Jayapura, Jubi – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) noted that throughout 2022, there were at least 46 cases of violence in Papua. Komnas HAM continues to encourage various efforts to resolve violence in Papua, including through peaceful dialogue.
The coordinator of the Human Rights Enforcement Subcommission, Uli Parulian Sihombing, said that various cases of violence had caused 63 deaths and 82 injuries. The 2022 Annual Report of Komnas HAM shows that the incidents are detected in a number of areas that have long been vulnerable, namely Intan Jaya, Timika, Yahukimo, Puncak and Paniai regencies. Sihombing said the conflicts were between the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) and the Indonesian Military (TNI) and Police, as well as between civilians.
Sihombing said many factors trigger violence in Papua. She cited, for example, the mass rampage on February 23 this year that killed two civilians and led to shootings that killed at least ten civilians in Wamena, the capital of Jayawijaya Regency, Mountainous Papua Province. According to Komnas HAM analysis, the conflict was triggered by economic inequality, disinformation about child abduction, and sentiment between Indigenous Papuans and non-Papuans.
“Finally, we conducted an investigation to monitor the riots in Wamena. Those factors triggered the violence in Wamena. We encourage recovery efforts following the violence and human rights violations in Papua,” Sihombing said in an online discussion on the launch of Komnas HAM’s 2022 Annual Report on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Komnas HAM chair Atnike Nova Sigiro said that resolving human rights violations in Papua was a priority issue for Komnas HAM 2022-2027. She said that Komnas HAM continued to monitor and analyze the development of human rights situations, armed conflicts, and violence that deprive people of their social, cultural and economic rights in Papua.
Atnike said Komnas HAM also monitored and encouraged law enforcement in handling cases of violence in Papua, as well as seeking to open dialogue and communication between the community, local government, central government and law enforcement officials.
“The dialogue must be able to contain aspirations related to human rights protection. That is what we encourage in responding to the human rights situation in Papua,” she said. (*)
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2) Student association calls on military to stop sweeping in Intan Jaya
News Desk - Intan Jaya Regency
Jayapura, Jubi – The Association of Moni Students (IPMMO) in Java-Bali assesses that the armed conflict in Intan Jaya Regency is increasingly heating up with the ongoing sweeping carried out by security forces.
This resulted in people in several villages such as Munumai, Matalipa, Mbamogo, and Dangoa to flee.
Head of IPMMO Burume Kibame Kobogau, in a written statement received by Jubi on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, said sweeping by military forces were not only recently occurred but had started since the armed conflict between the Indonesian Military (TNI) and Police and the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) erupted on December 18, 2019 in Intan Jaya’sBulapa.
“The same problem is happening from time to time until now,” Kobogau said.
The military operations carried out by the TNI and police in several villages, made the student association ask the Intan Jaya Government to immediately handle displaced civilians or civilians affected by military sweeping in Munumai, Matalipa, Mbamogo and Dangoa villages.
“We are the children of Intan Jaya and we feel disheartened to learn about what is currently happening in our villages. Therefore, we hope that the government can handle the problems that occur in Intan Jaya as quickly as possible, including the issue of gold mining in Block B Wabu,” he said.
Students also asked the central government to withdraw the TNI and police as they were deemed to have disrupted the lives of the people of Intan Jaya.
“The IPMMO strongly condemns the attacks carried out by TNI-police officers in Intan Jaya recently during sweeping. The attack resulted in casualties, property losses, and left the community in trauma,” Kobogau said. (*)
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