Protester arrested outside Indonesian Embassy held in custody overnight for fine-only offences

Protestors lie on the road covered in white sheets stained with red dye, at the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra.

Photo: Protesters blocked the road outside the Indonesian Embassy. (Facebook: Free West Papua Campaign Australia)

A protester arrested outside the Indonesian Embassy has been fined and released from police custody after being held for almost 24 hours, under what his defence lawyer has described as unusual circumstances.

Adrian ‘AJ’ Van Tonder, 25, was arrested on Friday morning at the rally in Canberra, where he and his fellow protesters lay in the embassy driveway covered in sheets and fake blood.

Van Tonder, a Melbourne student, was with about 30 people protesting alleged human rights abuses by the Indonesian Government in West Papua.

The group blocked vehicles from entering and exiting by lying across the driveway.

Protestors wave flags and signs outside the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra.

Photo: Protesters travelled from Melbourne to take part in the rally. (Facebook: Lewis Prai Wellip)

This morning Van Tonder pleaded guilty in the ACT Magistrates Court to obstructing the embassy, refusing to provide a name and address and failing to comply with an order to move on.

He was fined $750 and released.

The combined offences carry a maximum penalty of up to $3,800.

The court heard the other protesters gave their details when asked by police to move on, but Van Tonder remained silent.

Van Tonder’s defence said being held in custody overnight on offences that carry fine-only punishments was “not something that would normally happen” and it was not clear why it had.

Magistrate Robert Cook told Van Tonder the right to protest peacefully should be protected.

“You should engage in it and that’s your right,” he said.

But he warned against ignoring police instructions.

“Ultimately then you leave police with no choice than to remove you physically,” he said.

Claims police trying to appease Indonesian Government

A group of fellow protesters supported Van Tonder in court.

Outside, they said his time in custody was unfair and stressful.

“The last 24 hours have been horrible,” Kiah Dennersterin said.

The protesters claim police are being pressured by Indonesia to arrest activists like themselves.

“Police are trying to appease the Indonesian Government and show they’re being strong against West Papuan activists,” another protester Rebecca Langley said.

“Recently there’s been a bit of tension between Indonesia and Australia regarding their military cooperation and it means eyes are on.”

Member of the West Papuan community Ronny Kareni said the arrest would not silence their message to free West Papua.

“It’s evident that the Australian Government is bowing down to Indonesia’s pressure,” he said.

“[The arrest] will only create more fire and fuel more support from people in the streets.”

The group said they travelled to Canberra from Melbourne to take part in this protest and Invasion Day protests.

ACT Policing was contacted for comment.

January 28, 2017 0

Pemerintah Diminta Desak Australia Tangkap Pelaku Pengibar Bendera OPM

JAKARTA – Sindonews – Pemerintah Indonesia diminta untuk mendesak pemerintah Australia untuk menemukan dan menangkap pelaku pengibaran bendera Bintang Kejora di Konsulat Jenderal Indonesa di Melbourne. Permintaan itu disampaikan oleh anggota Komisi I DPR saat melakukan rapat kerja dengan Menteri Luar Negeri Retno Marsudi dan sejumlah Menteri lainnya.

Ditemui pasca pertemuan tersebut, Retno mengatakan permintaan ini muncul karena pihak Komisi I merasa bingung dengan pemerintah Australia yang masih belum bisa menemukan pelaku penerobos dan pengibaran bendera bintang kejora di KJRI. Padahal, wajah dan nama pelaku sudah diketahui.

“Pertanyaannya kenapa sampai saat ini belum bisa ditangkap. Waktunya sudah 20 hari. Oleh karena itu Komisi I meminta pemerinah mendesak kembali pemerintah Australia segera selesaikan kasus tersebut dan bawa ke ranah hukum,” kata Retno, Jakarta, (26/1/2017).

Retno kemudian mengatakan Australia adalah salah satu rekan penting sekaligus negara tetangga Indonesia. Oleh karena itu, ia harap prinsip saling menghormati bisa dipraktikan oleh Australia.

“Dalam hubungan bilateral, kita bicara mengenai hubungan bulat secara menyeluruh. Kita tahu Australia mitra penting Indonesia. Saya kira sebagai tetangga dekat saling membutuhkan,” ucap Retno.

“Jadi kita tetangga dekat dengan intensitas hubungan yang sangat tinggi. Sejak dahulu hingga nanti akan muncul permasalahan di dalam hubungan dengan Australia. Maka isu mengenai kehormatan untuk tidak mencampuri dan menghormati teritorial dan integritas kesetaraan dan sebagainya itu jelas harus sudah dilakukan kedua negara. Selain itu kedua negara sudah punya dasar yang kuat (Lombok Treaty) yang seharusnya dijadikan pijakan bagi kedua negara dalam menjalin hubungan ke depan,” tukasnya.

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January 28, 2017 0

Australian unions pledge support for West Papua

The s has renewed a memorandum of understanding with the Federal Republic of West Papua (FRWP), pledging support for the cause of West Papuan self-determination.

The signing ceremony on 15 May was attended by members of the West Papuan community and a number of trade union leaders, including ACTU president Ged Kearney, Victorian Trades Hall secretary Luke Hilakari, Communication Workers Union Victorian branch secretaries Len Cooper and Joan Doyle and Maritime Union Victorian branch secretary Kevin Bracken.

FRWP minister for foreign affairs, immigration and trade, Jacob Rumbiak, told Red Flag that the memorandum, first signed in 2000, is being renewed because there is now greater international recognition of and support for West Papua.

The territory covers the western half of the island of New Guinea, located just north of Australia. It has been under Indonesian rule since the mid-1960s. More than 100,000 West Papuans are estimated to have been killed as a result of the occupation. The Indonesian military acts with impunity, often hand-in-glove with the operators of the Grasberg mine, the largest gold mine in the world.

“I hope that this [renewal] will in turn mean that the ACTU will petition the ALP to change its policy”, Dr Rumbiak said. The Labor Party currently supports Special Autonomy for West Papua. That path was initiated in 2001 but led nowhere. “They should change to support the right of self-determination”, he said.

The memorandum also pledges to “support the application by the United Liberation Movement (ULM) of West Papua for full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group”. The United Liberation Movement, of which the FRWP is a part, was formed in December last year to present a common voice of a number of different groups within the West Papuan liberation struggle.

The Melanesian Spearhead Group consists of Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, along with the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front of New Caledonia. If the ULM were granted membership of the Spearhead Group, it would be seen as an endorsement of West Papua’s right to self-determination.

[To find out more about the campaign for West Papuan self-determination, visit freewestpapua.org.]

SourceL https://redflag.org.au/

January 28, 2017 0

West Papuan demographics update highlights disparity

New statistics show indigenous Melanesians are not yet the minority they were thought to be in West Papua.

Indonesia’s Statistics Office has produced an ethnic breakdown of Papua region, based on the last census in 2010 which established an overall population of 3.6 million.

While the proportion of Papuan people as a percentage of the population continues to decline, this process varies widey between different regencies.

The percentage of Papuans has fallen catastrophically in some regions, particularly in urban centres, but Papuans still make up the vast majority in the Highlands.

Using the new data, Jim Elmslie of Sydney University’s West Papua Project has produced a new paper updating his previous work on Papua’s demographic transition.

He talks to Johnny Blades.

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Ni-Vanuatu march in support of West Papuan self-determination aspirations. Photo: Vanuatu government

Transcript

JIM ELMSLIE: You’ve got to handle the figures with some degree of care and you’ve got to sort of doubt the accuracy to some extent because the large area that’s there, the terrain, the fact that large areas of the Highlands, I don’t know if you’d call it a revolt, but there are certain areas that are conflicts between certain areas of the island and the state are fairly entrenched. So the figures – what you can get clearly from them is the trend and the change over time and that’s clearly continuing because of the large-scale inward migration of non-Papuan settlers drawn into the region mostly for economic opportunity, and most of that economic opportunities are on the plains.

JOHNNY BLADES: You’ve established that the Melanesians – the Papuans – their growth rate is quite a bit less than the non-Papuans.

JE: That’s what the research shows and that’s even given that the numbers are a bit rubbery. Because for them to conduct an accurate census would be damn-near impossible and the figures that we have to use, so we use them. But anecdotally as well – from talking to health experts and looking at what’s going on on the ground compared to say PNG – then yeah the birth rate clearly is lower. There’s a whole range of reasons for that. One is the infant mortality and the maternal mortality rate is very high, there are untreated diseases that cause infertility. But that’s fairly clear and it’s also clear that large numbers of migrants are coming in, the government is building new ports, there are ships that come in on a weekly basis, there’s many flights every day from other parts of Indonesia. There’s clearly the demand, and as we’re talking, they are clearing tens of thousands of acres of rainforest and putting in labour-intensive things like oil palm plantations, where the workers are being brought in from Java rather than being recruited locally.

JB: Back in 2010 you had estimated that the total population of West Papuans in West Papua, that whole Papua region, was some 48%. And now with these new BPS (Indonesian Statistics Office) figures it’s indicating that their percentage is something like 66%. Isn’t that in some ways a positive, given that in the last couple of years a lot of the discourse around the West Papuan diplomatic wrangle has been around them having become a minority in their own land?

JE: Well, when you extrapolate these figures forward, and there’s two different population growth rates, you come up with these figures of the minoritisation of the Papuan population. And that was a projection, I guess, if all else remained the same. And I think the exact figures may vary but the trend is still there. So in terms of whether that’s positive or not… I think it certainly is positive that large areas of the Highlands of West Papua are still populated very strongly by groups of indigenous Melanesian people, even if that’s not the case in the lowlands. But in means that the Papuans, certainly in the Highlands, are not on the verge of disappearing under the weight of inward migration. So yes, I think that’s a positive thing. Some people seem to feel that the general conflict in West Papua would disappear over time as the Papuan population became a minority. Well that’s obviously not going to happen. That is happening in the lowlands, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon in the Highlands, even though – I must stress again – that there’s a lot of development going on there which will bring in outsiders, bring in more military, which will always be a threat to them (Papuans).

JB: Transmigrasi is no longer an official programme, is that right? But these people are still coming in?

JE: Yeah so there’s no official transmigration, but it’s the policy, I think, of the Indonesian government because looking at the bigger picture of Indonesia and the Indonesian economy – and people talk about it growing – West Papua makes up something like 23 or 24 percent of the land mass of Indonesia and it’s got huge resources: obviously the forestry, when most of the rest of the trees of Indonesia have been cut down, so Papua is really the last place where there’s huge stands of rainforest; there’s also the mineral wealth which is possibly the richest part of the entire world – the Freeport mine is probably the biggest gold mine in the world, the biggest copper mine, it’s also the biggest economic entity in Indonesia and also the biggest taxpayer. So looking into the future, the Indonesians’ capacity to exploit the natural resources of West Papua, and with all that brings, that will be one of the factors that allow Indonesia to grow as people are predicting it to grow, and become one of the main economies in southeast Asia, and certainly bigger than Australia. Which is one of the fears, I guess, which is underlying Australian policy, that in some future when the Indonesian economy overtakes the Australian economy in size, and Indonesia becomes a more important country internationally, then that’s going to be quite a different situation than has been the case in this part of the world up until now, where the Australian economy and therefore its military resources and the rest of it were superior to the Indonesians. So a lot of that long-term growth will come out of West Papua. And if that continues, it will involve shifting more and more people down to that region.

Source: http://www.radionz.co.nz/

January 28, 2017 0

Aksi FRI-West Papua di Tidore – Maluku Utara

Dari Tidore (Maluku Utara) Juga Turut Bergerak Pada Hari Ini (Kamis/26 Januari 2017), Gelar Aksi Serentak Nasional (FRI WP).

Meski Mereka Cuman 4 Orang Tetapi Keberanian Karena Tanggung Jawab Sebagai Manusia Merdeka/Manusia Sosial Yang Ingin Bahagia.

Salam Buat Kawan-Kawan (FRI WP) Tidore !!!

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January 28, 2017 0

Tim Kerja ULMWP: ULMWP dan Indonesia Setara di MSG

JAYAPURA, SUARAPAPUA.com— United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) sebagai wadah representatif rakyat Melanesia yang mendiami provinsi Papua dan Papua Barat dan Indonesia setara dalam forum Melanesian Sperhead Group (MSG).

Hal ini disampaikan Markus Haluk, salah satu tim kerja ULMWP dalam negeri kepada suarapapua.com tidak lama ini. Menurut Haluk, sekalipun ULMWP belum menjadi anggota penuh MSG namun sesuai pertemuan para menteri luar negeri MSG di Lautoka Fiji pada Mei 2016 memustukan beberapa hal.

Kata Haluk, pada pertemuan MSG tahun 2016 lalu, para pemimpin negara di dalam MSG teah memutus hal-hal yang meyebutkan ULMWP dan Indonesia setara di forum kawan Melanesia itu.

“Jadi diputuskan bahwa pertama partisipasi resmi ULMWP dan Indonesia di seluruh rapat MSG. Kedua, ULMWP duduk setara baik ketika mengambil foto bersama Meneteri luar negeri MSG dengan mengenakan baju seragam yang sama. Ketiga, Indonesia dan ULMWP duduk berhadap-hadapan di dalam setiap ruangan pertemuan ikut terlibat dalam semua agenda umum,” ungkap Haluk menjelaskan.

Lanjut dia, “ Ke empat, ULMWP maupun Indonesia juga diberikan kesempatan yang sama uuntuk membacakan/menyampaikan pidato pada pembukaan dan penutupan pertemuan di tingkat para pejabat senior (SOM), para Menlu (FMM) dan para Leaders. Kelima, alam kegiatan resmi akomodasi Sekjen ULMWP menjadi tanggungjawab Sekretiat MSG,” paparnya.

Dikatakan, tetapi pada poin ke enam disebutkan bahwa menyangkut keanggotaan penuh untuk ULMWP maupun Indonesia diminta untuk tinggalkan ruangan dan hanya anggota tetap MSG yang mengambil keputusan.

“Keenam, hanya ketika menyangkut keanggotaan baik ULMWP maupun Indonesia diminta meninggalkan ruangan dan hanya limna anggota penuh MSG mengambil keputusan secara tertutup,” katanya.

Menurut pandangan Haluk, inilah suatu kemajuan besar yang rakyat Melanesia di West Papua capai melalui ULMWP dalam dua tahun ini setelah perjuangan panjang 55 tahun memperjuangkan hak penentuan nasib sendir.

“Dari Nakamal, Honai, Yamewa, Gamei, Kunume, Nduni yang sama dengan Rumah Melanesia kita melangkah ke berbagai kawasan lain dunia. Maka saat ini kita harus terus berdoaagar pengorbanan kita membawa harapan yang mulia semua bagi penyelamatan manusia dan alam yang sisa ini bagi anak cucu kita,” katanya.

Sementara itu, hal yang sama disampaikan Yan Christian Warinussy, direktur eksekutif LP3BH Manokwari, melalui surat elektroniknya kepada media ini mengatakan, sejak diterimanya ULMWP sebagai anggota peninjau (observer member) di dalam MSG telah memiliki posisi hukum yang kuat saat ini.

Posisi hukum yang kuat tersebut adalah bahwa ULMWP sudah menjadi salah satu anggota atau sebagai bagian dari MSG itu sendiri, sehingga pada setiap event pertemuan atau rapat-rapat organisasi tersebut, ULMWP dan juga Republik Indonesia yang diterima sebagai anggota asosiasi MSG sama akan ikut serta hadir dan duduk serta ikut terlibat dalam setiap proses pembuatan keputusan-keputusan dari MSG.

Posisi hukum ULMWP sebagai wadah yang telah memperoleh dukungan politik dari mayoritas masyarakat asli Papua melalui tuntutan memperoleh Hak Menentukan Nasib Sendiri, sesungguhnya jelas dan faktual.

“Maka seharusnya saat ini Pemerintah Indonesia dapat mempertimbangkan untuk melakukan dialog secara terbatas dengan ULMWP, demi masa depan seluruh rakyat dan tanah Papua sebagai bagian dari masyarakat adat/pribumi yang memiliki hak yang dilindungi dalam Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Deklarasi Universal tentang HAM) serta Deklarasi PBB mengenai Masyarakat Adat/Pribumi Tahun 2006,” katanya.

Pewarta: Arnold Belau

January 28, 2017 0

Indonesia criticises Australia for not arresting trespassers at its Melbourne Consulate-General

Indonesia has questioned why Australia is yet to arrest people who “trespassed” on the Indonesian Consulate-General in Melbourne and waved a West Papuan separatist flag when their faces were clearly visible in video footage of the event.

Tensions remain inflamed between the two countries after a defence fracas earlier this month following the discovery of “offensive material” – including an assignment related to West Papuan independence – at a Perth army base.

Within days of the furore a Caucasian man was filmed provocatively holding up the separatist West Papuan “Morning Star” flag, which is banned in Indonesia, on the roof of the Indonesian Consulate-General in Melbourne. Another person filmed the event.

Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi described the alleged trespass on January 6 as a “criminal act that is completely intolerable”.

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/

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Jakarta urges Pacific to recognise Palestine

Indonesia has called on Pacific island countries to immediately recognise Palestine.

The Antara news agency was reporting comments by the country’s foreign minister Retno Marsudi on Thursday.

Ms Marsudi said Indonesia always discussed Palestine’s independence in its bilateral talks with Pacific island countries and with those yet to recognise Palestine as a state.

Vanuatu recognised Palestine in 1989 soon after its Declaration of Independence in 1988.

Papua New Guinea followed in 1995.

The two countries are the only Pacific island countries listed among 137 states at the UN which recognise the State of Palestine.

Antara reports Retno Marsudi earlier said Indonesia would not backtrack on its stance of supporting Palestine.

She stressed Indonesia would continue to mobilise international pressure to achieve a two state solution to the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

The Jakarta Post reported last week Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas had asked Indonesia to rally backing for Palestine among Pacific island countries, most of which are usually supporters of Israel.

The Marshall Islands, Palau, Nauru and Micronesia were among nine countries which voted against admitting Palestine as an observer at the UN in 2012.

The Solomon Islands and Tuvalu voted in favour, while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga abstained from voting.

Source: http://www.radionz.co.nz/

January 28, 2017 0

West Papuans not yet a minority in homeland

New statistics on the ethnic composition of Indonesia’s Papua region indicate that the indigenous West Papuans are not yet the minority there.

This is despite research following the 2010 national census which extrapolated that Papuans made up around 48 percent of the entire population as the growth of the non-Papuan population soared.

The Indonesian Statistics Office has recently produced an ethnic breakdown of the 40 regencies which make up the provinces of Papua and West Papua, based on the 2010 census.

The stats show that of Papua region’s total population of 3.6 million, around 66 percent is made up of Papuans.

But the percentage of Papuans as a proportion of the population has fallen catastrophically in some regions, particularly around urban centres.

The convenor of the West Papua project at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University, Jim Elmslie, said this pattern hadn’t really happened in the Highlands where Papuans still make up the vast majority.

“Even though there’s huge developments all across the country that will threaten them, and bring in more settlers and bring in development. And all of those things are drivers of conflict, both between the state – in the form of the police and the military – and Papuan nationalists; and also within areas where there are populations (of Papuans and non-Papuans) who are in effect competing for land.”

Dr Elmslie said it could be considered a positive for the indigenous Melanesians of this vast region that in the Highlands especially, they are “not on the verge of disappearing under the weight of inward migration”.

“Some people seem to feel that the general conflict in West Papua would disappear over time as the Papuan population became a minority. Well that’s obviously not going to happen. That is happening in the lowlands, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon in the Highlands.”

The regencies where the non-Papuan population is concentrated tend to be the centres of power and the richest areas where access to health and education services is best.

Furthermore, the population growth rate of non-Papuans in Papua region is significantly higher than that of Papuans, and based on this trend, the minoritisation of the Papuan population will continue.

Dr Elmslie’s new paper confirms that the proportion of Papuan people as a percentage of the entire population continues to decline, which his previous research since 2006 already found.

Source: http://www.radionz.co.nz/

January 28, 2017 0

West Papua Problem Will Only be Solved in Melanesian Way, by Melanesian Leaders

West Papua Liberation Army (WPRA) Secretary-General, towards the end term of his office before the secretariat-general office is being ended by its Commander in Chief, Gen. WPRA Mathias Wenda, made a public statement last night that “West Papua Problem Will Only be Solved in Melanesian Way, by Melanesian leaders“, in reply to written questions sent by PMNews (Free West Papua News at papuapost.com via Email and Mobile Text Message.

PMNews: Hello, this is from PMNews again, we would like to ask some questions in relation to current development of West Papua independence campaign. It was reported recently that the Solomon Islands Prime Minister as the Chair of Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has toured and met other Melanesian leaders, except the PNG Prime Minister. What do you make out of this development?

WPRA: We thank to God, Almighty, creator of our Melanesian Islands, particularly the home of Melanesians, the Isle of New Guinea, and to our Melnaesian leaders, who are already standing up for their own people and our common identity as Melanesians.

About the current progress of MSG Chair meeting other MSG leaders, we are really grateful that this is happening. About MSG Chair not yet met PNG Premier, please PMNews,do not worry about this. This is exactly we call “The Melaensian Way”. The most obvious feature of the “Melanesian Way” is: UNPREDICTABLE. Please not it, Melanesians are unpredictable, what we do always unpredictable. When Barack Obama, Donal Trump, T. May, Joko Widodo say something, then most of us will be able to predict what they mean and what they imply at the same time. But when Melanesian peoples say something, they can mean something totally different, it is just unpredictable.

PMNews: United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) was promised to be accepted as Full Member of the MSG by early 2017, but this did not happen. Do you think this is also related to “The Melanesian Way”?

WPRA: You are absolutely right. You got it now. That is exactly why I said, we are Melanesians, and we are unpredictable.What we do is the same as the modern world do things. Melanesians are Melanesians. West Papua Issue is now Melanesian Issue, and we are now already dealing with it. Do not do things in Melanesia according to the Western mindset. It will have a counter-productive outcome.

PMNews: Does it mean Melanesian leaders can make promises but then it is OK if they do not deliver?

WPRA: You were already good in previous question, but now you got it wrong in this question. PLEASE: Do not focus on semi-membership and full-membership. That is western mind. Please focus on “membership”. Full stop. ULMWP is ALREADY a member of the MSG, full stop.

Be thankful, work on it, cultivate and nurture communication and collaboration with Melanesian leaders, our own leaders. Do not treat PNG Premier and Solomon Premier as different peoples. They are just one: Melanesian leaders.

West Papua just born into Melanesian family, a new born baby. Do not ask for food yet, milk first. Work first, cultivate first, nurture first, then things will evolve automatically and naturally. We are not talking about other peoples. We are talking about our own Melanesia and Melanesians. Think in Melanesian Way, Act in Melanesian Way.

PMNews: Elaborate more on the “Melaensian Way” that you are talking about.

WPRA: Just one short story. If you want a girl from another clan, what do you normally do? You must behave, you must show yourself capable man, know how to build house, make garden, and be a man, a husband. If your thinking and behavior is like a small kids, no woman will be willing to marry you, no clan will approve you to get their daughter.

You do not need to go around, you do not need to go to their men’s houses and put notice and distribute leaflets asking for support for your marriage with the girl. You do not need to ask other boys to join you in your demonstration. That will make the whole thing counter-productive, right?

What you should do is “behave”, do things that Melanesian peoples do in order to get attention, and in order to get support!

When we Melanesians live long time in the west, then we forget our own Melanesian Way. This is why we say we are Melanesians, but we do in western way. “Our Voice is like that of Jacob’s, but our skin feels like that of Esau’s”. What a game we are into now.

Get out from there. Be Melanesians, do things in Melanesian Way.

Everything is already on the right track. Nothing to worry about. Just TRUST….

Trust in God and His miracles;
Trust in Melanesia and Melanesian leaders’ wisdom
Trust in Yourselves as Melanesians in West Papua.

And then…

As far as possible, avoid to trust opinion from Non-Melanesian(s), because they have their own interests and we do not want them to change our course into their course;
As far as possible, DELETE doubt in yourself, and in your own Melanesian peoples, because that is the deadliest disease that we can have in order to destroy us Melanesians and our future; and
Only then, you can have the capability to absorb and comprehend ideas and suggestions from outside Melanesia, and then you can properly make use of things coming from outside.

PMNews: Your advice is not really easy, because we are in a globalised world, out West Papuan leaders now live in the West and we do not know what things they are getting from there and what things they want to use to Free West Papua.

WPRA: The right Melanesian leaders from West Papua will choose to live in one of Melanesian states, just like what Any Ayamiseba and The Late Dr. OPM John Otto Ondawame did. If they choose to live in the western countries, we will surely know that they dot not FULLY represent West Papuans, but they PARTLY represent non-Melanesians as well.

PMNwes: Any advice for Melanesian youths in West Papua and all over Indonesia?

WPRA: Not now, nothing to say for them right now.

Since 2004, WPRA has already been active in building bases for Free West Papua Campaign across Melanesian states. Since 2006, or ten years ago, we already have moved the Field of West Papua Political Match from Western New Guinea to Eastern New Guinea. Therefore, the match now is happening in PNG, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Kanaky and Vanuatu, not in West Papua or Indonesia anymore.

There is no comment for spectators. When there is a match, people normally give comments on the match, not on the spectators. Thank you.

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