1) Jakarta/West
Papua talks urged
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1) Jakarta/West Papua talks urged
Updated at 2:29 pm today
A Melanesian Spearhead Group leader says it is hoped that the organisation can help West Papuans forge agreement on their future through dialogue with Indonesia.
The comment from Vanuatu's Prime Minister Joe Natuman comes after MSG leaders resolved to seek a more proactive approach alongside Indonesia to help address the development needs of West Papuans.
Mr Natuman says every effort should be made to facilitate West Papuan self-determination aspirations.
Yeah I think we should work together with Indonesia and continue to have dialogue. It's a process. This is what we've done with New Caledonia which has a process with France, and eventually they formed their FLNKS and managed to reach agreement with France on various agreements.
Joe Natuman says Vanuatu is still considering seeking an International Court of Justice opinion on the legality of the UN-sanctioned process under which the former Dutch New Guinea was ceded to Indonesia.
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2) West Papua rally small and peaceful
Updated at 3:46 pm on 2 July 2014
The Australia West Papua Association says rallies by independence supporters in Indonesia's Papuan region this week were peaceful and not attended by security forces.
July the 1st marks the day in 1971 when Papuan leaders proclaimed the region's independence from Jakarta.
The Antara News had reported Major General Christian Zebua saying Indonesian soldiers would shoot any independence supporters who attended.
A spokesperson for the AWPA, Joe Collins, says the rallies, at least two in Papua and one in Java, were small but significant.
"I think threats of intimidation did have an effect on the West Papuan people, some people decided to stay at home. So although they were small, it does not go unnoticed. The West Papuan people they really really do want self-determination and any chance they get they will raise the issue."
Joe Collins says the international media and community watching what was happening yesterday would have influenced the military to step back.
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3) Vanuatu PM considers MSG prospects for West Papua
Originally aired on Dateline Pacific, Thursday 3 July 2014
Vanuatu's Prime Minister talks candidly about the Melanesian Spearhead Group's latest moves on West Papua.
TRANSCRIPT
The Vanuatu Prime Minister says he's encouraged by the momentum within the Melanesian Spearhead Group towards more engagement with Indonesia on West Papua.
However Joe Natuman appears slightly baffled at the group's decision to brush off a MSG membership application by the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation.
The MSG had postponed its decision on the application pending a report from an MSG foreign ministers' fact-finding mission to Indonesia's Papua region in January.
Vanuatu boycotted that trip because it felt the mission's programme would not allow the MSG to obtain credible information to fulfill the MSG Leader's mandate, around making a decision on the membership bid.
Now the MSG has called for a bid by a more "inclusive and united" West Papuan group.
Mr Natuman spoke to Johnny Blades about the decision.
JOE NATUMAN: Yeah the application is dead. I confirmed that. It's been included in the Ministers of Foreign Affairs report. I was insisting that we continue to hold on to it but the leaders [as a whole] made the decision. So instead I insisted that if they claim there are other groupings in West Papua, pro-independence or other political groupings, then we ask that they form an umbrella group like the FLNKS in New Caledonia and they re-submit a fresh application.
JOHNNY BLADES: Last year at the Noumea summit, the West Papuan National Coalition for Liberation presented documents of support from over seventy groups in West Papua. How more representative do they need to be?
JN: Well I mean this is what the Foreign Ministers said in their findings, their so-called findings... it's hard to believe but that's what they said. Although they spent less than a couple of hours in Jayapura and they came out with this report. I thought it was not fairly representative of what the West Papuans wanted. But that was the consensus. So, if there are groupings there, then we have to bring them together. we are proposing that we bring them together in Port Vila or Port Moresby. This umbrella grouping, they can give themselves a name and then submit a fresh application to become associated with the MSG.
JB: You're saying there is still some opportunity for it [membership] to happen, it just has to be wider?
JN: Yes it has to be wider to be representative of all the political opinions in West Papua, if there are others. If there are not then maybe basically what the coalition is saying is representative of everybody, everybody agrees. But we should try and test what the foreign ministers are saying, that there are other groupings. If there are other groupings, they should come forward with the coalition and make a fresh application, especially after the decision.
JB: We know how Vanuatu has been fighting in that corner. I suppose it's hard at the MSG table, you have to make decisions on consensus, don't you, and other members aren't quite so keen on West Papuan membership, is that right?
JN: well, the decision is by consensus but I'm very pleased that Papua New Guinea is opening up and they're more... they understand the situation now. Prime Minister O'Neill was very forthcoming in his support for the Melanesians in general - Melanesian members of MSG and Melanesians in west papua and Indonesia itself where we have 11 million Melanesians over there. He thought we should bring them under the umbrella of the MSG. All efforts should be made to bring all these people together, politically and otherwise. That's basically PNG's... unlike other former Prime Ministers [of PNG] Peter O'Neill was forthright in his support for the Melanesian populations in Indonesia and particularly West Papua on this issue.
JB: And I notice the communiqué [from the MSG summit] has quite a few endorsements for working more proactively alongside Indonesia, is that right?
JN: Yeah, I think we should work with Indonesia and continue to have dialogue. It's a process. This is what we've done with New Caledonia which has a process with France. Although they faced some violent situations in New Caledonia the late 1970s and 1980s, eventually they formed their FLNKS and managed to reach agreement with France on various agreements. They're on the way to reclaiming their rights and their aspirations. We hope that a similar thing will be happening in Papua and West Papua, then we can bring all these groups together and they work towards their goal, whatever their goal is. That's one angle on which we talk with Indonesia. The other angle which we are exploring, which Vanuatu is exploring, is to bring this up at the United Nations level. The process has not been completed as far as we are concerned at the United Nations level, where West New Guinea was [formerly] a mandated territory of the UN, that process has not been completed.
So we're requesting that the UN look into this and then we might bring it up in the general assembly, and maybe later on we might ask the International Court of Justice to express an opinion on it [the legality of the UN-sanctioned process under which the former Dutch New Guinea was ceded to Indonesia]. That process is still open to us. Right now we have to deal with the issue as it is. We talk with the Indonesians and have dialogue with the Indonesians and dialogue with all the Melanesians of various inclinations, political inclinations, in Papua and West Papua.
JB: Who will drive the bid for the West Papuans to join the MSG now?
JN: I think Vanuatu has been involved with this, to get groupings in Vanuatu to be involved, with the coalition and the churches and the chiefs, and even the Pacific Council of Churches, they're vocal on this issue, we might include all these groupings to be able to get everybody around the table and discuss these issues. I think it's between the MSG secretariat since now the invitation has been issued by the MSG for these people to regroup and come [again] under an umbrella so the MSG will of course be involved and we in vanuatu have a lot of experience in this area, we are quite willing to assist.
JB: And what about the groups within West Papua? Some of them can't leave and some may face trouble if they do. How do you hook up and include them, if that's the mandate?
JN: Well, that's why it's important to hold dialogue with Indonesia. Indonesia is an observer of MSG, we have issued this invitation. It's therefore the obligation of Indonesia to allow these groups to express themselves.
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4) Gamblers kill Papua police officer
The Jakarta Post, Jayapura | Archipelago | Thu, July 03 2014, 7:18 AM
Police officer Brig. Asriadi was stabbed and killed as he tried to disperse a gambling group at Youtefa Market in Abepura, Jayapura on Wednesday.
Asriadi, a member of the Tanah Hitam Police precinct’s motorcycle unit, and his colleague Brig. Samsul Huda, who attended the scene, were reportedly stoned and chased by around 100 gamblers. The officers fled and attempted to hide in a kiosk at the market.
“But unfortunately, Asriadi fell down and was mobbed and stabbed by the gamblers,” said Herman, a trader at the market.
Samsul, who tried to help Asriadi, was also stabbed. The gamblers grabbed Samsul’s weapon and ammunition before fleeing the scene. Samsul was rushed to Bhayangkara Police Hospital.
Papua Police spokesman Snr. Comr. Pudjo Sulistyo said police were still searching for the gamblers that stole the police weapon.
Pudjo added that a man was found dead near the gambling venue. “We are still identifying the victim and the cause of the death.”
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5) Victor Yeimo: Forced Indonesian Papuan People Should Not Participate Presidential Election
By: Oktovianus Pogau | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 10:11 pm | Viewed: 251 times
Victor Yeimo: Forced Indonesian Papuan People Should Not Participate Presidential Election
Victor F. Yeimo, Chairman of the West Papua National Committee (Photo: Ist)
PAPUAN, --- Jayapura West Papua National Committee (KNPB), Victor F. Yeimo asked the Indonesian government not to force the people of West Papua to follow the Presidential Election (Election) Indonesia on July 9, 2014.
"I am responsible for the boycott of the elections without violence. Indonesia should not be forced people to participate Presidential Election, "said Yeimo, in a press release sent to suarapapua.com, Wednesday (07/02/2014).
According Yeimo, KNPB also does not force people to boycott presidential election, but only told to stay out of the agenda of the invaders who were oppressing them.
"The appeal aims to save KNPB true of duping people of West Papua and the destruction of democracy, the political rights of the people of West Papua who continue to be exploited to give birth actors invaders who were oppressing them."
"These conditions must exist that show the solution, and aims to open KNPB safety solutions for the people of West Papua's future, namely the referendum as the final measure of democracy," he said.
According Yeimo, KNPB also had never ordered people and members of KNPB to use violent means.
"If anyone is using violent means to block the presidential election, it was not of my members, and KNPB irresponsible," said Yeimo, who is still languishing in the Correctional Institution (LP) Abepura, Papua, as a political prisoner.
"From the beginning until now KNPB struggling peacefully, openly and with dignity, and therefore do not need to TNI Pore warned, terrorize, intimidate or arrest KNPB members in all areas of West Papua," he concluded.
Currently, more Yeimo, Indonesia and West Papua are in a war of international diplomacy to find a solution with the political status of West Papua.
"Indonesia must stop from pratek colonialism in West Papua," he added.
Earlier, Commander of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPN-PB) Region La-Pago, Erimbo Enden Wanimbo refuse enforcement Presidential Election (Election) in the Central Highlands region, Papua.
"A referendum must be done, this is the solution for free from slaughter, murder, intimidation, terror, rape, and deprivation of the rights of the Papuan people. We expressed the attitude to boycott the 2014 presidential election., "He told the media yesterday.
According Wanimbo, West Papua has been used as a place to hunt wild boar commonly categorized as an area of military operations (DOM) by the Indonesian security forces.
"We remind the TPN-PB and non-Papuan People of Papua, that TPN-PB will conduct counterinsurgency operations until any stones dilubang to fail of the 2014 presidential election in the Central Highlands region of Papua," he said.
Previously, Papua Police Chief and Commander XVII / Cenderawasih in various media will assert quell civic groups, and the TPN / OPM is trying to derail the 2014 presidential election in Papua.
Oktovianus POGAU
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