tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73426159741524608572024-03-18T13:15:22.103-07:00AWPA Sydney Contact seosamh20@hotmail.comAWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.comBlogger5856125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-12196784460260517522024-03-18T13:14:00.000-07:002024-03-18T13:14:50.123-07:00 1) SW Papua urges indigenous people to protect sustainability of forests <p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Prabowo, Gibran score landslide victory in South Papua </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/308739/sw-papua-urges-indigenous-people-to-protect-sustainability-of-forests">https://en.antaranews.com/news/308739/sw-papua-urges-indigenous-people-to-protect-sustainability-of-forests</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">1) SW Papua urges indigenous people to protect sustainability of forests </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> March 18, 2024 16:33 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Sorong, Southwest Papua (ANTARA) - The Southwest Papua Provincial Government called on all indigenous people to protect forests to realize sustainable development in the region.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Head of the province's Environment, Forestry, and Land Office Julian Kelly Kambu remarked here on Monday that sustainable development can be realized if only forests and their cleanliness are maintained.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"The minister of environment and forestry said that there must be more social interaction and communication with the indigenous people's agencies as well as with stakeholders and the government to build environmentally sustainable development," Kambu affirmed.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">At the local 41st Forester Service Day commemoration, he stated that the indigenous people's agencies are considered to be development partners in implementing environmentally sustainable development by protecting forest areas for the next generation.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The forest environment must kept clean, safe, and comfortable, so that businesses can run and communities are empowered, he stressed.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In order to support sustainable development from an environmental perspective, his side has disseminated information to development partners and businesses.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">He emphasized that businesses should be run in a sustainable, tiered, and structured manner so as to develop mutual understanding.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"(This is) so that our common understanding of sustainable development can be achieved and forest areas can be maintained fully. This is part of what we do," he stressed.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">He stated that in Southwest Papua, there are already the Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership Center (PSKL), Climate Change Control (PPI), and some development partners, such as FORCLIME.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"It is our capital and strength to synergize with all indigenous partners to develop and maintain forests (and to determine) which ones we need to protect and the ones we need to develop," he remarked. </span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/308394/ministry-of-industry-prepares-eip-concept-to-spur-sustainability" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Ministry of Industry prepares EIP concept to spur sustainability">Ministry of Industry prepares EIP concept to spur sustainability</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/308097/nusantara-city-designed-according-to-green-economy-principles-oikn" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Nusantara City designed according to green economy principles: OIKN">Nusantara City designed according to green economy principles: OIKN</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/167480/preserving-the-sustainability-of-papuan-staple-sago" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Preserving the sustainability of Papuan staple sago">Preserving the sustainability of Papuan staple sago</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Yuvensius B, Kenzu<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Azis Kurmala<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />-----------------------------------------</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class=""><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/308568/prabowo-gibran-score-landslide-victory-in-south-papua">https://en.antaranews.com/news/308568/prabowo-gibran-score-landslide-victory-in-south-papua</a></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><b class="">2) Prabowo, Gibran score landslide victory in South Papua </b></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">March 15, 2024 22:56 GMT+700</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jakarta (ANTARA) - Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka have scored a landslide victory in South Papua with 162,852 valid votes, the General Elections Commission (KPU) announced at a plenary meeting here on Friday.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD polled 110,003 votes, and Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar received 41,906 votes. The total number of voters going to polling stations was recorded at 320,386.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">According to a member of the KPU-South Papua Office, Theresia Mahuze, who attended the KPU's plenary meeting, the total number of registered voters in the province's final voter list (DPT) was 367,269.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Of the number, only 306,486 registered voters went to polling stations on Election Day (February 14, 2024), she informed.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In addition to them, at least 2,471 voters registered in the additional voter list and 11,429 voters registered in the special voter list (DPK) also cast their votes on Election Day.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Indonesians have given their mandate. At least 1.7 million voters living abroad cast their votes for the General Elections before February 14, while more than 203 million voters residing in Indonesia flocked to polling stations on Election Day.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Voters living outside Indonesia cast their ballot at 828 polling stations through 1,580 mobile voting boxes and 651 postal services, while Indonesian residents voted at 820,161 polling stations.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">On Election Day, polling stations at 84 electoral districts in 38 provinces remained open from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. local time.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><i class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">ANTARA</i><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"> reported earlier that the public will need to be patient to learn the legitimate results of the 2024 elections, as the outcome of the manual vote count will be announced by the KPU by March 20 at the latest.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">No doubt, Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, and their political coalitions are awaiting the moment of truth, too.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In the meantime, several pollsters' quick counts, broadcast on the country's national TV stations, have revealed favorable results for the Prabowo-Gibran pair.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">After the official result of the KPU's final manual vote count is out, the winning candidate pair will need to wait for the presidential inauguration, which is scheduled to take place on October 20, 2024.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/308313/kpu-targets-completing-recapitulation-of-domestic-votes-on-march-18" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="KPU targets completing recapitulation of domestic votes on March 18">KPU targets completing recapitulation of domestic votes on March 18</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/308121/prabowo-gibran-pair-secures-majority-of-valid-votes-in-east-java-kpu" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Prabowo-Gibran pair secures majority of valid votes in East Java: KPU">Prabowo-Gibran pair secures majority of valid votes in East Java: KPU</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Narda MS, Rahmad Nasution<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Aditya Eko Sigit Wicaksono</p><div class="">--------------------------------</div></div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-8334224974079736962024-03-14T23:38:00.000-07:002024-03-14T23:38:13.768-07:001) Awyu Tribe appeal cassation over environmental permit legal battles <p> </p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">2) Two students still detained for alleged aircraft shooting in Dekai </span></h4><h1 class="title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Fira Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">3) Petronas secures first deepwater Indonesia E&P concession </span></h1><div class=""><br class="" /></div><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><br class="" /></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand;">------------------------------------</span></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand;">h<span class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="" href="ttps://en.jubi.id/awyu-tribe-appeal-cassation-over-environmental-permit-legal-battles/">ttps://en.jubi.id/awyu-tribe-appeal-cassation-over-environmental-permit-legal-battles/</a></span></span></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand;">1) Awyu Tribe appeal cassation over environmental permit legal battles <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand; font-weight: normal;">News Desk - PTUN Lawsuit Awyu Community</span></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand; font-weight: normal;"> 15 March 2024</span></h4><div><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand; font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimGQKFqTA7jtsOvmMtWMxH4Von8FtDLnshbe2PE7oxSxrPYWvt-Ht-bTbhrLt6LMp1VTK17q_tPaT7SY75YYltY7k6yh_gjW-oU4oi9nG7mdmyFklbSOF5MA5MH2XkMbpmm1jrNzf9bbQP2WPxcSb3PpJGsZplG6SAgjNyW9NUmdBIKR0CJZ5nse1C0jLf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimGQKFqTA7jtsOvmMtWMxH4Von8FtDLnshbe2PE7oxSxrPYWvt-Ht-bTbhrLt6LMp1VTK17q_tPaT7SY75YYltY7k6yh_gjW-oU4oi9nG7mdmyFklbSOF5MA5MH2XkMbpmm1jrNzf9bbQP2WPxcSb3PpJGsZplG6SAgjNyW9NUmdBIKR0CJZ5nse1C0jLf" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); color: #888888; font-family: "Open Sans";">The Awyu Tribe community, accompanied by the Coalition Team to Save Papua's Indigenous Forests, filed an appeal to the Supreme Court through the Jayapura Administrative Court in Jayapura City, Papua Province, on Thursday (3/14/2024). - Jubi/Theo Kelen</span></span></div><div><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – The indigenous community of the Awyu Tribe has filed a cassation against the decision of the Manado State Administrative High Court which rejected their appeal regarding their lawsuit against the environmental feasibility permit issued by the Papua Department of Investment and One-Stop Service for PT Indo Asiana Lestari.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The cassation was lodged through the Jayapura City State Administrative Court (<a class="" href="https://ptun-jayapura.go.id/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">PTUN Jayapura</a>) on Thursday (14/3/2024). This was conveyed by a member of the Coalition to Save Papua’s Customary Forests, acting as legal counsel for the <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/?s=Awyu+&post_type=post" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;">Awyu Tribe</a>, lawyer Emanuel Gobay.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We have just registered the cassation. This means we have gone through several stages in the PTUN Jayapura, including the appeal, and now the cassation stage,” said Gobay.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The permit contested by the Awyu Tribe encompasses plans for a 36,096.4-hectare oil palm plantation in Mandobo District and Fofi District, Boven Digoel Regency, South Papua Province. The Awyu Tribe said the permit was issued without their knowledge.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">On November 2, 2023, the panel of judges led by Merna Cinthia along with judges Yusup Klemen and Donny Poja declared the lawsuit legally groundless and dismissed it. On November 22, 2023, the legal counsel for the Awyu Tribe filed an appeal with the Manado State Administrative High Court.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">On February 29, 2024, the Manado State Administrative High Court rejected the appeal because the plaintiff’s application had expired or exceeded ninety days since the disputed object’s decision letter was known. The High Court also stated that the request for suspension of the disputed object’s execution was rejected.</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Emanuel Gobay stated on Thursday that they had submitted various required documents for the cassation. Gobay criticized the Manado State Administrative High Court for rejecting the appeal of the Awyu Tribe on the grounds of exceeding the time limit. Gobay stated that the appeal memorandum submitted through the PTUN Jayapura was accepted and processed.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“It is strange when the PTUN Jayapura accepts it and the PTTUN Manado rejects it just because of time. I need to emphasize that this does not get into the substance of the case. The question is, why did not the judges of the PTTUN Manado want to get into the substance of the case?” Gobay asked.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to Gobay, none of the panel of judges of the Manado State Administrative High Court who examined and adjudicated the appeal of the Awyu Tribe were licensed environmental judges. Gobay said the Awyu indigenous community was very disappointed with the High Court’s decision.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“After we investigated, it turns out that none of the three judges examining the case were licensed environmental judges. There needs to be an evaluation at the Supreme Court level because of these non-environmental judges examining environmental cases,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Gobay stated that the appeal decision had an impact on the livelihoods of the Awyu Tribe’s indigenous community. He hoped that the Supreme Court examining the cassation request of the Awyu Tribe would deliver a fair decision. (*)</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">--------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/two-students-still-detained-for-alleged-aircraft-shooting-in-dekai/">https://en.jubi.id/two-students-still-detained-for-alleged-aircraft-shooting-in-dekai/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Two students still detained for alleged aircraft shooting in Dekai <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Armed Conflict In Papua </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">15 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/dekai-incident-update-tpnpb-denies-teenagers-affiliation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Two students arrested in Kali Brasa, Dekai District</a>, <a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahukimo_Regency" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Yahukimo Regency</a> on February 22, 2024 and have yet to be released by the police as of today. The two teenagers, MH and BGE, have been made suspects in the case of aircraft shooting.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">MH and BGE were apprehended by security forces on suspicion of being members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB). They were captured in Kali Brasa during a security raid related to the Wings Air aircraft shooting in Dekai, the capital of Yahukimo Regency, which occurred on February 17.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Chairman of the Yahukimo Church Fellowship (PGGY) Rev. Atias Matuan, stated on Sunday (10/3/2024) that MH and BGE have not been released. “Since they were arrested by the police on February 22, they have not been released and have not returned home until now. At that time, three people went to the garden. After harvesting bananas, they returned. Upon arriving at Kali Brasa, one person, named Elly Giban, was shot, while the two students, MH and BGE, were arrested and have not returned home,” said Matuan.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Matuan said he and several religious figures had met with the Yahukimo Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Heru Hidayanto to clarify the whereabouts of MH and BGE. They requested the police to immediately release MH and BGE. Later, Matuan received reports that the police had not yet released MH and BGE.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Human Rights Activist in Papua, Yones Douw, also attempted to locate MH and BGE. According to him, the two youths are still detained by the police. “I have checked in Yahukimo, and they said they have not been released,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">On Thursday (14/3/2024), Jubi contacted Heru Hidayanto via WhatsApp messaging service. Heru asked Jubi to inquire about the matter to the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Yahukimo Police, Second Insp. Tantu Usman.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">When contacted via WhatsApp messaging service on Thursday, Tantu Usman confirmed that MH and BGE are still detained by the police. According to Tantu, MH and BGE have been designated as suspects in the aircraft shooting case.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“MH and BGE have been named suspects and charged for allegedly violating Article 479 F letter a jo Article 55 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code, and are currently detained at the Papua Police Headquarters in Jayapura City,” said Usman.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Usman stated that MH and BGE have been detained at the Papua Police Headquarters since February 29, 2024. Earlier, on February 27, the Antara News Agency quoted the statement of the Cartenz Peace Operations Coordinator Sr. Comr. Faizal Ramadhani, who mentioned that MH and BGE had been released. In the news reports by various media outlets, Faizal stated that the allegation of the two students being involved in the TPNPB network was not proven, so they were released.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Faizal’s statement is supported with the statement of the TPNPB Ndugama Darakma Battalion Commander, Nabeanus Gerebea, on February 24. Gerebea stated that MH and BGE were ordinary civilians who were arrested while crossing Kali Brasa.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“They are not members of the TPNPB. They are purely civilians and have no knowledge of the TPNPB. They were arrested while crossing Kali Brasa to Dekai. They were arrested and tortured,” said Gerebea. (*)</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://www.offshore-mag.com/deepwater/article/14310353/petronas-secures-first-deepwater-indonesia-ep-concession">https://www.offshore-mag.com/deepwater/article/14310353/petronas-secures-first-deepwater-indonesia-ep-concession</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><ol class="sectionLinks" data-v-bcf226d7="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: "Fira Sans", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;" typeof="BreadcrumbList" vocab="https://schema.org/"><li class="" data-v-bcf226d7="" property="itemListElement" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;" typeof="ListItem"><a class="" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="5d3f06f2c0645c763104b681" data-v-bcf226d7="" href="https://www.offshore-mag.com/deepwater" property="item" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333e48; text-decoration: none;" typeof="WebPage"><span class="" data-v-bcf226d7="" property="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DEEPWATER</span></a></li></ol><div class="main-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Georgia, serif; justify-content: space-between;"><h1 class="title-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Fira Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">3) Petronas secures first deepwater Indonesia E&P concession </span></h1></div><div class="date-summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column-reverse; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div class="date-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; padding-top: 8px;"><div class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Fira Sans", Arial, sans-serif; padding-right: 8px;">March 15, 2024</div></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Offshore staff</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="" lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">JAKARTA, Indonesia</span> — Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has awarded <a class="" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="5d3f06f2c0645c763104b681" href="https://www.offshore-mag.com/business-briefs/equipment-engineering/article/14306070/thunder-cranes-petronas-ink-offshore-malaysia-contract" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link-color); text-decoration: none;">Petronas</a> subsidiary PC North Madura II the Bobara working area offshore West Papua, under the Indonesia Petroleum Bid Round 2023.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="" lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is Petronas’ first venture into deepwater exploration in Indonesia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="" lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The company will operate Bobara with 100% equity; the working area covers about 8,400 sq km. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="" lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Commitment for the first three years include G&G studies, and 3D seismic data acquisition and processing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="" lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Last year the company signed a sale and purchase agreement for the Masela working area, and it already operates the <a class="" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="5d3f06f2c0645c763104b681" href="https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/asia/article/14303304/ketapang-psc-term-offshore-east-java-extended" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link-color); text-decoration: none;">Ketapang</a>, North Madura II and <a class="" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="5d3f06f2c0645c763104b681" href="https://www.offshore-mag.com/production/article/14278731/petronas-signs-psc-for-north-ketapang-block-in-indonesia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link-color); text-decoration: none;">North Ketapang</a> production sharing contracts (PSCs) offshore East Java, with further (non-operated) interests in seven PSCs offshore and onshore in the Natuna Sea, Sumatra, East Java, and East Indonesia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="" lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: border-box;">03.14.2024</span></p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-------------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-67063870829633533312024-03-14T14:06:00.000-07:002024-03-14T14:06:49.889-07:00 1) End of an era: Closure of sacred Ertsberg mine leaves legacy of environmental concerns <p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Indigenous Papuans in South Papua protest on alleged electoral irregularities </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">3) Papuan democracy monitor highlights lack of political understanding in 2024 elections <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/end-of-an-era-closure-of-sacred-ertsberg-mine-leaves-legacy-of-environmental-concerns/">https://en.jubi.id/end-of-an-era-closure-of-sacred-ertsberg-mine-leaves-legacy-of-environmental-concerns/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">1) End of an era: Closure of sacred Ertsberg mine leaves legacy of environmental concerns <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Ertsberg Mine 14 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZtne0MYBNg2gfA7utQFMEz0cFa3PKNjaWylOSm2knz8ZBZikdvsIDfSKw0ZGifiEm8cbcZ6me3kOP7-BqPXrw6prUcErbu7l-nwuEo1WoPwvtHr--KlzM5uBfLXBkqSvewvYrxebUvLPT6IHAOhJXsLq0sCV049tA9Wq1sD2TS6b324d6piOBVdrF4k_x" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1478" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZtne0MYBNg2gfA7utQFMEz0cFa3PKNjaWylOSm2knz8ZBZikdvsIDfSKw0ZGifiEm8cbcZ6me3kOP7-BqPXrw6prUcErbu7l-nwuEo1WoPwvtHr--KlzM5uBfLXBkqSvewvYrxebUvLPT6IHAOhJXsLq0sCV049tA9Wq1sD2TS6b324d6piOBVdrF4k_x=w370-h400" width="370" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); color: #888888; font-family: "Open Sans";">The Ertsberg mountain of your history is now a hole and Wilson Lake - Jubi/Grasberg George A Mealey</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – In March 1973, then President of Indonesia Soeharto, accompanied by the Governor of Irian Jaya Frans Kaisiepo and the Director of <a class="" href="https://ptfi.co.id/en" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Freeport</a> Minerals, officially inaugurated the Ertsberg mine for the first time. This mountain was excavated for copper concentrate to be exported from Nemangkawi abroad.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The mining material, in the form of concentrate, was conveyed from Nemangkawi through pipes to the Port Side harbor and transported by ships to foreign destinations for export. The Amungme people themselves refer to Ertsberg Mountain as Yelsegel-Ongopsegel because of its gleaming appearance, akin to the shining feathers of a Bird of Paradise.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Mountain birds still exist in Nemangkawi until now because for the Amungme people, ‘Yelsegel-Ongopsegel’ or Ertsberg is a sacred place for our people since ancient times. It is believed that the spirits of our ancestors would stop there before ascending to eternal heaven,” said John Magal, Chairman of the Indigenous Peoples Organization of the Amungme Tribe (Lemasa), to <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;">Jubi</a> in Timika, last week.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to John Magal, when the first bore penetrated the sacred mountain, elders recounted that there was a great light emanating from Ertsberg towards the east of Nemangkawi. “They (the elders) recounted that the spirits of our ancestors had left the sacred mountain,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The sacred mountain, by the end of 1972, had all roads built, cable cars smoothly operating, and pipeline routes well installed. In December 1972, the first 10,000 tons of Ertsberg ore were successfully shipped to Japan. The mine was operating smoothly and proudly,” wrote George A Mealey in his book titled Grasberg: Mining the richest and most remote deposit of copper and gold in the world, in the mountains of Irian Jaya, Indonesia.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Furthermore, Mealey, who is also the Mine Development Manager of Freeport, wrote that three months later, President Soeharto arrived, and with a jeep, he drove up to the “copper town” he named Tembagapura and inaugurated the mine. “Unexpectedly, he also renamed West Irian Province to Irian Jaya Province,” Mealey wrote in his book on page 106 of the 384-page book.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He acknowledged that despite growing up in Alaska, USA, to him, the mountains in Irian Jaya were the steepest mountains he has ever seen, and even more impressive is that there was copper mineralization everywhere.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">At that time there were no policies regarding Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Freeport’s EIA was only conducted in 1997 after the Erstberg mine ended in the 1980s and closed in 1988. In practice, the Erstberg mine operated from December 1972 to 1988 until the copper concentrate dwindled and it was finally closed.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The second mine at Mount Grasberg, or what the Amungme people call Tenogoma or grassy mountain, began exporting concentrate in 1988, and since then, the first EIA was conducted in 1997.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grasberg to underground mining</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Since the Ertsberg mine began to decline from the 1980s until it closed in 1988, Freeport began digging the second mountain, Grasberg, also known as Tenogoma, for open-pit mining.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“I began describing Grasberg to financial advisors as a ‘porphyry copper-gold deposit,’ where copper and gold production could be expected, and possibly silver too. I noted that the geological structure of Grasberg resembled that of Ok Tedi, a porphyry copper-gold deposit being mined in Papua New Guinea. The Freeport team also visited there. Ok Tedi received widespread publicity at the time because of its rich surface gold capping deposit,” Mealey wrote in his book.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Thus, Mealey continued, Grasberg is referred to as a “potential porphyry deposit.” It is said that Grasberg is the world’s largest gold reserve and the third-largest copper reserve. “Grasberg is the most significant mineral reserve discovery of this century,” said George A Mealey.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Now, the Indonesian government’s downstream program has built a smelter plant in Gresik, and practically all mining minerals from the Central Papua Mountains are excavated in underground mines and transported by ship to Surabaya and Gresik.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Antara News mentions that Phase II of the Gresik Smelter is still being pursued to be completed by May 2024. The operation of the Freeport Gresik Smelter will enhance Indonesia’s downstream efforts. As a result, there is added value that the country and all aspects involved can benefit from.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Now, after the closure of the Ertsberg mine, what remains is a mountain with a hole thousands of meters high. The former excavation is now a hollowed lake named Lake Wilson. The name is given to commemorate Freeport’s 1960 expedition leader, Forbes Wilson. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">———————————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/indigenous-papuans-in-south-papua-protest-on-alleged-electoral-irregularities/">https://en.jubi.id/indigenous-papuans-in-south-papua-protest-on-alleged-electoral-irregularities/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) Indigenous Papuans in South Papua protest on alleged electoral irregularities </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Election 2024 14 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Merauke, Jubi – Thousands of indigenous Papuans in <a class="" href="http://papuaselatan.go.id/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">South Papua Province</a>took to the streets at Brawijaya-Libra Circle Park in Merauke Regency on Tuesday (3/13/2024). They believed their political rights were undermined during the 2024 General Election, particularly regarding the legislative vote count held in four districts in the region.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">They carried dozens of banners expressing their demands and protests regarding the conduct of the 2024 election. They gathered and delivered speeches at Brawijaya Circle Park despite the rain, under tight security surveillance.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Various speakers took turns voicing the aspirations of the indigenous communities of South Papua, all of which were related to their political rights. One of the speakers, also a South Papuan activist, Victoria Diana Gebze, stated during her speech that the indigenous people of South Papua took to the streets to protest because there were irregularities in the 2024 election process.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We, the indigenous people of South Papua, have sincere hearts and high tolerance to accept anyone from the archipelago who comes to this land to live together in harmony. We want peace, and we do not want to resort to protests like this but our political rights are not respected,” she said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Gebze also urged the Acting Governor of South Papua, Apolo Safanpo, as the political leader in the region, to listen to and address the aspirations of the indigenous people of South Papua regarding the elections.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Furthermore, we urge the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) and the General Election Commission (KPU) as the organizers of the 2024 elections to be accountable for the indigenous Papuan candidates whose votes went missing during the vote tallying process. Also, the reports of vote-buying that have been filed with Bawaslu,” she added.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Communication Forum for Indigenous Papuan Candidates, Robert Kaiba, expressed that they observed a flawed system, one that deviated from the election process itself. There were violations that occurred before the election process and during the vote tallying in various polling stations in several districts that did not reflect a fair democratic process.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“There were violations, such as alleged vote-buying in Jagebob District, vote-buying in Bupul, and irregularities in the electoral process in Kimaam. These have been reported to Bawaslu but there has been no follow-up or communication to us regarding the handling of these issues,” said Robert Kaiba.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Kaiba added that initially, they protested to the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) of Merauke Regency and the South Papua People’s Assembly (MRPS), but the outcomes of their efforts did not meet their expectations.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Therefore, we take to the streets to protest and demand that high-ranking regional officials, including the governor, regents, MRPS chairman, Bawaslu, and KPU, come and talk to all of us,” he concluded. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">——————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/papuan-democracy-monitor-highlights-lack-of-political-understanding-in-2024-elections/">https://en.jubi.id/papuan-democracy-monitor-highlights-lack-of-political-understanding-in-2024-elections/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) Papuan democracy monitor highlights lack of political understanding in 2024 elections <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Election Monitoring 14 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – The Democracy Alliance for Papua (<a class="" href="https://www.aldp-papua.com/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">ALDP</a>), <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/aldp-to-monitor-2024-elections-across-papua-ensuring-transparency-and-fairness/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">conducting independent monitoring during the 2024 elections</a>, concluded that the political understanding among election participants, electoral organizers, and the public was severely lacking during the implementation of the 2024 elections in the Papua and Mountainous Papua provinces.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“No wonder that honest, safe, and peaceful democracy did not materialize in the voting process, as there was a complete absence of election awareness campaigns directed at the public,” said Antoni Ibra, the Coordinator of the Independent Election Monitoring Team from ALDP, speaking to Jubi in Jayapura City, Papua, on Monday (11/3/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Antoni Ibra explained that this conclusion was based on the monitoring results starting from February 11, covering the logistics distribution phase, voting process, vote tallying at polling stations (TPS), and district plenary sessions.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The lack of understanding could even be considered fatal. For instance, there were legislative candidates in Nduga Regency who did not know which political party they represented. This indicates a lack of political education for the candidates.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“These political parties also nominated legislative candidates without providing any political education, so today we see communities fighting just to support a particular candidate. The candidates might not care about community conflicts, all they care about is advancing to the Regional Representative Council (DPRD),” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“One candidate for the DPRD in Nduga Regency admitted that her votes were taken away, and she did not know where they went. When asked which party she belonged to, she admitted she did not know, only knowing that she was a candidate,” Ibra recounted a conversation with one female candidate from Nduga.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">A similar situation, though not identical, occurred with lower-level election organizers. For example, how to use the Recount Information System (Sirekap), continued Ibra.. In Jayawijaya Regency for one, there were still election workers (KPPS members) who could not fill out Sirekap.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“And they are not only in the Mountainous Papua. Even in Jayapura City, in the Wahno Sub-district [of Abepura District], KPPS members could not fill out Sirekap, so the community had to help them,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to Ibra, these examples highlight the fact that election awareness campaigns to build public understanding, which should have been conducted one year before the elections, did not occur. He suggested that there should have been at least three rounds of campaigns involving the Regional Apparatus Coordination Agency (Kesbangpol), the General Election Commission (KPU), and the Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The public also needs to have political understanding. To achieve a clean and democratic election process, awareness campaigns involving the public are crucial. It is no surprise that today there are many conflicts, battles, and fraud in the elections. This is all due to the lack of awareness campaigns,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">All of these serve as important notes for election organizers to improve and intensify awareness campaigns and build political understanding among the public, Ibra concluded. The same applies to election participants because, according to Ibra, democratic elections can only be realized if the public has received adequate political education, enabling them to have the capacity and maturity to engage in politics. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-36829410888004780062024-03-12T16:28:00.000-07:002024-03-12T16:28:22.560-07:00AWPA Update No 2/2024 <p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">AWPA West Papua Update No 2/2024 </h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.800000190734863px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7965878214468794627" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"> <b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)</span></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5522609883963760828" itemprop="description articleBody" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;">AWPA Update No 2/2024 </b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;">(13 March 2024)</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Armed clashes have continued between the TPNBP and the Indonesian security forces during the past months with causalities occurring on both sides. In response to these incidents the Indonesian security forces undertake sweeping operations which can result in local people being arrested , killed and tortured. Houses and villages have also be destroyed in the sweeping operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiBUt-lB6oLZtBFx9gvhCznbWWo7kmxleqSNdVKMRZEerngnYH4S7Ff7EdHHybEVwwR1-qe15VNWArgyTThyphenhyphen5O8OFpp-E_pTlbWBHmiu2LxTpJbADt9GHRwhEvhWRr_wHmqLEEj97zSrpreJSrv-OkTG_lGfYRvIJTlWNaVUTUcd_UrogosigmMptyI3O/s1040/Puncak_military-raid_Feb24_1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="1040" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiBUt-lB6oLZtBFx9gvhCznbWWo7kmxleqSNdVKMRZEerngnYH4S7Ff7EdHHybEVwwR1-qe15VNWArgyTThyphenhyphen5O8OFpp-E_pTlbWBHmiu2LxTpJbADt9GHRwhEvhWRr_wHmqLEEj97zSrpreJSrv-OkTG_lGfYRvIJTlWNaVUTUcd_UrogosigmMptyI3O/w400-h225/Puncak_military-raid_Feb24_1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span class="" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/security-forces-raid-villages-manggume-aminggaru-yenggernok-and-agiyome-puncak-regency/">https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/security-forces-raid-villages-manggume-aminggaru-yenggernok-and-agiyome-puncak-regency/</a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Rights commission asked to seriously investigate recent violence in Papua</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="http://kompas.com/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">Kompas.com</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: normal;">– March 4, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sabrina Asril, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (<a href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Kontras" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">Kontras</span></a>) is asking the National Human Rights Commission (<a href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Komnas%20HAM" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">Komnas HAM</span></a>) to be serious in investigating the recent violence that has occurred in <a href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Papua" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">Papua</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Kontras Coordinator </span><a href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Dimas%20Bagus%20Arya" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="color: black;">Dimas Bagus Arya</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> said this is important in order to stop a repeat of the violence. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">"[We're asking] Komnas HAM to immediately conduct an independent and impartial investigation into all alleged acts of violence, torture and alleged </span><a href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/human%20rights%20violations" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="color: black;">human rights violations</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> that have occurred in Papua", said Arya during a press conference at the Kontras office in Kwitang, Central Jakarta, on Monday March 4. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The call was made following several incidents of violence in Papua over the last two months that has claimed four lives.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Kontras noted that there were seven incidents of violence between January and February resulting in 10 people being injured and four others dying.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">This adds the list of victims of violence in Papua. In 2023, Kontras recorded 49 incidents of violence with 67 people injured and 41 killed. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">"These acts of violence included shootings, torture and arbitrary arrests", he added.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Arya also said that the number of cases of violence in Papua is directly proportional to the application of a military approach by the government. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Yet, said Arya, this policy of resolving conflicts is still one of the factors continuing to the recurrence of violence in the land of Papua. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">"We project that incidents such as this will continue to be repeated in the land of Papua if the government does not conduct a review and evaluation of the security approach and military operations that are currently being pursued in the land of Papua", he said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Translated by James Balowski. The original title of the article was "Komnas HAM Diminta Serius Investigasi Kekerasan di Papua Sampai Tuntas".]</span></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: </span><o:p></o:p></span><a class="" href="https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2024/03/04/20085621/komnas-ham-diminta-serius-investigasi-kekerasan-di-papua-sampai-tuntas" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span class="" style="color: black;">https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2024/03/04/20085621/komnas-ham-diminta-serius-investigasi-kekerasan-di-papua-sampai-tuntas</span></a></p></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Cambria, serif;">West Papuan Mini- Film Festival</span></b><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p></b></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCLaxm-V31x-_vuXktG4RuxkK7vRIKIMRy_e4d8zyQBsvMVh_iGm-oPWAInoQ_xREkSDzH7Cj1tN0X4qUIvShzk91BfjEEq4xe0xmNVH-Mr-miFppv7kg3Gv8t7zbljXsWRBfhJFLqyvVuVSqSGarsAnMRSQRMIstaP5MqNZfi4Wg54icECb7eZRLNGSs-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1660" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCLaxm-V31x-_vuXktG4RuxkK7vRIKIMRy_e4d8zyQBsvMVh_iGm-oPWAInoQ_xREkSDzH7Cj1tN0X4qUIvShzk91BfjEEq4xe0xmNVH-Mr-miFppv7kg3Gv8t7zbljXsWRBfhJFLqyvVuVSqSGarsAnMRSQRMIstaP5MqNZfi4Wg54icECb7eZRLNGSs-=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The West Papuan Mini- Film Festival</span></b><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> is coming to Australia in April.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Jubi TV Documentary Program has released five new films about West Papua.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The festival will be launched by the West Papua Project at the UNI of Wollongong. It will then travel to Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide Hobart and Melbourne.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Program may vary slightly in different cities but all details, times etc. can be found on the festival FB page at. for Sydney event RSVP: seosamh20@hotmail.com</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><a class="" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556749645267" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556749645267">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556749645267</a></span></span></p><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></b></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Tensions rise as TPNPB alleges TNI of civilian shootings in Intan Jaya<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jubi News Desk - Armed Conflict In Papua<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">5 March 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nabire, Jubi – The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) accuses the Indonesian Military (TNI), namely the Infantry Battalion 330 division, of shooting three civilians in Sugapa District’s Titigi Village, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intan_Jaya_Regency" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Intan Jaya Regency</span></a>, Central Papua Province.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The shootings occurred on two separate occasions. The first incident took place on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, around 10:25 p.m. local time. Two civilians were shot, namely Selli Maiseni (17), who was wounded in the arm, and Makelon Hagisimijau (15), who was shot in the thigh. The second incident occurred on March 1, 2024, when a civilian named Nelson Sani (16) was shot in the left arm, piercing through the abdomen, resulting in his death. This occurred during an exchange of fire between joint security forces and the <a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">TPNPB</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“We allege that the three were shot by the TNI’s Infantry Battalion 330, tasked with securing the elections, claiming civilian lives,” said <a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">TPNPB</span></a> leader of the Kodap VIII Intan Jaya, Yosua Maiseni, to Jubi on Sunday (3/3/2024). Yosua Maiseni reported that Selli Maiseni (17) and Makelon Hagisimijau (15) were shot while on their way to observe the vote counting for the Indonesian Legislative and Presidential elections in Titigi. They were shot en route. Yosua stated that before the incident, the two youths had participated in the elections. However, without valid reasons, they were allegedly shot by the TNI. “Hence, all members of the Infantry Battalion 330 throughout Intan Jaya should be immediately withdrawn to Jakarta. The TNI has carried out numerous shootings against civilians in Intan Jaya, from school-aged children to the elderly. Some were fatally shot, while others are still alive to this day, like Mainus Bagubau, who was shot in Jalai Village in 2020, among many other cases,” he said. Yosua questioned why the TNI took over the police’s function during the elections in Intan Jaya, leading to shootings of Selli Maiseni and Mikalon Yoani. “They (TNI) didn’t come to secure the elections but to kill civilians who know nothing,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sugapa District Head Misael Sondegau confirmed the shooting of three civilians in Intan Jaya. “It’s true that two civilians named Makelon Hagisimijau (15) and Selli Maiseni (17) were shot. They were shot while on their way from Watapa to Titigi. Currently, they are being treated by their families in Watapa,” he said. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">However, Sondegau stated that he has yet to identify the perpetrator because the incident occurred far from Sugapa. “I cannot confirm the shooter of the two civilians as the location is far from Sugapa,” he said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Meanwhile, on March 2, chaos erupted during a plenary meeting, and security forces opened fire, hitting one civilian named Nelson Sani. He was shot in Mamba Village, Sugapa District. “Nelson Sani was then taken from Sugapa to Timika. He died on the plane, and his body was transported from Timika to Nabire. Currently, his body is being laid to rest in Nabire,” he said. Sondegau stated that the situation in Intan Jaya is still tense, with the TPNPB and the TNI on high alert.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">TNI denies</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">XVII/Cenderawasih Regional Military Command Head of Information Lt. Col. Inf Candra Kurniawan denied information stating that TNI soldiers allegedly shot two civilians in Sugapa. “The news is a hoax deliberately spread by the TPNPB and its sympathizers to defame the security forces,” said Chandra. Chandra stated that there were no shootings or exchanges of fire in Sugapa District on Wednesday. “So, it was intentionally spread by the TPNPB and its sympathizers amid the ongoing General Elections,” he said. (*)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Komnas HAM Papua calls for caution in conflict-prone Papua amid recent escalations<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span class="apple-tab-span"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jubi News Desk - Papua Conflict 3 March 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jayapura, Jubi – Head of the Papua Office of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM Papua) Frits Ramandey emphasizes that Papua should be seen as a region prone to conflict rather than one in constant conflict. In areas prone to conflict, police discretion is exercised in handling conflict escalation. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Ramandey explains that Papua falls into the category of regions prone to conflict because conflicts in Papua occur sporadically or unevenly. For example, conflicts are more likely to happen in Yahukimo, Nduga, Intan Jaya, Puncak, Paniai, Dogiyai, and Maybrat rather than the entire region. According to him, areas termed as conflict zones are those with widespread conflicts revolving around specific issues.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“When conflicts are widespread, we call them conflict zones. But when they are sporadic, we call them areas prone to conflict,” said Frits Ramandey during an interview at his office in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayapura" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px;" target="_blank">Jayapura City</a> on Thursday (29/2/2024).</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Ramandey further explains that the category of regions prone to conflict is not solely based on violent movements, such as conflicts between the military/police and the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB). It also includes violent actions that sometimes occur among indigenous Papuans themselves, such as tribal conflicts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“Acts of violence, Papuans protesting about labor issues, protesting about Papuan rights in political parties, protesting about land. These happen sporadically, and from the perspective of human rights, they are considered areas prone to conflict,” says Frits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Regarding the recent arrest of two teenagers in Yahukimo suspected of being associated with the TPNPB, Ramandey views this action as a form of police discretion in handling conflict escalation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In areas prone to conflict like Yahukimo, Frits continues, individuals around the conflict escalation site can be taken into custody as a precaution or as part of police discretion. However, when individuals are ‘taken into custody’ at the conflict escalation site, security forces must not commit violence against them. “The problem arises when the detained individuals are subjected to violence,” he says. Frits Ramandey appreciates the security forces for releasing the two teenagers from Yahukimo and stating that they are not part of the TPNPB or any armed civilian group. If the two teenagers were subjected to violence or torture while in custody, Frits Ramandey says they have the right to file complaints with the local police, the police’s internal affairs division, or Komnas HAM for legal action. “If they were subjected to violence or torture, they can file complaints with Komnas HAM,” he says. He further states that Komnas HAM requests that the military/police refrain from committing violence and murder, especially in situations when people are defenseless. (*)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>TPNPB commander vows resistance against Indonesian govt agendas<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jubi News Desk - Papua Conflict<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">6 March 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizbmInerC2OfIcTSAMOMEkt9n70xuZhvDRMdKuJwdh6lp1C5kFeKJ2CiauRzPRatJGtReQ6K5I5N6mD2phWyr-fSqEzNb_nGitKxrYxdOyzQuw3W1JaIu-uuWuL8cJI34mV-EpSr41GxHsnLBKqmWmTcbhb-P7XaF4Vs7VGV42O7pLJysWgiJSM5l-2X5j" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizbmInerC2OfIcTSAMOMEkt9n70xuZhvDRMdKuJwdh6lp1C5kFeKJ2CiauRzPRatJGtReQ6K5I5N6mD2phWyr-fSqEzNb_nGitKxrYxdOyzQuw3W1JaIu-uuWuL8cJI34mV-EpSr41GxHsnLBKqmWmTcbhb-P7XaF4Vs7VGV42O7pLJysWgiJSM5l-2X5j" width="348" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Head of Cartenz Peace Public Relations Task Force, AKBP Bayu Suseno shows a picture of a suspected TPNPB member who was arrested in Puncak Regency, Alenus Tabuni aka Komputer Tabuni. - Doc. Cartenz Peace Public Relations</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jayapura, Jubi – Numbuk Telenggen, the commander of the Third Defense Command of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) in Ilaga stated that they will not remain silent following the security forces’ action of apprehending Komputer Tabuni, also known as Alenus Tabuni. Telenggen asserted that they would obstruct and reject the implementation of the Regional Head Elections in November 2024. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Telenggen made this statement during a phone call with Jubi on Tuesday (5/3/2024). He admitted that Komputer Tabuni, who was arrested in front of the Ilaga Community Health Center on February 18, 2024, is a member of their group.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“During the Presidential Election and Legislative Election, we did not engage in any activities. However, the security forces arrested Komputer Tabuni in Kago, Ilaga. We need to remind that because of this, the TPNPB will resist all activities of the Indonesian government in Papua, especially in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puncak_Regency" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px;" target="_blank">Puncak Regency</a>,” said Telenggen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">According to Telenggen, Komputer Tabuni is a member of the TPNPB Third Defense Command in Ilaga. “When the police arrested him, he was carrying a pistol,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Telenggen admitted they had seized SS1 firearms from a member of the Ilaga Airport Air Security Unit Police Post on February 1, 2024. However, Telenggen denied that Jukius Tabuni, who was apprehended by the Cartenz Task Force Cartenz on Saturday (2/3/2024), was a member of the <a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px;">TPNPB</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“I want to emphasize that Jukius is not a member of the <a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px;">TPNPB</a>. Jukius is an ordinary civilian who was arrested and interrogated by the security forces. I heard he has been released due to lack of evidence. My members who seized the weapons were with me. So, soldiers or police should not arbitrarily arrest civilians,” said Telenggen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Telenggen affirmed that they would disrupt all Indonesian government agendas. “As the operational commander, I need to affirm that we will cancel all Indonesian government activities in Puncak through our actions in the field. We will continue to resist until we expel Indonesia from our homeland,” he said. (*)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>West Papua advocacy group condemns arrest, ‘humiliation’ of two teenagers </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">By APR editor - February 26, 2024 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdiY3iZR93gSPQCbt7wwmfTyH73m4OBTAWmK-uDZdOHamP9Ne7H5XoX9koNmNJnRCwSBYI4Bw9IwuyC1F94ejXx0kvTS7F42g6IdSlOsa-mxZqlUcjTK2cKGax4mvC_LUr7HDFtbYOIci0peSHoJjHKvhDeQbuxWL7iJMyDEfgkphdwteW5dBzJ_5CLms1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="296" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdiY3iZR93gSPQCbt7wwmfTyH73m4OBTAWmK-uDZdOHamP9Ne7H5XoX9koNmNJnRCwSBYI4Bw9IwuyC1F94ejXx0kvTS7F42g6IdSlOsa-mxZqlUcjTK2cKGax4mvC_LUr7HDFtbYOIci0peSHoJjHKvhDeQbuxWL7iJMyDEfgkphdwteW5dBzJ_5CLms1" width="370" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The two Papuan teens arrested by the Indonesian military - "MH" and "BGS" . . . Australia reaffirms no support for Papuan self- determination. </span></p><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; margin: 6px 0px 26px; z-index: 1;">Image: Tabloid Jubi<o:p></o:p><p></p></figcaption><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">Asia Pacific Report</span></a></span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">An Australian-based West Papua advocacy group has condemned the arrest and “humiliation” of two teenagers by Indonesian security forces last week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The head of Cartenz 2024 Peace Operations, Kombes Faizal Ramadhani, said in a statement on Friday that the 15-year-olds had been arrested after a clash with the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB ) in Kali Brasa on Thursday, February 22.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">During the shootout, a TPNPB member named as Otniel Giban (alias Bolong Giban) had been killed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c2qe7e30gpyo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE:</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"> A BBC report on the arrest in Bahasa Indonesian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">A Jubi news report on the incident in West Papua</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Sydney-based Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) today condemned the arrest of the teenagers, only identified by the Indonesian authorities by their initials, MH and BGE and who were initially seized as “suspects” but later described as “witnesses”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Faizal said that the teenagers had been arrested because they were suspected of being members of the TPNPB group and that they were currently being detained at the Damai Cartenz military post.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">However, the TPNPB declared that the two teenagers were not members of the TPNPB and were ordinary civilians. The teenagers were arrested when they were crossing the Brasa River in the Yahukimo Regency.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Aircraft shot at</span></strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The clash between security forces and the TNPB occurred while the Cartenz Peacekeeping Operation-2024 searched for those responsible for shooting at an aircraft in Yahukimo in which a military member had been wounded.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Meanwhile, also in Jakarta last Friday the Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Richard Marles, met with Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto — who is <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/19/asia/prabowo-subianto-indonesia-president-profile-intl-hnk/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">poised to win this month’s Indonesian presidential election</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Marles stressed at a media conference at the Defence Ministry that Australia did not support the Free Papua Movement, saying the country “fully recognise[d] Indonesia’s territorial sovereignty”. “We do not endorse any independence movement,” he told a media conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">However, in Sydney AWPA’s Joe Collins said in a statement: “I was at first surprised that West Papua even got a mention at the meeting as usually Australia tries to ignore the issue but even our Defence Minister can hardly ignore a media question on it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">‘No support for any independence movements’</span></strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An <a href="https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/transcripts/2024-02-24/joint-press-conference-jakarta-indonesia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">extract from the media conference</span></a> says:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Subianto:</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> “Thank you very much. I don’t think there is any need for questions. Questions?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Journalist:</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank you very much Mr Deputy Prime Minister. Regarding the huge amount of [the] Australian defence budget, how should the Indonesian people see it? Is it going to be a trap or an opportunity for our national interest?</em><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“And my second question is what is Australia’s standpoint regarding the separatist [pro-independence] movement in Papua because there are some voices from Australia concern[ed] about human rights violations?”</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Marles:</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> “Thank you for the question. Let me do the second issue first. We, Australia utterly recognise the territorial sovereignty of Indonesia, full stop. And there is no support for any independence movements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“We support the territorial sovereignty of Indonesia. And that includes those provinces being part of Indonesia. No ifs, no buts. And I want to be very clear about that.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Collins said there was no shortage of comments during the delegation’s visit to Indonesian around how important the relationship was.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“West Papua will remain the elephant in the room in the Australia-Indonesian relationship,” Collins said. “We can expect many hiccups in the relationship over West Papua in the coming years “.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photos below on BBC Indonesia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c2qe7e30gpyo" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c2qe7e30gpyo</a></p></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiljtM6zenp9gAh6jR4KSn0zKp9UEhTAizjxDx2yjn0iXjGWZTn-FxWLFL9EP7hXtDXMzuMb7cPdeUJRwEvz5zdYhdJOxs44bkX46kcy93-G9SWjwhn8LFDMkaqt0a9HJgZ2rEOtFGfwcd_AsMZSdFQSP_6vX3WfAmuUf2m8ZarQ46ScBKrBCSLitOy0JCT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="400" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiljtM6zenp9gAh6jR4KSn0zKp9UEhTAizjxDx2yjn0iXjGWZTn-FxWLFL9EP7hXtDXMzuMb7cPdeUJRwEvz5zdYhdJOxs44bkX46kcy93-G9SWjwhn8LFDMkaqt0a9HJgZ2rEOtFGfwcd_AsMZSdFQSP_6vX3WfAmuUf2m8ZarQ46ScBKrBCSLitOy0JCT" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>-------------------------</div><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Indonesian election raises concerns for West Papua independence movement</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span color="inherit" style="letter-spacing: 0.03125rem;">By</span><span color="inherit" style="letter-spacing: 0.03125rem;"> </span><a data-component="Link" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/kyle-evans/13961760" style="border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom: var(--link-border,var(--black-20)); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link-visited-text,var(--colour-visited)); letter-spacing: 0.03125rem;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Kyle Evans</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="typographybasesj2rp"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span color="inherit" data-component="Text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1.25rem;">ABC Pacific Beat Broadcast </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><time aria-hidden="true" class="Typography_base__sj2RP DynamicTimestamp_displayDate__Y3t35 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx Typography_letterSpacedSm__V8kil" data-component="Timestamp" datetime="2024-02-18T20:00:00.000Z" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: var(--typography-font-family,var(--dls-font-stack-sans)); font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1.25rem;">Mon 19 Feb 2024 <o:p></o:p></time></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The likely electoral victory for Indonesian military strongman Prabowo Subianto has sparked concerns of what his presidency might mean for West Papua.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Subianto has been accused of involvement in the torture and kidnapping of political activists in Papua in 1998.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="abcsans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif">Credits </span><span color="var(--link-text,var(--colour-assistant))" style="border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom: var(--link-border,var(--black-20)); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; height: 0.75rem; top: 0.25rem; width: 0.75rem;"><span itemprop="contributor" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a data-component="Link" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/kyle-evans/13961760" style="border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom: var(--link-border,var(--black-20)); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link-text,var(--colour-assistant)); font-size: 12pt;">Kyle Evans, Reporter</a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Interviewed</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Victor Mambour,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Benny Wenda,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cammi Webb Gannon</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Audio. </span><a class="" href="https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/indonesia-elections/103482852" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/indonesia-elections/103482852</a></p><section class="DetailLayout_credits__dD_YW" data-component="Contributors" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: abcsans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 2rem 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p></section><div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Allegations of civilian abuse and home burning by TNI spark tensions in Ilaga</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span></b><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b> </b> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jubi News Desk 7 February 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nabire, Jubi – The Puncak Ilaga Command of The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) has accused <a href="https://www.dw.com/id/oknum-tni-siksa-warga-hingga-tewas-ksad-pm-sanksi-maksimal/a-66656132" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">the Indonesian Military (TNI) of burning civilian homes and assaulting civilians</span></a>, resulting in one death and two severe injuries.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Puncak Ilanda Commander of the TPNPB, Numbuk Telengen, reported to Jubi in a phone call on Sunday, February 4, 2024, that the TNI was conducting a pursuit operation against TPNPB members who had seized weapons earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Previously, TPNPB members managed to seize weapons at Amenggaru Ilaga Airport. Failed to find <a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">TPNPB</span></a> members, the TNI allegedly tortured three civilians and set fire to civilian homes. “One civilian was tortured and died, while two other civilians who were tortured by security forces are still being treated at home,” TPNPB Spokesperson Sebby Sambom claimed to Jubi in a WhatsApp message on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sambom claimed to have received an official report regarding the incident from <a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">TPNPB</span></a>leaders in Ilaga. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br />Sambom said that the TNI also participated in burning down civilian homes in Kepala Air Kali Ila’s Agayome and Yenggerenok villages. In addition, Sambom said, a pastor named Eriak Waker and his congregation were interrogated and physically abused.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“We consider that the TNI has violated humanitarian law by not pursuing the TPNPB but instead assaulting civilians, pastors, and burning down the people’s houses,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Previously reported, joint TNI and police forces claimed to have killed one <a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">TPNPB</span></a> member named Warinus Murib in a shootout between them and the TPNPB following the burning incident of the Omukia Health Center in Omukia District, Puncak Regency, Central Papua Province on Saturday, February 3, 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“In that incident, the security forces also managed to capture two individuals suspected of being part of the TPNPB group with the initials AM and DK, both were injured,” said spokesperson of the Cartenz Peace Operation Task Force Adj. Sr. Comr. Bayu Suseno on Sunday. According to Bayu, in the shooting, joint forces also managed to seize several pieces of evidence belonging to the TPNPB group in the Kepala Air area led by Jacky Murib, such as firearms, Morning Star flags, and ammunition. (*)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">TPNPB claims to attack military command in Dekai</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span></b><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b> </b> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jubi News Desk - Armed Conflict In Papua 7 February 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nabire, Jubi – Spokesperson for the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) Sebby Sambom has stated that his group is responsible for the attack that occurred on Siep Asso Road, Dekai District, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahukimo_Regency" style="color: #954f72;">Yahukimo Regency</a> on Monday (5/2/2024). </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In a press release on Tuesday, Sambom stated that they had received an official report from the Yahukimo Commander of the </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="color: #954f72;">TPNPB</a>, Elkius Kobak, who declared they had attacked on the Military District Command headquarter in Dekai. “Elkius Kobak and his troops are responsible for the attack. The TPNPB’s assault on the military command was carried out on February 5 at 8.40 p.m. Papua Time,” he said. Sambom claimed that there were four fatalities in the attack. “The <a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="color: #954f72;">TPNPB</a> forces managed to kill four people, three TNI members, and one intelligence officer,” he said. The casualty data provided by Sambom differs from the information provided by security forces. On Tuesday, the spokesperson of the Papua Police, Comr. Ignatius Benny Ady Prabowo, stated that the attack resulted in two injured TNI soldiers and one injured civilian. (*)</span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">All hopes pinned on peaceful persuasion to free NZ pilot </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Antara News March 11, 2024 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government is continuing efforts to free New Zealander pilot Philip Mark Mehrtens, who has been held hostage by an armed separatist group in Papua since February 7, 2023. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mehrtens, a pilot from Susi Air, was abducted by the group, led by Egianus Kogoya, shortly after landing in Paro, Nduga district, Papua Pegunungan province. </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">After taking over as Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs less than a month ago, Hadi Tjahjanto has moved swiftly to seek ways to free the pilot. </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">On February 21, 2024, one week after his induction as minister, Tjahjanto held a discussion with three leaders from Nduga.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In Jakarta on February 28, Tjahjanto outlined a plan for freeing Mehrtens by using the church approach. The approach has been chosen considering that the majority of people in Papua are Christians and Catholics. </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Also, it is believed that the government will be able to approach the hostage-takers if it uses this approach. However, the minister has not provided further details regarding the approach.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Several parties have voiced their support for the church approach. They include Tjahjanto's predecessor, Mahfud MD...............................</span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"></p></div><div><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/308145/all-hopes-pinned-on-peaceful-persuasion-to-free-nz-pilot" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12px;">https://en.antaranews.com/news/308145/all-hopes-pinned-on-peaceful-persuasion-to-free-nz-pilot</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Human Rights Monitor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Military members alleged of torturing four Papuan students after finding ammunition</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/category/case/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">Cases</span></a><span style="color: #004b00;"> / </span><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/indonesia/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">Indonesia</span></a><span class="ast-terms-link"><span style="color: #004b00;">, </span></span><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/westpapua/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">West Papua</span></a><span style="color: #004b00;"> / <span class="posted-on">9 February 2024 </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">On 1 February 2024, four students from Hitadipa were arrested in the Sugapa District on their way back home from Nabire to participate in the upcoming elections on 14 February 2024. The students, identified as Mr Elpinus Zanambani, Mr Tenius Wonda, Mr Selianus Sondegau, and Mr Denias Imanuel Agimba, were detained by members of the military near the Sugapa airport and reportedly tortured during interrogation. They were then taken to the Sugapa Police Station, where further violence ensued during the inspection of their belongings. One of the students was found to be carrying nine cartridges of ammunition and alcohol in their bag.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The military denied the allegations of torture. According to Lieutenant Colonel Inf Candra Kurniawan, Deputy Head of Information of Kodam XVII/Cenderawasih, the arrests were made after the suspects were found with ammunition, alcohol, a net bag with Morning Star motifs, and other items considered evidence. Candra clarified that the young men were apprehended by the Yonif 330/Tri Dharma Task Force personnel at Bilogai Post due to their suspicious behaviour while riding their motorcycles. The suspects were subsequently handed over to the Sugapa Sector Police for further investigation. Candra dismissed circulating allegations of arbitrary arrests, emphasizing that the suspects were being processed according to the law.............<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/military-members-alleged-of-torturing-four-papuan-students-after-finding-ammunition/" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12px;">https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/military-members-alleged-of-torturing-four-papuan-students-after-finding-ammunition/</a></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">—————————————————————<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Human Rights Monitor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>KNPB activists found guilty – Mr Agus Kosay sentenced to 1 year, Mr Beni Murib sentenced to 10 months imprisonment</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfQnj5GmxOUCrFoh-586-blopUhZwIrHRNVqLdf25cPkoLLxaezfHzUaeObCgCvL6SivMk2CXs76FsMiW8fbAbxtMenO8lWXhDa9TLvVDRIoGOwBrqmMxnwtJerl0tE_hFebHZanzrUQ8tkVBfKb-UF6Dj7Cn0Lzh8VS_Zc41IEuzuQ_sxKOxKn5bfOZfl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfQnj5GmxOUCrFoh-586-blopUhZwIrHRNVqLdf25cPkoLLxaezfHzUaeObCgCvL6SivMk2CXs76FsMiW8fbAbxtMenO8lWXhDa9TLvVDRIoGOwBrqmMxnwtJerl0tE_hFebHZanzrUQ8tkVBfKb-UF6Dj7Cn0Lzh8VS_Zc41IEuzuQ_sxKOxKn5bfOZfl" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><br /><br /></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/category/case/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">Cases</span></a><span class="ast-terms-link"><span style="color: #004b00;">, </span></span><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/category/news/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">Human Rights News</span></a><span style="color: #004b00;"> / </span><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/indonesia/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">Indonesia</span></a><span class="ast-terms-link"><span style="color: #004b00;">, </span></span><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/westpapua/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">West Papua</span></a><span style="color: #004b00;"> / <span class="posted-on">9 February 2024 </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">On 1 February 2024, the Jayapura District Court ruled on the case of West Papua National Committee (KNPB) Chairman, Mr Agus Kosay, and KNPB Numbay Secretary, Mr Beni Murib (see photos on top and below, source: independent HRDs), finding them guilty of incitement and the persecution of Mr Ones Kobak on 18 August 2023 . Mr Kosay received a sentence of 1 year in prison, while Mr Murib was sentenced to 10 months. The cases, registered under case numbers 449/Pid.B/2023/PN Jap for Kosay and 450/Pid.B/2023/PN Jap for Murib, were heard by a panel of judges led by Mr Zaka Talpatty. Uniformed and plainclothes police officers closely monitored the court session.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">During the trial, the panel of judges noted that Mr Agus Kosay was proven to have caused losses to two groups, both in terms of goods and injuries, leading to his conviction for incitement under Article 160 of the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP). The judges sentenced Mr Kosay to 1 year in prison, with the period of detention deducted from the total sentence. Similarly, Beni Murib was found guilty of maltreatment as stipulated in Article 351 KUHP and received a 10-month prison sentence with the same deduction for detention. The judges ordered Mr Kosay and Mr Murib to pay court costs and granted them seven days to file an appeal if they objected to the decision. Previously, the public prosecutor had demanded a sentence of two years imprisonment for Mr Agus Kosay and eight months imprisonment for Mr Beni Murib.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The criminalisation of activists should be viewed with vigilance. It indicates growing restrictions on the freedom of expression, a key element of human rights and democracy. Ultimately, the legal process must adhere to international human rights standards and principles of justice. The prosecution of the KNPB activists raises significant concerns from a human rights perspective. The events leading up to their arrest and legal prosecution are an indicator of the lack of independence of the judiciary in Indonesia and the persistent pattern of criminalization of activists and human rights defenders in West Papua. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The KNPB is a Papuan movement organisation promoting the right to self-determination through a referendum. Their members have committed to non-violent protest by organising peaceful demonstrations and political discussions. In the past decade, the Indonesian police have targeted the KNPB as a subversive pro-independence organisation. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/papuan-activist-victor-yeimo-found-guilty-of-treason-after-prosecutors-appeal-longer-sentence-imposed/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">KNPB members and supporters are criminalised</span></a> and have <a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/series-of-arrests-of-knpb-members-in-jayapura-and-yahukimo-37-activists-arrested-16-tortured/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">become victims of police violence</span></a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Background<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">More than seventy police officers detained Mr Agus Kossay, KNPB Chairman, Mr Benny Murib, KNPB Secretary in Jayapura, Mr Ruben Wakla, member of the KNPB in the Yahukimo Regency, and Mr Ferry Yelipele on 2 September 2023. The </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/four-knpb-activists-arrested-in-jayapura-regency-police-press-charges-against-two-knpb-leaders/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">police officers came to Mr Kossay’s residence</span></a> in the town of Sentani around 9:00 a.m. The four activists were subsequently detained and interrogated at the Jayapura District Police Station in Doyo Baru. Mr Wakla and Mr Yelipele were released on 3 September 2023 at 8:45 pm without charges. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The police allegedly carried out the arrests because Mr Kossay had not reacted to the police summons about an argument within different KNPB fractions on 18 August 2023. Mr Kossay had honoured the first police summons but later received a second summons, which he did not attend. The arrests were carried out even though both parties called upon the authorities that the incident should be settled internally and outside of the law. On 31 October 2023, </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/knpb-leaders-a-kossay-and-b-muriel-charged-after-police-investigation-case-is-now-prosecuted/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #004b00;">investigators from the Jayapura Police in Papua Province transferred Agus Kosay, Chairman of the West Papua National Coalition (KNPB), and Numbay Beny Murib, KNPB Secretary, to the Jayapura State Prosecutor’s Office</span></a>. The activists were both named suspects in a case related to incitement on 18 August 2023 in Jayapura Regency, Papua</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #004b00; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Mr Agus Kosay and Mr Beni Murib at court, 1 February 2024</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/knpb-activists-found-guilty-mr-agus-kosay-sentenced-to-1-year-mr-beni-murib-sentenced-to-10-months-imprisonment/" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12px;">https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/knpb-activists-found-guilty-mr-agus-kosay-sentenced-to-1-year-mr-beni-murib-sentenced-to-10-months-imprisonment/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 style="break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 0cm;"><br /></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>TPNPB reportedly damages major road in Intan Jaya<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span class="apple-tab-span"><b> </b> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;">Jubi News Desk - Armed Conflict In Papua 7 February 2024<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgc6hzn71lEdobAdT1jOLXPZmC3zUzGxnhNttAyX1s6zktju5UanohDkJtP7oJLbGB-F4VcdJ9TcDiI0ZLQbU4N61FjvMiJrCeQn_m0qGhqT4HfEJ7PehfP2wiP18HDa_hs72IFztci80vquJRKMmmgoNzCKHRDeDvWVxu8tS7Gm31I2ol7pR-IZfaih-Vz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgc6hzn71lEdobAdT1jOLXPZmC3zUzGxnhNttAyX1s6zktju5UanohDkJtP7oJLbGB-F4VcdJ9TcDiI0ZLQbU4N61FjvMiJrCeQn_m0qGhqT4HfEJ7PehfP2wiP18HDa_hs72IFztci80vquJRKMmmgoNzCKHRDeDvWVxu8tS7Gm31I2ol7pR-IZfaih-Vz=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Trans Sugapa Road in Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua Province, which was damaged by the West Papua National Liberation Army or TPNPB on Sunday (4/2/2024).- Doc. Pendam XVII/Cenderawasih</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jayapura, Jubi – The armed group known as the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) reportedly damaged a major road connecting Sugapa District to Hitadipa District in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intan_Jaya_Regency" style="color: #954f72;">Intan Jaya Regency</a>, Central Papua Province, on Sunday (4/2/2024). </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">This was stated by the Acting Deputy Head of Information of the XVII/Cenderawasih Military Command, Lt. Col. Inf Candra Kurniawan, in a written press release on Monday (5/2/2024). “We received information that the TPNPB intentionally disrupted access to the trans road by excavating an approximately 1.5-meter wide and 2-meter deep trench on Mbomogo Village,” said Candra. Candra said the road damage hindered access and disrupted the daily activities of the local community. He stated that the central government and local governments are committed to developing </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/papua/" style="color: #954f72;">Papua</a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> in various sectors, including infrastructure, which is claimed to be well-received among the Papuans.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“This is evident from the high participation of the Papuan community in development, which shows that the Papuan people aspire to live in a more advanced and prosperous society,” said Candra. The escalation of armed conflict in Intan Jaya Regency has been ongoing since the exchange of fire between the TPNPB and joint Indonesia Military (TNI) and police forces on January 19, 2024. In the shootout, a personnel member of the Cartenz Peace Operation named Second Brig. Alfandi Steve Karamoy and five others died, and two were injured. (*)</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">——</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Prabowo must resist temptation to apply more force in Papua </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">New face of kindness likely to be tested by push for indigenous rights</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">NikkeiAsia. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Hamish McDonald February 27, 2024 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Hamish McDonald is the author of "Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century."</span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">After what appears to have been a decisive win by Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto in Indonesia's presidential election, many observers have been speculating about what kind of leader will emerge when he takes over from incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in October. Will it be the hot-headed army general who allegedly abducted student protesters, instigated anti-Chinese riots and came close to mounting a coup in 1998? </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Or the 2014 candidate who launched his first presidential campaign riding a white horse surrounded by strapping uniformed men? Or the stirrer of Islamist street-power who railed against foreigners during his second campaign in 2019? Or just the tubby, avuncular figure who seems to have finally won this month at age 72?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Chameleon is the word many analysts have used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">An early test could come at the far eastern end of Indonesia: the western half of the island of New Guinea, which has been restive under Jakarta's rule since it was handed over by a reluctant Netherlands 60 years ago under American pressure.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Papua is an old stomping ground of the military version of Prabowo. In 1984, he led troops from Kopassus, the army's Special Forces Command, across the border into Papua New Guinea to search for fighters from the Free Papua Movement, known by its Indonesian initials as OPM. In 1996, he led a Kopassus operation to free World Wildlife Fund hostages taken by the OPM. The mission was controversial because soldiers traveled via a white helicopter previously used by Red Cross negotiators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Enough provocations are happening now to bring this persona of Prabowo's again to the fore. Jokowi's legacy is "a better armed, better resourced, more coordinated pro-independence insurgency; higher civilian casualties; and the failure after a year to secure the release of a New Zealand pilot held hostage by the guerrillas," said the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), a Jakarta-based research group, in a report on Papua earlier this month.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Indonesia is still far from winning the hearts and minds of its Papuan citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Early on, soldiers and officials looted what the Dutch left behind. Then Jakarta held an "act of free choice" in which 1,026 handpicked indigenous representatives voted for unification with Indonesia. Although the vote was accepted by the U.N. at the time, it has been regarded as a sham by many historians as well as Papuans. Periodic protests have met harsh military crackdowns. Millions of settlers from other parts of Indonesia have moved into Papua, threatening to swamp the indigenous Melanesian population.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Papuans have been onlookers to the exploitation of the territory's immense natural wealth: the giant Freeport gold-copper mine, oil fields around the Bird's Head peninsula, a BP natural gas field in Bintuni Bay, hardwood forests logged and replaced with oil palm plantations. Indonesian military men have thrived on fees from security and the opportunity for post-retirement employment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">When the authoritarian New Order regime of late President Suharto ended in 1998, many Papuans hoped their dreams of self-determination would finally be realized under liberal-minded Abdurrahman Wahid. But initiatives launched during his brief 2000-2002 presidency were undermined by his successors. Unique among Indonesia's regions, Papua has been exempted from the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">demokrasi</em> era that followed Suharto's fall. It remains closed to foreign correspondents and U.N. human rights officials without approval from a vetting committee composed of representatives from intelligence, military and government agencies. Jakarta has tried to draw the Papuans more into national progress through new governmental structures, sharing resource revenue and making the police rather than the military the first responders to unrest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">But mobile phones and social media have penetrated military information controls to reveal protests, security crackdowns and shootings to the world, giving a boost to pro-independence political activists and guerrillas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">"For the last 20 years, the conflict has only grown worse and the last 10 years in particular have seen an escalation of violence, despite huge amounts of money and huge numbers of troops sent in," IPAC said in its report.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">A year ago, a guerrilla band destroyed a small commercial aircraft at a remote landing strip and took pilot Philip Mehrtens from New Zealand hostage. Jakarta has tried negotiating his release but also has positioned forces for a rescue attempt that IPAC said would certainly result in Mehrtens' death and many civilian casualties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">In a presidential debate in December, the Prabowo of old made an appearance as he promised to "support" Papuans by strengthening the security apparatus in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">"We see there is meddling by foreign hands there," he said. "And we see that certain powers always want Indonesia to disintegrate and fracture." The vagueness of his policy platform has left people guessing about his intentions, said Andreas Harsono, Indonesia director for U.S.-based campaign group Human Rights Watch.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">"But whatever Prabowo will do, the importance of human rights issues and respect for their land will still be front and center for the indigenous people in West Papua," he said. "If Prabowo wants to have a model on how he should work on West Papua, he could indeed look at Wahid."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jokowi, who initially tried to open Papua to outside scrutiny but was overruled by his nationalist and military supporters, may have some moderating influence over a president to whom he lent his popularity -- and his eldest son as running mate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">But the biggest block of seats in the legislature, and probably the speakership, looks set to go to the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, led by Megawati Sukarnoputri. The daughter of founding president Sukarno who won Papua from the Dutch, Sukarnoputri applied military solutions to insurgencies during her own term as president. Her party may not resist if Prabowo seeks to apply forceful methods.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The pilot hostage drama may well be over by the time Prabowo takes charge. But other flashpoints could tempt him into a shock military response to the embarrassment of Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the U.S. -- countries that have positioned themselves as friends and supporters of Melanesians amid China's efforts to boost its influence in the Pacific. These partners should quietly suggest patient dialogue and avoidance of armed confrontation where possible as a better approach for the new leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Hearing in Dutch Parliament calls for UN visit to West Papua | ULMWP</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> Free West Papua Campaign Nederland <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Cambria, serif; padding: 0cm;"><yt-attributed-string class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span role="text" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on
the urgency of a UN visit to West Papua was held in the Dutch Parliament
yesterday (28th February). Held in the Parliament of West Papua’s former
coloniser, the hearing is the third in a series of ULMWP and IPWP meetings
demanding that Indonesia facilitate a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
fact-finding mission immediately. International pressure is mounting on
Indonesia to grant the UN access to West Papua. The Brussels Declaration, a new
statement calling for a visit and accusing Indonesia of deliberately blocking
international oversight, has now been signed by over 55 Parliamentarians from
around the world. Over 100 countries have demanded a UN visit, including all
member states of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), the Organisation of African,
Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS), the European Commission, and individual
nations including the UK, Spain, and the Netherlands. At the 2023 annual
meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), Melanesian leaders demanded
that a UN visit take place before the next MSG meeting, scheduled for April
2024. The meeting was addressed by ULMWP President Benny Wenda, ULMWP Prime
Minister Edison Waromi (through video link), Honorary Consul of the Vanuatu
Embassy Elisabeth van Vliet, ex-MEP and current-MEP candidate Pernando Barrena,
and head of the ULMWP EU Mission Oridek Ap. Demonstrations took place across
various West Papuan regions in support of the meeting. - UK Parliament meeting
in London, October 2023 - EU Parliament meeting in Brussels, January 2024,
launching the Brussels Declaration. Any Parliamentarians or diplomats who wish
to sign the declaration should contact <a href="mailto:office@ipwp.org" style="color: #954f72;">office@ipwp.org</a>.</span></yt-attributed-string></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">youtube</span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="applewebdata://CA804175-305B-48FF-A5BE-63E7457D7054/%0bhttps:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Wd6bQLGdY" style="color: #954f72;"><br /></a></span></u><u class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="color: blue; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a class="" href="applewebdata://CA804175-305B-48FF-A5BE-63E7457D7054/%0bhttps:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Wd6bQLGdY" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Wd6bQLGdY</a></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Five soldiers named suspects in Jayawijaya police station attack</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> News Desk (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta Thu, March 7, 2024 </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> While there were no casualties in the incident, several windows at the police station were broken by stones. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Five Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers have been named suspects in an attack on a police station in Jayawijaya, Papua Highlands. </span> <span style="background-color: white;">As part of the investigation, the Region XVII/Cendrawasih Military Police have examined 21 TNI soldiers suspected of being connected to the attack. </span> <span style="background-color: white;">"We examined all those who were involved either in directing or carrying out the attack.</span> <span style="background-color: white;"> Out of the 21 people, five were named suspects and will be prosecuted," said Region XVII/Cenderawasih Military Commander Maj. Gen. Izak Pengemanan in Jayapura on Tuesday.</span> <span style="background-color: white;"> Izak confirmed that authorities had detained the five suspects.</span> <span style="background-color: white;"> Even so, he affirmed that the attack by TNI Infantry Battalion (Yonif) 756/WMAS was a violation of the code of conduct. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;">"[The attack did not represent the TNI’s] esprit de corps. The Indonesian Military has never recognized the spirit in that way. The spirit is the soul of the unit to establish a good reputation and the unit’s passion. Therefore, such an incident is a violation," he said. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <span style="background-color: white;">The Jayawijaya police station was attacked by several TNI soldiers on Saturday at around 8:10 p.m. local time, causing damage to the station. </span> <span style="background-color: white;">While there were no casualties in the incident, several windows at the police station were broken by stones. Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Mathius D. Fakhiri had ordered Jayawijaya Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Heri Wibowo to repair the damage caused by the attack. "So, it's all right. I have asked the Police Chief to fix it. Later, the [other] issues will be taken over by the Pangdam," said Mathius.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Police to recruit 10 thousand personnel to be assigned in Papua </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">March 3, 2024 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) - Assistant to the National Police (Polri) Chief, Inspector General Dedi Prasetyo, stated that his side will recruit 10 thousand people to be assigned in the four provinces in Papua. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The recruitment of 10 thousand personnel will be carried out from 2024 to 2028, Prasetyo said here on Sunday.</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">According to him, the Polri will recruit two thousand people in April this year. The new recruits will be educated at the State Police School (SPN) in Java.</span> <span style="background-color: white;">Prasetyo hoped that the regional police chiefs in Papua could be active in disseminating information for the new recruits.</span> <span style="background-color: white;">He said that those who will be recruited are Indigenous Papuans and those who were born and raised in Papua.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">They will be educated for five months in SPNs in Java, and after their education, they will be temporarily assigned to the regions for adjustment before being returned for duty in Papua.</span></span> <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Prasetyo said he is committed to accepting indigenous Papuans to minimize the transfer of Polri members from outside Papua to Papua.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">He explained that the two thousand personnel will include 150 paramedics, especially doctors. The medical personnel recruitment will be carried out in collaboration with Cenderawasih University (Uncen).</span> <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Papua Police Chief, Inspector General Mathius Fakhiri, said that due to the expansive region, the number of local police stations is limited. Some areas even only have two stations, such as the Nduga Police and the Puncak Police.</span> <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"Hopefully, the increasing number of police members can expand services to the community," Fakhiri said.</span> <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The territory of the Papua Regional Police includes Papua, Highland Papua, Central Papua, and South Papua.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" />Related news: <a href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306306/papua-police-search-for-attackers-of-wing-air-plane-in-wamena" title="Papua police search for attackers of Wing Air plane in Wamena"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;">Papua police search for attackers of Wing Air plane in Wamena</span></a><br />Related news: <a href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/304062/more-personnel-of-cartenz-task-force-brimob-deployed-to-sugapa" title="More personnel of Cartenz Task Force, Brimob deployed to Sugapa"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;">More personnel of Cartenz Task Force, Brimob deployed to Sugapa</span></a><br />Related news: <a href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/302772/operation-cartenzs-peace-prioritizes-persuasive-measures-police" title="Operation Cartenz's Peace prioritizes persuasive measures: Police"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;">Operation Cartenz's Peace prioritizes persuasive measures: Police</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Translator: Evarukdijati, Kenzu Editor: Azis Kurmala</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">PNG and Indonesian defence deal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In 2010, PNG and Indonesia signed a defence cooperation deal where they agreed to share military intelligence, give logistical support and coordinate security operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">After nearly 14 years of signing PNG has ratified the pact with Indonesia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">An opinion piece on what it means for West Papua by Ali Mirin in the Asia Pacific Report <o:p></o:p></span><a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/03/11/question-for-png-foreign-minister-tkatchenko-what-does-the-defence-pact-mean-for-west-papua/and" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12px;">https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/03/11/question-for-png-foreign-minister-tkatchenko-what-does-the-defence-pact-mean-for-west-papua/and</a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">a</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">nd the Green Left.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><a class="" href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/what-will-indonesia-png-defence-pact-mean-west-papua" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12px;">https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/what-will-indonesia-png-defence-pact-mean-west-papua</a></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">Opinion pieces/media releases/reports etc.</span></b></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Philip Mehrtens: One Year in Captivity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/02/07/philip-mehrtens-one-year-in-captivity/" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/02/07/philip-mehrtens-one-year-in-captivity/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">New Zealander Pilot’s Fate Unclear as Insurgents Launch Offensive in West Papua <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://jamestown.org/program/new-zealander-pilots-fate-unclear-as-insurgents-launch-offensive-in-west-papua/?fbclid=IwAR3qojt4sCPkjslh9vJAkzvO6bQs8OMYBW8hmvvnWqxiS9gqMZy2N2hC8xA" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">https://jamestown.org/program/new-zealander-pilots-fate-unclear-as-insurgents-launch-offensive-in-west-papua/?fbclid=IwAR3qojt4sCPkjslh9vJAkzvO6bQs8OMYBW8hmvvnWqxiS9gqMZy2N2hC8xA#</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">New Zealand pilot kidnapped a year ago in West Papua will be freed, rebel group says<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/07/kidnapped-nz-pilot-phillip-mehrtens-release-west-papua" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/07/kidnapped-nz-pilot-phillip-mehrtens-release-west-papua</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Wenda accuses Indonesia of more human rights atrocities in Papua </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="applewebdata://754C244D-BCC4-4135-8A06-5B7F1F4F404F/%0bhttps:/asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/16/wenda-accuses-indonesia-of-more-human-rights-atrocities-in-papua/" style="color: #954f72;"><br /></a></span></u><u class=""><span class="" style="color: blue; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a class="" href="applewebdata://754C244D-BCC4-4135-8A06-5B7F1F4F404F/%0bhttps:/asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/16/wenda-accuses-indonesia-of-more-human-rights-atrocities-in-papua/" style="color: #954f72;">https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/16/wenda-accuses-indonesia-of-more-human-rights-atrocities-in-papua/</a></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><u class=""><br /></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Wenda calls for Dutch support over UN visit, slams Prabowo presidency </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/03/05/wenda-calls-for-dutch-support-over-un-visit-slams-prabowo-presidency/" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/03/05/wenda-calls-for-dutch-support-over-un-visit-slams-prabowo-presidency/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">‘</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Winter is coming’: activists’ fears as Prabowo Subianto likely wins Indonesia election</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><a class="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/indonesia-presidential-election-results-prabowo-subianto-likely-victory" style="color: #954f72; letter-spacing: normal;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/indonesia-presidential-election-results-prabowo-subianto-likely-victory</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Prabowo Subianto’s human rights abuses in Timor-Leste</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a class="" href="https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2024/03/01/chasing-prabowo-timor-leste" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2024/03/01/chasing-prabowo-timor-leste</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span class="" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Prabowo's military record in public spotlight again after being made 4-star general<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/news/2024-02-28/prabowos-military-record-in-public-spotlight-again-after-being-made-4-star-general.html" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://www.indoleft.org/news/2024-02-28/prabowos-military-record-in-public-spotlight-again-after-being-made-4-star-general.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">What does a Prabowo Subianto presidency mean for Australia's relationship with Indonesia?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-17/what-does-prabowo-subianto-presidency-australia-indonesia/103475714" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-17/what-does-prabowo-subianto-presidency-australia-indonesia/103475714</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Press Release: London Exchange to be taken to High Court for trading in 'dirty metals' in unprecedented legal action. </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><a class="" href="https://www.tapol.org/news/press-release-london-exchange-be-taken-high-court-trading-dirty-metals-unprecedented-legal" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal;">https://www.tapol.org/news/press-release-london-exchange-be-taken-high-court-trading-dirty-metals-unprecedented-legal</a></span></b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">AWPA condemns the arrest and the humiliation of two West Papuan teenagers by the Indonesian security forces</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2024/02/australia-west-papua-association-sydney.html" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2024/02/australia-west-papua-association-sydney.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Previous update. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><a class="" href="https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2024/02/awpa-west-papua-update-no-12024.html" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2024/02/awpa-west-papua-update-no-12024.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;">------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p></span></b></b></div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-16934367052899652852024-03-12T12:17:00.000-07:002024-03-12T12:17:33.740-07:001) Question for PNG foreign minister Tkatchenko – what does the defence pact mean for West Papua?<p> </p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class=""><div class="">2) What will the Indonesia-PNG defence pact mean for West Papua?</div><div class=""><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><span class="" property="schema:name" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: slategrey; font-size: 12px;">3) Rights commission asked to seriously investigate recent violence in Papua</span></h2><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/03/11/question-for-png-foreign-minister-tkatchenko-what-does-the-defence-pact-mean-for-west-papua/?fbclid=IwAR2AaqgoflFCay_yfzkjVlnOTYjCZR6oe7a5QLU2hY5U5Ze8K3w2ucIEKcM">https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/03/11/question-for-png-foreign-minister-tkatchenko-what-does-the-defence-pact-mean-for-west-papua/?fbclid=IwAR2AaqgoflFCay_yfzkjVlnOTYjCZR6oe7a5QLU2hY5U5Ze8K3w2ucIEKcM</a></div><div class=""><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 0px 7px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">1) Question for PNG foreign minister Tkatchenko – what does the defence pact mean for West Papua?</span></h1><div class="td-module-meta-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 16px; min-height: 17px;"><div class="td-post-author-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; position: relative; top: 2px;">By <a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/author/pmc-editor/" itemprop="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 3px; text-decoration: none;">APR editor</a> - </div> <div class="td-post-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; display: inline-block; margin-left: 4px; position: relative; top: 2px;"><time class="entry-date updated td-module-date" datetime="2024-03-11T16:19:54+00:00" itemprop="dateCreated" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">March 11, 2024</time></div></div></div><div class="td-module-meta-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 16px; min-height: 17px;"><div class="td-post-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; display: inline-block; margin-left: 4px; position: relative; top: 2px;"><time class="entry-date updated td-module-date" datetime="2024-03-11T16:19:54+00:00" itemprop="dateCreated" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br class="" /></time></div></div><div class="td-module-meta-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 16px; min-height: 17px;"><div class="td-post-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; display: inline-block; margin-left: 4px; position: relative; top: 2px;"><time class="entry-date updated td-module-date" datetime="2024-03-11T16:19:54+00:00" itemprop="dateCreated" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ANALYSIS:</strong><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> By Ali Mirin</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have formally ratified a defence agreement a decade after its initial signing.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko and the Indonesian ambassador to the Pacific nation, Andriana Supandy, convened a press briefing in Port Moresby on February 29 to declare the ratification.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The agreement enables an enhancement of military operations between the two countries, with a specific focus on strengthening patrols along the border between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.</p><ul class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/?s=Other+West+Papua+reports" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">READ MORE:</strong> Other West Papua reports</a></li></ul><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">According to Tkatchenko as reported by <a class="" href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/510486/papua-new-guinea-indonesia-ratify-defense-deal-to-expand-security-cooperation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">RNZ Pacific citing <em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Benar News</em></a>, “The Joint border patrols and different types of defence cooperation between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea of course will be part of the ever-growing security mechanism.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“It would be wonderful to witness the collaboration between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, both now and in the future, as they work together side by side. Indonesia is a rising Southeast Asian power that reaches into the South Pacific region and dwarfs Papua New Guinea in population, economic size and military might,” added the minister.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">In recent years, Indonesia has been asserting its own regional hegemony in the Pacific amid the rivalries of two superpowers — the United States and China.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Indonesia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs <a class="" href="https://kemlu.go.id/portal/en/read/5663/berita/indonesian-diplomacy-continues-to-strengthen-pacific-cooperation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">Retno Marsudi reiterated Indonesia’s commitment</a> to bolster collaboration with Pacific nations amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the Indo-Pacific region during the recent 2024 annual press statement held by the minister for foreign affairs at the Asian-African Conference in Bandung.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Diverse Indigenous states</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Pacific Islands are home to diverse sovereign Indigenous states and islands, and also home to two influential regional powers, Australia and New Zealand. This vast diverse region is increasingly becoming a pivotal strategic and political battleground for foreign powers — aiming to win the hearts and minds of the populations and governments in the region.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Numerous visible and hidden agreements, treaties, talks, and partnerships are being established among local, regional, and global stakeholders in the affairs of this vast region.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The Pacific region carries great importance for powerful military and economic entities such as China, the United States and its coalition, and Indonesia. For them, it serves as a crucial area for strategic bases, resource acquisition, food, and commercial routes.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">For Indigenous islanders, states, and tribal communities, the primary concern is around the loss of their territories, islands, and other vital cultural aspects, such as languages and traditional wisdom.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The crumbling of Oceania, reminiscent of its past colonisation by various European powers, is now occurring. However, this time it is being orchestrated by foreign entities appointing their own influential local pawns.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">With these local pawns in place, foreign monarchs, nobility, warlords, and miscreants are advancing to reshape the region’s fate.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The rejection by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to acknowledge the representation of West Papua by the United Liberation for West Papua (ULMWP) as a full member of the regional body in August 2023 highlights the diminishing influence of MSG leaders in decision-making processes concerning issues that are deemed crucial by the Papuan community as part of the “Melanesian family affairs”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suspicion over ‘external forces’</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />This raises suspicion of external forces at play within the Melanesian nations, manipulating their destinies. The question arises, who is orchestrating the fate of the Melanesian nations?</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Is it Jakarta, Beijing, Washington, or Canberra?</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">In a world characterised by instability, safety and security emerges as a crucial prerequisite for fostering a peaceful coexistence, nurturing friendships, and enabling development.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The critical question at hand pertains to the nature of the threats that warrant such protective measures, the identities of both the endangered and the aggressors, and the underlying rationale and mechanisms involved. Whose safety hangs in the balance in this discourse?</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">And between whom does the spectre of threat loom?</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">If you are a realist in a world of policymaking, it is perhaps wise not to antagonise the big guy with the big weapon in the room. The Minister of Papua New Guinea may be attempting to underscore the importance of Indonesia in the Pacific region, as indicated by his statements.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">If you are West Papuan, it makes little difference whether one leans towards realism or idealism. What truly matters is the survival of West Papuans, in the midst of the significant settler colonial presence of Asian Indonesians in their ancestral homeland.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">West Papuan refugee camp</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Two years ago, PNG’s minister stated the profound existential sentiments experienced by the West Papuans in 2022 while visiting a West Papuan refugee community in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">During the visit, the minister addressed the West Papuan refugees with the following words:</p><blockquote class="" style="border-left-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; margin: 40px 34.796875px 38px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; font-style: italic; line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">“THE LINE ON THE MAP IN MIDDLE OF THE ISLAND (NEW GUINEA) IS THE PRODUCT OF COLONIAL IMPACT. THESE WEST PAPUANS ARE PART OF OUR FAMILY, PART OF OUR MEMBERS AND PART OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. THEY ARE NOT STRANGERS.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; font-style: italic; line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">“WE ARE SEPARATED ONLY BY IMAGINARY LINES, WHICH IS WHY I AM HERE. I DID NOT COME HERE TO FIGHT, TO YELL, TO SCREAM, TO DICTATE, BUT TO REACH A COMMON UNDERSTANDING — TO RESPECT THE LAW OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF INDONESIA.”</p></blockquote><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">These types of ambiguous and opaque messages and rhetoric not only instil fake hope among the West Papuans, but also produce despair among displaced Papuans on their own soil.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The seemingly paradoxical language coupled with the significant recent security agreement with the entity — Indonesia — that has been oppressing the West Papuans under the pretext of sovereignty, signifies one ominous prospect:</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Is PNG endorsing a “death decree” for the Indonesian security apparatus to hunt Papuans along the border and mountainous region of West Papua and Papua New Guinea?</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Security for West Papua<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>Currently, the situation in West Papua is deteriorating steadily. Thousands of Indonesian military personnel have been deployed to various regions in West Papua, especially in the areas afflicted by conflict, such as Nduga, Yahukimo, Maybrat, Intan Jaya, Puncak, Puncak Jaya, Star Mountain, and along the border separating Papua New Guinea from West Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">On the 27 February 2024, Indonesian military personnel captured two teenage students and fatally shot a Papuan civilian in the Yahukimo district. They alleged that the deceased individual was affiliated with the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNB), although this assertion has yet to be verified by the TPNPB.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Such incidents are tragically a common occurrence throughout West Papua, as the Indonesian military continue to target and wrongfully accuse innocent West Papuans in conflict-ridden regions of being associated with the TPNPB.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">These deplorable acts transpired just prior to the ratification of a border operation agreement between the governments of the Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">As the security agreement was being finalised, the Indonesian government announced a new military campaign in the highlands of West Papua. This operation, is named as “Habema” — meaning “must succeed to the maximum” — and was initiated in Jakarta on the 29 February 2024.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Agus Subiyanto, the Indonesian military command and police command stated during the announcement:</p><blockquote class="" style="border-left-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; margin: 40px 34.796875px 38px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; font-style: italic; line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">“MY APPROACH FOR PAPUA INVOLVES SMART POWER, A BLEND OF SOFT POWER, HARD POWER, AND MILITARY DIPLOMACY. ESTABLISHING THE HABEMA OPERATIONAL COMMAND IS A KEY STEP IN ENSURING MAXIMUM SUCCESS.”</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The looming military operation in West Papua and its border regions, employing advanced smart weapon technology poised a profound danger for Papuans.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">A looming humanitarian crisis in West Papua, PNG, broader Melanesia and the Pacific region is inevitable, as unmanned aerial drones discern targets indiscriminately, wreak havoc in homes, and villages of the Papuan communities.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The Indonesian security forces have increasingly employed such sophisticated technology in conflict zones since 2019, including regions like Intan Jaya, Yahukimo, Maybrat, Pegunungan Bintang, and other volatile regions in West Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Consequently, villages have been razed to the ground, compelling inhabitants to flee to the jungle in search of sanctuary — an exodus that continues unabated as they remain displaced from their homes indefinitely.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">On 5 April 2018, the Indonesian government announced a military operation known as Damai Cartenz, which remains active in conflict-ridden regions, such as Yahukimo, Pegunungan Bintang, Nduga, and Intan Jaya.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The Habema security initiative will further threaten Papuans residing in the conflict zones, particularly in the vicinity of the border shared by Papua New Guinea and West Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">There are already hundreds of people from the Star Mountains who have fled across to Tumolbil, in the Yapsie sub-district of the PNG province of West Sepik, situated on the border. They fled to PNG because of Indonesia’s military operation (RNZ 2021).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">According to <a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/16/wenda-accuses-indonesia-of-more-human-rights-atrocities-in-papua/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">RNZ News, individuals fleeing military actions</a> conducted by the Indonesian government, including helicopter raids that caused significant harm to approximately 14 villages, have left behind foot tracks.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The speaker explained that Papua New Guineans occasionally cross over to the Indonesian side, typically seeking improved access to basic services.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The PNG government has been placing refugees from West Papua in border camps, the biggest one being at East Awin in the Western Province for many decades, with assistance from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How should PNG, UN respond?<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>The <a class="" href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007</a>, article 36, states that “Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation with their own members as well as other peoples across borders”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Over the past six years, regional and international organisations, such as the Melanesian Spearheads groups (MSG), Pacific islands Forum (PIF), Africa, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP), the UN’s human rights commissioner as well as dozens of countries and individual parliaments, lawyers, academics, and politicians have been asking the Indonesian government to allow the UN’s human rights commissioner to visit West Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">However, to date, no response has been received from the Indonesian government.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What does this security deal mean for West Papuans?<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>This is not just a simple security arrangement between Jakarta and Port Moresby to address border conflicts, but rather an issue of utmost importance for the people of Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">It concerns the sovereignty of a nation — West Papua — that has been unjustly seized by Indonesia, while the international community watched in silence, witnessing the unfurling and unparalleled destruction of human lives and the ecological system.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">There is one noble thing the foreign minister of PNG and his government can do: ask why Jakarta is not responding to the request for a UN visit made by the international community, rather than endorsing an ‘illegal security pact’ with the illegal Indonesia colonial occupier over his supposed “family members separated only by imaginary lines”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ali Mirin is a West Papuan from the Kimyal tribe of the highlands that share a border with the Star Mountain region of Papua New Guinea. He graduated last year with a Master of Arts in International Relations from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.</em></p></div></blockquote></div></time></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/what-will-indonesia-png-defence-pact-mean-west-papua">https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/what-will-indonesia-png-defence-pact-mean-west-papua</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) What will the Indonesia-PNG defence pact mean for West Papua?</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Ali Mirin March 12, 2024Issue 1401World</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 20px 0px 1.3em;">Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have formally ratified a defence agreement a decade after its initial signing.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko and the Indonesian ambassador to the Pacific nation, Andriana Supandy, convened a press briefing in Port Moresby on February 29 to declare the ratification.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The agreement enables an enhancement of military operations between the two countries, with a specific focus on strengthening patrols along the border between PNG and Indonesia.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">According to Tkatchenko as reported by <a class="" href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/510486/papua-new-guinea-indonesia-ratify-defense-deal-to-expand-security-cooperation" style="color: #224c83;" target="_blank">RNZ Pacific citing <em class="">Benar News</em></a>, “The Joint border patrols and different types of defence cooperation between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea of course will be part of the ever-growing security mechanism.”</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">“It would be wonderful to witness the collaboration between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, both now and in the future, as they work together side by side. Indonesia is a rising Southeast Asian power that reaches into the South Pacific region and dwarfs Papua New Guinea in population, economic size and military might,” added the minister.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">In recent years, Indonesia has been asserting its own regional hegemony in the Pacific amid the rivalries of two superpowers — the United States and China.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Indonesia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs <a class="" href="https://kemlu.go.id/portal/en/read/5663/berita/indonesian-diplomacy-continues-to-strengthen-pacific-cooperation" style="color: #224c83;" target="_blank">Retno Marsudi reiterated Indonesia’s commitment</a> to bolster collaboration with Pacific nations amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the Indo-Pacific region during the recent 2024 annual press statement held by the minister for foreign affairs at the Asian-African Conference in Bandung.</p><h2 class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Oswald, Tahoma, Verdana, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 29px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Diverse Indigenous states</span></h2><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The Pacific Islands are home to diverse sovereign Indigenous states and islands, and also home to two influential regional powers, Australia and New Zealand. This vast diverse region is increasingly becoming a pivotal strategic and political battleground for foreign powers — aiming to win the hearts and minds of the populations and governments in the region.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Numerous visible and hidden agreements, treaties, talks, and partnerships are being established among local, regional, and global stakeholders in the affairs of this vast region.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The Pacific region carries great importance for powerful military and economic entities such as China, the United States and its coalition, and Indonesia. For them, it serves as a crucial area for strategic bases, resource acquisition, food, and commercial routes.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">For Indigenous islanders, states, and tribal communities, the primary concern is around the loss of their territories, islands, and other vital cultural aspects, such as languages and traditional wisdom.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The crumbling of Oceania, reminiscent of its past colonisation by various European powers, is now occurring. However, this time it is being orchestrated by foreign entities appointing their own influential local pawns.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">With these local pawns in place, foreign monarchs, nobility, warlords, and miscreants are advancing to reshape the region’s fate.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The rejection by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to acknowledge the representation of West Papua by the United Liberation for West Papua (ULMWP) as a full member of the regional body in August 2023 highlights the diminishing influence of MSG leaders in decision-making processes concerning issues that are deemed crucial by the Papuan community as part of the “Melanesian family affairs”.</p><h2 class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Oswald, Tahoma, Verdana, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 29px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Suspicion over ‘external forces’</span></h2><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">This raises suspicion of external forces at play within the Melanesian nations, manipulating their destinies. The question arises, who is orchestrating the fate of the Melanesian nations?</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Is it Jakarta, Beijing, Washington, or Canberra?</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">In a world characterised by instability, safety and security emerges as a crucial prerequisite for fostering a peaceful coexistence, nurturing friendships, and enabling development.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The critical question at hand pertains to the nature of the threats that warrant such protective measures, the identities of both the endangered and the aggressors, and the underlying rationale and mechanisms involved. Whose safety hangs in the balance in this discourse?</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">And between whom does the spectre of threat loom?</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">If you are a realist in a world of policymaking, it is perhaps wise not to antagonise the big guy with the big weapon in the room. PNG’s minister may be attempting to underscore the importance of Indonesia in the Pacific region, as indicated by his statements.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">If you are West Papuan, it makes little difference whether one leans towards realism or idealism. What truly matters is the survival of West Papuans, in the midst of the significant settler colonial presence of Asian Indonesians in their ancestral homeland.</p><h2 class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Oswald, Tahoma, Verdana, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 29px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">West Papuan refugee camp</span></h2><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Two years ago, PNG’s minister stated the profound existential sentiments experienced by the West Papuans in 2022 while visiting a West Papuan refugee community in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">During the visit, the minister addressed the West Papuan refugees, saying: “The line on the map in middle of the island (New Guinea) is the product of colonial impact. These West Papuans are part of our family, part of our members and part of Papua New Guinea. They are not strangers.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">“We are separated only by imaginary lines, which is why I am here. I did not come here to fight, to yell, to scream, to dictate, but to reach a common understanding — to respect the law of Papua New Guinea and the sovereignty of Indonesia.”</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">These types of ambiguous and opaque messages and rhetoric not only instil fake hope among the West Papuans, but also produce despair among displaced Papuans on their own soil.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The seemingly paradoxical language coupled with the significant recent security agreement with the entity — Indonesia — that has been oppressing the West Papuans under the pretext of sovereignty, signifies one ominous prospect:</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Is PNG endorsing a “death decree” for the Indonesian security apparatus to hunt Papuans along the border and mountainous region of West Papua and PNG?</p><h2 class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Oswald, Tahoma, Verdana, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 29px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Security for West Papua</span></h2><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Currently, the situation in West Papua is deteriorating steadily. Thousands of Indonesian military personnel have been deployed to various regions in West Papua, especially in the areas afflicted by conflict, such as Nduga, Yahukimo, Maybrat, Intan Jaya, Puncak, Puncak Jaya, Star Mountain, and along the border separating PNG from West Papua.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Indonesian military personnel captured two teenage students and fatally shot a Papuan civilian in the Yahukimo district on February 27. They alleged that the deceased was affiliated with the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNB), although this has yet to be verified by the TPNPB.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Such incidents are tragically a common occurrence throughout West Papua, as the Indonesian military continue to target and wrongfully accuse innocent West Papuans in conflict-ridden regions of being associated with the TPNPB.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">These deplorable acts transpired just prior to the ratification of a border operation agreement between the governments of the PNG and Indonesia.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">As the security agreement was being finalised, the Indonesian government announced a new military campaign in the highlands of West Papua on February 29. The operation is called “Habema” — meaning “must succeed to the maximum”.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Agus Subiyanto, the Indonesian military command and police command stated during the announcement: “My approach for Papua involves smart power, a blend of soft power, hard power, and military diplomacy. Establishing the Habema operational command is a key step in ensuring maximum success.”</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The looming military operation in West Papua and its border regions, employing advanced smart weapon technology poised a profound danger for Papuans.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">A looming humanitarian crisis in West Papua, PNG, broader Melanesia and the Pacific region is inevitable, as unmanned aerial drones discern targets indiscriminately, wreak havoc in homes, and villages of the Papuan communities.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The Indonesian security forces have increasingly employed such sophisticated technology in conflict zones since 2019, including regions like Intan Jaya, Yahukimo, Maybrat, Pegunungan Bintang, and other volatile regions in West Papua.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Consequently, villages have been razed to the ground, compelling inhabitants to flee to the jungle in search of sanctuary — an exodus that continues unabated as they remain displaced from their homes indefinitely.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The Indonesian government launched a military operation known as Damai Cartenz on April 5, 2018, which remains active in conflict-ridden regions, such as Yahukimo, Pegunungan Bintang, Nduga, and Intan Jaya.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The Habema security initiative will further threaten Papuans residing in the conflict zones, particularly in the vicinity of the border shared by PNG and West Papua.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">There are already hundreds of people from the Star Mountains who have fled across to Tumolbil — in the Yapsie sub-district of the PNG border province of West Sepik — due to Indonesia’s military operation (RNZ 2021).</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">According to <a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/16/wenda-accuses-indonesia-of-more-human-rights-atrocities-in-papua/" style="color: #224c83;" target="_blank">RNZ News, individuals fleeing military actions</a> conducted by the Indonesian government, including helicopter raids that caused significant harm to approximately 14 villages, have left behind foot tracks.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The speaker explained that Papua New Guineans occasionally cross over to the Indonesian side, typically seeking improved access to basic services.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The PNG government has been placing refugees from West Papua in border camps, the biggest one being at East Awin in the Western Province for many decades, with assistance from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).</p><h2 class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Oswald, Tahoma, Verdana, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 29px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">How should PNG, UN respond?</span></h2><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">The <a class="" href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf" style="color: #224c83;" target="_blank">UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007</a>, article 36, states that “Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation with their own members as well as other peoples across borders”.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">Over the past six years, regional and international organisations, such as the MSG, Pacific islands Forum, Africa, Caribbean and Pacific states, the UNHRC as well as dozens of countries and individual parliaments, lawyers, academics, and politicians have been asking the Indonesian government to allow the UN’s human rights commissioner to visit West Papua.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">However, to date, no response has been received from the Indonesian government.</p><h2 class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Oswald, Tahoma, Verdana, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 29px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">What does this security deal mean for West Papuans?</span></h2><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">This is not just a simple security arrangement between Jakarta and Port Moresby to address border conflicts, but rather an issue of utmost importance for the people of Papua.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">It concerns the sovereignty of a nation — West Papua — that has been unjustly seized by Indonesia, while the international community watched in silence, witnessing the unfurling and unparalleled destruction of human lives and the ecological system.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px;">There is one noble thing the foreign minister of PNG and his government can do: ask why Jakarta is not responding to the request for a UN visit made by the international community, rather than endorsing an “illegal security pact” with the illegal Indonesia colonial occupier over his supposed “family members separated only by imaginary lines”.</p><p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Nunito Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 1.3em 0px 0px;">[Ali Mirin is a West Papuan from the Kimyal tribe of the highlands bordering the Star Mountain region of Papua New Guinea. He has a Master of Arts in International Relations from Flinders University.]</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">———————————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><b class=""><a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/news/2024-03-04/rights-commission-asked-to-seriously-investigate-recent-violence-in-papua.html">https://www.indoleft.org/news/2024-03-04/rights-commission-asked-to-seriously-investigate-recent-violence-in-papua.html</a></b></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><span class="" property="schema:name" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: slategrey; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">3) Rights commission asked to seriously investigate recent violence in Papua</span></h2><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><a class="" href="http://kompas.com/">Kompas.com</a> – March 4, 2024</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">Sabrina Asril, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (<a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Kontras" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Kontras</a>) is asking the National Human Rights Commission (<a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Komnas%20HAM" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Komnas HAM</a>) to be serious in investigating the recent violence that has occurred in <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Papua" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Papua</a>.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">Kontras Coordinator <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Dimas%20Bagus%20Arya" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Dimas Bagus Arya</a> said this is important in order to stop a repeat of the violence.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">"[We're asking] Komnas HAM to immediately conduct an independent and impartial investigation into all alleged acts of violence, torture and alleged <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/human%20rights%20violations" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">human rights violations</a> that have occurred in Papua", said Arya during a press conference at the Kontras office in Kwitang, Central Jakarta, on Monday March 4.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">The call was made following several incidents of violence in Papua over the last two months that has claimed four lives.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">Kontras noted that there were seven incidents of violence between January and February resulting in 10 people being injured and four others dying.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">This adds the list of victims of violence in Papua. In 2023, Kontras recorded 49 incidents of violence with 67 people injured and 41 killed.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">"These acts of violence included shootings, torture and arbitrary arrests", he added.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">Arya also said that the number of cases of violence in Papua is directly proportional to the application of a military approach by the government.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">Yet, said Arya, this policy of resolving conflicts is still one of the factors continuing to the recurrence of violence in the land of Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">"We project that incidents such as this will continue to be repeated in the land of Papua if the government does not conduct a review and evaluation of the security approach and military operations that are currently being pursued in the land of Papua", he said.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">[Translated by James Balowski. The original title of the article was "Komnas HAM Diminta Serius Investigasi Kekerasan di Papua Sampai Tuntas".]</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">Source: <a class="" href="https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2024/03/04/20085621/komnas-ham-diminta-serius-investigasi-kekerasan-di-papua-sampai-tuntas" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2024/03/04/20085621/komnas-ham-diminta-serius-investigasi-kekerasan-di-papua-sampai-tuntas</a></p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-----------------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-29395585488513413852024-03-11T12:38:00.000-07:002024-03-11T12:38:29.671-07:00 All hopes pinned on peaceful persuasion to free NZ pilot <p> <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/308145/all-hopes-pinned-on-peaceful-persuasion-to-free-nz-pilot" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">https://en.antaranews.com/news/308145/all-hopes-pinned-on-peaceful-persuasion-to-free-nz-pilot</a></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">All hopes pinned on peaceful persuasion to free NZ pilot </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> March 11, 2024 19:44 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government is continuing efforts to free New Zealander pilot Philip Mark Mehrtens, who has been held hostage by an armed separatist group in Papua since February 7, 2023.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Mehrtens, a pilot from Susi Air, was abducted by the group, led by Egianus Kogoya, shortly after landing in Paro, Nduga district, Papua Pegunungan province.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">After taking over as Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs less than a month ago, Hadi Tjahjanto has moved swiftly to seek ways to free the pilot.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">On February 21, 2024, one week after his induction as minister, Tjahjanto held a discussion with three leaders from Nduga.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In Jakarta on February 28, Tjahjanto outlined a plan for freeing Mehrtens by using the church approach. The approach has been chosen considering that the majority of people in Papua are Christians and Catholics.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Also, it is believed that the government will be able to approach the hostage-takers if it uses this approach. However, the minister has not provided further details regarding the approach.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Several parties have voiced their support for the church approach. They include Tjahjanto's predecessor, Mahfud MD.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Mahfud has expressed support for all government efforts to save human lives, such as Mehrtens', by using a church approach.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The church approach is expected to be effective in Papua. Therefore, he supports the measurable steps that will be taken by the government, especially Tjahjanto.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Abdul Mu'ti, general secretary of the central board of one of Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations, Muhammadiyah, has also expressed support for the church approach.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">A peaceful approach that does not prioritize military force is expected to be acceptable to the Papuan people, so the church approach is considered appropriate.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The method is also expected to save the pilot and prevent victims in Papua.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Executive secretary for justice and peace of the Indonesian Bishops' Conference (KWI), Pastor Marthen Jenarut, said that Mehrtens' case is a cause for concern for everyone. To be taken hostage is considered an act that limits one's right to live.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Therefore, in the context of freeing Mehrtens, churches have consistently encouraged dialogues that are full of openness and humility, and advised against repressive methods that will not resolve the root problem.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Thus, churches are expected to be able to assist in the pilot's release. Further, the church approach is often applied in the context of love and respect for the dignity of all parties involved in a case.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">According to an international relations observer at Padjadjaran University, Arfin Sudirman, the Indonesian government must set a realistic deadline for Mehrtens' release.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">It also must refrain from rushing into taking a repressive approach, which would pose a high risk to the safety of the pilot.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The government must also be careful in its actions considering how information flows very quickly, and then there's the issue of information distortion on social media, which could affect Indonesia's image in the eyes of the world.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The church approach, which is a religion-based approach, can be taken as an alternative to a repressive approach to free the hostage.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">A religion-based approach has been used in some cases in conflict-riddled areas, including when Sunni Islam figures sought the release of Christian peace activists who were kidnapped during the conflict in Iraq in 2005, and when Pope Francis called for the release of nuns held hostage by an armed group in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In the context of Indonesia's relations with New Zealand, Sudirman said that the government's efforts to use a church approach are a form of maintaining good relations.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The government is said to be prioritizing the safety of Mehrtens as an individual who needs to be protected in order to maintain good relations with New Zealand and to show the professionalism of the government and security forces in the operation to free the pilot.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">There is also an agreement between the governments of both countries on prioritizing a persuasive approach rather than a repressive one in efforts to free Mehrtens.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">To this end, both countries must cooperate to free the pilot without the political interests of any parties coming into play.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;">Persuasive approach</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In late February this year, Vice President Ma’ruf Amin met with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to discuss bilateral relations.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">After the meeting, Amin said that Prime Minister Luxon agreed to the Indonesian government's decision to use a persuasive approach to free Mehrtens.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">He added that the government is making persuasive efforts to avoid untoward incidents.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Luxon agreed that the approach must be persuasive because it is related to a sensitive issue.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The Vice President highlighted that the Indonesian government is continuing to apply a persuasive approach by involving community and church leaders.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">This was also communicated by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi to New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters in a telephone call.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Now, hope must remain high while awaiting positive results from the efforts carried out by the government to free Mehrtens.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307080/pm-luxon-agrees-on-persuasive-approach-to-free-kidnapped-nz-pilot" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="PM Luxon agrees on persuasive approach to free kidnapped NZ pilot">PM Luxon agrees on persuasive approach to free kidnapped NZ pilot</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/276744/papuan-customary-chief-pledges-to-help-release-new-zealand-pilot" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Papuan customary chief pledges to help release New Zealand pilot">Papuan customary chief pledges to help release New Zealand pilot</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/274266/captured-new-zealand-pilot-not-part-of-separatist-group-susi-air" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Captured New Zealand pilot not part of separatist group: Susi Air">Captured New Zealand pilot not part of separatist group: Susi Air</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Rio Feisal, Raka Adji<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Azis Kurmala</p><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">---------------------------</p></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-46788703747033872502024-03-11T01:27:00.000-07:002024-03-11T01:27:54.665-07:00Five soldiers named suspects in Jayawijaya police station attack<p> <a class="" href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/03/07/five-soldiers-named-suspects-in-jayawijaya-police-station-attack.html" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/03/07/five-soldiers-named-suspects-in-jayawijaya-police-station-attack.html</a></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><b class="">Five soldiers named suspects in Jayawijaya police station attack</b></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"> News Desk (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta Thu, March 7, 2024 </span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"> While there were no casualties in the incident, several windows at the police station were broken by stones. </span></span></div><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class=""><span class=""><br class="" /></span></div>Five Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers have been named suspects in an attack on a police station in Jayawijaya, Papua Highlands. </span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As part of the investigation, the Region XVII/Cendrawasih Military Police have examined 21 TNI soldiers suspected of being connected to the attack. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"We examined all those who were involved either in directing or carrying out the attack.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Out of the 21 people, five were named suspects and will be prosecuted," said Region XVII/Cenderawasih Military Commander Maj. Gen. Izak Pengemanan in Jayapura on Tuesday.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Izak confirmed that authorities had detained the five suspects.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Even so, he affirmed that the attack by TNI Infantry Battalion (Yonif) 756/WMAS was a violation of the code of conduct. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"[The attack did not represent the TNI’s] esprit de corps. The Indonesian Military has never recognized the spirit in that way. The spirit is the soul of the unit to establish a good reputation and the unit’s passion. Therefore, such an incident is a violation," he said. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Jayawijaya police station was attacked by several TNI soldiers on Saturday at around 8:10 p.m. local time, causing damage to the station. </span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">While there were no casualties in the incident, several windows at the police station were broken by stones. Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Mathius D. Fakhiri had ordered Jayawijaya Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Heri Wibowo to repair the damage caused by the attack. "So, it's all right. I have asked the Police Chief to fix it. Later, the [other] issues will be taken over by the Pangdam," said Mathius.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">------------------------------</span></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-47373466512933000462024-03-09T15:02:00.000-08:002024-03-09T15:02:27.306-08:001) LEMASA supports establishment of special committee to review Freeport’s AMDAL <p> </p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></h4><div class="">2) Only seven rivers remain flowing in Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve, says environmental official <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="">3) Pusaka Foundation hosts discussion on extractive development in Papua </div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">4) Papua Language Center coordinates with local governments to revitalize local languages <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">-------------------------------------------</div><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/lemasa-supports-establishment-of-special-committee-to-review-freeports-amdal/">https://en.jubi.id/lemasa-supports-establishment-of-special-committee-to-review-freeports-amdal/</a></span></h4><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand;"><b class="">1) LEMASA supports establishment of special committee to review Freeport’s AMDAL <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Quicksand;">News Desk - Freeport AMDAL Special Committee 9 March 2024</span></div><div class=""></div><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><br class="" /></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – Chairman of the Indigenous Amungme Community Institution (LEMASA), John Magal, expressed strong support for the efforts of the Central Papuan People’s Assembly (MRPT) to establish a Special Committee to review the Environmental Impact Assessment (AMDAL) of <a class="" href="https://ptfi.co.id/en" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">PT Freeport Indonesia</a> while encouraging Freeport to engage in dialogue while receiving input from various parties.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“It is very important for all parties to sit down and discuss the environmental impacts for the future of the Amungme community, especially with the second Environmental Impact Assessment on underground mine,” said John Magal to Jubi in Timika, Thursday (7/3/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He added that it is crucial to involve all stakeholders in discussing Environmental Impact Assessments to ensure transparency and so that the community can understand the social and environmental impacts for future generations.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He said that with the formation of the special committee, all parties will certainly participate and be transparent in providing input and criticism for future benefits.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Previously, Chairman of Central Papua’s People Assembly Agustinus Anggaibak stated that they had formed a special committee to assess Freeport’s AMDAL. “I hope the committee can start working forward. And please remember, this concerns the future of the Amungme and Kamoro people, so they must not be divided,” he said. (*)</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">————————————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/only-seven-rivers-remain-flowing-in-cycloop-mountains-nature-reserve-says-environmental-official/">https://en.jubi.id/only-seven-rivers-remain-flowing-in-cycloop-mountains-nature-reserve-says-environmental-official/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) Only seven rivers remain flowing in Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve, says environmental official <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk 9 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – The Head of the Environmental Quality Management of the <a class="" href="https://www.papua.go.id/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Papua</a> Forestry and Environmental Office, Yaconias Maitindom, stated that out of the 35 rivers spanning the Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve, only seven rivers remain flowing.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Since the Cycloop Mountains were designated as a nature reserve in 1978, there were 35 rivers, but today only seven rivers are still flowing,” said Maitindom during the public discussion on ecological crisis in Papua organized by the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) at the Cenderawasih University on Wednesday (2/21/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Out of these seven rivers, only five rivers are currently providing water smoothly for all of us living in Tanah Tabi. If these five rivers stop flowing or are damaged, then we cannot survive in Tanah Tabi,” Maitindom further explained.</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The ‘batteries’ are in the Cycloop Mountains, and the wellsprings are there. So, if the valves are leaking, then we will get nothing,” Maitindom added.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He recalled and lamented the major natural disaster in 2019, the flash floods that struck Sentani, Jayapura Regency at that time. According to him, this was because the Cycloop Mountains was encroached upon.</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Therefore, he urged the community living in Jayapura City and Jayapura Regency to participate in preserving the Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve. “Do not indiscriminately cut down trees, and do not litter. Also, sort out the waste from its source,” he added.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The decrease in the number of flowing rivers in the Cycloop Mountains, Maitindom said, indicated that one of the ecological crises in Papua is currently occurring. (*)</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/pusaka-foundation-hosts-discussion-on-extractive-development-in-papua/">https://en.jubi.id/pusaka-foundation-hosts-discussion-on-extractive-development-in-papua/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) Pusaka Foundation hosts discussion on extractive development in Papua </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Law In Papua 9 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – The <a class="" href="https://pusaka.or.id/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Pusaka Bentala Rakyat Foundation</a> hosted a discussion and its book launch “End of Year Notes 2023” at Bakoel Koffie Cikini, Jakarta, on Wednesday (6/3/2024). The discussion delved into the theme of continuing resistance against the extractive development of Papua.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The event featured two speakers from Pusaka, Dorthea Wabiser and MA Mahruz. Respondents included Fatia Maulidiyanti, Cahyo Pamungkas, and Hendro Sangkoyo.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to MA Mahruz, the application of law in Papua revolves around development law. “If we examine the academic manuscript of the Job Creation Law, we will find that the use of legal regimes in designing the Job Creation Law is evident,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Mahruz elaborated on legal regimes as mechanisms designed to facilitate the flow of capital worldwide. He lamented that Indonesia has effectively absorbed these regimes, which began in the 1960s and 1970s and persist to this day.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He cited the case of Papua, where the Special Autonomy Law (Otsus) was enacted. Otsus for the Special Autonomy Region (DOB) was structured in a way to streamline Jakarta’s desires, enforced with coercive power.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Mahruz further discussed moral legitimacy and claims, highlighting how the central government claims seriousness in development, welfare, and DOB under Otsus.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He pointed out the criminalization and operation of racist legal regimes. Despite legal regimes acknowledging indigenous rights, there are parallel regimes to expedite the exploitation of customary land.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Mahruz asserted that the “nationalization” of Papua involves law as a non-neutral contestation arena, where recognition of customary territories, village forests, management rights, proposals for customary forests, and plantation and forestry exploitation can be legalized under one permit.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He exemplified how companies could engage in various activities in forests, such as timber extraction, environmental services, carbon, and more.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Referring to a quote by New Order General Ali Murtopo, “Jakarta is not interested in Papuans, but what interests Jakarta are its land and natural resources,” Mahruz questioned the relevance of this quote today, citing companies currently managing new permits under the Multi-Forest Utilization Business Licensing.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Mahruz disclosed examples of companies managing these permits in Papua, including Alamindo Bumi Hijau Group with fourteen subsidiaries.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He criticized legal regimes for maintaining racist traits towards Papua, citing specific articles with limitations such as Article 151(3) of Government Regulation 23/2021 and Article 97 of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Regulation limiting land area to 100,000 hectares for Papua, and Article 150 with a tenure of 90 years.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Lastly, Mahruz addressed the false conflict resolution through forestry partnership with companies, mentioning cooperative formations under Article 123 of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Regulation.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Human Rights Activist Fatia Maulidiyanti responded to Mahruz’s statements, emphasizing that there have been no positive impacts of development for Papuan communities as the agendas are not planned or executed in consultation with them.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The central government interests have led to various human rights conflicts and ecological issues in Papua,” Fatia argued, lamenting that recent debates of presidential and vice-presidential candidates rarely address the root problems in Papua.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Fatia identified militarism as a significant issue in Papua, where civilians suffer as evidenced by the deployment of 3,000 troops against 14 TPNBP soldiers in Intan Jaya.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Environmental Activist Hendro Sangkoyo described the year-end notes on Papua compiled by Pusaka Bentala Rakyat as a documentation of testimonies of torture against Papuans, reflecting the worst aspects of humanity.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He posed a pressing question from the notes, whether Papua is merely a geographical location receiving special treatment in resource extraction industries like other islands, or if it’s a giant colonialism project linking Papua’s living space with extractive fields across the archipelago. He also highlighted Papua’s experience with apartheid-like politics, similar to what occurred in South Africa. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">——————————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/papua-language-center-coordinates-with-local-governments-to-revitalize-local-languages/">https://en.jubi.id/papua-language-center-coordinates-with-local-governments-to-revitalize-local-languages/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">4) Papua Language Center coordinates with local governments to revitalize local languages <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Local Language 9 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – <a class="" href="https://balaibahasapapua.kemdikbud.go.id/portal/public/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">The Papua Language Center</a> held a coordination meeting with local governments from March 5 to 7, 2024 as a joint commitment to revitalizing regional languages.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“This event was attended by representatives from local governments from 10 cities and regencies in six provinces in Papua,” said Head of the Papua Language Center, Sukardi Gau at the Suni Sentani Hotel, Jayapura Regency, on Wednesday (3/6/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Following the launch of the 17th Independence to Learn program, the Center has proactively implemented the Local Language Revitalization program through three stages: survey and coordination; learning and training; and performances and festivals.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“This year, 2024, is a coordination phase where we need to sit down together to discuss the steps we are taking to ensure that local languages remain alive and thriving. Do not forget, the values of wisdom found in literature serve as assets to strengthen the identity of future generations,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“This is a shared responsibility. Local governments certainly have a major responsibility in the preservation of regional languages. We at the Language Center represent the Ministry of Education and Culture to facilitate this activity so that there are joint steps,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Through this coordination meeting, a joint commitment will also be built regarding the local language revitalization program, especially for the ten local languages in areas involved.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Sukardi Gau hopes for collective steps or commitments in the regional language preservation program, including involvement from various sectors such as cultural and traditional leaders, religious figures, artists, academics, school supervisors, school principals, teachers, literacy activists, parents, and children.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We can no longer consider that regional language matters are unimportant or something that we can simply leave to the language speakers. That should not be the case. Law Number 24 of 2009 clearly states that the development, fostering, and protection of regional languages are the responsibility of local governments,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">At the end of the event, a joint agreement formulation was signed. The Papua Language Center is committed to continuing to oversee this joint agreement to ensure that the program is truly optimal. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-----------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-18986519922142647022024-03-06T12:06:00.000-08:002024-03-06T12:06:08.886-08:00 1) TPNPB commander vows resistance against Indonesian govt agendas <p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) MRP forms committee to review Freeport’s environmental impact assessment </div><h1 class="h-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--black); font-family: sofiasanscond, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400 !important; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 55px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">3) The View from Indonesia</span></h1><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">--------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tpnpb-commander-vows-resistance-against-indonesian-govt-agendas/">https://en.jubi.id/tpnpb-commander-vows-resistance-against-indonesian-govt-agendas/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">1) TPNPB commander vows resistance against Indonesian govt agendas <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Papua Conflict</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> 6 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – Numbuk Telenggen, the commander of the Third Defense Command of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) in Ilaga stated that they will not remain silent following the security forces’ action of apprehending Komputer Tabuni, also known as Alenus Tabuni. Telenggen asserted that they would obstruct and reject the implementation of the Regional Head Elections in November 2024.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Telenggen made this statement during a phone call with Jubi on Tuesday (5/3/2024). He admitted that Komputer Tabuni, who was arrested in front of the Ilaga Community Health Center on February 18, 2024, is a member of their group.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“During the Presidential Election and Legislative Election, we did not engage in any activities. However, the security forces arrested Komputer Tabuni in Kago, Ilaga. We need to remind that because of this, the TPNPB will resist all activities of the Indonesian government in Papua, especially in the <a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puncak_Regency" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Puncak Regency</a>,” said Telenggen.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to Telenggen, Komputer Tabuni is a member of the TPNPB Third Defense Command in Ilaga. “When the police arrested him, he was carrying a pistol,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Telenggen admitted they had seized SS1 firearms from a member of the Ilaga Airport Air Security Unit Police Post on February 1, 2024. However, Telenggen denied that Jukius Tabuni, who was apprehended by the Cartenz Task Force Cartenz on Saturday (2/3/2024), was a member of the <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;">TPNPB</a>.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“I want to emphasize that Jukius is not a member of the <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;">TPNPB</a>. Jukius is an ordinary civilian who was arrested and interrogated by the security forces. I heard he has been released due to lack of evidence. My members who seized the weapons were with me. So, soldiers or police should not arbitrarily arrest civilians,” said Telenggen.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Telenggen affirmed that they would disrupt all Indonesian government agendas. “As the operational commander, I need to affirm that we will cancel all Indonesian government activities in Puncak through our actions in the field. We will continue to resist until we expel Indonesia from our homeland,” he said. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">———————————————————————</div><div class=""><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/mrp-forms-committee-to-review-freeports-environmental-impact-assessment/">https://en.jubi.id/mrp-forms-committee-to-review-freeports-environmental-impact-assessment/</a></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class=""><b class="">2) MRP forms committee to review Freeport’s environmental impact assessment <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></div><div class="">News Desk - PT Freeport Indonesia 6 March 2024</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Timika, Jubi – Agustinus Hanggaibak, chairman of the Central Papua’s People Assembly (Central Papua MRP), announced that his party has formed a special committee to analyze the environmental impact assessment (AMDAL) of <a class="" href="https://ptfi.co.id/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">PT Freeport Indonesia</a>, with Yehuda Gobay appointed as the chairman of said committee.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We have established it, and Yehuda Gobay has been appointed as the chairman of the Freeport’s <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/amungme-tribe-appeals-to-jokowi-for-reevaluation-of-freeports-amdal-citing-environmental-and-social-injustice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;">AMDAL</a> committee to examine the involvement of indigenous communities, including the Amungme and Kamoro,” he said in Timika on Tuesday afternoon (5/3/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Hanggaibak added that Yehuda Gobay would visit Timika to observe firsthand and meet with the Amungme and Kamoro communities.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The formation of this committee is crucial because of the leadership dualism in Lemasa and Lemasko, so their involvement in the AMDAL is also a concern of the Central Papua MRP as it concerns the future of the Amungme and Kamoro tribes in the Land of Amungsa,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He emphasized the need to involve Lemasa formed through indigenous deliberation (musdat) in the AMDAL preparation process, as it is for the benefit of indigenous communities, ensuring that no parties exploit the dualism in traditional institutions.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Traditional institutions must start through indigenous deliberation, and in the future, a Customary Court will also be established to resolve land and other issues,” he said, adding that the Amungme and Kamoro communities must unite in discussing their future through the Freeport’s AMDAL committee to ensure everyone is involved and accountable.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Meanwhile, the second AMDAL from Freeport is still in progress. Freeport hopes everyting will proceed smoothly.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The Second AMDAL of Freeport is still in progress. We are optimistic that the process will proceed as expected,” said Agung Laksamana, EVP External Affairs of PT Freeport Indonesia in response to Jubi’s inquiry via WhatsApp on Sunday (21/1/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">It is known that the Second AMDAL of Freeport concerns underground mining and tailings.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Separately, Enrico Kondologit, an anthropologist from Cenderawasih University, stated that a team from Cenderawasih University’s anthropology department participated in technical meetings on Wednesday (17/1/2024), as well as the AMDAL commission meeting on underground mining and tailings from Freeport on Friday (19/1/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He added that the faculty’s dean, also an anthropologist, Marlina Flassy, participated, and they all returned from the AMDAL commission meeting on Friday night (19/1/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to Jubi sources from Jakarta, all AMDAL teams are under the auspices of PT Widya Cipta Buana, conducting an AMDAL study on Freeport’s underground mining. PT Widya Cipta Buana collaborates with the Research and Industry Affiliate Institute (LAPI) of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). (*)</p></div><div class="">———————————————</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a class="" href="https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/afamonthly/the-view-from-indonesia-0?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AFA%20Monthly%20%20March%206%20%20The%20View%20from%20Indonesia&utm_content=AFA%20Monthly%20%20March%206%20%20The%20View%20from%20Indonesia+CID_8879a900d0ead2f8dd4c0f370ac366ee&utm_source=EDM&cid=8879a900d0ead2f8dd4c0f370ac366ee">https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/afamonthly/the-view-from-indonesia-0?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AFA%20Monthly%20%20March%206%20%20The%20View%20from%20Indonesia&utm_content=AFA%20Monthly%20%20March%206%20%20The%20View%20from%20Indonesia+CID_8879a900d0ead2f8dd4c0f370ac366ee&utm_source=EDM&cid=8879a900d0ead2f8dd4c0f370ac366ee</a></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: xx-small;">AFA Monthly</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: xx-small;">Voices from Asia</span></div><div class=""><h1 class="h-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--black); font-family: sofiasanscond, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 55px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">3) The View from Indonesia</span></h1><div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 2px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; widows: 2;">WITH ERIN COOK</span></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><br class="" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: freight-text-pro, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><div class="p-body-primary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: freight-text-pro, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: 36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">On 14 February 2024, in Jakarta’s old Chinatown district of Glodok, a chain-smoking gentleman with a nephew studying in Melbourne gave me his shorthand view of that day’s election. “In Indonesia,” he began, before an exhale of kretek fumes, “we always know who is going to win before the vote.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The joke harks back to the Suharto era, when elections were held but with the president firmly controlling power. A quarter-century after Suharto was ousted by a people’s movement, the joke still lands with the man’s friends. The polling lead enjoyed by Prabowo Subianto and vice presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka was so commanding that the result was a foregone conclusion even with booths still open. Canberra knew which way the wind was blowing – Anthony Albanese was the first world leader to call with his congratulations.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">For the year leading up to the vote, however, nothing looked certain. Prabowo’s hat in the ring for the third time prompted pity and derision. The highly connected former general, who was once married to Suharto’s daughter, had lost twice to President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, the everyman from smalltown Java. But by 2020 Prabowo was Jokowi’s defence minister, and any lingering animosity between the duo had disappeared as the country looked to 2024.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Jokowi, fighting his own battles with PDI-P – the party led by former president Megawati Sukarnoputri that got him to the presidential palace – turned away from his party and towards Prabowo. Some quick maths showed that the presidency was winnable if Prabowo’s 2019 vote held and Jokowi mobilised even a portion of his supporters in his former rival’s favour.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Some funny business helped too. The questionable dissemination of welfare payments raised eyebrows, as well as Jokowi’s involvement in campaign events – technically legal, but not appreciated by many who saw the president as violating norms established by his predecessors since the return of democracy. The race was won, however, in the halls of the Constitutional Court. A minimum age requirement for candidates was overruled for 36-year-old Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Jokowi’s eldest son, on the grounds that his term as mayor of Solo demonstrated enough experience. It didn’t hurt that Jokowi’s brother-in-law Anwar Usman headed the court.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">These tactics weren’t of much concern to the nearly 60 per cent of Indonesians who voted for the ticket, nor to an Australian government desperate to strengthen ties with Jakarta. Albanese, after his post-election call with Prabowo, said in a tweet that the pair chatted about Albanese’s “ambition for the future of Australia-Indonesia relations”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Those ambitions were on show on 20 February after Australian Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell met with Prabowo and General Agus Subiyanto, the newly appointed head of the Indonesian military. The meeting was highly publicised in local media. The trio chatted “about the longevity of defence relationships between the two nations as well as opportunities for closer collaboration on a shared vision for an open, stable, and prosperous region”, according to Tempo.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">By 23 February, Prabowo had met with his Australian counterpart, Richard Marles, in Jakarta, where a new defence cooperation agreement was hatched; it is set to be signed in the coming months. While details are slim, Prabowo called the agreement “very significant”. Marles raised the rhetoric – and expectations – during a post-meeting press conference, saying that “Australia and Indonesia have a shared destiny and a shared collective security and that is the basis on which we are moving forward with our own defence planning”. Indonesian media reported that the agreement is expected to be significant, perhaps trumping the landmark 1995 security deal signed between President Suharto and Prime Minister Paul Keating.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The post-election readjustment of the relationship should be much smoother than that experienced by Jokowi and Australia’s revolving door of prime ministers. In the opening years of the Jokowi era, damaging incidents in the relationship piled up, including the execution of Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, revelations of Australian spying on powerful Indonesians, and issues with live exports of cattle from Australia into Indonesia.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It’s hard to see any scandals that might loom on the horizon. Even mild tensions – particularly the response to the AUKUS security agreement in Jakarta and elsewhere in South-East Asia – are of little concern to Prabowo, a leader inclined to staying out of others’ business if it means they’ll stay out of his. While the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jakarta was none too thrilled to learn that nuclear-powered submarines could soon be lurking in waters nearby, Prabowo is accepting. Having noted the official position of the Indonesian government, he told media that he understands the Australian urge to “protect their national interest”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The Australian government is happy, and so are the tens of millions who support Prabowo. That still leaves, however, a sizeable minority who remember the Suharto era and Prabowo’s various roles in it. A world away from my new friends in Glodok, an old friend took her younger sister to a booth in leafy South Jakarta. “Will I get to vote next time?” her sister, just shy of the voting age of seventeen, asked her. In a show of the gallows humour in which Indonesians are world leaders, my friend responded: “I hope so.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Erin Cook is a Southeast Asia-based journalist who covers the region through her daily Dari Mulut ke Mulut newsletter.</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "chronicle text g1 a", "chronicle text g1 b", Georgia; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">------------------------------</em></p></div></div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-57656688297545813132024-03-05T12:49:00.000-08:002024-03-05T12:49:47.618-08:001) Papuan minor shot dead during armed clash in Intan Jaya<p> </p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h1><div class=""><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">2) Awyu tribe appeals court decision in palm oil plantation dispute</span></h1><div class="">----------------------------------------------</div></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/papuan-minor-shot-dead-during-armed-clash-in-intan-jaya/">https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/papuan-minor-shot-dead-during-armed-clash-in-intan-jaya/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 75, 0); color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif;">Human rights Monitor</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><header class=" entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 2em; word-wrap: break-word;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">1) Papuan minor shot dead during armed clash in Intan Jaya</span></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; 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line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">West Papua</a></span> / <span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;">5 March 2024 </span></div><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2CdBKb1vFfJUeNO-bjO1yhX0L6lBNtA5q0mEcHCaV-SpVkA5hC1kJJEaRxVjX3I5rzjRnsJ-lTIKgU7coaQnQOM7hagszb3H6F49znRANTYV19eESnhoO2z_msaiXOr1l6QZJYhLddnlimitUQ7dZbuc0V3-speF4Gk3lQw49bt9xF3D2nacMLPGSGhRw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="366" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2CdBKb1vFfJUeNO-bjO1yhX0L6lBNtA5q0mEcHCaV-SpVkA5hC1kJJEaRxVjX3I5rzjRnsJ-lTIKgU7coaQnQOM7hagszb3H6F49znRANTYV19eESnhoO2z_msaiXOr1l6QZJYhLddnlimitUQ7dZbuc0V3-speF4Gk3lQw49bt9xF3D2nacMLPGSGhRw" width="313" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div></header><div class="clear entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit; counter-reset: footnotes 0; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seventeen-year-old Papuan boy Nelson Sani was shot dead during an armed clash between the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) and members of the Raider 330 military command in the Mamba Village, Sugapa District of Intan Jaya Regency. A military member was killed during the attack. Nelson was standing near the military post as the attack occurred. According to witness testimonies, he fell to the ground as military members returned fire. He died at the site of the crime as a result of a shot in the chest (see photos, source: independent HRD). The relatives demand justice for the killing of Nelson Sani. They emphasized that Nelson was still attending school and was not affiliated with TPNPB.</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Following the incident, military members brought Nelson’s body to the town of Timika, Mimika District, against the parent’s will on the day of the incident. The projectile was removed during the post-mortem examination in Timika and later confiscated by members of the military. The parents were allowed to take pictures. On the following day, the body was brought to Nabire Town, where he was buried on 3 March 2024 (see photo below, source: independent HRD).</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Photo <span class="" style="color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit;">Post-mortem examination of the body in Timika on 1 march 2024 and burial in Nabire on 3 March 2024</span></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; 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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class=" entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2em; word-wrap: break-word;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">2) Awyu tribe appeals court decision in palm oil plantation dispute</span></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="ast-terms-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/category/news/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">Human Rights News</a></span> / <span class="ast-terms-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/indonesia/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">Indonesia</a>, <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/westpapua/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">West Papua</a></span> / <span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;">29 February 2024 </span></div><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWQjQ_FohTaWgP1Qy65hBN9-7YeZoB_s4XL8xNMjLDq-IypOB8mrJhbJBepHXBNISQG2iPqtycKQxvky9UGe6ol4AEFQAoxJA_oVthgNeSPatdcB9CmX8K896i_X2IocEqgejQ8ZjKR1pQmOJ3jAXchao3HQz0s-KyLylLvRqoOFIQet0yKj9FYRMV_9R9" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1200" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWQjQ_FohTaWgP1Qy65hBN9-7YeZoB_s4XL8xNMjLDq-IypOB8mrJhbJBepHXBNISQG2iPqtycKQxvky9UGe6ol4AEFQAoxJA_oVthgNeSPatdcB9CmX8K896i_X2IocEqgejQ8ZjKR1pQmOJ3jAXchao3HQz0s-KyLylLvRqoOFIQet0yKj9FYRMV_9R9=w400-h299" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div></header><div class="clear entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit; counter-reset: footnotes 0; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Awyu tribe in South Papua Province is continuing their fight against an oil palm plantation on their customary land. In February 2024, they appealed a court decision that rejected their lawsuit against the environmental permit issued to PT Indo Asiana Lestari (PT IAL).</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The dispute began when the Awyu tribe discovered that PT IAL had been granted an environmental permit for a 36,096.4-hectare oil palm plantation on their land without their knowledge or consent. They argued that this violated their rights as indigenous people and filed a lawsuit against the permit in October 2023.</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On November 2, 2023, the <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/jayapura-court-rejects-lawsuit-by-awyu-tribe-over-palm-oil-permit-advocates-prepare-to-appeal/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">Jayapura Administrative Court rejected the Awyu tribe’s lawsuit</a>. This decision sparked outrage from the Awyu tribe and environmental groups, who believed the court failed to follow proper procedures and ignored the tribe’s human rights.</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In February 2024, the Awyu tribe, represented by the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) Papua, took several steps to challenge the November decision:</div><ul class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Appeal filed:<span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span>On February 20, LBH Papua filed an appeal with the Manado State Administrative Court (PTTUN Manado). They requested the court overturn the Jayapura Administrative Court’s decision and revoke the environmental permit for the PT IAL plantation.</li><li class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LBH Papua submits report: On February 26, LBH Papua reported the Jayapura Administrative Court judges to the Judicial Commission. They accused the judges of violating the code of ethics and code of conduct by failing to follow the Supreme Court Regulation on environmental cases and disregarding the Awyu tribe’s human rights.</li></ul><h4 class="wp-block-heading" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Arguments and Demands</span></h4><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LBH Papua has issued a <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Siaran-Pers_LBH-Papua_Pemeriksaan-majelis-hakim_PTUN_Woru.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">press release</a> on 20 February, which argues that the Jayapura Administrative Court:</div><ul class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ignored proper procedures: The court allegedly failed to follow the guidelines outlined in the Supreme Court Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2023 for adjudicating environmental cases.</li><li class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Violated the Awyu tribe’s human rights: LBH Papua claims the court decision infringes upon the Awyu tribe’s right to protect their customary land, as guaranteed by Article 6 paragraph (2) of Law Number 39 of 1999 concerning Human Rights.</li></ul><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LBH Papua has made three demands:</div><ol class="" start="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PTTUN Manado judges overturn the decision of PTUN Jayapura.</li><li class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court examine the Jayapura Administrative Court judges.</li><li class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Judicial Commission monitor the PTTUN Manado judges as they hear the Awyu tribe’s appeal.</li></ol></div><div class="">-------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-21906866475552116892024-03-05T00:24:00.000-08:002024-03-05T00:24:32.701-08:00 1) Tensions rise as TPNPB alleges TNI of civilian shootings in Intan Jaya <p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Wenda calls for Dutch support over UN visit, slams Prabowo presidency </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">3) "Democracy is tiring, messy": Prabowo </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">4) On Lake Sentani, village harbors hopes of sago-fueled growth</span></h1><div class="">---------------------------------</div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tensions-rise-as-tpnpb-alleges-tni-of-civilian-shootings-in-intan-jaya/">https://en.jubi.id/tensions-rise-as-tpnpb-alleges-tni-of-civilian-shootings-in-intan-jaya/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">1) Tensions rise as TPNPB alleges TNI of civilian shootings in Intan Jaya <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b> </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Armed Conflict In Papua</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> 5 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Nabire, Jubi – The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) accuses the Indonesian Military (TNI), namely the Infantry Battalion 330 division, of shooting three civilians in Sugapa District’s Titigi Village, <a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intan_Jaya_Regency" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Intan Jaya Regency</a>, Central Papua Province.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The shootings occurred on two separate occasions. The first incident took place on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, around 10:25 p.m. local time. Two civilians were shot, namely Selli Maiseni (17), who was wounded in the arm, and Makelon Hagisimijau (15), who was shot in the thigh.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The second incident occurred on March 1, 2024, when a civilian named Nelson Sani (16) was shot in the left arm, piercing through the abdomen, resulting in his death. This occurred during an exchange of fire between joint security forces and the <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;">TPNPB</a>.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We allege that the three were shot by the TNI’s Infantry Battalion 330, tasked with securing the elections, claiming civilian lives,” said <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/tpnpb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;">TPNPB</a> leader of the Kodap VIII Intan Jaya, Yosua Maiseni, to Jubi on Sunday (3/3/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Yosua Maiseni reported that Selli Maiseni (17) and Makelon Hagisimijau (15) were shot while on their way to observe the vote counting for the Indonesian Legislative and Presidential elections in Titigi. They were shot en route.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Yosua stated that before the incident, the two youths had participated in the elections. However, without valid reasons, they were allegedly shot by the TNI.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Hence, all members of the Infantry Battalion 330 throughout Intan Jaya should be immediately withdrawn to Jakarta. The TNI has carried out numerous shootings against civilians in Intan Jaya, from school-aged children to the elderly. Some were fatally shot, while others are still alive to this day, like Mainus Bagubau, who was shot in Jalai Village in 2020, among many other cases,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Yosua questioned why the TNI took over the police’s function during the elections in Intan Jaya, leading to shootings of Selli Maiseni and Mikalon Yoani.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“They (TNI) didn’t come to secure the elections but to kill civilians who know nothing,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Sugapa District Head Misael Sondegau confirmed the shooting of three civilians in Intan Jaya.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“It’s true that two civilians named Makelon Hagisimijau (15) and Selli Maiseni (17) were shot. They were shot while on their way from Watapa to Titigi. Currently, they are being treated by their families in Watapa,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">However, Sondegau stated that he has yet to identify the perpetrator because the incident occurred far from Sugapa.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“I cannot confirm the shooter of the two civilians as the location is far from Sugapa,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Meanwhile, on March 2, chaos erupted during a plenary meeting, and security forces opened fire, hitting one civilian named Nelson Sani. He was shot in Mamba Village, Sugapa District.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Nelson Sani was then taken from Sugapa to Timika. He died on the plane, and his body was transported from Timika to Nabire. Currently, his body is being laid to rest in Nabire,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Sondegau stated that the situation in Intan Jaya is still tense, with the TPNPB and the TNI on high alert.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">TNI denies</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">XVII/Cenderawasih Regional Military Command Head of Information Lt. Col. Inf Candra Kurniawan denied information stating that TNI soldiers allegedly shot two civilians in Sugapa.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The news is a hoax deliberately spread by the TPNPB and its sympathizers to defame the security forces,” said Chandra.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Chandra stated that there were no shootings or exchanges of fire in Sugapa District on Wednesday. “So, it was intentionally spread by the TPNPB and its sympathizers amid the ongoing General Elections,” he said. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">———————————————————————————————</div><div class=""><a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/03/05/wenda-calls-for-dutch-support-over-un-visit-slams-prabowo-presidency/">https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/03/05/wenda-calls-for-dutch-support-over-un-visit-slams-prabowo-presidency/</a></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><b class="">2) Wenda calls for Dutch support over UN visit, slams Prabowo presidency </b></div><div class="">By APR editor - March 5, 2024 0 49 </div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Asia Pacific Report</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">A West Papuan independence leader has called on the Dutch Parliament to support a United Nations visit to the Melanesian region ruled by Indonesia and says the recent election of Prabowo Subianto as the next President is a “frightening” prospect due to his notorious human rights record.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Addressing the <a class="" href="https://www.ulmwp.org/hearing-in-dutch-parliament-calls-for-un-visit-to-west-papua" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">Dutch Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee last week</a>, United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) president Benny Wenda said that more than 100 separate countries had now demanded that Indonesia allow the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate in West Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“Indonesia’s continued refusal to obey this demand is why we are here today,” Wenda said.</p><ul class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/?s=West+Papua" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">READ MORE:</strong> Other West Papua reports</a></li></ul><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“As our former coloniser, it is very important that you understand the situation in West Papua and show support for our struggle,” he said, thanking the Parliament for the opportunity to speak.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Addressing last month’s presidential election in Indonesia, Wenda strongly condemned the election of Prabowo Subianto, describing this as a “concerning and frightening” development for West Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“Let’s be clear: <a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabowo_Subianto" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">Prabowo is a war criminal</a>. He is complicit in crimes against humanity and in genocide in East Timor and West Papua,” Wenda said.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">‘Never held accountable’</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“He has never apologised or been held accountable for the many atrocities he has been involved in. This is a man who was considered too brutal even for the Indonesian army.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Prabowo was the only presidential candidate who <a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/10/indonesian-presidential-hopefuls-explain-their-west-papua-policies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">did not comply with a human rights record questionnaire</a> from Human Rights Watch prior to the election.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Last month, Wenda publicly called for an <a class="" href="https://www.ulmwp.org/ulmwp-president-benny-wenda-calls-for-international-arrest-warrant-on-prabowo-subianto" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">international arrest warrant</a> against Prabowo.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“Because of his past, his ideology, and because of statements he made during his election campaign, we have good reason to fear that Prabowo will further escalate the militarisation of West Papua,” Wenda told the Dutch parliamentarians.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“We are already suffering ecocide and genocide. The situation will only get worse.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Wenda said they had already seen the first atrocity of the new Prabowo era.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Last month, the Indonesian military <a class="" href="https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">arrested and tortured two Papuan</a> teenagers in Yahukimo.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torture ‘trophy photos’</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“They then took photos with these two innocent children as trophies. Indonesia has repeatedly shown they will <a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/26/west-papua-advocacy-group-condemns-arrest-humiliation-of-two-teenagers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">target children</a> — the new generation of West Papuans,” Wenda said.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Torture in West Papua had become so common that it was being described as a “mode of governance”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“With Prabowo as President, there must be a renewed campaign for a UN fact-finding mission in my country. The world must pay attention to our plight.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“Human rights do not exist in West Papua.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">In six years since Indonesia had first invited the UN to West Papua more than 100,000 Papuans had been displaced from their homes and made refugees in their own land, said Wenda.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“Over 75,000 of my people remain displaced to this day. Over 1400 have been killed. It is no coincidence that this violence has happened while Indonesia has sent 25,000-30,000 extra troops to occupied West Papua.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Indonesia refused aid</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Indonesia had also consistently refused to let aid reach displaced people, meaning that many had died of hunger or thirst in the bush.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“No UN visit, no aid workers, no journalists allowed. West Papua is becoming the North Korea of the Pacific,” Wenda said.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">In West Papua, there were two crimes — genocide and ecocide, he said.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">While the UN had not been allowed in, Indonesia had increased its destruction of West Papuan ancestral land – “our mountains, rivers and forests”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">A new gold mine – “the size of Jakarta” — was now being built called Wabu Block, while BP had completed its expansion of the Tangguh gas field, which would provide 35 percent of Indonesia’s gas.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Indonesia had also rejected a tribal land claim in Boven Digoel.</p></div><div class="">——————————————————————</div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/03/05/democracy-is-tiring-messy-prabowo.html">https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/03/05/democracy-is-tiring-messy-prabowo.html</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) "Democracy is tiring, messy": Prabowo </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta Tue, March 5, 2024 </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Speaking at the Mandiri Investment Forum, Prabowo said he was not satisfied with Indonesia's democracy and there was room for improvement. He did not elaborate on the problems. </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">D efense Minister, and the country's presumptive next president, Prabowo Subianto, on Tuesday described the country's democracy as tiring, very costly and "very messy", but said his people should be proud of a recent election that unofficial vote counts show he won. Speaking at the Mandiri Investment Forum, Prabowo said he was not satisfied with Indonesia's democracy and there was room for improvement. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He did not elaborate on the problems. "I have participated in five general elections and let me attest, let me testify, that democracy is really, very, very tiring […] democracy is very, very messy and costly," said Prabowo, who delivered his speech in English. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The former Army general, however, encouraged Indonesians to be proud of how they practiced democracy, considering the high voter turnout in the Feb. 14 election. "The turnout was 80 percent on average, which is not bad, considering that in many countries in the home of democracy sometimes the turnout is less than 50 percent," he said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The official vote count conducted by the General Elections Commission (KPU) has put Prabowo in the leading position in the presidential election, garnering a little over 58 percent of the vote.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan was on 24 percent on Friday morning and former Central Java governor Ganjar Pranowo had 16 percent.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307626/on-lake-sentani-village-harbors-hopes-of-sago-fueled-growth">https://en.antaranews.com/news/307626/on-lake-sentani-village-harbors-hopes-of-sago-fueled-growth</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class="wrap__article-detail-title" data-id="307626" id="newsId" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">4) On Lake Sentani, village harbors hopes of sago-fueled growth</span></h1></div><div class="wrap__article-detail-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><ul class="list-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px;"><li class="list-inline-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="text-secondary font-weight-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 117, 125) !important; font-weight: 600;"><span class="fa fa-clock-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: var(--fa-style-family,"Font Awesome 6 Free"); font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: var(--fa-style,900); line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span> March 4, 2024 19:57 GMT+700</span></li></ul></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Sentani (ANTARA) - Yoboi Village in Sentani Subdistrict, Jayapura District, Papua, lies on the edge of Lake</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"> Sentani, the second-largest lake in Indonesia after Lake Toba in North Sumatra, surrounded by a large sago forest.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The village is well-known on account of its unique setting: as it sits on Lake Sentani, it does not have any land area, unlike other villages. In addition, almost all homes in the village float on the lake, connected by a network of wooden bridges.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In recent years, Yoboi, which lies close to Papua New Guinea (PNG), has come to be known as a colorful village since almost all the bridges, houses, and public and private facilities in the village are painted in a patchwork of colors.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Given its uniqueness, Yoboi was registered as a tourist village by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy through Pesona Indonesia in 2021, following the visit of Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno to the area.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The village has since received several national awards, including the 2022 Indonesian Tourism Village Award (ADWI).</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Visitors to Yoboi Village are treated to the sight of buildings that still reflect local wisdom and values. Houses in the village are still made of wood and built on water.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Tourists coming to the village can carry out activities on the water through boards that serve as both bridges and roads.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The lush green sago forests that surround the village are also a feast for the eyes.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">For the local people, sago is a staple food that has been passed down from the ancestors of the Sentani tribe or coastal Papuans.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Sago has been the staple diet of the inhabitants of Kampung Yoboi and the Sentani community since ancient times.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">So far, the extraction of sago powder, especially in Yoboi Village, has involved a traditional technique called ‘tokok’ and the use of traditional tools.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Now, the residents of the village are set to receive a large number of sago processing tools from the representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-UN) for Indonesia given the abundance of sago trees in the area.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The assistance program is expected to improve the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Yoboi Village and serve as a pilot for modern sago processing in Indonesia.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;">FAO-UN survey</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Following a series of surveys, FAO-UN conducted a direct survey in Yoboi Village, accompanied by the ranks of the Jayapura Regency Plantation and Animal Husbandry Office, to see how the residents make sago flour.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">After the surveys, FAO-UN held workshops and public discussions with environmentalists, traditional leaders, community leaders, and MSME actors to directly gather their opinions about the plan for providing assistance for sago processing equipment.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">All the participants expressed their gratitude for the assistance.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Further, FAO-UN wants Kampung Yoboi to set an example in large-scale processing of sago sustainably. The sago flour produced in the village under the assistance program would not only be used for daily needs, but would also be marketed.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The FAO-UN representative for Indonesia-East Leste, Rajendra Arya, said that he will help MSME actors in Yoboi Village manage the processing of sago in large quantities.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The sago processing equipment provided by the agency would be used to produce a large volume of sago flour and could be used to increase MSME activities and support sago export to areas outside Papua and even abroad.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Sago flour would be packaged in attractive packaging and sent to Papua Mountains, Central Papua, South Papua, and South West Papua, where it would be sold in supermarkets.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The step is a breakthrough to develop sago processing into a large industry so that sago products can be enjoyed not only by the Papuan people, but also by people living outside Papua.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The people of Yoboi Village would process sago flour into a variety of foods and drinks with high economic value and a fairly low sugar content value.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">FAO-UN's support for efforts to develop the local sago industry is believed to stimulate the economic growth of the Papuan community.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The government of Jayapura District is enthusiastic about the FAO-UN's support for sustainable sago management.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"This is very good, in order to change the mindset of the community to process sago, not only limited to making </span><i class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">papeda</i><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"> or sago porridge, but can be developed into processed with high economic value," acting head of Jayapura Regency's Plantation and Animal Husbandry Office, Jenny S. Deda, said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;">Sago Hamletor</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In the period from 1960 to 2000, Sago Hamletor or sago forest in Jayapura Regency covered a wide swathe of land. However, it is now starting to shrink due to a change in the function of some of the land into residential areas, among others.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">In 2019, Bappeda pegged the estimated area under sago forests in Jayapura District at 3,302 hectares. The sago forests cover six subdistricts: Sentani 1,964.5 hectares; East Sentani, 473.0 hectares; West Sentani, 74.6 hectares; Waibhu, 138.9 hectares; Unus Guay, 277.3 hectares; and Demta, 374.6 hectares.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The local government is now trying to keep the sago forests from shrinking by changing the community's perspective to ensure that sago groves or forests continue to be well-preserved.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Sago is not only a source of food, but can be used to make a variety of food preparations, which can improve the family economy. The people of Papua used to consume </span><i class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">papeda </i><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">or sago porridge, and various types of tubers as staple foods. However, in the 1980s, they started to</span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;"> </span><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">turn to rice-based foods.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Papuan customary figure Ramses Wally expressed strong support for FAO-UN's endeavor to help the people of Kampung Yoboi process sago sustainably improve community welfare.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"Sago is our identity in Papuan society because sago means we exist. Sago is so old with the customs and culture of the Papuan people," he remarked.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Sago, when managed properly and developed through technology, would help improve the welfare of the community since it can not only be used to make </span><i class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">papeda</i><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">, but also sold in the market in the form of clean and quality sago flour.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"Our duty as indigenous Papuans and as customary leaders must protect and convey to the people to return and maintain sago groves, not to be sold for a moment's pleasure, but</span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;"> (</span><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">to be preserved so as not) to make grandchildren suffer for life," Wally added.To maintain sago land, the community must strive to preserve forests overgrown with various plants as the main food source of the people in Papua. In addition, forests where animals reside can also serve as a source of protein. </span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/286080/introducing-sago-worldwide-through-qatar-indonesia-year-of-culture" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Introducing sago worldwide through Qatar-Indonesia Year of Culture">Introducing sago worldwide through Qatar-Indonesia Year of Culture</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/286062/qatari-chef-visits-papua-to-observe-sago-making" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Qatari chef visits Papua to observe sago making">Qatari chef visits Papua to observe sago making</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" /><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Editor: Rahmad Nasution</p><div class="">--------------------</div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-60155542588134706482024-03-04T10:48:00.000-08:002024-03-04T10:48:57.626-08:001) Military members torture two Papaun men at Enarotali Market<p> </p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><header class=" entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2em; word-wrap: break-word;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h1><div class="">2) Jayapura: Govt building 72 homes for quake-hit families </div><div class="">3) President flies to Melbourne to attend ASEAN-Australia Special Summit </div><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" /></h1><div class=""><span class="">----------------------------------------</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class="" /></span></div><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="color: #004b00; font-family: Playfair Display, serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/military-members-torture-two-papaun-men-at-enarotali-market/">https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/military-members-torture-two-papaun-men-at-enarotali-market/</a></span></span></h1><div class=""><span class="" style="color: #004b00; font-family: Playfair Display, serif;">Human rights Monitor</span></div><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></span></h1><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">1) Military members torture two Papaun men at Enarotali Market</span></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="ast-terms-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/category/case/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">Cases</a></span> / <span class="ast-terms-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/westpapua/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">West Papua</a></span> / <span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;">4 March 2024 </span></div></header><div class="clear entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On 29 February 2024, military members reportedly tortured Mr Marten Kudia, 30, and Mr Oktofianus Yogi, 31, at the <a class="" href="https://www.google.de/maps/place/Pasar+Central+Enarotali/@-3.9298404,136.376703,931m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m10!1m2!2m1!1spasar+enarotali!3m6!1s0x68223d4c975127ed:0xd1f55f0bd9bb2002!8m2!3d-3.9279861!4d136.3764721!15sCg9wYXNhciBlbmFyb3RhbGlaESIPcGFzYXIgZW5hcm90YWxpkgEGbWFya2V04AEA!16s%2Fg%2F11q85tm2sx?entry=ttu" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">Enarotali Central Market</a> in the Paniai Regency, Papua Tengah Province. According to the information received, the military members approached the two Papuan men while consuming alcohol at the market. Following a dispute, the military members reportedly attacked Mr Kudai and Mr Yogi using a crowbar, a hammer, and a knife. The perpetrators fled the site of the crime, leaving them unconscious and critically injured (see video below, source: independent HRDs).</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Kudai and Mr Yogi sustained blunt force trauma and lacerations on their heads and across their bodies as a result of the attack (see photos below, source: independent HRDs). Police officers brought the unconscious victims to Madi Hospital in Enarotali, where they were hospitalized for urgent medical attention. The relatives brought the victims back home because they feared further reprisals. The aftermath of the incident reverberated through the community, underscoring the <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/military-members-shot-two-papuans-during-electoral-activity-in-titigi-village-intan-jaya/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">ongoing human rights abuses faced by indigenous Papuans at the hands of security forces</a>.</div><h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></span></h2><h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Mr Marten Kudia, 30, and Mr Oktofianus Yogi, 31, shortly after the attack</span></h2><h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Photos</span></h2></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307623/jayapura-govt-building-72-homes-for-quake-hit-families">https://en.antaranews.com/news/307623/jayapura-govt-building-72-homes-for-quake-hit-families</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) Jayapura: Govt building 72 homes for quake-hit families </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> March 4, 2024 19:51 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jayapura (ANTARA) - </span><div class="Ar Au Ao" id=":6h" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><div aria-controls=":x1" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Isi Pesan" aria-multiline="true" aria-owns=":x1" class="LW-avf editable Al tS-tW tS-tY Am aiL" g_editable="true" id=":t3" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; min-height: 334px;" tabindex="1">The Ministry of Social Affairs is constructing 72 houses for Papuan Catholics who were among those affected by the earthquakes that jolted Jayapura city, Papua province, last year.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In Jayapura on Monday, head of the ministry's Maluku-Papua Regional Center VI, Jhon Mampioper, informed that the government is building the 72 residences on an area measuring two hectares and 600 square meters located in East Koya, Muara Tami district, Jayapura city.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />He noted that the location will be integrated with lands allocated for activities such as rearing pigs, chickens, and fish, and growing horticultural plants, which are expected to help the prospective inhabitants of the homes meet their food needs.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"The lands have undergone a customary ceremonial process and have been certified as assets belonging to the Jayapura Diocese. Each house will measure 3x6 square meters," he said.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mampioper informed that to make the houses a model project for post-earthquake victim management, the Social Affairs Ministry will also assist the residents by holding training and empowerment programs for them.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"That way, we hope that those who will inhabit these houses will possess skills instrumental for boosting their economy," he said, adding that the construction is targeted to be completed in October 2024.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The ministry has disbursed around Rp21 billion (US$1.3 million) for the construction of the 72 homes, he said.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jayapura Bishop Yanuarius Theofilus Matopai You extended his gratitude to the central government for its efforts to build habitable residences for local people.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"The houses will be inhabited by Protestant Christians, in addition to Catholics. Hence, we hope that the existence of the houses will bring relief to the people," he said. <br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/268167/structural-damages-reported-following-49-magnitude-quake-in-jayapura" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Structural damages reported following 4.9-magnitude quake in Jayapura">Structural damages reported following 4.9-magnitude quake in Jayapura</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/272775/minister-disburses-compensation-aid-for-victims-of-jayapura-quake" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Minister disburses compensation, aid for victims of Jayapura quake">Minister disburses compensation, aid for victims of Jayapura quake</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div></div><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Ardiles L, Tegar Nurfitra<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Tia Mutiasari</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">—————————————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307551/president-flies-to-melbourne-to-attend-asean-australia-special-summit">https://en.antaranews.com/news/307551/president-flies-to-melbourne-to-attend-asean-australia-special-summit</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) President flies to Melbourne to attend ASEAN-Australia Special Summit </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> March 4, 2024 12:45 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), on Monday morning, took off to Melbourne, Australia, to participate in the ASEAN-Australia Summit on March 4-6 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of partnership between the regional bloc and the country.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"Today, I, along with a limited delegation, will fly to Melbourne, Australia, to attend the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit," he remarked during a press conference prior to his departure at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base, Jakarta.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">President Jokowi noted that the special summit would bring together representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Australia to identify workable ways to optimize their comprehensive strategic partnership to pave the way for a peaceful, stable, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"I will make the most of this opportunity to encourage economic integration, energy transition, and digital transformation while emphasizing the importance of collaboration and consistently respecting international law, including in relation to Palestinian issues," he remarked.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/293130/hope-australia-can-help-strengthen-asean-pif-collaboration-widodo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Hope Australia can help strengthen ASEAN-PIF collaboration: Widodo">Hope Australia can help strengthen ASEAN-PIF collaboration: Widodo</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">During his visit to Australia, the head of state revealed that he would also hold bilateral meetings with prime ministers of Australia, New Zealand, and Cambodia.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"I and the entourage are scheduled to arrive in Jakarta on Wednesday, March 6," he added.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The president departed from the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base at around 10 a.m. local time.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, State Secretary Minister Pratikno, Public Works and Public Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono, and Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) General Agus Subiyanto accompanied President Jokowi during the press conference.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The ASEAN and Australia first established dialogue in 1974 before elevating their relations to a strategic partnership in 2014, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of their ties.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The two parties then agreed to further intensify their ties to the level of comprehensive strategic partnership in 2021.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/293199/asean-australia-collaborate-to-bolster-food-security-minister" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="ASEAN, Australia collaborate to bolster food security: Minister">ASEAN, Australia collaborate to bolster food security: Minister</a></span></span><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Rangga P, Tegar Nurfitra<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Yuni Arisandy Sinaga</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">------------------------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-57129536164728979192024-03-03T13:24:00.000-08:002024-03-03T13:24:30.003-08:00Prabowo Subianto’s human rights abuses in Timor-Leste<p> <a class="" href="https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2024/03/01/chasing-prabowo-timor-leste" style="font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px;">https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2024/03/01/chasing-prabowo-timor-leste</a></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">NEWS,</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto has been implicated in human rights abuses and massacres by troops under his command. </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">By John Martinkus.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz0xa-BzW6Susre0X4rTVbiz865YweAaBhGM6qJ4EExLYnHWLcA32lqL807NupmU6OTJidUEKC99U334kHBjxY82GG9oUk1t-XKJi4CxC4tu45MSEs-o2WFvNvhf9HLCcqrh8mkCLOnxGwn8WTo9eBMURyRxc4kapWWMGAB4rU7EZqShuwxeCvg2WLVWbv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1263" data-original-width="1280" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz0xa-BzW6Susre0X4rTVbiz865YweAaBhGM6qJ4EExLYnHWLcA32lqL807NupmU6OTJidUEKC99U334kHBjxY82GG9oUk1t-XKJi4CxC4tu45MSEs-o2WFvNvhf9HLCcqrh8mkCLOnxGwn8WTo9eBMURyRxc4kapWWMGAB4rU7EZqShuwxeCvg2WLVWbv=w400-h395" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: studioprosaturday-semibold, sans-serif;">Falintil fighters in Indonesian-occupied southern Timor-Leste.</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Prabowo Subianto’s human rights abuses in Timor-Leste</b></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class="">John Martinkus is a foreign correspondent and author., March 2</div><div class="">2024</div></div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br class="" /></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Indonesia’s president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, has form. As the son-in-law of the former dictator, Suharto, he rose quickly through the ranks of the military to become head of the greatly feared Indonesian special forces, Kopassus. To put it bluntly, in 1983 he was involved in one of the biggest massacres in Indonesian-occupied Timor-Leste, in Kraras in the south of the country. His soldiers killed up to 300 men, women and children in the biggest mass killing in Timor-Leste’s 24-year war with Indonesia. He was also involved in the killing of the first president of Timor-Leste, Nicolau Lobato, whose body was taken by Indonesian forces and never recovered.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Prabowo was finally thrown out of the army in 1998 following the detention and disappearances that year of pro-democracy Indonesian activists in Jakarta, who were protesting against Suharto and calling for his overthrow. Thirteen of the activists disappeared and were never seen again, presumed killed by Kopassus troops who were under his command. Prabowo was given a travel ban to the United States, where he had previously trained in counterinsurgency with US special forces at Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, and to Australia. He has always denied his involvement in kidnapping, torture and killings, and has never been charged in relation to any of the allegations against him and his men.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Prabowo orchestrated the strategy of separating those fighting for independence and the population. In Timor-Leste, Aceh and West Papua, troops under his command carried out countless casual human rights abuses.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Coopting former resistance fighters into his own control was one of the lessons he learnt in America and he put it into effect firstly in Timor-Leste. He created auxiliaries called Hansips and later two notorious Indonesian-led but Timorese-staffed battalions, 744 and 745. Both were among the most brutal towards their own people. They killed civilians, students, nuns, priests and journalists, right up until the final Indonesian withdrawal in 1999.</p><aside class="" style="border-left-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif, serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 4rem 0px; padding-left: 4.4rem; padding-right: 83px; position: relative;">Prabowo orchestrated the strategy of separating those fighting for independence and the population. In Timor-Leste, Aceh and West Papua, troops under his command carried out countless casual human rights abuses.</aside><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Some acts, such as the prominent killing of West Papuan leader Chief Theys Eluay in 2001, were blamed on his subordinates, who were given brief and sometimes-ignored convictions and jail terms.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Prabowo rose quickly in the military. By the age of 32, he was a major. He was untouchable and powerful. When I spoke to Indonesian human rights workers, student activists, independence supporters, members of Timor-Leste resistance fighters Falintil in the mountains, or their civilian supporters in Fretilin and CNRT, Prabowo’s name always came up.</p><div class="tsp-promo-banner-article-p4-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I remember talking to Munir, an Indonesian human rights leader who had come to Timor-Leste after the fall of Suharto in May 1998 to document the abuses of the Indonesian military there. In August 1998, he told me about Prabowo’s role in recruiting and organising the Indonesian-led and funded militias that were starting to form back then in Timor-Leste. Munir was later killed by a poisoned cup of orange juice on a Garuda flight to Singapore as he tried to flee Indonesia after reporting on Indonesian military abuses in Aceh. Kopassus was blamed.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In many ways August, September and October in 1998 were extraordinary times in Timor-Leste. The Indonesian military, unsure if it was allowed to shoot demonstrators as it used to under Suharto, stood aside as Timorese students mounted louder and more heavily attended rallies in the capital Dili and in regional centres such as Manatuto and Baucau.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The lid was off and they came in their thousands, chanting, singing and waving pro-independence flags. Apart from the occasional killing, the Indonesian military seemed to tolerate the speeches and calls for independence, but they were always there watching, taking photos and video, identifying those who spoke out. They always had guns and you never knew if that day was the day they would start shooting.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">As the protests continued, I joined the students on a trip to Lacluta in the remote south-east of the island. The trip down there felt like a day off – sitting in an open-backed truck. The group sitting on the roof would sing the solo verse and the others the chorus. The villagers couldn’t believe their defiance. We got to Viqueque.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">There had been trouble in the area: houses burnt, a few men killed by a new group of Indonesian soldiers. When we arrived for the rally the next day it was mostly the students from Dili and a few old people. Horrible things had happened in this area. On August 8, 1983, Indonesian soldiers from Battalion 501, who later trained in Australia, entered the town of Kraras and began rounding up the men. They killed them all in a group and threw their bodies in a swamp. They killed the children by swinging them against walls or stabbing them with knives. There had been 3000 people living in this village and only about 1300 escaped. The killings in that area went on until September.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Later, when the militia violence was in full swing, I went up into the mountains to interview the Falintil commander Falur Rate Laek. Things had cracked down and it involved lots of planning. There was a long drive and a long mountain walk in monsoonal rain, trying to be quiet to avoid Indonesian military patrols. It was hard and nerve-racking. In this sparse mountain camp of tarps with bush thrown over the top, the guerillas spoke in whispers. I had done this before and knew what to expect. The threat of being captured with them was ever-present. They were taking a risk to speak and I was taking a risk going up there.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Ostensibly I was there to interview Falur Rate Laek about the recent killings in the village of Alas. The Indonesian soldiers and militia had killed at least 50 men the previous November. I had walked there too and been run out of town by armed Indonesians troops and militia, who shot at me and my guide as we scrambled up the muddy hill to get out of that place.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I got Falur’s version of the killings, which his men had witnessed. After endless coffee and cigarettes in the night, our talk turned to Prabowo. I knew Falur had once been in the Indonesian army and had deserted back to Falintil. I asked him why. He told me he had been forced to join the Indonesian military in 1980 and deserted in 1983. He told me it was because of what he had seen in Kraras.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">He wanted to talk and, with the rain pelting down on the branch-covered tarp, he spoke in a low voice. He told me he had never talked to a Western journalist about this before.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">He told me he was forced to witness the killing of his own people in Kraras in 1983 – when the entire male population, including children, were killed by the Indonesian military. After that, he rejoined the guerillas in the bush. He told me the troops who carried out the killings were under the command of then Captain Prabowo Subianto, who was head of Koppasandha, later to become Kopassus, in the district at the time. Prabowo may not have been there on the day – but it was his men who carried out the killings.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lyon text web", serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Prabowo is now president-elect of Indonesia. Lieutenant General Falur Rate Laek is now commander of the Timor-Leste Defence Force. <br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">John Martinkus first wrote for </em>The Saturday Paper <em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">in October 2015.</em></p><div class="end-matter" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: studioprosaturday-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 1em; word-wrap: break-word;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This article was first published in the print edition of <em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Saturday Paper</em> on March 2, 2024 as "Chasing Prabowo in Timor-Leste".</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">------------------------------------</em></p></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-36130884426541157932024-03-03T13:13:00.000-08:002024-03-03T13:13:11.331-08:00 1) Police to recruit 10 thousand personnel to be assigned in Papua <p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Komnas HAM Papua calls for caution in conflict-prone Papua amid recent escalations <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">3) Psychiatrist warns of mental health risks for Papuan adolescents amid concerns over child marriage <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">---------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307515/police-to-recruit-10-thousand-personnel-to-be-assigned-in-papua">https://en.antaranews.com/news/307515/police-to-recruit-10-thousand-personnel-to-be-assigned-in-papua</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">1) Police to recruit 10 thousand personnel to be assigned in Papua </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">March 3, 2024 21:29 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) - Assistant to the National Police (Polri) Chief, Inspector General Dedi Prasetyo, stated that his side will recruit 10 thousand people to be assigned in the four provinces in Papua.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The recruitment of 10 thousand personnel will be carried out from 2024 to 2028, Prasetyo said here on Sunday.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">According to him, the Polri will recruit two thousand people in April this year. The new recruits will be educated at the State Police School (SPN) in Java.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Prasetyo hoped that the regional police chiefs in Papua could be active in disseminating information for the new recruits.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">He said that those who will be recruited are Indigenous Papuans and those who were born and raised in Papua.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">They will be educated for five months in SPNs in Java, and after their education, they will be temporarily assigned to the regions for adjustment before being returned for duty in Papua.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Prasetyo said he is committed to accepting indigenous Papuans to minimize the transfer of Polri members from outside Papua to Papua.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">He explained that the two thousand personnel will include 150 paramedics, especially doctors. The medical personnel recruitment will be carried out in collaboration with Cenderawasih University (Uncen).</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Papua Police Chief, Inspector General Mathius Fakhiri, said that due to the expansive region, the number of local police stations is limited. Some areas even only have two stations, such as the Nduga Police and the Puncak Police.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"Hopefully, the increasing number of police members can expand services to the community," Fakhiri said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The territory of the Papua Regional Police includes Papua, Highland Papua, Central Papua, and South Papua.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306306/papua-police-search-for-attackers-of-wing-air-plane-in-wamena" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Papua police search for attackers of Wing Air plane in Wamena">Papua police search for attackers of Wing Air plane in Wamena</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/304062/more-personnel-of-cartenz-task-force-brimob-deployed-to-sugapa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="More personnel of Cartenz Task Force, Brimob deployed to Sugapa">More personnel of Cartenz Task Force, Brimob deployed to Sugapa</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/302772/operation-cartenzs-peace-prioritizes-persuasive-measures-police" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Operation Cartenz's Peace prioritizes persuasive measures: Police">Operation Cartenz's Peace prioritizes persuasive measures: Police</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Evarukdijati, Kenzu<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Azis Kurmala</p><div class="">————————————————————————</div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/komnas-ham-papua-calls-for-caution-in-conflict-prone-papua-amid-recent-escalations/">https://en.jubi.id/komnas-ham-papua-calls-for-caution-in-conflict-prone-papua-amid-recent-escalations/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) Komnas HAM Papua calls for caution in conflict-prone Papua amid recent escalations <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Papua Conflict 3 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – Head of the Papua Office of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM Papua) Frits Ramandey emphasizes that Papua should be seen as a region prone to conflict rather than one in constant conflict. In areas prone to conflict, police discretion is exercised in handling conflict escalation.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ramandey explains that Papua falls into the category of regions prone to conflict because conflicts in Papua occur sporadically or unevenly. For example, conflicts are more likely to happen in Yahukimo, Nduga, Intan Jaya, Puncak, Paniai, Dogiyai, and Maybrat rather than the entire region. According to him, areas termed as conflict zones are those with widespread conflicts revolving around specific issues.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“When conflicts are widespread, we call them conflict zones. But when they are sporadic, we call them areas prone to conflict,” said Frits Ramandey during an interview at his office in <a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayapura" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Jayapura City</a> on Thursday (29/2/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ramandey further explains that the category of regions prone to conflict is not solely based on violent movements, such as conflicts between the military/police and the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB). It also includes violent actions that sometimes occur among indigenous Papuans themselves, such as tribal conflicts.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Acts of violence, Papuans protesting about labor issues, protesting about Papuan rights in political parties, protesting about land. These happen sporadically, and from the perspective of human rights, they are considered areas prone to conflict,” says Frits.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Regarding the recent arrest of two teenagers in Yahukimo suspected of being associated with the TPNPB, Ramandey views this action as a form of police discretion in handling conflict escalation.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">In areas prone to conflict like Yahukimo, Frits continues, individuals around the conflict escalation site can be taken into custody as a precaution or as part of police discretion. However, when individuals are ‘taken into custody’ at the conflict escalation site, security forces must not commit violence against them.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The problem arises when the detained individuals are subjected to violence,” he says.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Frits Ramandey appreciates the security forces for releasing the two teenagers from Yahukimo and stating that they are not part of the TPNPB or any armed civilian group.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">If the two teenagers were subjected to violence or torture while in custody, Frits Ramandey says they have the right to file complaints with the local police, the police’s internal affairs division, or Komnas HAM for legal action.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“If they were subjected to violence or torture, they can file complaints with Komnas HAM,” he says.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He further states that Komnas HAM requests that the military/police refrain from committing violence and murder, especially in situations when people are defenseless. (*)</p><div class="">————————————————</div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/psychiatrist-warns-of-mental-health-risks-for-papuan-adolescents-amid-concerns-over-child-marriage/">https://en.jubi.id/psychiatrist-warns-of-mental-health-risks-for-papuan-adolescents-amid-concerns-over-child-marriage/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) Psychiatrist warns of mental health risks for Papuan adolescents amid concerns over child marriage <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b> </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Early Marriage 3 March 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><br class="" /></h4><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – Psychiatrist Manoe Bernd Paul has expressed concerns about the detrimental effects of child marriage or marriage during adolescence on the mental health of children and its implications for future generations in Papua.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Manoe, speaking to Jubi at his office on Wednesday (28/2/2024), explained that human development occurs in stages, referencing the work of social psychologist <a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Erik Erikson</a>, who identified eight developmental stages: infancy (0-1 year), early childhood (1-3 years), preschool age (4-5 years), school age (6-11 years), adolescence (12-20 years), young adulthood (21-40 years), adulthood (41-65 years), and senescence (65 years plus).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“There are standard stages of human development supported by internationally accepted research. If any of the early developmental stages are disrupted, it will have consequences for the individual’s adulthood,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Manoe emphasized that disturbances in the stages prior to adolescence (12-18 years) significantly impact the individual’s development during this crucial period.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“At this stage, they begin to refine their abilities and demonstrate their identities and unique characteristics,” he explained.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">However, the drive to establish and display identity during adolescence often manifests in extreme and exaggerated ways, leading to perceptions of deviance or delinquency from their environment, according to Manoe.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Instances of this behavior, he noted, can be seen in some adolescents in Jayapura City engaging in street stunts or attempting to establish relationships in inappropriate ways.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Teenagers who marry or have children at a young age will struggle to fulfill their roles,” he remarked.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Manoe highlighted that teenage parents are navigating the complexities of identity formation and confusion characteristic of adolescence, which affects their mental health and, consequently, the well-being of their children.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Marriage or parenthood at an early age makes individuals vulnerable to domestic violence and HIV/AIDS, especially if one partner engages in promiscuous behavior,” Manoe added.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The developmental stages experienced by teenage parents also have repercussions for the children they raise, impacting their future abilities and decision-making skills, the doctor noted.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Considering the life cycle from infancy to adolescence that every child should undergo, any stage skipped or disrupted can have detrimental effects and is challenging to rectify,” he explained.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Manoe stressed the importance of educating children from infancy to adolescence, highlighting the crucial role of parents in this process and the risks it poses for future generations, particularly in Papua.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Furthermore, he underscored the alarming rates of HIV/AIDS among adolescents in Papua this year, emphasizing the need for collaborative efforts to address this issue.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among adolescents in Papua is a direct consequence of the factors discussed earlier. It requires concerted efforts from parents, NGOs, and the government. We must work together to educate adolescents and safeguard the future generations of Papua,” he concluded. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">--------------------------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-43345468562641363022024-03-02T12:07:00.000-08:002024-03-02T12:07:11.237-08:001) In a firefight in Intan Jaya, TNI soldiers and civilians were shot<p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class=""><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">2) Military members shot two Papuans during electoral activity in Titigi Village, Intan Jaya</span></h1><div class="">3) Prabowo's military record in public spotlight again after being made 4-star general</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="">-------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">A Google translate.</div><div class="">Original Bahasa link</div><div class=""><a class="" href="https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/kontak-tembak-di-intan-jaya-prajurit-tni-dan-warga-sipil-tertembak/">https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/kontak-tembak-di-intan-jaya-prajurit-tni-dan-warga-sipil-tertembak/</a></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class=""><b class="">1) In a firefight in Intan Jaya, TNI soldiers and civilians were shot</b></div><div class="">March 2, 2024 in Polhukam, Meepago</div><div class=""> 0</div><div class="">Author: Alexander Loen - Editor: Dewi Wulandari</div><div class="">Jayapura, Jubi – Gunfire occurred between joint forces and the West Papua National Liberation Army or TPNPB group in Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua Province, Friday (1/3/2024). In that incident, a TNI Raider 330 soldier, Prada David, and a civilian named Nelon Sani (16), were shot.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">“Private David was shot in the side of the stomach through the front of his body vest. "Meanwhile, Nelon Sani (16) was shot in the left arm through the stomach," said Head of Public Relations of the Papua Police, Kombes Ignatius Benny Ady Prabowo, in Jayapura City, Saturday (2/3/2024).</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Benny stated that the gunfire occurred in Mamba Village, Sugapa District, which is about 130 meters from the Intan Jaya Regent's Office.</div><div class="">"At around 10.00 WIT, two long gun shots were heard from the front of the Intan Jaya Regency Regent's Office. "Hearing the sound of the gunshots, joint personnel from the Intan Jaya Police and Mobile Brigade Cartenz Peace Task Force immediately responded," he said.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Then at around 12.20 WIT there was a firefight between the TPNPB in the Intan Jaya area and the joint TNI-Polri apparatus.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Intan Jaya Resort Police Chief, AKBP Afrizal Asri, said the two victims had been evacuated to Mimika Regency using a TNI helicopter.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">"The two victims have been evacuated to Timika using a TNI helicopter to receive medical treatment," said Afrizal.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">According to him, currently the joint TNI-Polri apparatus in Intan Jaya Regency is carrying out intensive patrols to anticipate further actions. (*)</div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/military-members-shot-two-papuans-during-electoral-activity-in-titigi-village-intan-jaya/">https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/military-members-shot-two-papuans-during-electoral-activity-in-titigi-village-intan-jaya/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><header class=" entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 2em; word-wrap: break-word;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></span></h1><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">2) Military members shot two Papuans during electoral activity in Titigi Village, Intan Jaya</span></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="ast-terms-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/category/case/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">Cases</a>, <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/category/news/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">Human Rights News</a></span> / <span class="ast-terms-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/indonesia/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">Indonesia</a>, <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/tag/westpapua/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; word-break: break-word;">West Papua</a></span> / <span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;">1 March 2024 </span></div><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; line-height: 1.45;"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.45; word-break: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga7q_BZuDNm9gj7a4pqiv8C9463mPifc0AK_ZirjSILJKlgRfp61xMOQcyWrQ_Aha4WKnHoTOSpvjww2oOwiQ4SqR6RHc__kLR_kVOi8RUM3kj9sqxhWDuO9NDrSD-r3ca6LJqB3Z2Joox_Nd0GPqJ_tKeCblkoQ3OSw3GBHMC9DunjhMqmYTFUY2Jxppk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1523" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga7q_BZuDNm9gj7a4pqiv8C9463mPifc0AK_ZirjSILJKlgRfp61xMOQcyWrQ_Aha4WKnHoTOSpvjww2oOwiQ4SqR6RHc__kLR_kVOi8RUM3kj9sqxhWDuO9NDrSD-r3ca6LJqB3Z2Joox_Nd0GPqJ_tKeCblkoQ3OSw3GBHMC9DunjhMqmYTFUY2Jxppk" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div></header><div class="clear entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Brandon Grotesque", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On 28 February 2024, around 10:30 pm, members of the Indonesian National Army (TNI) command Yonif 330 reportedly shot down the two indigenous Papuans, Selli Maiseni, 17, and Mr Mikalon Yoani, 26, in Titigi Village (see satellite image on top, source: European Space Imaging), Sugapa District, Intan Jaya Regency, Papua Tengah Province. Selli Maiseni sustained a gunshot wound on the arm, while Mr Yoani was shot in the thigh (see photos below, source: WPCC). The incident occurred during the vote count for the Indonesian Legislative and Presidential elections. The circumstances of the shooting are currently being investigated. Human rights observers in Intan Jaya call for immediate action, demanding the withdrawal of all TNI Yonif 330 members operating there.</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The case highlights a disturbing pattern of violence perpetrated by the TNI in Intan Jaya, citing <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/indigenous-woman-injured-by-bullets-during-armed-clash-in-intan-jaya/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">many instances of shootings</a> resulting in <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/security-forces-kill-two-papuans-and-injure-indigenous-woman-during-raids-in-intan-jaya-about-4400-residents-displaced/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">extrajudicial killings or injuries among civilians</a>, including <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/case/papuan-pupil-reportedly-injured-by-land-mine-in-intan-jaya/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">school children</a>. The armed conflict in West Papua is a driver of <a class="" href="https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/idp-update-october-2023-recent-displacement-in-yahukimo-pegunungan-bintang-and-fakfak-regencies/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">internal displacement </a>and prompted not only the indigenous population. but also teachers and health workers to leave the conflict areas. Accordingly, military members have become more involved in providing fundamental government health services, teaching in schools, and engaging in public activities such as burials and joint garden work. This is also part of the new Government strategy to tackle the armed conflict in West Papua with ‘<a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/299958/tni-embraces-smart-power-approach-to-counter-kkb-attacks" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #004b00; transition: all 0.2s linear;">Smart Power</a>,’ a combination of soft and hard approaches.</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many indigenous Papuans are traumatized by the presence of the military in their communities. Many are concerned that this exposes the community to increased potential risk of armed attacks by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) near indigenous settlements and human rights violations.</div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #004b00; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Photo. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Mr Mikalon Yoani (left) and Selli Maiseni (right) sustained bullet injuries after military members bullet injuries opened fire in Titigi on 28 February 2024</span></h2><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/news/2024-02-28/prabowos-military-record-in-public-spotlight-again-after-being-made-4-star-general.html">https://www.indoleft.org/news/2024-02-28/prabowos-military-record-in-public-spotlight-again-after-being-made-4-star-general.html</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) Prabowo's military record in public spotlight again after being made 4-star general</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">CNN Indonesia – February 28, 2024</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">Jakarta – The moment <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Prabowo%20Subianto" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Prabowo Subianto</a> was dismissed from the Indonesian Armed Forces (then called <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/ABRI" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">ABRI</a>) has again been in the public spotlight after President Joko "<a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Jokowi" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Jokowi</a>" Widodo awarded the Defense Minister and presumptive president the rank of honorary four-star general.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">The video of Prabowo's dismissal from ABRI can be viewed on the <em class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Associated Press</em>YouTube archive channel. The video shows the ceremony in which then Lieutenant General Prabowo Subianto is dismissed from ABRI.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">During the ceremony, he is accompanied by General <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Wiranto" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Wiranto</a>, who at that time served as ABRI commander-in-chief. Following the ceremony, Wiranto gives a press statement regarding Prabowo's dismissal.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">"Fellow journalists and the public in general, <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/TNI" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">TNI</a> (Indonesian military) Lieutenant General Prabowo Subianto has ended his term of service in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Indonesia", said Wiranto in the YouTube video archive titled "INDONESIA: LIEUTENANT GENERAL PRABOWO SUBIANTO IS DISMISSED" (<a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkU6HpBml70" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkU6HpBml70</a>).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Leaked to the public</strong></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">A scan of Prabowo's dismissal letter from the ABRI circulated on the internet in 2014 ahead of the presidential elections after the <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Officers%20Honorary%20Council" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Officers Honorary Council </a>(DKP) official letter was leaked to the public.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><a class="" href="https://www.detik.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Detik.com</em></a> reported on the contents of the DKP decision Number KEP/03/VIII/1998/DKP (<a class="" href="https://news.detik.com/berita/d-2602747/beredar-surat-rekomendasi-pemecatan-prabowo-dari-tni" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">https://news.detik.com/berita/d-2602747/beredar-surat-rekomendasi-pemecatan-prabowo-dari-tni</a>).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">In the letter, it states that Prabowo was declared guilty of a number of policies while in the military. One of the cases decided on in the letter was the <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/abduction%20of%20pro-democracy%20activists" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">abduction of pro-democracy activists</a> in 1997-98.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">The DKP said Prabowo ordered members of the <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Rose%20Team" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Rose Team</a> (Tim Mawar) Task Force, the Merpati Task Force, through Infantry Colonel <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Chairawan" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Chairawan</a> (and Group-4) and Infantry Major <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Bambang%20Kristiono" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Bambang Kristiono</a> to uncover, arrest and detain the activists.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">This resulted in the abduction of several activists, namely Andi Arief, Aan Rusdianto, Mugiyanto, Nezar Patria, Haryanto Taslam, Rahardjo Waluyojati, Faisol Reza, Pius Lustrilanang and Desmond J. Mahesa.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">"The officer under investigation in the name of Lieutenant General Prabowo Subianto, is advised he is to be subject to administrative punishment in the form of being dismissed from military service", read a quite from the conclusion of the letter as reported by <em class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Detik</em> on June 9, 2014.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">The TNI commander at that time of the leak, General <a class="" href="https://www.indoleft.org/term/Moeldoko" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">Moeldoko</a>, denied that the letter was kept at the TNI Headquarters and stated that he would investigate the party that leaked it.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Prabowo not sacked</strong></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">When sought for confirmation yesterday, the TNI emphasised that Prabowo was not dismissed in 1998. The TNI's statement was in response to public doubts ahead of Prabowo's being awarded the rank of honorary four-star general.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">"According to Presidential Decree Number 62/ABRI/98 dated November 22, 1998, the contents of the decision were to honorably discharge [Prabowo] and [he was] to receive his rights to a pension, there was no use of the word dismissal", said TNI Information Center head Major General Nugraha Gumilar in an SMS message sent to <em class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="" href="https://www.cnnindonesia.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">CNN Indonesia</a></em> on Tuesday February 27. (dhf/ugo)</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Notes</strong></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">According to the document leaked in July 2014, which was a scanned copy of the official letter signed by members of the Indonesian Military's (TNI) Officers Honorary Council (DKP) tasked with hearing the case of Prabowo's complicity in the abduction of pro-democracy activists in 1997-98, the former Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) commander was also fired from his position due to insubordination and disregard for the military code. The DKP concluded that Prabowo had disgraced and disregarded the military system and committed a criminal offense and on August 21, 1998, dismissed him from military service. A summary of the document by the <em class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Jakarta Post</em> can be read at <a class="" href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/06/09/fresh-doubt-cast-prabowo-s-suitability-rule.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/06/09/fresh-doubt-cast-prabowo-s-suitability-rule.html</a> and an English translation and the images of the document can be read here: <a class="" href="https://indonotes.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/the-verdict-on-prabowo-subianto-a-translation/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">https://indonotes.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/the-verdict-on-prabowo-subianto-a-translation/</a>.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">[Translated by James Balowski. The original title of the article was "Pernyataan Wiranto Saat Berhentikan Prabowo dari ABRI".]</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif;">Source: <a class="" href="https://www.cnnindonesia.com/nasional/20240228110921-32-1068169/pernyataan-wiranto-saat-berhentikan-prabowo-dari-abri" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: firebrick; text-decoration: none;">https://www.cnnindonesia.com/nasional/20240228110921-32-1068169/pernyataan-wiranto-saat-berhentikan-prabowo-dari-abri</a></p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-----------------------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-36022924630023350222024-02-29T11:31:00.000-08:002024-02-29T11:31:01.892-08:001) Hadi Tjahjanto meets Nduga leaders to discuss New Zealand pilot release <p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Hearing in Dutch Parliament calls for UN visit to West Papua | ULMWP</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">3) Noken’s world heritage status at risk, Indonesia urged for timely reporting to UNESCO <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">4) Missing election officer in Mimika found alive </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">5) Deal done after 14 years: Papua New Guinea & Indonesia finalise defence pact</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">---------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/02/29/hadi-tjahjanto-meets-nduga-leaders-to-discuss-new-zealand-pilot-release.html">https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/02/29/hadi-tjahjanto-meets-nduga-leaders-to-discuss-new-zealand-pilot-release.html</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">1) Hadi Tjahjanto meets Nduga leaders to discuss New Zealand pilot release </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Jakarta is preparing a religious-based approach to release Philip Mark Mehrtens who has been held hostage for more than a year by a rebel group in Nduga, Papua Highlands. </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> News Desk (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta Thu, February 29, 2024 </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Hadi Tjahjanto has met with three prominent figures from Nduga regency, Papua Highlands, to discuss the release of the New Zealand hostage and Susi Air pilot Philip Mark Mehrtens. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">Hadi said the three figures expressed their willingness to aid the government in releasing Mehrtens through a religious approach. "I spoke with three figures from Nduga, and they are eager to assist, particularly through a church-based approach that could expedite Philip Mehrtens' immediate release," he said on Wednesday, refusing to elaborate further on the approach. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">"Hopefully, they can take further actions on the field, coordinating with — I don’t like to call them ‘hostage takers’ — the local residents." On the same occasion, Abdul Mu'ti, secretary-general of Muhammadiyah, the second largest Muslim organization in the country, agreed that Mehrtens' release should move beyond militaristic endeavors. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">He advocated for the involvement of various stakeholders, including religious leaders.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">"We agree with the suggestion, and [we agree with] all peaceful approaches,” he said. According to Mu'ti, a peace-oriented approach to Mehrtens' release would resonate more with the Papuan community.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">Separately, Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. Agus Subiyanto has established the Habema Operations Command to streamline the operational strategies of the TNI and National Police in managing conflicts in various areas of Papua. The integration of operational patterns between both forces is expected to optimize conflict management efforts in the region.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" />———————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Wd6bQLGdY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Wd6bQLGdY</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) Hearing in Dutch Parliament calls for UN visit to West Papua | ULMWP</b><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> Free West Papua Campaign Nederland </span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><yt-attributed-string class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" role="text" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the urgency of a UN visit to West Papua was held in the Dutch Parliament yesterday (28th February).
Held in the Parliament of West Papua’s former coloniser, the hearing is the third in a series of ULMWP and IPWP meetings demanding that Indonesia facilitate a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights fact-finding mission immediately.
International pressure is mounting on Indonesia to grant the UN access to West Papua. The Brussels Declaration, a new statement calling for a visit and accusing Indonesia of deliberately blocking international oversight, has now been signed by over 55 Parliamentarians from around the world. Over 100 countries have demanded a UN visit, including all member states of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS), the European Commission, and individual nations including the UK, Spain, and the Netherlands. At the 2023 annual meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), Melanesian leaders demanded that a UN visit take place before the next MSG meeting, scheduled for April 2024.
The meeting was addressed by ULMWP President Benny Wenda, ULMWP Prime Minister Edison Waromi (through video link), Honorary Consul of the Vanuatu Embassy Elisabeth van Vliet, ex-MEP and current-MEP candidate Pernando Barrena, and head of the ULMWP EU Mission Oridek Ap.
Demonstrations took place across various West Papuan regions in support of the meeting.
- UK Parliament meeting in London, October 2023
- EU Parliament meeting in Brussels, January 2024, launching the Brussels Declaration.
Any Parliamentarians or diplomats who wish to sign the declaration should contact <a class="" href="mailto:office@ipwp.org">office@ipwp.org</a>.</span></yt-attributed-string></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /><div class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander" id="snippet" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="ytd-watch-metadata style-scope" slot="extra-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ytd-structured-description-content-renderer class="ytd-watch-metadata style-scope" id="structured-description" inline-structured-description="" modern="" style="display: block; margin-top: 16px;" watch-while-sdp=""><div class="style-scope ytd-structured-description-content-renderer" id="items" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ytd-video-description-transcript-section-renderer class="style-scope ytd-structured-description-content-renderer" modern-typography="" modern="" style="border-top-color: unset; border-top-style: unset; border-top-width: unset; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 16px 0px;"><div class="ytd-video-description-transcript-section-renderer style-scope" id="header" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ytd-video-description-transcript-section-renderer style-scope" id="title" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 1; border: 0px; color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 2.8rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: normal;"><br class="" /></div></div></ytd-video-description-transcript-section-renderer></div></ytd-structured-description-content-renderer></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/nokens-world-heritage-status-at-risk-indonesia-urged-for-timely-reporting-to-unesco/">https://en.jubi.id/nokens-world-heritage-status-at-risk-indonesia-urged-for-timely-reporting-to-unesco/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) Noken’s world heritage status at risk, Indonesia urged for timely reporting to UNESCO <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - World Heritage 29 February 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Sentani, Jubi – The traditional Papuan woven bag noken was officially recognized as a world heritage item on December 4, 2012, by <a class="" href="https://www.unesco.org/en" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">UNESCO</a>. The Indonesian government, along with various cultural observers and stakeholders in the creative economy sector is required to periodically report every four years to UNESCO on all programs, preservation efforts, and developments concerning Noken.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Marshal Suebu, a cultural activist in Papua, emphasized that if periodic reports on Noken are not submitted, UNESCO may revoke its status as a world heritage item. Therefore, Marshall stated that as a member of the Central Government team responsible for Periodic Reporting on Noken to UNESCO, the Ministry of Education, Research, and Technology, the Cultural Preservation Center of Papua Region XXII, the Papua Noken Community (KONOPA), and Reymai Art Studio among others had held an online meeting on February 19 in Jayapura.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The Indonesian government must submit a periodic report every four years regarding the work programs, preservation, and development of noken to UNESCO, with the next deadline being December 15, 2024,” said Marshall in Sentani on Monday (2/26/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Marshall mentioned that these four-year reports have been conducted since 2012, 2016, 2020, and now in 2024. The main priorities of these reports include five essential aspects namely cultivation and breeding of raw material plants for noken making, socialization of the significant and noble values of noken through activities like weaving noken, socialization for scouts, and noken’s inclusion in schools (Nomase).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We develop katanopi forests, which provide raw material plants for making Noken, even though their distribution and quantity are still limited,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">He hoped that all parties could fully participate in the preservation, nurturing, and extensive development of Noken <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tag/papua/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;">Papua</a> in all fields. As well as maintaining the availability of its raw materials, fostering creative economic development among communities, and improving their livelihoods by weaving noken as a valuable economic product.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“There must be a serious commitment regarding efforts to protect and preserve noken as a world cultural heritage. This involves the central government, local governments, customary councils, Indigenous Community institutions, and the entire community,” said Suebu. (*)</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">--------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307263/missing-election-officer-in-mimika-found-alive">https://en.antaranews.com/news/307263/missing-election-officer-in-mimika-found-alive</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">4) Missing election officer in Mimika found alive </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> February 29, 2024 16:25 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) - Central Papua's Mimika District Police confirmed that the election monitoring officer reportedly missing since February 11, 2024, was found alive in Mimika forest on Wednesday (February 28).</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Mimika Police Chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner I Gede Putra stated that the missing officer was identified as Daud Kudiai, who was reportedly last seen abruptly leaving a pre-election meeting with local officials and walking towards a jungle on February 11.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"The missing person was found 500 metres from the spot where witnesses reported seeing him for the last time," Putra noted in a written statement received here on Thursday.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">He explained that the joint search team dispatched to locate Kudiai comprised military and police officers, Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) officers, and SAR officers.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Putra stated that the missing person was found wandering the forest without clothes. Lacerations were visible on some parts of his body, he added.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">After being found, the search team immediately brought the victim to the Potowai Buru Public Health Centre for health checks, he remarked.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307158/bawaslu-involves-local-officials-to-trace-missing-officer-in-mimika" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Bawaslu involves local officials to trace missing officer in Mimika">Bawaslu involves local officials to trace missing officer in Mimika</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The police chief said that the victim was found in a frail health condition with anaemia, hyperthermia with a body temperature reaching 39 degrees Celsius, blood pressure of 127/89 mmHg, and heart rate of 139 beats per minute.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"The victim will be brought to Timika for further health checks," Putra stated.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">On Tuesday (February 27), General Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) chief Rahmat Bagja stated that the election recapitulation process is still underway in Mimika District, while the search operation for the missing officer is ongoing.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Commissioner Herwyn J. H. Malonda also remarked that the district's Bawaslu office had coordinated with local officials to search for the missing officer.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The family of the missing official had joined the search team on February 18-22, 2024. However, the search at that time had yielded no result, he stated.</span><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Evarukdijati, Nabil Ihsan<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Yuni Arisandy Sinaga</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">————————————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://www.firstpost.com/world/papua-new-guinea-indonesia-finalise-defence-deal-13743716.html?fbclid=IwAR2lQ9UGCIvbvuUtMjUA1DyBDEqMn63DoBAsrfjeMdnJj9xAF3wliGX79dE">https://www.firstpost.com/world/papua-new-guinea-indonesia-finalise-defence-deal-13743716.html?fbclid=IwAR2lQ9UGCIvbvuUtMjUA1DyBDEqMn63DoBAsrfjeMdnJj9xAF3wliGX79dE</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">5) Deal done after 14 years: Papua New Guinea & Indonesia finalise defence pact</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">FP Staff • February 29, 2024, 17:35:06 IST</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(114, 114, 114); color: #727272; font-family: inter, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Papua New Guinea and Indonesia first inked the defence cooperation deal in 2010 when they agreed to share military intelligence, give logistical support and coordinate security operations</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="border: 0px; color: #050505; font-family: inter, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After nearly 14 years of signing the defence cooperation deal, Papua New Guinea has finally ratified a defence pact with Indonesia, the government said in a statement.</p><p class="" style="border: 0px; color: #050505; font-family: inter, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2010, both nations inked the defence cooperation deal when they agreed to share military intelligence, give logistical support and coordinate security operations.</p><p class="" style="border: 0px; color: #050505; font-family: inter, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Though Indonesia ratified the document years ago, Papua New Guinea’s parliament only did so on February 14 this year, with the government formally bringing it into force a week later.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-90222014817045687172024-02-28T12:17:00.000-08:002024-02-28T12:17:17.626-08:001) NZ Pilot held by TPNPB receives medical supplies while negotiations stalled <p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Negotiation in Susi Air pilot release hindered by third party intervention, police says </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">3) Australian Ambassador Pays Working Visit to Papua </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">4) TNI forms Habema Operations Command to synergize operation in Papua </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">5) Bawaslu involves local officials to trace missing officer in Mimika </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/nz-pilot-held-by-tpnpb-receives-medical-supplies-while-negotiations-stalled/">https://en.jubi.id/nz-pilot-held-by-tpnpb-receives-medical-supplies-while-negotiations-stalled/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">1) NZ Pilot held by TPNPB receives medical supplies while negotiations stalled <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Susi Air Pilot Hostage-Taking</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> 28 February 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Mathius Fakhiri stated that several requests from <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tpnpb-burns-plane-and-takes-susi-air-pilot-hostage/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Susi Air pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a New Zealand national who has been held captive by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) since February 7, 2023</a>, have been fulfilled and delivered. These requests included asthma medication, aromatherapy candles, and disinfectants.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We have also conveyed this matter to the Police Attaché for Indonesia from New Zealand, Paul Borrel, during his visit to Jayapura, that the medicines needed by the pilot have arrived,” said Fakhiri in <a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayapura" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Jayapura City</a> on Tuesday (27/2/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The armed group led by Egianus Kogoya had seized Phillip Mark Mehrtens after the pilot landed his aircraft at Paro Airport in Nduga Regency a year ago on February 7, 2023. Egianus Kogoya’s group also set fire to the plane.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Fakhiri stated that they always provide assistance to anyone who can deliver logistical needs or requests from Phillip Mark Mehrtens. He mentioned that the security forces are ready to help if the New Zealand pilot falls ill or needs medicine, shoes, or food.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We hope that he continues to receive logistical support so that he remains adequately supplied with food. This may also include other necessities for his well-being, including medication,” said Fakhiri.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Fakhiri mentioned that from November 2023 to early January 2024, they hoped to reach a negotiation agreement for the release of the Susi Air pilot. However, Fakhiri assessed that there were other parties deliberately obstructing and hindering the negotiations, resulting in the failure to reach an agreement.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“From our perspective, they are exploiting the issue of the abduction of the Susi Air pilot as a Free Papua issue,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Fakhiri hoped that the New Zealand Government would trust Indonesia to work towards the release of Mehrtens. “There is a third party that always tries to approach the New Zealand Government to use the hostage issue to bring in a third party. We hope that [this request] will not be entertained,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Fakhiri stated that the third party prioritizes their own interests. “Once again, it is the interest of that group itself, both Benny Wenda and Sebby Sembom, who always make noise abroad about the Papua issue,” said Fakhiri. (*)</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">--------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/negotiation-in-susi-air-pilot-release-hindered-by-third-party-intervention-police-says/">https://en.jubi.id/negotiation-in-susi-air-pilot-release-hindered-by-third-party-intervention-police-says/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) Negotiation in Susi Air pilot release hindered by third party intervention, police says </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - Susi Air Pilot Hostage-Taking</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> 28 February 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – Sr. Comr. Faizal Ramadhani, the Head of Cartenz Peace Operation, has revealed that the negotiation process for the release of <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tpnpb-burns-plane-and-takes-susi-air-pilot-hostage/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Susi Air pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens, who has been held captive by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) since February 7, 2023</a>, has been hindered by customary issues, as well as interference of other parties.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Faizal made this statement following a visit from the New Zealand Police Attaché for Indonesia, Paul Laurence Borrel, at the Cartenz Peace Operation Command Post in Timika, <a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimika_Regency" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Mimika Regency</a>, Central Papua Province, on Tuesday (27/2/2024). Faizal stated that he had conveyed this information to Borrel.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The negotiation process is still ongoing, led by the Acting Regent of Nduga, Edison Gwijangge. However, the negotiation process is hindered by various factors, including the interference of other parties and customary issues,” said Faizal.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The chief of Nduga Police, Adj. Sr. Comr. VJ Parapaga, stated that efforts to release the New Zealand national pilot are still ongoing. He mentioned that the Nduga District Coordinating Forum (Forkopimda) is committed to resolving this case through a family approach.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We bring food supplies and open dialogues regarding the release of the pilot,” said Parapaga when contacted by phone on Tuesday. He assured that efforts to release Phillip Mark Mehrtens remain a top priority.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The New Zealand Police Attaché for Indonesia, Paul Laurence Borrel, commended the efforts made by the Cartenz Peace Operation Task Force in handling the case of the Susi Air pilot’s abduction. Borrel hopes that Phillip Mark Mehrtens will be safely released soon.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“We express our condolences for the loss of the Indonesian Military (TNI) and police members during the pilot’s liberation operation. We hope that the Cartenz Peace Operation can resolve the case as soon as possible,” said Paul. (*)</p><div class="gmr-related-post-onlytitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">--------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.tempo.co/read/1839093/australian-ambassador-pays-working-visit-to-papua">https://en.tempo.co/read/1839093/australian-ambassador-pays-working-visit-to-papua</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) Australian Ambassador Pays Working Visit to Papua </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Translator Ririe Ranggasari</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Editor Laila Afifa</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> 28 February 2024 22:21 WIB</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TEMPO.CO</span></span>, <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jakarta</span></span> - <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="" href="https://www.tempo.co/search?waktu=1tahun&kanal=&subkanal=&domain=2&q=australia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323c9f; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;">Australian</a> Ambassador to Indonesia Penny Williams PSM visited Jayapura in Papua province on February 26 and 27. While in Jayapura, Ambassador Williams met with the chairman of DPR Papua Jhony Banua Rouw, Papua Province Acting Governor Dr. M. Ridwan Rumasukun, and the Papua Chief of Police, Insp. Gen. Mathius D. Fakhiri.</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ambassador Williams also visited the Regional Development Planning Agency in Jayapura to see in person how Australia and Indonesia are working together for better development planning in Papua.</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"I am very pleased to visit Jayapura and to see firsthand the cooperation between the province of Papua and Australia," Ambassador Williams said.</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">One of the highlights of Ambassador Williams' visit to Jayapura was a dinner with prominent Australian Alumni women leaders in Papua. Ambassador Williams also met with the Rector of Cenderawasih University, Dr. Oscar Oswald O. Wambrauw.</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ambassador Williams is a senior official in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Prior to her appointment as the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Williams served as the Deputy Secretary of DFAT. She has also served as the Australian Ambassador to Malaysia and was Australia's first Ambassador for Women and Girls. Williams is the first female Australian Ambassador to Indonesia.</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Williams is fluent in Indonesian due to her educational background in Bachelor of Asian Studies (Honors) with a focus on: He holds a Bachelor of Asian Studies (Honors) with a focus on Indonesia, as well as a Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development.</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Suci Sekarwati</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Editor's Choice: </span><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a class="" href="https://en.tempo.co/read/1837576/australia-and-indonesia-to-ink-new-cooperation-in-defense" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323c9f; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;">Australia and Indonesia to Ink New Cooperation in Defense</a></span></em></p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">———————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307197/tni-forms-habema-operations-command-to-synergize-operation-in-papua">https://en.antaranews.com/news/307197/tni-forms-habema-operations-command-to-synergize-operation-in-papua</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">4) TNI forms Habema Operations Command to synergize operation in Papua </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> February 28, 2024 16:48 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jakarta (ANTARA) - TNI Commander General Agus Subiyanto formed the Habema Operations Command (Koops) to synergize operational patterns of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) and National Police (Polri) in handling conflicts in several areas in Papua.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Habema, which is the abbreviation for </span><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">harus berhasil maksimal </em><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">that translates to must be successful, is expected to boost the effectiveness of conflict management in Papua, as in recent years, it has faced conflicts and attacks from the OPM rebel group, Subiyanto remarked.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"I am implementing a smart power strategy, a combination of soft power, hard power, and military diplomacy. This strategy is implemented in the Habema Operations Command to handle conflicts in Papua," he remarked while attending the 2024 TNI-Polri Leadership Meeting (Rapim) at the TNI Headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">On a separate occasion, Head of the TNI Information Center, Major General Nugraha Gumilar, stated that Koops Habema had only been formed recently. However, he did not mention details about the date.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Habema is also the name of a lake, one of the highest lakes in Indonesia since it is located at an altitude of more than 3,300 meters above sea level at the foot of Mount Trikora, in the Jayawijaya District Papua Mountains.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Apart from establishing an operations command, TNI is also striving to implement a block system in individual soldier and unit training, all of which takes place centrally at the TNI Special Forces Command (Kopassus) Education and Training Center in Batujajar, West Bandung District, West Java.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"This program was specifically made to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of conflict management in Papua," Subiyanto stated at the meeting.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The leadership meeting, on Wednesday, was opened by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). On that occasion, the head of state also conveyed his instructions to TNI and Polri leaders. The meeting was attended by a total of 362 leaders of the TNI and Polri.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307185/tni-polri-should-stay-updated-on-war-technologies-president" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="TNI, Polri should stay updated on war technologies: President">TNI, Polri should stay updated on war technologies: President</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306336/president-lauds-rsppn-facilities-built-by-defense-ministry" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="President lauds RSPPN facilities built by Defense Ministry">President lauds RSPPN facilities built by Defense Ministry</a></span></span><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Genta Tenri M, Resinta Sulistiyandari<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Aditya Eko Sigit Wicaksono</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">---------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307158/bawaslu-involves-local-officials-to-trace-missing-officer-in-mimika">https://en.antaranews.com/news/307158/bawaslu-involves-local-officials-to-trace-missing-officer-in-mimika</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">5) Bawaslu involves local officials to trace missing officer in Mimika </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">February 28, 2024 11:37 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jakarta (ANTARA) - The General Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) is involving local officials to locate a missing election monitoring officer in Mimika District, Central Papua, according to Commissioner Herwyn J. H. Malonda.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"The district's Bawaslu head and human resources division head had coordinated with the local SAR agency on February 15, and they are coordinating again now. They have also coordinated with the local authority on February 16," Malonda stated at a press conference here on Tuesday.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The Mimika District Bawaslu facilitated the family of the missing official to join the search team on February 18-22, 2024. However, the search at that time yielded no result, he remarked.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"We will ensure that our officials continue working with their safety assured while also coordinating with the security authority, particularly as we know that this incident occurs in Papua," the commissioner noted.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Malonda also said that the local Bawaslu had deliberated strategies to locate the missing election monitoring official after confirming his status as missing.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Bawaslu head Rahmat Bagja remarked that based on the latest information about the missing person's whereabouts, the official was last seen walking towards a jungle.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"All elements, including the security officers and relevant officials, have searched the missing official in the jungle as well as at several locations where he was reportedly last seen," Bagja stated.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The agency head affirmed that despite the missing officer case, the election recapitulation process is still underway in Mimika District.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Mimika Police Chief, Adjunct Senior Commissioner I Gede Putra, stated on Monday (February 26) that his side had established a joint search team to locate the missing election monitoring officer.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">He said that the team comprised military and police officers, SAR officers, and family members of the missing officer.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The missing officer was reportedly last seen abruptly leaving a pre-election meeting with local officials and walking towards a jungle on February 11, the police chief stated.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306111/military-chopper-carries-election-logistics-to-mamberamo-raya" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Military chopper carries election logistics to Mamberamo Raya">Military chopper carries election logistics to Mamberamo Raya</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/305415/kpu-ensures-secure-logistics-distribution-to-3t-areas-in-mimika" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="KPU ensures secure logistics distribution to 3T areas in Mimika">KPU ensures secure logistics distribution to 3T areas in Mimika</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/305772/bawaslu-continues-to-monitor-election-logistics-distribution-in-papua" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Bawaslu continues to monitor election logistics distribution in Papua">Bawaslu continues to monitor election logistics distribution in Papua</a></span></span><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"> </span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Rio Feisal, Nabil Ihsan<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Azis Kurmala</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-----------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-62841513492704403112024-02-28T00:35:00.000-08:002024-02-28T00:35:54.856-08:00VP Ma'ruf Amin Says Indonesia Committed to Free Susi Air Pilot Hostage; Urges to Reconsider Foreign Involvement <p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.tempo.co/read/1838861/vp-maruf-amin-says-indonesia-committed-to-free-susi-air-pilot-hostage-urges-to-reconsider-foreign-involvement">https://en.tempo.co/read/1838861/vp-maruf-amin-says-indonesia-committed-to-free-susi-air-pilot-hostage-urges-to-reconsider-foreign-involvement</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">VP Ma'ruf Amin Says Indonesia Committed to Free Susi Air Pilot Hostage; Urges to Reconsider Foreign Involvement </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Translator Najla Nur Fauziyah </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Editor Petir Garda Bhwana</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> 28 February 2024 12:53 WIB </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TEMPO.CO</span></span>, <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jakarta</span></span> - <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vice President Ma'ruf Amin said that attempts to free the <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3598db;"><a class="" href="https://www.tempo.co/search?waktu=&kanal=&subkanal=&domain=2&q=susi%20air" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3598db; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Susi Air</a></span>pilot who was being held hostage by the Free Papua Organization (OPM) is a sensitive issue, and that foreign involvement must be reconsidered.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The statement was relayed after meeting with the Prime Minister of New Zealand Cristopher Luxon on Tuesday afternoon at the Speaker Lounge of the New Zealand Parliamentary Building. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">According to VP Ma'ruf, Indonesia continues to carry out efforts to free the hostage by approaching religious and community figures in Papua. “I said that we approach local and church figures in Papua, and [Luxon] appreciated it,” he said in a written statement.</span></p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Luxon, he said, has agreed to the persuasive approach the Indonesian government employed to free Captain Philip Mark Mehrtens.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I told him that Indonesia is committed to freeing the pilot, but we prioritize his safety so we engage in a persuasive method,” he added. “And [Luxon] agrees with the method, since this is a sensitive issue.”</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Indonesian government, according to the vice president, understood New Zealand’s government of the ongoing hostage situation by the Papuan liberation group. “I want to emphasize that the Indonesian government is committed to freeing the pilot as soon as possible,” he stressed. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ma'ruf Amin hoped that the intensive communication between Indonesia and New Zealand could be sustained in an attempt to free the captain.</span></p><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Captain Philip Mark Mehrtens was a New Zealand-based pilot for Susi Air who was held hostage since February 7, 2023, by the Papuan armed criminal group (KKB). The Indonesian government immediately notified New Zealand’s Embassy in Jakarta and granted a consular mission on February 12, 2023. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Zealand is currently trying to sway Indonesia to consider involving foreign parties in its negotiation with the Papuan group.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ANTARA</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">-----------------------------------------</span></p></div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-90255330628913367962024-02-27T12:07:00.000-08:002024-02-27T12:07:57.256-08:00Papua New Guinea, Indonesia ratify defense deal to expand security cooperation <p> <a class="" href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/pacific/indonesia-png-ratify-security-deal-02272024030449.html" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/pacific/indonesia-png-ratify-security-deal-02272024030449.html</a></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>Papua New Guinea, Indonesia ratify defense deal to expand security cooperation </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Harlyne Joku </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2024.02.27</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Port Moresby</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Indonesia and Papua New Guinea will boost defense cooperation, officials from the two countries said Tuesday, including border patrols in a region where indigenous Papuans have waged a decades-long insurgency against Indonesian rule. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko and Indonesia’s ambassador to the Pacific island country, Andriana Supandy, held a press conference in Port Moresby to announce ratification of a defense cooperation agreement that had languished since being signed a decade ago.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Joint border patrols and different types of defense cooperation between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea of course will be part of the evergrowing security mechanism,” Tkatchenko told reporters.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“It will be great to see now and into the future, Indonesia and PNG forces working closely together, side by side, on our borders, within our country, within their country, sharing knowledge, training, [and] many other things as well,” he said. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Indonesia and Papua New Guinea have a 760-kilometer (472-mile) border that slices through the middle of the island of New Guinea, north of Australia. The line on the map is a product of the colonial era, which split the Melanesian island into Dutch, German and British rule, and arbitrarily divided indigenous peoples traditionally organized around extended kinship. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Indonesia hopes the agreement will ensure a peaceful, stable Pacific region and will strengthen our relationship with PNG,” said Supandy.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tkatchenko, asked if Papua New Guinea could be drawn into supporting Indonesian military operations against Papuan independence fighters, said the government respects Indonesia’s sovereignty and doesn’t interfere in internal Indonesian matters.</span></p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Home to some 270 million people, Indonesia is a rising Southeast Asian power that reaches into the South Pacific region and dwarfs Papua New Guinea in population, economic size and military might. Papuans in Indonesia’s easternmost provinces have fought Indonesian rule since it took control of the region from the Dutch in the 1960s.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Papua New Guinea, the most populous Pacific island country with an estimated 12 million people, has aspired for decades to modernize and expand its small and cash-strapped defense force. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">It signed a </span><a class="" href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/pacific/us-png-defense-agreement-05222023053524.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0645ad;" target="_blank"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">defense pact </span></a><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">with the United States last year that is part of the U.S. response to China’s inroads with Pacific island nations, but which could also benefit Papua New Guinea’s forces through cooperation with a sophisticated military that it is the world’s largest. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In December, Papua New Guinea signed a </span><a class="" href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/pacific/australia-png-sign-security-agreement-12072023011813.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0645ad;" target="_blank"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">security agreement </span></a><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">with Australia that included assistance to increase police numbers and aims to help the Pacific country improve its tenuous grasp on law and order. At least </span><a class="" href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/pacific/png-deaths-02202024050326.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0645ad;" target="_blank"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">49 people</span></a><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> were killed in tribal violence in Enga province earlier this month, which followed riots and looting in the capital Port Moresby in January.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tkatchenko said defense cooperation with Indonesia is especially important because of the need to upgrade Papua New Guinea’s capacity to control the border.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“So we have more security when people immigrate and travel over an open border – how do we address that, how do we fix that, how do we monitor it, how do we secure it and so on? There’s a lot of work to do,” he said.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, during a state visit to Papua New Guinea last year, promised to take steps to boost border trade that has been stifled for decades by Indonesia’s conflict with independence fighters in its Papuan provinces.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">-----------------------------</span></p></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-89625661145146023242024-02-26T23:51:00.000-08:002024-02-26T23:51:29.786-08:00 1) Operation Peace Cartenz Task Force frees two Papuan students <p> </p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Prabowo must resist temptation to apply more force in Papua </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><span class="" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><span class="" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><span class="" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">---------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><span class="" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><span class="" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/307083/operation-peace-cartenz-task-force-frees-two-papuan-students">https://en.antaranews.com/news/307083/operation-peace-cartenz-task-force-frees-two-papuan-students</a></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span class="" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span class="" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><b class="">1) Operation Peace Cartenz Task Force frees two Papuan students </b> </span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span class="" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">February 27, 2024 13:18 GMT+700</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) - Operation Peace Cartenz Task Force personnel freed two students that they arrested shortly after a gunfight broke out in Brasa River, Dekai Sub-district, Yahukimo District, Papua Pegunungan, on February 22.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"They have been freed because there has so far been no evidence of their involvement in any armed Papuan group operating in the region," task force chief, Sen. Coms. Faizal Rahmadani, stated.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">If the task force personnel later found convincing evidence of their involvement, the students, only identified as MH and BG, could again be questioned, he told ANTARA in Jayapura City on Monday.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The students were arrested shortly after the gunfight between security personnel and several members of an armed criminal group operating in Dekai Sub-district on Thursday, February 22, 2024.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Rahmadani had stated earlier that the task force personnel arrested Alenus Tabuni, alias Kobuter, one of the armed Papuan criminals that the Indonesian police had placed on its most wanted list.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Tabuni was apprehended in front of Ilaga Sub-district's public health center in Puncak District, Central Papua Province, on Sunday, February 18.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Rahmadani noted that Tabuni was involved in and played an important role in several acts of armed violence in Puncak District over the past few years.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Tabuni first joined the Goliath Tabuni-led armed criminal group before moving to the Numbuk Telenggen-led armed group, he stated, adding that the suspect set PT Unggul's base camp on fire on February 11, 2021.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306657/operation-peace-cartenz-task-force-arrests-alenus-tabuni" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Operation Peace Cartenz Task Force arrests Alenus Tabuni">Operation Peace Cartenz Task Force arrests Alenus Tabuni</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">After burning down the base camp in Jenggerpaga Village, Ilaga Sub-district, the police reported that he gunned down an ojek driver named Udin near the Eromaga village hall on April 14, 2021, he remarked.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The Papua police further noted that the suspect hit Nius Tabuni, Gome Sub-district head, on April 24, 2021, and shot at a soldier in Undome Village, Gome Sub-district, on May 3, 2021, Rahmadani revealed.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The soldier survived the shooting incident, he stated, adding that on May 9, 2021, Tabuni burned down a government building near Aminggaru Airport in Ilaga Sub-district.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Thereafter, on May 11, 2021, Tabuni also attempted to set a security truck on fire, and on June 3, 2021, he was involved in a shooting incident that ended in the death of Habel Alengpen, Rahmadani pointed out.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Moreover, on June 3, 2021, Tabuni, along with other members of the Numbuk Telenggen-led armed group, destroyed and scorched the locals' houses and several facilities at the Aminggaru Airport in Ilaga Sub-district.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Tabuni was also involved in several gunfights against Indonesian security personnel, including the ones on August 16, 2021, in the villages of Welenggaru and Kugibur of Gome Utara Sub-district, and on August 18, 2021, in the villages of Mundidok and Tuanggi of Ilaga Sub-district.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">This year, Tabuni also reportedly got involved in a gunfight against the Indonesian police and army personnel in PT Unggul's working area of Jenggerpaga Village, Ilaga Sub-district, on February 4.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"Luckily, there were no casualties in the gunfight. Tabuni was reported to carry a firearm and ammunition during the exchange of fire," he added.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306918/a-separatist-killed-in-a-gunfight-peace-cartenz-task-force" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="A separatist killed in a gunfight: Peace Cartenz Task Force">A separatist killed in a gunfight: Peace Cartenz Task Force</a></span></span><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Evarukdijati, Rahmad Nasution<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Yuni Arisandy Sinaga</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Prabowo-must-resist-temptation-to-apply-more-force-in-Papua">https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Prabowo-must-resist-temptation-to-apply-more-force-in-Papua</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) Prabowo must resist temptation to apply more force in Papua </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">New face of kindness likely to be tested by push for indigenous rights</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hamish McDonald is the author of "Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century."</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">After what appears to have been a decisive win by Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto in Indonesia's presidential election, many observers have been speculating about what kind of leader will emerge when he takes over from incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in October.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Will it be the hot-headed army general who allegedly abducted student protesters, instigated anti-Chinese riots and came close to mounting a coup in 1998?</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Or the 2014 candidate who launched his first presidential campaign riding a white horse surrounded by strapping uniformed men? Or the stirrer of Islamist street-power who railed against foreigners during his second campaign in 2019? Or just the tubby, avuncular figure who seems to have finally won this month at age 72?</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Chameleon is the word many analysts have used.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">An early test could come at the far eastern end of Indonesia: the western half of the island of New Guinea, which has been restive under Jakarta's rule since it was handed over by a reluctant Netherlands 60 years ago under American pressure.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Papua is an old stomping ground of the military version of Prabowo. In 1984, he led troops from Kopassus, the army's Special Forces Command, across the border into Papua New Guinea to search for fighters from the Free Papua Movement, known by its Indonesian initials as OPM.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">In 1996, he led a Kopassus operation to free World Wildlife Fund hostages taken by the OPM. The mission was controversial because soldiers traveled via a white helicopter previously used by Red Cross negotiators.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Enough provocations are happening now to bring this persona of Prabowo's again to the fore.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Jokowi's legacy is "a better armed, better resourced, more coordinated pro-independence insurgency; higher civilian casualties; and the failure after a year to secure the release of a New Zealand pilot held hostage by the guerrillas," said the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), a Jakarta-based research group, in a report on Papua earlier this month.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Indonesia is still far from winning the hearts and minds of its Papuan citizens.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Early on, soldiers and officials looted what the Dutch left behind. Then Jakarta held an "act of free choice" in which 1,026 handpicked indigenous representatives voted for unification with Indonesia. Although the vote was accepted by the U.N. at the time, it has been regarded as a sham by many historians as well as Papuans.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Periodic protests have met harsh military crackdowns. Millions of settlers from other parts of Indonesia have moved into Papua, threatening to swamp the indigenous Melanesian population.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">The Papuans have been onlookers to the exploitation of the territory's immense natural wealth: the giant Freeport gold-copper mine, oil fields around the Bird's Head peninsula, a BP natural gas field in Bintuni Bay, hardwood forests logged and replaced with oil palm plantations. Indonesian military men have thrived on fees from security and the opportunity for post-retirement employment.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">When the authoritarian New Order regime of late President Suharto ended in 1998, many Papuans hoped their dreams of self-determination would finally be realized under liberal-minded Abdurrahman Wahid. But initiatives launched during his brief 2000-2002 presidency were undermined by his successors.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Unique among Indonesia's regions, Papua has been exempted from the <em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">demokrasi</em> era that followed Suharto's fall. It remains closed to foreign correspondents and U.N. human rights officials without approval from a vetting committee composed of representatives from intelligence, military and government agencies.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Jakarta has tried to draw the Papuans more into national progress through new governmental structures, sharing resource revenue and making the police rather than the military the first responders to unrest.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">But mobile phones and social media have penetrated military information controls to reveal protests, security crackdowns and shootings to the world, giving a boost to pro-independence political activists and guerrillas.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">"For the last 20 years, the conflict has only grown worse and the last 10 years in particular have seen an escalation of violence, despite huge amounts of money and huge numbers of troops sent in," IPAC said in its report.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">A year ago, a guerrilla band destroyed a small commercial aircraft at a remote landing strip and took pilot Philip Mehrtens from New Zealand hostage. Jakarta has tried negotiating his release but also has positioned forces for a rescue attempt that IPAC said would certainly result in Mehrtens' death and many civilian casualties.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">In a presidential debate in December, the Prabowo of old made an appearance as he promised to "support" Papuans by strengthening the security apparatus in the region.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">"We see there is meddling by foreign hands there," he said. "And we see that certain powers always want Indonesia to disintegrate and fracture."</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">The vagueness of his policy platform has left people guessing about his intentions, said Andreas Harsono, Indonesia director for U.S.-based campaign group Human Rights Watch.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">"But whatever Prabowo will do, the importance of human rights issues and respect for their land will still be front and center for the indigenous people in West Papua," he said. "If Prabowo wants to have a model on how he should work on West Papua, he could indeed look at Wahid."</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">Jokowi, who initially tried to open Papua to outside scrutiny but was overruled by his nationalist and military supporters, may have some moderating influence over a president to whom he lent his popularity -- and his eldest son as running mate.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">But the biggest block of seats in the legislature, and probably the speakership, looks set to go to the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, led by Megawati Sukarnoputri. The daughter of founding president Sukarno who won Papua from the Dutch, Sukarnoputri applied military solutions to insurgencies during her own term as president. Her party may not resist if Prabowo seeks to apply forceful methods.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 28px;">The pilot hostage drama may well be over by the time Prabowo takes charge. But other flashpoints could tempt him into a shock military response to the embarrassment of Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the U.S. -- countries that have positioned themselves as friends and supporters of Melanesians amid China's efforts to boost its influence in the Pacific. These partners should quietly suggest patient dialogue and avoidance of armed confrontation where possible as a better approach for the new leader.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="">----------------------------------------------------------</div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-20145874789092075022024-02-26T11:30:00.000-08:002024-02-26T11:30:17.852-08:001) West Papua advocacy group condemns arrest, ‘humiliation’ of two teenagers <p><br /></p><p> 2<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">) TPNPB-OPM Demands Release of 2 Apprehended West Papuan Teenagers</span></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">3) Calls for Justice: The Arrest of Two Teenagers in West Papua Sparks Outrage</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">4) LBH Papua urges high court to overturn decision dismissing Awyu Tribe’s land rights lawsuit <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">5) Fansoway Art Gallery showcases Sentani’s unique wood skin paintings</span></h1><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">---------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class=""><a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/26/west-papua-advocacy-group-condemns-arrest-humiliation-of-two-teenagers/?fbclid=IwAR0R7svKg110XplBTvOX1VzW3g5NpBLvR30A77Z0NU5OFvi8gex9L_NWUO8">https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/02/26/west-papua-advocacy-group-condemns-arrest-humiliation-of-two-teenagers/?fbclid=IwAR0R7svKg110XplBTvOX1VzW3g5NpBLvR30A77Z0NU5OFvi8gex9L_NWUO8</a></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><b>1) West Papua advocacy group condemns arrest, ‘humiliation’ of two teenagers </b></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">By APR editor - February 26, 2024 </div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br /></div><div class=""><div class="td-post-featured-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><figure class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; margin: 6px 0px 26px; z-index: 1;">The two Papuan teens arrested by the Indonesian military - "MH" and "BGS" . . . Australia reaffirms no support for Papuan self- determination. </figcaption><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; margin: 6px 0px 26px; z-index: 1;">Image: Tabloid Jubi</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pf-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #003a61; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">Asia Pacific Report</a></em></div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">An Australian-based West Papua advocacy group has condemned the arrest and “humiliation” of two teenagers by Indonesian security forces last week.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The head of Cartenz 2024 Peace Operations, Kombes Faizal Ramadhani, said in a statement on Friday that the 15-year-olds had been arrested after a clash with the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB ) in Kali Brasa on Thursday, February 22.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">During the shootout, a TPNPB member named as Otniel Giban (alias Bolong Giban) had been killed.</p><ul class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><a class="" href="https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c2qe7e30gpyo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">READ MORE:</strong> A BBC report on the arrest in Bahasa Indonesian</a></li><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><a class="" href="https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">A Jubi news report on the incident in West Papua</a></li></ul><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The Sydney-based Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) today condemned the arrest of the teenagers, only identified by the Indonesian authorities by their initials, MH and BGE and who were initially seized as “suspects” but later described as “witnesses”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Faizal said that the teenagers had been arrested because they were suspected of being members of the TPNPB group and that they were currently being detained at the Damai Cartenz military post.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">However, the TPNPB declared that the two teenagers were not members of the TPNPB and were ordinary civilians.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">The teenagers were arrested when they were crossing the Brasa River in the Yahukimo Regency.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aircraft shot at</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The clash between security forces and the TNPB occurred while the Cartenz Peacekeeping Operation-2024 searched for those responsible for shooting at an aircraft in Yahukimo in which a military member had been wounded.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Meanwhile, also in Jakarta last Friday the Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Richard Marles, met with Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto — who is <a class="" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/19/asia/prabowo-subianto-indonesia-president-profile-intl-hnk/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">poised to win this month’s Indonesian presidential election</a>.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Marles stressed at a media conference at the Defence Ministry that Australia did not support the Free Papua Movement, saying the country “fully recognise[d] Indonesia’s territorial sovereignty”.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“We do not endorse any independence movement,” he told a media conference.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">However, in Sydney AWPA’s Joe Collins said in a statement: “I was at first surprised that West Papua even got a mention at the meeting as usually Australia tries to ignore the issue but even our Defence Minister can hardly ignore a media question on it.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">‘No support for any independence movements’</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An <a class="" href="https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/transcripts/2024-02-24/joint-press-conference-jakarta-indonesia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003a61; text-decoration: none;">extract from the media conference</a> says:</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Subianto:</em> “Thank you very much. I don’t think there is any need for questions. Questions?”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Journalist:</em> “<em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank you very much Mr Deputy Prime Minister. Regarding the huge amount of [the] Australian defence budget, how should the Indonesian people see it? Is it going to be a trap or an opportunity for our national interest?</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“And my second question is what is Australia’s standpoint regarding the separatist [pro-independence] movement in Papua because there are some voices from Australia concern[ed] about human rights violations?”</em></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marles:</em> “Thank you for the question. Let me do the second issue first. We, Australia utterly recognise the territorial sovereignty of Indonesia, full stop. And there is no support for any independence movements.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“We support the territorial sovereignty of Indonesia. And that includes those provinces being part of Indonesia. No ifs, no buts. And I want to be very clear about that.”</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">Collins said there was no shortage of comments during the delegation’s visit to Indonesian around how important the relationship was.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;">“West Papua will remain the elephant in the room in the Australia-Indonesian relationship,” Collins said. “We can expect many hiccups in the relationship over West Papua in the coming years “.</p><div class=""><br /></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">-------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.tempo.co/read/1837959/tpnpb-opm-demands-release-of-2-apprehended-west-papuan-teenagers">https://en.tempo.co/read/1837959/tpnpb-opm-demands-release-of-2-apprehended-west-papuan-teenagers</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) TPNPB-OPM Demands Release of 2 Apprehended West Papuan Teenagers</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Translator Najla Nur Fauziyah</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Editor Petir Garda Bhwana</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> 26 February 2024 13:56 WIB</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TEMPO.CO</span></span>, <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jakarta</span></span> - <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The spokesperson of The National Liberation Army of <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3598db;"><a class="" href="https://www.tempo.co/search?waktu=&kanal=&subkanal=&domain=2&q=west%20papua" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3598db; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">West Papua</a></span> - Free Papua Movement (TPNPB - OPM) Sebby Sambom claimed that the two people apprehended by joint state apparatus on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, are civilians. Both of them are 15-year-old teenagers, MH and BGE.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">According to Sebby, MH and BGE were crossing the Brasa River in Dekai District, Yahukimo Regency while bathing before being arrested. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"They were just trying to pick bananas," said Sebby on Sunday, February 25, 2024. </span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">However, the military and police joint apparatus intercepted MH and BGE on their way. Sebby said that the personnel surveil them using drone cameras. During the arrest of the two teenagers, the state enforcers personnel shot dead an OPM member named Otniel Giban.</span></p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sebby confirmed that Otniel was indeed a member of OPM, but MH and BGE were not. "The late Otniel Giban was an active TPNPB-OPM Wosem Battalion troop who was seconded to Kodap 16 Yahukimo. However, the two people arrested were purely civilians," he said.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">According to Sebby, the two teenagers are still being detained and are at the Yahukimo Police Station.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">TPNPB Battalion Commander Wosem Napianus Kerebea, according to Sebby, said that there was no shootout during the incident. At that time, Otniel only kept a </span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">noken </span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">or traditional Papuan bag with a morning star motif and a cellphone. Otniel, he said, did not carry a firearm.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Head of the Cartenz Peace Operations Police Commissioner Faizal Ramadhani said MH and BGE were witnesses at the scene of the shooting. Currently, they are still being detained to be questioned about an airplane shooting incident and their involvement with TPNPB troops.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The joint officers claimed to have found evidence from the two witnesses, namely 74 rounds of cal.5.56 ammunition, 2 SS1 magazines, and cash amounting to Rp3 million and Rp50,000. Apart from that, there was a Solar Cell, Morning Star </span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Noken</span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, two Oppo cellphones, a Nokia cellphone, a wrench, two charger heads, and one type C cable.</span></p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">However, Sebby claimed that the weapons and ammunition found did not belong to MH and BGE, but to the military and police personnel.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sebby asked for both of them to be released. “The two people arrested were civilians. We have the report," said Sebby.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">According to the Head of Cartenz Peace Operations, Otniel's death occurred during an investigation into the shooting incident of the Wings Air plane on Saturday, February 17.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">AISYAH AMIRA WAKANG</span></p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">--------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://bnnbreaking.com/world/indonesia/calls-for-justice-the-arrest-of-two-teenagers-in-west-papua-sparks-outrage">https://bnnbreaking.com/world/indonesia/calls-for-justice-the-arrest-of-two-teenagers-in-west-papua-sparks-outrage</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) Calls for Justice: The Arrest of Two Teenagers in West Papua Sparks Outrage</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Delve into the arrest of two West Papuan teenagers in Dekai District, ensnared in a deadly confrontation. </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Amidst international outcry, their innocence stands as a poignant symbol of civilian vulnerability in conflict zones.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">author-image Waqas Arain 26 Feb 2024 02:06 EST</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">Imagine you're 15 again, the world is your playground, and your biggest worry is what game to play next. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">Now, imagine that abruptly ending as you find yourself in handcuffs, accused of being part of a violent incident</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;"> far beyond the innocent games of childhood. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">This is not a hypothetical for two teenagers in <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;">Dekai District, Yahukimo Regency</span>, who found themselves in the</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">iron grip of a joint military and police force on</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;"> February 22, 2024. Their alleged crime? Being present at a location that became the site of a fatal encounter </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">between state enforcers and a member of the <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;">National Liberation </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;">Army of West Papua - Free Papua Movement (TPNPB - OPM)</span>.</p><div class="bottom-margin over-hidden article-mid-ads-style ads_banner ads-div-style" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: var(--ad_display); flex-direction: column; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px auto; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: auto;"><div class="" id="div-box1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">The Incident Unraveled</span></h2><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to the spokesperson for the TPNPB-OPM, Sebby Sambom, the teenagers, identified only </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">as MH and BGE, were engaged in the innocuous activities of bathing in the <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;">Brasa River</span> and picking bananas when </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">they were apprehended. The arrest took a grim turn with the</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;"> shooting death of Otniel Giban, an active member of the TPNPB-OPM, by the arresting forces. Sambom </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">emphasizes that Giban was unarmed at the time, found </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">only with a traditional Papuan bag and a cellphone. The teenagers, he argues, were simply in the wrong place </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">at the wrong time, with no involvement in the </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">movement or the preceding events leading to the altercation.</p><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Evidence in Question</span></h2><div class="bottom-margin over-hidden article-mid-ads-style ads_banner ads-div-style" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: var(--ad_display); flex-direction: column; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px auto; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: auto;"><div class="" id="div-box2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">The narrative surrounding the teenagers' arrest is further complicated by the items found in their possession. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ammunition and other evidence, purportedly linking them to a <a class="" href="https://en.tempo.co/read/1837959/tpnpb-opm-demands-release-of-2-apprehended-west-papuan-teenagers" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--p-txt-color);" target="_blank">shooting incident involving a Wings Air plane</a> on February 17, were claimed by Sambom to belong to the</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;"> military and police, not the teenagers. This accusation raises serious questions about the validity of the charges against MH and BGE, who are currently</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;"> detained at the Yahukimo Police Station, labeled as witnesses to the shooting incident.</p><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">International Attention and Calls for Release</span></h2><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">The arrest of the teenagers has not gone unnoticed by the international community. West Papua advocacy </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">groups have vehemently condemned the actions of the Indonesian security forces, describing the arrest and subsequent treatment of MH and BGE as a grave humiliation. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">The groups echo Sambom's demands for the immediate release of the teenagers, advocating for their rights as civilians caught in a conflict they neither </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">understand nor are a part of.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">The situation in Dekai District underscores a larger, more profound issue plaguing regions embroiled in </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;">conflict: the vulnerability of innocents caught between the crossfire of opposing forces. As the international community watches closely, the fate of MH and BGE hangs in</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; width: 878px; word-wrap: break-word;"> the balance, a stark reminder of the human cost of conflict and the urgent need for justice and accountability.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">———————————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/lbh-papua-urges-high-court-to-overturn-decision-dismissing-awyu-tribes-land-rights-lawsuit/">https://en.jubi.id/lbh-papua-urges-high-court-to-overturn-decision-dismissing-awyu-tribes-land-rights-lawsuit/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">4) LBH Papua urges high court to overturn decision dismissing Awyu Tribe’s land rights lawsuit <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">News Desk - PTUN Lawsuit Of Awyu Community </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">26 February 2024</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Jayapura, Jubi – The Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua) has urged the judge of the <a class="" href="https://pttun-manado.go.id/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Manado State Administrative High Court</a> to overturn the decision of the <a class="" href="https://ptun-jayapura.go.id/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Jayapura State Administrative Court</a>, which dismissed the lawsuit of the Awyu Tribe community. This is crucial to safeguard the rights of the Awyu Tribe as indigenous people who have lost their customary land due to oil palm plantations.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The Manado High Court judge must annul the Jayapura Court decision in order to protect the rights to ancestral land of the Awyu Tribe,” said LBH Papua Director Emanuel Gobay in Jayapura City on Tuesday (20/2/2024).</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The case concerns the environmental feasibility permit issued by the Papua Provincial Office for Investment and Integrated One-Stop Service for the oil palm plantation of PT Indo Asiana Lestari or PT IAL. The permit challenged by the Awyu indigenous community includes plans to develop a 36,096.4-hectare oil palm plantation in Mandobo District and Fofi District, Boven Digoel Regency, South Papua Province. The Awyu indigenous community, as the plaintiff, stated that the permit was issued without their knowledge.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">On November 2, 2023, a panel of judges led by Merna Cinthia along with associate judges Yusup Klemen and Donny Poja declared the lawsuit of the Awyu indigenous community groundless and dismissed it. On November 22, the Coalition Team for the Protection of Papua’s Customary Forests, acting as legal advisors to the Awyu indigenous community, filed an appeal to the Manado High Court.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Gobay stated that the examination of environmental cases in administrative courts as well as general courts has its mechanisms regulated in the Supreme Court Regulation No. 1/2023 on Guidelines for Adjudicating Environmental Cases. Gobay criticized the panel of judges of the Jayapura State Administrative Court for disregarding these mechanisms when examining and adjudicating the lawsuit of the Awyu indigenous community.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The Decision Letter of the Papua Provincial Office for Investment and Integrated One-Stop Service for the oil palm plantation of PT Indo Asiana Lestari is an administrative decision of the government. The panel of judges should have followed the mandate of Article 26 of the Supreme Court Regulation in conducting the case examination,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">The panel of judges rejecting the lawsuit on the grounds that the issuance of the permit followed a letter of support for oil palm plantation investment from the Customary Community Institution (LMA) of Boven Digoel Regency Number 30/LMA-BVD/VIII/2018 dated August 29, 2018, are unacceptable according to Gobay. He deemed these grounds irrelevant to the substance of the case and contrary to the mandate of providing customary land and individual land of indigenous people for any purpose.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“This has demonstrated that the panel of judges also committed violations of human rights, especially regarding the cultural identity of indigenous communities, including the protected rights to ancestral land as regulated in Article 6 paragraph (2) of Law No. 39/1999 concerning Human Rights,” he said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">On that basis, LBH Papua requests the Manado State Administrative High Court judge to annul the decision of the Jayapura State Administrative Court. LBH Papua also requests the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to review the panel of judges examining </p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">the case at the Jayapura State Administrative Court. LBH Papua also requests the Judicial Commission to monitor Manado’s judges in their appeal process. (*)</p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/fansoway-art-gallery-showcases-sentanis-unique-wood-skin-paintings/">https://en.jubi.id/fansoway-art-gallery-showcases-sentanis-unique-wood-skin-paintings/</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var(--scheme-color,#d32f2f); font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">5) Fansoway Art Gallery showcases Sentani’s unique wood skin paintings</span></h1><div class="list-table clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; font-family: "Open Sans"; position: relative; width: 683.328125px;"><div class="table-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-row;"><div class="gmr-gravatar-metasingle table-cell" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; height: 32px; vertical-align: middle; width: 42px;"><a class="url" href="https://en.jubi.id/author/pr9c6tr3_juben/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link-color-body,#000000); text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" title="Permalink to: News Desk"><img alt="" class="img-cicle avatar-32 photo avatar" decoding="async" height="32" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72012dcc45f59ff370b559c8d8836e19?s=32&d=mm&r=g" srcset="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72012dcc45f59ff370b559c8d8836e19?s=64&d=mm&r=g 2x" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-style: none; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="32" /></a></div><div class="gmr-content-metasingle table-cell" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; height: 32px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="meta-content gmr-content-metasingle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--content-greycolor,#888888); font-style: italic; line-height: 14px; text-transform: capitalize;"><span class="vcard author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="url n fn" href="https://en.jubi.id/author/pr9c6tr3_juben/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--content-greycolor,#888888); text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" title="News Desk">News Desk</a></span> - <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/topic/fansoway-art/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--content-greycolor,#888888); text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Fansoway Art</a></div><div class="meta-content gmr-content-metasingle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--content-greycolor,#888888); font-style: italic; line-height: 14px; text-transform: capitalize;"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: border-box;">26 February 2024</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><h4 class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Sentani, Jubi – Sentani is not only renowned for the beauty of its lakes but also for the Khombouw wood skin painting art from Asei Besar Village in East Sentani. These paintings are available at the Fansoway Art Gallery on KhalKote Street, East Sentani District, <a class="" href="https://jayapurakab.go.id/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--hoverlink-color-body,#d32f2f); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Jayapura Regency</a>.</h4><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">At first glance, Fansoway Art Gallery resembles any souvenir shop. However, it displays various artworks and crafts typical of the Asei tribe in Asei Besar Village. Asei Besar Village is well-known as a producer of high-quality wood skin paintings. The Khombouw wood is said to come from the Khombow trees around Lake Sentani. The painting motifs depict symbols of life and livelihoods of the Indigenous Papuan in Sentani.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Tresia Ohee (40), Coordinator of Fansoway Art, stated that the painting is a cultural heritage passed down by ancestors and is still preserved, upheld, and safeguarded by the next generation in Asei Besar. Besides its economic value and cultural promotion, according to Tresia Ohee, the wood skin paintings have also become a medium to introduce the tradition and identity of the native Sentani people to outsiders or those curious to learn.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“It is not just about selling [the wood skin paintings], but the most important thing is that we preserve our culture. It is our dignity and identity, so whenever there is a painting like this anywhere, people know it is from Asei Besar Village, which makes us proud,” said Ohee.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Various motifs of wood skin paintings are available at Fansoway Art Gallery, such as Cenderawasih (Bird of Paradise), Sentani women dancing, a group of men hunting at Lake Sentani, and others. All paintings use typical base colors of red, black, and white on light brown wood skin. These paintings speak to visitors and buyers about the uniqueness and richness of the traditions and culture of the community in Asei Besar Village.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ohee explained that the tradition of painting on wood skin inherited from ancestors has been successfully preserved. Apparently, the strokes of black, white, and red on the Khonbouw wood cannot be replaced because they hold special meanings. For example, the Cenderawasih painting still uses black, white, and red, with the addition of green-yellow to match the colors of the bird.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The black color is usually obtained from charcoal or burnt clay pots. The white color is from lime, which is usually used for chewing betel nuts, and the red color is from the soil. These are the basic colors for painting on wood skin,” she said.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">In addition to paintings, other crafts are also exhibited in the gallery, such as wallets, tissue holders, file holders, hats, bags for mothers, casual bags, maps, and school bags for children. All of these are made from Khombouw wood skin using a small amount of thread embroidered to strengthen them. The paintings and crafts are truly captivating, with textures that are visually appealing.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Tresia Ohee recounted how the group of wood skin craftsmen from Asei Besar Village produces all these crafts. From wall decorations with various motifs inspired by the traditions and culture of the Asei tribe, to practical needs such as tissue holders, file holders, hats, bags, maps, and school bags. There are also casual bags knitted with wood skin thread combined with synthetic thread.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ohee vividly remembers how she has been selling and offering her father’s wall paintings since she was a child, whenever there were visitors or guests from outside coming to Asei Besar.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to her, painting on wood skin has become a part and daily habit of the people in Asei Besar Village, even since childhood. She believes it is rather innate and habitual from birth, passed down through the Asei people. Children from Asei, regardless of which village, are capable of painting on wood skin. Meanwhile, modern products such as embroidering bags, hats, and crowns are taught to children as additional skills.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Affordable Prices</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">People can purchase crafts from Asei Besar according to their preferences and abilities. Fansoway Art Gallery offers affordable prices. For example, wall decorations range from Rp 50,000 to over Rp 1 million depending on size. Bags range from Rp 50,000 to Rp 500,000, File holders are priced at Rp 100,000, hats from Rp 200,000 to Rp250,000, head crowns with chicken feathers are priced at Rp5 0,000, and those with cassowary feathers range from Rp 200,000 to Rp 350,000. There are also accessories such as keychains, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets priced from Rp 20,000 to Rp 50,000.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“The price for a complete set of traditional attire, from ankle wraps to headwear, for princesses is Rp 1.5 million, and for men Rp1 million. The price for a tifa (traditional Papuan drum) depends on the size, ranging from Rp 500,000 to Rp 3.5 million,” said Ohee.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Fansoway Art Gallery is open every day, except Sundays, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Papua time.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Not Just a Souvenir Shop</span></p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Fansoway Art Gallery is not just an ordinary souvenir shop. Fansoway is one of the groups of Khombouw wood skin craftsmen consisting of 20 people. Members of this group include men and women who are engaged in the art of painting and crafting Khombouw wood skin to produce various accessories.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Usually, men are more involved in painting while mothers produce bags, hats, and crowns using Khombouw wood skin as the base material.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">Tresia Ohee explained that the Fansoway Art group was initiated in 2009. Initially, they only had enthusiasm and intentions without sufficient capital. It was only in 2019 that the craft group received assistance from the Provincial Department of Industry and Trade of Papua to establish the Fansoway Gallery.</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“It all started with our own enthusiasm, but the capital was not in the form of money. The important capital we had was the spirit, the ability to make wood skin, to find wood skin and pound it until it is ready to be painted on. So the initial capital was really nothing but pure intention,” said Ohee, who is also a craftswoman.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">She hopes that the government can pay attention to wood skin craftsmen who continue to preserve tradition and culture. Not only for the people in Asei Besar but also for painting and crafting groups in other parts of Papua. She hopes that relevant institutions can develop products and collect works from artists to increase enthusiasm for preserving painting as culture and tradition.</p><p class="" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Our big hope is that relevant institutions working on art and culture in Papua can come and see that we have craftsmen to move forward. Perhaps they could bring us to learn from other areas like Yogyakarta, Bali, Jakarta, Surabaya, and other regions so that we can create even better products to attract attention locally and nationally,” she said. (*)</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------------------</div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-23490278056215357702024-02-25T17:46:00.000-08:002024-02-25T18:02:52.562-08:00<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>AWPA Media statement</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">AWPA condemns the arrest and the humiliation of two West Papuan teenagers by the Indonesian security forces</span></p><p>AWPA (Sydney) statement. 26 February 2024</p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Australia West Papua Association condemns the arrest and the humiliation of two West Papuan teenagers by the Indonesian security forces on 22 February 2024.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In a statement on Friday the 23 February, the Head of Cartenz 2024 Peace Operations, Kombes Faizal Ramadhani, said that the teenagers were arrested after a clash with the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB ) in Kali Brasa on February 22. In the shootout, a TPNPB member named Otniel Giban alias Bolong Giban died.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Faizal stated that the teenagers were arrested because they were suspected of being members of the TPNPB group and that they are currently being detained at the Damai Cartenz post.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">However, the TPNPB stated that the two teenagers (referred to by their initials MH and BGE) both aged 15 were not members of the TPNPB and were ordinary civilians. The teenagers were arrested when they were crossing the Brasa River in the Yahukimo Regency .<u1:p></u1:p></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The clash between the security forces and the TNPB occurred while the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Cartenz Peacekeeping Operation-2024 searched for those responsible for shooting at an aircraft in Yahukimo in which a military member was wounded.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGSSnYiDXPqraOsWA3RNH9mbBO-XWW43kfv1X1ms_4vzTmxT_OlWIllEqhVRXE60jij1c0wz3WLpTFBchG-aLTMQB9oYXvpP7NQcb7iJckn2aLPo7YnRaZcdWCECn8Zwu80jMz6VdujAkMkAS_RtnGYN6xK6JMwebalf9S8Mnc9ujuD58iYi-mfUoIDLrc" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="750" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGSSnYiDXPqraOsWA3RNH9mbBO-XWW43kfv1X1ms_4vzTmxT_OlWIllEqhVRXE60jij1c0wz3WLpTFBchG-aLTMQB9oYXvpP7NQcb7iJckn2aLPo7YnRaZcdWCECn8Zwu80jMz6VdujAkMkAS_RtnGYN6xK6JMwebalf9S8Mnc9ujuD58iYi-mfUoIDLrc" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">MH and BGE, two teenagers who were arrested by joint TNI/Polri officers in Kali Brasa, Yahukimo Regency, Papua Mountain Province, Thursday (22/2/2024). - Doc. Cartenz Peace Operation</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/" style="color: #888888; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photos below on BBC Indonesia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c2qe7e30gpyo">https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c2qe7e30gpyo</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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font-family: Cambria, serif;">A photo of the arrest of two teenagers in Yahukimo who were accused of being members of a pro-independence militia, but whose status was later declared as witnesses.</span><span style="color: #3c4043; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="ebT7ne sMVRZe" jsaction="rcuQ6b:lysa9c" jscontroller="ZR6Gve" jslog="185183; metadata:W10=" style="font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; padding: 0px 16px;"><div class="F0pQVc" style="line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: 4px;"></div><div class="F0pQVc" style="line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: 4px;"><br /></div><div class="F0pQVc" style="line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: 4px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjwKkSW5wZn6B5dlsbTLkADWO4VPOHgHASVGus5DYFbR02XpRLtJkOiCG_IKTW5vpgVv3Moo00XzuHH6R3MC0zW8FMLqfgCWTIuUXcJ_fgBMTzW95xv7fTVLMv5_w_z8yIPygfr1z6ioko90IJFIIbr-o6d-vIG7TkCTitRadjB6GLwnrZPT6Jmb8M2WoZ" style="clear: right; 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margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="F0pQVc" style="line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="F0pQVc" style="line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> Another photo from the arrest of two teenagers in Kali Barza, Yahukimo, 22 February.</span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Meanwhile</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Défense Minister Richard Marles <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">met with the Indonesian Défense Minister Prabowo Subianto on Friday, February 23.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Marles emphasized that Australia does not support the Free Papua Movement and “We, Australia, fully recognize Indonesia's territorial sovereignty. We do not endorse any independence movement,” he said at a press conference at the Defense Ministry’s office in Central Jakarta.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Joe Collins of AWPA said, “I was at first surprised that West Papua even got a mention at the meeting as usually Australia tries to ignore the issue but even our Defence Minister can hardly ignore a media question on it”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Extract from Joint Press Conference, Jakarta, Indonesia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">SUBIANTO:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Thank you very much. I don’t think there is any need for questions. Questions?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 2rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">JOURNALIST:</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> Thank you very much Mr Deputy Prime Minister. Regarding the huge amount of Australian Defence budget, how should the Indonesian people see it? Is it going to be a trap or an opportunity to our national interest?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 2rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And my second question is what is Australia’s standpoint regarding the separatist movement in Papua because there are some voice from Australia concerning about human rights violation?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); margin: 0cm 0cm 2rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">MARLES:</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Thank you for the question. Let me do the second issue first. We, Australia utterly recognises the territorial sovereignty of Indonesia, full stop. And there is no support for any independence movements. We support the territorial sovereignty of Indonesia. And that includes those provinces being part of Indonesia. No ifs, no buts. And I want to be very clear about that.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/transcripts/2024-02-24/joint-press-conference-jakarta-indonesia" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12px;">https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/transcripts/2024-02-24/joint-press-conference-jakarta-indonesia</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Collins said, ‘there was no shortage of comments during </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> the delegations visit to Indonesian around how important the relationship is etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Another extract.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;">This is the third visit within the last ten months to Indonesia and that’s as it should be because our countries are neighbours and close friends. We have a shared destiny which is very clear, and it is really in that spirit that Pak Prabowo and I have built our personal relationship but that’s reflected in a relationship between our Prime Minister and our President, the Indonesian President</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Joe Collins said, “West Papua will remain the elephant in the room in the Australia-Indonesian relationship. We can expect many hiccups in the relationship over West Papua in the coming years “.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Ends</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">----</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sources</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c2qe7e30gpyo" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c2qe7e30gpyo</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/?fbclid=IwAR2OQXckbDCOAdsWyfpd3-Q9sdp_RVyn706IPO3g5NbOa2fbOT1TY9OBn2s"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/?fbclid=IwAR2OQXckbDCOAdsWyfpd3-Q9sdp_RVyn706IPO3g5NbOa2fbOT1TY9OBn2s</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306918/a-separatist-killed-in-a-gunfight-peace-cartenz-task-force?fbclid=IwAR1WL_EFwYFkEn2bKUHcgMbuIVuW2LOQ6DkS3XpiTa5DlilRgdsgsgQcEY4">https://en.antaranews.com/news/306918/a-separatist-killed-in-a-gunfight-peace-cartenz-task-force?fbclid=IwAR1WL_EFwYFkEn2bKUHcgMbuIVuW2LOQ6DkS3XpiTa5DlilRgdsgsgQcEY4</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; 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font-size: 12px;"><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21;">2 Two teenagers in Dekai District, Yahukimo Regency, Mountain Papua, were arrested</span></div><div class="">3) A separatist killed in a gunfight: Peace Cartenz Task Force </div><div class="">4) Army personnel in Maybrat foil rebels' attempt to assault workers </div><div class="">5) Human Resource Development in Papua Needs the Right Strategy: Bappenas </div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">A google translate</div><div class="">Original Bahasa link</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><a class="" href="https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/">https://jubi.id/polhukam/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-2-remaja-yang-ditangkap-di-yahukimo-bukan-anggotanya/</a></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class="" /></b></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">1) TPNPB stated that the 2 teenagers arrested in Yahukimo were not its members</b></div><div class="">February 24, 2024 in Polhukam, Papua Mountain Province, Tanah Papua</div><div class=""> 0</div><div class="">Writer: Hengky Yeimo - Editor: Aryo Wisanggeni G</div></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGSSnYiDXPqraOsWA3RNH9mbBO-XWW43kfv1X1ms_4vzTmxT_OlWIllEqhVRXE60jij1c0wz3WLpTFBchG-aLTMQB9oYXvpP7NQcb7iJckn2aLPo7YnRaZcdWCECn8Zwu80jMz6VdujAkMkAS_RtnGYN6xK6JMwebalf9S8Mnc9ujuD58iYi-mfUoIDLrc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="750" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGSSnYiDXPqraOsWA3RNH9mbBO-XWW43kfv1X1ms_4vzTmxT_OlWIllEqhVRXE60jij1c0wz3WLpTFBchG-aLTMQB9oYXvpP7NQcb7iJckn2aLPo7YnRaZcdWCECn8Zwu80jMz6VdujAkMkAS_RtnGYN6xK6JMwebalf9S8Mnc9ujuD58iYi-mfUoIDLrc" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="">MH and BGE, two teenagers who were arrested by joint TNI/Polri officers in Kali Brasa, Yahukimo Regency, Papua Mountain Province, Thursday (22/2/2024). - Doc. Cartenz Peace Operation</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><div class="">Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Liberation Army or TPNPB stated that the two teenagers arrested by TNI/Polri officers in Yahukimo Regency on 22 February 2024 were not members of the TPNPB. They stated that the two teenagers, MH (15) and BGE (15), were ordinary civilians who were arrested when they happened to cross the Brasa River.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">This was stated by the Head of the WSM Ndugama Darakma Battalion, Nabeanus Gerebea via telephone call on Saturday (24/2/2024). Gerebea said this in response to a statement by the Head of Cartenz 2024 Peace Operations, Kombes Faizal Ramadhani, who expressed allegations that MH and BGE were involved in the TPNPB armed group network.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">“Both of them are not members of the TPNPB. They are both purely civilians and don't know anything about TPNPB. The two of them were [arrested] when they were about to pass through the Brasa River [towards] Dekai, the capital of Yahukimo. They were arrested and tortured," said Gerebea.</div></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Gerebea said the joint TNI/Polri officers beat and tortured MH and BGE. In fact, MH and BGE are children, not yet adults. Gerebea stated that the beating and torture of MH and BGE violated humanitarian law.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class=""><div class="">“We convey to [our] enemies, the TNI/Polri, to treat the two children in accordance with international humanitarian law. [TNI/Polri must] protect civilians in war situations," he said.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Gerebea believes that security forces always torture Papuan civilians, which is fine. “If you want to chase us, please chase us. Don't play chase or catch civilians, especially children, who don't know anything and then torture them. That's a violation," he said.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">On Friday (23/2/2024), the Head of Cartenz 2024 Peace Operations, Kombes Faizal Ramadhani, said that joint TNI/Polri officers arrested MH (15) and BGE (15) in Kali Brasa, Dekai, Yahukimo Regency, Papua Mountain Province, after the authorities The coalition was involved in a firefight against West Papua National Liberation Army troops in Kali Brasa on February 22 2024. In the shootout, a TPNPB member named Otniel Giban alias Bolong Giban died.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Faizal stated that MH and BGE were arrested because they were suspected of being members of the TPNPB group. "Currently, both of them have been detained at the Damai Cartenz post in the Yahukimo area for the time being because they are suspected of still having student status," said Faizal in Jayapura City, Papua Province, Friday.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Papua Regional Police Chief Inspector General Mathius Fakhiri on Friday stated that his party was still investigating the alleged involvement of MH and Bge with the TPNPB network. "Members are still in the process, we are carrying out development. If [the two teenagers] are related to the movement [TPNPB] then we will enforce the law. "I'm still waiting for the results of further examination," said Fakhiri. (*)</div></div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">————————————————</div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="MsoNormal">Posted on FB<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;"><a class="" href="https://www.facebook.com/BBCNewsIndonesia?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWLZ15I-2g5zJ7NOHiWoNmEsk3wSzgE0JNg4SKYSRkxbFVIhENKEcmyOIN4DaG_HuwXdGbH1FndUcW7NEvWneR20I7AN_X4Qa50m7rdtqkMDXl4pfM0MBuqAZRxEZXA4PxBiPezXCbo9iVW5ab8wysLF-yTO8hxBHarzR7JBMjzXgGs0d5Mg1eg8uqc9m5L9H0D5AV783zlq5EfsCc6Tn1y&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R"><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: blue; padding: 0cm;">BBC News Indonesia</span></a><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;"> · <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">Dua remaja di Distrik Dekai, Kabupaten Yahukimo, Papua Pegunungan, ditangkap aparat TNI/Polri, Kamis (22/02). <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">Mereka ditangkap tak lama setelah aparat menemba… <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">See more<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">2) T<b class="">wo teenagers in Dekai District, Yahukimo Regency, Mountain Papua, were arrested</b> by TNI/Police officers, Thursday (22/02).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">They were arrested shortly after officers shot dead a pro-independence militia. The incident is a sequel of the Wings Air aircraft by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), last February 17.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">Pictures of the arrest of two teenagers in Yahukimo are widely circulating. In a photo the two 15-year-old boys were in a hovering position, with their hands tied backwards.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">Around them were three uniformed soldiers, one of whom sticking out his tongue toward the photographer.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">In another photo, the two teenage boys are seated each other, with hands tied backwards. Some wounds are showing on their bodies. Two uniformed and armed soldiers stand behind and watch over them.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">The officers' treatment of the two teenagers was called degrading human dignity, by Usman Hamid, Amnesty International Director.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">BBC News Indonesia seeks to give police the right to respond to Usman Hamid's statement—while confirming the chronology of the arrests that resulted in injuries to the two teenagers.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">Spokesperson Satgas Damai Cartenz, AKBP Bayu Suseno, in a text message answered, "Ah elu journalist Jakarte. Please ask only the soldiers who arrest," he wrote.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">For more news please click on the link in the comment column.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: #1c1e21;">Photos: Special / Moments<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO8ndzcMiyXhUp3fjxUhVODIa7FuGhqhVKjozHTn3e1TiycG6TWI_QoL2McGrTg11m82o3pgOPt7z8yr5SlMunJMS6KRuGjn-cJ9pOyXkjYDnkEYikDOm8rgCdcueq4_LWrEWxIi05ayBO-8hc8l2ctL3ftrX0NYus_IX1fRoPBoNdAbbHuU1azRaUl6xa" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO8ndzcMiyXhUp3fjxUhVODIa7FuGhqhVKjozHTn3e1TiycG6TWI_QoL2McGrTg11m82o3pgOPt7z8yr5SlMunJMS6KRuGjn-cJ9pOyXkjYDnkEYikDOm8rgCdcueq4_LWrEWxIi05ayBO-8hc8l2ctL3ftrX0NYus_IX1fRoPBoNdAbbHuU1azRaUl6xa" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">---------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306918/a-separatist-killed-in-a-gunfight-peace-cartenz-task-force">https://en.antaranews.com/news/306918/a-separatist-killed-in-a-gunfight-peace-cartenz-task-force</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">3) A separatist killed in a gunfight: Peace Cartenz Task Force </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">February 25, 2024 13:08 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) - Operation Peace Cartenz Task Force confirmed on Saturday that an alleged separatist terrorist, Otniel Giban alias Bolong Giban, was killed in a gunfight in Brasa River of Dekai Subdistrict, Yahukimo District, Papua Pegunungan, on Thursday (February 22).</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The task force chief, Senior Commissioner Faizal Rahmadani, said in a press statement in Jayapura City that Giban was a separatist terrorist who joined the armed Ndugama group led by Yotam Buriangge.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Prior to his death, the Papua police placed Giban on its most-wanted list owing to his involvement in ten criminal cases since August 2022, he said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Besides killing Giban, the task force also arrested two rebels and seized 74 bullets in different calibers, he said, adding that the gunfight broke out following the recent Wings Air aircraft shooting incident.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The shooting incident occurred at Nop Goliath Airport on Saturday (February 17). On that day, alleged members of an armed Papuan group shot at the aircraft of Wings Air, a member of the Lion Air group.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">All people aboard the plane, carrying 36 passengers, survived the incident, but the splinter of a bullet penetrating the aircraft's left fuselage hit the neck of a passenger sitting in seat row 19A.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The injured passenger was identified as 1st Private Ongen R Dori, a 1715 Yahukimo district military command member, Rahmadani said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">ANTARA has earlier reported that over the past few years, armed Papuan groups have often employed hit-and-run tactics against Indonesian security personnel and mounted acts of terror against civilians in the districts of Intan Jaya, Nduga, Puncak, and Maybrat to stoke fear among the people.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306648/trigana-air-resumes-sentani-dekai-flights-after-security-guarantees" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Trigana Air resumes Sentani-Dekai flights after security guarantees">Trigana Air resumes Sentani-Dekai flights after security guarantees</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The targets of such acts of terror have included construction workers, motorcycle taxi (ojek) drivers, teachers, students, street food vendors, and even civilian aircraft.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">On December 2, 2018, for instance, a group of armed Papuan separatists brutally killed 31 workers from PT Istaka Karya who were engaged in the Trans Papua project in Kali Yigi and Kali Aurak in Yigi Sub-district, Nduga District.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Early on the morning of September 2, 2021, several members of a Papuan separatist terrorist group operating in the Maybrat District ambushed soldiers while they were asleep at the Kisor military post. The post is located at Kisor Village, South Aifat Sub-district.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">On March 2, 2022, several members of an armed Papuan group operating in Beoga Sub-district, Puncak District, killed eight Palaparing Timur Telematika (PTT) workers who were repairing a base transceiver station (BTS) tower belonging to state-owned telecommunications operator Telkomsel.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">On February 7, 2023, New Zealander pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens was taken hostage by the Egianus Kogoya-led armed group. Philip was piloting an aircraft belonging to Indonesian airline Susi Air when the armed group captured him. The members of the group set his plane on fire shortly after it landed in Nduga District.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306657/operation-peace-cartenz-task-force-arrests-alenus-tabuni" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Operation Peace Cartenz Task Force arrests Alenus Tabuni">Operation Peace Cartenz Task Force arrests Alenus Tabuni</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Evarukdijati, Rahmad Nasution<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Bayu Prasetyo</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">——————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306927/army-personnel-in-maybrat-foil-rebels-attempt-to-assault-workers">https://en.antaranews.com/news/306927/army-personnel-in-maybrat-foil-rebels-attempt-to-assault-workers</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">4) Army personnel in Maybrat foil rebels' attempt to assault workers </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">February 25, 2024 14:00 GMT+700 </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Maybrat, SW Papua (ANTARA) - Personnel from the 133/YS Infantry Battalion Task Force, on Saturday (February 24), foiled an attempt of Papuan separatist terrorists operating in Maybrat District, Southwest Papua, to assault a group of construction workers.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Before successfully forcing them to escape into the forest, the rebels had terrorized the workers of public health center construction in Ayata Village, Aifat Timur Tengah Subdistrict, for three days, the task force's commander Lieutenant Colonel Andhika Ganessakti said in Maybrat District on Saturday.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">After two workers saw several suspicious persons near the construction site, they reported to the task force's personnel, and patrols intensified perimeter patrols, he said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The patrols successfully forced three members of the armed group to escape into the forest after involving a gunfight with the task force's personnel, he said, adding that the rebels who terrorized the workers carried two homemade rifles and two machetes.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">According to Ganessakti, there were no fatalities or injuries caused by the incident.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">This latest act of terror revealed that the armed Papuan groups remained active in the Maybrat District and continued to threaten innocent civilians and infrastructure development projects in the region, he said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"Therefore, I appeal to local residents and the Ayata Public Health Center construction workers to stay alert and not to hesitate to report any security threat," Ganessakti said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">ANTARA has earlier reported that over the past few years, armed Papuan groups have often employed hit-and-run tactics against Indonesian security personnel and mounted acts of terror against civilians in the districts of Intan Jaya, Nduga, Puncak, and Maybrat to stoke fear among the people.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The targets of such acts of terror have included construction workers, motorcycle taxi (ojek) drivers, teachers, students, street food vendors, and even civilian aircraft.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306918/a-separatist-killed-in-a-gunfight-peace-cartenz-task-force" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="A separatist killed in a gunfight: Peace Cartenz Task Force">A separatist killed in a gunfight: Peace Cartenz Task Force</a></span></span><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Yuvensius LB, Rahmad Nasution<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Bayu Prasetyo</p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">———————————————————</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.tempo.co/read/1837698/human-resource-development-in-papua-needs-the-right-strategy-bappenas">https://en.tempo.co/read/1837698/human-resource-development-in-papua-needs-the-right-strategy-bappenas</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">5) Human Resource Development in Papua Needs the Right Strategy: Bappenas </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Translator Antara Editor Petir Garda Bhwana 25 February 2024 17:21 WIB</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TEMPO.CO</span></span>, <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sorong, Southwest Papua</span></span> - <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) said on Saturday that human resource development in <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3598db;"><a class="" href="https://www.tempo.co/search?waktu=&kanal=&subkanal=&domain=2&q=Papua" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3598db; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Papua </a></span>requires the right strategy to support the acceleration of regional development.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bappenas West Papua coordinator, Zulfakar, said that the strategy to expedite Papua's development, especially in the field of education, can not replicate programs in Java or Sumatra Islands.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"The handling is not the same as in Java or Sumatra, so we need the right strategy for Papua," he added.</span></p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Educational quality improvement in Papua needs to consider the supporting infrastructure and necessary resources before developing programs, he explained.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The necessary components that need to be paid attention to are facilities, class coverage, teaching staff, and curriculum implementation.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"We have to identify and analyze them," he said.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The right strategy is important for speeding up the development of the education sector in Papua, he added.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"For example, is it appropriate to build schools in areas with a low population density of five people per square kilometer? Is it effective and efficient? Certainly not," he explained.</span></p><div class=""><br class="" /></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: #fefefe; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;">He said that the government can station teachers in nearby villages and adjust the learning methods to the local conditions.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: #fefefe; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Meaning, teachers that teach at those places must understand the local language and cultural characteristics, so it is easy to give lessons," he said.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boarding schools also need to be built in Papua, he added.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Regional heads in Southwest Papua are discussing the construction of these schools, and it is expected to start construction soon," he said.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">He said that the active role of people, religious figures, and traditional leaders is important to boost Papua's development.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ANTARA</span></p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">----------------------------------</span></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-62805269011996865632024-02-23T12:07:00.000-08:002024-02-23T12:07:49.812-08:00 1) Australian Deputy PM Says No Support for Free Papua Movement<p><br /></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2) Indonesia, Australia to sign new defense cooperation </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.tempo.co/read/1837169/australian-deputy-pm-says-no-support-for-free-papua-movement">https://en.tempo.co/read/1837169/australian-deputy-pm-says-no-support-for-free-papua-movement</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">1) Australian Deputy PM Says No Support for Free Papua Movement</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Translator Dewi Elvia Muthiariny </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Editor Laila Afifa </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">24 February 2024 00:37 WIB</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br class="" /></span></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TEMPO.CO</span></span>, <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jakarta</span></span> - <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles emphasized that his country does not support the Free Papua Movement. Marles made the statement during a meeting with the Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto on Friday, February 23, 2024.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We, Australia, fully recognize Indonesia's territorial sovereignty. We do not endorse any independence movement,” he said at a press conference at the Defense Ministry’s office in Central Jakarta.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marles went on to explain that Australia fully backed the sovereignty of the border provinces that remain an integral part of Indonesia. </span>He declined to elaborate on the talks with Prabowo. But on border areas, he said human trafficking and smuggling were among the highlights of the meeting, given that these issues pose a shared challenge for both nations. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“This is a common challenge for both countries and we need to work together to address it. At present, the exact steps we take are up to us,” Marles said, expressing his gratitude for the robust cooperation between the two countries.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">During the meeting, Marles also <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">extended his congratulations to </span>Prabowo Subianto on his provisional <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">lead</span> in the 2024 presidential election.</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BAGUS PRIBADI | SAVERO ARISTIA WIENANTO</span></p></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">----------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/306870/indonesia-australia-to-sign-new-defense-cooperation">https://en.antaranews.com/news/306870/indonesia-australia-to-sign-new-defense-cooperation</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">2) Indonesia, Australia to sign new defense cooperation </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">February 23, 2024 22:45 GMT+700</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto and Australian Deputy Prime Minister (PM) and Defense Minister Richard Marles have agreed to ink a new defense cooperation pact within the next two–three months.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Marles' current visit to Jakarta to meet Subianto is his second in less than a year.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">"In the near future, we are planning to sign a defense cooperation agreement with Australia. We hope it can be completed and signed in the next two–three months," Subianto informed at a press conference after his meeting with his Australian counterpart here Friday.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">During the meeting, Marles said that discussions on wider defense cooperation were approaching the final stage.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The agreement would hopefully be signed in the next few months, he added.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">He said that the cooperation agreement would be the most significant form of defense partnership in the history of relations between Indonesia and Australia.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">It will also be the most important moment in this bilateral relationship, he said.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Negotiations on more complete defense cooperation between Indonesia and Australia began in February 2023. They included the 2+2 meeting of Indonesian-Australian foreign ministers and defense ministers in Canberra the same month.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">The discussion continued with Subianto meeting Marles at the Ministry of Defense Office in June 2023. After the meeting, Marles said that the new Indonesia-Australia defense cooperation agreement would be more comprehensive and ambitious.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">So far, defense cooperation between the two countries has focused on officer and cadet exchanges, education, joint training, and the grant of defense equipment, including that of the Bushmaster tactical vehicle (</span><i class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">rantis</i><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">) for the Indonesian Defense Forces' (TNI's) Peacekeeping Mission Center (PMPP) on April 3, 2023.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">On Friday, Marles also congratulated Subianto over securing a lead in the 2024 presidential election's quick count. Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are running for the post of president and vice president, respectively.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Australia is closely watching the election, he said, adding that he was happy to be able to congratulate Subianto in person, and looking forward to their next meeting.</span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><span class="baca-juga" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900;">Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/188110/indonesian-australian-foreign-defense-ministers-to-meet-on-thursday" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Indonesian, Australian foreign, defense ministers to meet on Thursday">Indonesian, Australian foreign, defense ministers to meet on Thursday</a><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Related news: <a class="" href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/155370/defense-minister-subianto-receives-ppe-aid-from-australia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c91c4; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease;" title="Defense Minister Subianto receives PPE aid from Australia">Defense Minister Subianto receives PPE aid from Australia</a></span></span><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;" /><p class="mt-2 small text-muted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5rem !important;">Translator: Genta Tenri M, Resinta Sulistiyandari<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Editor: Rahmad Nasution</p><div class="">--------------------------------</div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342615974152460857.post-90890327008869477092024-02-22T22:14:00.000-08:002024-02-22T22:14:14.953-08:00 New Zealander Pilot’s Fate Unclear as Insurgents Launch Offensive in West Papua <p> <a class="" href="https://jamestown.org/program/new-zealander-pilots-fate-unclear-as-insurgents-launch-offensive-in-west-papua/?fbclid=IwAR3qojt4sCPkjslh9vJAkzvO6bQs8OMYBW8hmvvnWqxiS9gqMZy2N2hC8xA#" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">https://jamestown.org/program/new-zealander-pilots-fate-unclear-as-insurgents-launch-offensive-in-west-papua/?fbclid=IwAR3qojt4sCPkjslh9vJAkzvO6bQs8OMYBW8hmvvnWqxiS9gqMZy2N2hC8xA#</a></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b class="">New Zealander Pilot’s Fate Unclear as Insurgents Launch Offensive in West Papua </b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 22 Issue: 3 </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">By: Irma Rahim</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;"><u class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Executive Summary</u></span></p><ul class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><li class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Egianus Kogoya, a West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) commander, is holding a New Zealand pilot hostage and threatening to execute him unless West Papua wins its independence, though the movement’s leadership has disagreed with this hardline stance.</li><li class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Over the course of two months, TPNPB militants carried out numerous attacks against Indonesian military and civilian targets, resulting in at least 15 deaths.</li><li class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The situation is complicated by Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s recent visit to West Papua and internal disagreements within the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).</li></ul><div class=""><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">In a video published on November 21, 2023, Egianus Kogoya, an important leader of the West Papuan independence movement, called on the international community to initiate negotiations to release a New Zealander pilot, Philipp Mehrtens. Mehrtens has been in captivity since February 7, 2023. Egianus is the commander of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) for Regional Defence Command III (KODAP III) Nderakma Ndugama in the Nduga Region. If these negotiations did not begin, Egianus threatened to execute the pilot, suggesting that international organizations should hold Indonesia responsible for the pilot’s death. Egianus claimed he would also kill the pilot if the Indonesian government and military did not recognize the independence of West Papua (<a class="" href="https://disway.id/read/744207/kabar-terbaru-pilot-susi-air-egianus-kagoya-saya-hanya-kasih-waktu-dua-bulan" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">DISWAY.id</a>, November 21, 2023; <a class="" href="https://www.liputan6.com/regional/read/5459074/beredar-video-pimpinan-kkb-egianus-kogoya-ancam-tembak-mati-pilot-susi-air?page=2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">LIPUTAN6</a>, November 21, 2023).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Through the video, Egianus aimed to achieve three objectives. The first of these was to justify a series of assaults carried out in the days preceding December 1, celebrated as the anniversary of the West Papuan movement’s declaration of independence from Indonesia in 1963 (<a class="" href="https://www.thepapuajournal.com/tahan-papua/69811051443/kontak-senjata-selama-seminggu-tpnpb-klaim-tewaskan-belasan-anggota-gabungan-aparat-indonesia" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">The Papua Journal</a>, December 1, 2023). Secondly, Egianus wanted to redirect the attention of local media from the visit to Papua made by Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo from November 21–24. Instead, Egianus hoped to focus attention on the TPNPB’s recent attacks against Indonesian military, police, and civilians (<a class="" href="https://setkab.go.id/presiden-jokowi-kunjungan-kerja-ke-provinsi-papua/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Cabinet Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia</a>, November 22, 2023). Thirdly, he wanted to divert international attention away from the ongoing internal power struggle within the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). This involved a dispute between former chairman Benny Wenda, who wanted to retake his position as the group’s leader, and Menash Tabuni, who opposes Benny’s proposed plan to run a temporary West Papuan government from Oxford in the United Kingdom (<a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2023/11/20/pimpinan-ulmwp-kongres-i-di-sentani-inkonstitusional/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">SuaraPapua.com</a>, November 20, 2023). The ULMWP’s internal power struggle will strengthen the TPNPB’s position as the most legitimate military wing of the West Papuan independence movement, weakening the ULMWP’s own military wing, known as the West Papua Army (WPA) (<a class="" href="https://www.ulmwp.org/press-release-west-papuan-military-factions-form-unified-west-papua-army-in-historic-declaration" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">ULMWP</a>, July 1, 2019). In addition, Egianus reasserted his rejection of the TPNPB–OPM leaders’ demand that he release the New Zealander pilot (<a class="" href="https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/cx7xgj6jl51o" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">BBC</a>, December 28, 2023; <a class="" href="https://papua.tribunnews.com/2024/01/31/sebby-sambom-opm-akan-bebaskan-pilot-susi-air-meski-jokowi-dan-selandia-baru-abaikan-negosiasi?page=1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Tribun-Papua</a>, January 31).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Ultimately, Egianus accomplished each of his objectives. From November 24, 2023 (the final day of Jokowi’s visit to Papua) until January 29, 2024, the TPNPB conducted several attacks. These violent assaults instilled terror among villagers and shifted the local narrative away from both the intended positive outcomes of Jokowi’s visit and the internal conflict within the ULMWP. This also underlined Egianus’s demand to the West that nothing short of West Papuan independence will open the door to Mehrtens’s release.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">A Week of Deadly Attacks</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Less than two weeks before West Papua’s independence anniversary, Benny successfully rallied 5,000 people to support his re-election as the ULMWP’s chairman and to attend his own ULMWP conference. Benny dismissed his previous appointment as the movement’s chief of foreign affairs at the ULMWP conference in Vanuatu last August. He reasoned that maintaining his position would validate the ULMWP’s decision to dissolve the West Papuan government, which Benny established in 2018 and for which he claims to be president-in-exile (<a class="" href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/502933/free-west-papua-campaigners-convene-for-inaugural-meeting-in-jayapura" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">RNZ</a>, November 21, 2023; <a class="" href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2023/11/25/veteran-west-papua-independence-leader-elected-ulmwp-president/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Asia Pacific Report</a>, November 25, 2023). Egianus used the opportunity to gather more international attention for himself and his wing of the movement, given that he retained possession of the hostage New Zealander pilot (<a class="" href="https://news.detik.com/berita/d-4334008/tarian-perang-egianus-kogoya-cs-sebelum-eksekusi-pekerja-trans-papua" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">detik news</a>, February 17, 2018; <a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2020/01/02/laporan-satu-tahun-tpnpb-kodap-iii-ndugama-bergerilya/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">SuaraPapua.com</a>, January 2, 2020; <a class="" href="https://regional.kompas.com/read/2023/02/17/145132878/egianus-kogoya-tinggalkan-surat-di-lokasi-pembakaran-pesawat-susi-air-ini" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">KOMPAS.com</a>, February 17, 2023).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Taking advantage of Egianus’s renewed public threat to execute Mehrtens, Egianus’s Ndullamo Battalion launched an attack on five medical facility construction workers on November 24, 2023. Egianus’s forces were led by Aibon E. Kogeya. Police had previously ordered the workers to halt construction in anticipation of TPNPB attacks before December 1—a warning that went unheeded. Aibon accused the workers of being military spies, subsequently killing three of them (<a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2022/02/03/egianus-kogeya-lebarkan-sayap-gerilya-ke-intan-jaya/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">SuaraPapua.com</a>, February 3, 2022; <a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/tpnpb-assault-kills-construction-workers-in-jambul-village/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Jubi.id</a>, November 27, 2023; <a class="" href="https://regional.kompas.com/read/2023/11/30/130740078/daftar-kejahatan-kkb-pimpinan-aibon-kogoya-14-tewas-termasuk-2-guru" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">KOMPAS.com</a>, November 30, 2023).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">The following day, Perek Jelas Kogeya, commander of operations for KODAP III Ndugama Darakma, launched an assault on the military post in Paro District in support of Egianus and Aibon. This is notable because the New Zealander pilot was abducted in Paro District. The attack also emphasizes the TPNPB’s claim of being the sole legitimate West Papuan militant wing (<a class="" href="https://www.sagunews.com/2023/09/era-baru-ulmwp-menentang-pergerakan.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Sagu News</a>, September 9, 2023). TPNPB spokesperson Sebby Sambo refuted the Indonesian military’s claims that government forces only suffered four deaths and two injuries (one critical). He likewise denied that other soldiers had been evacuated by helicopter (<a class="" href="https://video.kompas.com/watch/1059436/panglima-tni-ungkap-dukacita-atas-4-prajurit-gugur-ditembak-kkb-papua" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">KOMPAS.com</a>, November 28, 2023). Sebby, in contrast, asserted that the TPNPB fired upon the helicopter itself, claiming the lives of eight Indonesian soldiers. The TPNPB, according to Sebby, will launch attacks until Jakarta enters negotiations over the group’s hostage (<a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2023/11/27/tpnpb-klaim-tembak-mati-delapan-anggota-tni-di-paro-nduga/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">SuaraPapua</a>, November 27, 2023; <a class="" href="https://disway.id/read/746175/egianus-kagoya-sesumbar-tembak-helikopter-dan-8-kopasus-di-paro-papua" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">DISWAY.id</a>, November 28, 2023).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">The next attack was on November 30, when Vice Military Commander Manfred Fatem and his militants from KODAP IV Sorong Maybrat carried out an hour-long assault on Ayata village. This resulted in the deaths of three Indonesian soldiers. The Indonesian military, however, denied Manfred Fatem’s claims and stated that no soldiers were killed (<a class="" href="https://jubi.id/polhukam/2023/kapendam-kasuari-bantah-klaim-tpnpb-tembak-mati-personel-tni-di-maybrat/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Jubi.id</a>, December 4, 2023). Apart from inciting widespread panic, the attack was designed to deliver a message to native Papuans who had recently enlisted in the Indonesian military and police. Moreover, Sebby used this operation to issue an additional statement warning that the government focus less on the ongoing situation in Palestine and toward West Papuan self-determination. Later in the day, TPNPB KODAP III attacked the Paro military post once again, resulting in the deaths of two more Indonesian soldiers. These numbers were also confirmed by the Indonesian military (<a class="" href="https://nasional.okezone.com/read/2023/12/01/337/2930793/panglima-tni-berduka-gugurnya-dua-prajurit-di-papua" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">okenews</a>, December 1, 2023; <a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2023/12/02/tpnpb-klaim-tembak-mati-tiga-anggota-tni-di-maybrat-dan-dua-di-paro/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">SuaraPapua</a>, December 2, 2023).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">Honoring West Papuan Independence Day</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">On December 1, each of the 36 TPNPB KODAP brigades ceased attacks. They instead observed West Papuan Independence Day by raising the movement’s Morning Star flag. As a part of this ceremony, Sebby briefed the group on the accomplishments of the TPNPB during their week of assaults on the military posts, urging the group’s forces to continue to attack government forces (<a class="" href="https://nasional.tempo.co/read/1803102/peringati-1-desember-tpnpb-akan-adakan-upacara-militer?tracking_page_direct" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">tempo.co</a>, November 29, 2023; <a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2023/12/02/bentuk-persatuan-menuju-kemerdekaan-tpnpb-kodap-kegepa-nipo-noukai-dan-bintang-timur-gelar-upacara-bendera/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">SuaraPapua</a>, December 2, 2023). He also declared that he wanted the United Nations, international community, and Indonesian government to know that the TPNPB is the “West Papua[n] military.” Sebby argued that he and his forces stand with Papuans to fight the illegal Indonesian colonization of their land. Sebby also doubled down on the claim that his countrymen were betrayed by the 1962 United Nations’ New York Agreement. He blamed the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Australia supporting the transfer of then-West New Guinea to Indonesia on May 1, 1963, through the contentious “Act of Free Choice” (SuaraPapua, <a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2019/07/26/keputusan-pbb-soal-papua-tidak-mengikat-jokowi-diminta-berdialog-dengan-ulmwp/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">July 26, 2019</a>, <a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2022/05/27/jubir-awpa-sejak-1962-papua-dikhianati-komunitas-internasional/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">May 27, 2022</a>; <a class="" href="https://seputarpapua.com/view/jubir-kkb-hentikan-operasi-militer-di-papua-mari-berunding.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">seputarpapua.com</a>, December 1, 2023). Benny Wenda, unlike Sebby Sambo, is unconcerned about foreign media attention and is mostly preoccupied with his credibility within the ULMWP (<a class="" href="https://en.jubi.id/ulmwp-suspends-key-members-benny-wenda-and-buchtar-tabuni-sparking-leadership-dispute/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Jubi.id</a>, November 30, 2023). <span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">While Jokowi, Egianus, Benny, and Sebby disagree on much, they all agree on the significance of December 1 for West Papua. Jokowi, for his part, continues to try to resolve the conflict through negotiation. The president relies on Bupati Nduga, who has a family relationship with Egianus. Receiving the “green light” for further attacks from Sebby Sambo’s messages, the TPNPB’s Manfred Fatem and his militants launched another attack on December 25, 2023. He and his men shot ten bullets at a military post located in Bousha village after canceling their Christmas celebration. The Indonesian military confirmed the injuries of one Indonesian soldier and the death of another during Manfreed’s attack (<a class="" href="https://padang.tribunnews.com/2023/12/25/prajurit-yonif-133ys-padang-gugur-di-papua-barat-daya-dimakamkan-di-kerinci#google_vignette" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">TribunPadang</a>, December 25, 2023). On December 26, Egianus again rejected demands from the TPNPB’s leadership to release Mehrtens. He also uploaded a new photograph of the New Zealander pilot and reissued his previous threats (<a class="" href="https://www.detik.com/sulsel/berita/d-7109113/beredar-foto-terbaru-pilot-susi-air-bareng-pimpinan-kkb-egianus-kogoya" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">detik news</a>, December 26, 2023). Sebby Sambo, however, was dissatisfied with the release of the photo, as the decision was not communicated to the headquarters of TPNPB–OPM in advance (<a class="" href="https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/cx7xgj6jl51o" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">BBC</a>, December 28, 2023).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">January Attacks</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Brigadier General Undius Kogeya of the TPNPB’s KODAP VIII Intan Jaya launched the first assault of 2024. The fatal attack commenced on January 19 and continued until January 23. The January 19 attack at Kampung Bilogai, Sugapa District resulted in the death of one Indonesian soldier. The assault also targeted various military posts, and on January 23, the fighters fired on civilian aircraft, causing killing five and injuring two (<a class="" href="https://www.liputan6.com/news/read/5514466/1-anggota-brimob-meninggal-saat-kontak-senjata-dengan-kkb-papua-di-intan-jaya" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">LIPUTAN6</a>, January 26). Approximately 500 Sugapa District residents were forced to evacuate due to the attacks (<a class="" href="https://regional.kompas.com/read/2024/01/25/115631778/aparat-500-warga-di-intan-jaya-mengungsi-akibat-teror-kkb-kian-brutal" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">KOMPAS.com</a>, January 25; <a class="" href="https://www.thepapuajournal.com/tahan-papua/69811675343/lbh-papua-konflik-bersenjata-di-intan-jaya-melahirkan-ratusan-pengungsi-sipil" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">The Papua Journal</a>, January 27).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Concurrent with these attacks, the Indonesian military conducted an investigation into the fatal assault carried out by TPNPB KODAP IV on December 25. A military informant claimed that two couriers intended to provide KODAP IV Sorong Maybrat with logistical support. The military consequently initiated surveillance of the Maybrat region on January 21, arresting the two couriers on January 22. Following an interrogation of the couriers, the military conducted a raid on the TPNPB KODAP IV Sorong Maybrat on January 25 (<a class="" href="https://papua.inews.id/berita/kronologi-tni-kuasai-markas-kkb-pimpinan-manfred-fatem-di-maybrat-2-orang-ditangkap" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">iNews Papua</a>, January 30). Government troops failed to capture the rebel forces or their commander, Manfred Fatem—both he and his men escaped as a result of information leaks—but were nevertheless able to destroy the brigade’s headquarters and a cache of weaponry (<a class="" href="https://www.viva.co.id/militer/militer-indonesia/1682507-hal-mengejutkan-ditemukan-pasukan-letkol-petir-tni-saat-serbu-markas-opm-di-hutan-perawan-papua?page=all" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">VIVA.co</a>, January 30). Sebby Sambo claimed that the Indonesian military’s use of mortars destroyed five houses during the raid (<a class="" href="https://www.thepapuajournal.com/tahan-papua/69811699428/tpnpb-opm-klaim-tewaskan-satu-anggota-tni-di-maybrat" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">The Papua Journal</a>, January 29).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Soon after those clashes, on January 29, Brigadier General Undius Kogeya, commander of TPNPB KODAP VIII Intan Jaya, stormed the Intan Jaya regional head’s office. On January 31, Egianus’s fighters shot at a helicopter transporting the head of the Nduga region, who had been sent by Jokowi to negotiate with Eganius (<a class="" href="https://papua.tribunnews.com/amp/2024/01/31/pesawat-yang-ditumpangi-pj-bupati-nduga-ditembaki-kkb-pimpinan-egianus-kogoya" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">papua.tribunnews</a>, January 31). Nevertheless, on January 31, Sebby Sambo issued a statement claiming that TPNPB–OPM central command would release the New Zealander pilot without requiring negotiations with Indonesia and New Zealand (<a class="" href="https://papua.tribunnews.com/2024/01/31/sebby-sambom-opm-akan-bebaskan-pilot-susi-air-meski-jokowi-dan-selandia-baru-abaikan-negosiasi?page=1&lgn_method=google" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">papua.tribunnews</a>, January 31). According to Sebby, the decision to release Mehrtens should lie solely with TPNPB–OPM central command, which does not agree with Egianus’s stance that the pilot’s release must be contingent upon West Papua gaining its independence (<a class="" href="https://jubi.id/tanah-papua/2024/tpnpb-akan-bekerja-sama-dengan-pihak-internasional-independen-untuk-pembebasan-sandera-pilot-philip-mehrtens/#google_vignette" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Jubi.id</a>, February 5; <a class="" href="https://suarapapua.com/2024/02/04/tpnpb-pembebasan-pilot-philips-menjadi-tanggung-jawab-secara-komando/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">SuaraPapua</a>.com, February 4). On February 5, TPNPB Kodap XVI Yahukimo, commanded by Brigadier General Elkius Kobak, attacked a military post in Dekai, resulting in the deaths of four individuals. According to Sebby, three of these individuals were military officers, with the fourth being an intelligence officer (<a class="" href="https://jubi.id/tanah-papua/2024/tpnpb-nyatakan-bertanggungjawab-atas-penyerangan-di-yahukimo/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Jubi.id</a>, February 6). Meanwhile, Jeffrey Bosmanak—the chairman of OPM, and someone who Sebby has had disputes with—issued a Facebook statement asking the TPNPB to ignore Sebby statement and support Egianus’s more hardline position (<a class="" href="https://disway.id/read/760698/rencana-pembebasan-pilot-susi-air-terancam-batal-pimpinan-tpnpb-opm-dukung-egianus-tolak-pernyataan-sebby-sambom#google_vignette" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">DISWAY.id</a>, February 6).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs called for Mehrtens’s release on February 5, though hardline stances and infighting within the TPNPB–OPM make such a move unlikely at present. Just before Christmas 2023, the pilot was, however, able to communicate with his family. This may have prompted New Zealand’s ambassador to Indonesia to visit Papua on February 6 (<a class="" href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/508476/new-zealand-government-calls-for-release-of-kiwi-pilot-phillip-mehrtens-still-held-hostage-in-west-papua" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">RNZ</a>, February 6).</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">Conclusion</span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Jokowi will leave office in October 2024. To date, he has not won over the hearts and minds of the TPNPB or the ULMWP, though he has achieved popularity among the region’s population (<a class="" href="https://www.detik.com/sulsel/berita/d-7145195/jawaban-anies-baswedan-diminta-emak-emak-di-sorong-lanjutkan-program-jokowi" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #850003; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">detik news</a>, January 17). If a majority of the population of Papua demonstrate their support for Jokowi’s policies with regards to the West Papuan separatist movement, Egianus might be forced to release the New Zealander pilot. This is not impossible, given the wide margins by which Jokowi won both of his elections in the Papuan provinces. As such Mehrtens’s fate continues to be decided by the intersection of politics and militancy in Papua.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><br /></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(48, 46, 52); color: #302e34; font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.333; margin: 0px 0px 1.333rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">--------------------------------------------------</p></div></div>AWPA Sydney Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401134561697159711noreply@blogger.com0