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Reflection of West Papua by holistic Approaching Holistic Papua 2017 in Jakarta today has presenting moderator Academic from Bambang Purwoko University Gajah Mada, Bambang Sheng I Laksmana University Indonesia and Edy Prasetyono Asean Study Center UI and only woman speaker Jaloswari Pramodhawardani Deputy V, Politics and Law.
According to Orang Muda Papua by speaker Septinus George Sein, OPM has contributed toward students Papua In England for LSP :
1. In advocating issues and problems in Papua through policy brief and FGD
2. Papua Language Institute (PLI) provide training for Foreign Language and Scholarship.
3. Volunterism Movement Kopkedat for Korowai
4. CRC Uncen provide book and library facility
5. Dialog and Seminar LSP (2016-2017)
According to OPM steps to be encouraged in 2018
1. OPM reformation and change through independent OMP creativity to put Papua SDM first.
2. Education from Private School and Religious organization, NGO,
3. To Review education system in Papua (hostel system)
4. To involve OPM more intensive from program program development Central Government.
5. To receive and work on facilitation development pragmatic by OMP member to increase human capacity building of vocational , and apprentice training center program.
With This hope from OPM, Staff President and Indonesia entrepreneur can work hand in hand with OPM to achieve short term reality for West Papua.
More can work together in detail framework to build guideline where Human Right and Poverty alleviation by Central Government Indonesia. Asean Center Study UI should provide dialog within Asean and Papua New Guinea to do research of social education and culture and economy similarity and comparison between two nation of one land of Papua. For example fact of poverty elevation, integrated and in combating illiterate number in that area by building school and sending teacher.
Indonesia, Papua, Raja Ampat, Misool Island, Underwater Soft Coral (dendronephthya) Landscape with Reef Fishes - 30"W x 20"H - Peel and Stick Wall Decal by Wallmonkeys
While making a study of the flora and fauna of Irian Jaya in Papua New Guinea, four young British scientists were captured by the primitive tribespeople and held hostage for months. Spirited away within the "sacred" forest, forced to scavenge for food and live, in a way they had never dreamt of, like the native people, they were constantly under threat for their lives. Their eventual release was bittersweet. Before they returned safe to the Western world two of the Indonesian members of their group were hacked to death in front of them by the rebels.
The problems of Indonesian President Joko Widodo are many. A revival of the communist party and politically expedient alliances between Islamic militants and opposition parties are among the latest headaches he must deal with inside the corridors of power in Jakarta.
But much further away, in West Papua, old issues continue to simmer, perhaps threateningly so unless Widodo can negotiate deftly with people who have little in common with Indonesia’s central authorities and those who run the conflict-prone country.
The latest escalation in tensions between locals and Widodo’s administration erupted last week when it was revealed that a secret petition had been passed around, gathering 1.8 million signatures, demanding a free vote on independence for West Papua.
The demands were presented to the United Nations in New York by exiled pro-independence leader Benny Wenda. But the bid was rejected, with doubts cast over the veracity of the petition by Jakarta.
In fact, The Jakarta Post reported that the chairman of Special Committee on Decolonization, Venezuela’s Rafael Ramirez expressed “indignation with those individuals and parties who had manipulated his name for their own purposes.”
“I have never received anything or anybody regarding the issue of West Papua,” he apparently said in a doorstop interview at UN headquarters.
The United Nations, and the international community more generally, may not want to upset the Indonesian government. But the 1.8 million signatures figure, if correct, represents around a whopping 70 percent of the West Papuan population. Separatist agitation also has a long history there, amid sporadic crackdowns by the military that have obviously not worked.
And the petition did in fact exist. It asked the UN to appoint a special representative to investigate human rights abuses in the province and to put West Papua back on the decolonization committee agenda and ensure their right to self-determination.
It was that committee which refused to accept the petition.
“In the West Papuan people’s petition we hand over the bones of the people of West Papua to the United Nations and the world,” Wenda said, adding the petition was banned in the provinces of Papua and West Papua, and blocked online.
“After decades of suffering, decades of genocide, decades of occupation, we open up the voice of the West Papuan people which lives inside this petition. My people want to be free.”
Indonesia can ill-afford another conflict, having dealt with similar issues with respect to East Timor and Aceh that threatened the country’s political and social stability.
West Papua was lumped within Indonesia’s sovereign borders through a forced and controversial annexation by Indonesia that has been well-documented. Since then many reports have documented how indigenous people have been subjected to harassment, ranging from beatings to murder.
Peter Arndt of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission compiled one report accusing the Indonesian government of staging violent incursions into the region and systematically expelling Papuans from their homes in what amounted to a “slow-motion genocide.”
According to the report, the indigenous people of West Papua now account for just 40 percent of the population, compared with more than 95 percent three decades ago.
Released a year ago, the report also found that the situation in West Papua was “fast approaching a tipping point.”
“In less than five years, the position of Papuans in their own land will be worse than precarious,” it said.
“They are already experiencing a demographic tidal wave. Ruthless Indonesian political, economic, social and cultural domination threatens to engulf the proud people who have inhabited the land they call Tanah Papua for thousands of years.”
Doubts surrounding the recent petition might be real. But the fact is there are fewer doubts surrounding human rights abuses committed by the military and the hostility felt among locals on West Papua.
This is a highly combustible mix. And it comes at a potentially troubling time for Widodo ahead of presidential elections in 2019. So far, although he has visited the area several times and focused his efforts on economic issues, resolving the harder political questions has proven elusive. Navigating them will demand a skillful and more sensitive approach, which is a far cry from the clumsy, violent and authoritarian hand of the military we have witnessed previously.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/indonesias-west-papua-headache-continues/
