This event will bring together grassroots representatives and experts to explore practical actions that the UN Human Rights Council and national and international actors could take to address the deepening human rights and humanitarian crises in West Papua.
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal will also present the findings of its July 2024 public hearings, during which it examined a body of evidence on the environmental impacts of development projects and related human rights violations in the region.
In the first six months of 2024, extra-judicial killings linked to the ongoing armed conflict between the Indonesian security forces and the West Papua National Liberation Army (OPM-TPNPB) have been recorded. A surge in armed conflict has been reported in the period April-June 2024 which has continued to drive internal displacement among the Indigenous Papuan people. As of September 2024, 79,867 people are internally displaced with no access to basic necessities such as food, healthcare services and education, and limited access to employment opportunities. If they return to their villages and homes, they are confronted with a heavy security presence, and constant intimidation and surveillance.
A growing number of cases of land grabbing have been reported from the regencies of Merauke, Mimika, Deiyai, and Sorong in the period April-June 2024, reflecting a growing trend of private investors capturing land and natural resources without obtaining free, prior and informed consent from Indigenous Papuans.
There is an urgent need for the Indonesian government to immediately address the conflict and associated human rights violations, abuses, and impunity through sustainable solutions based on the principles of human rights.
Peter Prove, director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), will moderate the discussion.
“The Indonesian government provides very limited transparency regarding the situation in West Papua, and even less access to the region,” he said. “Accordingly, the WCC is grateful that through cooperation with its civil society partners we can bring information regarding the longstanding humanitarian and human rights crisis endured by the Indigenous Papuan people to the attention of the Human Rights Council, and to the wider international community. We continue to hope that by sharing this information, the long overdue concern of the international community may yet be galvanized.”
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2) Students intimidated by police at Nabire police station, Central Papua province
"This immunization is meant to protect children from polio. We pay a visit to this school to ensure that the immunization runs well and smoothly," he remarked on Monday.
According to Effendy, the polio vaccination rate among children in Indonesia's Papua region, including Southwest Papua Province, still needs to be boosted.
"Some kids in several districts are still struggling with the polio disease, which should not be allowed to happen," he emphasized.
On the occasion, the minister also met with leaders of local sub-districts and public health centers and representatives of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) and National Police (Polri) to discuss ways to accelerate PIN implementation in Papua, particularly Southwest Papua.
"We are resolute in completing immunization to safeguard Papua from the threat of polio," he emphasized.
Meanwhile, PMK Coordinating Ministry's Assistant Deputy for Disease Control and Mitigation, Nancy Dian Anggraeni, highlighted that 80 percent of the targeted children in Sorong City had received the first dose of the vaccine, while 53 percent of them had been vaccinated twice.
She underlined that her office and the Ministry of Home Affairs had been rolling out regular evaluations involving local leaders to expedite the implementation of PIN in Papua since July this year.
The official, however, noted that the overall rate of PIN implementation among the six provinces of Papua remains very low.
"The provision of the first dose has only progressed to 54.7 percent in six provinces, while the second phase of the PIN has only reached 38.1 percent (of the targeted children)," she pointed out.
She attributed the unfavorable trend to some parents' hesitation to vaccinate their children.
Translator: Yuvensius L, Tegar Nurfitra
Editor: Arie Novarina
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