1) Five
students who are still detained
2) FNMP FREE
YOUR URGES STUDENTS WITHOUT UNCEN SYARAT
3) Are Australia’s surveillance services out of
control?
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1) Five students who are still detained
A google translate of article in majalah Selangkah. Be-aware google translate can be a bit erratic.
Original bahasa at
Uproar students Worth Called Hero
Author: STEP MAGAZINE | Viewed 74 times | Monday, November 11, 2013 23:04
The students who joined jalam " Uproar " while doing action Plus rejection of Special Autonomy Law in Jayapura . Photo : tabloidjubi.com
Jayapura , MAGAZINE STEP - Students who are members of the " uproar " that some of them have been arrested even still detained by the police , dubbed worthy heroes , because they 're doing the right thing by fighting for the rights of poor people in the land of Papua .
The students are fighting for the people's needs at this time . Voiced public interest , even under the terror , intimidation from security forces . Thus , students " Earthquake " if given a hero's worth , " says Matthew Murib told reporters at the Synod Office Kingmi Papua , Jayapura , Monday ( 11/11/2013 ) .
Former Vice Chairman of Komnas HAM Papua representative said , in the spirit of the hero , in which 10 November is a historic day for Papua , due date , it is the day he killed one of the leaders of the people of Papua , Theys Hiyo Eluay , students continue to speak out for the future of the land and Papuans .
Hero title , says Matthew , is not only given to those who were shot during the war , but can also to social fighters . " The students do not back down . Continue forward and fighting continues . Currently struggling , there must be a victim , but the spirit to keep fighting , there must be in every student , " Matthew Murib message .
He also deplored the action of the arrest and detention of Jason Ngelia , because Indonesia is a democratic country , it's natural to happen in today's era of democracy .
"If there is a problem in a couple of months ago , why was not he arrested when there is a problem . Why would hold this time ? Students talk is natural , because the state of democracy . Students have a right to speak , " he said firmly .
To note , the five students who are still detained , namely Jason Ngelia , Daniel Kosama , Kapisa Alvares , Benny Hisage and Abraham Demetou . ( MS / Phil - Khe )
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A google translate of article in Jubi. Be-aware google translate can be a bit erratic.
Original bahasa at
2) FNMP FREE YOUR URGES STUDENTS WITHOUT UNCEN SYARAT
Author :
Hendrik O. Madai on November 11, 2013 at 23:15:01 WP
Editor : CUNDING LEVI
CATCHING ON CAMPUS STUDENTS UNCEN ( JUBI / APRILA )
Surabaya, 11/11 ( Jubi ) - Papuan Students National Front , ( FNMP ) Study of Semarang City urging the security forces immediately release the students of the University of Paradise ( Uncen ) which is still being held by the police , without reservation .
According to the Chairman of the Study FNMP Semarang City , Otis , party FNMP Semarang judge , catching attitude is still enacted in the land of Papua , then this is the same country under the old order era where space expression suppressed by the state government . " Expression in the era of the old order is very different from the reform era . If arrests are still happening , just the same we are living in the times of the old order , which suppressed the expression of space , " he said on Monday ( 11/11 ) .
Otis continued , if that country Indonesia uphold the values of democracy , the practice is not as practiced by Jayapura Police . " The security forces should have a persuasive approach . Not by directly capturing student and lead students into custody , " he said .
Otis admits , is currently not live with each other contemporaries catch - catch , but this era of democracy that has been wide open for anyone who wants to express their aspirations in the public sphere . " So , FNMP Study of Semarang City officials urged the immediate unconditional release of students , " he said .
Previously , as reported in the media tabloidjubi.com , Chairman of the Papuan Student Association , City of Jogjakarta Studies , Demianus Nawipa , said the actions of the security forces responsible for the arrest of a number of students who are doing a peaceful demonstration is an attempt to gag the aspirations of the Papuan people .
" Students are the backbone of society and government , so that freedom of expression for the students need not be silenced , " said Demianus , Sunday ( 10/11 ) through mobile phones , due to address the arrest of several students in the city of Jayapura .
Further Demianus , security forces arrest arbitrarily student as well as an intellectual character being killed on campus . So , said Nawipa , must free those who have been detained under the iron trali unconditionally .
" It is not normal for a college student was arrested and imprisoned in the jail . Indirectly security forces were killing the character of students , " said former Secretary of Student Executive Board ( BEM ) University of Papua ( UNIPA ) Manokwari .
Previously , fifteen students who are members of the Student Movement , Youth and People ( Uproar ) Papua Police arrested Resort Cities ( Police ) Jayapura during demonstration against Special Autonomy (Autonomy ) Plus in Office page Papuan People's Assembly ( MRP ) , in Kotaraja , Jayapura , Papua , on Thursday ( 7/11 ) morning .
From the fifteenth secured protesters , one of them is YN , alleged mistreatment of fellow students in the Housing III , Waena Uncen top . ( Jubi / Hendrik O. Madai )
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also a google translate of short report
Related to 19 students who were arrested by the police (Police Dalmas Jypr) 8-11-2013 pd pd at 2 pm in the area of campus environment Uncen.
There are 15 students released at 2 pm, while the other 4 wahasiswa with 1 student in police custody as a suspect.
5 students are: Alfares Kapisa (27) Medical Uncen, Abraham Demotouw (27) Medical Uncen, Daniel Kosamah (23) Stikom Mohamadiah, Beni Hisage (23) Fisip Uncen, Jason Ngelia (BEM chairman Uncen).
Police allege they committed a crime against the law so that they are charged under Article 335 of the Criminal Code with know about fun not act in public. Reportedly between two people who were detained in police mhasiswa Papua for 2 days was not given food . All parties must call for the unconditional release of the 5 students
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3) Are Australia’s surveillance services out of control?
Murray Hunter, Kuala Lumpur | Opinion | Mon, November 11 2013, 8:51 AM
The German newspaper Der Spiegel and the Sydney Morning Herald disclosed recently that the Australian government was carrying out electronic surveillance and eavesdropping. The security organization Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) concealed special electronic equipment within the Australian diplomatic missions in Bangkok, Beijing, Dili, Jakarta, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur and Port Moresby, based upon information released by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The exposing of espionage activities from Australia’s diplomatic missions have caused the Australian government great embarrassment which will potentially strain relations within the region for years to come. So far the only comment that has come from a “shell shocked” Abbott government was from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop who said that “it was not policy of the Australian government to comment on intelligent matters”, hardly sufficient to placate some very angry governments within the region.
Australia has been collecting intelligence in the Southeast Asian region for decades through a multitude of methods from a large array of facilities. In addition to the electronic surveillance activities revealed last week, Australian
operatives stationed under diplomatic cover across diplomatic missions in the region carry out continuous “on the ground” Humint (human intelligence) operations.
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US, the Australian intelligence community has been considered an equal partner with the US and operate almost in a totally integrated fashion. There are a number of important facilities on Australian territory which make important contributions to the National Security Agency (NSA) network.
Pine Gap in the Northern Territory is a joint facility responsible for signals collection. Here the ECHELON software undertakes a meta-collection of data traffic from satellite transmissions, public switched phone networks and microwave signals. This data is screened for pre-programmed keywords and is linked to the British eavesdropping facility at Menwith Hill and a chain of other intercepting facilities around the world. After 9/11 there has been a focus on the collection of intelligence on terrorism suspects.
Through combining imagery with radio and mobile phone transmissions, potential targets can be pinpointed for drone strikes. This information is fed to the US Drone Strike Program. Spy satellites are also controlled from this facility. Pine gap is also part of the X-Keystone network collecting and analyzing online data.
A satellite communications facility at Kojarena, Western Australia is responsible for intercepting signals and mobile phone communications from China, Russia, Japan, India and Pakistan through a regional satellite network. Another satellite station at Shoal Bay in the Northern Territory focuses primarily on intercepting Indonesian phone communications and military signals.
There is a small remotely controlled facility on Cocos Islands also used for signals collection, which feeds into the ASD headquarters at Russell Hill in Canberra. The Washington Post reports that the Cocos Islands is now an important base in South China Sea surveillance as a counter to Chinese presence. The Cocos Islands might be used for US drone flights over the South China Sea. These activities suggest that China is the main surveillance target.
Australia has also developed a listening post connected to major undersea communication cables that carry voice and internet traffic between the US and Asia, an action far beyond any legislative authority.
Speculation exists that Australia regularly intercepts Indonesian President Susilo Bambamg Yudhoyono’s and other high ranking officials’ mobile phone conversations. Australia has been regularly reading Indonesian diplomatic traffic since the 1950s, which played an important role in what helped the US undermine the Sukarno regime and install Soeharto as President back in 1966.
Perhaps even more disturbing than electronic surveillance exposed by Snowden are the Humint activities undertaken by Australian operatives under diplomatic cover at Australian missions abroad. According to a retired senior diplomatic official and an Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer, a large array of human intelligence is collected and operations undertaken from these clandestine groups within diplomatic missions.
Each group operating from a diplomatic mission would include operatives from various agencies. These operatives are concerned with both Australian and foreign nationals in the areas of business activities, money laundering, counterfeiting, identity theft, tax evasion, narcotics, human trafficking, arms trading, pedophilia, terrorism, general criminal activities.
In addition, some work is sub-contracted to “CIA-friendly” companies like VFS Global which collect and process visa applications on behalf of the “UKUSA” security collaborating countries of UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. VFS has a proprietary client profiling system which assists on creating databases on “persons of interest”.
Not all activities are aimed at the host governments the diplomatic missions are operating within. A large proportion of time is spent by these clandestine groups monitoring the personal of other diplomatic missions of interest. For example Australian intelligence is interested in what the trade officials of the Chinese Embassy are doing in Jakarta, Bangkok, Hanoi and Kuala Lumpur, etc.
Other priorities include the surveillance of Australian citizens abroad which an agency may have an interest in. Over the last decade the intelligence services have become much more interested in criminal intelligence.
The CIA, NSA and other partner intelligence agencies are now primarily focused upon economic, business, industrial, trade, and political data collection. This information is vitally important in trade negotiations and shaping the future finance-scape of the region, particularly with the US aspiration of forming the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Asian pivot as a counter to Chinese growth of influence across the Asian region.
There have been allegations that Australian surveillance services are “out of control” and unaccountable, where laws are regularly flouted while it is keeping track on both Australian and foreign citizens. There have been allegations that Australian Secret Intelligent Service (ASIS) assisted MI6 to protect British interests in Hong Kong and Kuwait, potentially to the detriment of Australian interests.
There have been accusations that ASIS deliberately lied to the then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam about covert operations in Chile during the early 1970s, when ordered to stop.
One of the collateral effects of this scandal is that Australia has been found not to be true to its own democratic ideals. It has been found wanting, by disregarding its own policies, if not its own laws.
This is not to mention the moral position Australia is in through its facilitation of target information for US drone strikes which many consider war crimes.
The prevailing attitude within the Australian Intelligence community that it is not accountable to temporary holders of public office must be knocked on the head with a thorough clean out of personal, if any creditability is going to be salvaged with its neighbors. Resignations must be forthcoming in the national interest.
Australia must be prepared for a strong backlash in Asia where Australia is now seen as being blindly aligned with US security interests. Finally, from the geopolitical perspective, the Der Spiegel and Sydney Morning Herald reports came at a time when Obama’s “no show” in the region for the Bali and Brunei Summits gave Russian Premier Putin and more so Chinese Premier Xi Jinping uncontested market-space to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the regions leaders.
We may be watching a great shift in regional influence where Australia may miss the boat.
The writer is an associate professor at University Malaysia Perlis, and the author of a number of books on agriculture, economics and entrepreneurship
The exposing of espionage activities from Australia’s diplomatic missions have caused the Australian government great embarrassment which will potentially strain relations within the region for years to come. So far the only comment that has come from a “shell shocked” Abbott government was from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop who said that “it was not policy of the Australian government to comment on intelligent matters”, hardly sufficient to placate some very angry governments within the region.
Australia has been collecting intelligence in the Southeast Asian region for decades through a multitude of methods from a large array of facilities. In addition to the electronic surveillance activities revealed last week, Australian
operatives stationed under diplomatic cover across diplomatic missions in the region carry out continuous “on the ground” Humint (human intelligence) operations.
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US, the Australian intelligence community has been considered an equal partner with the US and operate almost in a totally integrated fashion. There are a number of important facilities on Australian territory which make important contributions to the National Security Agency (NSA) network.
Pine Gap in the Northern Territory is a joint facility responsible for signals collection. Here the ECHELON software undertakes a meta-collection of data traffic from satellite transmissions, public switched phone networks and microwave signals. This data is screened for pre-programmed keywords and is linked to the British eavesdropping facility at Menwith Hill and a chain of other intercepting facilities around the world. After 9/11 there has been a focus on the collection of intelligence on terrorism suspects.
Through combining imagery with radio and mobile phone transmissions, potential targets can be pinpointed for drone strikes. This information is fed to the US Drone Strike Program. Spy satellites are also controlled from this facility. Pine gap is also part of the X-Keystone network collecting and analyzing online data.
A satellite communications facility at Kojarena, Western Australia is responsible for intercepting signals and mobile phone communications from China, Russia, Japan, India and Pakistan through a regional satellite network. Another satellite station at Shoal Bay in the Northern Territory focuses primarily on intercepting Indonesian phone communications and military signals.
There is a small remotely controlled facility on Cocos Islands also used for signals collection, which feeds into the ASD headquarters at Russell Hill in Canberra. The Washington Post reports that the Cocos Islands is now an important base in South China Sea surveillance as a counter to Chinese presence. The Cocos Islands might be used for US drone flights over the South China Sea. These activities suggest that China is the main surveillance target.
Australia has also developed a listening post connected to major undersea communication cables that carry voice and internet traffic between the US and Asia, an action far beyond any legislative authority.
Speculation exists that Australia regularly intercepts Indonesian President Susilo Bambamg Yudhoyono’s and other high ranking officials’ mobile phone conversations. Australia has been regularly reading Indonesian diplomatic traffic since the 1950s, which played an important role in what helped the US undermine the Sukarno regime and install Soeharto as President back in 1966.
Perhaps even more disturbing than electronic surveillance exposed by Snowden are the Humint activities undertaken by Australian operatives under diplomatic cover at Australian missions abroad. According to a retired senior diplomatic official and an Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer, a large array of human intelligence is collected and operations undertaken from these clandestine groups within diplomatic missions.
Each group operating from a diplomatic mission would include operatives from various agencies. These operatives are concerned with both Australian and foreign nationals in the areas of business activities, money laundering, counterfeiting, identity theft, tax evasion, narcotics, human trafficking, arms trading, pedophilia, terrorism, general criminal activities.
In addition, some work is sub-contracted to “CIA-friendly” companies like VFS Global which collect and process visa applications on behalf of the “UKUSA” security collaborating countries of UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. VFS has a proprietary client profiling system which assists on creating databases on “persons of interest”.
Not all activities are aimed at the host governments the diplomatic missions are operating within. A large proportion of time is spent by these clandestine groups monitoring the personal of other diplomatic missions of interest. For example Australian intelligence is interested in what the trade officials of the Chinese Embassy are doing in Jakarta, Bangkok, Hanoi and Kuala Lumpur, etc.
Other priorities include the surveillance of Australian citizens abroad which an agency may have an interest in. Over the last decade the intelligence services have become much more interested in criminal intelligence.
The CIA, NSA and other partner intelligence agencies are now primarily focused upon economic, business, industrial, trade, and political data collection. This information is vitally important in trade negotiations and shaping the future finance-scape of the region, particularly with the US aspiration of forming the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Asian pivot as a counter to Chinese growth of influence across the Asian region.
There have been allegations that Australian surveillance services are “out of control” and unaccountable, where laws are regularly flouted while it is keeping track on both Australian and foreign citizens. There have been allegations that Australian Secret Intelligent Service (ASIS) assisted MI6 to protect British interests in Hong Kong and Kuwait, potentially to the detriment of Australian interests.
There have been accusations that ASIS deliberately lied to the then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam about covert operations in Chile during the early 1970s, when ordered to stop.
One of the collateral effects of this scandal is that Australia has been found not to be true to its own democratic ideals. It has been found wanting, by disregarding its own policies, if not its own laws.
This is not to mention the moral position Australia is in through its facilitation of target information for US drone strikes which many consider war crimes.
The prevailing attitude within the Australian Intelligence community that it is not accountable to temporary holders of public office must be knocked on the head with a thorough clean out of personal, if any creditability is going to be salvaged with its neighbors. Resignations must be forthcoming in the national interest.
Australia must be prepared for a strong backlash in Asia where Australia is now seen as being blindly aligned with US security interests. Finally, from the geopolitical perspective, the Der Spiegel and Sydney Morning Herald reports came at a time when Obama’s “no show” in the region for the Bali and Brunei Summits gave Russian Premier Putin and more so Chinese Premier Xi Jinping uncontested market-space to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the regions leaders.
We may be watching a great shift in regional influence where Australia may miss the boat.
The writer is an associate professor at University Malaysia Perlis, and the author of a number of books on agriculture, economics and entrepreneurship
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