Hasil Sidang Luar Biasa Dewan Komite United Liberation Movement for West Papua

Port Vila – Vanuatu, 19 – 22 Desember 2016Sidang luar biasa United Liberation Movement for West Papua telah terlakasana dengan sukses selama 3 hari pada tanggal 19 – 22 Desember 2016 di Port Vila – Vanuatu. Sidang luar biasa dipimpin oleh tiga orang Dewan Komite,; Tuan Edison Waromi (NFRPB), Tuan Buchtar Tabuni (PNWP), Tuan Andy Ayamseba (WPNCL). Dihadiri oleh 4 dari 5 anggota Eksekutif yaitu; 1) Tuan Octovianus Mote ( Sekjen ULMWP); 2) Tuan Benny Wenda ( Juru Bicara ULMWP); 3) Tuan Jacob Rumbiak ( Anggota Eksekutif ULMWP); 4) Tuan Rex Rumakiek ( Anggota Eksekutif ULMWP ) dan 2 dari 3 tim Penghubung yaitu; 1) Tuan Markus Haluk; 2) Tuan Viktor F Yeimo serta perserta sidang dari delegasi tiap organisasi pendiri ULMWP.

Sidang luar biasa ini merupakan sidang pertama yang dipimpin langsung oleh Dewan Komite untuk membahas beberapa agenda sebagai berikut;

Penjelasan umum hasil kerja dari Eksekutif Komite kepada Sidang Luar Biasa Dewan Komite.
Penjelasan Program Kerja (Road Map ) oleh Masing – Masing Deklarator ULMWP.
Pembahasan By Laws ULMWP
Keuangan ULMWP
Re-strukturisasi ULMWP

Sidang Luar Biasa Dewan Komite United Liberation Movement for West Papua telah menghasilkan beberapa keputusan dan rekomendasi;

A. KEPUTUSAN

Meminta Eksekutif Komite United Liberation Movement for West Papua memberikan laporan kerja selama dua tahun kerja (2015 dan 2016) secara tertulis kepada Dewan Komite, selambat-lambatnya bulan Februari tahun Dua Ribu Tujuh Belas.
Menangguhkan semua pengangkatan staf yang dilakukan tanpa melalui konsultasi dan koordinasi bersama dengan seluruh anggota Eksekutif Komite United Liberation Movement for West Papua.
Meninjau kembali pendirian kantor United Liberation Movement for West Papua, yang dilakukan tanpa meminta pertimbangan anggota Dewan Komite United Liberation Movement for West Papua lainnya sebagaimana yang telah termuat dan dijabarkan dalam By Laws United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

B. REKOMENDASI

Perbaikan sekaligus Pembenahan Sistem dan Struktur Organisasi United Liberation Movement for West Papua selambat-lambatnya pada bulan November tahun Dua Ribu Tujuh Belas.

Diputuskan di : Port Vila Vanuatu

Pada tanggal : 22 Desember 2016

PIMPINAN SIDANG

Rev. Edison Waromi, SH Buchtar Tabuni Andy Ayamiseba

NFRPB PNWP WPNCL

Sumber: http://www.westpapuaparliament.org/

January 15, 2017 0

Good-bye, Indonesia: West Papua is fighting for independence from Indonesia

www.jacobinmag.com – by Andre Barahamin

On July 13, Indonesian delegates — angry because the Morning Star Flag, emblem of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP), was flown alongside other members’ flags — walked out of the first day of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) leaders’ summit.

The ULMWP is a coalition of Papuan freedom fighters demanding independence from Indonesian control. It and Indonesia have both applied for full membership status in the MSG, but for very different reasons. ULMWP hopes the MSG can bring international attention to their struggle for self-determination, while Indonesia wants to shore up its economic position in the region.

The Indonesian diplomats demanded the flag be taken down, but the organizers ignored them, and the opening ceremony proceeded without the Indonesian delegation.

The summit resulted in a split decision over the ULMWP’s membership status. Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) of New Caledonia strongly support ULMWP, while Fiji and Papua New Guinea (PNG) — nations Indonesia has courted with sweetheart economic deals and financial support — oppose it.

The Indonesian delegations’ dramatic exit and the ensuing vote over ULMWP’s membership can help us understand long-standing political fault lines in the region that date back to the 1970s anti-colonization wave.

The MSG and Freedom

For fifty-two years, different political groups have been fighting for West Papuan independence from Indonesia. Although their ideologies differ, each has pursued a common strategy: trying to build diplomatic connections by joining the MSG.

On December 7, 2014, a historic meeting of these independence groups took place in Vanuatu. Papuan leaders from different factions of the movement came together and formed the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

This new organization consists of the three main groups — the Federal Republic State of West Papua (NRFPB), the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL), and the National Parliament of West Papua (NPWP) — that had until then waged separate struggles for Papuan self-determination. Once they joined forces, they were able to resubmit an MSG application as well as counter Indonesian claims of West Papuan division.

Since it was established, the ULMWP has enjoyed full support from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, which, along with Papua New Guinea, originally founded the MSG.

The MSG began in 1986 as a political gathering of these three independent Melanesian states. In 1989 FNLKS joined, followed by Fiji in 1996. Since then, the MSG has developed into a regional bloc with its own trade agreement. On March 23, 2007, the five members signed the Agreement Establishing the Melanesian Spearhead Group and formalized their coalition under international law.

The MSG differs from the other political grouping in the region — the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — in important ways. For one, it takes a more radical approach to human rights violations than ASEAN.

While ASEAN was founded by pro–United States countries, the MSG developed in the spirit of anticolonialism that spread throughout the region in the 1970s. American interests drive ASEAN, but the MSG’s geopolitical identity — especially its claim to represent Melanesia — was forged in its member nations’ struggle against colonial occupation.

The FNKLS’s MSG membership bears this out. The New Caledonian group doesn’t represent a nation, but a political party that has long called for its nation’s political independence from France. The MSG has played an important role in raising FNKLS’s profile globally and making the Kanak Independence Movement an international topic of discussion. The MSG’s history with FNKLS makes the group especially attractive to the West Papuan freedom fighters.

Who Are Melanesians?

An important aspect of the MSG comes from its self-identification as Melanesian, a term that describes a specific group of South Pacific residents, distinct from both the Polynesian and the Micronesian people.

Melanesia literally means “islands of the black-skinned people” and refers geographically to a subregion of Oceania that extends from the western side of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, north and northeast of Australia. Jules Dumont d’Urville first used the term in 1832, but his classification is now considered inaccurate because it ignores the area’s broad cultural, linguistic, social, and genetic diversity.

The original inhabitants of the Melanesian islands were likely the ancestors of the present-day Papuan-speaking people. They are thought to have occupied New Guinea — now divided between independent Papua New Guinea and West Papua under Indonesian control — and reached the other Melanesian islands around thirty-five thousand years ago. They appear to have settled islands as far east as the Solomons, and perhaps even farther.

Around four thousand years ago, the Austronesian people came into contact with the Melanesians along New Guinea’s north coast. A long period of interaction produced many complex changes in genetics, languages, and culture, which are mistakenly used to condense Melanesian, Polynesian, and Micronesian people into one category.

A study published by Temple University, which found that Polynesians and Micronesians have little genetic relation to Melanesians, contests this belief. In fact, it found significant diversity between the groups who live within the Melanesian islands.

Melanesians share a common bond based on identity and a growing consensus against non-Melanesian control. Vanuatu leads what can be called the Pan-Melanesian movement. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly on October 11, 1984, Vanuatu foreign minister Sela Molisa condemned the United Nations for constantly ignoring apartheid in West Papua and closing their eyes to Indonesia’s annexation of East Timor.

Even beyond the region, Indonesian control of West Papua has become a contentious issue. At a UN hearing this June, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands condemned Indonesian security forces for human rights violations in West Papua. Both countries argued that any future visits by the UN Special Reporter on Freedom of Expression should include West Papua.

The Vanuatu statement expressed its “deepest concerns on the deteriorating human rights situation,” citing regular reports of gross human rights violations in West Papua.

The Solomon Islands, meanwhile, strongly endorsed the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) forum, held in London this May. The gathering called for an internationally supervised vote on West Papua’s independence, a declaration cosigned by cross-regional parliamentarians from fifteen UN member states.

Unsurprisingly, the Indonesian representative reacted strongly, accusing both Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands of their own human rights violations.

Indonesia and Melanesia

Indonesia applied for MSG membership for the first time in 2010. It claimed that, because of its population of at least eleven million Melanesians — spreading throughout the provinces of Papua, West Papua, Maluku, North Maluku, and East Nusa Tenggara — it belonged in the regional bloc. But the country’s overtures were met with skepticism.

Most damningly, Indonesia failed to address the cultural differences between Melanesians and Polynesians. For instance, in October of last year, it organized a Melanesian Cultural Festival aiming to promote cultural pluralism and demonstrate how integral Melanesians are to the country. But the event was held in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, a Polynesian — not Melanesian — region.

Prior to the event, Indonesia brought a team to lobby the Melanesian countries, but one of the spokespeople was a Polynesian priest from East Nusa Tenggara. Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands both highlighted Indonesia’s confusion over the difference between Polynesian and Melanesian people, arguing that the people outside Papua who Indonesia likes to refer to as Melanesian are in fact Polynesian.

The confusion didn’t stop there. Indonesia invited East Timor — a Polynesian country — to participate in the cultural festival. The event opened with a dance performance billed as Papuan, but the dancers all came from Malay and Polynesia. The director of a documentary that was supposed screen at the festival pulled out, explaining that she would not let Indonesia use her movie to support its claims on Melanesia.

Indonesia quickly realized that it could not make a credible cultural claim, so the country devised a new strategy: positioning itself as an ideal economic partner for MSG countries.

It targeted Papua New Guinea first. Since their partnership, PNG’s GDP has increased 16 percent. The growing trade links and budding economic ties between the two nations are a match made in free-market heaven. They share land and water borders as well as impressive portfolios of vast natural resources and accessible transportation routes into commercial Asian markets.

Papua New Guinea’s quickly expanding middle class provides Indonesian products and services with a massive new market. And both countries have growing populations, making new labor pools available to globally competitive industries such as manufacturing and textiles. Also, thanks to improvements in information and communications technology, they benefit from newfound access to otherwise inaccessible markets and to geographically remote — yet commercially viable — sectors like agriculture and forestry.

At the invitation of PNG prime minister Peter O’Neill, Indonesian president Joko Widodo visited Port Moresby in May 2015 to negotiate cooperative economic, trade, investment, and infrastructure projects. The two leaders also agreed to increase the value of their current bilateral trade agreement beyond current trading activities in the border areas, which already reach $4.5 million a year.

The two countries have signed eleven memoranda of understanding and three agreements to strengthen their partnership based on mutual respect, O’Neill said. Papua New Guinean elites cite their willingness “to learn from Indonesia’s rich experiences in democracy.”

Next, Indonesia turned to Fiji. In April, an Indonesian delegation — led by Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs — traveled to the country. Pandjaitan met with Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama, extending $5 million in financial assistance to help the victims of Tropical Cyclone Winston, which hit Fiji in late February. Indonesia sent an additional $3 million worth of goods to aid recovery, and promised to deploy engineer troops to help reconstruct Queen Victoria School on Lawaki Island.

The engagement was welcomed by Fijian elites. Ina Seriaritu, Fiji’s minister of agriculture, rural, maritime affairs, and national disaster management openly praised Indonesia as a key player in the Asia-Pacific region, and called the country’s success in disaster management and mitigation a model. Seriaritu also hailed the two countries’ plans to intensify educational, agricultural, and economic cooperation.

Indonesia moved fast, sending Husni Kamil Manik — chairman of the Indonesian general election commission — to sign a memorandum on cooperation for election management with his Fijian counterpart.

As Indonesia’s public face in Fiji, Pandjaitan expressed his country’s keenness to become a full member of the MSG and listed Fiji as one of its strategic allies. In exchange, Fiji’s foreign minister Inoke Kubuabola remarked that the Fijian government had proposed upgrading Indonesia’s membership status to strengthen the nation’s position in the group of Melanesian countries.

These economic investments later paid off: both PNG and Fiji supported Indonesia at the MSG meeting this July. They not only endorsed Indonesia’s proposal to become a full member — the nation was granted associate member status in 2015 — but also took Indonesia’s side in debates over the criteria for membership in the regional alliance.

But Indonesia’s desire to prevent ULMWP from obtaining full membership has an important side effect: it endangers the FLNKS’s status as co-founding member. Because the FLNKS is a pro-independence political organization, its status is in many ways dependent on that of the ULMWP.

The Repression

The response to MSG in Indonesia and West Papua is telling. When Indonesia achieved associate membership status, Jakarta newspapers ignored the country’s failure to get full membership and instead focused on its successful block of ULMWP’s application.

The anticolonial party was granted observer status thanks to support from Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands at the same meeting. In stark contrast to how it was reported in the capital, ULMWP supporters in Port Numbay celebrated their new status as an internationally significant step in their lengthy diplomatic campaign.

During this year’s MSG meeting, the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) welcomed the summit by holding mass rallies. KNPB chairperson Victor Yeimo called for protesters to present a united front to the international community to increase political pressure on Indonesia. More than five hundred people were arrested over the course of the day.

These protests were not the first time Indonesia shut down a nonviolent KNPB rally. Indonesian repression against West Papua has only increased since June 2015. The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) frequently criticizes the police for their violence. According to Papua Itu Kita (“Papua Are Us”), an Indonesian solidarity network, police have arrested more than six thousand KNPB members and supporters since last summer. Mass KNPB rallies are outlawed, which grants the police and army license for repression.

Recently in Yogyakarta, pro-Indonesia militias stormed the university, harassed Papuan students, and chanted racist epithets while blockading the Kamasan dormitory. The militia group tried to break into the dorm to attack, but the students defended themselves by locking the main gate.

About one hundred students were inside without sufficient food or water. But the police were no help: when two students ventured outside to buy cassava, sweet potatoes, and vegetables for lunch, they were detained and had their food confiscated. In total, seven activists were arrested and charged with treason.

When the news spread across social media, many Indonesians showed their solidarity by collecting food, water, and other basic needs for the Papuans. The country’s Red Cross attempted to deliver aid, but police ordered it to stay away from the location. The next day, in a clear attempt at intimidation, the police held their morning muster outside the dorm.

At the same time, students in Manado and North Sulawesi were not allowed to march, and two activists were arrested and charged with treason as well. Naturally, Indonesia’s restrictions and censorship, its denial of access to international bodies, and its ban on journalists entering Papua have all failed to convince these Melanesians that they are really Indonesians.

What’s Next?

The next special MSG summit will take place before September in Vanuatu. But there are some questions that need to be settled first.

For ULMWP, the June vote marked a delay, not a full stop. The Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, ULMWP, and FLKNS just signed an agreement demanding ULMWP’s full membership status in MSG, and connecting the Kanak independence struggle against French rule with West Papua’s fight against Indonesia. The prime ministers of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, the FLKNS chairperson, and the ULMWP general secretary all signed it.

Following the agreement, this new alliance met with Polynesian and Micronesian countries in the first international meeting between these nations, political groups, and regional alliances in the Pacific.

Indonesia, on the other hand, continues to tout its success in stalling the ULMWP’s diplomatic aims. Indonesian media repeats state propaganda, referring to the ULMWP as a separatist group that only represents a small part of exiled Papuans.

The majority of Indonesians believe that the problems in West Papua can be solved with more development. They praised the Widodo regime for expanding infrastructure — by grabbing hundreds of acres of indigenous land — and building schools that assimilate Papuan children into the Indo-Malay culture.

For example, they encourage Papuans to have a “more civilized way of life” by eating rice instead of sago. But this is really because sago forests are being converted into palm oil, pulp, and paper mega-plantations. This exploitative economic relationship is one reason why Indonesia will put up a vicious fight to prevent Papuan independence.

At the same time, another group of Indonesians believe that the Papuan demand for self-determination can be resolved by addressing the dozens of open human rights violation cases. They call on the Indonesian government to form separate independent bodies to address each case.

Another faction calls for a “democratic solution”: holding a “peace dialogue as one nation” between Jakarta and the Papuan people. All the extrajudicial killings, all the land grabs, and all the long-term discrimination and racism will be solved through dialogue, and the self-determination demand will be forgotten.

But with each passing day this liberal solution looks more and more far-fetched. Independence is the only solution.

August 10, 2016 0

Amunggut Tabi: Tinggalan Egoisme Individualis dan Mari Sepenuhnya Dukung ULMWP

Amunggut Tabi dari Markas Pusat Pertahanan Tentara Revolusi West Papua menyatakan memang “perjuangan dan pengorbanan ialah dua sisi mata uang yang satu“. Setiap perjuangan pasti ada pengorbanannya, tetapi kita harus mengajukan tiga pertanyaan penting:

Pengorbanan apa yang pantas pada waktu kapan?
Berapa banyak dan berapa lama pengorbanan harus kita berikan? dan
Apakah pengorbanan itu dipersembahkan secara berencana ataukah sporadis?

Amunggut Tabi kembali mengajak semua pejuang dan aktivis, organisasi dan tokoh Papua Merdeka untuk belajar dari Persipura Jayapura dan Persiwa Wamena, dari kesebelasan di dunia seperti Barcelona dan Mancester City.

Yang harus diperhatikan ialah “irama” dan “momentum”, karena keduanya tidak selalu sama setiap saat. Itulah sebabnya semua pihak harus sadar, bahwa irama saat ini ialah “Irama Melanesia-hood”, dan momentum saat ini ialah “momentum MSG dan ULMWP”. Oleh karena itu, semua pihak, termasuk TRWP, PNWP, KNPB, AMP, DeMMAK, FNRPB, OPMRC, TPN-PB, TPN/OPM, siapapun, di manapun, semua harus memainkan peran masing-masing sesuai dengan “irama” dam “momentum” ini.

Dari sini kita tahu “pengorbanan apa yang pantas” untuk waktu ini, bukan? Kita harus berjuang, bukan dengan aksi-aksi militeristik dan premanisme politik, kita harus bermain secara elegan dan presentable kepada pentas diplomasi regional dan global. Kita harus memainkan politik ini menjadi sebuah “fashionable issue” di kawasan dan secara global.

Untuk membuatnya menjadi “fashionable” dan elegan, maka semua pihak harus “menahan diri” dan “memberikan kepercayaan sepeunuhnya kepada ULMWP untuk memainkan perannya. NRFPB, PNWP, KNPB, TPN-PB, TRWP jangan bawa diri ke sana kemari mengatasnamakan kelompok kecil lagi. Kita harus persembahkan “waktu ini, 2015-2017” untuk ULMWP agar embrio ini terbentuk menjadi telur, dan tahun-tahun berikutnya telur dimaksud menetas dan menjadi anak.

Mempersembahkan untuk perjuangan bukan hanya harga dan nyawa, dan tenaga kita, ia berarti juga “menghilangkan jejak pribadi dan organisasi kita atas nama kebersamaan untuk tujuan bersama kita”. Persembahan yang mulia, kalau demi kepentingan bersama kita berani dengan sengaja menghilangkan nama-nama, identitas dan slogan-slogan kelompok kecil.

Terlihat banyak aktivis KNPB, PNWP, TPN-PB, WPNCL dan sebagainya keluyuran melakukan wisata politik ke sana-kemari, mendukung ULMWP tetapi sebenarnya mereka membawa agenda pribadi mengobati egoisme masing-masing adalah sebuah wisata yang konyol, karena itu tidak menyehatkan buat embrio politik kita bersama: ULMWP.

Justru cara ini membunuh embrio kita, yang kita lahirkan. Kita menjadi kanibal politik, membunuh anak politik yang kita lahirkan sendiri. Itu sejarah hidup dari perjuangan Papua Merdeka, bukan? Itu wajah tokoh Papua Merdeka selama ini, bukan? Pendiri OPM menyerahkan diri, bukan? Tokoh OPM menjadi pelayan NKRI, bukan? Mendirikan OPM, lalu bubar dan mendirikan cabang-cabang OPM, bukan? Kanibalisme Politik dalam sejarah perjuangan West Papua sangat menyedihkan. Oleh karena itu surat ini kami dari TRWP sampaikan sebelum embrio ULWMP ini terlanjur dimakan mati oleh organ-organ dan tokoh-tokoh perjuangan Papua Merdeka sendiri.

Kita berulang kali melakukan Politik Bunuh Diri (commit suicidal politics) karena kita tidak tahu mengelola egoisme individualisme kita. Kita tidak sanggup mengelola keberagaman organisasi perjuangan dan suku-bangsa kita. Kita belum mampu melihat perbedaan ini sebagai modal dasar. Kita mengatasnamakan perjuangan, kita mengatasnamakan organisasi, tetapi sebenarnya yang kita lakukan ialah memupuk dan mengobati “egoisme individualis” oknum aktivis dan tokoh Papua Merdeka.

Makanya, kalau berani mengalahkan dan percaya bisa mengalahkan NKRI, maka pertama-tama “harus berani, dan pastikan sudah mengalahkan egoisme individualistik pribadi dan kelompok”. Kalau tidak, jangan coba-coba bermain di air keruh, jangan coba-coba berwisata politik seolah-olah atas nama West Papua. Karena kami dari Rima Raya New Guinea telah menjadi guru-guru perjuangan, dari pengalaman hidup pribadi dan dari pengalaman hidup organisasi perjuangan yang penuh dengan resiko pertumpahan darah dan nyawa orang Papua sendiri.

Kami berikan catatan ini karena kami sudah melihat fenomna yang menghawatirkan. Kami saksi hidup! Kami sendiri telah menjalani dan telah sanggup melewati babak gelap dan kelam dalam perjuagnan ini.

Dengan mengelola egoisme individualis yang mengatasnamakan, maka kita bisa memperpendek atau juga memperpanjang rentang waktu perjuangan Papua Merdeka. Mengapa Timor Leste yang mulai berjuang 10 tahun setelah perjuangan kemerdekaan West Papua dimulai saja sudah puluhan tahun duluan merdeka? Bukankah itu karena kita belum sanggup mengalahkan egoisme dan individualisme diri sendiri?

Untuk mengetahui berapa lama dan berapa sumberdaya, kita haruslah punya “Anggaran Belanja Perjuangan Papua Merdeka”.

Di dalam negeri kita sudah menang, di dunia maya kita sudah menang, di kawasan Melanesia kita juga sudah menang. Di Pasifik Selatan juga kita pemenang. Yang belum kita kalahkan ialah “individualisme” perseorangan dan individualisme kelompok kecil.

Seharusnya, setelah ULMWP berdiri, secara teori, begitu ULMWP diterima ke dalam keluarga besar MSG, kita semua harus serta-merta menanggalkan atribut, nama dan embel-embel organisasi kita. Kita harus menyatukan barisan, mengatur nada dan irama, mengoptimalkan momentum ini demi kemerdekaan West Papua.

Sekarang saatnya ULMWP muncul sebagai sebuah organisasi perjuangan, sebagai sebuah Lembaga Resmi menuju sebuah Pemerintahan West Papua. ULMWP harus berani membuka diri, menerima semua pihak orang Papua, baik pro-NKRI maupun pro-Papua Merdeka. ULMWP ialah wadah orang-orang West Papua, karena itu dalam kepengurusannya harus melihatkan semua orang Papua, baik di dalam negeri maupun di luar negeri, baik di kota dan kampung maupun di hutan-rimba.

Kita harus belajar dari teladan yang telah diberikan oleh teman-teman seperjuangan kita yang kita selama ini sebuat sebagai “Kelompok-14”. Demi kepentingan bersama, mereka secara stuktural dan sistematis telah meninggalkan atribut Bintang Empatbelas dan mendukung Bintang Satu dalam rangka agenda bersama mengusir penjajah. Tokoh Papua Merdeka dan organisasi Papua Merdeka lain harus belajar dari mereka.

Perjalanan yang pahit, sungguh pahit antara kelompok gerilyawan Pemka dibawah komado Jacob Hendrick Pray dengan Komando Markas Victoria (Marvic) di bawah komado Seth Jafeth Roemkorem telah berakhir setelah para perwira TRWP yang telah menjelma dari barisan Pemka bersama tokoh politik mereka, Dr. OPM John Otto Ondawame bersatu dan membangun WPPRO bersama barisan OPM Marvic Senior OPM Andy Ayamiseba dan Senior OPM Rex Rumakiek di Port Vila, Republik Vanuatu tahun 2004 dan 2005.

Terbentuklah WPNCL, sebagai wujud dan bukti persatuan antara OPM Pemka dan OPM Victoria.

Dengan persatuan kubu gerilyawan, maka telah tiba saatnya untuk bersatu membangun harmonisasi dengan kelompok Bintang-14. Dan ULMWP ialah hasil dari harmonisasi, dan “pengorbanan nyata” dari semua pihak, terutama pengorbanan identias dan organisasi masing-masing untuk kebersamaan. Orang Papua sudah sanggup mengorbankan nyawa, harga, waktu dan identitas organisasi masing-masing demi kepentingan bersama: Papua Merdeka.

Kami dari Tentara Revolusi West Papua, sejak tahun 2000 telah memberikan mandat penuh agar bergulir sebuah proses politik dengan memberikan Surat Mandat kepada PDP dan AMP (Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua), perjuangan lewat Free West Papua Campaign. Lebih-lebih tahun 2006, dengan pemisahan organisasi politik dan militer, maka Tentara Revolusi West Papua memfokuskan diri semata-mata untuk perjuangan dengan mengangkat senjata, menjauhkan diri dari segala bentuk dan kegiatan sipil dan politik, membatasi diri kepada memberikan dukungan moril dan doa.

Sekarang kita sudah punya ULMWP. Sekarang saatnya untuk kita masing-masing

mengorbankan egoisme individualis pribadi masing-masing tokoh
mengambil langkah-langkah strategis dan taktis dalam rangka menyelamatkan ULMWP sebagai embrio Pemerintahan Negara West Papua.

Untuk itu, kami dari rimbaraya New Guinea, atas nama tulang-belulang, leluhur, anak-cucuk Pencipta Langit dan Bumi, menyerukan kepada semua pihak untuk

menyatukan barisan dan mendukung semua kebijakan ULMWP, mendukung dengan sepenuhnya dalam doa, dana, waktu dan tenaga.

Dikeluarkan di: Secretariat-General TRWP, MPP

Pada Tanggal: 18 Juli 2016

An. Panglima Tertinggi Komando Revolusi,

Amunggut Tabi, Lt. Gen. TRWP
BRN: A.DF 018676

July 19, 2016 0

Brigjend Richard Joweni, Sosok Tentara dan Diplomat Revolusioner

Author : Admin Jubi, October 19, 2015 at 08:55:07 WP, Editor : Victor Mambor

Upacara Penguburan Richard Joweni, TabloidJubi.com

Jayapura, Jubi – Seluruh rakyat Papua terlebih Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Papua Barat (TPN) telah berduka atas kehilangan sosok pemimpin kharismatik Brigjen Richard Joweni. Pria bernama lengkap Uria Hans Joweni ini sebelumnya telah dikabarkan meninggal dunia pada Jumat 16 Oktober 2015, pukul 23.00 WP dalam usia 72 tahun.

Sebelum meninggal, Richard Joweni sempat dibawa ke rumah sakit Vanimo untuk mendapat pengobatan karena menderita sakit pada saluran pencernaan dan juga karena kelemahan fisik akibat usia senja. Sebab ia telah menghabiskan lebih dari separuh hidupnya atau selama 48 tahun dengan bergerilya di belantara Papua.

Kepergiannya telah meninggalkan luka yang mendalam, terlebih bagi 3 orang anaknya yang ditinggalkan karena sebelumnya istrinya telah lebih dahulu meninggal pada tanggal 22 September lalu karena sakit. Dari riwayat hidupnya, almarhum yang juga pemimpin tertinggi komando Tentara Revolusioner Pembebasan Papua Barat (TRP PB) ini lahir pada 3 Desember 1943 di sebuah kampung di Teluk Wondama, Papua Barat.

Sebagai pemimpin komando tertinggi TRP PB, ia mengepalai 9 Kodap dan 10 Kodam di beberapa wilayah dan sebagian berada di wilayah Pegunungan Papua. Joweni juga merupakan ketua Koalisi Nasional Papua Barat untuk Pembebasan atau West Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL) yang tergabung dalam United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) dalam memperjuangkan persoalan Papua Barat lewat cara diplomasi di forum MSG (Melanesian Spearhead Group) dan Pasific Island Forum (PIF).

Selain bergerilya, sosok Richard Joweni juga dikenal sebagai seorang diplomat yang pernah melobi sejumlah pimpinan negara-negera Melanesia di Pasifik Selatan untuk mendukung perjuangan kemerdekaan Papua Barat. Atas jasa-jasa perjuangannya dan selaku pimpinan tertinggi Tentara Revolusioner Pembebasan Papua Barat (TRP PB), ia kemudian dianugerahi pangkat Jenderal Gerilya (Anumerta) pada saat prosesi pemakaman jenasah yang berlangsung secara militer di Markas Pusat TRP PB Kampung Endokisi Yokari, Tanah Merah Kabupaten Jayapura.

Menurut Jonah Wenda selaku juru bicara Dewan Militer TRP PB, selain sebagai seorang pejuang yang gigih bergerilya di hutan, Richard Joweni dikenal sebagai sosok kharismatik dalam memimpin perjuangan menuju pembebasan nasional bangsa Papua Barat. “Ia telah mengajarkan cara-cara berjuang secara bermartabat, damai dan menghargai orang lain,” kenang Wenda.

Selanjutnya untuk mengisi kekosongan kepemimpinan sementara di tubuh TRP PB, kata Wenda, kolonel Amos Serondanya selaku kepala staf Angkatan Darat telah ditunjuk sementara untuk menggantikan posisi Richard Joweni hingga ada penentuan pemimpin tertinggi tetap. Penentuan itu akan dilakukan setelah 14 hari berkabung yang ditandai dengan penaikan bendera bintang kejora setengah tiang di sejumlah Kodam dan Kodap yang dikendalikan oleh markas TRP PB.
Upacara pemakaman jenasah almahum Richard Joweni berlangsung dengan penuh hikmah karena diawali oleh ibadah pelepasan dan kemudian dilanjutkan dengan prosesi penguburan peti jenasah ke liang lahat secara militer. Prosesi ini juga ditandai dengan tembakan salvo sebanya 3 kali ke udara sebagai penghormatan bagi almarhum.

Almarhum Richard Joweni telah bergabung sebagai anggota gerilyawan OPM pada tahun 1968 saat masih berusia 25 tahun. Sebelumnya ia sempat bekerja sebagai staf pegawai di masa Pemerintahan Belanda di Papua. Saat bergerilya di masa kepemimpinan Seth Rumkorem, sejumlah jabatan strategis pernah disandangnya hingga kemudian ia diberi mandat menjadi pemimpin tertinggi Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Papua Barat (TPN PB) hingga akhir hayatnya. (J. Howay)

October 19, 2015 2

MSG rejects West Papua membership bid

4:48 pm on 29 June 2015, RadioNZNews

The Melanesian Spearhead Group has knocked back West Papua’s bid to become a full member of the group, while elevating Indonesia’s status.

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The Melanesian Spearhead Group has knocked back West Papua’s bid to become a full member of the group, while elevating Indonesia’s status.

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua hoped to follow in the footsteps of New Caledonia’s FLNKS in obtaining full MSG membership, without being a sovereign government.

This would have been Papua’s first recognition in an international fora since the region was incorporated into Indonesia.

Koroi Hawkins has more.

“Let us not forget the dreams and wishes of our people to be part of a Melanesian family. The desire of our people for an inclusive MSG. An MSG that is able to stand for what is right in the world, where such values are now struggling to survive.”

It was a passionate speech by Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare at the opening of the MSG Leaders Summit in Honiara on Wednesday.

One that brought tears to the eyes of the members of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua delegation present and sparked hope in West Papuan Leaders such as Benny Wenda.

“I think his speech is the really amazing ever and I think now its time for the Melanesian leaders to show the world that they can handle this problem because this is the longest struggle, 50 years is enough that’s why it is time for Melanesian leaders to look at this issue and bring West Papua into Melanesia.”

And bring them in they did. But not in the way Benny Wenda or anyone else for that matter had envisioned.

The MSG rejected the ULM bid for membership and instead granted them observer status, with an interesting twist, while elevating Indonesia’s own observer status to that of associate member.

A Solomon Islands academic Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, who is an associate professor at the University of Hawaii’s school of Pacific Island Studies, says the latter decision is the most disappointing for Melanesians.

“Not so much for the fact that West Papua has been admitted only as an observer member but for the fact the Indonesia has been made a member of the MSG. I think thats the big dissappointment. On the other hand the fact that West Papua has been accorded an observer status is a good thing its a step in the right direction.”

But a spokesperson from the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra Sade Bimantara says its associate membership is a positive step for Melanesia.

“We believe that we can contribute to the Melanesian Spearhead Group. Add value to that and also to increase connectivity between people in the Asia Pacific with those Melanesian descendants in Indonesia.

For the ULM however there is only gratitude for what Benny Wenda describes simply as recognition.

“You know 53 years we, our voice never recognised and in the regional and international fora so this is why this is the first step for West Papua to become an observer in the Melanesian Spearhead Group.”

But the observer status comes with conditions that say the ULMWP is representing West Papuans outside of West Papua. A clause Dr Kabutaulaka says ignores the representative status already held by the ULM.

“To imply that it only represents people outside West Papua is in a way say that, you know, it is not really a legitimate representation of West Papuans and therefore when it comes to serious discussions it could be disregarded.”

And this was raised by Indonesia delegation in Honiara right off the bat according to Papua based journalist, Victor Mambor who was in Honiara for the summit.

Reading from an Indonesian statement released in response to the United Liberation Movement for West Papua’s speech in acceptance of its observer status, Victor Mambor said Indonesia rejected the ULM’s allegations of human rights abuses in West Papua as well as the ULM’s claim that it represented the people of West Papua.

“Listening to the statement of the observer calling itself ULMWP, I wonder if their participation in the MSG will contribute to its noble causes and principles. We categorically reject all these unfounded and false allegations made against the government of Indonesia.”

But Benny Wenda says to him the clause is irrelevant given the make up of the ULM and the extent to which the group has gone to make sure it was representative of the people of West Papua.

“They chose us as a leader of speaking out on behalf of people of West Papua. And this is representing people inside and outside which some of them live in exile, so we are representing people of West Papua.”

The full extent of the decisions made by MSG Leaders in Honiara this week are yet to play out in the region but a contrast can be taken in comparing the reactions of the two parties concerned.

First Indonesia.

“Indonesia is populated by about 253 million people. So this is a potential large market access for citizens of MSG. So if we can work together you know to increase our economic ties and development I think we can enhance the prosperity of our peoples.”

And secondly West Papua.

“We United Liberation Movement to pursue another further push to full membership. That is what we will fight for next step.

June 29, 2015 0

Selamat dan Sukses kepada PNWP, NRFPB dan WPNCL atas Sosialisasi ULMWP

Dari Markas Pusat Pertahanan Tentara Revolusi West Papua menyampaikan

SELAMAT DAN SUKSES!

atas penyelenggaraan Sosialisasi Hasil Workshop West Papua yang telah berlangsung di Republik Vanuatu akhir tahun lalu.

Selanjutnya dari Markas Pusat Pertahanan kami mengusulkan kepada organ politik dan perwakilan rakyat yang mensosialisasikan perkembangan politik dan diplomasi Papua Merdeka ini agar

menyebarluaskan informasi perkembangan dimaksud kepada semua pihak, termasuk kepada pemerintah dan penduduk Indonesia di seluruh wilayah NKRI;
membentuk pusat informasi dan sosialiasi di seluruh Tanah Papua dari Sorong sampai Samarai;
menghadap pejabat NKRI di Tanah Papua dan Jakarta dengan tujuan melaporkan perkembangan yang sedang terjadi dengan tujuan melibatkan Pemerintah Indonesia agar mulai memberikan tanggapan terhadap perkembangan politik dan diplomasi yang sedang berkembang di kawasan Melanesia. Mengabaikan Indonesia dari permainan kita sama saja dengan mengabaikan fakta bahwa NKRI saat ini menduduki dan menjajah Tanah dan bangsa Papua. Baik Perdana Menteri Papua New Guinea maupun Menteri Luar Negerinya secara berulang-ualng telah sampaikan kepada media dan kita semua bahwa Indonesia harus dilibatkan dalam upaya diplomasi dan politik Papua Merdeka. Oleh karena itu, kita bangsa Papua dengan besar hati wajib membuka diri kepada masyarakat dan bangsa Indonesia dengan mensosialisasikan hasil Workshop West Papua di Vanuatu dan mengajak mereka bertukar-pikiran dan informasi dalam rangka membangun kerjasama dan saling-pengertian di antara kita sesuai dengan harapan dari orang Papua yang kini menjabat sebagai Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Luar Negeri PNG.TRWP telah menyimak sejumlah politisi Papua Merdeka menolak berkonsultasi dengan Indonesia. Kami menilai sikap seperti ini tidak bijak, dan tidak menunjukkan profesionalitas kita dalam berpolitik dan berdiplomasi. Saudara-saudara politisi dan diplomat Papua Merdeka seharusnya menunjukkan kedewasaan diri dalam berpolitik dan berdiplomasi dengan cara melibatkan Indonesia dalam keseluruhan proses lamaran ke MSG dan tindak-lanjut daripadanya.
Perdana Menteri PNG, yaitu orang Papua di Timur pulau New Guinea telah katakan kita jalankan “politics of engagement” dengan Indonesia, yang artinya kita mengundang Indonesia untuk mau melibatkan diri dalam pentas politik antar-bangsa terkait isu-isu West Papua. Mengeluarkan Indonesia dari politik Melanesia sama saja dengan memandang masalah Papua ialah urusan dalam negeri Indonesia secara pribadi dan menyangkal PNG sebagai satu kesatuan Papua sama saja dengan meneguhkan kleim NKRI bahwa West Papua ialah bagian dari NKRI dan oleh karena itu, apapun yang dikatakan pemimpin Papua di Papua New Guinea tidak perlu diikuti oleh masyarakat Papua di West Papua.

Semua komponen perjuangan Papua Merdeka sudah bersatu Atas dasar persatuan ini, maka sudah waktunya kita mengundang Indonesia untuk terlibat dalam menjelaskan apa yang sedang terjadi di tanah leluhur bangsa Papua di pulau New Guinea bagian Barat sejak tahun 1960 sampai hari ini (tahun 2015).

Dikeluarkan di: MPP TRWP

Pada tanggal: 04 Maret 2015

Amunggut Tabi, Lt. Gen. TRWP Mathias Wenda, Gen. TRWP

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March 4, 2015 2

West Papua’s Saralana Declaration most vital unity development for 52 years

A unified movement represents a new hope for West Papuans to continue building momentum for their self-determination struggle in spite of allegations of a new atrocity in Paniai by Indonesian security forces this week, writes Ben Bohane from Port Vila.

IN A gathering of West Papuan leaders in Vanuatu earlier this month, different factions of the independence movement united to form a new body called the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).

In kastom ceremonies that included pig-killing and gifts of calico, kava and woven mats, West Papuan leaders embraced each other in reconciliation and unity while the Prime Minister of Vanuatu, church groups and chiefs looked on. The unification meeting was facilitated by the Pacific Council of Churches.

The new organisation unites the three main organisations and several smaller ones who have long struggled for independence. By coming together to present a united front, they hope to re-submit a fresh application for membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) as well as countering Indonesian claims that the West Papuan groups are divided.

The divisions have tended to be more about personalities than any real policy differences since all the groups have been pushing for the same thing: independence from Indonesia. But the apparent differences had sown some confusion and gave cover to Fiji and others in the region to say the movement was not united and therefore undeserving of a seat at the MSG so far.

This narrative has been challenged by other leaders in the region, such as the Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman, who said that the very fact the West Papuans are a Melanesian people gives them the automatic right to be represented by the MSG.

Following the unification gathering, newly elected spokesperson for the ULMWP Benny Wenda said: “We West Papuans are united in one group and one struggle now.” Wenda claimed this was the most important gathering of West Papuan leaders since the struggle began 52 years ago.

Key groups united

The key groups to have united include the Federal Republic of West Papua (NRFPB); National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL) and National Parliament of West Papua (NPWP), which incorporates the KPNB (National Committee for West Papua). An external secretariat consisting of five elected members from the various groups will now co-ordinate the ULMWP. Octovianus Mote, a former journalist who has been based in the US for many years, has been elected general secretary of the ULMWP.

Benny Wenda is the spokesperson and the other three elected members are Rex Rumakiek, Leone Tangahma and Jacob Rumbiak.

“The ULMWP is now the only recognised co-ordinating body to lead the campaign for MSG membership and continue the campaign for independence from Indonesia.”

General secretary Mote said at the close of the unification meeting: “I am honoured to be elected and very happy we are now all united. The ULMWP is now the only recognised co-ordinating body to lead the campaign for MSG membership and continue the campaign for independence from Indonesia.”

In a speech outside the Chief’s Nakamal (the hut which serves as a focal point for all the chiefs of Vanuatu), Mote spoke of the urgency of their situation. He quoted economist Dr Jim Elmslie, whose demographic projections suggest that Papuans will comprise only 29 percent of the population by 2020, highlighting the massive transmigration program that continue to bring settlers in from around Indonesia. Indigenous Papuans are already a minority in their own land – and Mote warned that once West Papua is fully “Asianised” then Papua New Guinea would be next.

Papua New Guinea is already under sustained pressure from Indonesia, witnessed by the last minute blocking of a charter flight organised for 70 delegates, many of whom had travelled for weeks through the jungle of West Papua to reach PNG, from leaving Jackson’s International Airport in Port Moresby. Peter O’Neill’s PNG government had originally organised and paid for the charter to get delegates to the Vanuatu meeting but appears to have succumbed to Indonesian anger. In the end five of the 70 delegates marooned in Port Moresby found commercial flights and got to Port Vila in time for the final day’s signing ceremony, which became known as the Saralana Declaration.

While Indonesia dangles the carrot of “assistance” and supporting Fiji and PNG’s bid for ASEAN membership, other Melanesian nations are not so easily bought. No-one could accuse Vanuatu or its successive Prime Ministers of bowing to Indonesian pressure – the issue has bipartisan support there and has become a domestic political issue. Vanuatu’s current Prime Minister Joe Natuman gave full state support for the West Papuan gathering saying he didn’t care if Indonesia cut diplomatic relations with Vanuatu.

Traditional celebration
On December 1, the day West Papuans traditionally celebrate their independence day, Vanuatu’s leaders joined a large rally of supporters who marched through the capital Port Vila, led by the VMF (Vanuatu Mobile Force) marching band in uniform. Prime Minister Natuman was present at a flag raising ceremony which hoisted both the Vanuatu flag and West Papuan Morning Star independence flag. Indonesia promptly sent a “warning” to Vanuatu with unspecified threats.

West Papuan delegates were moved by Vanuatu’s support and spoke emotionally about ongoing atrocities and repression in their homeland. Even as they united, reports of more killings surfaced this week.

General Secretary Mote told me the next step is for the new movement to re-submit their MSG application for membership between February and March next year, with MSG leaders expected to make a decision when they meet in the Solomon Islands in June 2015.

No doubt some internal tensions will remain, given the tribal diversity of West Papua and its traditionally de-centralised leadership, but the newly unified movement under the ULMWP represents the best chance yet for the Papuans to continue building momentum for their struggle.

Ben Bohane is communications director of the Vanuatu-based Pacific Institute of Public Policy and writes for PiPP’s Pacific Politics blog.

Source: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/

December 13, 2014 0

Sope applauded at West Papua devotion

Special Advice r to the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation, Barak Sope, was applauded when he was introduced to the West Papua Unification Meeting devotion in the Chiefs Nakamal yesterday morning.

Vanuatu Daily Post – By Len Garae Dec 5, 2014

The Head of the Pacific Conference of Churches Delegation Pastor Francois, and the Chairman of the West Papua Unification Organising Committee, Pastor Allan Nafuki both welcomed his presence saying it is vital for the spirit of the Meeting.

Sope who sat throughout the morning devotion, which ended at 12.30pm said as he was leaving, that what is happening in Port Vila now is a living example for other Governments to consider doing to support the people of West Papua.

“Vanuatu has dared to take the stand to support the struggle of the people of West Papau because no other country in the world has made such a humanitarian offer to the West Papuans,” he said.

At the beginning it was Sope who brought the Black Brothers Band to Vanuatu who used to perform to fundraise for the Vanuaaku Pati while at the same time, doing public awareness through its music about the West Papua struggle for freedom.

The first time that the ni Vanuatu public realised just how serious the struggle was when a member of the band assaulted an Indonesian tourist outside the Fung Kuei shop when a tourist liner was in port.

Sope has been close to the West Papua struggle throughout his adult life and even adopted Andy Ayamiseba into his family as his brother.

Ayamiseba is the West Papua Head of Mission in Vanuatu, who is currently recovering at Vila Central Hospital following the amputation of his right leg due to non communicable disease.

In the latest development, former Prime Minister and present Leader of Opposition Moana Carcasses also joined the devotion and stayed for approximately 15 minutes.

It was Carcasses when he was Prime Minister that he delivered a highly powerful address at a UN special committee in Geneva on March 6 of this year, against the reports of human rights abuse allegedly caused by the Indonesian military on West Papuans.

His address rocked the superpowers and reverberated round the world.

December 12, 2014 0

West Papuans Unite Under New Umbrella Group

Vanuatu Daily Post – By Godwin Ligo Dec 10, 2014 0

The historic gathering of West Papuan leaders in Vanuatu from different factions in the independence movement have united,Saturday and formed a new body called the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).

This new organisation unites the three main organisations who have long struggled for independence in their own way.Coming together to present a united front will allow them to re-submit a fresh application for membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) as well as countering Indonesian claims that the West Papuan groups are divided.

“The negotiations and kastom ceremonies attended by leaders of all the major groups and observed by the chiefs, churches and the government of Vanuatu demonstrates that West Papuans are united in one group and one struggle,”the West Papuan Leaders said at the conclusion of their deliberations at the Chiefs nakamal in Port Vila on Saturday afternoon.

The key groups who have united include the:Federal Republic of West Papua (NRFPB), National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL) and the National Parliament of West Papua (NPWP). An external secretariat consisting of five elected members from the various groups will now co-ordinate the ULMWP activities. Octovianus Mote has been elected as General Secretary of the ULMWP while Benny Wenda is the spokesperson and the other three elected members are Rex Rumakiek, Leone Tangahma and Jacob Rumbiak.

General Secretary Mote said at the close of the unification meeting, “I am honoured to be elected and very happy we are now all united.

The ULMWP is now the only recognized coordinating body to lead the campaign for MSG membership and continue the campaign for independence from Indonesia”.

The ULMWP wishes to express its profound gratitude to the government of Vanuatu, the Malvatumaurii Council of Chiefs, the Vanuatu Christian Council of Churches and the Pacific Council of Churches who have facilitated the week long meeting of delegates, who came from West Papua and around the world to unite after 52 years of struggle,a press statement issued at the conclusion of the Meeting stated.

The signing of the Chiefs Nakamal Declaration for West Papua Unity,last Saturday afternoon was witnessed by Prime Minister Joe Natuman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade Ham Lini, Minister for Lands Ralph Regenvanu,Port Vila MP Edward Natapei,Malvatumauri President Chief Senio Mao Tirsupegovernment officials, church leaders,Chiefs and other community leaders,the members of the delegations of the three West Papuan Group and general members of the public.

The Declaration that was signed by leaders of the three West Papuan Group read:

“We the undersigned; the Federal Republic for West Papua (NRFPB), West Papua National Coalition of Liberation(WPNCL),West Papua National Parliament(WPNP/NewGuinea Raad),have conducted the Summit on West Papua,we do declare that today the 6th December 2014 at the Chiefs Nakamal,at Saralanga,Port Vila,Vanuatu,that the undersigned groups have united and established the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP),a body representing all resistance organizations both inside and outside West Papua.

“We declare and claim that all West Papuans,both inside and outside West Papua,are united under this new body and will continue our struggle for Independence.

“This meeting has been conducted pursuant to the decision made by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) in Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea in June 2014,that West Papuan Independence organizations must first unite before an application for membership can be re-submitted to the Melanesian Spearhead Group(MSG). We are now united and will re-submit an application under this new body, the ULMWP.

“We are determined that the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) becomes the Coordinating Body to support all international efforts to regain our sovereignty. In order to support this,we have formed a secretariat of five people;Benny Wenda,Jacob Rumbiak,Leone Tanggahma,Octovianus Mote and Rex Rumakiek,and representing the three largest resistance organizations and also all non-affiliated resistance organizations that support our struggle. We will maintain our existing organizations but commit to be united by the coordinating efforts of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

“This important and historic declaration has been made possible through the faithful efforts of the Vanuatu Government,Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs,the Vanuatu Christian Council (VCC),the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) and the commitment of the liberation organizations.”

After the signing ceremony,the President of the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs and members of the Port Vila Council of Chiefs facilitated a reunification custom ceremony, for the three West Papuan Groups after many years of operating separately.

West Papua Reunification Committee chairman Pastor Allen Nafuki said, “The organizing committeeis very pleased with the outcome of the Meeting which achieved its objectives very successfully through deliberations and good understanding of all the three West Papuan Groups as well as the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs,the Port Vila Council of Chiefs, the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), the Vanuatu Christian Council (VCC), with the full support of the Vanuatu Government lead by the Prime minister Natuman, the Deputy PM,ministers present on Saturday and the people of Vanuatu.

“This could not have been achieved with the understanding of everyone involved,especially the three Groups of West Papua with their leaders and members of their delegations, the Vanuatu Government, the Malvatumauri, VCC and the PCC and many others support. The meeting has achieved its objectives for which we are all proud of and are thankful to God for His guidance.”

The signing was signed by three leaders representing the three West Papua Groups and witnessed by the President of the Malvatumauri chiefTirsupe,Pastor Kalsakau Urtalo on behalf of the VCC,Mr. Murray Isimeli, of the PCC and Vanuatu’s and former Vanuatu prime minister Barak Sope.

Details of the reconciliation ceremony along with various important speeches from different parties involved will be carried by the Daily Post in forthcoming issues.

December 10, 2014 0

Port Vila berparade untuk Kemerdekaan West Papua

Posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 12:00 am, By Len Garae | Vanuatu Daily Post, diterjemahkan PMNews

Kemarin pagi Port Vila bangun dengan gegap gempita menyambut marching dari Brigade Mobil (Brimob) Brass Band dan pukulan yang membuat semua mata mau melihatnya, saat mereka memimpin paradanya melewati Ibukota menuju ke bukit di mana Bendera Bintang Kejora telah berkibar berdampingan dengan Bendera Vanuatu di Saralana yang dikibarkan oleh para pejuang kemerdekaan dari Vanuatu.

Sejumlah orang melambaikan bendera West Papua dipimpin oleh Perdana Menteri dan anggota kabinetnya dan delegasi dari West Papua yang telha tiba pada waktunya untuk mengambil bagian dari Pertemuan Unifikasi di Rumah Adat (Nakamal) para Kepala Suku dalam waktu tiga hari dimulai dari hari ini

December 3, 2014 1