9 Anggota Parlemen NZ Teken Deklarasi Referendum Papua

Anggota parlemen Selandia Baru, Catherine Delahunty. keempat dari kanan, bersama sejumlah anggota parlemen Selandia Baru lainnya, seusai penandatanganan deklarasi mendukung penentuan nasib sendiri Papua. Tampak juga hadir Benny Wenda, juru bicara ULMWP (Foto: akun Facebook Catherine Delahunty)
Anggota parlemen Selandia Baru, Catherine Delahunty. keempat dari kanan, bersama sejumlah anggota parlemen Selandia Baru lainnya, seusai penandatanganan deklarasi mendukung penentuan nasib sendiri Papua. Tampak juga hadir Benny Wenda, juru bicara ULMWP (Foto: akun Facebook Catherine Delahunty)

WELLINGTON, SATUHARAPAN.COM – Sedikitnya sembilan anggota parlemen Selandia Baru (New Zealand) menandatangani deklarasi untuk menyerukan dan memberi dukungan bagi penentuan nasib sendiri rakyat Papua.

Penandatanganan itu dilaksanakan di Wellington, Rabu (10/05), disponsori oleh anggota parlemen dari Partai Hijau Selandia Baru, Catherine Delahunty. Penandatanganan tersebut disaksikan oleh Benny Wenda, juru bicara United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), organisasi yang menjadi wadah berbagai elemen rakyat yang pro-referendum Papua.

“Tadi malam diam-diam sejarah terjadi di Parlemen Selandia Baru, seiring dengan sembilan anggota parlemen menandatangai Deklarasi Westminster bagi referendum Papua yang diawasi oleh PBB,”

tulis Delahunty lewat akun Facebooknya, Rabu (10/05).

Ia juga menerangkan bahwa dirinya senang Benny Wenda dapat hadir dan turut meluncurkan acara itu.

“Saya sangat bangga dengan anggota parlemen kita dari Partai Hijau, Partai Buruh, dan satu dari (partai) Nasional yang menandatanganinya tadi malam, dan juga Marama Fox dari Partai Māori dan Aupito S’ua William Sio, yang tidak dapat hadir tetapi telah menandatanganinya hari ini,”

lanjut Delahunty.

Delahunty tidak menyebut secara rinci siapa saja para anggota parlemen Selandia Baru yang menandatangani deklarasi. Namun di laman FB-nya ia menampilkan sejumlah foto acara penandatanganan itu. Belakangan berdasarkan siaran pers Green Party, diketahui nama-nama anggota parlemen yang menandatangani adalah Catherine Delahunty, Barry Coates, Mojo Mathers, Jan Logie dan Steffan Browning dari Green Party; Louisa Wall, Carmel Sepuloni dan Adrian Rurawhe dari Partai Buruh; dan  Chester Burrows dari Partai Nasional. Deklarasi juga ditanda tangani Co-leader dari Māori Party, Marama Fox, dan anggota parlemen dari Partai Buruh lainnya yang menanda tanganinya keesokan harinya, Aupito S’ua William Sio.

Deklarasi Westminster pertama kali diluncurkan di London tahun lalu. Ketika itu sejumlah anggota parlemen dari negara-negara Pasifik dan Inggris turut menandatangani deklarasi yang menyerukan dilakukannya referendum rakyat Papua.

Benny Wenda yang sedang beranda di Selandia Baru beberapa hari terakhir,  mengatakan dukungan terhadap penentuan nasib sendiri Papua terus tumbuh dari berbagai kalangan. (Berbeda dengan data Delahunty, dia menyebut ada 11 anggota parlemen NZ yang menandatangani deklarasi).

Menurut dia, salah satu pemicu pertumbuhan itu adalah upaya Pacific Coalition for West Papua yang terdiri dari tujuh negara Pasifik, yang dipimpin oleh Perdana Menteri Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare.

Menurut Benny Wenda, inisiatif Sogavare telah membawa isu Papua hingga ke level PBB.

Koalisi negara-negara Pasifik itu terdiri dari Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, Palau dan Marshall Islands.

Tahun lalu, tujuh negara ini menyampaikan pernyataan di Sidang Majelis Umum PBB yang mendesak pemerintah RI membuka pintu bagi pelapor khusus PBB ke Papua terkait pelanggaran HAM yang terjadi di pulau paling timur RI itu.

Awal bulan ini, tujuh negara tersebut juga mengeluarkan pernyataan bersama di Brussels, dalam pertemuan tingkat menteri kelompok negara yang tergabung dalam African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP). Dalam pernyataan bersama itu mereka menyatakan keprihatinan atas pelanggaran HAM di Papua serta mendukung penentuan nasib sendiri.

“Jadi terjadi perubahan besar saat ini. Kami juga telah mendapat dukungan dari African Carribean and the Pacific (ACP). Telah terjadi pertumbuhan jumlah dan solidaritas di seluruh dunia,” kata Benny Wenda, dikutip dari radionz.co.nz.

Benny Wenda mengatakan dukungan anggota parlemen Selandia Baru “adalah obat terbaik bagi rakyat PApua. Itu yang membuat semangat mereka tetap hidup….”

Ia juga menegaskan bahwa rakyat Papua bersatu dibawah ULMWP.

Di kalangan elit Papua belakangan ini juga terjadi perkembangan baru. Bila selama ini pengakuan terhadap ULMWP tidak begitu jelas dinyatakan secara resmi, kini mulai terungkap secara terbuka.

Gubernur Papua, Lukas Enembe, Rabu pekan lalu seusai bertemu dengan Dubes HAM Belanda, dikutip oleh berbagai media berkata bahwa untuk menyelesaikan masalah Papua harusnya dilakukan seperti penyelesaian konflik Aceh.

Dia menjelaskan kasus di Papua mirip dengan Aceh karena ada kelompok United Liberation Movement for West Papua New (ULMWP) maupun Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB) maupun TPN/OPM yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan Papua.

“Konflik yang terjadi di Papua sama seperti Aceh, karena ada kelompok United Liberation Movement for West Papua New (ULMWP) maupun Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB) maupun TPN/OPM yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan Papua sehingga sering terjadi konflik dengan TNI/Polri,” ujar Enembe.

“Jika ingin menyelesaikan persoalan di Papua, maka perlu dilakukan seperti di Aceh. Di mana, hadirkan semua kelompok-kelompok yang berseberangan dengan pemerintah Indonesia seperti ULMWP maupun KNPB,” kata Lukas Enembe.

Komentar Enembe ini merupakan sebuah tahap baru, karena tahun lalu ketika media meminta komentar Enembe tentang ULMWP, dia berkilah bahwa dirinya tidak memikirkannya. Enembe yang saat itu berada di Istana Presiden di Jakarta, mengatakan tugasnya adalah meningkatkan kesejahteraan rakyat Papua sehingga tidak mau membuang waktu memikirkan soal-soal seperti ULMWP.

Dukungan terhadap dialog Jakarta dengan ULMWP juga dikatakan oleh kalangan parlemen Papua. Anggota Komisi I DPR Papua, komisi yang membidangi pemerintahan, politik, hukum, HAM dan hubungan luar negeri, Kusmanto, mengatakan pemerintah perlu berdialog dengan ULMWP, wadah yang selama ini gencar menyuarakan berbagai masalah Papua di kancah internasional.

Ketika membacakan laporan komisinya dalam sidang paripurna ke IV DPR Papua terhadap LKPJ Gubernur Papua tahun 2016, Selasa (09/05), Kusmanto mengatakan pemerintah harus duduk berunding dengan ULWMP.

“Persoalan HAM di Papua, bukan rahasia lagi. Sudah menjadi pembahasan di dunia internasional bahkan sampai ke PBB. Pemerintah pusat, pemerintah Provinsi Papua, harus duduk bersama mencari solusi,” kata Kusmanto, sebagaimana dikutip dari Tabloid Jubi.

Komisi I, menurut dia, mendukung komitmen atau pernyataan gubernur, meminta pemerintah berdialog dengan ULMWP.

Editor : Eben E. Siadari

Setelah Papua, Corbyn juga Dukung Kemerdekaan Bangsa Tamil

Penulis: Eben E. Siadari 17:45 WIB | Selasa, 24 Mei 2016

LONDON, SATUHARAPAN.COM – Setelah belum lama ini menyatakan dukungannya kepada Papua untuk menentukan nasib sendiri, pemimpin oposisi Inggris, Jeremy Corbyn, juga menyatakan dukungan serupa kepada bangsa Tamil di Sri Lanka.

Dalam sebuah pernyataan yang dirilis untuk menandai ulang tahun ketujuh sejak pembantaian di Mullivaikkal, Corbyn mengungkapkan solidaritasnya kepada rakyat Tamil dan menegaskan seruan akan keadilan dan penentuan nasib sendiri.

“Saya menawarkan simpati terdalam saya kepada keluarga, teman dan orang-orang terkasih dari mereka yang meninggal selama hari-hari dan minggu-minggu terakhir konflik bersenjata Sri Lanka,” kata pemimpin Partai Buruh Inggris itu, seperti diberitakan oleh tamilguardian.com.

“Pikiran saya saat ini juga bersama dengan masyarakat Tamil yang lebih luas yang telah memikul ketidakadilan selama puluhan tahun dan tetap teguh dalam tekad mereka untuk mendapatkan keadilan,” kata dia.

“Kami akan berdiri dengan Anda dalam mencari kebenaran, keadilan, akuntabilitas, rekonsiliasi dan penentuan nasib sendiri di Sri Lanka,” kata dia.

Corbyn juga menegaskan komitmen partainya akan “perlunya keadilan bagi rakyat Tamil dan kami tetap setia mendukung pelaksanaannya, secara penuh, resolusi  Dewan Hak Asasi Manusia PBB terhadap Sri Lanka”.

“Hanya dengan perhitungan yang benar dengan masa lalu Sri Lanka dapat mewujudkan perdamaian abadi,” kata dia.

Editor : Eben E. Siadari

Foreign journalists will still need permits and be subjected to ‘screening’ in Papuan provinces

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Foreign journalists will still need permits to report from Papuan provinces, according to Indonesia’s chief security minister, despite president Joko Widodo’s claims the region is now unrestricted.

Mr Widodo announced last weekend that foreign media were free to report from the provinces of Papua and West Papua.

However, his co-ordinating minister for politics, law and security, Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno, said journalists would still need permits and be subjected to “screening”.

He told government-owned newswire Antara the requirements were to stop the government being blamed if journalists went into “forbidden areas”.

There are reportedly other preconditions, including that reporters are not allowed to do anything to “discredit” Indonesia.

Earlier this week, Mr Widodo announced he had lifted the restrictions that previously prevented foreign journalists from travelling to the country’s restive Papuan provinces.

Independence activists in Papua and West Papua often clash with Indonesian military, but the country is determined to hold onto the resource-rich area and had largely blocked foreign media from covering the region.

Last year, two French journalists were arrested in Papua province for reporting while on tourist visas and spent months in detention before being sent back to France

Vanuatu minister rejects Jakarta’s West Papua claims

International Parliamentarians for West Papua meet in London, May 2016.
International Parliamentarians for West Papua meet in London, May 2016. Photo: IPWP

A member of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua has dismissed claims by Indonesia that its deliberations on Papuan self-determination are a ‘publicity stunt’.

The Vanuatu government minister Ralph Regenvanu was one of dozens of MPs and leaders from the wider Pacific, Europe and Britain, who attended last week’s IPWP summit in London.

The summit resulted in a declaration calling for an internationally-supervised vote on independence in West Papua.

Jakarta condemned the London meeting, calling it a ‘reflection of colonial acts’ and affirming that Indonesian control of Papua is ‘final’.

But Mr Regenvanu said there was growing international support to address a clearly unresolved decolonisation issue.

“According to international law, that self-determination issue has never been addressed by a proper vote in West Papua, and that’s been recognised at a number of levels, a number of forums. Decolonisation never happened and in fact this colony was simply passed from one colonial power, being the Dutch, to another colonial power which is Indonesia which continues to colonise the territory to this day.”

International surge on West Papua amid mass demos

Radio NZ – More mass demonstrations are expected in Indonesia’s Papua region amid growing international interest in West Papuan self-determination aspirations.

West Papuans demonstrate support for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua's bid to be a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

West Papuans demonstrate support for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua’s bid to be a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. Photo: Tabloid Jubi

Last week’s demonstrations in cities across Papua region and other Indonesian cities came three weeks after similar public mobilisations, and resulted in mass arrests.

It’s traditional for West Papuans to demonstrate around May the 1st. This date is the anniversary of transfer of administration in the former Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia in 1963, a process in which Papuans were not consulted.

But this year they were also demonstrating their support for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua’s bid to be a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, as well as the International Parliamentarians for West Papua.

London summit

The IPWP, a network of politicians from around the world who support self-determination for West Papuans and are concerned about ongoing human rights abuses against Papuans, held a summit in London last week.

One of the IPWP’s founders is the British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn who said at the summit that he wanted support for West Papuan self-determination, and recognition of the human rights issues, to become central to policy in his Labour Party.

Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn (left) speaking in the House of Commons during the debate on whether the UK should begin bombing IS targets in Syria.

Jeremy Corbyn described West Papuans as “people who did not enjoy their rights during a period of decolonisation, did not enjoy the rights bestowed to them by the UN charter and by the statutes on decolonisation”. Photo: AFP / PRU

Attended by MPs from the wider Pacific, Europe and Britain, as well as Liberation Movement leaders such as Benny Wenda, the summit resulted in a declaration calling for an internationally-supervised vote on independence in West Papua.

The West Papua-based journalist Victor Mambor said people demonstrating last week in Papua’s main centres supported this call.

“They want a referendum, they want the right to self-determination. As far as I know the authorities never talk about that, they didn’t want to talk about that,” he said.

However Jakarta insists that there is no going back on the what it calls the ‘final’ incorporation of West Papua into the republic, and has been swift to condemn the London meeting.

In a series of posts on Twitter, the Indonesian embassy in Australia called the meeting a publicity stunt organised by a ‘small group of Papuan separatists and sympathisers.’

 

Jakarta said the United Nations and international community already recognised Papua as part of Indonesia, saying the region already has self-determination through special autonomy, elections and education.

However, the 1969 referendum by which West Papua was formally incorporated into Indonesia, named the Act of Free Choice, is widely regarded as having been stage-managed.

A leading Vanuatu government minister who attended the London summit, Ralph Regenvanu, said there was growing international support to address what remained an unresolved decolonisation issue.

“According to international law, that self-determination issue has never been addressed by a proper vote in West Papua, and that’s been recognised at a number of forums,” said Mr Regenvanu.

“Decolonisation never happened and in fact this colony was simply passed from one colonial power, being the Dutch, to another colonial power which is Indonesia which continues to colonise the territory to this day.”

Jokowi’s Papua drive

The demonstrations came just a day after Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo visited Papua region to open a major port facility and preside over a new market construction designed to assist Papuans.

Less than two years since taking office, President Widodo, or ‘Jokowi’ as he is known, has already visited Papua several times – more than any previous Indonesian president.

Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo campaigning in Jayapura.

Jokowi has promised to apply special focus to improving living conditions there. Photo: AFP

Jokowi has embarked on a major development drive in Papua, including plans for an 800-kilometre Papuan highway and an ambitious 1,390-km railway project.

“Within the first one-and-a-half years of Jokowi’s administration, eastern Indonesia’s economic growth has surpassed that of the western part of the country,” according to a statement from Indonesia’s House of Representatives following last week’s London summit.

The president’s focus on economic development in Papua has been welcomed but for many West Papuans has not addressed the self-determination issue, nor ongoing human rights abuses.

The Jokowi administration appears limited in its ability to rein in the military and police forces who run Papua; gains in living conditions for Papuans have yet to eventuate.

Indonesian police deployed to control the Jayapura demonstration in support of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

Indonesian police deployed to control the Jayapura demonstration in support of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua. Photo: Tabloid Jubi

Indonesia’s leading human rights body said last month that abuses in Papua, generally by security forces, remained as rampant as they were under previous governments.

Furthermore, health and education outcomes in Papua are typically Indonesia’s worst – for instance, Papua region has a rate of HIV/AIDS which is 20 times the national average.

Marginalised

Indonesian police said that the West Papua National Committee (which is part of the Liberation Movement) requested permission to hold the demonstrations and failed to meet the requirements. They proceeded anyway.

The demonstrations have gone wider, spreading even to Indonesian cities outside Papua, including Semarang and Makassar, with significant West Papuan populations.

A Papuan who works with political prisoners, Ruth Ogetay, said there was a common theme among the demonstrators.

“All over our land, West Papua, in cities like Wamena, Jayapura, the expression of West Papuans has been in support of independence,” she said.

While there was a more restrained conduct of police forces in handling last week’s demonstrations compared with past rallies, the number of arrests was massive.

Some local media reports had the number of arrests as high as 1700.

While the vast majority of those detained have since been released, images of hundreds of Papuans being held semi-naked in the midday sun at paramilitary police headquarters have caught international attention.

Indonesian security forces hold demonstrators

Indonesian security forces hold demonstrators Photo: Tabloid Jubi

In the wake of the arrests, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully, not for the first time, was pressed about the rights situation in West Papua.

“The government is concerned about these matters,” he told parliament, “and the government wants to see an improvement in the situation in that part of the world.

“The government does not believe that megaphone diplomacy will serve that objective.”

Politicians in Australia have frequently claimed that the economic and social plight of the indigenous people of Indonesia’s West Papua region was improving.

But a new report called ‘We will Lose Everything’, based on a fact finding mission the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission in Brisbane, concludes otherwise.

Jayapura Harbour, Papua Province, Indonesia.

The Papua provincial capital Jayapura is a bustling city where economic activity and culture is increasingly dominated by non-Papuans. Photo: RNZI / Johnny Blades

Some Papuans say life in their region has improved significantly, compared to the years under the rule of Indonesia’s President Suharto who fell in 1998.

Yet the proportion of West Papuans to the overall population of their region is declining quickly as non-Papuan migrants stream in on a regular basis, via the state-facilitated transmigration system.

As a result, in their homeland Papuans are increasingly marginalised, in terms of culture and economic activity.

International pressure

The internationalisation of the West Papua issue continues, despite Jakarta’s insistence that it is a domestic matter.

As Tonga’s prime minister Akilisi Pohiva said following his attendance at the London summit, United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals were ‘impossible to achieve without the full support for the human rights of all people living in areas of conflict throughout the world and in the peaceful Pacific region.’

Grassroots support for governmental action on West Papua is steadily growing in the Pacific Islands region, particularly Melanesia.

The Melanesian Spearhead Group’s decision last year to grant the Liberation Movement observer status within the group was a recognition of that.

The secretary-general of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Octo Mote (centre) talks to New Zealand MPs, including Steffan Browning (right).

The secretary-general of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Octo Mote (centre) talks to New Zealand MPs, including Steffan Browning (right). Photo: RNZI / Johnny Blades

Concurrently, Indonesia with its claims to a large Melanesian population, became an associate member of the MSG in 2015.

The changing shape of the MSG – whose full members are Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia’s Kanak peoples – has become a divisive issue.

Ralph Regenvanu said Indonesian inclusion in the MSG was supposed to have opened the way for dialogue about West Papua. But he said that unfortunately the MSG’s call for Jakarta to dialogue had been ignored.

“And in fact they rebuffed the prime minister of the Solomons (Manasseh Sogavare who is the current MSG chair). There’s been no response to the letter from the prime minister of Papua New Guinea as the chair of the Pacific Islands Forum to them, asking for some sort of human rights assessment to be done,” said Mr Regenvanu.

“The question is: do they really want to engage or not? If it (Jakarta) is not coming to the table, then why are they in the MSG?”

The MSG is expected to have a leaders summit before the end of June in Port Vila where the full members are due to discuss the Liberation Movement’s bid for full membership.

As this draws near, more West Papuan demonstrations are likely.

Partai Buruh Inggris Tegaskan Pembebasan Papua Barat Bagian dari Kebijakannya

Jayapura, Jubi – Jeremy Bernard Corbyn mengatakan sudah saatnya rakyat Papua Barat membuat pilihan mereka sendiri tentang masa depan politik mereka.

Dikutip ABC, Corbyn berbicara tentang penderitaan rakyat Papua Barat dan mendukung dilaksanakannya reformasi demokrasi di Papua, Indonesia. Ia menyampaikan hal ini dalam pertemuan International Parliamentarian for West Papua (IPWP) di London, Inggris, Selasa 3 Mei 2016.

Corbyn adalah politikus Inggris Pemimpin Partai Buruh dan Pemimpin Oposisi. Dia telah menjadi anggota parlemen untuk Islington Utara sejak tahun 1983 dan terpilih sebagai Pemimpin Partai Buruh pada tahun 2015.

Jeremy Corbyn menegaskan dukungannya bagi perjuangan pembebasan Papua Barat. Ia mengatakan ini menjadi bagian dari kebijakan Partai Buruh.

“Ini tentang strategi politik yang membawa penderitaan rakyat Papua Barat kepada pengakuan dunia, memaksanya ke agenda politik, sehingga harus dibawa ke PBB, dan akhirnya memungkinkan rakyat Papua Barat untuk membuat pilihan tentang pemerintah yang mereka inginkan dan masyarakat seperti apa di mana mereka ingin hidup,”

katanya dalam pertemuan.

Pemimpin Partai Buruh ini mengakui bahwa pertemuan kali ini adalah pertemuan yang bersejarah.

Deklarasi London IPWP

Dalam pertemuan ini, anggota parlemen dari beberapa negara Pasifik dan Inggris menyetujui deklarasi di London yang menyerukan pemungutan suara yang diawasi oleh komunitas internasional pada isu kemerdekaan Papua Barat.

Benny Wenda, Menteri Luar Negeri Vanuatu Bruno Leingkone, Perdana Menteri Tonga Akilisi Pohiva dan Menteri Pertanahan Vanuatu Ralph Regenvanu dan beberapa anggota parlemen Pasifik dan Ingggris lainnya adalah penandatangan deklarasi tersebut.

Kelompok ini bertemu di Gedung Parlemen Inggris untuk membahas masa depan provinsi di bagian paling timur Indonesia.

Deklarasi tersebut mengatakan pelanggaran hak asasi manusia masih terus terjadi di Papua Barat yang tidak dapat diterima. Disampaikan oleh Benny Wenda, deklarasi ini memperingatkan dunia bahwa tanpa tindakan internasional masyarakat Papua mempertaruhkan kepunahannya dan menegaskan hak masyarakat asli Papua untuk menentukan nasib sendiri.

Deklarasi tersebut juga menegaskan ‘Act of Free Choice’pada tahun 1969 yang dikenal sebagai Pepera, dilakukan melalui proses yang melanggar prinsip-prinsip kebebasan memilih. (*)

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