VANGO Stands in Solidarity With PIANGO on West Papua

The Vanuatu Association of Non-Governmental Organisation (VANGO) has expressed its firm solidarity with the Pacific Association of Non-Governmental Organisation (PIANGO) on West Papua.

The VANGO support was expressed by the Chairperson of the Vanuatu national NGO group Ms Lind Peter in an email to PIANGO Executive Director Ms Emele Duituturaga, who is currently in Pohnpei, FSM, where they have held the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Forum on the eve of the 47th Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting.

In her media briefing earlier in the week, Ms Duituturaga made PIANGO’s stand on West Papua clear – that the issue was no long a matter for the Melanesian Spearhead Group nor the PIF leaders; but rather a United Nations issue.

VANGO’s Linda Peter says in her email and quoted by Vanuatu reporter covering the Pohnpei PIF meeting Moses Stevens.

“We Vanuatu Civil Society Alliance is in solidarity with other local CSOs here in Vanuatu and will continue to advocate locally, nationally and regionally for the freedom for West Papua in alliance with PIANGO and the global community.

The Vanuatu government is also taking a similar stand in their approach to lobbying support for the independence cause of West Papua.

Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office (Vanuatu) Johnson Naviti, says “now that more regional governments have stood out clear on their support for West Papua, our plans now is to take the mater beyond the region”.

While leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (which was formed initially to spearhead the independence cause of West Papua and Kanaky) have divided over West Papua, Solomon Islands has taken a clear stand with the support of Tuvalu and Nauru in their “Pacific Coalition for West Papua”.

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Fisheries, West Papua and climate change on Forum agenda

New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key says fisheries management is critically important for Pacific nations, and he expects it to dominate talks at the Pacific Islands Forum.

Mr Key is in Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia for the talks, where climate change and West Papua will also be on the agenda.

Last year the New Zealand Government pledged $US36 million to support fisheries management in the region and so far about $US21 million has been allocated.

Mr Key said fisheries were the largest resource in the region.

Prime Minister John Key after landing in Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.

"It's worth over billions of dollars, largely tuna fisheries, and so the big threat of course for Pacific nations is illegal fishing in their waters and unauthorise fishing.

"I think long term one of the issues is also sustainability," he said.

At last year's Forum summit, leaders resolved to request Indonesia to allow it to send a fact-finding mission to Papua.

However the Forum secretary-general Dame Meg Taylor said Jakarta had not allowed this to go ahead.

The Forum's annual gathering is also expected to discuss increasing its membership by adding two French territories on the UN decolonisation list.

Both New Caledonia and French Polynesia have been vying for years to be granted full membership, which since the organisation's inception, was meant to be for independent countries only.

 Sumber : www.radionz.co.nz

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ROCKIN’ FOR WEST PAPUA: Global Peace Concerts Announced

Rockin’ For West Papua is a worldwide music, arts and cultural festival of events raising awareness of the genocide and human rights abuses on the indigenous people of West Papua, presented by Rize Of The Morning Star.

“We stand for the arts,

we stand for first nations people

and we stand for West Papua.”

#musicisaweapon

Rockin’ For West Papua gigs are being organised around Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Perth, Byron Bay, Gold Coast, Lismore, Newcastle and Arnhem Land with more shows to be announced in all corners of the globe.

CONFIRMED DATES:

Friday 30 September – Sydney AUS: Waywards @ Bank Hotel, Newtown featuring Blackbreaks, The MisMade, The Black Turtles, MC Thorn

Saturday 1 October – Newcastle AUS: The Vault featuring Once Remained, Skinpin, Steinbrenner, The Grounds

Saturday 1 October – Edinburgh UK: Henry’s Cellar Bar featuring Rise Kagona, Samba Sene & Diwan Seneglese, Nawakyipo, Mariam El Sadr & more

Friday 7 October – Lismore AUS: Lismore City Hall Studio featuring Blakboi, The Humans Of Lismore, Atomic Monkey Chunks & Punks For West Papua doco screening

Saturday 8 October – Gold Coast AUS: Currumbin Creek Tavern featuring The Poor, Wartooth, Paging Jimi

Saturday 8 October – Brisbane AUS: Chardons Corner Hotel featuring Kold Creature, Monster Fodder, System Trashed, Kaosphere, Alice Lost Her Way, Locus Give It All

Saturday 8 October – Darwin AUS: The Chippo, 2 stages featuring Clever Monkey, Dave Garnham, Gored Matador, Acid City, Pole Top Rescue, Lungbuster, Ben Evolent, Brother Phoenix, Joy Greer

Saturday 8 October – Gauteng SOUTH AFRICA: Wunderbar @ German Club featuring Slash Dogs, Made For Broadway, Slippery When Wet, Chilean cuisine, Film Screenings

Sunday 9 October – Melbourne AUS: Bendigo Hotel featuring Liquor Snatch, Indigo Rising, DevilsMonkey, Mystic Trio, DJ LAPKAT, Long Holiday, Native Rain, New Age, Elf Tranzporter, MC Izzy Brown, West Papuan String Band and dancers

Saturday 29 October – Perth AUS: Railway Hotel, Fremantle featuring Yob Mob, The U-Nites reggae band plus DJ General Justice & Jah Wisdom Sound System, Potato Stars, Mental Pretzel, Fuzion

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MORE GLOBAL CONCERTS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Following the noise made and the funds raised by the ‘Punks For West Papua’ movement and documentary, more rockin’ artists are coming together for several weeks fromSeptember 30 to show the strength of music and help raise funds to assist the plight of the West Papuans, presented by global music & cultural movement Rize Of The Morning Star.

Leader of the ULMWP Benny Wenda said “Indonesia have tanks and guns. West Papuans only have guitars. Music is the only weapon we need for freedom.”

Whilst West Papuan music is outlawed by the Indonesian Military, Rockin’ For West Papua & Rize Of The Morning Star are inviting musicians, artists and anybody who wants to make a stand, to show their colours in the month of October by organising gigs, exhibitions, festivals or any social gathering or display of support to let Indonesia, USA, Australian and UK governments know that we are standing for West Papua.

Filmmaker Anthony ‘Ash’ Brennan who created the award winning documentary “Punks For West Papua” is coordinating the Rockin’ For West Papua shows. Returning from a stint in Rio behind the camera at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, he said “I have been very fortunate in my career in TV to have travelled to the four corners of the globe. I have seen the good and bad in every country. From Indian Slums, to Soweto in South Africa, and more recently the Rio favela's.  I have learnt that people who have the least, give the most. They open their hearts with music and art. And I have walked away richer for the experience. A very humbling experience, coming from such a privileged country. Music brings people together, empowers us, and gives us strength to overcome any adversity.”

The people of West Papua have been suffering under Indonesian occupation since 1963. Over 500,000 civilians have been killed, and thousands more have been raped, tortured and imprisoned. Foreign media and human rights groups are banned from operating in West Papua, so people rarely hear about the situation there. The Free West Papua Campaign is bringing the story of West Papua to the world and campaigning for freedom and justice in West Papua, to end the violence of the last 50 years.

Despite the growing global support of the United Liberation Movement For West Papua, in recent months over 800 West Papuan people were arrested and many tortured by Indonesian authorities simply for peacefully calling for full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). There has been a surge of human rights abuses as thousands of people joined mass rallies with hundreds arrested at passive demonstrations in West Papua and Indonesia. Even with the media ban, harrowing video evidence has emerged of the brutality that peaceful protesters were met with including children and students.

All funds raised go to Free West Papua.

#musicisaweapon

www.facebook.com/R4WP16

www.facebook.com/R4WP16/events

Additional info & Articles:

http://www.rizeofthemorningstar.com/

www.freewestpapua.org/2016/08/26/global-concert-for-west-papua/

https://wpan.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/herman-wainggai-long-journey-to-freedom/

http://edinburgh.carpediem.cd/events/783769-rockin-for-west-papua-musicisaweapon-at-henrys-cellar-bar/

Earlier this year:

TeenRock.com, UK – “10 Things We Learned From ‘Punks 4 West Papua’”

http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-03-10/how-the-aussie-punk-scene-fought-a-forgotten-war

Green Left Weekly, Aus – “Punks For West Papua: Indonesia’s West Papua Crimes Laid Bare In Award-Winning Doco”

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61173

The Brag, Aus – “Five Minutes With Ash Brennan, Producer/Director of Punks For West Papua”

http://www.thebrag.com/arts/five-minutes-ash-brennan-producerdirector-punks-west-papua

For further media info please contact:

DEBORAH GANN – PUBLICIST

RESERVOIR PR+MGMT AUSTRALIA

T: 0481 264 077

E: ReservoirDeb@gmail.com

F: www.facebook.com/ReservoirManagement

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KNPB: Dukungan Pasifik Meluas, Indonesia ‘Maju Kena Mundur Kena’

Acara Doa Syukur dan Terima Kasih kepada solidaritas
dari Pasifik untuk Papua yang dimediasi oleh KNPB,
Jumat (9/9/2016) – JUBI/Zely Ariane

Jayapura – Ketua I Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB), Agus Kossay, menyebutkan sikap pemerintah Indonesia, yang menolak rekomendasi Tim Pencari Fakta PIF terkait pelanggaran HAM Papua, sebagai strategi yang ‘maju kena mundur kena’.

Berbicara kepada wartawan pasca digelarnya acara Ibadah syukur KNPB, di halaman Rusunawa, Perumnas 3 Waena, Jumat (9/9/2016), Agus menyatakan sikap pemerintah Indonesia tersebut hanya sedang menutup-nutupi kenyataan pelanggaran HAM yang terus terjadi di Papua.

“Saya pikir apapun cara dan model Indonesia menghalangi perhatian Pasifik ke Papua, itu sama saja dengan maju kena mundur kena,” ujarnya.

Menurut Kossay, kalau Tim Pencari Fakta diterima, maka fakta di lapangan akan terbongkar dan masalah akan dibawa ke PBB. Jika ditolakpun seperti sekarang, pertanyaan publik akan muncul, ada apa sebenarnya. “Keduanya tetap akan berujung ke mekanisme PBB,” ujar Kossay.

KNPB menggelar ibadah Syukur atas deklarasi Koalisi Pasifik untuk West Papua (PCWP) sekaligus ucapan terima kasih mereka pada dukungan yang terus bertambah di Pasifik, termasuk upaya keras mendorong sikap para pemimpin Forum Kepulauan Pasifik (PIF) untuk isu-isu West Papua.

Sebelumnya di sela-sela pertemuan PIF ke-47 (8/9), seperti diungkap Sekjen PIANGO, Emele Duituturaga, keengganan Indonesia disebabkan karena pemerintah tidak nyaman dengan sebutan “Tim pencari fakta PIF”. Hal itu membuat Organisasi Masyarakat Sipil (OMS) di Pasifik memperkuat strateginya dengan mendorong para pimpinan PIF bertindak untuk isu Papua Barat melalui mekanisme PBB.

Peneliti Abdurrahman Wahid Centre (AWC), Dr. Budi Hernawan, kepada Jubi Jumat (9/9) turut menyesalkan sikap pemerintah Indonesia, khususnya Kementerian Luar Negeri (Kemenlu).

“Saya pikir Kemenlu masih suka dengan cara lama melalui beli suara PNG dan Fiji. Penolakan Kemenlu atas penawaran ‘tim pencari fakta’ dan dialog oleh MSG, di satu sisi, ingin menunjukkan bahwa Indonesia tidak mau didikte, ini kan garis kebijakan pemerintah Jokowi,” kata Budi yang lama telah meneliti isu-isu pelanggaran HAM di Papua.

Namun dia juga menekankan bahwa sikap Kemenlu tersebut hanya akan memperkuat mobilisasi di Pasifik.

Agus Kossay, Ketua I KNPB di akhir acara Acara
Doa Syukur dan Terima Kasih KNPB kepada PCWP,
Jumat (9/9/2016) – JUBI/Zely Ariane

“Konsekuensi ini disadarikah tidak sama Kemenlu? Tawaran dari Kantor Staf Kepresidenan (KSP) terkait Special Envoy Papua juga ditentang mereka, jadi tidak jelas maunya apa,” ujarnya.

Pada akhirnya, lanjut Budi, yang terjadi bukanlah tawaran kebijakan baru buat Papua melainkan kegiatan-kegiatan reaktif belaka.

Apresiasi atas Peran Sogavare

Menanggapi meluasnya dukungan terhadap West Papua di Pasifik, khususnya kepemimpinan PM Solomon Manasseh Sogavare, Agus Kossay mengaku tidak menduga.

“Sebenarnya orang Papua tidak menyangka dukungan Solomon Islands hingga sebesar itu, mereka akan bertindak sejauh itu.  Kenyataan ini membuat kami bertambah yakin, bahwa peran akar rumput begitu menentukan. Jika akar rumput mendukung dan berpihak pada bangsa Papua, maka suka tidak suka pemimpin akan mesti bersikap tegas,” kata Kossay.

Ketika dikonfirmasi terkait strategi OMS Pasifik yang hendak mendesak AS, Australia dan Selandia Baru agar bertindak lebih jelas terhadap isu West Papua, Kossay optimis hal itu bisa terjadi.

“Dukungan ini semakin tidak terbendung. Jika ini disuarakan oleh setidaknya 30% anggota PBB, maka negara-negara super poweritu ya harus mengakui apa yang menjadi kesalahan mereka di masa lalu,” ujar Kossay.

Dia menambahkan bahwa PM Sogavare sangat sadar MSG saja tidak lagi cukup, sehingga dirinya mulai mengambil terobosan membentuk PCWP dan mendorong masuknya isu papua ke Komite Dekolonisasi PBB.

Bahkan menurut informasi, kata Kossay, ULMWP akan diberi kesempatan pidato pertama mewakili Pemerintah Solomon dan Vanuatu untuk bicara di sela-sela pertemuan Majelis Umum PBB awal Oktober mendatang.

Perjuangan KNPB, lanjut Kossay, mewakili rakyat Papua yang percaya pada proses dan mekanisme internasional, sebab sejak awal persoalan Papua berdimensi internasional karena sepihaknya perjanjian New York  dan Roma 1962.

“Perjanjian itu sepihak dan banyak pelanggaran, maka negara-negara yang menjadi anggota PBB punya tanggung jawab untuk meluruskan kesalahan itu di forum-forum resmi PBB,” tegasnya.

Sementara itu, kerja keras PIANGO untuk mendorong isu Papua menjadi sikap tegas para pemimpin Pasifik hingga ke mekanisme PBB, terus dilakukan dari Honolulu hingga Ponhpei dimana pertemuan PIF berlangsung.

Dalam pertemuan Kamis (8/9) pagi bersama Troika (forum mantan ketua PIF sebelumnya, Ketua PIF saat ini, dan ketua berikutnya), PIANGO meminta ketegasan tindakan para pimpinan PIF agar secara aktif mendorong pemerintah Indonesia menghentikan pelanggaran HAM di Papua termasuk menemukan cara damai bagi rakyat Papua untuk penentuan nasib sendiri.

PIANGO juga mendorong para pimpinan mendiskusikan persoalan Papua dengan Sekretaris Jenderal PBB pada pertemuan tahunan (Forum Updates di New York di sela-sela pertemuan Majelis Umum PBB/UNGA) agar menunjuk Special Envoy untuk melakukan assesment situasi HAM di Papua Barat.

Terkait agenda dekolonisasi West Papua, PIANGO meminta para pimpinan menjadi sponsor bagi West Papua untuk dimasukkan ke daftar Komite Dekolonisasi PBB.(Zely Ariane)

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Gelar Aksi Tandingan Rakyat Papua, Bara NKRI Bertindak Anarkis di Jayapura

Massa Bara NKRI Saat Pawai di Jayapura. (Facebook)

Papua - Ribuan rakyat Papua yang dikoordinir oleh Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB) diberbagai kota dan kabupaten di seluruh tanah Papua, pada hari selasa, 31 Mei 2016, menggelar aksi serentak secara damai, sebagai bentuk dukungan kepada United Liberation Movement For West Papua (ULMWP) yang rencananya akan didaftarkan sebagai anggota penuh di MSG. Dalam aksi damai yang digelar ini, ratusan aktivis dan rakyat Papua diamankan oleh kepolisian Republik Indonesia di tanah Papua, dan bahkan massa aksi yang hendak bergerak menuju titik aksi yang telah ditetapkan, diblokade oleh aparat gabungan (TNI-Polri) yang telah bersiaga dengan bersenjata lengkap.

Meski ratusan aktivis dan rakyat Papua ditangkap (597 orang), dan massa aksi diblokade oleh TNI-Polri, aksi damai yang dilakukan oleh rakyat Papua tetap berjalan dengan damai, hingga pembacaan pernyataan sikap dilakukan, tanpa ada perlawanan dan tindakan anarkis sedikitpun dari massa aksi terhadap tindakan represif yang dilakukan oleh aparat. 

Sala Seorang Mama Papua, Korban Penganiaayaan Massa Bara NKRI

Guna merespon aksi damai yang dilakukan oleh ribuan rakyat Papua di seluruh tanah Papua, pada 31 mei 2016, hari ini, kamis 02 juni 2016, dikabarkan puluhan orang yang tergabung dalam Barisan Rakyat Pembela NKRI (Bara NKRI), melakukan aksi tandingan di kota Jayapura, yang diback up oleh TNI-Polri. Massa aksi yang tergabung dalam aksi yang dimotori oleh Bara NKRI ini sendiri, mayoritas dari massa orang non Papua yang kebanyakan berprofesi sebagai tukang ojek, supir taksi dan beberapa orang pedagang yang berada di Jayapura.

Aksi yang digelar oleh Bara NKRI, dikabarkan dilakukan dengan anarkis, 2 orang mama Papua dianiaya tanpa sebab di depan Kampus Uncen 1, Padang Bulan, toko-toko dan kios-kios sepanjang ruas jalan sentani hingga Jayapura dipaksakan massa untuk ditutup dan pemilik toko serta kios dipaksakan untuk ikut terlibat dalam aksi brutal yang dilakukan Bara NKRI. Tak hanya itu, merasa leluasa karena di back up aparat, ketika massa ini tiba di kantor DPRP, massa membentak-bentak para anggota dewan yang menemui massa ini, dan mengecam beberapa anggota DPRP yang hadir dalam aksi damai yang digelar oleh KNPB bersama rakyat Papua pada tanggal 31 mei kemarin.

Dalam tuntutanya, Bara NKRI menyatakan untuk segera membubarkan KNPB beserta ULMWP, dan mendesak pemerintah Indonesia untuk membangun komunikasi kepada pemerintah Inggris, agas segera mendeportasi Mr. Benny Wenda yang saat ini adalah warga negara Inggris, kembali ke Indonesia, dengan alasan Benny Wenda adalah DPO. Dari pantauan dilapangan disebutkan bahwa, selain diback up oleh TNI-Polri, massa yang tergabung dalam Bara NKRI juga ternyata dibiayai oleh aparat, selain itu, massa yang tergabungpun dibayar oleh aparat untuk sekedar hadir dan terlibat dalam aksi anarkis yang diseting oleh aparat. (wp)

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MSG chair denies claims of lack of commitment

Manasseh Sogavare Photo: RNZI

The chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group has denied a media suggestion that he is not committed to the upcoming special leaders' summit.

Manasseh Sogavare, who is also Solomon Islands' prime minister, has singled out the Pacific Islands News Association for an item claiming he would not be attending the upcoming MSG summit.

The suggestion by PINA's item that leaders were not giving serious attention to the MSG summit has been strongly rejected by Mr Sogavare.

The MSG summit, which was originally scheduled for Port Vila at the start of the month, was postponed at the last minute.

This has been attributed from various parties to either a brief period of instability in Solomon Islands politics or the busy schedule for leaders of MSG full members: Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia's FLNKS Kanaks movement.

In the last week or so the summit was re-scheduled for this weekend in Papua New Guinea's capital by PNG prime minister Peter O'Neill.

However the MSG chairman is unable to be in Port Moresby at this time as the Solomons parliament is still in session.

Furthermore, Mr O'Neill is in Japan to attend the G7 summit in PNG's capacity as an outreach country.

Mr Sogavare's office proposed that the MSG summit be held from the 29th of May to the 1st of June.

However, Mr O'Neill reportedly told the MSG Chair that these dates would be unsuitable for PNG due to commitments next week as host of an African, Caribbean and Pacific group summit in Port Moresby around the same time.

The office of the MSG Chair said it would be consulting with leaders on new dates and venue for the special leaders' summit.

However the schedule changes, and uncertainty around the date of the summit, have added to perceptions of disharmony within the MSG.

It remains unclear why the summit venue was shifted from Vanuatu to PNG.

However there has been clear discord over two issues expected to be addressed at the upcoming summit.

One is the MSG chair's well-publicised frustration over Indonesia's response to the MSG's deep concerns about West Papua, a sentiment which other MSG members have echoed.

The other issue is the premature announcement of Fiji diplomat Amena Yauvoli as the new Director General of the MSG, something which PNG and Vanuatu took exception to.

However Mr Sogavare said there was no question as to his and other leaders' commitment to attending the MSG Summit as there were important agendas to be discussed.

These include the motion by Vanuatu for the granting of full MSG membership to the United Liberation Movement of West Papua.

Sumber : http://www.radionz.co.nz/

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