Tag: FLNKS

  • Tiga Hal Yang Menentukan Referendum Kanaky 4 November 2018 Bisa Terlaksana

    Sebagai pelengkap dari tulisan Ibrahim Peyon tentang 6 hal yang membuat referendum Kanaky dimenangkan oleh pihak penentang kemerdekaan Kanaky tanggal 4 November 2018, sebagaimana telah kami publikasikan dalam situs ini, dari Markas Pusat Pertahanan (MPP) Tentara Revolusi West Papua (TRWP) mencatat beberapa hal tentang Rererendum di Kanaky tahun 2018 dan referendum di Bougainville Juni 2019 nanti.

    Hal pertama dan utama adalah kesiapan FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) untuk bermain politik di pentas politik dunia. Kesiapan itu tunjukkan dengan penyatuan organisasi perjuangan kemerdekaan orang Kanaky dengan membentuk FLNKS, kemudian disusul mendapatkan dukungan penuh dari Vanuatu, dan kemudian disahkan kseabgai anggota dari Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG).

    Bangsa Papua telah melakukan hal ini dengan sukses. ULMWP telah terbentuk, dan telah menjadi anggota MSG. Kita sudah siap memasuki pertandingan ke babak berikutnya.

    Yang kedua, begitu didukung oleh negara-negara Melanesia, maka kelompok pro kemerdekaan Kanaky terus melancarkan diplomasi mereka di kawasan Melanesia dan di dalam negeri. Mereka berkampanye secara terbuka di dalam negeri dan secara terbuka di seluruh kawasan Melanesia.

    ULMWP melakukan hal yang sama di dalam negeri, dengan membentuk kantor koordinasi ULMWP di dalam negeri. Akan tetapi ULMWP lumpuh dalam mempertahankan dukungan-dukungan politik yang telah diraihnya. Bahkan keanggotaannya di MSG juga terancam kandas. Hal ini disebabkan oleh strategi kerja ULMWP yang Euro-sentris dan sangat kebarat-baratan. Mengharapkan berkat datang dari barat, menganggap saudara sendiri tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa.

    Yang ketiga, adalah hal yang selama ini ditolak dengan tegas oleh bangsa Papua, yaitu “berdialog” dengan NKRI itu sendiri. Logikanya sederhana, kalau ada pertandingan sepak bola antara Persipura vs. Persija, maka aturannya kedua kesebelasan harus masuk lapangan, berhadap-hadapan dan bersedia bertanding. Dalam kasus ULMWP – NKRI, sampai hari ini ULWMP menolak untuk berbicara dua arah.

    Demikian juga dari sisi NKRI, Indonesia juga menolak berdialog dengan ULMWP. Malahan NKRI mendorong Neles Tebay dkk. dibawah binaan BIN (Badan Intelijen Negara) dan LIPI (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia)  bekerjasama mendorong Dialog rakyat Papua dengan pemerintah Indonesia dalam bingkai NKRI, dengan nama dialog kebangsaan. Kerangka dialgoue ialah antara pemerintah Indonesia dengan rakyat Indonesia di Tanah Papua.

    Pertanyaan kita sekarang, “Apa yang membuat Perancis akhirnya bersedia berdialg engan FLNKS dan akhirnya melahirkan Neumea Accord 1998?”

    Yang pertama dan yang jelas ialah keuatan, biaik kekuatan militer maupun kekuatan politik yang dimiliki masyarakat Kanak, yaitu penduduk asli New Caledonia.

    Menurut Gen. TRWP Mathias Wenda,

    Kalau tidak ada alat paksa, bagaimana mau paksa Indonesia duduk bicaa? Bicara masalah apa dulu? Masalah sejarah? Masalah HAM? Masalah pembangunan? Kalau HAM Indonesia sudah bikin pengadilan HAM. Kenapa Melanesia tidak bikin Peradilan HAM sendiri? Kenapa takut? Atau tidak tahu? Masalah sejarah? Semua orang sudah tahu sejarah salah! Jadi, siapa yang pegang perkara ini? Ajukan kasus ini ke Pengadilan Internasional di Den Haag, ulas kasus ini. Jangan ke Jenewa ka New York sana. Itu tunggu dulu. Kalau masalah pembangunan, Jokowi sudah tutup malu, dan dunia sudah bilang Indonesia sudah tutup malu jadi kasih tinggal sudah.

    Memperkuat argumennya, Gen. Wenda kembali menegaskan bahwa perjuangan bangsa Papua tidak cukup kuat untuk memaksa NKRI duduk bicara.

    Kita banyak punya mental budak, pengemis politik banyak. Kita harus paksa NKRi duduk bicara. Bukan minta, bukan harap, bukan mengeluh.

    Kalau dalam politik, mental pengemis tidak usah terlibat, mental mengadu jangan ikut. Mental menyampaikan kekecewaan jangan. Yang harus ikut dalam perjaungan ini ialah orang-orang mental menuntut hak, memaksa pelanggar hak untuk mendengarkan dan menanggapi.

    Bagaimana caranya menuntut? Bukan mengeluh, bukan mengemis?

    Cara yang jelas dengan membangun kekuatan politik di dalam dan di luar negeri, mengolah organisasi ULMWP menjadi lembaga modern yang profesional menangani perjuangan kemerdekaan West Papua, dengan infra-struktur dan supra-struktur politik yang jelas dan ditata dalam sebuah konstitusi yang jelas pula.Fungsi dan peran infra-struktur dan supra-struktur politik Papua Merdeka harus ditata sedemikian rupa sehingga masyarakat dunia yang modern ini memahami siapa kita dan apa yang kita lakukan, dan di atas itu, supaya mereka yakin kita benar-benar mau merdeka dan berdaulat sebagai Negara Republik West Papua di luar NKRI.

    Konstitusi West Papua tidak hanya menyangkut cara-cara mengusir NKRI keluar dari Tanah Papua, tetapi lebih-lebih tentang Tanah Papua dan rakyat West Papua, terkait kehdupan sehari-hari, pemerintahan: administrasi dan birokrasi, hukum negara, investasi, perdagangan, dan sebagainya, sebagaimana sebuah negara.

    ULMWP harus muncul sebagai sebuah lembaga modern, “government-in-waiting” yang tidak bermain-main dengan mengeluh dan mengemis. Ia siap menjalankan sebuah pemerintahan negara Republik West Papua.

    Wenda katakan

    Itu kalau mau pendekatan politik. Nah, kalau mau pendekatan militer, ya serahkan kepada kami di sini. Pendekatan militer itu semua orang sudah tahu.Tetapi untuk itu ULMWP yang harus mempersilahkan dan mempersiapkan. Kalau tidak, kita akan berputar-putar di tempat yang sama, dari generasi ke generasi.

  • West Papua Problem Will Only be Solved in Melanesian Way, by Melanesian Leaders

    West Papua Liberation Army (WPRA) Secretary-General, towards the end term of his office before the secretariat-general office is being ended by its Commander in Chief, Gen. WPRA Mathias Wenda, made a public statement last night that “West Papua Problem Will Only be Solved in Melanesian Way, by Melanesian leaders“, in reply to written questions sent by PMNews (Free West Papua News at papuapost.com via Email and Mobile Text Message.

    PMNews: Hello, this is from PMNews again, we would like to ask some questions in relation to current development of West Papua independence campaign. It was reported recently that the Solomon Islands Prime Minister as the Chair of Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has toured and met other Melanesian leaders, except the PNG Prime Minister. What do you make out of this development?

    WPRA: We thank to God, Almighty, creator of our Melanesian Islands, particularly the home of Melanesians, the Isle of New Guinea, and to our Melnaesian leaders, who are already standing up for their own people and our common identity as Melanesians.

    About the current progress of MSG Chair meeting other MSG leaders, we are really grateful that this is happening. About MSG Chair not yet met PNG Premier, please PMNews,do not worry about this. This is exactly we call “The Melaensian Way”. The most obvious feature of the “Melanesian Way” is: UNPREDICTABLE. Please not it, Melanesians are unpredictable, what we do always unpredictable. When Barack Obama, Donal Trump, T. May, Joko Widodo say something, then most of us will be able to predict what they mean and what they imply at the same time. But when Melanesian peoples say something, they can mean something totally different, it is just unpredictable.

    PMNews: United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) was promised to be accepted as Full Member of the MSG by early 2017, but this did not happen. Do you think this is also related to “The Melanesian Way”?

    WPRA: You are absolutely right. You got it now. That is exactly why I said, we are Melanesians, and we are unpredictable.What we do is the same as the modern world do things. Melanesians are Melanesians. West Papua Issue is now Melanesian Issue, and we are now already dealing with it. Do not do things in Melanesia according to the Western mindset. It will have a counter-productive outcome.

    PMNews: Does it mean Melanesian leaders can make promises but then it is OK if they do not deliver?

    WPRA: You were already good in previous question, but now you got it wrong in this question. PLEASE: Do not focus on semi-membership and full-membership. That is western mind. Please focus on “membership”. Full stop. ULMWP is ALREADY a member of the MSG, full stop.

    Be thankful, work on it, cultivate and nurture communication and collaboration with Melanesian leaders, our own leaders. Do not treat PNG Premier and Solomon Premier as different peoples. They are just one: Melanesian leaders.

    West Papua just born into Melanesian family, a new born baby. Do not ask for food yet, milk first. Work first, cultivate first, nurture first, then things will evolve automatically and naturally. We are not talking about other peoples. We are talking about our own Melanesia and Melanesians. Think in Melanesian Way, Act in Melanesian Way.

    PMNews: Elaborate more on the “Melaensian Way” that you are talking about.

    WPRA: Just one short story. If you want a girl from another clan, what do you normally do? You must behave, you must show yourself capable man, know how to build house, make garden, and be a man, a husband. If your thinking and behavior is like a small kids, no woman will be willing to marry you, no clan will approve you to get their daughter.

    You do not need to go around, you do not need to go to their men’s houses and put notice and distribute leaflets asking for support for your marriage with the girl. You do not need to ask other boys to join you in your demonstration. That will make the whole thing counter-productive, right?

    What you should do is “behave”, do things that Melanesian peoples do in order to get attention, and in order to get support!

    When we Melanesians live long time in the west, then we forget our own Melanesian Way. This is why we say we are Melanesians, but we do in western way. “Our Voice is like that of Jacob’s, but our skin feels like that of Esau’s”. What a game we are into now.

    Get out from there. Be Melanesians, do things in Melanesian Way.

    Everything is already on the right track. Nothing to worry about. Just TRUST….

    1. Trust in God and His miracles;
    2. Trust in Melanesia and Melanesian leaders’ wisdom
    3. Trust in Yourselves as Melanesians in West Papua.

    And then…

    1. As far as possible, avoid to trust opinion from Non-Melanesian(s), because they have their own interests and we do not want them to change our course into their course;
    2. As far as possible, DELETE doubt in yourself, and in your own Melanesian peoples, because that is the deadliest disease that we can have in order to destroy us Melanesians and our future; and
    3. Only then, you can have the capability to absorb and comprehend ideas and suggestions from outside Melanesia, and then you can properly make use of things coming from outside.

    PMNews: Your advice is not really easy, because we are in a globalised world, out West Papuan leaders now live in the West and we do not know what things they are getting from there and what things they want to use to Free West Papua.

    WPRA: The right Melanesian leaders from West Papua will choose to live in one of Melanesian states, just like what Any Ayamiseba and The Late Dr. OPM John Otto Ondawame did. If they choose to live in the western countries, we will surely know that they dot not FULLY represent West Papuans, but they PARTLY represent non-Melanesians as well.

    PMNwes: Any advice for Melanesian youths in West Papua and all over Indonesia?

    WPRA: Not now, nothing to say for them right now.

    Since 2004, WPRA has already been active in building bases for Free West Papua Campaign across Melanesian states. Since 2006, or ten years ago, we already have moved the Field  of West Papua Political Match from Western New Guinea to Eastern New Guinea. Therefore, the match now is happening in PNG, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Kanaky and Vanuatu, not in West Papua or Indonesia anymore.

    There is no comment for spectators. When there is a match, people normally give comments on the match, not on the spectators. Thank you.

     

  • Sogavare: Para pemimpin MSG wajib hasilkan keputusan positif

    Ketua MSG, Perdana Menteri Sogavare (tengah) bersama para pemimpin MSG, Perdana Menteri Charlot Salwai (kiri), dan Juru Bicara FLNKS Victor Tutugoro - IST
    Ketua MSG, Perdana Menteri Sogavare (tengah) bersama para pemimpin MSG, Perdana Menteri Charlot Salwai (kiri), dan Juru Bicara FLNKS Victor Tutugoro – IST

    Jayapura, Jubi – Perdana Menteri Manasseh Sogavare melakukan tur ke Vanuatu, Fiji dan PNG dalam rangka membangun konsensus dengan para pemimpin Melanesia lainnya terkait sejumlah isu penting dengan cara dialog dan persaudaraan Melanesia.

    Menurutnya, dalam rilis yang dikeluarkan kantor Perdana Menteri Selasa (17/1/2017), tur tersebut menyusul pertemuan tingkat menteri Desember lalu di Port Vila, tur tersebut untuk membicarakan dua isu penting dengan para pemimpin MSG.

    Isu pertama adalah restrukturisasi sekretariat MSG di Port Vila agar memastikan kesesuaiannya dengan prioritas-prioritas anggota MSG serta memberikan layanan mendesak pada warga MSG. Isu selanjutnya adalah Pedoman Keanggotaan.

    Akhir tahun lalu pihak-pihak yang mendukung keanggotaan penuh ULMWP di MSG, seperti Pastor Allan Nafuki, Ketua Asosiasi  Free West Papua Vanuatu (VFWPA) mengaku kecewa karena para pemimpin MSG tidak memenuhi janji mereka mendorong keanggotaan penuh ULMWP pada di Port Vila akhir Desember lalu.

    Sebelumnya, Nafuki pernah menyatakan Manasseh Sogavare mengatakan pada dirinya dengan maupun tanpa kehadiran PNG dan Fiji, KTT MSG Desember lalu akan tetap dilangsungkan dan menjamin masuknya ULMWP menjadi anggota penuh MSG.

    Namun seperti diketahui, KTT para pemimpin yang berhak memutuskan status keanggotaan ternyata urung terjadi, dan pertemuan sebatas para menteri luar negeri anggota-anggota MSG membicarakan pedoman keanggotaan baru yang dibuat agar lebih berkesesuaian dengan prinsip-prinsip dasar Kemelanesiaan. Pedoman tersebut rencananya akan ditetapkan pada pertemuan KTT para pemimpin MSG yang hingga saat ini belum ditetapkan tanggal pelaksanaanya.

    Tur Sogavare yang sedang berlangsung ke tiga negara anggota MSG tersebut hendak mendorong agar Pedoman Keanggotaan dan Aplikasi atas Keanggotaan Baru mendapat persetujuan.

    “Kehendak saya semata-mata untuk memastikan agar Pedoman ini segera disetujui oleh para Pemimpin,” ujar Sogavare sambil mengingat kunjungan pertamanya yang berdampak positif dalam mendorong kesepemahaman terkait isu-isu di wilayah itu.

    “Tujuan saya ingin mendorong dialog yang lebih sering antar pemimpin sehingga kita dapat membangun konsensus dan kesepemahaman terkait isu-isu penting di wilayah kita. Para pemimpin juga punya tanggung jawab lebih besar untuk pastikan keputusan-keputusan berdampak positif pada kehidupan warganya,” kata dia.

    Sogavare mengapresiasi sambutan Perdana Menteri Vanuatu kepada delegasinya sejak tiba di Port Vila Minggu malam lalu. Pertemuan dengan Charlot Salwai dan juru bicara FLNKS Victor Tutugoro berlangsung Selasa.

    Menurutnya kedua pemimpin beserta dirinya akan membangun level interaksi yang lebih erat dengan Perdana Menteri Fiji Bainimarama Jumat (20/1) dan Perdana Menteri PNG Peter O’Neill akhir Februari nanti.

    Oleh sebab itu, delegasi Kepulauan Solomon dan Perdana Menteri Sogavare akan kembali ke Honiara, Kepulauan Solomon Minggu (22/1). Pertemuan dengan Peter O’Neil dipindah ke bulan Februari.

    Ketua MSG akan membuat pernyataan hasil diskusinya dengan rekan-rekan MSG selama kunjungan putaran kedua, khususnya setelah menyelesaikan tur ke Port Moresby bulan depan. (*)

  • Melanesian Spearhead Group considers West Papuan Membership

    msg-2z0boxchjkjqmqkfnmquq2EMTV rliosi – The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is considering a full membership application by the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

    Indonesia currently has associate member status with the MSG and is strongly opposed to West Papua being granted full membership.

    It is Indonesia’s view that West Papua already falls under their (Indonesian republic) representation in the MSG.

    Foreign Ministers of the MSG member countries met yesterday evening in Port Villa to discuss guidelines which relate to the bid by West Papua for membership in the group.

    Solomon Island’s foreign minister, Milner Tozaka, said the MSG leaders in July requested legal clarification on guidelines for membership.

    “So that request has been attended to appropriately by the legal people and they have made a recommendation to be used for the foreign ministers to look at and then we will recommend it to the leaders for endorsement,” he explained.

    Tozaka confirmed that there won’t be a decision on the Liberation Movement’s application however he did say that they already have observer status.

    MSG countries that have shown their support for the Liberation Movements full membership include Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and the FLNKS Kanaks movement.

    Papua New Guinea and Fiji, have however leaned towards the Indonesian side on this issue.

    Vanuatu’s Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai, said his country’s foreign policy remained firm that Vanuatu is not completely free of colonial bondage until all of Melanesia is free.

  • MSG meetings in Vila not expected to decide on Papuan bid

    A series of Melanesian Spearhead Group meetings are taking place this week in Vanuatu’s capital to look at the group’s membership guidelines.

    Last month, the MSG secretariat scheduled this week’s meeting in Port Vila for leaders of its members to discuss a West Papuan bid for full membership.

    However there will not be a leaders summit component at this week’s meetings, with the expectation that they will now meet early in the new year.

    An Indonesian captures the Melanesian Spearhead Group proceedings, 20 December 2016 in Port Vila, on device. West Papuan representatives Benny Wenda and Octo Mote (MSG observers with the United Liberation Movement) in foreground.
    An Indonesian captures the Melanesian Spearhead Group proceedings, 20 December 2016 in Port Vila, on device. West Papuan representatives Benny Wenda and Octo Mote (MSG observers with the United Liberation Movement) in foreground. Photo: Supplied

    But today in Vila, MSG senior officials met, and tomorrow the group’s foreign ministers are to meet, to discuss the findings of a constitutional committee that has reviewed MSG rules on membership.

    It’s understood there won’t be a decision on the full membership application by the United Liberation Movement for West Papua this week.

    Fiji prime minister Frank Bainimarama listens to a speech at the plenary session of the Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders summit in Noumea in 2013.
    Fiji’s prime minister and foreign minister Frank Bainimarama is not in Vila for this week’s MSG meeting, but a leaders summit to decide on West papuan membership is expected early in the new year. Photo: RNZI / Johnny Blades

     

    In a sign of the sensitivity around the issue within the MSG, leaders have this year deferred a number of summits where West Papuan membership was a priority item.

    The Sub-Committee on Legal and Institutional Issues was tasked by MSG leaders at their Honiara summit in July to clarify guidelines for observer, associate and full membership in the group.

    The MSG’s five full members – Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia’s FLNKS Kanaks Movement – have been divided over whether to grant full membership to West Papuans.

    The United Liberation Movement for West Papua was granted observer status in the MSG last year but its bid for full membership has been deferred pending clarity on the guidelines.

    United Liberation Movement for West Papua representatives outside the Melanesian Spearhead Group secretariat, 20 December 2016.
    United Liberation Movement for West Papua representatives outside the Melanesian Spearhead Group secretariat, 20 December 2016. Photo: Supplied

    The Liberation Movement’s leaders, including Octo Mote, Benny Wenda, Rex Rumakiek and Jacob Rumbiak are in Port Vila for this week’s meetings.

    Representatives of Indonesia, which has associate member status at the MSG, are also present.

  • Kelompok ornop diimbau kawal referendum Kanaky dan Bougainville

     Sekretaris Jenderal Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), Dame Meg Taylor. --pina.com.fj
    Sekretaris Jenderal Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), Dame Meg Taylor. –pina.com.fj

    Suva, Jubi – Kelompok nonpemerintah di Pasifik diimbau untuk mengawal proses referendum yang akan berlangsung di Kaledonia Baru pada tahun 2018 dan di Bougainville pada tahun 2019. Pengawalan itu bertujuan untuk memastikan prinsip-prinsip hak mengusir penjajahan dan menentukan nasib sendiri terlaksana dengan baik.

    Sekretaris Jenderal Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), Dame Meg Taylor mengatakan itu ketika merespon pertanyaan tentang peran PIF dalam menghadapi dua referendum yang akan berlangsung di Pasifik dalam dua tahun mendatang.

    Taylor mengatakan, ia sendiri akan mengunjungi Bougainville tahun depan sebagai bagian dari pengawalan jalannya persiapan referendum. Ia mengimbau kepada seluruh organisasi nonpemerintah dan masyarakat sipil untuk meningkatkan kesadaran warga akan haknya menentukan nasib sendiri.

    “Saya hanya bisa menyarankan Anda untuk berbuat yang terbaik-mengadvokasi dan meningkatkan kesadaran warga di komunitas Anda. Peran Anda adalah memastikan bahwa hasil referendum nanti mengakhiri penderitaan warga akibat penjajahan kolonial,” katanya.

    Pernyataan Taylor ini muncul sehari setelah kelompok prokemerdekaan di Kaledonia Baru (FLNKS) mengumumkan hilangnya nama-nama pemilik hak suara dari kalangan suku asli negara itu dalam daftar referendum. FLNKS memperkirakan jumlahnya antara 20.000-25.000 hak suara yang tidak tercatat dalam daftar pemilih.

    Sementara itu, Theresa Jantong dari Bougainville menyatakan bahwa pemerintah otonom Bougainville dan pemerintah Papua Nugini telah berkonsultasi untuk memastikan jalannya referendum pada tahun 2019. Keduanya terlibat dalam perang sipil selama lebih dari satu dekade dan berakhir pada 1999.

    Di bawah Kesepakatan Damai Bougainville, daerah otonom itu seharusnya menggelar referendum pada tahun 2020. Namun, target itu dipercepat dan telah ditentukan bahwa referendum akan berlangsung pada 15 Juni 2019.

    Papua Barat

    Selain referendum di Kaledonia Baru dan Bougainville, kawasan lainnya di Pasifik yang sedang dipersiapkan untuk menggelar referendum yaitu di Papua Barat. Penasihat politik pemerintahan Kepulauan Solomon, Fei Tevi mengatakan bahwa Papua Barat adalah satu hotspot lainnya di Pasifik selain Kaledonia Baru dan Bougainville.

    “Isu penentuan nasib sendiri bukanlah isu baru. Ini merupakan agenda para pemimpin politik di Pasifik sejak tahun 1980-an. Kelompok masyarakat sipil seharusnya turun ke lapangan mendukung upaya ini agar masyarakat sadar tentang haknya menentukan nasib sendiri,” ujarnya. (*)

  • Gen. Wenda: West Papua is Ready to Function as a Postmodern Nation-State

    Following the signing of West Papua Revolution Constitution by the West Papua National Parliament in September 2016, Gen. TRWP Mathias Wenda urges United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) to follow it up according to the order of the constitution that says,

    “ULMWP shall  form a Transitional Government or Revolutionary Government or Provisional Government of West Papua within 90 days after the constitution takes into force”.

    It is important for all Melanesian leaders and tribal elders to understand, that I myself as an elder, would like to invite all Melanesian elders to pray for us in West Papua so that ULMWP has the ability and bravery to declare a “West Papua Provisional Government” not long from now. This is important in order for us Melanesian leaders and for the ULMWP to have a stronger position within international law in our South Pacific Region.

    By declaring our West Papua Revolutionary Constitution (WPRC) on 13 September 2016, on the day we celebrated the 9th anniversary of UN Declarations on Indigenous Populations that was passed by the UNGA on the 61-session dated 13 September 2007. The UN Declaration on Indigenous Populations, particularly on Article 3.  clearly stipulates

    Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they  freely  determine  their  political  status  and  freely  pursue  their  economic,  social  and cultural development.

    All UN Documents and primarily UN Charter clearly guarantees the rights of all human society in the world, individuals and groups to determine their/our future. And what we Melanesians are doing now in West Papua is just in accordance to these principles, in order to implement the basic values of the United Nations and to appreciate our human civilization that have rejected any forms of slavery and colonization with any reason.

    West Papuans are fighting against Indonesian colonialism not because we hate the Malay – Indos.

    What we are doing is to respect the values and principles of the UN and to end manipulation and lies that have been colonizing and suppressing, terrorizing and obliterating Melanesian peoples all the way from Fiji to Sorong.

    West Papua was invaded militarily beginning from the December 19th, 1961’s Triple Command of Indonesian President. The Western World was not interested in taking risk of Communism expanding to South Pacific region after failure to defeat communist influence in South East Asia, particularly Vietnam and Indonesia.

    We human beings in this planet have said “Good Bye” to Communism. The threat from Russia is no longer to do with communism anymore. The eastern block is now already part of our human history. And yet, the impacts of the Cold War Era is still disturbing and deadly to Melanesians in West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Kanaky. Papua New Guinea and Fiji have been reluctant lately, to acknowledge us West Papuans as one race, wan solwara, wan graun and wantok, not based on their choice, but they are presented day and night, back and forth, by forces and threats from outside Melanesia, pressuring them to accept whatever happened in the past and its consequences, however insulting and deadly it is to our race as human beings.

    Only until June 26, 2015 that we all Melanesians have declared our dignity and integrity as human race on this planet, on the South Pacific Region, that Melanesians are all  united as one race and one family under our house called MSG. We indeed acknowledged the reality of God’s creation that we are created as Melanesians, not as Indonesians. What we are doing is God’s will, based on the laws and principles of God from creation. West Papuans are not Indonesians, we are Melanesians, and this is according to what God has created. Let us agree with God and work towards social-engineering projects being actively and massively, with a lot of resources being executed in West Papua since 1961.

    Right now, since 13 September 2016, West Papuans now already have a Constitution that will guide us towards a free and independent West Papua. We invite all Melanesian leaders to understand and cooperate, in order to promote a United Melanesia that is based upon the Values and Norms, Customs and Traditions of Melanesian peoples that we inherited from our ancestors.

    This very Provisional Constitution of West Papua clearly states that the citizens of West Papua Nation-State are (1) spiritual beings, (2) plants, (3) animals, (4) matter and human beings who live and share the Western half of the Isle of New Guinea. This constitution is based upon Melanesian values and philosophy, that acknowledges the existence and rights of all communities of beings, including human beings, regard all communities of beings as part of our life, see the forests as our homes, see the animals as our fellow beings, see the spirits of the living and of our ancestors nurtures our lives, honour and worship God in His Spirit, and respect and protect the rights of matters like rivers, gold, timber, soil as fellow beings that should be respected and treated accordingly.

    This very Provisional Constitution of West Papua also states that the National or Official Language of West Papua nation-state is Tok-Pisin and the National Currency is Kina West Papua.

    We are standing based on our Melanesian norms, values and philosophy, and following our Melanesian brothers and sisters today who already have their independent nation-states. We are going to have our National Government soon, because we already have our National Parliament and Our National Law in place.

    As the Commander in Chief of West Papua Revolutionary Army (WPRA) and as the Elder of my own Lani Triba, I would like to invited the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Rt. Hon.  Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Rt. Hon. Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Rt. Hon. Prime Minister of Fiji, Rt. Hon. Leader of FLNKS, and Leaders of ULMWP that

    1. We fully trust and rely on you all, and look forward to what the future brings from your kind wisdom and leadership in liberating our occupied land by Melayo – Indonesians;
    2. We look forward to sit and stand-up, talk and work together hand-in-hand to fully liberate West Papua from colonialism.
    3. West Papua is the westernmost part of Melanesia, and without West Papua, our own entity as a human race is not complete and we are socially and culturally paralyzed. West Papua independence is per-requisite towards a stable, peaceful, prosperous and powerful Melanesia. Those who against West Papua independence are the ones  who want to colonize, manipulate and exploit our Melanesian race and our resources, of course for their own sake not for us Melanesians.

    West Papua is our hope for our future. We are looking forward to establish a post-modern nation-state that is based fully on our Melanesian wisdom, based on our Melanesian norms and values, and our system of governance.

    We are ready to step into running West Papua Government that will coordinate and organise our movement towards full independence and sovereignty.

    Please receive our warmest greetings and salute,  from the jungles o New Guinea.

     

    Issued at: The Central Defense Headquarters of the West Papua Revolutionary Army

    On date: 10 October 2016

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    Commander in Chief of WPRA

     

     

     

    Mathias Wenda, Gen. TRWP
    NBP:A.001076

  • West Papua to be granted full MSG membership

    By PMC Reporter – October 10, 2016

    The community in West Papua acknowledged the support shown by the Pacific leaders at the UN General Assesmbly this year. Image: The West Papua National Authority
    The community in West Papua acknowledged the support shown by the Pacific leaders at the UN General Assesmbly this year. Image: The West Papua National Authority

    West Papua will be granted full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) in December, 2016.

    The Vanuatu Daily Post reported that the announcement was made by the chairman of the MSG and prime minister of the Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, while he met with the chairman of Vanuatu Free West Papua Association, Pastor Allan Nafuki and prominent West Papua prominent leaders Jacob Rumbiak, Benny Wenda and Andy Ayamiseba in Port Vila last week.

    ‘overdue smile’

    The Daily Post stated: “The Chairman of VFWPA said he smiled a long overdue smile and breathed a sigh of relief saying, ‘Now I can go to my home island of Erromango and have a peaceful sleep with my grandchildren, with no disturbance whatsoever.’”

    West Papua, through the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), has long campaigned for full membership status of the MSG.

    At the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, this year in September, Pacific Islands leaders from the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu supported West Papua’s right to self determination. They also called on the UN to investigate the country’s ongoing human rights abuses.

    It was the first time several Pacific Island leaders spoke collectively about West Papua on a global platform.

    During the time of the Assembly a new report which detailed the human rights violations in West Papua and explained why full MSG membership is an essential step for peace was published online. The research aimed to convince Pacific leaders on providing full membership of the MSG to the ULMWP.

    ‘incredible solidarity’

    Over the weekend the ULMWP released a statement thanking the island nations for their support.

    “On behalf of the people of West Papua, the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) would like to express its deepest and sincerest thanks and encouragement to you all for your incredible solidarity and support for our people, at the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.”

    “It brings tears to our eyes and joy to our hearts to witness such strong Pacific Island solidarity for our people who have suffered the most sever human rights violations for over 50 years.”

    Read the full Daily Post report.

  • Question of the integration of New Caledonia as a full member of the Pacific Islands Forum

    Roch WAMYTAN

    UC-FLNKS and NATIONALISTS Group

    FLNKS Signatory of the Noumea Accord

    President of the Group Congress of New Caledonia

    rockwamytan@hotmail.com

    roch.wamytan@congres.nc

    To H.E. Dame Meg TAYLOR Secretary General to the Pacific Islands Forum

    Noumea, 5th September 2016

    Subject: Question of the integration of New Caledonia as a full member of the Pacific Islands Forum

    Excellency, During the 47th Summit of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) which will be held from September 7 to 11, 2016, in Pohnpei, Federates States of Micronesia, the candidacy of New Caledonia to the status of full member will be again examined.

    In this way, considering the current political situation in Kanaky/New Caledonia, particularly in the prospect of electoral consultation on the achievement of full sovereignty of the country which is planned from 2018, I am writing to send you the position of my political group at the Congress of New Caledonia, shared also by the FLNKS1 .

    This letter is in the continuity of the letter I sent you already last year. First, let me remind the role of the PIF in the international support of the Kanak people’s struggle, in particularly within the framework of the reinscription, in 1986, of 1 Until now, during all the FLNKS Congresses, no motion was passed in the direction of an agreement for the change of status of New Caledonia in the PIF. New Caledonia on the United Nations list of Non Self Governing Territories.

    This support was able to be developed, among others, under the aegis of our countries brothers of the Melanesia. Indeed, since 1986, the FLNKS benefits a special guest status as an observer member of the PIF. In 1998, after the signing of the Nouméa Accord which involved the country in a process of emancipation and decolonization, the Kanak independentists have accepted to integrate the government of New Caledonia at the time and place of the FLNKS as observer member within the PIF. This open-mindedness gesture was made during the PIF’s summit in Palau in 1999. Besides, in 2006, New Caledonia became associate member of the PIF.

    In September 2013, following a mission of the ministerial committee in New Caledonia, the executives of the organization recognized the legitimacy of the New Caledonian candidacy for the status of full member within PIF. Unfortunately, since 2006, we notice a sidelining of the independentist executives concerning all the decisions, as political as diplomatic, relative to the PIF, taken by the government of New Caledonia. Moreover I had informed Mr Henri PUNA of this problem, in 2013, during the mission of the ministerial committee. As signatory of the Noumea Accord, I have called out on several occasions the partners of this accord on the respect for its sincere and whole implementation.

    The Melanesian Spearhead Group, the PIF and the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization were also notified on the problems that our country crosses, in particular on the question of the establishment and the revision of the special electoral rolls for the provincial elections and for the consultation on the country’s achievement of full sovereignty.

    As you know, Oceania is today considered as the new center of the world growth, provided with a considerable potential which can raise the challenges of the 21th century (energy, raw materials, halieutic resources, etc.). So, it is clear that France, in the name of its greatness, of its place in the world, of its best interests, of its rank of the second naval strength in the world behind the USA, wishes to ensure to keep the sovereign powers in New Caledonia. Recently, a symposium organized by the French Senate in January 2013, in Paris, confirmed again the interest of France for its French territories of the Pacific.

    The speakers of this symposium thus recommended to defend in this continent the best interests of France in connection with the public and private French companies. France also defends its own interests by using the French territories as a bridgehead or support base.

    Concerning French overseas territories, the President François Hollande during his tour of the « last French colonies » had a constant in his speeches: « France is present all around the world, a country where the sun never goes down, France is a country of Oceania, Indian Ocean, America, the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean ».

    These declarations express the politic of red line of the forbidden independence which France implements. Sometimes, under the cover of democracy, we can reveal maneuvers of a State trying to assure its domination while putting up a good show in front of the international community. The independentist executives that we are have what to be worried in view of this situation in French overseas territories and taking in consideration the declarations of certain high-level French politicians following the example of President François Hollande during his last journey in New Caledonia in November 2014 asserting in his speech in the Tjibaou Cultural center that the best interests of France are also situated in the Pacific.

    Yet, New Caledonia is an oceanian country and France is an european country. The FLNKS gave time to build and reach its independence. Important results were obtained, but serious drifts, further to a deliberated will of confinement from the State, led New Caledonia towards a trapdoor into which France locks it more and more in the name of the best interests of the Nation. For us, it is so out of the question for the moment, and as long as New Caledonia is not independent, that she could obtain the status of full member within the PIF.

    In the same line, it is inconceivable for us, as regard to the Melanesian Spearhead Group, that the FLNKS could give its place to the government of New Caledonia. Because it would definitely let France enter in these regional organizations, following the principle of the « Trojan horse », organizations which were of all fights for the Kanak people’s independence. Our country which is going to commemorate, on September 24th, 2016, 163 years of taking possession by France, does not have vocation to play eternally the role of casting a favourable light on its administrative power which the only purpose is to claim, in the eyes of the nations of this region, its status of « oceanian » country, to benefit from this position.

    The geographical and political reality reminds that France, situated in 20 000 km of the Pacific is an european, and not an oceanian State. To permanently tweak the shot on this basic reality amounts to maintain the colonialist and imperialist system, and paves the way for future situations of conflicts. More than ever New Caledonia, Melanesia and the Pacific, need stability, cohesion and peace. Gain independence peacefully and through negotiation was a difficult choice that we made. The support of regional institutions (PIF, MSG) and Independent States of the region is crucial for our people and our country. Indeed, the balance of power between the Administering power, France, and the colonized people, the Kanak people, is not in our favor.

    If we are engaged for 30 years in a decolonization process with the signing of the political agreements (Matignon and Noumea) with our colonial power, we believe that it does not want the independence of our country. We are today in the last mandate of the Noumea Accord, and the political development of these last months does not allow us to envisage the granting, to New Caledonia, of a status of full member within the PIF.

    In this way, allow non-independent and non-autonomous countries to become full member of the PIF is equivalent to bring our colonial power as a full member. Because the sovereign powers and full sovereignty is always that of the colonial power. Support for regional institutions and independent countries in the region is indispensable in our fight for independence. Considering elements developed above, I am writing to ask for your understanding, kindness, and support of your high authority to postpone the examination of the candidacy of New Caledonia to the status of full member of the Pacific Islands Forum.

    Finally, I inform you that brother countries of our Pacific region, the Melanesian Spearhead Group, and the President of the United Nations Special Committee of Decolonization, were also seized on this matter.

    Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.

    President of the UC-FLNKS and Nationalists Group Former president of the Congress of New Caledonia (2011-2012/2013-2014) Former president of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (2001-2003) Former president of the FLNKS (1995-2001) Roch WAMYTAN

  • Honiara MSG Leaders’ Summit Ends with Approval of Various Key Resolutions

    By PM Press – July 15, 2016

    Flags of Melanesian States
    Flags of Melanesian States

    The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Special Leaders’ Summit in Honiara concluded yesterday with the reaching of a number of key decisions on issues of interest to the Melanesian sub-regional bloc.

    The meeting was chaired by the Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Hon Manasseh Sogavare and leaders in attendance included Prime Minister, Hon Frank Bainimarama of Fiji, Prime Minister, Hon Charlot Salwai of the Republic of Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister, Hon Rimbink Pato and Spokesman of New Caledonia’s Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS), Mr Victor Tutugoro.

    The key decisions reached were based on issues of discussion were submitted by the MSG pre-summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) also held in Honiara one day ahead of the Leaders’ Summit and they are as follows:

    • Approval of the appointment of the former Fiji diplomat, Ambassador Amena Yauvoli as Director General of the MSG Secretariat;
    • Approval in principle the establishment of the Police Ministers’ Meeting, noting the need for further consultation by some members;
    • Directing of the MSG Secretariat to expand the consultation process on the MSG Humanitarian and Emergency Response Coordinating Centre (HERCC) and identify cost implications of consultations on the HERCC and also the Sub-Committee on Security to meet and formulate the HERCC Regional Response Strategy and Action Plan;
    • Deferral of the consideration of application for full MSG membership by the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) until membership criteria and guidelines are further developed by the Sub-Committee on Legal and Institutional issues, considering fundamental principles, political aspirations and principles of international law and to be completed before end of September 2016;
    • Approval of the dissolution of the Melanesian Solutions Limited (MSL), the business arm of MSG;
    • Tasking of the Interim MSL Board to reimburse the shareholders’ contribution in consultation with the MSG Secretariat;
    • Tasking of the MSG Secretariat to report back to the members on the actions undertaken;
    • Noting of an update by the FLNKS on behalf of the FLNKS and the New Caledonian Government regarding the Melanesian Games and regretfully informed members of their inability to host the Games in October 2016;
    • Thanking of the MSG FMM Chair, Hon Milner Tozaka, Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Solomon Islands of the Report of the FMM that was held on 13th July 2016 at the Heritage Park Hotel in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The Leaders did not reach consensus and directed the Sub-Committee on Legal and Institutional Issues to undertake further review on the Revised Application Procedures, Criteria and Participatory Rights and Obligations of an Observer and an Associate Member to the MSG appended as Annex I and the New Membership Guidelines for Full Membership to the MSG appended Annex II;
    • Agreeing on the Trade Ministers’ Meeting Report of May 2016 as tabled by the TMM Chair, Hon Milner Tozaka, Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Solomon Islands. They congratulated Hon Tozaka and the MSG Trade Ministers for their meeting outcome in concluding negotiations on the new MSG Trade Agreement;
    • Agreeing to fulfill respective national processes in member countries before signing the MSG Free Trade Agreement; and
    • Agreeing that they meet in Port Vila, Vanuatu before end of September 2016.

    The two-day Leaders’ summit programme was compounded into a one-day event, as Prime Minister Bainimarama had to return to Fiji early to attend a national event requiring his presence.

     

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