Wednesday, September 26, 2018

1) Vanuatu's move and ULMWP at the UN General Assembly session


2) Yahukimo, the entrance of gold miners to Pegunungan Bintang Province
3) Indonesia, Australia hold bilateral meeting during UN General Assembly



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1) Vanuatu's move and ULMWP at the UN General Assembly session
Tabloid JUBI reports
UN Headquarters, New York, United States, this time has a special meaning for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) who is a member of the Vanuatu official delegation.
The annual meeting which was opened on Tuesday (11/9) by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterez and attended by various world leaders, was only attended by the ULMWP envoy who joined Vanuatu's state delegation on Monday (8/24). Representatives of ULMWP in the Vanuatu delegation included Benny Wenda (as executive chairman of ULMWP), Rex Rumakiek (secretary) and Jennifer Robinson, a British international lawyer who was incorporated in the International Lawyers for West Papua (ILWP).
"We are grateful because this time ULMWP can officially join the Vanuatu delegation. This is all due to the hard work, prayers and struggles of all the people and the Papuan fighters in the country and everywhere who are waiting for liberation from the oppression of Indonesian colonialism," said Benny Wenda accompanied by Rex Rumakiek after the Vanuatu delegation consisting of Charlot Salwai (Prime Minister), Ralph Regenvanu (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Odo Tevi (Vanuatu ambassador to the United Nations) attended the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly this year. According to Wenda, the ULMWP representative had previously specifically met with Odo Tevi, Ambassador Vanutu to the United Nations to discuss and prepare strategic matters that would be presented at the UN General Assembly this time as well as in the context of political lobbying. "The Ambassador of Vanuatu is very welcoming of our meeting. He hopes that the Papuan people and all components of the Papuan liberation struggle must unite. Because unity towards the ideals of national liberation is the main key," explained Wenda, who currently lives in Oxford, England, because of asylum. political.
Meanwhile, Rex Rumakiek, the ULMWP secretary who had arrived in New York from Australia the day before to attend the General Session, invited all components of the Papuan people to unite in support of the ULMWP as a platform for the struggle that Vanuatu has now recognized.
"The Papuan people and all components of the Papuan fighters no longer repeat the history of the divisions that have been made by the senior senior fighters. Let us together support Vanuatu's move to bring our problems to the United Nations," said Rumakiek who is also a senior Papuan fighter who now lives. in Australia.
Referring to the petition about the referendum which was signed by 1.8 million people of the West Papua people and had become a controversy because it was denied directly by Rafael Ramirez, as chairman of the UN Special Decolonization Commission (C-24) in September 2017, Rumakiek explained this actually it has become one of the written efforts that the Papuan people have shown an attitude of wanting to be free from Indonesian colonialism.
"Although the petition itself is not a valid mechanism in decision making at the UN, the struggle and attitude reflected in the presence of the petition needs to be appreciated as evidence that Papuans want independence," Rumakiek said in the ULMWP forum representing the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation group. (WPNCL).
He added that not only because of the controversy over the petition, making the people and components of the West Papua struggle fragmented. Rumakikek advised that the unity that had been formed in the ULMWP and now progressing because it was supported by Vanuatu along with a number of South Pacific countries needed to be supported by all components of the Papuan people at home and abroad.
Vanuatu, according to its state protocol, has included several names to be part of their delegation team to guard the struggle for West Papuan self-determination in the 73rd UN General Assembly in 2018 such as; Jacob Rumbiak (spokesman for ULMWP), Melinda Janki (chairman of the International Lawyers for West Papua / ILWP) and Laura Lini as Vanuatu's envoy for West Papua and a daughter of the South Pacific figure, Walter Lini.
However, due to failure, some of these names have not been able to join Vanuatu's official delegation to attend the 73rd UN General Assembly in 2018 at the UN General Headquarters in New York
Vanutu, as an archipelago in the South Pacific, has for three decades been a strong supporter of West Papua's political struggle for independence from the Indonesian occupation. A small country located in the east of Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji and south of the Solomon Islands, regularly continues to fight for ULMWP membership status in the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) group but fight for the right of self-determination for the people of West Papua in regional Pacific Island Forum (PIF) to the UN level.








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2) Yahukimo, the entrance of gold miners to Pegunungan Bintang Province

Published 20 hours ago on 26 September 2018 By admin



Yahukimo community with six tribal chiefs came to Yahukimo Local Parliament (DRPD) Office asking for the determination of illegal mining – Jubi doc


Jayapura, Jubi – Yahukimo Regent Abock Busup said that Dekai City, the capital of Yahukimo District, is one of the entrances for miners to get to the mining site in Kawe Village, Awimbon Sub-district of Pegunungan Bintang District, Papua Province.
“The local government of Pegunungan Bintang allows the mining activity in Kawe Village. However, those miners come through Dekai,” said Busup in Jayapura last week.

According to him, the access from Dekai to Kawe Village can be reached in about twenty minutes by land transport and aeroplane. This easy access has made the miners from other regions in Papua or even from outside of Papua tends to choose Dekai as the entry point to the mine site.
“The migrant miners fly to Dekai before continuing their journey to Kawe Village by land transport,” he said.
However, the gold mine is not only existed in Pegunungan Bintang, but also in Yahukimo District, which forced an indigenous group joined in IS-UKAM (The Association of Una, Kopkaka, Arumtap, Arupkor, Mamkot and Momuna tribes) who urge the determination of mining activities in this area.
The Secretary of IS-UKAM Timeus Aruman said the mining companies in this area are suspected to bringing in many workers from other islands of Indonesia, namely Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Meanwhile, the Chief of Una-Ukam Tribe Yakobus Kisamlu similarly said his community has refused the illegal mining and stated that two gold minings in Kawe Village of Awimbon Sub-district of Pegunungan Bintang District and Yahowimo Village of Suntamon Sub-district are prohibited, and UKAM community as the owner of land rights reject the mining companies.
The Determination of People’s Mine Site
Abock Busup also said that he was trying to close the people’s mine site in his region. However, he further said the closure of this mine site needs further study and analysis. The government also needs to listen to suggestions and inputs from many stakeholders to find out the benefits and drawbacks of a gold mine site in this area.
‘If there is a dispute or victims, who will be responsible? So, this needs to be reviewed, a prior study before establishing a regulation to address these problems,” he said.
The local parliament, according to him, has formed a Special Committee (Pansus) and sent a letter asking the owners of five helicopters that had been carrying the miners into the mining area to stop the operations of their helicopters.
“On 17 September 2018, we have sent a letter to ask the helicopters to keep staying in Yahukimo,” he said.
It’s to avoid conflict because the local community might suspect the helicopters are used to transport people to the mining location. “If there is a conflict, people will accuse it as human rights violations, or they will accuse the government of not paying attention and many other reasons even though the government was already strict,” he said.
The location of people’s mine site in Yahukimo, he said, is in Seredala Sub-district. It takes 30 minutes by land from Dekai, the capital of Yahukimo District. “Indeed, up to now the (mining) activities continue to run, but they have been reduced,” he said.
Meanwhile, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe recently also stated that he refused illegal mining in Papua because it damages the nature of Papua. “From now on there will be no illegal activities in Papua because Papua is now under the supervision of the United Nations (UN),” said Enembe.
Moreover, the governor said the Papuan People’s Assembly (MRP) keeps a letter from the UN to protect the forests and land of Papua. “The point is that there should be no illegal activities including illegal fishing, illegal logging and illegal mining as well. All those activities should be banned on Papua’s land,” he said. (*)
 
Reporter: Arjuna Pademme
Editor: Pipit Maizier
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3) Indonesia, Australia hold bilateral meeting during UN General Assembly

Reporter:   15 hours ago

New York, (ANTARA News) - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi held a bilateral meeting with her Australian counterpart Marise Payne on the sidelines of the 73rd UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

The opportunity was the first time for Foreign Minister Retno to meet Marise Payne in her new position as Australian Foreign Minister replacing Julie Bishop.

Previously Foreign Minister Retno had known Payne well when the latter served as Australia's defense minister.

"This is an asset for me to continue the good collaboration that I have done with Julie Bishop and now with Maurice Payne," Retno said.

In the bilateral meeting the two ministers discussed, among others, the results of the visit of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to Indonesia last month including the issue of Australia-Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).

In addition, they also discussed about Indonesia's invitation for Australia to attend the Our Ocean Conference which will be held in Bali in October.

In general, no bilateral issues were discussed in depth, because the meeting symbolically symbolized a new partnership because Payne currently holds a portfolio as Australia's foreign minister, Retno said.

"I also thank Australia for working well with Indonesia, helping Indonesia in the collaboration of the Pacific Islands Forum and Australia always consistently emphasizes respect for Indonesia`s territorial integrity," Retno said.

Reporting by Aditya Eko Sigit Wicaksono
Editing by Othniel Tamindael, Fardah 
Editor: Sri Haryati

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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Polish globe-trotter blunders into Indonesia-Papua conflict


Polish globe-trotter blunders into Indonesia-Papua conflict

By Stephen Wright | AP September 24 at 10:18 PM
JAKARTA, Indonesia — To the Indonesian government, the 39-year-old factory worker and globe-trotting Polish traveler is a danger to the state, a man who plotted with shadowy gunmen to foment revolt in isolated eastern jungles.





In this undated photo released by Papua representative office of the National Human Rights Commission, Polish national Jakub Skrzypski, left, who is detained and charged with treason on accusation of assisting Papuan independence supporters and separatist fighters talks with the head of Papua Representative Office of the National Human Rights Commission Frits Ramandey, right, at his detention house at the regional police headquarters in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia. Skrzypski was arrested in Wamena in Papua province in late August along with four Papuans that police said had ammunition and described as linked to “armed criminal groups,” authorities’ usual description of Papuan independence fighters. The 39-year-old factory worker faces up to 20 years in prison if he’s found guilty. (Papua Representative Office of the National Human Rights Commission via AP) (Associated Press)


But to his supporters, Jakub Skrzypski is just an idealistic tourist with no money to his name, a man with an oddball combination of sympathies for right-wing and liberation causes. Even Indonesian police say it’s unlikely Skrzypski could have arranged the arms deal they say he promised to make with rebels.
But Skrzypski, who is charged with treason, still faces up to 20 years in prison if he’s found guilty. His detention was extended by 40 days on Sept. 17 as police prepare their case against him.
He was arrested in Wamena in Papua province in late August along with four Papuans who police said had ammunition and described as linked to “armed criminal groups” — the authorities’ usual description of Papuan independence fighters.

“The true jungle is in Papua, and I’ve been there, among lizards, mosquitoes, leeches” and other stuff, Skrzypski wrote on Facebook while on the second of back-to-back trips to the region in July and August.
The case highlights Indonesia’s extreme sensitivity about the low-level but long-running insurgency in the Papua region, which occupies the western half of the island of New Guinea. Though most nations recognize Indonesia’s sovereignty over the territory, the Papuan independence movement has vocal sympathizers in numerous Pacific island and Western countries.


Indonesia annexed the Dutch-controlled half of the island in 1963 when the Netherlands was preparing indigenous Papuans for self-rule. Decades later, though, large areas of the mountainous jungle territory still remain outside of Jakarta’s control. Police and military personnel are frequently attacked and killed by rebels, while Indonesian security forces have been accused of dozens of unlawful killings in the past decade, including targeted slayings of political activists.
Police say Skrzypski had been in contact for a “long time” with Papuan independence supporters and separatist fighters. They say he planned to publicize their cause on social media and promised to help supply them with weapons.
“We have strong evidence that he was guilty in helping the armed criminal group in Papua,” said the province’s police chief, Martuani Sormin. “No one should disturb the integrity of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia, whether he is a foreigner or local. Anyone who violates the law in this country must be dealt with.”


But evidence of an actual plot against the Indonesian state appears flimsy.
Photos police cited of Skrzypski with guns were taken at a recreational shooting range in Switzerland, where he has lived since 2008, said his Indonesian lawyer, Latifah Anum Siregar, and a Polish friend, Artur Sobiela.
Siregar said Skrzypski denies any wrongdoing. The case against him is “very weak,” she said.
Civil society organizations have also protested his arrest and the arrest several days later of a 29-year-old Papuan student, Simon Magal, who met Skrzypski and communicated with him on Facebook.
“While Mr. Skrzypski’s choices may have been irresponsible and regrettable, his circumstances appear those of an idealistic and naive traveler and not one of a criminal,” the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network and London-based rights group Tapol said in a joint statement.


They said Magal’s arrest was excessive and he’d “simply been dragged in by the actions of Mr. Skrzypski.”
National police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said Skrzypski had unfettered access to an “armed criminal group” in Papua that had designated a liaison to meet and escort him on his trips to the region.
Skrzypski encouraged the group to fight against the Indonesian government and also promised weapons, but even Prasetyo acknowledged it was “very unlikely” he could do that.
“We consider this case to be quite serious because it involves a foreign national,” he said.
Two friends said Skrzypski, a long-term resident of Switzerland, where he moved for economic opportunities, is an avid traveler who’s fascinated by other cultures. In one online profile, he lists about 50 countries he’s visited.
Skrzypski’s Facebook page indicates he supports right-wing European nationalist movements and is also interested in ethnic groups that have faced state persecution or genocide, including Armenians and Kurds.

In 2017, he traveled to both Armenia and the Kurdish-controlled area of Iraq. On Facebook, he follows some high-profile figures in the Papuan independence movement. Rafal Szymborski, who describes himself as the coordinator of the Free West Papua Campaign in Poland, has protested his arrest online. Szymborski didn’t respond to emailed questions.
Some of Skrzypski’s postings indicate a sympathetic interest in Julius Evola, an Italian fascist philosopher who decades after his death remains an influence on neo-fascists. He supported a “sovereign money” movement to dismantle the Swiss banking system that was defeated in a referendum this year, and also posted photos of himself wearing an ultra-nationalistic “Defend Helvetia” T-shirt that superimposes an automatic rifle over a map of Switzerland.
Artur Sobiela, a friend from Skrzypski’s hometown of Olsztyn in Poland’s northeast, said Skrzypski had traveled to Indonesia numerous times and has many friends there but “isn’t on any side of Indonesian-Papua conflict.”

He said it was “nonsense” that Skrzypski was plotting to undermine the Indonesian state.
“He hasn’t any money for supporting any political groups in any region in the world,” said Sobiela, who has known Skrzypski for nearly two decades.
“He’s working all year in Switzerland as a regular worker in a factory near Lausanne and saved part of his salary for traveling,” Sobiela said. “In Switzerland, he hasn’t house, car and other property. His only property are books, music records.”
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Associated Press writers Niniek Karmini in Jakarta and Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland, contributed to this report.
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Monday, September 24, 2018

1) 67 arrested following peaceful actions supporting Vanuatu at the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations


2) US ambassador learns so much from people in Timika
3) Saonu welcomes talks on economic ties with Papua 
4) News Feature - Optimizing sago to achieve food security

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1)  67 arrested following peaceful actions supporting Vanuatu at the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations


ULMWP
67 arrested following peaceful actions supporting Vanuatu at the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations

Action Committee REPORT 
Arrest of 67 People in Action Supporting Vanuatu and Pacific Countries Bring West Papua Problems to the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations 
On this day, Monday 24 September 2018 arrests of Papuans who are carrying out support actions for Vanuatu and Pacific countries to bring the West Papua issue to the United Nations General Assembly.
Arrests carried out by the Indonesian National Police who were fully armed.
We report the following Arrests that occurred at three different gathering points:

Chronology

Waena Expo Taxi Round
At 08.30 Papuan Time (WP) Mass Action had gathered at the gathering point. While the Police are on standby. At 09.22, Mass Action performed speeches at the venue. Then the police went to the mob. The Field Coordinator negotiates with the police.
At 10.02 WP, the Police Arrested the Mass of Action and took them to the Jayapura Police Station.
Jayapura Science and Technology University Campus Page (USTJ)
At 10.30 WP, students gather on the campus yard while giving speeches.
At 11:45 WP, Indonesian Police entered the USTJ Campus page and Arrested Students. Then the table was taken to the Jayapura Resort Police Station.
Abepura, Depan Merpati
At 11:10 WP, Mass Action gathered at Jalan Biak, in front of SMA Negeri 1 Jayapura. And start the long March to the front of the Abepura Post Office.
At 11:20 WP, Mass Action arrived in front of the Abepura Post Office and began to make speeches.
At 11:34 p.m. WP, the police went to the mob and immediately arrested them.
Beating
The police beat a student named: Petrus Kosamah, Student of Jayapura Science and Technology University (USTJ), Semester III, Civil Engineering Department. The beating was carried out on the USTJ Campus page using a rattan in the right eye.

Full report at 
https://www.ulmwp.org/arrest-of-67-people-after-peaceful-actions-supporting-vanuatu-at-the-73rd-general-assembly-of-the-united-nations


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2) US ambassador learns so much from people in Timika

Reporter:   3 hours ago
Timika, Papua (ANTARA News) - The United States Ambassador to Indonesia, Joseph R. Donovan Jr., has stated that he learned a lot through the conditions he encountered in Timika and Tembagapura sub-districts during his working visit to Mimika District, Papua Province, from September 21-24, he said here on Monday.

During his four-day visit, Donovan met the Amungme and Kamoro community leaders. They are two tribes in Papua, which own the customary rights of lands in Timika.

He also met officials from the Indonesian Armed Forced (TNI) and the National Police.

In addition, Donovan also visited several places, namely, a reclamation center of PT, Freeport Indonesia at mile 21 and the Freeport employee training center in Kuala Kencana.

The ambassador also met the Freeport Indonesia employees from the United States in Tembagapura and visited Mitra Masyarakat Hospital owned by Amungme and Kamoro People`s Development Institutions.

"I witnessed PT Freeport Indonesia`s operations directly in Timika and Tembagapura sub-districts along with their complexity," Donovan said.

When meeting US Freeport employees in Tembagapura on Sunday (September 23), Donovan said Americans appreciated their interaction with the Indonesian people, especially with the indigenous Papuans who worked with them at Freeport.

According to the US workers, Papuan people really respect and appreciate foreigners.

Donovan said such conditions could be found across all American companies operating in Indonesia, where American workers have a close relationship with the local people. The social relationship is established through various activities such as training and education programs.

"For example, in Tembagapura, Freeport provides 10 thousand scholarships for Papuan students to continue their studies in Indonesia and other countries," he said.


Reporting by Jeremias Rahadat
Editing by Libertina
Editor: Otniel Tamindael



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3) Saonu welcomes talks on economic ties with Papua 

By EREBIRI ZURENUOC
September 24, 2018The National
MOROBE Governor Ginson Saonu has welcomed discussions on possible economic and trade partnerships with the Papua province of Indonesia.
In a visit to Lae on Thursday, Governor of Papua Lukas Enembe said he was looking at expanding economic cooperation between the two provinces, especially within the Mamose region.
“I have been entrusted by the Central Government (of Indonesia) to strengthen relations within the region,” he said.
“I hope that the region will give me the support to make this plan happen. Morobe and other provinces in the Mamose are closer to Jayapura.
“That is why we need to have connectivity, particularly through shipping and airline services.”

Enembe said in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Cooperation (Asean), Indonesia was behind other countries,
“Thailand and the Philippines are better than Indonesia, especially in trade,” he said.
“That is why we need cooperation with the Pacific region to make a significant progress. The main game for us in the Pacific region is PNG.” Enembe said other aspect of cooperation included sports such as rugby, and the possibility of importing 20,000 head of cattle from Morobe in 2020 during a national sporting event.
Saonu said he was happy that Enembe has mentioned opening direct air access and flight routes from Lae to Jakarta leading on to Singapore and other international destinations.
“I give my commitment to facilitate for the economic and tourism development opportunities both at the provincial and national level,” Saonu said.
“Morobe will provide support for you. I request for cooperation in education and language.
“I want to work with you to provide opportunities for our students to improve their education. Let us assist each other with education scholarships.
“Because of our mutual interest, it is better to close the language barrier.
“I am willing to supply you English teachers and learning materials and in exchange you supply me with Bahasa (Indonesia) teachers and learning materials.”
Saonu requested that a team from Morobe visit the Freeport mine in Papua.

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4) News Feature - Optimizing sago to achieve food security
Reporter:   3 hours ago

Jakarta, (ANTARA News) - Sago has been a staple food in numerous parts of Indonesia for centuries, and for its importance, sago is also known as the hidden white pearl.

Sago palm is also an important food source for the people of Papua, Maluku, and Sulawesi, in addition to tubers which are consumed based on area of living.

Besides its importance and high wild productivity, the sago has

a high content of carbohydrate that could support food security in Papua, and Indonesia in general.

When sago is developed properly to support the food security in the country, the government will not have to promote the cultivation and distribution of rice to support and feed the locals.

Hence, the National Resilience Council (Wantanas) is now making every effort to develop Papua`s natural resource potential to support the local to national food security.

When receiving the Wantanas officials at his office in Jayapura on Monday, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe remarked that the development of sago and coffee in Papua, known as the "Land of Cenderawasih," became the concern of Wantanas to improve the economic sector of the local community.

The governor noted that it was necessary to develop sago in Papua because it is a community need as a food ingredient, while coffee has a huge potential in the local economy.

However, Enembe said the development of sago and coffee in Papua needs to be accompanied by the qualified human resources in its processing.

"For this reason, assistance is needed for human resources in Papua to be able to process and develop sago and coffee in the future," the governor said.

The officials of National Resilience Council visited Papua to find out the existing natural potentials, including sago, to be developed into supporting food security for local communities, and promoting diversification of food to reduce the dependence on rice.

Promoting the diversification of food will make the public realize that they have many other staple foods, such as cassava, corn, tubers, and sago, in place of rice, to assure their food security.

Recent research indicated that when sago is grown under organized farming practices, it has a potential yield of 10-15 metric tons of dried starch per hectare per year.

This starch yield per hectare is approximately three to four times higher than that of rice, and that means sago can play an important role in promoting food security.

In addition to Papua, the people of Konawe district in the Indonesian province of Southeast Sulawesi had turned to sago as their favorite culinary delights.

In Konawe district, sago palm also provides strong economic, cultural and environmental advantages in rural areas where it is grown.

Because sago has become a favorite culinary, of course the need of this staple diet will be even greater, so the people who have sago plant land were encouraged to maintained it and do not replace it with other plants.

Sago palm can grow in swamps and wet land which are not suitable for agricultural production. It is tolerant to drought and floods. It increases farm household income and employment through the production of confectionery and cookies, roofing material from leaves and the production of woven mats and handicrafts.

The Sago worm cultured from old sego trunks is a local delicacy with high market value. Additionally it contributes to slowing the pace of global warming through its year-round carbon dioxide absorbing function.

Hence, the people should not damage the existing crops or sago forests, because it is a promising source of income amid the decrease of sago land.

Last year, the Konawe district government provided sago management equipment for the community groups in order to develop the welfare of sago plant owners.

In order for residents to process sago no longer in the traditional way, there was a kind of small-scale processing plant in the district.

The potential of local food from sago like sinonggi, can be used as a local commodity and could be a business to improve the economy of the community.

Hence, the Konawe district government is also focusing on the development of sago cultivation to save the plant from being extinct.

Sago is one of the staple foods in some districts in Southeast Sulawesi that is increasingly threatened with extinction, so public awareness needs to be raised to save the sago plant in order to remain sustainable.

Therefore, the local community has been called on to preserve sago fores in a sustainable manner because it is a food reserve for them.

Sago is the staple food of the people of Konawe since time immemorial. Even without rice, the people there can consume sago for survival.

Therefore, the local people had been encouraged to preserve sago forest, and do not destroy it for agriculture and other development interests.

Sago plants not only serve as food reserve, but also protect the water source for the life of the local community in general.

In light of this, the indigenous people of Papua, Maluku, and Sulawesi can unite to reject irresponsible parties who want to turn sago forests into oil palm plantation.

Sago can be a solution to make Indonesia self-sufficient in staple foods, because it does not require a large plot of land and is able to grow without any intensive care.

Sago has a high carbohydrate content and is easy to digest, and of better quality compared to rice.


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1) West Papua province is number one ranked for 2017 Environmental Quality Index


2) Noken system in Papua’s elections is still debated
3) Deputy Minister of Japan visits Biak Numfor
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1) West Papua province is number one ranked for 2017 Environmental Quality Index
Published 10 hours ago on 24 September 2018 By admin

Jayapura, Jubi – West Papua Province is first ranked for the Environmental Quality Index (IKLH) in 2017 at national with a percentage of 85.69 per cent, followed by West Kalimantan and Papua Province with 81.47 per cent.
The Head of Economic Affairs at the Center for Strategic Policy of the Ministry of Forestry’s Environment (KLHK), Abdul Muin said the index, which is part of KLHK strategic plans throughout 2015 – 2019, of both Papua and West Papua Provinces is still above the national average target for 2018.

“There should be an effort to maintain and increase the environmental quality index for both provinces to create a healthy environment,” Muin said in Jayapura, Tuesday (09/18/2018).
Further, he said the island of Papua is one of the world’s central attention, especially the environmentalists, due to its global tourists’ destinations. Thus, the concept of sustainable development is one of the primary keys to improving the quality of the sustainable environment. “This includes in the national action plan,” he said.
Moreover, he said even though the environment is one of the primary support of the sustainable development in addition to the economic, social and governance pillars, at the national level the index of environmental quality still underrated because its value is still unstable (changes all the time).
“This should not be a concern of the ministry of environment, but all stakeholders, both legislative and executive bodies, need to be involved as well as mandated in Act 23 of 2014 concerning the regional governance,” he said.
Separately, the Assistant of People’s Economy and Welfare Noak Kapissa said Papua Provincial Government have a strong commitment to restricting the impact of the greenhouse gas emissions through coordination with government and non-government institutions at regional and international levels.
Moreover, he said, Papua Provincial Government, through the Governor’s Decree Number 105/2015, already formed the Papua Low Carbon Development Task Force (PLCD-TF), which actively involved in the climate change issues in the land of Papua. (*)
 
Reporter: Alex Loen
Editor: Pipiet Maizier 

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2) Noken system in Papua’s elections is still debated
Published 10 hours ago on 24 September 2018 By admin
Jayapura, Jubi – The Constitutional Court (MK) has acknowledged and endorsed the Noken System in the elections in accordance with the Decree of the Constitutional Court Number: 47-48 / PHPU.A-VI / 2009 and the article 18B paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution.
However, this system is still considered to cause some conflicts among local communities because it forces many candidates to think and work hard to get sympathy from people living in such areas applied to this system.
Although the Papua General Election Commission (KPU) has issued the technical guidelines in 2013 regulating the use of noken instead of the ballot box in the election, Metusalak Ifandi, the Chairman of Papua Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), admits the noken system is still a potential source of conflicts in the local election in Papua.
“The implementation in the field is totally different from the technical guidelines. This should be addressed by KPU. Of course, there needs a coordination between KPU and Bawaslu regarding the technical implementation including the regulations because we only refer to their guidelines,” he answered Jubi on Tuesday (9/18/2018) in Jayapura.

Multi-interpretation and the need of review
The noken system is considered valid if the noken is hung on the wood located in the polling station. Voters must come to the location and should not be represented by others to put the ballot into the noken. After the voting, the ballots must be counted on location but still need to be punched (to authorize), not like the voting process in other regions where the noken system is not applied, voters punched the ballot at the same time they put it into the ballot box. That’s why, according to Papua Bawaslu, the noken system often leads to misinterpretation.
“According to the Constitutional Court, the use of the noken system to substitute the ballot box is to respect the tradition of the local community,” said Metusalak.
Meanwhile, Theodorus Kossay, the Chairman of KPU Papua, said KPU Papua considers three aspects towards the application of the noken system, namely reviewing this system with academics, establishing the standard operating procedures and stimulating the use of this system.
“These three aspects were carried out to give weight to the implementation of the noken system and provide education to the people living in 14 districts that use the noken system,” he said. (*)

Reporter: Roy Ratumakin
Editor : Pipiet Maizier




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3) Deputy Minister of Japan visits Biak Numfor
Reporter:   4 hours ago

Biak, Papua  (ANTARA News) - Deputy Minister of Japan Masahisa Sato visited Biak Numfor, Papua Province, on Monday, to strengthen cooperation with the Indonesian Government.

The Japanese official was pleased to be able to visit Biak Numfor District for the first time.

He said Biak is a special place for Japan, as some fallen Japanese soldiers had been buried there during World War II.

"I hope this working visit to Biak Numfor District would intensify bilateral ties with the Indonesian Government, in general, and with Papua Province as well as Biak Numfor, in particular," Sato stated.

Acting Biak Numfor Regent Herry Ario Naap greeted the Japanese deputy minister and expressed hope for closer bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

Biak had helped return the remains of fallen Japanese soldiers, he noted.

He called for cooperation between Biak and Japan in the fields of education, aviation, fishery, and tourism, among others.

During the visit to Biak, Sato was accompanied by Director of second South East Asia Division Shingo Myamoto and Secretary of the State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Isao Tezuka

Several diplomats of the Japanese embassy in Jakarta who were also part of the visit included Deputy Chief of Mission Keiichi Ono, First Secretary (economy) Daisuke Inoue, and Second Secretary (politics) Katnonori Tsunoda.

The Indonesian foreign ministry`s officials accompanying Sato were Diplomatic Security Director Teguh Wardoyo, Yosep Tutu, and Veronika Vonny, among others.

 (T.SYS/B/KR-BSR/C/S022) 24-09-2018 11:32:00 
Editor: Andi Abdussalam
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