1) TPNPB OPM Requests Govt to Open Access for Human Rights Agencies to Papua

2) OPM Seeks Jokowi's Responsibility for Military Raid in Papua's Pogapa

3) News: Scottish Friends of West Papua launched in Scottish Parliament

4) Morning Star graffiti expressions lead to students and teachers at SMAN 2 Dogiyai dealing with the police

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1) TPNPB OPM Requests Govt to Open Access for Human Rights Agencies to Papua  

Translator Najla Nur Fauziyah

 Editor Laila Afifa 

10 May 2024 18:15 WIB  

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Movement(TPNPB OPM) asked the Indonesian government to open access for human rights agencies, both national and international, to Papua. This request was the result of an aerial military attack that was said to have burned down three civilian houses in Pogapa Village, causing them to flee to Sanepa, Bilae, and some other villages.

"The Indonesian government (shall) immediately open humanitarian access to national and international human rights agencies to investigate civilians affected by the armed conflict in Papua," said TPNPB OPM spokesperson, Sebby Sambom, in a written statement to Tempo, on Thursday, May 9, 2024.

TPNPB OPM requests the Indonesian government to guarantee the rights of civilians in refugee camps and vacate civilian houses and government buildings used as military posts in Intan Jaya and areas of armed conflict in Papua.

The attack which was said to have been carried out brutally was reported by the Ogobogo Battalion Commander and Operations Commander Keny Tipagau as well as TPNPB OPM soldiers on the battlefield in Pogapa, Intan Jaya, Central Papua. It was carried out after an armed group attacked the Homeyo Sector Police headquarters and Military District Command Post 1705-05/Homeyo from April 30 to May 1, 2024.

TPNPB OPM asked the Indonesian government to take responsibility for the burning of three civilian houses. They asked the Indonesian government to open access to human rights agencies to inspect directly the situation and the refugees resulting from the armed conflict in Pogapa Village.

According to Sebby, the Indonesian government under the leadership of President Joko Widodo or Jokowi and the TNI Commander has deployed military helicopters since the 4th and 5th of May as a retaliatory attack.

"In this case, the President of Indonesia and the TNI Commander (shall)immediately clarify the report in accordance with international humanitarian law standards," said Sebby.

HAN REVANDA PUTRA

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2) OPM Seeks Jokowi's Responsibility for Military Raid in Papua's Pogapa

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Dewi Elvia Muthiariny

Editor

Nabiha Zain

10 May 2024 11:28 WIB

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Movement(TPNPB OPM) said the Indonesian Military (TNI) conducted a brutal and massive aerial attack on residential areas in Intan Jaya, disregarding humanitarian law in the war against civilians.

Sebby Sambom, a spokesperson of the TPNPB OPM, said the deployment of national military troops in Pogapa Village, Intan Jaya, Central Papua, was in pursuit of the TPNPB and had caused extensive damage to the village's civilian infrastructure.

“[Public facilities are damaged] as a result of the brutal aerial attack by the TNI helicopter without guaranteeing [the safety of] the local residents during the operation,” Sebby said in a written statement received by Tempo on Thursday evening, May 9.

According to him, the Indonesian government, under the leadership of President Joko Widodo or Jokowi and the TNI Commander, has deployed military helicopters since May 4, 2024, in pursuit of the TPNPB Regional Defense Command (Kodap) VIII Intan Jaya after the armed group attacked TNI-Polri troops in Pogapa Village.

“In this case, the Indonesian President and the TNI Commander should immediately clarify [their actions] following international humanitarian law,” Sebby added.

The TPNPB launched an attack operation against the national military in Intan Jaya from March 30 to May 5, 2024. “This resulted in the death of an Indonesian intelligence officer and the burning of a school,” he claimed.

Sebby stressed that the Indonesian government must immediately take responsibility for the burning of three civilian houses in Pogapa during the military attack and allow access for humanitarian agencies to see the conflict situation. He also mentioned that residents had vacated their villages.

IKHSAN RELIUBUN

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3) News: Scottish Friends of West Papua launched in Scottish Parliament

May 10, 2024 in News

Event attendees supporting the SFWP launch

A new Scottish chapter of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) launched yesterday (10th May 2024) at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

The Scottish Friends of West Papua launch was hosted by Bill Kidd MSP, and addressed by ULMWP President Benny Wenda, ULMWP Prime Minister Edison Waromi, and IPWP Chair Alex Sobel MP.

The meeting was the fourth held as part of a new IPWP campaign to increase the pressure on Indonesia facilitate a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights fact-finding mission immediately. Previous meetings in the UK, EU, and Dutch Parliaments highlighted Indonesia’s ongoing refusal to allow the UN into West Papua. Alongside these Parliamentary hearings, the IPWP has launched the Brussels Declaration accusing Indonesia of blocking a UN visit and calling for urgent international intervention.

Indonesia first invited then-High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein to West Papua in 2018, but have continually failed to make good on that promise, despite over 100 UN member states calling for a visit to happen. In the six years since, over 100,000 Papuans have been internally displaced by Indonesian military operations, with at least 1200 civilians dying as a result.

President Wenda spoke about the progress of the campaign for a UN visit, as well as the current military escalation in West Papua. Alex Sobel discussed the importance of Parliamentarians signing the Brussels Declaration, along with the IPWP call for the creation of a Special Rapporteur for Indonesia.

ULMWP President Benny Wenda: “As I speak to you now, West Papuans are living under a shadow. We are scared of the future under new Indonesian President, the war criminal Prabowo Subianto. For West Papuans, this means the ghost of the dictator Suharto is back. Prabowo has never been held accountable or punished for his atrocities in East Timor and West Papua. He has committed massacres and never apologised. In his election campaign, he said that he will pursue a military approach in West Papua. We know that the situation will only get worse under this rule. 

West Papua needs short-term friends and long-term friends. We hope that Scottish Parliamentarian can join the Interantional Parliamentarians for West Papua and add their voice to the growing cry for a UN Human Rights visit to West Papua. We have been isolated and voice for a long time and we need supporters to speak for us. Just like the Basque and Catalan Parliaments, we hope the Scottish Parliament can make their own call for a UN visit to West Papua.”

Any Scottish Parliamentarian who wishes to sign the Brussels declaration should contact office@ipwp.org.

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4) Morning Star graffiti expressions lead to students and teachers at SMAN 2 Dogiyai dealing with the police

In 2024, students will repeat the action of crossing out Morning Star patterned clothes or unfurling the Morning Star flag in a number of places in Papua.

9 ei 2024 in News   0 0 0 Writer: Hengky Yeimo - Editor: Syofiardi

68 /Nabire, Jubi TV– The expression of scribbled clothes after graduation with the Morning Star motif is nothing new in Papua. Almost every year at the graduation celebrations for middle and high school students, there are always expressions of scribbled clothes with Morning Star motifs. Apart from that, students also often accompany teachers or school principals.

Events like this are commonly carried out by Papuan children to express their pride after hearing their graduation results. This kind of phenomenon occurs in almost all of Papua. The students' expressions always resulted in serious action from the local police, such as arrests, beatings and interrogations.

In 2024, students will repeat the action of scribbling on clothes with the Morning Star motif or unfurling the Morning Star flag in a number of places in Papua. Based on information gathered by Jubi.id, celebrations like this took place on Monday 6 May 2024 in Dogiyai Regency, Nabire Regency, Deiyai Regency, Timika, Sorong and Yalimo. The celebration took place after the announcement of the graduation of high school students.

In Deiyai, students of Deiyai 1 Public High School, Central Papua Province, after hearing the results of the National Examination and being declared 100 percent passed, they unfurled the Morning Star flag in the school yard for a group photo. This photo went viral on social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, X, etc.

Meanwhile in Nabire, the capital of Central Papua Province, a number of high school and vocational school students, after hearing the announcement of their graduation, took to walking on the main road. Some of them painted white uniforms with pilox paint with a Morning Star motif.

Their action resulted in their forced dispersal by the police. Some of them were even beaten, dispersed with gunfire, and 14 students were arrested. Including a student at Satya Wiyata Mandala University. The incident in Nabire received a serious response from the Papua Justice Talent Legal Aid Institute (LBH-TKP) which is based in Nabire.

LBH-TKP Director Ricardani Nawipa said that as many as 14 Nabire students were detained by the Nabire Resort Police (Polres Nabire) while walking in groups on the main road celebrating graduation. They walked from Kali Bobo to Bumi Wonorejo. The 14 students were released on Tuesday (07/05/2024) evening after undergoing examination at the Nabire Police.

"There were 14 students who were released at 23:40 Papua Time, while Darius Goo was detained until 03:00, dawn. Darius Goo, a student at Satya Wiyata Mandala University (USWIM), was also arrested separately in Bumi Wonorejo. "Darius was the victim of the wrong arrest, but the police officers beat him until his face was battered, this is an unlawful act," said Nawipa to Jubi via WhatsApp telephone, Wednesday (8/5/2024).

The students who had just graduated, said Nawipa, were arrested on the grounds that they had crossed out their clothes with the Morning Star motif and the logo of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) organization.

"At that time, these students' younger siblings were negotiating with the police, but they (the police) insisted on breaking up the students' convoy on the grounds that the Morning Star flag and the KNPB organization flag had been painted on their high school uniforms," he said.

Nawipa, as the students' legal representative, said that police officers shot the students using tear gas and allegedly fired live bullets when dispersing the students.

"From the reports we received from the students, it was that during the arrest incident, some of them had injuries as a result of beatings and when carrying out the investigation, the Nabire police also examined 14 students by asking the students to take off their clothes, asking for the students' cellphones and other accessories," he said.

According to Nawipa, the students were arrested for questioning, but he considered that the police's actions had violated the Criminal Procedure Code.

"The students and students were arrested for questioning and this action violated the Criminal Procedure Law Number 8 of 1981," he said.

Based on information obtained from the students, said Nawipa, the Nabire police carried out illegal arrests.

"We ask the police to stop illegal arrests without documents as regulated in the Law on the Police Code of Ethics, Number 02 of 2002," he said.

Nawipa asked all parties, including the Police in Nabire, to understand the rights and obligations of Indonesian citizens. The right and obligation to express one's opinion to the public as regulated in the 1945 Constitution.

"The 1945 Constitution in article 28 has stipulated the right of citizens and residents to associate and assemble, express their thoughts verbally or in writing, and so on, so, this section must be understood by all parties, do not take the judge into your own hands," he said.

5 Teachers of SMAN 2 Dogiyai examined 7 hours

Meanwhile, in Dogiyai Regency, Central Papua Province, as a result of the expressions of the students of SMAN 2 Dogiyai, they carried out a graffiti action on their uniforms with the Morning Star (BK) flag motif after hearing the graduation on Monday (6/5/2024), and paraded the school principal Fredy Yobee on the main road with a sedan chair resulted in the questioning of five school teachers, including the principal of SMAN 2 Dogiyai.

“That's right, we were questioned on May 7 2024. We were examined from 09.00 to 15.00 Papua Time. We were questioned for 7 hours, the place was at the Dogiyai Police Station. "We were asked for information by the Dogiyai Police regarding the spontaneous action carried out by the students of SMA Negeri 2. We were asked about that and it was clarified by the principal," said a teacher to Jubi by telephone.

He said that the five teachers consisted of the principal of SMA Negeri 2 Dogiyai, the deputy principal, the Chairman of the National Examination Committee, and the teaching teachers. "We were asked by the police for information regarding the activities of children who scribbled clothes with Morning Star motifs and paraded around Moanemani, Dogiyai Regency," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of SMA Negeri 2 Dogiyai Regency, Central Papua, Fredy Yobee, in a video uploaded to the tiktok account @humasdogiyai with the name @humaspolresdogiyai presented five teachers of SMAN 2 Dogiyai. In the video, Yobee clarifies the incident.

"I came to provide clarification regarding the parade carried out by the children of SMA Negeri 2 Dogiyai, that the parade that was carried out was not carried out by us teachers or the principal who encouraged them to do this, but it was their spontaneity or their initiative or they felt proud. or what, we don't know," he said.

Regarding the student from SMAN 2 Dogiyai carrying him on a chair and taking him to the main road, said Yobee, it was not his intention to ask the student to carry him.

"I was also told to climb onto a chair that the students had made. Yesterday I avoided that, but the children, they put me on a chair and went around several streets," he said.

Yobee explained that at first he thought that was where they were going. I didn't know either, so I found out after they went around the streets that there were several roads in the capital of Dogiyai Regency.

"What happened was not the will of the teachers or the principal, but it was purely their initiative and their own spontaneity," he said.

Yobee said that regarding the picture or writing regarding the Morning Star flag, he did not order them to do this action.

"We were surprised when the children wanted to hear the announcement of their graduation results. We are honest, when we wanted to convey the graduation results, we conveyed it to them ourselves and then to the students' parents. "If we knew there was graffiti like this, we wouldn't have held a farewell event," he said ending the conversation in the video published by the Dogiyai Police Public Relations. (*)

This article has been published on jubi.id

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