1) Indonesia holds
air interception simulation in Papua
2) Death rates for mothers and children in
Papua and West Papua are the highest in Indonesia
3) Indonesian police
open fire on civilians in West Papua
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1) Indonesia holds air interception simulation in Papua
"Kohanudnas held an interception simulation with code name - 37th of Tutuka - as a climax of national air defence training operation," said Timika Airbase Commander Lieutenant Colonel Untung Suropati in an interview with Antara on Wednesday.
He added that the simulation demonstrated an unidentified aircraft without permit infiltrating Indonesian airspace, which was intercepted by two F 16s.
TNI AU deployed a Boeing 737-200 Maritime Surveillance as the unidentified aircraft.
"After TNI AU received a report from Kohanudnas, they launched an F 16 combat jet to intercept the unidentified aircraft. The F 16 conducted visual identification and urged the aircraft to identify itself," said Suropati.
When interceptor jets come across suspicious cases, they will force unidentified aircrafts to land at the nearest airport.
In the exercise, Boeing 737-200 was forced to land at Mozes Kilangin Airport and TNI AU combed out the aircraft and held the plane until they received the permit license.
"The officers then interrogated the pilot and crew members of the unidentified aircraft. If they do not have a valid license, they should wait until the license is issued," said Suropati.
The simulation was operated by officers at Mozes Kilangin Airport after 12 p.m. local time when the air traffic was low.
The Boeing 737-200 flew from its airbase at The Fifth Air Squadron Ujung Pandang, while the two F 16s flew from Manua Air Base of Biak, Papua.
The Kohanudnas is holding simulations from Tuesday (September 24) to Thursday (September 26) at Mozes Kilangin Airport to mitigate the impact of air strikes on national vital objects.
"We cannot conduct the simulation above the national vital object of PT Freeport Indonesia and simulate the air exercise above Mozes Kilangin Airport," Suropati said.
Kohanudnas deployed at least 100 Army (TNI AD) soldiers and several officers from Mozes Kilangin Airport as well as PT Freeport Indonesia.
Editor: AA Ariwibowo
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2) Death rates for mothers and children in Papua and West Papua are the highest in Indonesia
Jayapura: The death rates for women and children in the provinces of Papua and West Papua are the highest in Indonesia, according to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Cenderawasih University.
Representing the Dean, Dr Paulina Watofa said in an interview with Bintang Papua that this information was based on the latest data gathered during a research project on health conditions in all the provinces of Indonesia. This revealed that the figures about the two Papaun provinces were indeed correct.
'We can now see that we need to investigate whether the government is devoting enough attention to health provisions for women and children in these two provinces. At present, PTT doctors [who are recruited to work in the two Papuan provinces from elsewhere in Indonesia ] are meeting with requirement to work for two years in the region, which is based on the decision of the KPDT [district administrations]. At present we hear a lot about what is called Pedesaan Sehat [Healthy Villages] which is focussed on implementation in the villages and the government's commitment to this question. When monitoring implementation, we need to see whether or not the provinces are devoting the required 15 percent of their budgets to healthcare.'
In order to evaluate the level of the government's commitment in the provinces of Papua ad West Papua, the Ministry of Regional Developments, working in collaboration with the Cenderawasih University, organised special training sessions for volunteers involved in the Healthy Villages project as part of efforts to improve the quality of health care in the seven districts of these two provinces.
Dr Paulina Watofa, representing the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, told Bintang Papua that the KPDT has been given the task of paying special attention to healthcare in the provinces of Papua and West Papua.
'She said that in addition to Cenderaswasih University, six other universities were involved in these investigations.This is also part of the need to improve the situation in those provinces which are far behind the rest of the country. It is our duty to see whether there are specific problems in these provinces which need to be reported to the central administration.
'If we come across problems in any region that require special attention, for example, we need to know whether the district clinic is headed by a qualified doctor and also whether it has all the necessary personnel to take care of mothers and children in cases where this is shown to be inadequate. This would also include looking at sanitation in the area and seeing whether this conforms to the required standards. Attention would need to be paid to improving conditions with the support of people who are willing to volunteer their services.This would also include making sure that clean water is available in the clinics and to ensure that proper attention is paid to the special nutritional requirements of mothers and children, in view of the fact that the death rate of mothers and children is known to be the highest in these two provinces.
An official of Department for Regional Development, dealing in particular with healthcare expressed the hope that when those people who have been given special training about heath in the villages have reached the required level of understanding of the need to carry out advocacy work within the communities with regard to health matters so as to ensure that it is in keeping with the standards required.
'Our target for 2014 is to ensure that the district administrations are capable of handling their tasks, bearing in mind that the provinces of both Papua and West Papua cover vast areas or whether the health services in the two provinces need to be sub-divided in order to be able to cope. The districts requiring special attention are Merauke, Biak, Keerom, Sorong and Raja Ampat.
[What this article lacks is any attempt to explain why the death rates of mothers and children in Papua and West Papua are the highest in the country.]
[Translated by TAPOL]
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3) Indonesian police open fire on civilians in West Papua
Catholic brother says one person was killed and two injured when police shot at villagers who refused to cut hair and beards
One person is said to have been killed and at least two others injured on Monday when Indonesian riot police opened fire on civilians in Waghete,West Papua.
Spokesperson for the Papuan provincial police Sulistyo Pudjo told Guardian Australia that the shooting occurred when police tried to disperse a mob that was attacking them.
"There were provocateurs who were throwing rocks at the police and military. One military person was wounded," he said.
However, according to Father Santon Tekege, a Catholic brother who lives in the capital Jayapura but hails from the remote village in West Papua's Deiyai regency, the victims were targeted because they refused to cut their long hair and beards during a random police search operation.
Tekege told Guardian Australia that the Indonesian police's mobile brigade (Brimob) was carrying out a "sweeping" operation at the local market on Monday when the incident occurred.
"Brimob had scissors to cut people's long hair and beards," Tekege said. "The police always stigmatise those with long hair, dreadlocks and long beards as being separatists."
West Papuans have been agitating for independence from Indonesiasince the province was acquired with a sham ballot in 1969.
"[The police] were also sweeping for nukens (traditional dillybags) that had designs of the Morning Star flag or had 'Papua' written on them," Tekege said. "Mobile phones were confiscated and Brimob was checking the songs on people's mobile phones."
When locals refused to comply with police they were shot, he said.
Alpius Mote, 20, was killed, another was seriously injured, and a third person shot in the arm, according to Tekege. He said police also arrested two people, one of whom had since been released.
Pudjo confirmed a shooting had occurred and that people were arrested, but denied the unrest began as an argument over long hair.
"Market day must have security and it just so happened there were lots of drunken people there and people gambling. Our officers reminded them not to get drunk at the market or they would disturb the traders.
"The people besieged the police and army," he said.
After the incident, Tekege said the regional government "put out a letter to the citizens urging them to be calm and not to carry out actions in retaliation".
When Guardian Australia spoke to him on Tuesday, he said: "Today things are still tense. Community members are at their offices as usual but civilians are scared to go out from their homes because Brimob, soldiers and police are still on number one [maximum] alert.
"All activities at the local community markets have stopped. They are still guarding the area."
Benny Giay, the moderator of West Papua's Kingmi Church who has family in Waghete, told Guardian Australia from Jayapura: "[The Indonesian authorities] think that Papuans who have long hair are uncivilised so they go around and try to cut their hair. They did this in the 1980s as well.
"The man who was killed [on Monday] tried to raise his objections and he got shot. It was the actions of the police [that started the unrest] – they were going around with big scissors and cutting hair. If there was [a riot] it was a response to what the police were doing," he said.
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