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Aspirasi politik Papua Barat dipamerkan dalam pameran seni rupa di Melbourne
Jayapura, Jubi – Sampari, sebutan bintang pagi dalam bahasa Biak, dijadikan judul sebuah pameran seni dan serangkaian pameran budaya Papua Barat, serta mengeksplorasi kebangsaan, ekologi, politik dan sejarah Papua Barat.
“Tujuan utama dari pameran ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat Papua Barat yang berharap mendapatkan kemerdekaan dan hak untuk menentukan nasib sendiri,” kata DR John Ballard, Wakil Rektor Universitas Katolik Australia melalui rilis yang diterima Jubi, Kamis (8/12/2016).
Pameran ini menampilkan tiga puluh enam karya lukis dari seniman dari Belanda, Amerika, dan Australia, serta negara-negara Melanesia seperti Papua Barat, Maluku, Kepulauan Solomon, Vanuatu, Fiji, dan Papua New Guinea. Lukisan yang dipamerkan pada umumnya menggunakan cat minyak dan akrilik di atas kanvas, charcoal di atas kertas, tinta, lino cut print, ilustrasi vektor komputer pada kayu, etsa, kolase, terra cotta yang membentuk relif, benda-benda alam mentah, macrame, seni digital dan fotografi.
Kartun karya John Spooner berjudul The things you see by a green light – Katalog Pameran
Saat membuka pameran seni Sampari yang merupakan pameran seni kedua kalinya dengan tema WEST PAPUA di Galeri ACU Art pada tanggal 2 Desember 2016, DR John Ballard menjelaskan karya-karya seni yang spektakuler ini ditata di ruang publik universitas untuk meningkatkan kesehatan psikologis dan fisik dari orang-orang yang telah mengalami pendudukan rasis selama lebih dari setengah abad.
Pameran ini juga menampilkan dua puluh delapan kartun yang diterbitkan setelah kedatangan 43 pencari suaka Papua Barat pada tahun 2006. Para pencari suaka mencapai pantai barat Semenanjung Cape York pada 17 Januari 2006. Saat itu, Menteri Imigrasi Australia, Amanda Vanstone percaya klaim dari para pencari suakan dan menerbitkan visa perlindungan, yang kemudian memicu kemarahan di Indonesia. Presiden Yudhoyono menarik duta besarnya.
Lukisan karya Peter Woods berjudul Ghost Gum Morning Star – Katalog Pameran
Perdana Menteri Howard mencoba mengelak dengan menyebutkan pencari suaka ini sebagai pendatang gelap (pengungsi). 10 bulan setelah kedatangan 43 orang ini, Indonesia dan Australia menandatangani perjanjian formal (Traktat Lombok) yang melarang orang Papua Barat mengibarkan bendera Bintang Kejora di kedua negara!
Fakta politik di belakang Traktat Lombok ini ditangkap oleh kartunis John Spooner yang menerbitkan karya kartunnya pada koran The Age, 9 November 2006. Sejak saat itu, dua puluh delapan kartun lainnya telah diterbitkan di media mainstream. Kartun-kartun ini menegaskan jurang yang dalam antara kekhawatiran dan opini masyarakat Australia dan bagaimana politisi mereka menterjemahkan keprihatinan dan opini mereka pada kebijakan pemerintah Australia.
Ruth McDougal, kurator seni Pasifik di The Qld Art Gallery dalam katalog pameran menjelaskan karya-karya seni rupa yang ditampilkan dikerjakan bersama oleh seniman dari seluruh Australia.
Lukisan karya seniman Papua Nugini, Martin Lance berjudul Freedom – Katalog Pameran
Mereka membangun dinding solidaritas spektakuler melalui karya seni bersama saudara-saudara Melanesia. Sampari berusaha memberikan bentuk yang sama dari tempat tinggal dan untuk mewujudkan fungsi edukatif yang sama,” tulis Ruth.
Sampari, lanjutnya berusaha untuk melibatkan warga Australia dalam percakapan tentang budaya dan sejarah Papua Barat untuk mengamankan masa depan yang lebih manusiawi untuk bangsa Papua Barat.
“Karya-karya ini merupakan referensi bentuk tradisional budaya, simbol kekuatan, ketahanan dan kebebasan, serta aspirasi sosial dan politik bangsa Papua Barat saat ini,” ungkap Ruth. (*)
December 9, 2016
West Papua: Australia’s Neighbour Under Siege
By Paul Gregoire | 26/11/2016 | http://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/
Indonesian police arrested 106 West Papuans praying in a park in the coastal city of Sorong in West Papua last Saturday. The group was celebrating the eighth anniversary of the West Papua Committee (KNPB): a non-violent organisation campaigning for self-determination.
Authorities said the activists were taken to the Sorong police station as they’d been calling out pro-independence slogans. After questioning, most were released, but seven were detained – accused of treason and provocation.
West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda (pictured) said it was no surprise Indonesian police targeted peaceful protesters as it’s a common occurrence in the region.
Mass arrests
“Over 4,000 West Papuan people have been unlawfully arrested this year alone just for peacefully protesting,” Mr Wenda told Sydney Criminal Lawyers. He added that the government is trying to prevent the world from finding out about “the secret genocide and illegal occupation in West Papua.”
Thousands of people were arrested in early May this year, when Indonesian security forces cracked down on rallies held across West Papua.
The protests were in support of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua – a coalition of independence movements formed in December 2014 – and their bid to gain full membership in the Melanesian Spearhead Group.
The Indonesian occupation
Since Indonesia began its occupation of the restive region 53 years ago, an estimated 500,000 local people have been killed under harsh military and police repression.
Indonesian president Joko Widodo had promised improvements in West Papua at the time of his election in July 2014. But Indonesia’s leading human rights organisation announced in May this year that human rights abuses are as rampant as they were under previous governments.
“We are kept like prisoners in our own land, unable to freely express our identity or make choices over our own future,” said Wenda, international lobbyist for the Free West Papua Campaign. He describes the Indigenous people as living in constant fear of being “the next ones to be killed.”
Transmigration
And West Papuans are fast becoming a minority in their own land. The government’s decades-old transmigration program – that resettles people from highly populated islands like Java to low-density areas – is marginalising the local people, both socially and economically.
Wenda has pointed out that in 1971 West Papuans made up 96 percent of the population, but today they only make up 49 percent of the people living in the region.
And despite claims by a government official earlier this year that the policy was stopped three years ago, this isn’t the case.
In October 2014, then Indonesian minister of villages and transmigration, Marwan Jafar, announced the government’s transmigration program would be continuing and further stated in June last year that because of its success, it would be expanding.
And it’s clear the boats are still arriving.
International recognition
However, the West Papuan campaign has been gaining traction in the international arena over recent months.
At the 71st UN General Assembly held in New York in September this year, seven Pacific Island nations called for immediate global attention to human rights abuses in West Papua.
As Wenda put it, “this signals a major turning point as it is the first time that we have had so much international support at a UN level for our struggle since the 1960s.”
And the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) could be given full membership into the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) in December this year. The MSG is an intergovernmental organisation of Melanesian states promoting economic growth.
The ULMWP has had observer status in the group since 2014, but full membership would see West Papua recognised as a political identity by foreign nations.
This prospect rattles Jakarta. Indonesia has been recognised as an associate member of MSG since June last year.
At the Indian Ocean Rim Association ministerial meeting in Bali last month, Indonesian defence minister Ryamizard Ryacudu asked Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop to caution MSG member countries against allowing the West Papua coalition membership into their group.
The defence minister warned Ms Bishop that the West Papua issue could pose a “stumbling block” to closer bilateral ties between the two nations.
The Act of NO Choice
In 1962 the New York Agreement resulted in the United Nations assuming administration of West Papua – then known as West New Guinea – after former coloniser the Netherlands left.
The agreement allowed Indonesia to assume occupation of the territory in 1963 on the proviso that a referendum was carried out to give West Papuan people a choice between remaining part of Indonesia or becoming an independent nation.
Following widespread resistance to Indonesian rule, the UN brokered Act of Free Choice referendum was held in 1969. However, the Indonesian military selected only 1,062 West Papuan representatives to vote and under threat of death, all of them voted to stay with Indonesia.
Calls for a just vote
Wenda refers to the referendum as the Act of NO Choice. And today, he’s calling for an internationally supervised vote on independence. “We have the fundamental right to self-determination that was promised to us by the UN, but stolen by Indonesia,” he outlined.
On May 3 this year, he hosted a meeting of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua at the Houses of Parliament in London. The Westminster Declaration for an internationally supervised vote for self-determination in West Papua was signed.
Those present at the meeting included the Tongan prime minister Akilisi Pōhiva and leader of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn.
The independence leader
A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Benny Wenda fled West Papua after being imprisoned by Indonesian authorities on charges he states were politically motivated because of his involvement in the independence movement. He was granted political asylum by the British government in 2003.
“As the indigenous Melanesian people in a Melanesian country our right to sovereignty is guaranteed to us,” said Wenda, who now lives in Oxford. “We call upon the world to please not forget us, but to help us in our campaign to be free people at last.”
Although the Indonesian government split West Papua into two provinces in 2002, this article refers to the whole region as West Papua, as the indigenous people do.
November 28, 2016
Questions Over Jakarta’s Push for Australia Messenger Role
Radio NZ – 1 November 2016
There are questions over the effectiveness of a push by Indonesia to have Australia lean on Pacific countries to not talk about West Papua.
Ryamizard Ryacudu Photo: SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP
Indonesia’s Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has urged Australia to rebuke Pacific states, in particular Solomon Islands, for raising Papua in global fora.
He urged Canberra to speak to Honiara on the matter because Australia contributes a big aid package in the Solomons.
Pacific leaders at the UN General Assembly expressed concern about human rights abuses in Papua. Top L to R: Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai; Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare; Tonga Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva. Bottom L to R: Nauru President Baron Waqa; Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine; Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga Photo: UN Photo
“In fact, the one thing that Pacific island countries really value is their sovereignty, so it is not as if Australia can just tell them what to do.” – Dr Stewart Firth duration 3′ :19″
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“In fact, the one thing that Pacific island countries really value is their sovereignty, so it is not as if Australia can just tell them what to do.” – Dr Stewart Firth
A Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, Stewart Firth, said Jakarta has misinterpreted Australia’s relationship with Pacific countries.
“These are sovereign states. And in particular in the case of Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands has a right to do that [speak out about West Papua] as a sovereign country, and Australia’s not in a very good position to tell them differently”, Dr Firth said.
“The one thing that Pacific Island countries really value is their sovereignty.
“Of course there continues to be big bilateral aid, but that doesn’t mean you can then determine a country’s foreign policy,” he said.
Dr Firth said Jakarta’s sensitivity is evident in multiple representations on the matter by government ministers.
“What’s worrying the Indonesians is the way in which this whole question of membership in the MSG has assumed a kind of symbolic political value to West Papuan independence activists,” he said.
“And earlier this year we saw major demonstrations in a number of towns in West Papua, for which people were arrested and so on, because they were demonstrating in favour of West Papuan membership in the MSG.”
November 19, 2016
Menampilkan Budaya Pasifik, Bendera Papua Merdeka Ikut Berkibar di Allianz Stadium
Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts atau Matavai Seni Budaya Pasifik dan bendera bintang fajar di Allianz Stadium, Stadion Sepak Bola Sydney, Australia, disana menampilkan seni dan tari budaya Pasifik.
Dalam acara tersebut bendera Oraganisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) ikut dibawahkan atau diampilkan dengan bendera-bendara negara Pasifik lainnya.
Foto-foto dibawah ini diungah oleh Destani’s Photography, salah satu dari sekian banyak fotografer yang hadir dalam acara festival Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts tersebut.
Destani’s Photography juga adalah salah satu dari mereka yang mengupload foto tentang atraksi bersama bintang kejora ini di album facebooknya MATAVAI Cultural Arts.
Ini adalah bagaimana dukungan rakyat Pasifik terhadap keinginan Papua merdeka atau keinginan orang Papua berpisah dari Indonesia. Dan dari negara-negara di wilayah Pasifik tersebut juga menginginkan hal yang sama untuk Papua.
November 16, 2016
US will take Australia’s ‘boat people’
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at a recent press conference in Sydney. Photo: SAEED KHAN / AFP
The United States and Australia have agreed to a one-off refugee resettlement deal for detainees on Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed the agreement today, saying it followed “months and months of planning”.
At the end of October, there were 872 people in the processing centre on Manus Island and 390 people in Nauru’s centre.
Mr Turnbull said the deal would only apply to those currently on the islands.
No timeline was given for the process and Mr Turnbull said it would not be rushed.
In September, Mr Turnbull said Australia would resettle refugees from a US-run camp in Costa Rica, as part of its annual humanitarian intake of refugees.
He denied at the time it was part of a “people swap” arrangement.
Kerry says other countries should help refugees
John Kerry answers media questions at the press conference at Premier House in Wellington. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
Earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry told media in Wellington his country had agreed to consider referrals from the United Nations Refugee Agency for refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.
“We in the United States have agreed to consider referrals from UNHCR on refugees now residing in Nauru and in Papua New Guinea,” he said during a media conference with the Prime Minister John Key in Wellington this morning.
“We know that these refugees are of special interest to UNHCR and we’re very engaged with them on a humanitarian basis there and in other parts of the world.”
Mr Kerry said he wanted other countries to consider how they could work with the UNHCR in a similar way.
“We are encouraging all countries to work with the UNHCR as we are going to … to find a durable solution for these refugees.”
Mr Kerry was asked about whether President-elect Donald Trump could overturn any agreement made about refugees with Australia once he took office in January.
He said he was unable to answer that question, but said the US would work to protect vulnerable refugees around the world.
November 13, 2016
Jakarta pressures Julie Bishop on Papua
Indonesian Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu.
Indonesia has asked Australia to caution its Pacific Island neighbours against interfering in the West Papua issue and to urge them to withdraw support for West Papuan membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, warning that the issue could pose a “stumbling block” to closer bilateral ties.
Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu told The Australian yesterday he made the request to Australia’s defence and foreign ministers during their annual meeting in Bali last week and “the response has been good. It is unlikely they will refuse”.
“I have told Australia … we should maintain our close relationship and not let issues like this be a stumbling block to our relationship,” he said.
At Friday’s ministerial meeting, Australia and Indonesia also agreed to consider joint patrols of areas of the contested South China Sea and pirate-infested Sulu Sea between Indonesia and The Philippines. That will likely be discussed further when Indonesian President Joko Widodo makes his first official state visit to Australia on Sunday.
General Ryamizard’s decision to publicly raise the West Papua issue appears designed to pressure Canberra into adopting a stronger public defence of Indonesia’s position.
The bid for West Papuan membership of MSG, likely to be decided by year-end, has become a rallying point for the Free West Papua movement, which argues that the territory’s UN-supervised vote to stay with Indonesia in 1968 was secured by cheating and military intimidation.
Indonesia is an MSG associate but is lobbying hard against Papuan admission since the United Liberation Movement of West Papua gained observer status last year.
The group’s chairman, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, champions West Papuan representation. He was one of seven Pacific leaders to speak out against human rights abuses in the Papua provinces and to support self-determination at last month’s UN General Assembly.
After the ministerial meeting on Friday, General Ryamizard said: “I have told Australia we never interfere with the internal affairs of any other country and we will strongly object if other countries do so to us.
“So please tell Solomon Island and those six nations (from the MSG) never to interfere or encourage West Papua to join them.
“Those countries better keep their mouths shut and mind their own business. It is better that (Australia) speaks to them gently. If it was left up to me, I would twist their ears.”
John Blaxland, of ANU”s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, said Canberra would have little choice but to speak to the Solomons (which gets $162 million Australian aid this year) and “remind them of which side their bread is buttered”.
However, the Indonesian minister’s public statements were “extremely unhelpful” because they brought the issue into the open, which was wanted only by pro-independence activists. Dr Blaxland, said it was “completely toxic for Australia”.
“The restoration of the bilateral security relationship is predicated on us being supportive over West Papua and the Indonesians are acutely sensitive to Australia’s role in that.
“We can’t afford for West Papua to sour relations between Australia and Indonesia when there are so many other issues on the agenda dependant on us maintaining an even keel in that relationship,” he added.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop yesterday confirmed West Papua was discussed at last week’s meeting but would not say whether Australia would pass on Indonesia’s message to Pacific Island nations.

The Australian 12:00AM November 2, 2016
November 12, 2016
West Papua resources fray discussed alongside climate
RadioNZ – A conference getting underway in Sydney today looks to address two major areas of concern to people in the Pacific region in the same sitting.
‘At the Intersection: Pacific Climate Change and Resource Exploitation in West Papua’ runs for two days, hosted by Western Sydney University and the University of Sydney’s West Papua Project.
Deforestation is rife across New Guinea. Photo: RNZI / Johnny Blades
The keynote speaker is Vanuatu’s Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Ralph Regenvanu. Others attending include climate change scientists and West Papuan analysts.
The conference has been organised by Dr Cammi Webb-Gannon from Western Sydney University who said climate change and pernicious resource extraction in West Papua had a deep connection.
She said there was a need to find common strands of the two problems, and how it might it be useful to address them together.
“The Indonesian colonisation of West Papua is what has led to this gross resource exploitation, and the flow-on effects of human rights violations and environmental destruction in West Papua. So the two are very related,” she explained.
“They’ve never been discussed in tandem, but that’s the point of this conference, to do so.”
Dr Webb-Gannon said there were various critical issues that required attention.
She noted how the impacts of climate change throughout the Pacific Islands region highlight the importance of preserving West Papua’s rainforests from rampant logging and forest clearance.
“We want to question in this conference whether if we can halt or even stop some of the resource exploitation – whether that’s mining at Freeeport, gas mining along the coast of West Papua or even looking at reducing the land clearing in Merauke – then maybe this can help slow down Pacific climate change which is also quite alarming.”
The conference will utilise Open Space Technology to elicit creative strategies and policy advice from expert participants.
November 3, 2016
Australian Activist Speaks Out Against Jakarta Request
Wednesday, 2 November 2016 8:29 AM, Solomon Times
Solomon Times Front Page Coverage on West Papua
Leader of the Australian West Papua Association (Sydney) (AWPA), Joe Collins, has spoken out against reports that Jakarta has requested Australia to pass on a message to the Solomon Islands to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of Indonesia.
“This is an outrageous request as it is the duty of all nations to raise concern about human rights abuses not only in West Papua but no matter where they are committed.
“The Solomon Islands and the other six Pacific leaders who raised concern about the human rights abuses in West Papua (at the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September) are to be congratulated for their courageous stand on the issue of West Papua,” said Mr Collins.
He said that it is a pity that Australia does not follow the Pacific leaders in also condemning the ongoing human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian Military.
“Not only should Australia refuse the request of the Indonesian defence minister but should be supporting the Pacific leaders in calling on Jakarta to allow a PIF facing mission to West Papua.”
Indonesia’s Defence Minister was quoted by media as having requested Australia to pass on the message to the Solomon Islands, saying that as a major donor, Australia should raise the issue of non-interference with Solomon Islands.
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Joe Collins, along with AWPA’s Secretary Anne Noonan, were awarded the 2012 John Rumbiak Human Rights Defender Award.
AWPA’s role is to lobby and inform the Australian Government and the International Community and in particular regional organizations such as the Pacific Islands Forum and the Melanesian Spearhead Group to raise concerns about the human rights situation in West Papua.
November 2, 2016
Jakarta urges Canberra to deliver regional warning on Papua
RadioNZ – Indonesia’s Defence Minister has urged Australia to rebuke Pacific Island states who raise issues relating to West Papua in global fora.
Indonesian Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu looks on during the third Trilateral Defence Minister’s Meeting in Nusa Dua on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on August 2, 2016. Photo: SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP
Ryamizard Ryacudu met with Australian government representatives including Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in a meeting in Bali where the two countries reaffirmed security ties.
He pressed Australia to pass a message to Solomon Islands that it should refrain from interferring in the internal affairs of Indonesia, including the issue of West Papua.
World Humanitarian Summit Pacific Consultation. Hon. Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia Photo: RNZ / Diego Opatowski
Solomon Islands’ Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, in his role as chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, has been vocal about boosting West Papuan representation in the group.
He was also one of seven leaders of Pacific states who spoke out about rights abuses in Papua and on support for Papuan self-determination at last month’s UN General Assembly session.
The Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Manasseh Sogavare has been appointed chair of the Pacific Islands Development Forum. Photo: UN Photo/Kim Haughton
Ryamizard told media that he had implored Canberra to speak to Honiara on the matter because Australia contributes a big aid package in the Solomons.
Detik News reports the Minister saying Australia has accepted the request.
Ryamizard said friendly countries do not disturb each other by interfering in domestic issues.
Indonesian military guard the border with Papua New Guinea Photo: RNZ / Johnny Blades
He warned that Indonesia will not stay silent when its sovereignty is compromised. He described Indonesia as a tiger that can attack if disturbed.
The Minister urged Australia to pass on the message to Solomon Islands and other Pacific states that they should not invite West Papua to join the MSG.
A march through the streets of Honiara in support of West Papua’s bid to join the MSG. Photo: Supplied
The MSG accepted the United Liberation Movement for West Papua into the group with observer status last year and is considering whether to elevate it to full membership.
An MSG leaders meeting on the matter is due before the end of the year in Vanuatu.
Indonesia has associate member status at the MSG.
November 1, 2016
Australia must not respond to Jakarta’s request
October 31, 2016
http://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/media-release-australia-must-not.html
Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
Media Release 31 October 2016
Australia must not respond to Jakarta’s request
During her visit to Indonesia, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Indonesia’s Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu discussed efforts to deepen military relations at the 2+2 meeting held in Bali last Friday. It was reported by RNZI that the Indonesian Defence Minister urged Australia to pass a message to Solomon Islands that it should refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of Indonesia, including the issue of West Papua.
Joe Collins of AWPA said, “this is an outrageous statement as it is duty of all nations to raise concern about human rights abuses not only in West Papua but no matter where they are committed. The Solomon Islands and the other six Pacific leaders who raised concern about the human rights abuses in West Papua (at the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September) are to be congratulated for their courageous stand on the issue of West Papua. It is a pity that Australia does not follow the Pacific leaders in also condemning the ongoing human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian Military”.
West Papuan leader Benny Wenda in a statement said that on 27th October, at least 9 West Papuan people were shot and 1 was killed as the Indonesian police opened fire in Manokwari.
According to reports, West Papuan people took to the streets to protest the murder of a West Papuan youth Vigal Pauspaus (20) who was stabbed by an Indonesian migrant. In response, the Indonesian police opened fire on the crowd and killed West Papuan Independence activist Onesimus Rumayom (56). They also reportedly attacked and shot at least 8 other people including children.
Joe Collins said, “it should also be remembered that Indonesia’s Defense Minister Ryacudu said of the soldiers who killed Chief Theys Eluay (Chairperson of the Papuan Presidium Council) in November 2001, that ’I don’t know, people say they did wrong, they broke the law. What law? Okay, we are a state based on the rule of law, so they have been punished. But for me, they are heroes because the person they killed was a rebel leader.’
Not only should Australia refuse the request of the Indonesian defence minister but should be supporting the Pacific leaders in calling on Jakarta to allow a PIF facing mission to West Papua.
ends.
November 1, 2016

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