Peter O’Neill: any discussion on the issue of sovereignty should be taken up appropriately with the United Nations Decolonisation Committee (C24)

any discussion on the issue of sovereignty should be taken up appropriately with the United Nations Decolonisation Committee (C24) in New York and the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. [https://papuapost.wordpress.com/]

Ada dua hal di sini, pertama, kalau bicara tentang kemerdekaan politik yang terkait dengan kedaulatan, maka kita harus membawanya ke Komite-24, atau Komite Dekolonisasi PBB. Kedua, kalau kita bicara soal pelanggaran HAM, maka kita bawah masalahnya ke Komisi HAM PBB di Geneva.

Sudah berulangkali PMNews menyiarkan protes yang disampaikan oleh Tentara Revolusi West Papua (TRWP) dengan penekanan bahwa bangsa Papua harus menentukan sikap, harus berbagi tugas, harus jelas dan tegas

mau selesaikan pelanggaran HAM, ataukah
mau selesaikan soal Politik?

Kalau mau urus politik, maka kita harus menggunakan kiblat MSG – New York, dan kalau kita mau selesaikan masalah HAM, maka kita gunakan poros MSG – HAM – Geneva.

Tetapi kalau ada orang-orang ULMWP yang bersikeras mau urus HAM, maka tidak menjadi masalah, asalkan fokus ke New York tidak kita abaikan.

Kita harus menghindari menghabiskan uang, tenaga dan waktu dalam membahas soal HAM. Sudah banyak kelompok kepentingan, sudah banyak organisasi, sudah banyak negara berkepentingan untuk HAM.

Kepentingan bangsa Papua ialah melepaskan diri dari NKRI, persoalan politik, persoalan kedaulatan, itulah sebabnya Peter O’Neill katakan

any discussion on the issue of sovereignty should be taken up appropriately with the United Nations Decolonisation Committee (C24) in New York

Apakah masih ada yang bingung?
Apakah masih ada yang tidak jelas?
Apakah ULMWP menunggu malaikat dari surga untuk datang menjelaskan ini semua?

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Peter O’Neill: ULMWP’s membership of the MSG is not an issue to PNG

He said Prime Minister O’Neill expressed the ULMWP’s membership of the MSG is not an issue to PNG but rather the ULMWP proving that it is a united body that represents the collective views of the people of West Papua just as the FLNKS is evidently a united body representing the collective views of the Kanaks of New Caledonia.

Pernyataan sebelumnya dari Peter O’Neill melahirkan istilah yang dilahirkan oleh Markas Pusat Pertahanan (MPP) Tentara Revolusi West Papua (TRWP) sebagai “politics of engagement”, sebagai pendekatan Melanesia yang bijak dalam rangka membangun tanggal menuju penyelesaian komprehensiv masalah yang ada antara NKRI dengan West Papua.

Hal kedua yang dikatakan oleh pemimpin bangsa Papua ini ialah bahwa permasalahannya ialah ULMWP sendiri sebagai sebuah lembaga, apakah ULMWP mewakili semua komponen bangsa Papua? Peter O’Neill tidak mengatakan “semua pendukung Papua Merdeka”, tetapi “semua komponen bangsa Papua”.

Artinya bahwa ULMWP harus merangkul lembaga seperti berikut:

Presidium Dewan Papua (PDP)
Dewan Adat Papua (DAP)
Majelis Rakyat Papua (MRP)
Majels Rakyat Papua Papua Barat (MRP-PB)
Lembaga Musyawarah Adat (LMA) Papua dan LMA Papua Barat
Dewan Musyawarah Masyarakat Adat Koteka (DeMMAK)
Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua (AMP)
West Papua Indigenous Organisation/Association (WPIO/A)
West Papua National Authority (WPNA)
Negara Republik Federal West Papua (NRFPB)
Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB)
West Papua National Coalition for West Papua (WPNCL)
Perempuan Papua Merdeka
Pemuda Papua Merdeka
Intelektual Papua Merdeka

Setelah mendaftarkan organisasi antara lain seperti disebutkan di atas, kemudian ULMWP perlu mengangtkan para pejabat ULMWP dari orang-orang yang ada di dalam West Papua maupun yang ada di luar negeri. Nama-nama seperti berikut seharusnya disebutkan sebagai Anggota Executive dari ULMWP. Tidak bijaksana kalau ULMWP hadir HANYA mewakili pro Papua Merdeka:

Thaha Moh. Al-Hamid
Forkorus Yaboisembut
Benny Giay
Fransalbert Joku
Sofyan Yoman
Phillip S. Karma
Markus Haluk
Nicolaas Jouwe
Ramses Ohee
Matius Murib
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Nama-nama yang sudah dikenal NKRI yang ada di dalam negeri West Papua juga harus disebutkan.

Tujuan organisasi ULMWP ialah untuk berjuang berhadapan dengan NKRI, oleh karena itu ULMWP tidak harus lari keluar dan bicara di luar-luar, tetapi harus membawa diri masuk ke dalam NKRI, harus menugaskan orang-orang di dalma NKRI.

Tentu saja, sebelum itu harus ada Undang-Undang yang dengan jelas dan panjang-lebar mengatur semua tugas, tanggungjawab dan wewenang, disertai sanksi dan hukuman serta upah.

Kalau tidak begitu, Peter O’Neill akan tahu persis, bahwa teman-teman, dan adik-adiknya bangsa Papua di wilayah West Papua BELUM SIAP untuk melepaskan diri dari NKRI. Oleh karena itu, solusi terbaik ialah West Papua tinggal di dalma NKRI, sambil menunggu bangsa Papua di West Papua mempersiapkan diri.

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Aboriginal elder determined to keep advocating for West Papua

RadioNZ– An Aboriginal artist says she will continue advocating for West Papua’s independence despite a mural she created being destroyed without explanation.

Larrakia elder June Mills painted the mural onto a large wall in Darwin in 2015 and says it represented the solidarity between indigenous Australians and West Papuan people.

However the mural, which depicted both the Aboriginal and West Papuan flags and two hands reaching out, was painted over on Sunday.

June Mills says it’s not clear who is responsible and she’s upset and surprised by what she describes as skulduggery and a clandestine approach.

However she told Amelia Langford that she’s determined to continue advocating for indigenous West Papuans and their battle for independence from Indonesia.

An Aboriginal artist says she will continue advocating for West Papua’s independence despite a mural she created being destroyed without explanation.

Larrakia elder June Mills painted the mural onto a large wall in Darwin in 2015 and says it represented the solidarity between indigenous Australians and West Papuan people.

However the mural, which depicted both the Aboriginal and West Papuan flags and two hands reaching out, was painted over on Sunday.

June Mills says it’s not clear who is responsible and she’s upset and surprised by what she describes as skulduggery and a clandestine approach.

However she told Amelia Langford that she’s determined to continue advocating for indigenous West Papuans and their battle for independence from Indonesia.

June Mills surrounded by supporters in front of her mural that was later painted over. Photo: June Mills

Transcript

JUNE MILLS: We want to help in whatever way we can. To me it’s just a simple friendship mural, but the way that it’s created such controversy within the community was not expected, put it that way.

AMELIA LANGFORD: How did it feel to see the mural painted over like that?

JM: Oh very upsetting. It was a beautiful, beautiful mural. it took a lot of hard work. People actually loved the mural. I don’t know if you had an image of it, but people would come specifically to take a photo. Id joke about it with my mates, I’d say ‘listen we really have to get a really good photo of this and turn it into a postcard saying ‘greetings from Darwin’,’ you know. And that didn’t actually eventuate, but this was a well-loved mural, but there was an element in Darwin that hated it and wanted it gone. And that’s been going from the first day really, and they got their way.

AL: What would you like to see happen from here in this situation?

JM: Put up another mural! Repaint it.

AL: So you’d like to get the opportunity to repaint it?

JM: I don’t believe that’s going to happen, however, we certainly have plans to paint other murals. But the amazing thing is the incredible skulduggery that’s come to the fore throughout this. i must admit I was caught by surprise a bit to the extent of it. But, you know, I suppose if we really pulled it to pieces the thing is that our community and myself are very concerned about the plight of the West Papuan people – that will never go away until something happens and they get their referendum and the call for independence or the violence stops in West Papua. There is incredible violence as we speak. Until that’s resolved we are not going to stop bringing to the attention to the world community about the plight of the West Papuan people. And whether that’s posters, whether that’s murals, whether it’s talks, whether it’s forums we are going to continue.

That’s Aboriginal elder and artist, June Mills, from Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory.

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Disappearance of controversial West Papua friendship mural creates a stir in Darwin

RadioNZ – Updated earlier today at 8:18am

A wall in Darwin that was adorned with a controversial street art mural promoting solidarity with the Free West Papua movement is now blank after it was painted over by contractors.

There’s been no official confirmation yet of who made the decision to blot out the work of Larrakia aboriginal elder June Mills, which showed hands from the Morning Star and the Aboriginal flags reaching out to one another.

The mural has drawn criticism from the Indonesian consulate in Darwin, and its loss has members of the Free West Papua movement and the Indigenous community asking plenty of questions on social media.

But the artist herself says she certainly wasn’t consulted about the mural’s removal.

Bindi Bryce

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MSG Chair Dubs Meeting With PNG Prime Minister As ‘Very Fruitful’

By PM Press –March 16, 2017

The MSG Chair, Prime Minister Hon Manasseh Sogavare and the PNG Prime Minister, Hon Peter O’Neill.

The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Chair, Prime Minister Hon Manasseh Sogavare of Solomon Islands has described his dialogue with the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister, Hon Peter O’Neill as ‘very fruitful.’

The MSG Chair met with Hon O’Neill in the PNG Capital, Port Moresby yesterday, concluding his second and final round of consultations with MSG leaders since taking up the chairmanship of the Melanesian sub-regional grouping in June 2015.

The key issues of discussion included the following:

MSG Special Leaders’ Summit;
Outcome of the Meeting of the MSG sub-committee on Legal and Institutional Issues {SCLII) in Port Vila in December 2016. SCLII is the MSG sub-committee that makes recommendations to the MSG Governing Bodies- Senior Officials Meeting, Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and Leaders’ Summit;
West Papua;
MSG Free Trade Agreement;
MSG Labour Mobility, Independent Review of the MSG Secretariat; and
MSG Chairmanship Handover from Solomon Islands to Papua New Guinea.

Speaking after his meeting with Prime Minister O’Neill, the MSG Chair said “I had a very fruitful meeting with the PNG Prime Minister on the agendas of discussion as I also had with Prime Minister Charlot Salwai of Vanuatu, Victor Tutugoro of the FLNKS and Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama of Fiji earlier on in February.”

On the issue of Special Leaders’ Summit, the MSG Chair said he expressed regret over his inability to convene any Special Leaders’ Summit in December 2016 due to the non-availability of colleague leaders.

He said a Special Leaders’ Summit was supposed to be held to approve the recommendations from various bodies of MSG including SCLII.

However, the MSG Chair said the various bodies of the MSG- SCLII and Senior Officials Meeting (SOM)- did meet and made a number of recommendations to the Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM) for submission to the Leaders’ Summit for final approval.

He said the MSG Capitals’ visit was therefore important to consult with colleague leaders on various recommendations from the various MSG Bodies for final approval

“I have met with both Prime Minister Charlot Salwai of Vanuatu and Victor Tutugoro of the FLNKS in Port Vila and Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama of Fiji in Suva as part of this second and final round of consultations earlier in February this year. I was supposed to travel on to Port Moresby to meet with Prime Minister Peter O’Neill but had to postpone the Port Moresby leg of the trip because the PNG Parliament was in session.

“I am now pleased that I finally met with Prime Minister O’Neill yesterday and my meeting with the PNG Prime Minister like my previous meetings with my other colleague leaders was very fruitful.”

On the Outcome of the Meeting of SCLII in Port Vila in September last year, the MSG Chair said he informed Prime Minister O’Neill that the meeting endorsed the proposed Revised MSG Membership Guidelines and was brought to the attention of the SOM and FMM in their meeting which immediately followed the SCLII meeting and were endorsed by the Governing Bodies in December 2016.

He said he informed the PNG Prime Minister that Prime Minister Salwai, FLNKS Spokesman, Mr Tutugoro and Prime Minister Bainimarama have all agreed in principle to the Revised MSG Membership Guidelines and during his consultations with them.

The revised guidelines provide a very transparent process for Leaders to deliberate on an application for membership whereby they enhance and protect the decision-making process and respect the reporting structure of the MSG at the Summit level as stipulated under Articles 7 (1) and (2) of the MSG Agreement.

The MSG Chair said Prime Minister O’Neill in turn expressed support for the Revised MSG Membership Guidelines and as such, Leaders will meet and formally approve them at the next MSG Leaders’ Summit.

On the issue of West Papua, the MSG Chair said he told Prime Minister O’Neill that the United Liberation Movement of West Papua’s (ULMWP’s) application for membership of the MSG will be dealt with under the Revised MSG Membership Criteria.

He said Prime Minister O’Neill expressed the ULMWP’s membership of the MSG is not an issue to PNG but rather the ULMWP proving that it is a united body that represents the collective views of the people of West Papua just as the FLNKS is evidently a united body representing the collective views of the Kanaks of New Caledonia.

The MSG Chair said the PNG Prime Minister further stated that any discussion on the issue of sovereignty should be taken up appropriately with the United Nations Decolonisation Committee (C24) in New York and the Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

On the issue of MSG Free Trade Agreement, the MSG Chair said Prime Minister O’Neill stated that PNG will be signing up the agreement after sorting out some issues of concern with Fiji.

On the issue of MSG Labour Mobility, the MSG Chair said Prime Minister O’Neill has expressed desire to see this opened up so that Melanesians from other Melanesian countries do not have to apply for work permit to work in PNG and vice versa.

On the issue of Independent Review of the MSG Secretariat, the MSG Chair told Prime Minister O’Neill that the purpose of the review, which started since January pursuant to the Governing Body decision in December for the review to be undertaken. Its bold objective is to ensure a wholly functional, resilient and robust secretariat that delivers on the mandates of leaders.

He said the PNG Prime Minister conveyed PNG’s firm support for the review and offered assistance to the secretariat to ensure the reform is undertaken smoothly and swiftly.

On the issue of MSG Chairmanship Handover, the MSG Chair said he had sought the view of Prime Minister O’Neill as to when should Solomon Islands hand over the chairmanship to PNG this year and the PNG Prime Minister said Solomon Islands should hold on to the position until after the PNG General Elections in June.

The MSG Chair and his delegation will return to Honiara tomorrow, Friday 17^th March.

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Amunggut Tabi: Yang Mau Panglima Gerilyawan Bersatu ialah BIN/NKRI

Menanggapi analisis Papua Merdeka News (PMNews) dalam artikel sebelumya, yang diusulkan sebelumnya kepada Tentara Revolusi West Papua (TRWP) beberapa hari lalu, ini tanggapan dari TRWP kepada PMNews.

Dalam artikel Anda ditulis:

Agenda mempersatukan komando dan panglima perjuangan Papua Merdeka ialah sebuah agenda NKRI yang telah diluncurkan sejak tahun 1998, yang sampai hari ini belum berhasil. Yang paling terakhir, mereka berusaha membujuk Gen. Kelly Kwalik, tetapi beliau menolak, maka beliau dibunuh secara tidak terhormat, atas pancingan dari anak keponakannya sendiri.

Saat ini, lewat ULMWP , agen BIN/NKRI mendesak kepada pucuk pimpinan ULMWP, supaya semua komandan dan panglima gerilyawan di Rimba New Guinea harus dipersatukan, karena NKRI sudah punya setelan dan akses langsung kepada sejumlah panglima di Tanah Papua, sehingga pada saat disatukan, mereka dapat mengendalikan komando dari dalam negeri, demi mempertahankan NKRI di atas Tanah Papua.

Analisis ini sangat benar. Yang NKRI mau ialah Panglima Perang di hutan menjadi satu dalam komando, supaya mereka bisa main bayar, mereka bisa main sogok, mereka juga bisa main bunuh, dan dengan demikian masalah perjuangan ini berhenti total.

Mereka kan sudah lama kejar Bapak Gen. TRWP Mathias Wenda, sudah lama kejar Bapak Gen. Bernardus Mawen, Bapak Gen. Kelly Kwalik, akhirnya mereka sudah bunuh yang lain dengan sukes. Mereka gagal total mendekati para panglima yang berdiri sungguh-sungguh di atas kebenaran.

NKRI/BIN tahu bahwa mereka tidak akan sanggup mempersatukan para gerilyawan dalam satu komando, oleh karena itu mereka masuk ke dalam ULMWP lewat anak mantu mereka, informan mereka, so-called pejuang Papua Merdeka yang ignorant dan memanfaatkan mereka sebagai pemberi informasi.

ULMWP harus tahu, siapa saja, dari hutan, dari kota, dari dalam negeri dari luar negeri, siapa saja yang bicaranya seperti memaksa, bicara seperti mendesak dan sampai mengancam ULMWP atau tokoh Papua Merdeka atas nama gerilyawan atau atas nama Papua Merdeka atau atas nama OPM, maka dipastikan bahwa mereka itulah kaki-tangan lawan politik Papua Merdeka.

Kami dari TRWP sangat heran membaca laporan dari Republik Vanuatu, di mana salah satu hasil rapat mengatakan bahwa ULMWP menginginkan para panglima di hutan New Guinea supaya bersatu dalam satu komando.

Pertanyaan kami,

“ULMWP itu statusnya apa sehingga bisa memerintahkan para panglima gerilyawan yang sudah puluhan tahun berada di hutan mempertaruhkan nyawa untuk Papua Merdeka?”

ULMWP harus menunjukkan kepemimpinannya, harus menunjukkan diri sebagai organisasi modern dan profesional, yang dapat dipercaya oleh dunia internasional untuk mewakili Negara West Papua sebagai sebuah “government-in-waiting”, baru bisa bicara tentang organisasi yang sudah melahirkan ULMWP itu sendiri.

Ini anak baru lahir, sudah berani suruh induknya ganti celana? Tidak tahu malu. Sangat tidak sopan.

Kalau belum “behave” dan “show up” sebagai sebuah lembaga persiapan pemerintahan negara, maka jangan cepat-cepat memerintahkan organisasi yang sudah lebih dari setengah abad berjuang untuk Papua Merdeka.

Yang harus dipersatukan ialah organisasi politik dan representasi sosial-budaya West Papua, yaitu:

PDP (Presidium Dewan Papua)
DAP (Dewan Adat Papua)
DeMMAK (Dewan Musyawarah Masyarakat Adat Koteka)
WPIA (West Papua Indigenous Association)
WPNA (West Papua National Authority
WPNCL (West Papua National Coalition for West Papua)
NRFPB (Negara Republik Federal West Papua)

Kemudian semua lembaga ini harus menerima PNWP (Parlemen Nasional West Papua) sebagai lembaga parlemen West Papua dan ULWMP (United Liberation Movement for West Papua) sebagai lembaga pemerintahan untuk Negara Republik West Papua.

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ULMWP Stop Sibuk yang Lain: Harus Mempersatukan Program dan Langkah-Langkah

Ada sejumlah hal berkembang di kalangan aktivis Papua Merdeka, menyebarkan berita dan email secara terbuka dan tertutup, berisi berbagai isu dan hasil diskusi yang dilakukan ULMWP selama ini. Dari PIS (Papua Intelligence Service) didapati pesan-pesan bahwa BIN/ NKRI sudah aktiv bekerja, dan kini bergerilya dengan bebas di dalam ULMWP.

Berikut beberapa indikatornya:

Indikator pertama ialah memerintahkan ULMWP untuk segera mempersatukan para panglima dan komandan gerilyawan di rimba New Guinea.

Agenda mempersatukan komando dan panglima perjuangan Papua Merdeka ialah sebuah agenda NKRI yang telah diluncurkan sejak tahun 1998, yang sampai hari ini belum berhasil. Yang paling terakhir, mereka berusaha membujuk Gen. Kelly Kwalik, tetapi beliau menolak, maka beliau dibunuh secara tidak terhormat, atas pancingan dari anak keponakannya sendiri.

Saat ini, lewat ULMWP , agen BIN/NKRI mendesak kepada pucuk pimpinan ULMWP, supaya semua komandan dan panglima gerilyawan di Rimba New Guinea harus dipersatukan, karena NKRI sudah punya setelan dan akses langsung kepada sejumlah panglima di Tanah Papua, sehingga pada saat disatukan, mereka dapat mengendalikan komando dari dalam negeri, demi mempertahankan NKRI di atas Tanah Papua.

Apakah Oktovianus Motte dan Benny Wenda tahu hal ini? Tentu saja tidak. Dari segala hal yang mereka lakukan belakangan ini menunjukkan, mereka justru melangkah ke arah skenario NKRI.

Indikator kedua, para pejabat ULMWP lebih sibuk bicara tentang siapa SekJend, Siapa Jubir, siapa Dubes, siapa Kepala Kantor dan sebagainya. Tidak ada satu-pun dari personnel inti ULMWP yang menyampaikan visi/ misi dan program yang jelas dan gamplang, profesional dan tertulis jelas kepada bangsa Papua dan kepada para negara Melanesia yang mendukung Papua Merdeka.

Kita menjadikan perjungan Papua Merdeka sama dengan nuansa “kedatangan Yesus untuk kedua kalinya”, semuanya serba rahasia, semuanya serba tidak pasti, semuanya serba raba-raba. Semua orang tahu Yesus akan datang, semua orang tahu dunia akan kiamat, tetapi siapa tahu kapan itu akan terjadi? Semua orang West Papua diberitahu, semua orang Melanesia diberitahu West Papua mau merdeka, tetapi kapan, bagaimana? Tidak jelas.

Masing-masing pimpinan ULMWP merasa curiga, merasa tidak percaya, merasa tidak bisa kerjasama. Belum dilakukan usaha-usaha kerjasama, ktai sudah punya kesimpulan bahwa kita tidak bisa kerjasama. Dan oleh karena itu kita beranggapan pemimpin yan gada harus diganti.

Wahai bangsa Papua, ini namanya Politik devite et impera, politik adu-domba ajaran Belanda yang digunakan NKRi saat ini.
Wahai pimpinan ULMWP, siapapun yang mengajak engkau untuk mengatur pergantian pengurus, hendak-lah kau hardik dan katakan, “Enyahlan engkau wahai iblis, karena saya pemimpin bangsa Papua, tunduk kepada aturan kebersamaan dengan prinsip “Ap Panggok“. (Ap panggok adalah filosofi perjuangan Koteka, yang artinya perjuangan saya sukses karena perjuangan-mu, bukan karena perjuanganku semata).

Indikator ketiga, ULMWP masih bermental budak, tidak sama dengan para pemimpin perjuangan kemerdekaan Timor Leste. Indikator utama mental budak ULMWP ialah “lebih percaya kepada kulit putih dan negara-negara barat daripada percaya kepada diri sendiri dan ras dan bangsa sendiri!’

Kalau orang barat bilang, “Kita ke Geneva, bicara HAM, maka ULMWP ke sana, ramai-ramai ke sana.” Kalau dunia barat perintahkan, “Jangan pakai kata revolusi dalam organisasi atau undang-undang West Papua“, maka mereka berikan komentar seolah-olah mereka paham atas apa yang dimaksudkan sang majukannya.

Mental budak yang lain ialah selalu melihat NKRI dan sekutunya ialah penentu kemerdekaan West Papua, penghambat kemerdekaan West Papua, penyebab penderitaan bangsa Papua. Budak tidak punya kemerdekaan, ia bertugas bekerja untuk majikannya. Ia tidak punya pilihan. Sama saja. ULMWP menjadi tak punya kemerdekaan pada dirinya sendiri. Ia berdiri untuk menyalahkan NKRI dan sekutunya.

ULMWP Harus Medeka Dulu untuk Memerdekakan Bangsa Papua

Untuk merombak nasib ULMWP seperti ini, sudah saatnya pertama-tama, ULMWP tampil sebagai sebuah organisasi yang profesional. Ciri-ciri organisasi modern, atau profesional ialah

Pertama, ULMWP harus punya aturan main yang jelas. Dalam hal ini ULMWP tidak tepat memiliki Anggaran Dasar/ Anggaran Rumah Tangga (AD/ART), karena ULMWP adalah sebuah lembaga perwakilan dari sebuah bangsa dan negara dalam penantian, bukan sebuah LSM. Oleh karena itu, ULWMP harus memiliki sebuah Undang-Undang Republik West Papua, entah itu mau dikatakan “Sementara” karena takut menggunakan “Revolusi” atau nama apa saja tidak menjadi masalah.

Yang penting ULMWP harus memiliki Undang-Undang, bukan AD/ART.

Dalam Undang-Undang inilah ditentukan semua hal tentang kenegaraan dan pemerintahan West Papua, termasuk masa jabatan, syarat-syarat pejabat dan pemimpin, pejabat negara, dan semua hal tentang kenegaraan dan pemerintahan Republik West Papua.

Dengan demikian ULMWP tidak perlu kita bermentalitas Melayo-Indos yang tiap bari berpikir dan bergerak untuk merebut jabatan, tetapi tidak pernah berpikir murni untu membangun NKRI. Waktu dan tenaga kita akan habis untuk memperebutkan jabatan, bukan untuk memperjuangkan Papua Merdeka.

Kedua, ULMWP harus membuka pendaftaran bagi atau mengundang untuk bergabung kepada organisasi orang Papua lain di mana-pun mereka berada untuk mendaftarkan diri. Pertama-tama, ULMWP harus mengundang Presidium Dewan Papua (PDP) dan memberikan posisi yang layak. Kedua ULMWP harus memberikan undangan dan status yang jelas kepada Dewan Adat Papua (DAP), dan Dewan Musyawarah Masyarakat Adat Koteka (DeMMAK). ULMWP juga harus memberikan status yang jelas terhadap West Papua Indigneous Peoples Association (WPIA) dan West Papua National Authority (WPNA).

Selama ini kita berjuang sangat memboroskan tenaga. Kita sendiri bangun sebuah organiasi perjuangan baru, lalu besoknya kita sendiri bunuh mati organisasi kita. West Papua bukan hanya terkenal dengan panggilan “tukang makan orang”, tetapi kita juga seharusnya dikenal dunia sebagai “tukang makan organisasi sendiri”. Kita kanibal politik (political cannibalist) murni sedunia.

Ketiga, ULMWP harus menulis sebuah “Scientific Paper”, karya ilmiah tentang perjuangan kemerdekaan West Papua. Di dalam karya ilmiah ini, tercantum garis besar kebijakan, wajah negara West Papua, pemerintahan Negara West Papua, Kantor Pusat Koordinasi perjuangan Papua Merdeka, Profile dan Kontak Resmi Sekretariat ULMWP.

Alm. Dr. OPM John Otto Ondowame dan Prof. Glen Ottow Rumaseuw, MWS serta tulisan Alm. Sem Karoba telah memberikan gambaran ilmiah sebagai pijakan untuk dipakai dalam membangun “Negara West Papua”, yang dikemas dan dipresentasikan oleh ULMWP sebagai “pemerintahan bayangan dari “Negara Republik West Papua”.

March 16, 2017 0

PM Sogavare On Final Leg of Second MSG Tour

By PM Press –March 13, 2017

MSG Chair, Prime Minister Hon Manasseh Sogavare of Solomon Islands.

Chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has arrived in the Papua New Guinea Capital this evening to complete his second visit of the MSG Capitals.

Hon Sogavare already visited two other M-S-G capitals of Port Vila, Vanuatu, and Suva, Fiji in January this year.

He did not travel to Port Moresby because his counterpart, Peter O’Neil was unavailable at the time.

Hon Sogavare did meet New Caledonia’s FLNKs representative in his January visit to Port Vila.

The MSG Chair uses his MSG Capital visits to discuss issues affecting and of concern to MSG Members.

His meeting with his PNG Counterpart is scheduled for Wednesday March 15^th.

Tomorrow, Hon Sogavare will pay a courtesy call on Governor General, His Excellency Bob Dadae.

Hon Sogavare is accompanied by Madame Sogavare, the Secretary to the MSG Chair, Mr Rence Sore and two other officers from the Prime Minister’s Office and two Close-Protection Police officers.

March 15, 2017 0

Indonesia Berkomitmen Bantu Fiji di Bidang Kepolisian

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Indonesia Berkomitmen Bantu Fiji di Bidang Kepolisian — Pertemuan Menlu Retno Marsudi dan Menhan Fiji bahas bantuan bidang kepolisian (Foto: Dok.Kemenlu RI).

, Jakarta: Menteri Luar Negeri RI, Retno L.P. Marsudi bertemu dengan Menteri Pertahanan dan Keamanan Fiji, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola pada 14 Maret kemarin.

Selain itu, Inoke mengunjungi Indonesia juga dalam rangka kerja sama dalam bidang kepolisian.

“Komitmen Indonesia untuk bekerja sama dengan negara-negara Melanesia untuk meningkatkan kapasitas di bidang kepolisian,” ucap Juru bicara Kementerian Luar Negeri RI, Arrmanatha Nasir, di Jakarta, Rabu 15 Maret 2017.

Sementara, dalam pertemuannya dengan Menlu Retno, dibahas mengenai hubungan bilateral dua negara dan bidang kepolisian itu sendiri.

Dibicarakan juga peran Indonesia di Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) dan peran Indonesia di dalam pembangunan negara-negara Pasifik.

Arrmanatha menambahkan, Inoke ini sebelumnya adalah Menlu Fiji. Sekitar setahun yang lalu, ia dipercaya untuk menjabat sebagai Menhan Fiji.

Selama ini, Indonesia juga memperjuangkan agar kelompok separatis Papua yang menyebut dirinya United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), untuk bergabung dengan MSG.

Namun dengan Papua Nugini yang akan menjadi Ketua MSG yang dimulai pada Januari 2017, penentuan anggota penuh akan dilakukan pada pertemuan tingkat kepala negara. Pertemuan itu akan berlangsung sekitar September 2017.

(FJR)

March 15, 2017 0

Author praised for opening readers’ eyes to West Papua’s repression

By Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt, March 15, 2017

Bookstore owners, writers, authors, family, friends and a group hopeful of West Papuan independence squeezed into the Women’s Bookshop in Ponsonby last night to celebrate the work of young New Zealand author Bonnie Etherington and her novel The Earth Cries Out.

Not only is the novel being celebrated and praised for Etherington’s mastery of the written word, but because of its ability to make the public more aware of life in West Papua, a region controversially ruled by Indonesia since the 1960s.

Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt (left) with author Bonnie Etherington. Image: Del Abcede/PMC

Plagued by media freedom and human rights violations, many media freedom and human rights organisations and several Pacific nations have condemned the widespread arrests and imprisonment of West Papuans for non-violent expression of their political views.

These are issues Etherington herself acknowledged speaking with Asia Pacific Report earlier this week, saying she wanted to show readers West Papua’s rich and diverse history, not only its complex political situation.

“I really wanted to show multiple sides of West Papua because it is so often forgotten or stereotyped by the rest of the world.”

This is something those who have already read The Earth Cries Out praise.

Harriet Allan, fiction publisher for Penguin Books New Zealand, commended Etherington in a speech on her ability to provide insight into West Papua through the eyes of a child, that of female protagonist Ruth.

“As Ruth bears witness to what she sees, we too start to hear the voices that have been silenced by politics, sickness, violence and poverty.”

Like Ruth, we come away with a greater understanding of this country and its diverse people and also of ourselves and the bonds of love and friendship.”

‘Shed some light’

Although she has not had the chance to read her sister’s entire novel, Etherington’s younger sister, Aimee, says what she has read is very similar to how she and her sister experienced West Papua.

“With the descriptions, I felt like I was back there. She’s done a really good job of capturing how it feels, I guess.”

Aimee Etherington says she hopes her sister’s novel spreads awareness of West Papua.

“Most people that I’ve spoken to don’t really know that it exists, so it will be good to shed some light as to what’s going on there and, I guess, giving a bit of insight on how as New Zealanders and Australians we can actually do something about it.”

‘Almost experiencing it’

Like Harriet Allan, Women’s Bookshop owner Carol Beu loved Ruth’s voice.

“I think becoming aware of the situation in Papua through the eyes of this child, Ruth, is really quite special”, Beu told the audience.

“The way it’s revealed, it’s fascinating.”

Beu admits this was also “quite shocking”, due to Etherington’s ability to place the reader in the moment.

“You’re almost experiencing it.”

Penguin fiction publisher Harriet Allan (left) with author Bonnie Etherington. Image: Del Abcede/PMC

Bea also acknowledged those in the audience who were supporting the book on more of a political level, such as West Papua Action Auckland spokesperson Maire Leadbeater.

Bea told those gathered she found the politics of The Earth Cries Out “quite astonishing and wonderful”.

“It’s a book that makes you angry in many ways on a political level.”

Leadbeater herself, however, says she is looking forward to reading the novel.

Mister Pip comparisons

“I think looking at countries through a literary perspective can be very helpful at times. I can’t help thinking of the book Mister Pip, about Bougainville and how amazingly helpful that was I think in terms of people understanding the conflict.

“It’s done in a fictionalised way but it’s true to the situation, so I’m picking from what I’ve heard about the book it may achieve that as well.”

Leadbeater is not the only one to draw comparisons with Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip, however.

Tony Moores, owner of bookstore Poppies in Remuera, reached a similar conclusion.

“This is not Mister Pip, but the issues it deals with are quite similar, from a different perspective.”

Powerful, shocking

The Creative Hub founder, John Cranna, who also noted ties with Mister Pip, praised Etherington on her talent after listening to several excerpts read by Allan and Etherington herself.

“For such a young writer to be writing about such dramatic and shocking events, and to be pulling it off, is quite an achievement.

To write about violent death is … very hard in a reserved, powerful way, but she certainly did that very well.