemen Selandia Baru “adalah obat terbaik bagi rakyat PApua. Itu yang membuat semangat mereka tetap hidup….”

    Ia juga menegaskan bahwa rakyat Papua bersatu dibawah ULMWP.

    Di kalangan elit Papua belakangan ini juga terjadi perkembangan baru. Bila selama ini pengakuan terhadap ULMWP tidak begitu jelas dinyatakan secara resmi, kini mulai terungkap secara terbuka.

    Gubernur Papua, Lukas Enembe, Rabu pekan lalu seusai bertemu dengan Dubes HAM Belanda, dikutip oleh berbagai media berkata bahwa untuk menyelesaikan masalah Papua harusnya dilakukan seperti penyelesaian konflik Aceh.

    Dia menjelaskan kasus di Papua mirip dengan Aceh karena ada kelompok United Liberation Movement for West Papua New (ULMWP) maupun Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB) maupun TPN/OPM yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan Papua.

    “Konflik yang terjadi di Papua sama seperti Aceh, karena ada kelompok United Liberation Movement for West Papua New (ULMWP) maupun Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB) maupun TPN/OPM yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan Papua sehingga sering terjadi konflik dengan TNI/Polri,” ujar Enembe.

    “Jika ingin menyelesaikan persoalan di Papua, maka perlu dilakukan seperti di Aceh. Di mana, hadirkan semua kelompok-kelompok yang berseberangan dengan pemerintah Indonesia seperti ULMWP maupun KNPB,” kata Lukas Enembe.

    Komentar Enembe ini merupakan sebuah tahap baru, karena tahun lalu ketika media meminta komentar Enembe tentang ULMWP, dia berkilah bahwa dirinya tidak memikirkannya. Enembe yang saat itu berada di Istana Presiden di Jakarta, mengatakan tugasnya adalah meningkatkan kesejahteraan rakyat Papua sehingga tidak mau membuang waktu memikirkan soal-soal seperti ULMWP.

    Dukungan terhadap dialog Jakarta dengan ULMWP juga dikatakan oleh kalangan parlemen Papua. Anggota Komisi I DPR Papua, komisi yang membidangi pemerintahan, politik, hukum, HAM dan hubungan luar negeri, Kusmanto, mengatakan pemerintah perlu berdialog dengan ULMWP, wadah yang selama ini gencar menyuarakan berbagai masalah Papua di kancah internasional.

    Ketika membacakan laporan komisinya dalam sidang paripurna ke IV DPR Papua terhadap LKPJ Gubernur Papua tahun 2016, Selasa (09/05), Kusmanto mengatakan pemerintah harus duduk berunding dengan ULWMP.

    “Persoalan HAM di Papua, bukan rahasia lagi. Sudah menjadi pembahasan di dunia internasional bahkan sampai ke PBB. Pemerintah pusat, pemerintah Provinsi Papua, harus duduk bersama mencari solusi,” kata Kusmanto, sebagaimana dikutip dari Tabloid Jubi.

    Komisi I, menurut dia, mendukung komitmen atau pernyataan gubernur, meminta pemerintah berdialog dengan ULMWP.

    Editor : Eben E. Siadari

  • West Papua diplomatic cause advances in Brussels

    A coalition of Pacific Island nations has called on the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states to back West Papuan self-determination.

    Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, Palau and the Marshall Islands gave a joint statement at the group’s Council of Ministers in Brussels.

    Johnny Blades has been following developments.

     

    Transcript

    JOHNNY BLADES: In Brussels the other day, this  African, Caribbean and Pacific bloc heard from a Vanuatu government MP who was representing this Pacific coalition of seven countries which also is a network of NGO, civil society and church groups as well, who are saying that the world community has to act now on human rights abuses in Papua, but specifically to push Indonesia to have a legitimate self-determination process for the West Papuans, because questions about the legitimacy of the self-determination process by which Papua was incorporated into Indonesia back in the 1960s, questions over that are really gaining momentum at the moment. This follows on from the Coalition’s two recent representations at the UN level on Papua: that is, last September at the UN General Assembly, and then in March at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

    BEN ROBINSON-DRAWBRIDGE: So how did the other countries in this group react to this call from their Pacific members?

    JB: The Caribbean and African countries were signalling strong support for this, to have a resolution urging a proper self-determination process for the Papuans. But the Papua New Guinea ambassador at the meeting in Brussels spoke out against it. He actually said that the group shouldn;t push too hard at this. He suggested that a fact-finding mission to Papua is necessary for the African, Caribbean and Pacific group to conduct first in order to get a clearer picture of the situation. Remember PNG of course is right next door to West Papua and its proximity to this huge Asian country is a point of great sensitivity.

    BRD: Have other Pacific groups like the Melanesian Spearhead Group or even the Pacific Forum, have they made similar representations on West Papua?

    JB: They have attempted to, really. This issue has been brought up at both of those bodies many years ago, and particularly for the Melanesian Spearhead Group it was a huge issue because Melanesians in these countries feel strongly about West Papuan self-determination. It’s just that their leadership have not been able to find a unified position on it. And for instance since Indonesia has come in to the MSG as an observer and now an associate member, this issue has not advanced. So they haven’t been able to take it up at UN or ACP levels. And it’s much the same with the Forum: there’s not a unified stance on it. So the group of seven Pacific countries here who took up the issue in Brussels have really just thought ‘we’ll go ahead and do what we have to on our own’ because the Forum and the MSG, they seem to be saying, have failed on the West Papua issue.

    BRD: Do any of the other countries in this (ACP) group, do they have significant political clout to be able to make a difference on this issue?

    JB: They aren’t powerhouses on the world stage, most of these countries. But I think if there was to be this bloc of 79 countries suddenly taking it up at the UN General Assembly, that is significant in itself, and it would really add to the international pressure on Jakarta to maybe look for a new kind of solution to this simmering discontent in Papua.

  • Pacific nations back West Papuan self-determination

    A coalition of Pacific Island nations has delivered an emphatic call to the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states to back West Papuan self-determination.

    Demonstrators march in Timika in West Papua.
    Demonstrators march in Timika in West Papua supporting West Papua self-determination. Photo: Supplied

     

    Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, Palau and the Marshall Islands delivered a joint statement at the ACP’s Council of Ministers in Brussels.

    It condemned Indonesian human rights violations in Papua, including alleged crimes against humanity and called for an eventual resolution that includes support of the right of West Papuan political self-determination.

    Delivering the statement, a Vanuatu government envoy Johnny Koanapo told the Council that “apartheid-like colonial rule” was “slowly but surely” going to wipe out West Papuans as a people “while… the world stood by.”

    African and Caribbean countries in the the 79-member group of mainly former colonised territories have voiced strong support for West Papuan self-determination at subcommittee and ambassadorial level during the past two months

    Mr Koanapo said that the day’s discussion “now sets up the great likelihood of a resolution on the full range of West Papua issues at the next ACP ministerial council meeting”, scheduled for November.

    It’s the latest in a string of high-level representations by the International Coalition for Papua since last year that have taken the issue of West Papua to a new level of diplomatic activity.

    The seven Pacific nations, who are in coalition with Pacific regional church bodies and civil society networks, raised concern about West Papuan human rights at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva two months ago, and also at the UN General Assembly last September.

    Indonesia’s government has rejected criticism at the UN level, accusing the Pacific countries of interference and supporting Papuan separatism.

    Jakarta says human rights abuses in Papua are largely historical, and that the incorporation of the western half of new Guinea into Indonesia is final.

    However, support from other governments for resolution of ongoing human rights infringements in Papua is gaining momentum.

    Criticism of the flawed plebiscite by which the former Dutch New Guinea was incorporated into the young state of Indonesia in the 1960s has effected renewed calls for a genuine self-determination process.

    At yesterday’s Brussels meeting Papua New Guinea’s ambassador, whose country shares a 760km-long border with Indonesia at West Papua, was the only delegate to speak against ACP moving forward on a resolution on the matter.

    Joshua Kalinoe said that “no one is denying that the human rights violations are going on” but suggested that a fact-finding mission to West Papua might be necessary for the ACP to get an accurate picture of the situation.

    Guinea-Bissau’s Ambassador Alfredo Lopez Cabral spoke next, comparing the plight of West Papua to East Timor, which Indonesia occupied for 24 years before a mounting legacy of conflict gave way to an independence referendum in 1999.

  • Siur Mekere Announces Nomination

    Former Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta today announced that he had nominated as a candidate for the seat of Moresby North-West.
    Former Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta today announced that he had nominated as a candidate for the seat of Moresby North-West.

    “I nominated this morning as an independent candidate,” he said.

    “My decision is based on widespread public support for me to use my experience and knowledge to help put Papua New Guinea back on track and help form a new Government that will act decisively to implement plans to rescue and rebuild the country.

    “It appears to me and other like-minded people that there is a strong desire for change in Papua New Guinea and I want to be part of that change. I want my vote in Parliament to be counted. I want to be part of the rescue team to reconstruct and lay the foundation for future growth and development.”

    Sir Mekere said if elected he and other independent candidates and small parties will join forces to ensure that the best Government with the best leadership is formed after the election. The characteristics of a new government should include:

    • Honest, moral and competent leadership
    • Total dedication to weeding out corruption in all its forms
    • Accountability and transparency
    • Respect for democracy, Parliament and the Office of the Prime Minister
    • Proven expertise in economic and financial management
    • A commitment to the restoration of the institutions of state
    • Reinstatement of proper systems and processes of government
    • Loyalty to the people and the nation ahead of personal self-interest
    • Compliance with the law, most importantly the Constitution

    Sir Mekere said he had been urged to stand for election by many people from all walks of life who were concerned about the direction of the nation during the past five years, and its rapid fall into chaos.

    “People are saying that corruption is on a scale never witnessed before,” he said. “A favored few benefit while the rest of the nation suffers.

    “People are struggling with rising costs and lack of jobs. They see few opportunities for their children, either in the workforce or in further education such as universities and colleges.

    “They are concerned about severe budget cuts to critical sectors such as health and education, leaving health facilities and schools across the nation in tatters.

    “Teachers, doctors, health workers, policemen and many other public servants say they are not being paid properly or on time.

    “Businesses report that they are not being paid for the work they have done for the Government, and are complaining about the impacts of foreign exchange shortages and the declining value of the kina.

    “Many people point to systemic problems and the style of government, the weakening, destruction and politicisation of institutions of state and systems and processes, a lack of respect for the rule of law, and the crushing of dissent.”

    Sir Mekere said he would do all in his power, if elected, to undo the damage of the past five years. The 2017 election is the time to act, he said. It is the time for ordinary people to use their voting power to send a clear message and make change happen:

    • To rip out the weeds of corruption
    • To replant the seeds for future growth and prosperity
    • To restore and strengthen our key oversight institutions
    • To reconstruct public finances and the economy
    • To give all people opportunities for income-earning, for justice and for equity
    • To allow people to exercise their democratic rights and freedoms
    • To rebuild Papua New Guinea

    Sir Mekere appealed to the Chief Electoral Commissioner, Returning Officers and Polling Officers, the Police and other government agencies to respect voters’ rights to vote in an environment of peace and good order.  In particular he warned against the hijacking of ballot boxes and the rigging of voting and counting.

    He also appealed to the Chief Electoral Commissioner not to allow and not to repeat what happened in 2012 when the incumbent Prime Minister’s seat was counted and declared before any others, even before voting had taken place in many electorates, giving him and his party an unfair advantage. “Counting should not start until all voting has finished,” he said.

    Sir Mekere added that the Prime Minister should not use the government jet and other government resources to collect, ferry and house winning candidates. Those costs are not public costs:  taxpayers should not pay for them.

    “Papua New Guineans want a free and fair election,” he said. “The Constitution and Electoral Acts give the Chief Electoral Commissioner the sole power to deliver that.”

    -PRESS STATEMENT

  • 2017 General elections in PNG and West Papua

    General elections will be held in Papua New Guinea from 24 June to 8 July 2017.

    Nominations will close on 27 April. The 111 members of the National Parliament are elected from single-member constituencies by preferential voting. West Papua has a particular interest in its “neighbour” which has long had two different and contradicting approaches towards its brothers and sisters on the other side.

    While the official government stance has been that it recognizes Indonesian sovereignty, Papua New Guineans have always felt they could not betray their own “blood” and leave West Papua to its own devices.

    These general elections will be a turning point, as it will be the last opportunity for Papua New Guineans to make a difference for their Melanesian “blood” in West Papua, before West Papuans become a minority in their own land. Five years from now, the demographic makeup of the other side will be very different if West Papua does not gain independence.

    Indonesia will really be on PNG’s doorstep, physically, politically, militarily, financially, etc. West Papuans are the only ones who can tell the rest of Melanesia how it feels to have Indonesian on its doorstep. This is Melanesia: what you do is more important than what you say you will do or what you say you are doing. Certain candidates are seen as natural supporters of the West Papuan cause, unfortunately, Indonesia has found its way in their wallets and bank accounts…

    We support all candidates that have truly stated and acted, and that continue to do so, in the interest of a Free West Papua and we wish them well in this campaign. We are two Nations under God, but one Island in Melanesia. God bless and protect this beautiful Island of ours.

    Source: www.facebook.com

  • Awal Mei, Benny Wenda akan disambut hangat di Selandia Baru

    Awal Mei, Benny Wenda akan disambut hangat di Selandia Baru

    Lukisan karya Adele O’Conner berjudul Mama Yosepha versus the TNI - Katalog pameran
    Lukisan karya Adele O’Conner berjudul Mama Yosepha versus the TNI – Katalog pameran

    Jakarta, Jubi – Benny Wenda, juru bicara United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) akan mengunjungi Aotearoa, Selandia Baru dari tanggal 8 hingga 16 Mei mendatang.

    Dilansir voxy.co.nz (19/4) kunjungannya kali ini selain untuk tetap meminta dukungan keadilan politik dan sosial terhadap rakyat West Papua, juga secara khusus hendak meminta agar pemerintah Selandia Baru mendukung inisiatif bangsa-bangsa Pasifik yang mendorong isu West Papua di PBB.

    Terakhir kunjungannya ke Selandia Baru pada tahun 2013, Wenda sempat dicekal oleh Juru Bicara Parlemen David Carter untuk tidak berbicara di hadapan parlemen negeri itu.

    Namun saat ini kelompok-kelompok yang cukup beragam hingga anggota-anggota parlemen lintas partai mulai makin luas mendukung West papua dan memberikan jaminan bahkan sambutan hangat terhadap tokoh pergerakan kemerdekaan West Papua itu.

    Wenda akan disambut di Orakei Marae saat ketibaannya dan diundang resmi untuk memberikan sambutan pada Ngati Whatua Orakei whanau. Sejumlah jadwal pertemuan yang cukup padat menantinya di Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, dan menyusul Te Tai Tokerau.

    Seperti diketahui, tujuh bangsa-bangsa Pasifik di negara Vanuatu, Kepulauan Solomon, Tonga, Tuvalu, Palau, Kepulauan Marshall, dan Nauru secara kolektif menyarakan situasi hak azasi manusia di West Papua di hadapan sidang umum PBB tahun lalu serta sidang Dewan HAM PBB baru-baru ini.

    Hal ini telah memulai momentum baru bagi keterlibatan badan-badan tertinggi PBB untuk menetapkan kemungkinan resolusi baru bagi hak-hak rakyat West Papua.

    Diharapkan pemerintah Selandia Baru tidak berdiam diri dan berada dipinggiran, melainkan member dukungan kepada bangsa-bangsa Pasifik tersebut untuk mendorong isu West Papua dan membantu perjuangan keadilan di wilayah itu.

    Wenda akan bertemu gelombang aktivis peduli West Papua, Maori dan Pasifika, yang baru di berbagai wilayah Selandia Baru, termasuk anggota-anggota International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP).(*)

  • Parlemen Uganda Terima Petisi Penentuan Nasib Sendiri Papua

    KAMPALA, SATUHARAPAN.COM – Sebuah perkembangan baru dalam diplomasi yang memperjuangkan penentuan nasib sendiri Papua terungkap lewat berita kunjungan salah seorang tokoh United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) ke Kampala, Uganda, belum lama ini.

    Kunjungan ini memberi gambaran bahwa aspirasi menentukan nasib sendiri kini kian dikenal di benua Afrika setelah sebelumnya tokoh ULMWP juga telah mendekati pemerintahan Ghana.

    Selain Ghana, pemenang Nobel Perdamaian, Uskup Desmond Tutu dari Afrika Selatan, juga termasuk tokoh yang bersimpati pada aspirasi penentuan nasib sendiri dan telah pernah bertemu dengan tokoh ULMWP, Benny Wenda.

    Dalam laporannya hari ini (8/04), situs berita berbasis di Uganda, Saturday Vision melaporkan Jacob Rumbiak, salah seorang pemimpin ULMWP, telah bertemu dengan Wakil Ketua Parlemen Uganda, Jacob Oulanya,pada 7 April.

    Situs itu juga menampilkan foto Jacob Rumbiak menyerahkan bendera bintang kejora kepada Jacob Oulanya.

    Foto yang ditampilkan oleh Saturday Vision, menunjukkan Jacob Rumbiak menyerahkan bendera bintang kejora kepada wakil ketua parlemen Uganda. (Foto: Saturday Vision)

    Kepada Saturday Vision, Rumbiak mengatakan parlemen Uganda berjanji untuk mendukung Papua dalam berjuang mewujudkan mimpinya untuk penentuan nasib sendiri.

    Disebutkan, Rumbiak mengajukan petisi penentuan nasib sendiri itu dan membeberkan penderitaan rakyat Papua.

    Dalam petisi itu, menurut Jacob Rumbiak, pihaknya ingin Uganda mempengaruhi negara-negara lain di kawasan Afrika untuk mendukung usulan mereka bagi penentuan nasib sendiri di PBB.

    Rumbiak mengatakan keyakinannya akan  kekuatan Uganda di Uni Afrika dapat mengarahkan suara Afrika di sidang umum PBB untuk mewujudkan penentuan nasib sendiri pada tahun 2019.

    Selain menemui parlemen, pimpinan ULMWP itu juga ingin bertemu dengan Presiden Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, untuk menyampaikan keinginan mereka.

    Saturday Vision tidak memuat komentar pihak parlemen Uganda dalam laporannya.

    ULMWP selama ini berjuang untuk diadakannya referendum di Papua, hal yang selama ini ditolak oleh Jakarta.

    ULMWP mengklaim bahwa organisasi itu merupakan payung pemersatu dari berbagai organisasi di Papua yang menyuarakan penentuan nasib sendiri Papua.

    ULMWP kini tengah berjuang menjadi anggota penuh Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), dimana Indonesia juga menjadi anggota associate.

    Indonesia tidak mengakui ULMWP sebagai perwakilan rakyat Papua dan menggolongkannya sebagai kelompok separatis. Namun tidak sedikit tokoh masyarakat Papua berbeda pendapat dalam hal ini dan mengakui keberadaan ULMWP. Umumnya para pemerhati HAM dan pakar yang mendalami masalah Papua, menilai keberadaan ULMWP tidak boleh dinafikan.

    Road Map Papua yang disusun oleh LIPI  memasukkan kelompok ini sebagai salah satu unsur yang harus duduk dalam dialog Papua, bila hal itu diselenggarakan.

    Editor : Eben E. Siadari

  • Uganda parliament pledges support for West Papua independence

    Federal Republic of West Papua’s Jacob Rumbiak (left) hands over a the country's flag to Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah , during a courtesy visit to Parliament on April 7, 2017. Photo by Kennedy Oryema
    Federal Republic of West Papua’s Jacob Rumbiak (left) hands over a the country’s flag to Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah , during a courtesy visit to Parliament on April 7, 2017. Photo by Kennedy Oryema

    Parliament of Uganda has pledged to support West Papua, a province of Indonesia fighting for independence to realise its dream.

    This is after its leader petitioned parliament and presented heartrending accounts of sufferings under the rule of the island nation.

    In a petition presented to the Parliament deputy speaker Jacob Oulanya on Friday, Jacob Rumbiak, the executive director of United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) said they want Uganda to influence other countries in the region to support their bid for independence at the United Nations.

    He told Saturday Vision that he believes Uganda’s strength at African Union (AU) can galvanize the African vote in New York and help them clinch independence by 2019.

    Saturday Vision has learnt that besides Parliament, the group also wants to meet President Yoweri Museveni over their bid.

     est apua inister of oreign ffairs acob umbiak left hands over a shirt to eputy peaker of arliament acob ulanyah Formerly under Dutch rule, West Papua is fighting to shake off the firm rule of Indonesia, under which it was placed courtesy of a UN–backed treaty in 1969. West Papua maintains that Indonesia’s rule over it is illegal because the UN-sanctioned ballot — ‘the Act of Free Choice’, which legitimized West Papua as a province of Indonesia in 1969, was fraudulent. Under the act, 1022 people, who were chosen to vote on behalf of the island, were coerced by Indonesian military to vote against the independence bid.

    With a land size of 162, 371 square miles, West Papua is nearly twice the size of Uganda. However, Uganda boasts of a population eighteen times bigger and has better human development indicators than West Papua’s two million people according to online sources.

    Rumbiak blames the above on an orchestrated genocide and the brutal rule they have suffered under Indonesia since 1969.

    He claimed there is a systemic agenda by Indonesia — a Muslim dominated country — to destroy their way of life, and exterminate the Papuans, a black people of African descent.

    A request for a comment from the Indonesia’s foreign affairs ministry had not been replied by press time.

    West Papua blames the West, particularly US, for turning a blind eye to the violations, which they say is a compromise with Indonesia for mining rights in the resource-rich island.

    Saturday Vision has learnt that West Papua is pushing for independence via a United Nations sponsored referendum, the way East Timor did in getting independence from Indonesia in 1999.

    Oulanyah said parliament was ready to support the group’s cause using its connections with parliaments in other countries. “We will do whatever our parliament and the nation can to ensure that by the end of June this year, that resolutions is heard and discussed in the UN,” he said.

    he eputy peaker of arliament acob ulanyah second right posing for a picture with inister of oreign ffairs ederal epublic of est apua acob umbiak centre while lory to lory inistries  enior astor ahimbisombwe second left  imon ulongo left and  ed ryne right look on during a visit to arliament He added: “Parliament can also identify different legislators to propose the motion, support and debate it in House. We can send the resolutions to other East African Parliaments including the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa countries.”

    Deputy Foreign Affairs minister, Okello Oryem, said Uganda was ready to meet the group. “But Uganda and Indonesia enjoy good diplomatic ties and we respect the latter’s internal affairs,” Oryem said.

    Oulanyah advised the group to mobilise the young people but through the diplomatic and international protocols in their country to mount pressure on the existing colonizers.

    Rumbiak said his country has the largest Gold and copper deposits in world. “It is one of the reasons we are being colonized,” he said. –

    See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1450567/uganda-parliament-pledges-support-west-papua-independence#sthash.ookioh9f.dpuf
  • TNI to Build Missile Detachment in Bintuni Bay, West Papua

    TEMPO.COBintuni – Commander of Military District (Kodam) XVIII Kasuari of the National Armed Forces (TNI), Major General Joppie Onesimus Wayangkau mentioned about the missile detachment that is set to be established in Bintuni Bay, West Papua.
    The detachment, which will be equipped with radar monitors, is included in Kodam’s new strategic territorial plan to secure vital state assets in West Papua. One of them is the oil and gas refinery operated by SKK Migas and BP Tangguh.
    “We’ll establish one missile detachment under Kodam XVIII Kasuari to secure vital state assets such as the oil and gas mine that are located here,” Wayangkau said on Wednesday, April 5, 2017.
    Wayangkau also said that they are responding to reports coming in from the local residents regarding drone activities in the area. According to the reports, drone activities have been spying and troubling the people living in the vicinity of Bintuni Bay and the people working at the mining companies.
    “We have received information about the mysterious spy drone, but we’re having difficulty in detecting it since Papua only has two tracking radars that are located in Biak and Sorong,”
    Wayangkau said.
    Bintuni Bay Regent, Petrus Kasihiu, fully supports the plan of establishing a missile detachment in his region. His administration will provide the land needed for the construction.
    “We will definitely prepare the land, Bintuni Bay regional government welcomes Kodam XVIII Kasuari for the unity of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI),” Kasihiu said.
    HANS ARNOLD
  • Anthony Craig: I cannot in Conscience Sit Back and Do Nothing…

    To all my West Papuan friends and Supporters

    Some people say Iam a little bit obsessed with west papua .Very true. I have been to west papua in august 15 and got a first hand experience. The Indonesian military is exterminating the west papuan people covered up by both the Indonesian and Australian governments. Both the major political parties have been given my report. The Lombok security treaty with Indonesia gives them the green light to slaughter thousands of west papuans 250KM FROM AUSTRALIA . AUSTRALIA WILK NOT OBJECT.

    I CANNOT IN CONSCIENCE SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING WHILE BLACK WEST PAPUANS ARE BEING RAPED TORTURED AND MURDERED.

    I am happy to be a clown for Christ. Amen.

    Anthony Craig leader Free west papua party Australia established because the indonesian military is exterminating the west papuan people covered up by both the indonesian and Australian governments

    Cry goes out remember balibo and East Timor

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