OCEANIA Interrupted , MAORI NATION OF NATIONS FIGHT FOR WEST PAPUA
1) OCEANIA Interrupted , MAORI NATION OF NATIONS FIGHT FOR WEST PAPUA
2) 50 Years of the Violation of Basic Human Rights in West Papua: Part Two:
2) 50 Years of the Violation of Basic Human Rights in West Papua: Part Two:
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A google translate of article in Jubi. Be-aware google translate can be a bit erratic.
original bahasa link at
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1) OCEANIA Interrupted , MAORI NATION OF NATIONS FIGHT FOR WEST PAPUA
Author : Victor Mambor on March 9 , 2014 at 21:32:16 WP
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Interrupted Action 3 Free Pasifika - Free West Papua ( Tanu Gago /
Oceania Interrupted )
Action Oceania Interrupted Action 3 Free Pasifika - Free West Papua ( Oceania Interrupted / Tanu Gago )
Jayapura , 9/3 ( Jubi ) - An intervention action Maori in New Zealand to
support the struggle of people of West Papua amid Pasifika Festival in
Auckland .
Action called Oceania Interrupted Action 3 Free Pasifika - Free West
Papua was conducted by 14 female Maori , the Marama Davidson , Ruiha
Epiha , Talafungani Finau , Leilani Kake , Moe Games - Fa'aofo ,
Genevieve Pini , Amiria Puia - Taylor , Leilani Salesa , Luisa Tora ,
Mele Uhamaka , Asenaca Uluiviti , Leilani Unasa , Julie Wharewera - Mika
, Elyssia Wilson - Heti .
This action , according to one viewer , performed as a public
intervention in the Pasifika Festival , to provide support for the
struggle of the people of Papua self-determination .
Action Oceania Interrupted Action 3 Free Pasifika - Free West Papua ( Tanu Gago / Oceania Interrupted )
Action Oceania Interrupted Action 3 Free Pasifika - Free West Papua ( Oceania Interrupted / Tanu Gago )
" Our mouth is closed with the Morning Star flag is a symbol of
silencing in West Papua . " Says Marama Davidson , one of the viewer ,
the Jubi . Sunday ( 9/3 ) via telephone .
Fourteenth Maori women is indeed covered their mouths with the Morning
Star flag and wearing a size small Maori custom clothing .
" Our freedom as Māori and Pacific women in Aotearoa , New Zealand tied
with our Pacific brothers and sisters in West Papua . " Added Julie
Wharewera - Mika , another viewer .
According to Julie and Marama , their hands are tied terkekangnya symbolizes the freedom of the people of West Papua .
In this action , the viewer moves only minimal and without sound . This
is to symbolize the lack of freedom of expression of political opinion ,
the lack of access to resources are fair and equitable , lack of access
to free and independent media experienced by the people of West Papua .
While Maori women 's bodies decorated in black to celebrate the
existence of women as well as a symbol of mourning .
Action Oceania Interrupted Action 3 Free Pasifika - Free West Papua ( Oceania Interrupted / Tanu Gago )
Action Oceania Interrupted Action 3 Free Pasifika - Free West Papua ( Oceania Interrupted / Tanu Gago )
Action Oceania Interrupted Action 3 Free Pasifika - Free West conducted
Saturday, March 8 yesterday at Western Springs Lakeside Park , Auckland .
Thousands of people came to Auckland to watch the Pasifika Festival ,
which was centered in Western Springs Lakeside Park . ( Jubi / Victor
Mambor )
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From Tapol
2) 50 Years of the Violation of Basic Human Rights in West Papua: Part Two:
Ever since 1963 and 1967, the LP3BH has recorded the fact that the
Republic of Indonesia has consistently used violence against the West
Papuan people, something that even started to happen before those years.
On 15 August 1962, when the New York Agreement was signed by
Indonesia and The Netherlands under the supervision of the United States
of America, the Papuan people were not involved' They were not even
consulted for their opinion. Yet, at that time there was a New Guinea
Council which consisted of representatives of the Papuan people, the
members of which were chosen by means of democratically held elections
which took place on 5 April 1961 in Hollandia (now called Jayapura).
[All the names of the members of the Council who were elected, of
whom 22 were Papuans, are listed as well as those who were appointed
which included one Papuan and five Dutch people, including one
Indo-Dutch person.]
Besides that, there were two major religious organisations, - the
GKI [Evangelical Christian Church] and the Catholic Church] which were
spread across the whole of the Land of Papua. Yet, these churches were
never consulted as part of civil society in the territory at the time.
This was despite the fact that the UN was involved in the creation of
UNTEA as well as The Netherlands and the USA.
What we mean by being consulted is all about the framework and the
possible problems that might arise among the indigenous Papuan people
who were regarded as being too primitive to take part in an election
held according to the principle of 'one person, one vote'. Were the
towns and villages in West Papua too complex for the New Guinea Council
or the two churches to choose their leaders? Such advice would have been
very useful and important in deciding on on how to conduct the
elections in accordance with the traditions and customary laws that
were vibrant among the Papuan people. who were supposed to have been
consulted by means of the Act of Free Choice which was to have been held
by 1969 in the Land of Papua.
There was never any request for advice or opinion from the Papuan
people. Still worse, what actually happened was that Papuans were
arrested and even cruelly tortured for allegedly being involved in an
'underground movement', with the intention of overthrowing the
Indonesian Government. This is what happened to Baldus Mofu as a result
of which he was mentally damaged at the hands of the military police and
members of the Indonesian Air Force in Manokwari. Another Papua,
Nicholas Tanggahma is believed to have died after ingesting food that
had been poisoned when he was staying at the Arfak Hotel in Manokwari in
1969.
Several other members of the Council such as Marcus Kaisiepo and
Nicholas Jouwe were arrested and taken to Europe prior to the Act of
Free Choice. Others were treated in the same way, including E.J Bonay,
F.K.T. Poana, A.S. Onim and Thontjee Meset.
All these acts of violence were perpetrated by members of the
Indonesian security forces, the TNI and Polri. and further intensified
as the Act of Free Choice drew near in August 1969.
The LP3BH is well aware of the fact that many activists in Biak,
Sorong, Manokwari, Jayapura, Wamena, Nabire as well as in Merauke were
arbitrarily arrested by the TNI and Polri some of whom were summarily
killed. An example of what happened occurred on 28 July 1969 in
Manokwari when 53 Papuans were summarily executed at the headquarters of
the Infantry Battalion in Arfak-Manokwari.
Such human rights violations have systematically occurred ever
since that time, following the enactment of Law 12/1999. This was
clarified in the General Remarks contained in paragraph 1, section 6
which state: 'The Act of Free Choice in West Irian was a manifestation
of the aspirations of the Papuan people and resulted in the people of
Papua and West Papua expressing their wish to be united with the
people of other regions of the Unitary State of the Republic of
Indonesia, affirming that West Papua is part of the Unitary Republic of
Indonesia.'
The afore-mentioned statement became the legal basis for the
Indonesian Government to enforce paragraphs 109 and 110 in law. This
codification was part of the law under the Dutch Constitution [Wetboek
van Strafrecht] whenever the government takes firm action against the
Papuan people when they challenge 'Papua's political integration'.
As a result of all this, every time that people in Papua or West
Papua seek to challenge 'political integration' using their right to
freedom of expression as guaranteed in Law 39/1999
on Basic Human Rights as well as universal human rights, they are
accused of the crime of treason under the Indonesian Constitution.
Such incidences occurred in Biak on 6 July 1999 when a group of
Papuans unfurled the Morning Star Flag under the leadership of Filep
Karma which resulted in his being subjected to acts of brutality by the
TNI and Polri and which moreover resulted in dozens, even hundreds, of
Papuans falling as victims, some of whom even lost their lives. All this
resulted in Filep Karma and his colleagues facing the charge of
treason.
[End of part two of the translation.]
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