19 Wanita Fakfak Ditelanjangi Oleh Dua Polwan

Jumpa Pers LSM Papu/Photo MS

Jayapura VoiceBaptist,--Menanggapi situasi menjelang 15 Agustus 2013 lalu di Kabupaten Fak-Fak atas perlakuan aparat gabungan TNI/POLRI  yang melakukan pemeriksaan dan penahanan secara sewenang-wenang dan tindakan kekerasan terhadap warga sipil tanggal 14 Agustus 2013, direktur Elsham, Fery Marisan, Pengacara Elsham, Manfret Naa, dan kordinator Advokasi, Sem Rumbrar,  menggelar jumpa pers  pada Rabu (21/8/13) di kantor Elsaham Jayapura Papua yang di kutip berita Majalah Selangkah.

 

Sem Rumbrar, kordinator Advokasi, menjelaskan,  para perempuan dipaksa masuk ke sebuah lorong menuju toilet di ruang aula Polres Fakfak.  Di dalam  ruangan kecil itu, 2 orang Polisi wanita (Polwan) melakukan pemeriksaan terhadap sejumlah perempuan yang ditangkap oleh aparat keamanan.

Yang pertama diperiksa adalah  mama Magdalena Bahba dan mama Naomi Hegemur.  Kedua Polwan tersebut langsung menaggalkan paksa pakaian kedua mama itu. Mama magadalena di lepaskan pakaian hingga tinggal  bh dan celana dalam saja. dan mama Hegemur karena pakaiannya basah.  Kemudian ia (Polwan) suruh untuk melepas pakaian semua, kecuali  pakaian dalamnya saja. Setelah di periksa, kedua mama tersebut langsung memeriksa barang bawaan dan kedua Polwan itu menyita barang bawaan kedua mama tersebut, diantaranya korek gas, pisau dapur, yang kebetulan ada dalam tas mereka. 

"Kami sebanyak 19 perempuan.  kami yang di periksa sebanyak 19 orang dan kami di perlakukan sama yatu di telanjangi," kata Elisabeth (Korban)."

"Setelah kedua mama itu diperiksa, berikutnya juga kedua perempaun diperikasa dengan cara yang sama oleh kedua polwan setelah di perikasa kemudian kedua polwan itu memanggil saya, Rosita Elisabeth,"  kata  Rosita Elisabeth Bahaba, wanita  16 tahun asal kampung Nembukteb, distrik  Karamongmongga, yang juga jadi korban 2 polwan ini.

"Saya dipaksa masuk kedalam wc oleh kedua Polwan tersebut, lalu saya diperlakukan hal yang sama seperti mama 2 itu," kata slisabeth, sambil membeberkan nama kedua Polwan yang menelanjangi mereka itu bernama Anti dan Jaqlin.

"Kami sebanyak 19 perempuan.  kami yang di periksa sebanyak 19 orang dan kami di perlakukan sama," kata Elisabeth.

Setelah diperiksa, kemudian pihak Polres Fakfak Kabag. OPS, Tony M. memerintahkan mama-mama untuk tidak jualan hari itu, dan membawa pulang sayuran yang hendak dijual hari itu. "Yang membawa jualan berupa sayauran dan makanan kebun langsung dibawa pulang. Nanti satu dua hari lagi baru mama dorang datang jualan."

Direktur Elsham, Fery Marisan, Pengacara Elsham, Manfret Naa, dan Coordinator Advokasi, Sem Rumbrar,  menilai, tindakan yang dibuat oknum Polwan di Fakfak benar-ber tidak etis, dan merupakan tindakan yang tidak menghargai HAM. Oleh karena itu, mereka sepakat, kejadian ini mesti diproses sesuai dengan hukum yang berlaku di negara ini..

 

Sumber: Majalah Selangkah

Sekretaris II Kedubes AS Bidang Politik Kunjugi Foker LSM Papua

Sekretaris II Bidang Politik Kedubes James P. Feldmayer

Jayapura VoiceBaptist,- Sekretaris II Bidang Politik dari Kedutaan Besar (Kedubes) Amerika Serikat (AS) James P. Feldmayer mengatakan,  sekecil apapun keluhan dan Persoalan dari masyarakat Papua itu tetap akan disampaikan dan didengarkan.

Lanjutnya, kami  meminta kepada LSM - LSM lokal yang ada di Papua agar tidak berputus asa memberikan informasi yang sedang berkembang di Papua kepada pihak Kedubes AS.

Demikian kata Sekretaris II Bidang politik dari Kedubes AS James P. Feldmayer ketika usia melakukan pertemuan dengan para pengurus Foker LSM Papua, di Kantor Foker LSM Papua, di Jalan Kampung Yoka, Distrik Heram, senin siang Senin (29/7) sekira pukul 14.00 WIT.

UNHCR | Refworld | Whither human rights in Indonesia?

 Title: Whither human rights in Indonesia?

Victims of alleged human rights violations in Indonesia, a country where human rights courts set up in 2000 have yet to convict a single case, are facing an uphill battle to bring perpetrators to justice.

Data from local NGO Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) estimates more than one million people suffered rights abuses between 1965 and 1998 that took place largely under President Suharto’s military rule, which ended in 1998 with his forced resignation.

“We have an unusual situation in this country. You have all these human rights violations but as things stand, no-one has been found guilty in a human rights court,” said Haris Azhar, co-ordinator of Kontras.

In 2000 the Indonesian parliament created human rights courts to hear and rule on cases concerning gross violations of human rights. Over 12 years, 12 cases have come before the country’s four human rights courts, with no resulting convictions. 

State brutality in Papua

In recent years activists have reported human rights abuses in the country’s remote Papuan region, where a separatist conflict has simmered for decades.

The resource-rich region (3,000km east of Jakarta and including the provinces of Papua and West Papua) has the lowest level of human development of Indonesia’s 33 provinces.

Penihas Lokbere from Jayapura, the capital of Papua Province, said he is one of 105 people arrested by the police in 2000 in the university town of Abepura, about 10km from Jayapura.

According to Human Rights Watch, a group of unidentified people attacked a police post in Abepura, killing two policemen and a security guard.

“The police wanted to retaliate,” said Lokbere. “They came to our dormitory while we were sleeping and arrested us. They didn’t ask any questions.”

Along with his fellow students, Lokbere was imprisoned for three days, where he said he was tortured, handcuffed and beaten with a metal crook. Until now, no one has been convicted.

A 2012 joint report of the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ITCJ) and the Jayapura-based Institute of Human Rights Studies and Advocacy (ELSHAM), recorded nearly 750 rights violations against Papuans from 1960-2012, including arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and killings.

Paul Mambrasar, a representative of ELSHAM said the actual number of violations may be much higher. “Many of the victims are not ready to speak about what happened. The provinces of Papua are militarized and people are worried if they give information, they will be terrorized by the military or the police.”

The Papua region has had decades-long separatist tension related to the stalled implementation of a special autonomy arrangement (granted in 2001); communities’ lack access to natural resource wealth such as gold, copper and timber; and there have been security crackdowns on political demonstrations.

Josef Roy Benedict, Amnesty International’s Indonesia campaigner based in London, said ongoing human rights violations in the region are in part due to a culture of impunity there.

“Police officers tend to be punished only for disciplinary offences, often in closed-door proceedings, while offences by the military are dealt with through the military court system, which lacks independence and impartiality,” said Benedict.  

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ELSHAM finds evidence of 749 acts of violence in Papua

JUBI Jayapura: ELSHAM, – the Institute for the Study and Advocacy of Human Rights in Papua – found evidence of 749 acts of violence that befell the people living in Papua. Most of these acts of violence occurred during arbitrary arrests and detentions.This is reported in the recently launched book, Masa Lalu dan Tak Lalu – The Past and Never Past – which was published by ELSHAM and the International Centre for Transitional Justice.

 

During its investigations, the researchers examined 108 testimonies about human rights violations . They spoke to 76 people in Biak, 12 people in Manokwari, ten people in Paniai and ten people in Sorong. The period covered was from the mid 1960s (prior to the Act of Free Choice in 1969) up to the period of ‘reformasi’ (following the downfall of Suharto).

Their researchers spent three months out in the field, studying testimonies and obtained information about 749 cases.

Of the 749 cases, 312 were violations against males and 56 violations against women. The details were obtained from101 victims who were  interviewed. One hundred and one victims  had suffered violations together with a group of people or with more than one person. The types of violence were arbitrary arrests and detentions, 234 cases,  military operations against the civilian population including operations to forcibly evict people 181 cases, and torture and ill-treatment, 97 cases.

There were also 86 cases of deaths as the result of extreme torture,  threats 53 cases, assaults 28 cases, the seizure or destruction of  people’s belongings, gardens or livestock  22 cases, orders to report 26 cases, attacks and searches of people’s homes 4 cases, lack of access to food or medication 4 cases, forcible removals, preventing people from finding work 4 cases, forcible removals 3 cases, lack of access to food or medications, denial of access to families 2 cases, trials without lawyers,  2 cases, preventing people from travelling  2 cases. Finally, there was prevention of access to education. A total in all of 749 cases.

Other points included in the report  were that during the first period, from 1960 till 1969, several witnesses spoke of this period being marked by armed clashes  between the Indonesian army and troops of the OPM  (Papuan Freedom Organisaation)  which were frequently followed up by military attacks aimed directly at  the civilian population and arbitrary arrests and acts of torture, and the arrest of  people regarded as being against integration with Indonesia.

During the second period, from 1969 to 1998,  the focus was on destroying the remnants of the OPM, who were still involved in guerilla actions in the forests, People living in the towns as well as in the villages  were kept under tight guard and were required to obtain permits from the army if they wanted to travel anywhere. Peoeple who had once been arrested  were often re-arrested  for no apparent reason.

In the third perid following ‘reformasi’ after the fall of Suharto, there were many pressures for changes to be made in the situation in Papua. However, civil actions by  students and political groups of people calling for independence  were dealt with by acts of violence.

[Translated by TAPOL]