INDONESIA: Tatchell arrested at Indonesian President protest

West Papuan flag unfurled - Arrest for breach of the peace
President accused: War crimes in West Papua & East Timor

London - 1 November 2012 (Published Asia Human Rights Commission)

The State Visit to the UK of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been beset by protests against his government’s human rights abuses in West Papua, Aceh and the Moluccas.

On Wednesday police arrested human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell when he unfurled a West Papuan flag as the Indonesian President’s limousine departed Westminster Abbey in central London.

"I went to where the President's motorcade was passing and tried to hold up a West Papuan flag. Unidentified men in plainclothes wrestled me to the ground. I was then arrested by Metropolitan Police officers, who claimed they were acting at the request of the President's entourage. The officers applied unnecessary, excessive force, given that I was no threat and was not resisting arrest," said Mr Tatchell, who is Director of London-based the human rights organisation, the Peter Tatchell Foundation.

He was one of nearly 100 protesters who had gathered to protest at human rights abuses by the Indonesian regime.

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"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should have been arrested on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity under British and international law. I settled for displaying the West Papuan flag as the President's motorcade passed by. I was stunned to be chased and arrested for a peaceful, lawful protest.

"The Indonesian President stands accused of crimes against humanity in East Timor and West Papua, involving the deaths of thousands of people.

"It is appalling that the Royal Family and the Prime Minister are hosting a man who is implicated in mass murder. Well in excess of 100,000 West Papuan civilians have been killed by the Indonesian army.

Watch this film of the Indonesian security services opening fire on peaceful, unarmed pro-democracy protesters in West Papua on 23 October 2012:
http://youtu.be/7Py9Ghj-8Xg

"Under Indonesian rule, West Papuans are denied basic human rights, including freedom of expression. Two Papuan men, Yusak Pakage and Filep Karma, have been jailed for 10 and 15 years respectively for merely raising the West Papuan flag. Foreign media and human rights groups are denied access to the region by the Indonesian Government.

"The Indonesians annexed West Papua in the 1960s. The West Papuan people never agreed to be a part of Indonesia. Jakarta maintains its rule by military force. It refuses to allow the people of West Papua the right to self-determination, in flagrant defiance of the United Nations Charter.

"A long, slow genocide is being perpetrated in West Papua.

"I was arrested for a peaceful, lawful protest, which involved nothing more sinister than holding a flag. I was deemed to have breached the peace. I was also threatened with further breach of the peace charges for "shouting loudly" and for what one police officer described as "pointing your finger at me in a way that I find intimidating."

"A police officer intimidated by a pointed finger? Bizarre. Are police officers nowadays really such ultra-sensitive souls? Heavens help us if they have to deal with hardened criminals with weapons.

"I was put in rigid handcuffs that were twisted by the police, which pinched the nerves in my wrist; causing agonising pain. It seemed like this was deliberate. I am still in pain hours later but what was done to me is nothing by comparison to the daily brutalities inflicted on the heroic people of West Papua by the Indonesian army of occupation.

"I am saddened that some police officers apparently have no respect for freedom of expression and the right to peaceful protest.

"I was detained unlawfully and deprived of my liberty for two hours. After being taken to Charring Cross police station, I was eventually released without charge. Clearly, the police knew they had over-stepped the mark and that the charges against me were baseless," he said.

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The Indonesian President's State Visit to the UK is from 31 October to 2 November.

Document Type :

Forwarded Statement

Document ID :

AHRC-FST-049-2012

Countries :

Indonesia

Amnesty Internasional. Indonesia: End police violence against demonstrators in Papua

 Press releases : Amnesty Internasional

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A pro-independence protest in Papua has been met with a violent response by the Indonesian security forces as four demonstrators were shot by the police, prompting Amnesty International to call on the authorities to halt the excessive use of force.

On 23 October 2012, police in Manokwari, Papua opened indiscriminate fire at a gathering of some 300 protesters outside the local university in response to stones thrown by a few of the protesters. At least 11 people were injured, four of whom suffered gunshot wounds. Some protesters reported being beaten by the police. At least five police officers also suffered injuries.

“It is unacceptable that people who have gathered for a protest should have to fear for their lives. The indiscriminate use of firearms and excessive force against protesters by the security forces has to stop – it is a violation of international law.” said Isabelle Arradon, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Deputy Director. “This incident warrants an immediate investigation and a thorough review of police tactics during policing of demonstrations”

Meanwhile, local journalist, Oktovianus Pogau, was punched by police officers during the demonstration as he tried to produce his press card.

The Indonesian security forces have a track record of unchecked abuses, including torture and other ill-treatment, and the use of excessive force against protesters.
“Although members of the security forces may find it challenging to face violent protesters, they should do so while respecting human rights. In particular, the use of firearms should only be a last resort to protect life,” said Arradon.

Security forces should be equipped with a range of means to allow for a differentiated use of force, as well as adequate self-defensive equipment such as shields, helmets and body armour to decrease the need to use weapons at all.

Peaceful political dissent continues to be criminalized in Papua, denying Papuans their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression.

On 19 October 2012, police prevented hundreds of people who had gathered peacefully at the grave site of pro-independence leader Theys Eluay in Sentani, Jayapura. Five people were arbitrarily arrested but were released later.

“Unfortunately this is part of a long-standing pattern of authorities denying Papuans their right to peaceful protest, which together with lack of accountability for past human rights violations is fuelling resentment and lack of trust locally,” said Arradon

These incidents come at a tense time in Papua, as Papuans have been holding public events to commemorate the first anniversary of the Third Papuan People’s Congress, a peaceful political gathering which was held from 17 to 19 October 2011. At the end of the 2011 Congress, police and military units violently dispersed participants leaving at least three people dead.

Five political activists were sentenced to three years in prison for “rebellion” after the Congress. Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience and calls for their immediate and unconditional release.

Amnesty International takes no position whatsoever on the political status of any province of Indonesia, including calls for independence. However, the organization believes that the right to freedom of expression includes the right to peacefully advocate referendums, independence or any other political solutions that do not involve incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.

AI Index: PRE01/514/2012

Indonesia: Fears for human rights lawyer after threats: Olga Hamadi

UA: 273/12 Index: ASA 21/039/2012 Indonesia Date: 24 September 2012 

Published By : Amnesty Internasional Or http://www.amnesty.org/

 URGENT ACTION : FEARS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER AFTER THREATS

Olga Hamadi ( Koor KontarS Papua)

Papuan human rights lawyer Olga Hamadi has been threatened after investigating allegations of police torture and ill-treatment in Wamena, Papua province, Indonesia. There are concerns for her safety and she is at risk of further intimidation and attacks. 

 

Amnesty International has received credible information that Olga Hamadi, a female human rights lawyer working for non-governmental organization KontraS Papua based in Jayapura, Papua province, has been threatened for investigating and legally representing five men in Wamena, who were allegedly tortured or otherwise ill-treated by police in detention. 

On 23 August 2012 Olga Hamadi received information that police personnel from the Jayawijaya District police station slapped, punched and kicked five men accused of a murder that occurred on 14 August 2012 in Wamena in an attempt to force them to confess to their involvement in the murder. She agreed to investigate the allegations and to submit an application for a pre-trial hearing to raise concerns about the alleged violations by the police. On 14 September 2012 she received a call from one of the police investigators who interrogated the men. He was angry about the pre-trial application she submitted and said he could not guarantee her safety in Wamena. Further, Olga Hamadi was informed by local sources that before the pre-trial hearing text messages were being disseminated to the murder victim’s family and local community stating that she was interfering with the case and wanted to stop the legal process.

On the morning of 19 September 2012, the third day of the pre-trial hearing, Olga Hamadi was blocked from entering the Wamena District Court by a crowd of people, including family members of the victim. They threatened to beat her and pressured her to withdraw the pre-trial application. She was then taken to the Jayawijaya District police station by the police. When she wanted to return to the court, she was again blocked by a crowd of people outside the police station. Police officers did not take any steps to assist her. On 20 September 2012, due to ongoing concerns about her safety and the lack of protection from the authorities, she withdrew the pre-trial application and returned to Jayapura. She fears for her safety if and when she travels to Wamena in the future.

Please write immediately in English, Indonesian or your own language urging the Indonesian authorities to:

 

Take immediate action to ensure the safety of Olga Hamadi, in accordance with her wishes;

Conduct a prompt, independent and impartial investigation into the threats against Olga Hamadi;

Initiate an independent investigation into allegations of torture and other ill-treatment against five people by the police in Wamena and ensure that, should the allegations be verified, those responsible are brought to justice in fair trials and the victims receive reparations; 

Ensure that all members of the police are made aware of the legitimate role of human rights defenders and their responsibility to protect them, as set out in the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. 

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 5 NOVEMBER 2012 TO:

Papua Police Chief (Kapolda)

Inspector General Tito Karnavian

Jl. Samratulangi No. 8 Jayapura,

Papua,

Indonesia

Fax: +62 967 531717

Salutation: Dear Kapolda

Head of the Division on Professionalism and Security (Propam)

Inspector General Drs. Herman Effendi

Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Kav No. 4-5

Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan 12950,

Indonesia

Fax: +62 21 7280 0947

Salutation: Dear Inspector General

And copies to:

Chairperson National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM)

Mr. Ifdhal Kasim

Jl Latuharhary

No.4 Menteng Jakarta Pusat

10310, Indonesia

Fax: +62 21 39 25 227�

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country.

URGENT ACTION

FEARS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER AFTER THREATS

ADditional Information

Under Article 2 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, each state has a duty to create the conditions necessary to defend human rights within their jurisdictions. However, Amnesty International continues to receive credible reports of attacks against human rights defenders and journalists in Indonesia, and human rights defenders are regularly intimidated and harassed in Papua. International human rights observers, non-governmental organizations and journalists are severely restricted in their work there.

Most past human rights violations against human rights defenders, including torture and other ill-treatment, possible unlawful killings and enforced disappearances, remain unsolved and those responsible have not been brought to justice. Besides continued reports of intimidation and attacks against human rights defenders, they have also been the subject of criminal defamation proceedings due to their work. 

Amnesty International calls on the Indonesian government to ensure an environment in which it is possible to defend human rights without fear of reprisal or intimidation. Further, the Indonesian government should adopt prompt, effective and impartial measures to provide remedy to human rights defenders who have suffered an attack or are at risk of attack, and provide compensation to human rights defenders who have been victims of abuses due to their work. 

There also continues to be credible reports of human rights violations committed by the police in Indonesia, including torture and other ill-treatment, unnecessary and excessive use of force and firearms, unlawful killings, and failure to protect victims of human rights abuses. Investigations into reports of police abuses are rare, and police often subject complainants to further intimidation and harassment. Current internal police disciplinary mechanisms are inadequate to deal with criminal offences amounting to human rights violations and are often not known to the public. Furthermore, external police oversight bodies do not have the adequate powers to bring to justice those responsible for human rights violations. 

Indonesia has yet to fully incorporate a crime of torture in its Criminal Code, thus failing to meet its obligations as a state party to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT). The lack of sufficient legal provisions on “acts of torture” creates a loophole which has devastating consequences. It does not provide a sufficient legal basis on which state agents can be brought to court, and consequently does not provide an adequate legal deterrent to prevent state agents from committing such acts of torture.

Name: Olga Hamadi

Gender m/f: F

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UA: 273/12 Index: ASA 21/039/2012 Issue Date: 24 September 2012

Photos News: Benny Wenda Give talk at the Amnesty Reading updating Human Rights situation in West Papua 2012

By: West Papua News (WPnews)

 

West Papua Human Rights Situation

Filep Karma is serving 15 years in prison for raising a flag. A prominent advocate for the rights of Indonesia's Papuan population, Filep was arrested in 2004 for taking part in a peaceful ceremonial raising of the Morning Star flag, a symbol of Papua.

Recently Detachment 88 setting up by Australia, America and British for untie terrorist Unit for counter terrorism in Indonesia. The untie terrorist unit mist use the fund to Killing West Papua Leader Mako abuni. 

 

Then arrested Buthat Tabuni without any evident what his crimes was, just because of the leading campaign West Papua Self Determination and independence he was in Jail.

Concerns Papuan prisoner is denied access to medical treatment

Update RNZ

Yusak Pakage

Amnesty International says former prisoner of conscience Yusak Pakage is being denied access to medical treatment while in police detention in Papua province, Indonesia.

It says he has reportedly been threatened with torture and has not had access to a lawyer since his arrest.

According to sources he is suffering from stomach pains and has not been able to eat.
Mr Pakage was arrested on the 23rd of July during the trial of Papuan political activist Buchtar Tabuni.
Police arrested Mr Pakage after they found a pen-knife in his bag.

He was later charged under Emergency Regulation 12/1951 for possession of a weapon, which carries a maximum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment.

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Fear, Grief and Hope in Occupied West Papua

The complex and volatile situation in West Papua raises questions about the role of international advocacy

Papuan Rally KNPB (photo martin)

The months of May and June have seen new waves of terror sweep through the troubled region of West Papua. Tens of “mysterious killings” have been reported, occurring mostly in the Papuan capital of Jayapura. Security guards, students, and soldiers have been shot dead; a woman’s mutilated body was found; and a German biologist narrowly survived being shot in the chest at a popular beach. With worldwide coverage of these incidents, the Indonesian security establishment has manipulated the climate of terror to justify more intense repression of Papuan nationalist groups. This campaign climaxed on June 14 with the assassination of Mako Tabuni, the vocal deputy chair of KNPB (West Papua National Committee) – an organization that has been at the forefront of mass mobilizations demanding a referendum on Papuan independence. While advocates in the West have recently seen more success in terms of putting Papuan human rights on the international community’s agenda, this international visibility has been matched in Papua by the proliferation of forms of state terror. This increasingly tense situation may demand a re-evaluation of the work of international solidarity advocates.

Here published: Intercontinentalcry.org/

(Not-so-)Mysterious Killings

The latest incidents in Jayapura have been shrouded in uncertainty and subject to wildly contrasting interpretations. Human rights activists in Jakarta and Jayapura, accustomed to seeing the hand of security forces behind such “mysterious” terror, have issued statements critical of Jakarta’s “security approach”, suggesting that the army and police are themselves responsible for the violence. While these critical views have informed international news coverage, Indonesian news coverage has tended to give more space to police statements evoking shadowy “unknown persons” and pinning the blame on the student activists of KNPB as well as the wider network of underground Papuan nationalist resistance, OPM (Free Papua Organization).

Politically speaking, it is hard to see what Papuan nationalists could gain from inflicting public terror. Human rights activists have pointed out the professional aspect of the shootings, suggesting sniper expertise only available to elite state units such as Kopassus (Army Special Forces Commando) or Densus 88 (the Australian- and US- funded Police counter-terrorism unit). As with the fatal shooting ambush on a bus outside Jayapura last August, which took place the day before a major KNPB mass rally (itself timed to welcome a conference on Papuan independence in the UK), the latest killings appear to have been staged by powerful elements in the security forces so as to disrupt grassroots pro-independence mobilizations.

The recent episode also recalls the massive campaign of “petrus” (contraction of penembakan misterius, “mysterious shooting”) against so-called “criminals” in Jakarta, used by Suharto’s New Order regime to entrench its power in the 1980s. The police attributing the label “criminal” to KNPB leaders such as Mako Tabuni feeds a perception that Indonesian governance in Papua continues to employ a version of the “politics of fear” that sustained the New Order for so long.

The new petrus campaign in Jayapura, and the assassination has set the stage for, and has unfolded alongside other forms of terror. Just a week before Mako Tabuni’s murder, an outbreak of brutality was triggered in the main highlands town of Wamena when two Indonesian soldiers on a motorcycle struck a Papuan child. After some local residents reacted angrily by stabbing the soldiers to death, the soldiers’ fellow troops from the notorious Infantry Battalion 756 “Wim Ane Sili” (local Dani language for “House of the Sound of War”) descended on the scene armed with bayonets and rifles, and unleashed a vengeful swath of destruction. 

The attacks left several locals dead or injured, an entire village razed to the ground, and hundreds of Papuan residents displaced to the bush.  Battalion troops then rampaged through Wamena town, burning regional government buildings and the homes of both indigenous Papuans and Indonesian settlers. In the aftermath of the violence, with many residents still in hiding, local human rights activists evoked the memory of the October 2000 incidents known as “Bloody Wamena” (Wamena Berdarah) – when deadly riots and a massive crackdown followed police attacks on posts flying the Morning Star flag of Papuan nationalism.[1]

In a Context of Fear, KNPB Mobilizes

Recent events in Wamena have reflected tensions in Jayapura. KNPB is known to have an especially strong support base among students from the highlands region around Wamena who have settled in the coastal metropolis of Jayapura. Highlanders are often subject to especially severe forms of the racism that most Papuans face in the Indonesian urban context. Though KNPB’s mass mobilizations have been largely peaceful, stereotypes of violent and chaotic highlanders have been used to build fear of their politics via conspiratorial text messages presumably circulated by intelligence agents – a form of rumour that many Papuans refer to as “terror” (teror).

In the face of fear and intimidation, KNPB has continued to mobilize, organizing mass protests to denounce the role of state security agents in creating the climate of terror. In a press release days before Mako Tabuni’s death, KNPB suggested that state agents had played a role in the shooting of the German scientist, as a response to Germany’s criticism of Indonesia’s human rights record in Papua at a recent UN session.[2] Security forces have responded to KNPB’s challenge with unrestrained aggression, deploying Barracuda mobile tanks and live fire against unarmed protesters, and arresting KNPB chair Buchtar Tabuni on his way out of a meeting at the provincial parliament convened by political leaders to discuss the deteriorating security situation. This is the volatile situation within which Indonesian forces (in this case, reports suggest it was Densus 88) have been able to eliminate a courageous and articulate voice of Papuan resistance.[3]

While Western governments periodically pay lip service to the importance of upholding human rights in Papua, one can guess at the deep (though surely unstable) complicities linking the interests of transnational capital, global governance institutions, and the military intelligence regime on Indonesia’s Pacific frontier zone. The brutal crackdown underway against KNPB targets a group that has articulated a sophisticated anti-imperialist critique of the neo-liberal development policies being forced on Papuans by the Indonesian security state, the global resource companies that help fund it (notably US mining giant Freeport MacMoran and British oil and gas giant BP), and the foreign governments and international institutions who occasionally criticize Indonesia’s human rights performance but who are hostile to Papuan challenges to the status quo of Indonesian sovereignty. This is the global context that enables multiplying forms of terror and allows for the assassination of Mako Tabuni.[4]

The latest wave of killings and repression has come at a moment when KNPB has been intensifying its regional outreach work, enacting a program for a “West Papuan Parliament” that would channel forms of direct democracy towards the goal of self-determination. The prospect of a politicized and mobilized anti-imperialist network spreading throughout the regions of Papua is surely viewed with suspicion by both the Jakarta intelligence establishment and the international players with interests in the region.

KNPB’s grassroots political mobilizations complement the higher-level manoeuvres of the leaders of groups such as WPNA (West Papua National Authority) and DAP (Papua Customary Council), who came together at last October’s Third Papuan Congress to declare the Federal Republic of West Papua (FRWP). As the Congress closed, police, army and intelligence units stormed the site, beating and arresting hundreds and killing several. The newly-proclaimed president and prime minister of FRWP, Forkorus Yaboisembut and Edison Waromi, remain behind bars along with Congress organizers and a growing list of political prisoners convicted of “subversion” (makar).[5]

What Kind of International Solidarity?

Given the complexity and volatility of the political situation, it is not clear what helpful role solidarity advocates can play. The Indonesian state and media do not hesitate to attribute signs of Papuan “separatist” agitation to the shadowy forces of a “foreign conspiracy” seen as responsible for East Timor’s independence. It is worth understanding Indonesian nationalist anxieties in their historical and geopolitical context: the Indonesian nation was founded when the then-revolutionary national army expelled Dutch colonialists from most of the archipelago after WWII; 15 years later, the military launched operations to chase the Dutch out of Western New Guinea as well (the Dutch finally retreated under US and UN pressure). At the time, the standard Indonesian nationalist narrative framed the incorporation of Papua as a question of opposing imperialism, and the West Papuan movement as colonial puppets.[6] 

 More recently, Western support for East Timorese independence – and signs of such support being extended to West Papua – have been easy to frame as vehicles for the West’s neo-imperial manipulation and pursuit of the region’s abundant mineral and petroleum resources. The more Western advocates succeed in focusing global attention on the plight of Papuans under Indonesian rule, the more the Indonesian security establishment can deploy the specter of a “foreign intervention” (like the UN’s intervention in East Timor) to mobilize Indonesian public opinion behind its harsh policing measures. The current moment poses a stark challenge to action-oriented observers: how to generate global solidarity against injustice in West Papua without strengthening the state’s pretext for terror?

Part of the answer may lie in the spaces for exchange that are being generated through networks like Intercontinental Cry: spaces where actors engaged in different worldwide struggles for justice can share perspectives (ideally) unmediated by giant corporations, intergovernmental institutions, INGO culture, or unreflexive settler-colonial privilege. To put in plainly: the international West Papua solidarity movement is in need of platforms for exchange that do not center the voices and perspectives of white people. Subject to numerous waves of colonization, displacement and militarization, West Papuans have political affinities with colonized, displaced, racially-deprived, and otherwise subjugated peoples at a global level. But the dynamics of history and geopolitics have produced a situation where mainly white NGO workers and human rights activists have largely monopolized international access to the scene of West Papuan resistance politics. 

Collaborations with leftists and rights activists in Indonesian cities have been key to the Papuan movement, as they were for East Timor; so have expressions of support by African-American and Pacific US legislators. Still, global Papua solidarity advocates have prioritized high-level lobbying towards Western powers, at the expense of possibilities for “South-South”/intra-“Fourth World” networking. For Indonesia’s deep security state to lose its “anti-imperialist” pretext for repression, solidarity linkages need to bypass neo-colonial adventurist-activist gatekeepers (including this author) – agents of what Teju Cole (referring to the “Stop Kony” debacle) has called the “White Saviour Industrial Complex”[7].

In the 1950s, when Dutch planners were forced to abandon their colonial project in Indonesia, they refocused their fantasies of “ethical” imperialism on the supposedly “blank slate” of Western New Guinea. These colonial agents framed Papuans as “primitives” requiring “development” before they could be allowed to govern themselves. The legacy of this history lives on in the Indonesian state’s colonization project, fed by media depictions of Papuans’ supposedly “backwards” life ways.[8] Throughout this history, Papuans have consistently been imagined as objects to be governed by others, rather than as political actors struggling for dignity.[9] Transnational human rights advocacy has succeeded in getting the story of Papuan suffering out there on the global stage; but the spectre of Western intervention is also justifying and motivating the terror it seeks to stop. Prevailing models of international advocacy may not be working for West Papua; they are easy for the security state to manipulate towards its own ends – which happen to suit other powerful global actors as well. Western-centric human rights champions need to consider making way for alternative paradigms of direct solidarity among colonized and displaced peoples.

Fear, Grief and Hope in Occupied West Papua was originally featured in People Land Truth, an eBook by Intercontinental Cry.

References

[1] See “Indonesia: Investigate military attacks on villagers in Wamena, Papua”, Amnesty International, June 8 2012, http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA21/020/2012/en/1b64dac4-87d7-46c8-8950-f838afa35d87/asa210202012en.html

[2] See “German born tourist shot by “unknown persons” whilst on a beach in Jayapura”, http://westpapuamedia.info/2012/05/31/german-born-tourist-shot-by-unknown-persons-whilst-on-a-beach-in-jayapura/

[3] Police have acknowledged that they killed Mako Tabuni. They have alleged that he was responsible for several shootings; and that he resisted arrest, was in possession of a gun and tried to steal an arresting officer’s gun. Eyewitness accounts tell quite a different story: of Tabuni being shot point blank while being pinned to the ground by a group of men in civilian clothes.

[4] See footage of a speech by Mako Tabuni at a KNPB mass rally in Jayapura, in which he condemns the entanglement of Indonesian state power with foreign capital (in Indonesian): http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/yerry/news/papua-mako-tabuni-funeral-2

[5] See, for example, “Forkorus: International community must acknowledge the rights of the people of West Papua”, Jubi Online, http://westpapuamedia.info/2012/02/16/forkorus-international-community-must-acknowledge-the-political-rights-of-the-people-of-west-papua/

[6] For analysis of clashing Papuan and Indonesian nationalist historical narratives, see David Webster, “Narratives of Colonization, Decolonization and Recolonization in Papua”, http://activehistory.ca/papers/history-paper-3/

[7] See Teju Cole, “The White Savior Industrial Complex”, The Atlantic, March 21 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/the-white-savior-industrial-complex/254843/

[8] Scholar Danilyn Rutherford has documented this imperial legacy and its effects: see her new book “Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua” (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

[9] Another new book shines light on this struggle, tracing West Papuan nationalists' approaches to the Indonesian state, international advocates, and global power centres: Eben Kirksey's "Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power" (Duke University Press, 2012).

Amnesty: Usut Tembakan Aparat ke Mako Tabuni

Jay

Jika aparat terbukti melanggar hukum, harus diadili di pengadilan sipil.

Jakarta VIVAnews -- Ketua I Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB), Mako Tabuni tewas ditembak aparat dalam penyergapan di Wamena Jayapura, Papua. Insiden itulah yang kemudian menyulut rusuh, Kamis 14 Juni 2012.

Terkait peristiwa tersebut, Amnesty International menyerukan penyelidikan, cepat, menyeluruh dan independen mengenai dugaan pembunuhan di luar hukum aktivis pro-kemerdekaan Papua itu.

"Jika penyelidikan menemukan bahwa pasukan keamanan melakukan pembunuhan di luar hukum, mereka yang bertanggung jawab, termasuk
orang dengan tanggung jawab komando, harus diadili di pengadilan sipil dalam proses yang memenuhi standar keadilan internasional," tegas
Josep Roy Benedict Juru Kampanye Amnesty Internasional untuk Indonesia melalui pesan elektroniknya, Kamis 14 Juni malam.

Amnesty mengatakan, aktivis politik pro-kemerdekaan di Papua sering menjadi sasaran penindasan oleh pasukan keamanan Indonesia. Banyak yang telah ditangkap dan dijatuhi hukuman penjara cukup panjang untuk kegiatan politik damai mereka.

Pihak berwenang juga harus membuka akses pemantauan independen, dari pengamat internasional, organisasi non-pemerintah dan wartawan.

Amnesty International tidak mengambil posisi apapun mengenai status politik dari setiap provinsi Indonesia, termasuk desakan untuk kemerdekaan Papua. "Namun organisasi kami mempercayai hak untuk kebebasan berekspresi, termasuk hak untuk advokasi secara damai, referendum, kemerdekaan atau solusi politik lainnya yang tidak melibatkan hasutan untuk melakukan diskriminasi, permusuhan atau kekerasan," tambah dia.

Sebelumnya, Kapolri Jenderal Timur Pradopo mengatakan, Mako Tabuni tak sekonyong-konyong ditembak. Dia dianggap melawan. Sehingga aparat mengambil tindakan tegas. "Karena sudah diancam akhirnya dilumpuhkan," kata Timur. Dari Mako Tabuni ditemukan senjata laras pendek dengan 18 peluru.

Timur mengungkapkan, penangkapan Mako Tabuni ini merupakan buntut rentetan penembakan yang terjadi mulai 29 Mei hingga 10 Juni yang lalu. Hasil penyelidikan polisi menemukan adanya kaitan Mako Tabuni dengan peristiwa itu. "Itu yang intensif kami lakukan sehingga hari ini kita dapatkan satu inisial MT," katanya. (eh)

Amnesty Internasional: Desak RI Selidiki serangan militer terhadap penduduk desa di Wamena, Papua

AI desak, Pemerintah Indonesia harus menjamin suatu penyelidikan dengan cepat, independen dan imparsial atas laporan-laporan dari penggunaan yang tidak perlu dan berlebihan kekerasan termasuk senjata api oleh aparat keamanan di Wamena, Provinsi Papua.Pada sore hari tanggal 6 Juni 2012, dua tentara bersepeda motor dilaporkan berlari dan melukai 3 tahun anak bermain di pinggir jalan di desa Honelama di Wamena. Penduduk desa yang menyaksikan insiden itu mengejar tentara dan menikam sampai mati seorang dan melukai yang lain.Sebagai pembalasan, dua truk tentara dari batalyon tentara Yonif 756/Wamena tiba di desa Honelama tidak lama setelah dan dilaporkan melepaskan tembakan sewenang-wenang di desa itu menewaskan satu orang, Elinus Yoman. Menurut sumber lokal yang handal, tentara juga ditikam sekitar selusin orang dengan bayonet mereka. Selain itu, tentara dilaporkan membakar puluhan rumah, bangunan dan kendaraan selama serangan itu. Banyak penduduk desa telah melarikan diri daerah tersebut dan takut untuk kembali ke rumah mereka.Amnesty International mengakui kesulitan yang dihadapi oleh pasukan keamanan di Indonesia, terutama ketika dihadapkan dengan kekerasan. Orang yang diduga melakukan kejahatan kekerasan, termasuk terhadap anggota pasukan keamanan, harus dibawa ke pengadilan. Namun, tersangka harus diidentifikasi secara individual untuk penangkapan dan penuntutan sesuai dengan hukum - tidak ada tempat untuk hukuman kolektif dan acak, kekerasan pendendam.Kekuatan aparat penegak hukum untuk menggunakan kekuatan dibatasi oleh hukum hak asasi manusia internasional yang relevan dan standar, dasar yang merupakan kebutuhan untuk menghormati dan melindungi hak untuk hidup. Hak ini diatur dalam Pasal 6 Kovenan Internasional tentang Hak Sipil dan Politik (ICCPR), di mana Indonesia adalah negara, yang juga mengatur bahwa hak ini tidak boleh derogated dari, termasuk di saat darurat. Hak untuk hidup juga diatur dalam Konstitusi Indonesia.Jika penyelidikan menemukan bahwa pasukan keamanan melakukan pembunuhan di luar hukum berlaku atau digunakan tidak perlu atau berlebihan, maka mereka yang bertanggung jawab, termasuk orang dengan tanggung jawab komando, harus diadili di pengadilan sipil dalam proses yang memenuhi standar keadilan internasional. Korban harus diberi ganti rugi.Laporan yang dapat dipercaya tentang pelanggaran HAM yang dilakukan oleh pasukan keamanan terus muncul di propinsi Papua dan Papua Barat, termasuk penyiksaan dan penggunaan perlakuan buruk, yang tidak perlu dan berlebihan lainnya kekuatan, termasuk senjata api, dan pembunuhan di luar hukum.Meskipun komitmen publik yang dibuat oleh Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pada Februari 2012 yang kasus pelanggaran hak asasi manusia akan menjadi "diproses secara hukum dan pelakunya dihukum", penyelidikan laporan pelanggaran oleh pasukan keamanan jarang dan hanya beberapa pelaku telah dibawa ke pengadilan.Kurangnya akuntabilitas diperburuk oleh kegagalan untuk merevisi Undang-Undang tentang Pengadilan Militer (UU No 31/1997). Personil militer yang dituduh HAM yang diadili di pengadilan militer. Amnesty International telah menyatakan prihatin dengan kurangnya independensi dan imparsialitas uji coba ini.Amnesty International mendesak pemerintah Indonesia untuk mengatasi budaya impunitas di Papua dengan mengambil langkah yang diperlukan untuk memastikan bahwa pasukan keamanan semua bertanggung jawab atas pelanggaran HAM harus bertanggung jawab. Pemerintah juga harus segera merevisi Undang-Undang tentang Pengadilan Militer sehingga personil militer yang diduga melakukan serangan yang melibatkan pelanggaran hak asasi manusia dapat diselidiki dan diadili dalam sistem peradilan yang independen sipil dan para korban dan saksi diberi perlindungan yang memadai.

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Indonesia: Investigate military attacks on villagers in Wamena, Papua

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Date Published: 8 June 2012

Menlu RI Marty Natalegawa Berbohong Dalam Sidang UPR PBB, Pemerintah RI di Tekan Soal HAM

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Beberapa jam lalu, catatan HAM Indonesia ditinjau oleh Dewan HAM PBB dalam sidang periodik ke-13 di Jenewa, Swiss. Isu-isu kunci, seperti perlindungan atas kebebasan beragama atau situasi HAM di Papua, diangkat oleh banyak negara anggota PBB yang turut dalam kajian HAM.
Banyak anggota Komisi HAM Asia atau AHRC (Asian Human Rights Commission) dan organisasi-bawahannya ALRC (Asian Legal Research Center) prihatin dengan penegakkan HAM di Indonesia. Atas situasi diskriminatif yang dialami kaum minoritas di Indonesia, Swedia, Jerman dan Swiss menyatakan kekecewaannya. Kelompok minoritas di Indonesia, seperti Ahmadiyah, Syiah, Baha'i dan Kristen. Mereka mendesak Pemerintah Indonesia untuk mengambil tindakan tegas terhadap mereya yang menindas dan melakukan tindak pidana hingga nyawa yang meregang dari kelompok-kelompok minoritas. 
"Tanggapan oleh pemerintah Indonesia atas isu-isu dan pelanggaran HAM yang dibahas dalam kajian ini adalah sangat mengecewakan, karena (jawaban) mereka sering hanya berisi penolakan dan menunjukkan kurangnya rasa hormat bagi korban dan hak-hak mereka," kata Wong Kai Shing, Direktur Eksekutif AHRC. Hal ini terungkap dalam laporan Situs Asian Human Rights Commission (23/5, AHRC-PRL-016-2012), yang sedang mengikuti kegiatan di Jenewa, Swiss, tanggal 23-26 Mei.

Marty Disindir Habis
Seperti disindir sejumlah media asing, Menlu RI Marty Natalegawa dianggap berbohong, ketika memimpin delegasi Indonesia mempertanggung-jawabkan tindakan diskriminatif Pemerintah Indonesia terhadap kaum Minoritas. Marty membantah sinyalemen kelambanan pemerintah Indonesia tentang perlindungan dan penghormatan terhadap kebebasan beragama."Pemerintah Indonesia menghormati semua agama sebagai sama." 
Media asing menganggap klaim Marty bertentangan dengan semua laporan lapangan, dan tidak bersesuaian dengan, misalnya, perda-perda diskriminatif di negeri ini.Sejumlah negara, termasuk Perancis, Jepang dan Selandia Baru, mengangkat situasi di Papua, yang mencakup kekerasan yang makin meluas, penangkapan sewenang-wenang dan penahanan, serta pembatasan sah terhadap kebebasan berekspresi dan berkumpul.Prancis menyebut secara langsung perihal kesulitan media asing memperoleh akses untuk masuk ke Papua. 
Sementara itu, AS dan Jerman mengangkat artikel 106 dan 110 KUHP yang digunakan mengkriminalkan para aktivis HAM di Papua.Natalegawa menyatakan bahwa bahwa semua pelaku pelanggaran HAM di Papua sedang bertanggung jawab di 'pengadilan yang transparan dan terbuka'. Sebaliknya, AHRC dan kelompok hak asasi mendokumentasikan kasus-kasus penyiksaan dan kekerasan yang tidak mendapat tanggapan yang memadai dari pemerintah Indonesia. 
"Penolakan terhadap sejumlah pelanggaran HAM oleh militer (dan Brimob) di provinsi Papua dengan alasan impunitas (kewajiban keamanan Negara) adalah tidak dapat dipertanggung-jawabkan," kata sindir Wong Kai Shing. "Respon Pemerintah Indonesia terhadap semua tindakan pelanggaran HAM amat mengecewakan. Sikap Pemerintah RI itu merupakan kemunduran besar bagi harapan mereka yang seharusnya mendapat perlindungan yang lebih baik dan menikmati hak asasi manusia di negeri ini," pungkas Wong Kai.
Sejumlah pihak menganjurkan Pemerintah Indonesia untuk melaksanakan rekomendasi Komisi HAM PBB atau Indonesia tidak mendapat tempat terhormat dalam pergaulan internasional. Kekecewaan atas laporan Pemerintah RI dapat berdampak ketidak-percayaan pada elbagai pbidang-bidang lainnya, dalam hubungan bilateral maupun multilateral. Ini lampu kuning untuk Pemerintahan SBY Sumber kabarIndonesia

Perhatian Hak asasi manusia masih kurang di Papua

Karlis Salna, AAP Asia Tenggara Koresponden

Korban Penyiksaan TNI/Polri di Papua (foto Mulia dok)

AU-Voice baptist,-- Indonesia menghadapi kritik baru atas catatan hak asasi manusia setelah satu tahun kerusuhan lanjutan dan memenjarakan terkemuka aktivis politik di Papua.

Dalam laporan tahunannya pada keadaan hak asasi manusia di seluruh dunia, Amnesty Internasional juga mengkritik pemerintah Indonesia atas apa yang digambarkan sebagai respon cukup untuk serangan yang gigih pada agama minoritas.

Namun laporan tersebut dilindungi kritik yang terberat untuk tuduhan penyiksaan dan penggunaan yang tidak perlu kekuatan yang berlebihan oleh militer, terutama di provinsi bergolak Papua dan Maluku.
Yang di kutip News.smh.com.au/

Ini menunjuk ke sebuah rakit pelanggaran di Papua pada tahun 2011, termasuk pada Oktober ketika pasukan keamanan menembaki peserta dalam kampanye kemerdekaan di kota Abepura, setelah itu tiga orang ditemukan tewas.

Inilah Ringkasan Kontras Sidang UPR PBB untuk Kondisi HAM Indonesia

Pemerintah Indonesia Defensif

 

Sidang UPR PBB (foto kontras)

KontraS mengapresiasi negara-negara yang secara aktif memberikan pertanyaan dan rekomendasi perbaikan kondisi HAM di Indonesia lewat sidang Universal Periodical Review (UPR) 2nd Cycle di Jenewa pada 23 Mei 2012. Namun seperti yang sudah diduga, Sesi UPR II ini masih dipenuhi jawaban-jawaban yang sama dari Pemerintah Indonesia pada Sidang UPR I tahun 2008. Itu artinya tidak ada perubahan situasi penegakan HAM di Indonesia. Mengingat kasus-kasus intoleransi, impunitas dan kekerasan terhadap pembela HAM (termasuk di Papua) masih menjadi problem-problem dominan yang belum diselesaikan.

New Zeland Kekhawatiran atas Ham Papua Barat

Aktivis OPM ( Tuan Benny Wenda) foto Infopapua

Update by :Torresnews.com.au/newsSBP--Partai Hijau di Selandia Baru menyerukan agar pemerintah negara itu untuk mengambil isu sensitif Papua Barat dengan para pemimpin Indonesia di ibukota Jakarta. PM Selandia Baru John Key, Menteri Perdagangan Tim Groser dan delegasi bisnis 26-kuat tiba di Jakarta pekan lalu pada misi dagang selama tiga hari. 

Partai Hijau MP Catherine Delahunty menyerukan Mr Key untuk meningkatkan kekhawatiran tentang hak asasi manusia, khususnya memenjarakan lima aktivis kebebasan atas tuduhan pengkhianatan. Kabar Torres telah melaporkan penderitaan Jayapura Lima selama beberapa bulan di tengah apa yang tampaknya menjadi selimut Media pemadaman pada cerita di media Australia.

HAM di Papua Belum di Prioritaskan

Kristina Neubaeur NETWORK ON WEST PAPUA (MUSA/JUBI)

JUBI --- Faith Based Network on West Papua (FBN) megaku hingga kini perlindungan hak asasi manusia di tanah Papua belum menjadi prioritas bagi Pemerintah Indonesia. Perlindungan HAM di Papua juga belum di jamin

 

Hal ini disampaikan Kristina Neubaeur dari Faith Based Network on West Papua (FBN) saat membacakan laporan peluncuran international ‘Hak Asasi Manusia’ di Papua tahun 2010-2011 di Aula P3W Padang Bulan di Abepura, Jayapura, Papua, Sabtu (21/4). Kristina mengaku, Faith Based Network on West Papua (FBN), Franciscan International, Papua Land of Peace dan Asian Human Right Commission sudah meluncurkan laporan tersebut dalam bahasa inggris pada 2 November 2011 di Genewa, Swiss Judul asli dalam laporan berbahasa inggris adalah Untuk peluncuran laporan HAM internasional di Genewa, Kedutaan Besar Republik Indonesia di PBB juga di undang hadir.