Demo pakai atribut OPM, mahasiswa Papua disemprot water cannon

Merdeka.com – Sejumlah massa mengatasnamakan Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua bersama Front Rakyat Indonesia Untuk West Papua menggelar aksi unjuk rasa di Jakarta. Mereka menuntut pemerintah Indonesia untuk menggelar referendum di seluruh wilayah Papua.

Pantauan merdeka.com, Kamis (1/12), aksi tersebut dimulai sekitar pukul 09.30 WIB. Mereka menuntut untuk diberikan kebebasan dan penentuan hak nasib sendiri sebagai solusi demokratis rakyat Papua, serta meminta agar TNI/Polri ditarik dari Papua.

Aksi ini sedianya digelar di Bundaran Hotel Indonesia, Jakarta dan dilanjutkan dengan berjalan kaki menuju Istana Negara. Namun, polisi menahan para pendemo di Jalan Imam Bonjol dan hanya boleh menyuarakan aspirasinya di sana.

Massa yang terdiri dari ratusan orang itu juga membawa atribut Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM), berupa ikat kepala bergambar Bintang Kejora. Hal itu memantik perhatian polisi, sehingga beberapa orang yang mengenakan atribut OPM langsung dibekuk.

Kejadian itu sempat menimbulkan kericuhan, namun tak ada aksi baku pukul antara demonstran dan polisi. Meski begitu, polisi tetap menyemprotkan water cannon ke arah massa.

Saat ini, situasi sudah kembali kondusif. Massa tetap berorasi di tengah pengawalan ketat kepolisian. Beberapa pendemo yang sempat ditangkap sudah dilepaskan kembali, tapi tanpa mengenakan atribut OPM.

Reporter : Arie Basuki | Kamis, 1 Desember 2016 11:22

December 1, 2016 0

Declaration of Indonesia People’s Front for West Papua

To: Out Friends, Printed and Electronic Media

DECLARATION OF INDONESIAN PEOPLES SUPPORTING THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE PAPUAN NATION

Since Indonesia went into West Papua in 1961, the suffering of the Papuan people has been continuing under Indonesia’s colonialism. Manipulation of history was carried out sistematically by the Indonesian government. The root of the prolem in West Papua is the manipulation of history.

In 1969, an Act of Free Choice, referendum to determine whether West Papua will join Indonesia was carried out with full of lies. Therefore, the outcome of the referendum is unjustifiable.

Narrow nationalism with a jargon such as “NKRI is a final price” has killed many West Papuan peoples. Thousands has been killed, tortured, kidnapped by the state. Land grabbing has been happening everywhere. Repression against freedom of expression and conscise towards West Papuan peoples has ben on of the worst in this country.

Therefore, we the Indonesian peoples think that it is already time for West Papua to determine her future by herself on their own land.

For this purpose, we intend to encourage and invite all our media friends to broadcast our “Declaration of Indonesia People’s Front for West Papua” through this Press Conference that will be held:

Day and Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Time: 10:30 – the end
Place: Flor 1, LBH Building Jakarta
Jalan Diponegoro No. 74 Menteng, Jakarta Pusat

For further information, please contact Surya Anta (081574304391). For your attention and cooperation, we thank you.

Jakarta, 28 November 2016

Sincerely,

Front Rakyat Indonesia untuk West Papua
(FREE-WEST PAPUA)

Original text in Malayo – Indos: HERE
Translation by: PMNews CEB

November 29, 2016 0

West Papua: Australia’s Neighbour Under Siege

By Paul Gregoire | 26/11/2016 | http://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/

Indonesian police arrested 106 West Papuans praying in a park in the coastal city of Sorong in West Papua last Saturday. The group was celebrating the eighth anniversary of the West Papua Committee (KNPB): a non-violent organisation campaigning for self-determination.

Authorities said the activists were taken to the Sorong police station as they’d been calling out pro-independence slogans. After questioning, most were released, but seven were detained – accused of treason and provocation.

West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda (pictured) said it was no surprise Indonesian police targeted peaceful protesters as it’s a common occurrence in the region.

Mass arrests

“Over 4,000 West Papuan people have been unlawfully arrested this year alone just for peacefully protesting,” Mr Wenda told Sydney Criminal Lawyers. He added that the government is trying to prevent the world from finding out about “the secret genocide and illegal occupation in West Papua.”

Thousands of people were arrested in early May this year, when Indonesian security forces cracked down on rallies held across West Papua.

The protests were in support of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua – a coalition of independence movements formed in December 2014 – and their bid to gain full membership in the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

The Indonesian occupation

Since Indonesia began its occupation of the restive region 53 years ago, an estimated 500,000 local people have been killed under harsh military and police repression.

Indonesian president Joko Widodo had promised improvements in West Papua at the time of his election in July 2014. But Indonesia’s leading human rights organisation announced in May this year that human rights abuses are as rampant as they were under previous governments.

“We are kept like prisoners in our own land, unable to freely express our identity or make choices over our own future,” said Wenda, international lobbyist for the Free West Papua Campaign. He describes the Indigenous people as living in constant fear of being “the next ones to be killed.”

Transmigration

And West Papuans are fast becoming a minority in their own land. The government’s decades-old transmigration program – that resettles people from highly populated islands like Java to low-density areas – is marginalising the local people, both socially and economically.

Wenda has pointed out that in 1971 West Papuans made up 96 percent of the population, but today they only make up 49 percent of the people living in the region.

And despite claims by a government official earlier this year that the policy was stopped three years ago, this isn’t the case.

In October 2014, then Indonesian minister of villages and transmigration, Marwan Jafar, announced the government’s transmigration program would be continuing and further stated in June last year that because of its success, it would be expanding.

And it’s clear the boats are still arriving.

International recognition

However, the West Papuan campaign has been gaining traction in the international arena over recent months.

At the 71st UN General Assembly held in New York in September this year, seven Pacific Island nations called for immediate global attention to human rights abuses in West Papua.

As Wenda put it, “this signals a major turning point as it is the first time that we have had so much international support at a UN level for our struggle since the 1960s.”

And the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) could be given full membership into the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) in December this year. The MSG is an intergovernmental organisation of Melanesian states promoting economic growth.

The ULMWP has had observer status in the group since 2014, but full membership would see West Papua recognised as a political identity by foreign nations.

This prospect rattles Jakarta. Indonesia has been recognised as an associate member of MSG since June last year.

At the Indian Ocean Rim Association ministerial meeting in Bali last month, Indonesian defence minister Ryamizard Ryacudu asked Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop to caution MSG member countries against allowing the West Papua coalition membership into their group.

The defence minister warned Ms Bishop that the West Papua issue could pose a “stumbling block” to closer bilateral ties between the two nations.

The Act of NO Choice

In 1962 the New York Agreement resulted in the United Nations assuming administration of West Papua – then known as West New Guinea – after former coloniser the Netherlands left.

The agreement allowed Indonesia to assume occupation of the territory in 1963 on the proviso that a referendum was carried out to give West Papuan people a choice between remaining part of Indonesia or becoming an independent nation.

Following widespread resistance to Indonesian rule, the UN brokered Act of Free Choice referendum was held in 1969. However, the Indonesian military selected only 1,062 West Papuan representatives to vote and under threat of death, all of them voted to stay with Indonesia.

Calls for a just vote

Wenda refers to the referendum as the Act of NO Choice. And today, he’s calling for an internationally supervised vote on independence. “We have the fundamental right to self-determination that was promised to us by the UN, but stolen by Indonesia,” he outlined.

On May 3 this year, he hosted a meeting of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua at the Houses of Parliament in London. The Westminster Declaration for an internationally supervised vote for self-determination in West Papua was signed.

Those present at the meeting included the Tongan prime minister Akilisi Pōhiva and leader of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn.

The independence leader

A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Benny Wenda fled West Papua after being imprisoned by Indonesian authorities on charges he states were politically motivated because of his involvement in the independence movement. He was granted political asylum by the British government in 2003.

“As the indigenous Melanesian people in a Melanesian country our right to sovereignty is guaranteed to us,” said Wenda, who now lives in Oxford. “We call upon the world to please not forget us, but to help us in our campaign to be free people at last.”

Although the Indonesian government split West Papua into two provinces in 2002, this article refers to the whole region as West Papua, as the indigenous people do.

November 28, 2016 0

Peringati 1 Desember dengan ibadah, tidak ada ‘gerakan tambahan’

Jayapura, Jubi – Parlemen Nasional West Papua (PNWP) wilayah Lapago menolak ‘gerakan tambahan’ atau pemanfaatan ‘pihak ketiga’ dalam peringatan 1 Desember 2016 mendatang.

“Kami imbau kepada rakyat di wilayah Lapago untuk tidak terprovokasi isu-isu kibarkan bendera (bintang kejora) di wilayah Lapago. Untuk wilayah ini jangan sampai ada gerakan tambahan,” demikian pernyataan Firdaus Hilapok, sekretaris PNWP wilayah Lapago kepada Jubi, Rabu (23/11/2016) melalui sambungan telpon dari Wamena.

Menurut dia pihaknya tidak mau dibatasi dalam memperingati yang ia sebut sebagai Hari Ulang Tahun (HUT) Kemerdekaan West Papua . “Yang jelas kami tidak bisa dibatasi karena ini HUT Kemerdekaan. Tetapi kemudian kami himbaukan yang selama ini ada isu mau kibarkan bendera dan lain-lain, itu tidak benar. Kalau ada yag sebarkan isu demikian itu berarti ada pihak ketiga yang bermain,” kata dia.

Dia juga menghimbau kepada masyarakat wilayah Lapago agar melakukan peringatan 1 Desember di tempat masing-masing, di sekretariat, rumah, atau gereja. “Yang pasti tidak berbentuk demonstrasi,” ujar Hilapok.

Terpisah di Mimika, seperti dilansir salampapua.com Rabu(23/11), Kepala Satuan Reskrim (Kasatreskrim) Polres Mimika AKP Dionisius Vox Dei Paron Helan mengatakan sudah melakukan antisipasi pengamanan tak saja jelang 1 Desember tetapi juga 14 Desember.

Pertengahan November lalu, seperti dilansir Antara (14/11), Kepolisian Resor Mimika juga sudah mulai mengantisipasi berbagai kegiatan yang akan dilakukan warga pada 1 Desember dan 14 Desember mendatang.

Kapolres Mimika AKBP Victor Dean Mackbon di Timika mengatakan, jajarannya akan menggelar cipta kondisi untuk mengantisipasi adanya aksi massa pada dua tanggal tersebut.

“Setiap tanggal 1 Desember dan 14 Desember merupakan kalender kamtibmas bagi kita di Papua. Kami tetap melakukan cipta kondisi baik bersifat preventif hingga langkah yang lebih tegas, yaitu represif jika eskalasinya meningkat,” kata Victor.(*)

November 24, 2016 0

Jamin hak penentuan nasib sendiri, PBB adopsi resolusi usulan Pakistan

Duta besar Pakistan untuk PBB, Maleeha Lodhi - Dailytimes Pakistan — Duta besar Pakistan untuk PBB, Maleeha Lodhi – Dailytimes Pakistan

Jayapura, Jubi – Sebuah komite di Majelis Umum PBB, Selasa (22/11) mengadopsi resolusi usulan Pakistan yang menegaskan hak rakyat universal untuk menentukan nasib sendiri sebagai syarat fundamental bagi jaminan dan penegakan hak azasi manusia.

Resolusi yang disponsori bersama oleh 72 negara, diadopsi dengan suara bulat dalam Komite Ketiga Majelis yang menangani isu-isu sosial kemanusiaan dan kebudayaan beranggotakan 193 negara . Selain Pakistan, negara lain yang mensponsori adalah Tiongkok, Mesir, Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Malaysia dan Brazil.

Seperti dilansir Thenews Pakistan dan Daily times Pakistan, Rabu (23/11/2016), para pengamat politik percaya bahwa resolusi yang sudah diajukan Pakistan sejak tahun 1981 itu bertujuan untuk menarik perhatian dunia pada perjuangan rakyat atas haknya azasinya untuk penentuan nasib sendiri, termasuk rakyat di Kashmir dan Palestina.

Resolusi itu akan diajukan untuk mendapat dukungan Majelis Umum PBB bulan depan.

Teks resolusi itu juga menyatakan bahwa 193 negara anggota komite secara tegas menolak tindakan intervensi militer asing, agresi dan pendudukan karena telah berakibat pada penindasan hak rakyat untuk menentukan nasib sendiri serta hak-hak azasi lainnya di berbagai belahan dunia.

Resolusi itu juga menyerukan kepada negara-negara yang bertanggung jawab (atas tindakan tersebut) agar menghentikan segera intervensi militernya dan pendudukan di teritori atau negara lain, serta menghentikan segala bentuk represi, diskriminasi, eksploitasi dan tindakan tak berperikemanusiaan lainnya.

Maleeha Lodhi, Duta Besar Pakistan untuk PBB yang memaparkan rancangan resolusi itu mengatakan bahwa hak untuk menentukan nasib sendiri adalah prinsip fundamental Piagam PBB dan hukum internasional.

“Dijalankannya hak ini akan membuat jutaan rakyat diseluruh dunia sanggup bangkit dari cengkeraman pendudukan asing dan kolonial serta dominasi asing,” ujarnya. Dia juga memberi tekanan bahwa semua negara yang hadir di tempat itu adalah hasil dari warisan perjuangan tersebut sehingga dapat hidup sebagai warga negara bebas dan negara yang merdeka.

Dia mengingatkan bahwa di tahun 1952, Professor legendaris Ahmad Shah Bukhari, Wakil Permanen Pakistan di PBB pertama, pernah berbicara di hadapan Dewan Keamanan PBB terkait persoalan Tunisia.

“Apapun tindakan yang diambil Dewan Keamanan menurut kehendak mereka, silahkan saja, (tetapi) kami akan tetap mempertahankan (hak) ini tetap hidup di hati kami dan kami akan berjuang sebaik yang kami bisa,” ujar Lodhi menirukan Shah Bukhari.

Lodhi juga menegaskan dirinya merasa bangga karena sudah memelihara cita-cita tersebut tetap hidup dan sudah memberikan suara atas kehendak kebebasan di Afrika, Asia dan seluruh dunia.

Sementara itu, seperti dilansir Associated Press Pakistran (3/11), saat sidang Komite Ketiga berlangsung, delegasi India sempat membantah pernyataan Lodhi dengan menuduh perjuangan Kashmir untuk kebebasan adalah wujud terorisme. Namun delegasi Pakistan menolak keras pernyataan itu, dan menegaskan bahwa gerakan Kashmir adalah perjuangan damai untuk pembebasan dari cengkeraman India.

Awal Oktober lalu, dalam suatu dialog di samaa.tv Pakistan, Lodhi dengan tegas menyatakan bahwa agenda dekolonisasi PBB tidak lengkap tanpa resolusi untuk rakyat Kashmir dan Jammu. Dia juga merujuk pada tragedi di Palestina yang terus meningkat.

“Penolakan terhadap hak penentuan nasib sendiri rakyat Palestina adalah sebab paling mendasar konflik dan penghambat perdamaian yang abadi,” ujarnya.(*)

November 24, 2016 0

Questions Over Jakarta’s Push for Australia Messenger Role

Radio NZ – 1 November 2016

There are questions over the effectiveness of a push by Indonesia to have Australia lean on Pacific countries to not talk about West Papua.

Indonesian Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu. — Ryamizard Ryacudu Photo: SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP

Indonesia’s Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has urged Australia to rebuke Pacific states, in particular Solomon Islands, for raising Papua in global fora.

He urged Canberra to speak to Honiara on the matter because Australia contributes a big aid package in the Solomons.

Pacific leaders at the UN General Assembly expressed concern about human rights abuses in Papua. Top L to R: Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai; Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare; Tonga Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva. Bottom L to R: Nauru President Baron Waqa; Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine; Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga Photo: UN Photo

“In fact, the one thing that Pacific island countries really value is their sovereignty, so it is not as if Australia can just tell them what to do.” – Dr Stewart Firth 3′ :19″

from Dateline Pacific

A Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, Stewart Firth, said Jakarta has misinterpreted Australia’s relationship with Pacific countries.

“These are sovereign states. And in particular in the case of Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands has a right to do that [speak out about West Papua] as a sovereign country, and Australia’s not in a very good position to tell them differently”, Dr Firth said.

“The one thing that Pacific Island countries really value is their sovereignty.

“Of course there continues to be big bilateral aid, but that doesn’t mean you can then determine a country’s foreign policy,” he said.

Dr Firth said Jakarta’s sensitivity is evident in multiple representations on the matter by government ministers.

“What’s worrying the Indonesians is the way in which this whole question of membership in the MSG has assumed a kind of symbolic political value to West Papuan independence activists,” he said.

“And earlier this year we saw major demonstrations in a number of towns in West Papua, for which people were arrested and so on, because they were demonstrating in favour of West Papuan membership in the MSG.”

November 19, 2016 0

Jakarta Diplomacy Odd and Backwards, ULMWP

Radio NZ – 3 November 2016

A warning by Indonesia’s Defence Minister for Pacific countries not to speak out about West Papua has been described as an odd and backward form of diplomacy.

The Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu urged Australia to rebuke Pacific states, in particular Solomon Islands, for raising West Papua in global forums and inviting Papuans to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG).

Indonesia's Defence Minister for Pacific countries says Indonesia is a sleeping tiger that can attack if disturbed. Photo: AFP — Indonesia’s Defence Minister for Pacific countries says Indonesia is a sleeping tiger that can attack if disturbed. Photo: AFP

He subsequently told Australian media that it’s better if Canberra delivers the warning to Pacific governments, because if it was left to him he would ‘twist their ears’.

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua’s Pacific regional ambassador Akabou Amatus Douw said the minister’s statements in the past week show a militaristic attitude, out of touch with Pacific Islanders.

At September’s UN General Assembly session, leaders of seven Pacific states spoke out about rights abuses in Papua and on support for Papuan self-determination.

Pacific leaders at the UN General Assembly expressed concern about human rights abuses in Papua. Left to right: Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai; Solomon Islands Prime Minsister Manasseh Sogavare; Tonga Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva; Nauru President Baron Waqa; Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine; Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga Photo: UN Photo

Ryamizard warned that Indonesia would not stay silent when its sovereignty is compromised – he described Indonesia as a sleeping tiger that can attack if disturbed.

Mr Douw said the minister’s sleeping tiger analogy was, in a sense, apt.

“This expression is symbolic,” he explained, “meaning that Indonesia’s sleeping face [will] never wake up to see what [is] their wrongdoing with massive atrocities and genocide to the Papuan minority.”

The ULMWP, which has observer status in the MSG, is pushing for full membership in the group, something opposed by Indonesia which is an associate MSG member.

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua’s ambassador for Australia and Pacific countries, Amatus Douw. Photo: RNZI

Mr Douw has urged the leaders of Australia and Indonesia to have a robust discussion on West Papua.

The Indonesian President Joko Widodo is due to have his first state visit to Australia this month for bilateral talks with Australia’s prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Mr Douw is pushing for the two governments to abolish the Lombok Treaty between the two countries which formalised both governments’ agreement to oppose Papuan separatism.

“This already became a hell policy,” said Mr Douw, “because the fact that Australian government trained Indonesian army who evolved in killing and torturing Papuan freedom fighter then we indicated that killing of younger generation is new form of genocide.”

November 19, 2016 0

ICMI Condemns Pacific Countries over Meddling on West Papua Issue

Jakarta, Jubi – The Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals (ICMI) condemned the statement by Pacific countries’ leaders for what it called their meddling in Indonesia’s affairs over West Papua.

ICMI Deputy Chairman Priyo Budi Santoso in a press release received in Jakarta on Thursday (29/9/2016) accused those Pacific leaders of intervening concerning West Papua.

“Pacific countries should not intervene the internal affairs of Indonesia with provocative statements that the West Papua should be given their rights for self-determination,” said Priyo.The Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Manasye Sogavere said there have been the human rights violations in West Papua, therefore the people should be given the rights for self-determination through a referendum to decide whether they would stay with the Republic of Indonesia or build their own state.

Priyo asserted that West Papua Province could not be separated from Indonesia. So, if there are problems, the one who should be responsible to resolve it is the Indonesian Government, not other countries.

“So, if there are problems in West Papua, the Indonesian Government has responsibility to resolve it”. According to him, the open statement by the Pacific countries has been disturbed and intervened the internal affairs of Indonesia in the UN forum.

“As the neighbor countries, they shouldn’t do it, because the problems occurred in West Papua is the internal affairs of Indonesia as the sovereign country and the member of the United Nations,” said Priyo.

He urged the Indonesian Government to explicitly condemn the provocative act by Pacific countries against West Papua. In their statement, ICMI is clearly support the Unitary State of the Republic Indonesia or death! and West Papua is part of the Republic Indonesia, therefore it should be kept under the sovereignty of the Republic of Indonesia. (*/rom)

November 19, 2016 0

Dialog sejarah Papua, Filep Karma tur keliling Jawa

Jayapura, Jubi – Filep Karma, salah seorang tokoh gerakan Papua Merdeka, melakukan ‘tur keliling’ Pulau Jawa bertemu beberapa kelompok muda dan berdialog terkait sejarah kebangsaan dan perjuangan kemerdekaan West Papua.

“Saya keliling dalam rangka menyosialisasi pelurusan sejarah perjuangan West Papua kepada generasi muda Orang Asli Papua (OAP) maupun juga teman-teman rakyat Indonesia yang peduli kepada perjuangan West Papua,” kata Karma kepada Jubi Kamis, (17/11/2016).

Karma yang mantan tahanan politik di Biak dan Jayapura selama sekitar 12 tahun itu melakukan dialog dan sosialisasi khususnya kepada generasi muda Papua dan non Papua yang menurutnya masih gamang tempat berpijak dan belum paham sejarah West Papua.

“(khususnya kepada mereka) yang masih gamang tentang tempat berpijaknya karena selama ini mendengar sejarah West Papua secara sepihak dari versi TNI-Polri-Pemerintah saja,” kata dia.

Tur tersebut dilakukan sejak akhir September lalu di Bandung hingga 16 November 2016 di Bali. Selain Bandung, Karma juga mengunjungi Depok, Jakarta, Semarang, Solo, Surabaya, Sidoarjo hingga Bali.

Selain bertemu sebagian anak-anak muda Papua yang sekolah di kota-kota tersebut, Karma juga mengunjungi Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Semarang dan Bali, Kontas Jakarta dan Setara Institut untuk melakukan diskusi serupa.

Menurut Karma, topik-topik yang banyakd ditanyakan para peserta diskusi sepanjang turnya itu berkisar di soal pengalaman di penjara dan suka duka menjadi pejuang Papua Merdeka.

“”Banyak hal yang mereka tanyakan, seperti bagaimana rasanya masuk bui, bagaimana mau berjuang jika sudah berkeluarga, apa pengaruh Maklumat Kapolda Papua itu. Kalau Maklumat itu kan pengumuman saja, dan saya kira ‘’gak ngaruh’”kata dia dengan santai.

Bernardo Boma, seorang aktivis Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua di Semarang, yang ikut hadir dalam rangkaian kegiatan Filep Karma di Semarang 27-29 Oktober, mengaku kegiatan tersebut sangat membantu pihak-pihak memahami perjuangan rakyat Papua.

“Kehadiran Bapak Bangsa Papua membantu orang-orang di Indonesia untuk mendukung perjuangan rakyat Papua, termasuk solidaritas, menghilangkan stigma dari orang Indonesia terhadap perjuangan Papua,” ujar Boma kepada Jubi lewat sambungan telpon, Kamis (17/11).

Selama di Semarang, lanjutnya, selain memberi kuliah umum kepada mahasiwa/i Papua di ‘honai’, Filep Karma juga bertemu dan menggelar diskusi dengan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Semarang, “bahkan Bapak juga hadir dan turut memberikan pesan belasungkawa atas kematian, Atma, salah seorang pengacara muda LBH Semarang,” kata dia.

Saat cara di Semarang, menurut Boma banyak teman-teman mahasiswa meminta motivasi semangat untuk berjuang, serta menciptakan persatuan antar orang Papua untuk penentuan nasib sendiri.

“Bapak berpesan, jangan pernah takut berjuang Papua Merdeka, walau harus keluar masuk penjara. Bapak juga ingatkan kami agar belajar sistem kebijakan Indonesia sebagai bekal dan siasat untuk perjuangan rakyat Papua sendiri menjemput kemerdekaannya,” kata Boma yang berasal dari Dogiyai itu.

Filep Karma, pasca keluar dari penjara tahun lalu, tampak setia hadir disetiap aksi-aksi penentuan nasib sendiri Papua dan keanggotaan ULMWP di MSG di Jayapura.

Mantal tapol yang sering mengatakan ‘keluar dari penjara kecil masuk ke penjara besar’ ini di Semarang berpesan siapapun yang berjuang untuk Papua Merdeka adalah orang Papua yang sejati, “walapun dia non Papua,” kata Boma.

Filep Karma mengakhiri turnya di Bali dan segera akan kembali ke Papua. “Hari terakhir bersama teman-teman Papua di Bali, saya menikmati ‘Denpasar Moon” karena posisi bulan lagi sangat dekat dengan bumi, setelah ini pulang ke Jayapura,” ujarnya menutup pembicaraan.(*)

November 18, 2016 0

Gereja-gereja Pasifik: Bawa Papua ke Komite Dekolonisasi PBB

Ilustrasi: umat Kristen gereja Protestant church

AUCKLAND, SATUHARAPAN.COM – Gereja-gereja Protestan yang tergabung dalam Pacific Conferences of Churches (PCC) belum lama ini mengadakan pertemuan di kantor sekretariatnya di Auckland, Selandia Baru. Dalam pertemuan itu, dibahas sejumlah isu, seperti isu pelanggaran HAM Papua, perubahan iklim, serta nasib pengujian nuklir dan militerisasi di Pasifik.

Kepada radionz.com, yang melaporkan pertemuan itu hari ini, Sekretaris Jenderal PCC, Francois Pihaatae, mengatakan ia mengharapkan suara gereja tidak dianggap remeh karena gereja membawa suara umat.

“Ketika berbicara, mereka tidak hanya sebagai gereja, mereka juga sebagai umat. Karena sebagian besar waktu umat bersama kami. Kami tidak bisa mengabaikan kesatuan umat di akar rumput karena mereka memiliki kekuasaan untuk berbicara,” kata Pihaatae.

Terkait isu Papua, Pihaatae, mengatakan dewasa ini kelompok-kelompok gereja lebih bersatu dalam menekan para pemimpin politik untuk berbicara. Misalnya, ia mengatakan untuk pertama kalinya sejak didirikan 20 tahun yang lalu, Papua New Guinea Council of Churches juga bergabung untuk mendukung agar masalah Papua dibawa ke Komite Dekolonisasi PBB.

Lebih jauh, ia mengatakan anggota dewan gereja di Papua Nugini menginginkan agar pemerintah Indonesia mengakhiri apa yang disebut sebagai genosida di Papua.

“Menyerukan kepada Indonesia untuk menghentikan pembunuhan (orang Papua). Itulah satu-satunya prioritas pertama bagi kami untuk meminta militer dan kepolisian Indonesia atau apa pun yang mereka gunakan untuk membunuh. Mereka (orang Papua) bukan binatang, mereka adalah manusia seperti mereka, orang Indonesia,” kata Pihaatae.

“Kedua, yang kami coba lakukan adalah untuk mengangkat isu Papua pada daftar dekolonisasi. Agar mereka menikmati kemerdekaan seperti negara-negara Pasifik merdeka lainnya,” kata dia.

Ia menambahkan, PCC mengikutsertakan gereja-gereja di Papua dan berharap mereka mengetahui bahwa mereka tidak sendirian.

“Sekarang ini ada dua gereja di Papua yang telah menjadi anggota dan kami akan menyambut dua anggota baru lagi tahun depan. Jadi itu berarti bahwa melalui tindakan kita, kita berusaha untuk membawa orang-orang Papua pulang ke rumahnya.”

Dalam pertemuan tersebut, masalah-masalah lain juga dibahas. Termasuk dampak dari ekstraksi sumber daya pada lingkungan, penyakit menular dan peran gereja dalam memerangi kekerasan terhadap perempuan.

Dalam presentasinya, Francois Pihaatae juga menunjukkan fakta sejarah dimana gereja memegang peran kunci di kawasan Pasifik. Ia mengingatkan bahwa dulu gereja-gereja Protestan di French Polynesia pernah mengadukan Prancis ke International Criminal Court atas dampak dari pengujian nuklir di wilayah mereka. Ia menambahkan, pemimpin gereja memegang kunci dalam mengakhiri pengujian nuklir di wilayah itu pada 1996.

Dia mengatakan contoh ini menunjukkan bahwa apabila memiliki kesatuan suara, gereja akan menjadi kekuatan yang tidak dapat diremehkan.

Pihaatae mengatakan PCC akan terus membawa umat Pasifik bersama-sama untuk memperjuangkan keadilan dan perdamaian untuk melindungi masa depan kolektif mereka.

November 17, 2016 0