1) HIV/AIDS Papua Film Hits Theaters Today
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A new film entitled Cinta dari Wamena (Love from Wamena) is scheduled to hit theaters today. Unlike many other Papua movies about music or soccer, this film promotes friendship and love with a deep underlying message about HIV and AIDS.
Since he was a little boy, Litius, the main character of this film, loved to play soccer and play guitar. The high school graduate came from a remote Papua area and had two best friends, Martha and Tembi. In order to gain a better education, these three friends decided to go to Wamena after graduating from junior high school. In Wamena, they each experienced turning points in their lives influencing their attempt to achieve their dreams among the various temptations they met living in a big city. Litius' arrival in Jakarta then gradually began to mend the destroyed bond with his friends in Wamena.
The film was directed by Lasja F. Susetyo was produced in 2010. The idea for this movie was initiated by the local administration's concern regarding the increasing amount of HIV and AIDS infected residents in Papua amounting to around 3,004 people.
The Papua administration then asked Lasja to collaborate in making an effective film for socializing this issue to the public. Lasja admitted she and her colleagues had to wait three years before completing this movie due to financial limitations.
The presence of three new Papuan actors as the main characters resulted in a fresh and appealing film. These actors include Maximus Itlay (Litius), Madonna Marrey (Martha), and Benyamin Lagowan (Tembi). This movie also stars renowned local actors such as Nicholas Saputra and Susan Bachtiar playing supporting roles.
AISHA
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Posted at 06:53 on 13 June, 2013 UTC
A journalist in Indonesia’s Papua province says yesterday’s student rally was forcibly broken up by police who are currently searching for the organiser.
Police started dispersing the 50 rallying students at Cendrawasih University in Waena when they blocked the entrance.
The police also violently arrested the leader of the Papua National Parliament, Buchtar Tabuni.
Alex Perrottet reports.
“Aprila Wayar, a journalist for Tabloid Jubi, was present at the rally and says four to five police officers stopped a car and dragged Buchtar Tabuni out, hit him repeatedly and stomped on him. Supporters say he has bruises on his head and back from rifle butts. They then took him to the police station for questioning, asking whether he helped organise the demonstration. Students had raised the banned pro-independence Morning Star flag. Aprila says police then released Mr Tabuni and are now searching for the student organiser Yason Ngelim, who is being harboured by a human rights group. She says there are now many police around Jayapura. The demonstration follows Monday’s peaceful rally in support of the Melanesian Spearhead Group meeting in New Caledonia next week, which will consider the West Papuan application for membership.”
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3) Senator Carr's West Papua position mainstream says academic
Updated 11 June 2013, 16:47 AEST
That's according to an Australian academic specialising in Indonesia and foreign policy, Dr Richard Chauvel.
Mr Carr suggested in a debate with a Greens Senator a few days ago that supporters of the West Papuan separatist cause outside the province were perpetrating a cruel hoax on those living there by telling them that one day they will receive international support for independence.
Dr Chauvel tells Bruce Hill that although Senator Carr's exchange with the Greens Senator Richard Di Natale grew quite heated, his main argument simply reflects the mainstream of Australian policy towards Indonesia since 1962.
Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speaker: Dr Richard Chauvel, senior lecturer at Melbourne's Victoria University
CHAUVEL: I think that was unfortunate use of language, I think it worked well in terms of domestic political debate within Australia, but I don't think it's a particularly useful way of understanding the relationship between Papuan activists operating in Papua, and their international supporters in Australia or elsewhere. It doesn't understand that Papuan activists very nearly across the political spectrum in Papua see the mobilisation of international support as one of their key strategies. It's based on the assumption that they themselves are not capable of pressuring Jakarta to negotiate, have a dialogue or whatever with them, what they need is the mobilisation of international pressure on Jakarta to achieve that objective. So I think to my mind the dynamic comes very much from Papua, in a sense very nearly irrespective of whatever interests the Green senators or members of the House of Lords in London may have.
HILL: Senator Carr said that this was perpetrating a cruel hoax on people in Papua by holding out to them the idea that the international community, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the wider world, the United Nations, will somehow support independence. And he said that that is simply a hoax, it will never happen. Was he right in that assessment?
CHAUVEL: He may well be right in that assessment that the possibilities of getting any other state bar Vanuatu for as long as this government exists in Vanuatu to support West Papua. Maybe a remote chance, but it certainly hasn't stopped Papuan politicians, particularly in the post-Suharto period from putting very considerable energies into trying to make it happen. I think Carr is probably correct in saying that some Papuans hold out rather overblown hopes that this may happen or it may in some way pressure the Indonesian government to do what the Papuans want the Indonesian government to do. I think that there's a level of optimism there which may not be based in real politics. But to my mind the international, the desire to have international strategies to mobilise support be it in the Pacific or in Europe or in Australia, is a commonly shared strategy amongst most Papuan groups.
HILL: No Australian government of any stripe, and indeed no Papua New Guinea of any stripe has ever taken a public position other than saying that West Papua is a part of the Republic of Indonesia. Why do they take that stance?
CHAUVEL: I think that has been the position of the Australian government since 1962, but perhaps we shouldn't forget that from early 1950 through to the beginning of 1962 the Australian government worked very hard to keep Indonesia out of what was then Dutch New Guinea. But certainly I suppose it's in some ways ironical that what has become I think the bipartisan policy towards Indonesia, in other words to establish as close and cooperative relationship with the united Indonesia has been bipartisan policy since the beginning of 1962, with some would argue a glitch in 1999 with East Timor. But the irony is that the arguments that Sir Garfield Barwick to convince his cabinet colleagues in January 1962 was essentially along the lines of it is not in Australia's national interest to encourage or support the development of small states in the eastern archipelago. And that was a policy which motivated Barwick and Menzies to try and persuade Salazar to give Portuguese Timor to Sukarno with as minimum trouble as possible, that was certainly a strategic view of the importance of Indonesia, which influenced Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser in their attitudes towards East Timor.
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