1) Government
Unaware of Papua Governor Meeting with Obama
2) OPM Claims
Responsibility for Fatal Shooting of TNI Soldier in Papua
3) Hundreds of
Papua Students go to School in Java
5) Step Papuan People Diplomacy Gets Positive
Response at MSG
6) Papuan
People Have Self-Determination Rights
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WEDNESDAY, 26 JUNE, 2013 | 22:21 WIB
1) Government Unaware of Papua Governor Meeting with Obama
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Foreign Affairs Ministry says it is unaware that Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, along with 16 Papuan district chiefs, were scheduled for a meeting with US President Barack Husein Obama. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Michael Tenne said his ministry has not received any notification regarding this issue.
Previously, there was news that Lukas Enembe, along with district chiefs in Papua, will be visiting the US to meet with Obama and the owner of Freeport Indonesia. The meeting was facilitated by Obama’s stepsister, Maya Soetoro. Two weeks ago, Maya and some delegations from the University of Hawaii visited Yogyakarta to talk about a partnership with Indonesian universities, including some in Papua.
Yahukimo district chief Ones Pahabol confirmed that the Papua governor asked 16 district chiefs from the Central Mountains District Chiefs Association to meet Obama. The journey will be funded by the Papua Administration.
The meeting will reportedly discuss the development of Freeport in Papua because the management of Freeport has not benefited Indonesia and Papua.
"Obama must review whether a new contract with Freeport is necessary," he said.
Ones denied the allegations the meeting will also include a hidden agenda to fight for Papua’s freedom.
"This is for the sake of the nation, so Jakarta must support us. We will talk about economic freedom, not politics," he said.
Press Attaché for the US Embassy to Indonesia Troy Pederson, said he has no comment on this matter because Maya Soetoro has already released a statement denying these allegations through an online media.
PRIHANDOKO | JERRY OMONA | CUNDING LEVI | NATALIA SANTI
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2) OPM Claims Responsibility for Fatal Shooting of TNI Soldier in Papua
Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers arrive at Tanjung Emas Port in Semarang after a six-month assignment in the restive Papua province in this Feb. 28, 2013 file photo. (JG Photo/Dhana Kencana)
Jayapura. The Free Papua Movement (OPM) has claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of an Indonesian Military (TNI) soldier, which also left a civilian dead in the Papua district of Puncak Jaya on Tuesday.
Second Lt. I Wayan Sukarta, the head of the TNI station in Puncak Jaya’s Ilu subdistrict, was traveling in a car along with two lower-rank soldiers when a group of armed men attacked them with rifles in Jigonikme village in Ilu.
They managed to contact the station for help, but Sukarta and the civilian driver of the car, who has been identified as Tono, were already dead as more soldiers arrived in the location on Tuesday afternoon.
“There were, more or less, seven attackers who carried riffles,” Papua Police spokesman Sr. Comr. I Gede Sumerta Jaya said on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Goliath Tabuni, the commander of the OPM’s National Liberation Army (TPN), claimed responsibility for the attack.
“The shooting was done by my members, on my order,” Goliath told Suara Pembaruan. “If the TNI and the National Police wish to hunt for the shooters, then come look for me or my members, not Papua civilians.”
But he denied that his members had killed a civilian in the attack.
“My members wouldn’t recklessly shoot civilians. If the media say a civilian has been a victim, that’s a lie. The TNI may have shot civilians in this region and even throughout Papua, but we don’t randomly shoot [civilians].”
Goliath added his group had taken some guns belonging to the soldiers they attacked on Tuesday, saying, “We’re getting stronger.”
In Jakarta, TNI commander Adm. Agus Suharto said the military together with police were hunting for the perpetrators, but no additional force would be sent to Papua.
“I am concerned. We’ve lost another TNI member. This shows that although we have tried to reach out to them with welfare approach, they keep committing violence. That needs to be underlined,” Agus said. “We will evaluate our activities there”.
Rights group Imparsial, meanwhile, warned the TNI against retaliating with more violence, saying the government needed to establish dialogue with separatist groups in order to end conflict in the restive region.
“Imparsial urges police to arrest the attackers… but hopes that the government won’t use the violence to justify deployment of more troops to Papua,” Imparsial executive director Poengki Indarti said on Wednesday. “To end violence in Papua, it is time for the government to begin preparing dialogue with groups considered to oppose the government. The government shouldn’t have a phobia for dialogue because peaceful dialogue will inspire trust between each other and disentangle the problem.”
JG, Suara Pembaruan
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WEDNESDAY, 26 JUNE, 2013 | 22:51 WIB
3) Hundreds of Papua Students go to School in Java
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - As many as 500 Papua and West Papua children will be schooled in 178 high schools in Java and Bali. The director general for middle education at the Education and Culture Ministry Hamid Muhammad, says these 500 children will be funded by the government in the high school education affirmation program.
Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh says this affirmation program is aimed at reducing the social gap between Java and Papua. This program also aims to prevent students in education affirmation programs from experiencing culture shock when they go to universities in Java.
"Many are shocked when the go to universities and have difficulties competing with their friends," says Nuh. The affirmation program is also aimed at strengthening the relationship among cultures and uniting them as one brotherhood under the same nation. SUNDARI SUDJIANTO
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Fiji’s foreign minister, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, says criticism of him by the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation is unfair.
The group was dismissive over Ratu Inoke’s claim that it wasn’t representative of Indonesia’s West Papuans, who have unsuccessfully asked the Melanesian Spearhead Group to be made a member.
But Ratu Inoke has told Fijilive that the criticism is especially unfair given the effort Fiji has made to raise the West Papua issue in the MSG.
At last week’s MSG summit, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia’s FLNKS Movement backed the West Papuans’ bid but Fiji and Papua New Guinea have rejected it.
Ratu Inoke says before making a decision, the MSG leaders will need to analyse the precise situation.
The MSG accepted a bid by Indonesia two years ago to become an MSG observer.
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5) Step Papuan People Diplomacy Gets Positive Response at MSG
Published On Wednesday, June 26, 2013
By Oktovianus Pogau. Under: EDITORIAL,
OPINION. Tags: MSG Summit, LP3BH, PAPUA MERDEKA, WPCNL
Warinussy CH Yan, Executive Director LP3BH, Manokwari, West Papua (Photo: Oktovianus Pogau / SP)
By: Yan CH Warinussy *
After following the development of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) 19th Summit in Noumea, Kanaky, New Caledonia, then as a human rights activist in Papua, I saw that the people diplomacy through the container West Papua Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL) has received a positive response.
Positive response I'm getting is that it turns the process of registration / registration (submission) proposal of WPNCL to obtain status as a member in the MSG as FKLNS (Liberation Struggle Organization Kanaky tribe in New Caledonia) has been well received by MSG.
So, if there is a growing opinion or the opinion current in the mass media, and the people in Papua and Indonesia generally, that the people of Papua WPNCL or proposal was rejected by the MSG, it is information that is a lie and can not be accounted for at all.
So the submission process has occurred and completed, so that as the people of Papua through WPNCL about to beg in order to get accepted into a MSG and MSG member has its own mechanism to manage any problems that exist in the region (Melanesian Territory, then we should be proud that our problems are being addressed and how the solution sought by MSG member countries, such as Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Island and FKLNS Republic.
Actually, what happens is MSG leaders agreed to postpone a decision on the status of the Papuan people through WPNCL as a member of the group, until they receive the report and recommendations of the visit of the official delegation to the MSG Indonesia and Papua advance.
One important thing to be understood and observed by all components of the political struggle for the rights of the Papuan people today, both at home and abroad that all MSG members agreed on the importance of the opportunity of self-determination for the people of Papua.
Therefore, they (the leaders of the member states MSG) bagimana need to know the real situation and the development of socio-political conditions and human rights in Papua itself, so they have set an important mission to send its foreign ministry to visit Indonesia (Jakarta ) and Papua (Jayapura) in the next six months.
Of the event, all components of the political rights of the Papuan people struggle should have been preparing and formally ask the MSG on the occasion of his visit that later, they can not only visit to Jayapura and Jakarta.
However, they (MSG) can also be visited and met with all the components of the Papuan people in other cities in the land of Papua, Manokwari, Sorong, Fakfak, Wamena, Biak, Serui, Nabire, Merauke, Honor, Enarotali and Kaimana.
So, they can obtain a full and factual information as well as clear and termasa the real conditions in Papua.
I want to use this opportunity to give a view to all components of the political struggle for the rights of the people of Papua, that the existence WPNCL very strategic as far as I understand it and need the support of all the components of the Papuan people.
Thus, the recognition and support of various organizations such as the struggle wing Papuan Presidium Council (PDP), the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), the Association of Women's Solidarity of Papua (ISPP), the West Papua National Committee (KNPPB) and the Federal Republic of West Papua ( NRFPB) is very important and urgent.
I really see that until now only the group West Papua National Authority (WPNA) which has yet to respond and support the critical processes that are encouraged by the people of Papua through WPNCL at MSG today.
It is very important that each component of the struggle of the people to unite and support this all important process, in order to avoid the possibility of infiltration (infiltration) of the other party, including the government of Indonesia to mengkaburkan Papuan political aspirations of the majority of the people who have wanted to have the opportunity to self-determination according to mechanisms of international law and the principles of democracy and human rights are universally applicable.
* Yan Christian Warinussy is executive director LP3BH Manokwari, and Award-Winning International in the field of human rights "JOHN HUMPHREY FGREEDOM AWARD" in 2005 from Canada. Currently he is also a Member of the Steering Committee of NGOs FOKER se-Tanah Papua
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6) Papuan People Have Self-Determination Rights
Published On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 By Oktovianus Pogau.
Under: WEST PAPUA, EDITORS CHOICE. Tags: MSG Summit, PAPUA MERDEKA, WPCNL
Free West Papua (Photo: ist)
PAPUAN, Manokwari - Papua Orang Asli, as one of the Melanesian race group, as citizens of the world and indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination (the right to self-determination).
Thus the assertion Warinussy CH Yan, one of the human rights activists in Papua, in a press release sent to the editor suarapapua.com, Wednesday (06/26/2013) afternoon, from Manokwari, West Papua.
According to the award-winning John Humphrey Freedom Award from Canada's, it is in line with the contents of the Universal Declaration of the United Nations (UN), and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"I remind all concerned authorities in Papua, Indonesia in general and that is very fundamental issue is currently in Papua is not about welfare and economics, but a matter of differing views on the history of politics in the context of the integration of Papua into the Republic of Indonesia international law which has not been completed. "
"It's because until the matter has been brought to Papua continue to be discussed in international forums such as the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) recently in Kanaky, New Caledonia," the senior lawyer said.
In the forum the 19th MSG Summit, further Warinussy, has clearly stated that the MSG leaders they recognize human rights violations in Papua, and needs to be highlighted to promote the application of Papuans through West Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL).
"One remarkable thing and justify my statement above is that the MSG leaders agree fully supports the rights of the West Papuan people to self-determination as set out in the preamble of the constitution MSG," he said.
That means, said Executive Director LP3BH this, that the people of West Papua, Papuan People that are based on Law No. 21 Year 2001 on Special Autonomy for Papua Province, as amended by Law No. 35 of 2008, is part of the indigenous peoples in the world , which also has the right to self-determination.
"The entire process towards self-determination that should be responded positively by all parties, including the Indonesian government under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and local governments in Papua."
"Certainly the mechanisms of international law and the principles of democracy and human rights are universal can be applied to the occasion with a just and right, and under the supervision of the United Nations as well," added Warinussy.
In line with Warinussy, according Wakum Dorus, one human rights activists in Papua, WPNCL applications received by the MSG shows that nasiba menentunan own right opportunity for West Papua will be more wide open.
"We believe and trust, now West Papua issue would be submitted to the UN for further discussion. This one diplomatic progress Papuan people, and should be supported, "he concluded.
Oktovianus POGAU
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