Mayoritas di Melanesia mendukung kemerdekaan Papua Barat

Sebagai pemimpin berkumpul di Fiji minggu ini untuk Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders Summit, Pasifik Institut Kebijakan Publik (PIPP) telah merilis temuan dari pertama jajak pendapat melalui telepon yang pernah dilakukan di seluruh Melanesia.

Tujuh pertanyaan yang berkaitan dengan "Melanesia keluarga" negara yang diajukan, termasuk satu meminta yang besar "non pulau Pasifik" negara dianggap mitra terbaik bagi masing-masing negara di wilayah tersebut.

Pemimpin MSG dapat didorong bahwa mayoritas (74,9%) responden menyadari badan regional untuk mewakili Melanesia.

Ketika ditanya siapa mereka dianggap sebagai bagian dari keluarga Melanesia, mayoritas yang jelas responden termasuk anggota didirikan (PNG, Kepulauan Solomon, Vanuatu, Fiji dan Kaledonia Baru), sementara 42% juga termasuk Papua Barat, 17,1% termasuk Australia, 14,9% termasuk Indonesia dan 14,1% termasuk Timor Leste.

Pertanyaan lain yang diajukan adalah "Apakah Anda mendukung kemerdekaan bagi Papua Barat?" Sebuah mayoritas responden di seluruh Melanesia mengatakan ya, dengan dukungan yang sangat tinggi di PNG (89,3%) dan Vanuatu (88,2%). Hal ini menunjukkan keterputusan antara dukungan rakyat dan posisi yang diambil oleh pemerintah di wilayah tersebut, kecuali Vanuatu, yang telah lama diperjuangkan Barat penyebab Papua pada tingkat politik.

Diminta untuk menghubungkan hubungan antara negara mereka dan Australia, mayoritas responden mengatakan hal itu positif kecuali yang berada di Fiji. Australia juga dianggap sebagai mitra eksternal yang terbaik untuk PNG (40,5%) dan Solomon (40,4%), sedangkan untuk Vanuatu hanya 14,1% responden menganggap Australia terbaik, sedangkan China mencetak 32,9%. Di antara responden di Fiji ada perasaan bahwa itu dianggap Australia, Selandia Baru, Cina dan AS karena semua kira-kira sama pentingnya.

Sehubungan dengan keterlibatan dengan Fiji, mayoritas responden termasuk di Fiji sendiri, memilih untuk meningkatkan keterlibatan atau menjaga tingkat keterlibatan seperti itu.

Pandangan yang diungkapkan oleh responden jajak pendapat ini dapat membantu para pemimpin MSG karena mereka membahas tentang masa depan daerah ini.

Sumber: Dari Vanuatu Daily Post 

5 Statement KNPB In Action Support MSG

Polici baner KNPB

Jayapura SBPNews,-- Support action against MSG meeting and opening of Free West Papua in Port Moresby PNG runs in police and military pressure in Jayapura. Although next police dispersed and arrested three activists, however KNPB mandated National Parliament of Papua Barat (PNWP) continue the action to colonial Indonesian Parliament DPRP taken command and read Warpo Wetipo 5 West Papuan people's attitudes.

 
Here are 5 statement:

First, we need a nation of West Papua full support Melanesian brothers to restore the status of West Papua as an official membership MSG and supports the position of clump Melanesian countries to make West Papua MSG members.  

Second, we urge Heads of State-Melanesian country now revisiting Testament 1947 Canberra or Canberra Verdag clauses according Agreement formation of the South Pacific Canberra on 6 February 1947 was to establish a Commission of the South Pacific (South Pacific Commission).

Third, we menyeruhkan West Papua as a human rights monitoring zone and urged the United Nations to intervene immediately. 

Fourth, the Special Rapporteur urges the UN and the International Journalists right down to West Papua.  

Fifth, urgent and calls on all parties berkempeten immediately opened the democratic space as possible, stop the violence in West Papua and the right to self-determination as a democratic solution to the people of Papua.

 
Actions with similar claims are also made ​​in Sorong, Nabire, Yahokimo, Yalimo, and Timika. While in Yogyakarta, Bandung, Solo and performed by Papuan Students who are members of the Papua Student Alliance (AMP).

For West Papua, Withdraw agreement with Jakarta: Natapei

ByGodwin Ligo 

 

Opposition Leader Edward N. Natapei.

Vanuatu,-- The Leader of the Opposition did not mince his words when commenting on the issue of the struggle of the West Papuan people for a political freedom from Indonesia.

“The Opposition has two calls to the Kilman-led government. First is to withdraw an agreement that was signed between Port Vila and Jakarta by the Kilman-led government, and secondly is to withdraw review Indonesia’s observer status in the Melanesian Spearhead Group ( MSG) during the upcoming MSG Meeting in, Noumea, New Caledonia in July of this year,” Opposition Leader Edward Nipake Natapei told Daily Post yesterday at Parliament House.

He said it is totally wrong for Indonesia to meddle in the affairs of the Melanesian countries such as the MSG.

“Remember what the first and late Prime Minister Father Walter Lini said –that Vanuatu will never be fully free until other colonized countries including West Papua are politically freed,” Natapei commented after listening to the talk by the West Papuan Freedom campaigner Benny Wenda.

“The Opposition strongly supports the application for West Papua to become a full member of the MSG at the upcoming MSG Meeting in Noumea New Caledonia in July this year,” said Natapei.

“Melanesian countries are members of the MSG and MSG does not have MSG plus, the plus is West Papua and not Indonesia which is not a Melanesian country,” said the Opposition Leader Natapei.

He confirmed that the Opposition supports the inclusion of West Papua receiving a full status of the MSG Membership to be on the MSG agenda for the upcoming meeting in New Caledonia in July this year.

Source: http://www.dailypost.vu/

Significant time for West Papua’s inclusion in MSG

ByRicky Binihi 

If the Melanesian Spearhead Group is the brainchild of the late Father Walter Lini then how appropriate it would be to grant West Papua its MSG Observer Status when the people of Melanesia commemorate the MSG Silver Jubilee today.

And if Father Lini dreamt of the founding of a Melanesian Bloc to gather for the social, economic and spiritual needs of Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea, definitely the fathers of MSG, Lini, Solomon’s Solomon Mamaloni and PNG’s Paias Wingti must have wanted that New Caledonia and West Papua be independent and be part of the Bloc.

The referendum for New Caledonia to be part of France or become an independent Melanesian country will take place next year 2014 but despite that, New Caledonia is part of the great family of Melanesia – MSG. 

Unfortunately that could not be said for West Papua.

More than 500 000 Melanesians have spilled their blood for Papua Merdeka since the United Nations orchestrated a “referendum” called the Act of Free Choice in 1969 which the Indonesian army selected 1025 West Papuans to vote for Indonesia against Independence in a country where the population of Melanesians is in the millions.

Now the Melanesians in West Papua are “systematically” tortured and their girls and women raped but they could not raise their sympathy and dialogue with other Melanesians because they are not members of the MSG.

Vanuatu, the host country of the, MSG Secretariat in Port Vila will host its Melanesia Week in March –the anniversary date of the birth of the MSG which falls on March 14,2013. 

This, he said, will mark 25 years of the signing of the Principles of Cooperation between Independent States of Melanesia, the first agreement to give birth to the idea of strengthening Melanesian solidarity and cooperation.

Mr Nirua revealed as part of the launching ceremony in Vanuatu a symposium under the theme “Leaders’ Toktok-Tales from Our Founders and Pioneers” is being organised for founding leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group and current leaders of the MSG to share their perspectives on various key topics in Melanesia to highlight the history and future of Melanesian cooperation that began 25 years ago on 14 March 1988.

“This is an exciting time for our people and our leaders as the symposium will give opportunity to leaders of Melanesia to share with the people of Melanesia the vision and ideas that gave birth to the strong relationship and relations enjoyed by MSG member countries,” he said.

“This will also give opportunity to leaders to share their perspectives on issues that are of common interest to the people and Governments of Melanesia.”

The launching ceremony will see the official release of MSG souvenirs and memorabilia to mark 25 years of Melanesian solidarity and growth, the unveiling of the Melanesian carving by member country carvers and a public luncheon for all. 

Nirua advised the official program will soon be circulated to all member countries, governments and the people of Melanesia.

He expressed his satisfaction that the committee for the special event, comprising of government officials and key stakeholders are planning to stage a memorable launching at the Independence Park.

MSG has instead deemed it fit to welcome with open arms the Indonesians to the MSG on an Observer Status and neglected spiritual calls to have West Papua a fundamental part of the MSG.

The Daily Post has been told Sunday that the MSG Secretariat in Port Vila has not received any application for West Papua to be an Observer.

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Significant time for West Papua’s inclusion in MSG

What makes a Melanesian?

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Indonesia reaches out to the lands of the outriggers. [ABC]

Stephanie March

What makes a Melanesian? It is a question exercising academic minds after Indonesia said it was home to 11 million Melanesians.

Being a base to the largest Melanesian population in the world is a claim Jakarta used to justify its inclusion as an observer to the recent Melanesian Spearhead Group meeting in Fiji. 
The decision to include Indonesia prompted outrage from pro-West Papuan independence groups, concerned Jakarta would use its presence in the regional leadership group to quash support for West Papuan independence. 

Nations represented at the MSG meeting were Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. 

Questions over Indonesian claim to have over 11 million Melanesians

There are questions over Indonesia’s recent claim that it has more than eleven million Melanesians in the country.

The claim was made by senior Indonesian officials last month when the country was granted observer status at the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

They say apart from the indigenous people of Papua region, Indonesia includes many Melanesians in Maluku, Nusa Tenggara and other provinces.

Johnny Blades filed this report:

The Melanesian population of Papua region is estimated at just 1.8 million based on figures in Indonesia’s 2010 census.

MSG nations feel for West Papua

The Melanesian Spearhead Group feels for their brothers and sisters in West Papua says Fiji Foreign Affairs Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola.
However Ratu Inoke, who is chairing the MSG Foreign Ministers meeting, refutes claims that the MSG has received a request for full membership from any West Papuan delegation.
Ratu Inoke says he will wait for the other leaders and should anything come up, it will be discussed by the leaders.
West Papua is part of Indonesia but the people of West Papua have been fighting for independence for decades.
Indonesia will be an observer at the MSG meeting
Source: http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/