David Cameron becomes hero of Papuan tribes

Telegraph News, David Cameron’s elevation to Prime Minister is being celebrated by tribespeople in West Papua who have pinned their hopes on him helping their campaign for independence from Indonesia.

Posters of the Conservative leader have been held aloft in villages across the province following news of his arrival in Downing Street in the wake of the coalition agreement.

Mr Cameron has been feted by many of the one million indigenous inhabitants of West Papua after a meeting last year with their exiled leader Benny Wenda, who was granted asylum by Britain in 2003.

The province covers the western part of the island of New Guinea, with the eastern half being Papua New Guinea.

Following independence from Dutch colonial rule in the 1950s, it was handed over to the UN but was formally annexed by Indonesia following a 1969 referendum whose legitimacy was subsequently marred by allegations of coercion.

The Free Papua Movement, whose campaign for self-determination is supported by most of the indigenous population, is outlawed in Indonesia.

Mr Wenda fled to Britain after escaping jail in Indonesia where he was being held, accused of raising the Free Papua flag, which is banned, and of causing of civil unrest.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph earlier this year, Mr Cameron described the plight of the tribespeople as “a terrible situation”.

Dominic Brown, an independent filmmaker whose documentary about West Papua, The Forgotten Bird of Paradise, has been seen by Mr Cameron, said pictures of tribespeople holding messages of support were taken at the weekend by activists spreading the word about Britain’s new Prime Minister.

He said: “They are all very happy. It gives them great hope that their voice may finally be heard at international level.”

“Last year the International Committee of the Red Cross was thrown out by the Indonesian Government and hasn’t been able to return since.

"Cameron is the only western leader to have expressed any real interest in their campaign and they have really pinned their hopes on him being able to do something about the situation."

Among those pictured are political prisoners Buchtar Tabuni and Victor Yiemo who were jailed by the government after taking part in a demonstration.

Mr Wenda, 35, and his wife Maria perform traditional West Papuan music as The Lani Singers.

My People are slave by Indonesia military in West Papua

Mr Wenda says today very important day for 6o years of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nationals adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of the Human Right. I am here today celebration this important day to celebrate because of this The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But In West Papuan my People are not free to celebrate this very important day because my people are surrounding by Indonesia Military.

Indonesia Military never respect the Human Right Declaration on December 10, 1948.
For instant article 20 (1) everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
In West Papua we don’t have any freedom to Demonstrate, freedom to Assembly and freedom to express our Political View.

My People are slave by Indonesia military, Imprisonment ,Killing , Ripe torture Example Buchtar Tabuni, Pilep and Yusak Pakage 10 to 15 years in the Prison.

Many other prisoner in Manokwary, Fak-fak, Timika, Wamena,Biak,Nabire and Jayapura.
When we look Carefully the Article 4 and 5 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

But in West Papua very difrent situation So the truth is the Indonesia military committed Crime Humanity In West Papua.

Before to late for West Papua People wipe out by Indonesia Military. I need your help to Free for My People.

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SEBLOM SAMBOM WAS ARRESTED By Indonesia Police intelligent

SENTANI [KPNews]Following the arrest of Buchtar Tabuni, now Seblom Sambom (30 years old) has been arrested by Indonesian Police – Papua Region on Wdnesday (17/12) at 11:30 West Papua in Dortheys Hiyo Eluay Memorial Park. KPNews trusted sources were in the location where Seblom Sambom (Sebby) was arrested. According to these sources the arrest of Sebby was quick. The Indonesian police arrived at Theys Eluay’s memorial park (where the students had an exodus camp) at 11.30 and immediately arrested Sebby. There was not any explanation or question or any letter of arrest shown to Sebby before the police arrested him.

Sebby and his friends protested the police but the police ignored their protest and immediately took Sebby to the police headquarter for arrest and questioning.

According to one police officer, Sebby was arrested in connection with Buchtar Tabuni’s case.


The situation at the Exodus camp in Theys Eluay Memorial park was still frightening. Some of Sebby’s friends were gathering there and began to have press conference with local, national and international media.


We ask for pray and support from all the people of West Papua and human rights defenders worldwide. (ktk)


Photo: Sebby clarified himself when questioned about his involvement in the bloody Abepura incident. Source: MetroTv



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Bush dilempar sepatu di Irak

Kunjungan mendadak oleh Presiden Amerika George W Bush ke Irak dibayangi oleh sebuah insiden dimana Bush dilempar dua sepatu dalam acara jumpa pers.
Seorang wartawan Irak diamankan oleh para pengawal setelah dia memanggil Bush "seekor anjing" dan melempar sepatunya, namun tidak mengenai presiden.

Sol sepatu dianggap sebagai hinaan terburuk dalam budaya Arab.

Selama perjalanan itu, Bush dan Perdana Menteri Irak Nouri Maliki menanda tangani kesepakatan keamanan baru antara kedua negara.

Pakta itu menyebutkan bahwa pasukan Amerika akan meninggalkan Irak tahun 2011, delapan tahun setelah penyerbuan tahun 2003 yang menjadi bagian menentukan bagi jabatan kepresidenan Bush.


Berbicara lima minggu sebelum Presiden Bush menyerahkan kekuasaan kepada Barack Obama, Bush juga mengatakan perang di Irak belum berakhir dan masih banyak tugas yang harus dilakukan.

Lawatannya yang tidak diumumkan itu dilakukan sehari setelah Menteri Pertahanan Amerika Robert Gates mengatakan kepada pasukan Amerika bahwa misi Irak berada dalam "tahap akhir".

"Ukuran nomor 10"

Ditengah jumpa pers bersama PM Maliki, seorang wartawan berdiri dan berteriak, "ini tanda perpisahan dari rakyat Irak, anjing," dan kemudian melempar sepasang sepatunya ke arah Presiden Bush, lemparan itu sedikit meleset.

"Yang bisa saya katakan adalah, sepatu itu nomor 10," canda Presiden Bush setelah insiden, seperti dilaporkan kantor berita Associated Press.

Pelempar sepatu kemudian dibawa pergi oleh para pengawal dan jumpa pers dilanjutkan.

Para wartawan menyebut insiden itu sebagai insiden simbolik.

Rakyat Irak lazim melempar sepatu dan sejumlah orang menggunakan sepatu untuk memukuli patung Saddam Hussein di Baghdad setelah dia digulingkan.

'Keamanan Amerika'

Tempat pertama yang dikunjungi Bush setelah tiba di Irak adalah istana presiden di Zona Hijau yang dijaga ketat, dimana dia mengadakan pertemuan dengan Presiden Jalal Talabani.

"Pekerjaan tidak mudah namun perlu demi keamanan Amerika, harapan Irak dan keamanan dunia," kata Bush dalam pembicaraannya dengan Presiden Talabani.

Presiden Irak menyebut Bush "kawan baik bagi rakyat Irak, yang membantu kami membebaskan negara kami."

Wartawan BBC Humphrey Hawksley di Bagdad mengataka, masalah penting saat ini adalah bagaimana tepatnya pasukan Amerika akan ditarik dalam tiga tahun kedepan dan negara Irak seperti apa yang akan mereka tinggalkan.

Media massa Amerika menerbitkan rincian laporan pemerintah Amerika yang mengatakan proses pembangunan kembali pasca penyerbuan Irak dilumpuhkan oleh perang birokratik dan ketidakpedulian terhadap elemen mendasar masyarakat Irak.

Release Buchtar Tabuni: International Lawyers for West Papua

International Lawyers for West Papua
Press Release

Arrest of Buchar Tabuni

The International Lawyers for West Papua (ILWP) is concerned at the arrest of Buchtar Tabuni for his peaceful expression of support for the International Parliamentarians for West Papua. This is a violation of the fundamental human right to freedom of expression - a right protected under international law. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights states as a rule of customary international law that:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

As a sovereign state, Indonesia is bound by international law.

Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights also states that:


1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.

2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

Indonesia acceded to this Covenant in February 2006 and is likewise bound by this treaty to respect freedom of expression.

Freedom of expression is one of the essential foundations of a democratic society. No State can claim to be a democracy if it penalises individuals for their expressing their views peacefully. Only authoritarian governments are afraid of dissent, debate and different opinions.

We ask the Indonesian government to release Buchtar Tabuni and to allow him and all West Papuans to express their opinions freely and peacefully.

We ask the Indonesian government to respect international law and to bring Indonesian national law in line with the standards set by international law.
6th December 2008

Melinda Janki
International Human Right Lawyer & International Lawyers for West Papua

BIG BOOST FOR WEST PAPUA DECLARATION:

Former UK Foreign Office Minister, Rt Hon. John Battle M.P., recognises West Papuans’

M.P., recognises West Papuans’
“inalienable right to self-determination”.
Oxford, England, 8th December 2008

The worldwide campaign for justice and freedom for Indonesian-occupied West Papua received a strong boost today with news

that a former U.K. Government Minister who handled Britain’s relations with Indonesia, the Right Honourable John Battle M.P.,

has put his name to the West Papua Declaration (see text below) launched by International Parliamentarians for West Papua

(IPWP) in London last week, recognising the West Papuan people’s “inalienable right to self-determination” and calling on the United Nations “to put in place arrangements for the free exercise of that right”.

In November 2000, during his time as Foreign Office Minister, Mr Battle made a powerful speech entitled “The relationship between the UK and Indonesia”, in which, with specific reference to West Papua, he said:

“In West Papua there are real issues and grievances to be addressed. Tensions there between centre and periphery are not unique but have been magnified and intensified. We look to the Indonesian government to do that constructively and peacefully. As history has shown, the least effective approach in the long run is heavy-handed treatment by the security forces.”

“We do make human rights an integral feature of our overall approach in international affairs in Indonesia. We will stress that international help would be put in jeopardy internationally and elsewhere if there is any repetition of the sort of state-sponsored terrorism that we saw last year [1999] in East Timor.”

Richard Samuelson, Free West Papua Campaign (UK)

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The WEST PAPUA DECLARATION

London, 1st December 2008

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WE the undersigned recognise the inalienable right of the indigenous people of West Papua to self-determination, which

was violated in the 1969 “Act of Free Choice”,



AND call upon our governments through the United Nations to put in place arrangements for the free exercise of that right



SO that the indigenous people of West Papua can decide democratically their own future in accordance with international standards

of human rights, the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.



International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP)

New York Agreement According to Indonesia

The New York Agreement 15 August 1962 According to Indonesia’s Arguments

There are two versions of opinions regarding the Legal Documents on which the Act of Free Choice 1969 was based: The New York Agreement between The Kingdom of the Netherlands and Indonesia, 15 August 2962

Agreement Between the Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands Concerning West New Guinea (West Irian)

(Signed at the Headquarters of the United Nations, New York, on 15 August 1962)

The Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands,

Having in mind the interests and welfare of the people of the territory of West New Guinea (West Irian) herinafter referred to as “the territory”,

Desirous of settling their dispute regarding the territory,

Now, therefore, agree as follows:

RATIFICATION OF AGREEMENT AND RESOLUTION OF

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Article I

After the present Agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands has been signed and ratified by both Contracting Parties, Indonesia and the Netherlands will jointly sponsor a draft resolution in the United Nations under the terms of which the General Assembly of the United Nations takes note of the present Agreement, acknowledges the role conferred upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations therein, and authorizes him to carry out the tasks entrusted to him therein.

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Soal Papua, Komisi I Kirim Nota Protes Ke Parlemen Inggris

JAKARTA - Komisi I Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR) akan mengirimkan nota protes kepada parlemen Inggris terkait dukungan dua angota parlemen itu terhadap upaya Papua merdeka.

Hal tersebut dikatakan Ketua Komisi I DPR, Theo L Sambuaga kepada wartawan di gedung DPR, Senayan, Jakarta, Senin (20/10/2008).

"Kita akan angkat ke forum kerja sama antar parlemen," kata Theo.

Meski langkah Komisi I cukup telat dan dikeluarkan setelah peristiwa dukungan dua anggota parlemen untuk Papua merdeka, Theo membantah jika upaya Komisi I bersifat reaktif.

"Kami memberikan sikap terhadap pembentukan kaukus ini yang tujuannya untuk mengkampanyekan pemisahan Papua dari negara kesatuan republik Indonesia," ujarnya.

Theo melanjutkan, masalah Papua pada dasarnya tidak hanya dibahas di periode DPR saat ini. Namun oleh DPR sebelumnya. Terutama mengenai masalah pembangunan dan pemberdayaan masyarakat, peningkatan pendidikan, demokrasi, hak asasi manusia, kehidupan masyarakat Papua, dan dana otonomi khusus yang penggunaannya harus efektif di Papua.

Sementara anggota Komisi I Abdillah Toha mengatakan, dukungan dua anggota parlemen Inggris belum tentu mempersentasikan seluruh anggota parlemen itu.

"Tapi saya minya pemerintah waspada dan bertindak tegas agar tidak timbul kaukus-kaukus semacam ini yang dimungkinkan, kurangnya informasi terhadap Papua," kata Abdillah. (enp)
Sumber : Okezone

Papua police accused over abuse

Indonesian police have been accused of killing, raping and torturing civilians with impunity in the province of Papua.

The New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the most serious abuses were being carried out during the hunt for separatists.

Opposition to Indonesian rule in the isolated province has simmered since Jakarta took over from Dutch colonial control in 1963.

Indonesian Police Chief General Sutanto denied any abuses were taking place.

"The police have undertaken many reforms," he was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. "The human rights situation in Papua is getting better."

'Law unto themselves'

HRW documented 14 cases of alleged abuses in Papua's remote central highlands, with information compiled from interviews with victims and witnesses.

The group said that the worst abuses happened as police conducted sweeping operations in villages believed to house pro-independence groups.

These operations had caused thousands of people to leave their homes in fear, restricting their access to food and medical treatment, HRW said.

Police units also used excessive force to break up or control gatherings of people, leading to extra-judicial killings and other ill-treatment, according to the report.

"I wanted to scream but he had his hand over my mouth and then he forced me. I resisted but he still forced me," one 16-year-old unidentified rape victim was quoted in the report as saying.

Of the 14 cases, only one person - a security officer - had faced prosecution and jail, HRW added.

"The police are acting as a law unto themselves," Joseph Saunders, HRW deputy programme director, said.

"This is a serious breach of the public trust necessary for effective policing."

A key change from previous research is that the police, not the military, appears to be responsible for the majority of abuses, the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Jakarta says.

Around 100 Papuans protested outside the US embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, calling for a referendum on independence for the province.

"The nation of Papua has seen 44 years of sorrow," one protester's banner read.

Jakarta has been fighting a low-level insurgency for decades in the poor but resource rich province.

Small armed groups carry out sporadic attacks on economic and military targets in the province.

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At least 63 people have been killed and dozens injured in twin suicide bombings outside Pakistan's main munitions factory in the town of Wah, police s

The attack is the deadliest on a military site in Pakistan's history.

Police say one man is in custody for the attack, which occurred some 30km (18 miles) north-west of Islamabad.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taleban said they had carried out the attacks, which he said were a response to army violence in the country's north-west.

In pictures: Factory bombings

Speaking to the BBC, Maulvi Umar of the Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan said the bombings in Wah were in retaliation for the deaths of "innocent women and children" in the tribal area of Bajaur.

He said more attacks would take place in Pakistan's major urban conurbations unless the army withdrew from the tribal areas.

Pakistani Prime Minister Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani promised to punish the perpetrators.

US President Bush later telephoned Mr Gilani to pledge his support in tackling what he called terrorist attacks.

The leaders "reaffirmed their mutual support for going after these extremists that are a threat to Pakistan, the United States and the entire world," a White House spokesman said.

Wah is a strategically important town normally under heavy security as it is home to a large industrial complex producing conventional arms and ammunition, correspondents say.

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