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- Rice says West Papua is part of Indonesia but remains on U.S. 'radar
screen'
- Investigation Into Teachers' Murders Ends
- Foreign media ban in West Papua continues to obstruct press freedom
- Australia: Public Forum Promotes Understanding About Papuan Asylum Seekers
- Asylum seekers plead for protection
- Yahukimo 'needs roads, airstrips'
- Cold temperatures kill 95 in usually tropical Papua
- Health team responds to Papua deaths
- Vanuatu: Political fallout from failed deportation attempt
- Govt races to establish legal basis for W. Irian
- Indonesia politics: Toothless, ruthless and hard to reform
- Indonesia renegotiating Fujian LNG price
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The Jakarta Post.com
Latest News
2/17/2006 10:32:50 AM
Rice says West Papua is part of Indonesia but remains on U.S. 'radar screen'
Washington (AP)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States believes West
Papua, the site of a long-simmering separatist movement, is part of
Indonesia.
She added, however, that U.S. officials tell "Indonesia all the time the
need for sensitivity to and protection of minorities within Indonesia and
for significant autonomy for those populations."
Rep. Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, American Samoa's nonvoting delegate to
Congress and a frequent critic of Indonesia, told Rice that the United
States largely has ignored West Papua's suffering.
Rights groups say about 100,000 people have died as a result of military
action or atrocities by Indonesian troops in the province.
"The crisis of West Papua ... will not go away," Faleomavaega told Rice.
"We need your help."
Rice assured the lawmaker that "the issue is not off of our radar screen,
even though we may not agree on the same solution."
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Investigation Into Teachers' Murders Ends
Feb. 17, 2006, 3:24AM
The Associated Press
Jakarta, Indonesia — Indonesian police have finished their investigation
into eight suspects accused in the 2002 slayings of two American teachers
in Papua province and handed over their charge sheets to prosecutors, a
spokesman said Friday.
Prosecutors will now study the dossiers and decide whether they are strong
enough to file to court, or need to be returned to police for more
investigation.
The eight men were arrested last month over their alleged roles in the
slayings close to a gold mine run by New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan
Copper & Gold Inc.
One of the men, Anthonius Wamang, was indicted by a U.S. grand jury over
the attack.
"We have finished the investigation," said Brig. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam.
"We have also questioned 22 witnesses, including some American citizens as
well as getting information from the FBI."
He said Wamang was facing a charge of premeditated murder, which carries
the death sentence.
The other men were accused of lesser charges, he said, giving no more
details.
Soon after the attack, police said that there were indications that
Indonesian military officers were involved.
An FBI investigation, however, found no evidence implicating Indonesian
troops in the deaths of Rickey Lynn Spier, 44, of Littleton, Colo., and
71-year-old Leon Edwin Burgon of Sun River, Ore.
An Indonesian teacher was also killed and eight other people were
seriously wounded. All the victims worked at a school for children of mine
employees.
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IFJ.com
IFJ concerned that barring foreign media from West Papua is an attempt to
conceal human rights abuses
Country/Topic: Indonesia (West Papua)
Date: 17 February 2006
Source: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Person(s):
Target(s): journalist(s)
Type(s) of violation(s): censored
Urgency: Threat
(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is an IFJ media release:
Foreign media ban in West Papua continues to obstruct press freedom
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has written to the
Indonesian Government demanding the removal of the ban on foreign media in
West Papua immediately.
The IFJ is concerned over the stance taken by Indonesian Minister of
Defence, Juwono Sudarsono, claiming the ban on all foreign media, churches
and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is required for fear their
presence in West Papua would "encourage Papuans to campaign on issues of
human rights".
The ban has prevented any foreign journalist from having official access
to the region in the past eighteen months, severely restricting the
media's ability to tell the West Papua story. There is also the concern
that the foreign media ban is a direct attempt to conceal human rights
abuses from the world.
The restrictions on foreign media are in direct opposition to Indonesia's
obligations since ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights. Article 19 recognises the right to "seek, receive, and
impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers."
"Restrictions on foreign journalists represent a blatant violation of this
right and seriously curtail the ability of the world's media to report in
West Papua," said IFJ president Christopher Warren.
"An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy," said
Warren.
"The silencing and censoring of the media will only fuel misinformation
and foster conditions for abuse, mistreatment and corruption," said
Warren.
"The denial of foreign media access to West Papua suggests an attempt to
conceal human rights abuses," said Warren.
The IFJ is calling on the Indonesian Government to lift the ban as was
done in Aceh after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. A free and
independent media in Aceh allows the media to fulfil its job as the
people's watchdog against corruption, human rights abuses, mistreatment
and political and corporate mismanagement.
Greater public scrutiny of the region is needed to minimise social,
cultural, political, human rights and environmental abuses by the
military, local government or corporations.
The president of IFJ's affiliate in Indonesia, Alliansi Jurnalis
Independen (AJI), Heru Hendratmoko, said: "AJI will never agree with any
policy on media banning . . . We have to respect the people's rights
wherever they live, including people in West Papua, to get access for
information. So let journalists work freely there."
The IFJ represents over 500,000 journalists in more than 100 countries.
More Information:
For further information, contact IFJ Asia-Pacific, tel: +61 2 9333 0919,
or the IFJ, International Press Centre, Residence Palace, Block C, 155 Rue
de la Loi, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium, tel: +322 235 2200 or +322 235 2207,
fax: +322 235 2219, e-mail: robert.shaw@ifj.org, Internet:
http://www.ifj.org/
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RNZI/PNS
Australia: Public Forum Promotes Understanding About Papuan Asylum Seekers
Friday: February 17, 2006
Australian Greens senator Kerry Nettle says a video statement by a
spokesman from the 43 Papua asylum seekers held on Christmas Island in the
Indian Ocean will help create awareness in Australia’s public about their
situation.
The asylum seekers arrived last month in the far north of Queensland after
a six-day voyage in a canoe from the Indonesian province of Papua before
being taken offshore by Immigration officials for their claims to be
processed.
The 43 are mostly activists in the Papuan independence movement, who claim
they have fled continual persecution in Indonesia.
Ms Nettle last night spoke at a public Forum in Sydney called "West Papua,
Refugees and Australia”.
She says the Forum will include the statement from one of the asylum
seekers, Herman Wainggai, will help generate better understanding about
the dangers she says they face in Papua.
“Bringing the footage of Herman, the spokesman for the West Papuans on
Christmas Island to the people of Sydney last night to people in Melbourne
and the night before that to Brisbane. So just making sure that people
hear the messages from the people on Christmas Island and what they’ve got
to say about their own circumstances and more generally about West Papua.”
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The Age (Melbourne)
Asylum seekers plead for protection
By Andra Jackson
February 17, 2006
The leader of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers on Christmas Island has
made a direct appeal to the Australian public for protection.
Herman Wainggai said he did not believe the Indonesian Government when it
said that if the asylum seekers were returned, they need not fear for
their safety.
"They are a killer government, they are a terrorist government," he said.
The Papuan student resistance leader was speaking on a video made secretly
on Christmas Island and smuggled out recently by Australian Greens senator
Kerry Nettle.
Standing in front of a large West Papuan flag, he said members of the
group feel safe now that they are in Australia.
But with his fists tensing he implored: "We need protection from the
Australian Government" — a reference to the group's wait to find out if
their asylum applications will be accepted by the Immigration Department.
Making an impassioned appeal for international support for West Papua, he
said: "You have to understand what is happening now in West Papua.
"I am here because West Papua is fighting for independence from 1960 to 2006.
"In West Papua the Indonesian Government sends plenty of military to take
out our place, so no freedom."
The video was shown at a public meeting organised by the Greens and the
Free West Papua campaign at RMIT last night.
Mr Wainggai said: "In West Papua today, because of the situation with the
military, West Papua people feel scared. They feel afraid."
He said plenty of people had died in West Papua since 1960 and if the
Papuan people didn't get help, more people would be shot and killed by the
military.
The 43 asylum seekers — a group of activists and students — left West
Papua because they feared for their safety, he said.
Holding his hand over his heart, he said they left their country "because
we are targeted".
He described how they made a traditional long boat and had to hide from
the military as they brought it around from Jayapura in the northern part
of the province to the south, to Merauke. From there they left for
Australia.
For the first time he spoke of how they had expected to reach Australia in
five days but it took seven "because we were facing big seas. We were late
and slow in the sea so we just kept going."
He said the law of Indonesia could not solve the West Papuan problem — a
reference to the so-called Act of Autonomy.
"We need international support especially from the Australian Government
and the Australian people.
"If today we don't help the West Papuan people … soon plenty of people
will die by the military," he said.
Senator Nettle said the Reception, Truth and Reconciliation report on
Indonesian atrocities in East Timor referred to the complicity of the
Australian Government in sitting back and doing nothing.
Never again should Australia sit back while its neighbours were being shot
and victimised, she said.
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The Jakarta Post.com
National News
February 15, 2006
Yahukimo 'needs roads, airstrips'
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The interdepartmental emergency response team dealing with the food
shortages in Yahukimo, Papua, is recommending the government build roads
and airstrips in the area to decrease its isolation.
Yahukimo hit the headlines late last year after its regent said 55 people
in the region had died of starvation and 112 others had fallen ill from
malnutrition since November.
The emergency response team sent to the area, however, reported that most
of the people there had died of respiratory infections.
The mountainous regency, about 800 kilometers from the provincial capital
of Jayapura, can only be reached by air.
Team head Rizal Malarangeng said Tuesday that the government should build
roads and more airstrips to open up the region of 55,000 people.
If Yahukimo remained isolated from the outside world, in 20 years time,
its people would not have changed or developed, he said.
Rizal suggested the Public Works Ministry build roads to connect two
points; a 25-kilometer road from the nearest city, Wamena, to Kurima
village in Yahukimo, and a 30-km road from Soba village to Kurima.
To provide the Yahukimo people with gateways to the outside world, the
Transportation and Telecommunications Ministry should build more
airstrips, he said.
Education, access to electrical power, and training for local officials
should also be government priorities.
Rizal noted there were only five schools in the regency, which were often
vacant. "In Kurima, the teachers only come to school once a month, while
the principal has not been seen there for three years."
"The National Education Ministry should do something about this," he said.
He urged the Energy and Natural Resources Ministry create clean water
systems for the area.
The team has been working in the area for about a month of its four-month
tour of duty.
Rizal said the team dealt with food shortages in the area by establishing
17 emergency feeding posts.
Team deputy head Tabrani said the concept of the response team was a good
one. He said the government should develop the idea and send teams to
other remote areas in the country.
Four other regencies in Papua -- Pollikara, Jayawiyaya, Puncak Jaya and
Gunungbintang -- also needed help, he said.
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Cold temperatures kill 95 in usually tropical Papua
Feb 15, 2006, 13:48 GMT
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Jakarta - Extreme temperatures, combined with cold-related viral diseases
and illnesses have plagued remote villages in the easternmost Indonesian
province of Papua and killed at least 95 people in recent weeks, a local
media report said Wednesday.
The cold weather, which dipped as low as 5 degrees Celsius in a region
where temperatures typically are well above 20 degrees, has plagued
villages in the Illaga and Gome sub-districts of Papua's Puncak Jaya
regency, reported the Indonesian daily Kompas newspaper.
Latest reports from local health officials recorded that at least 95
people, mostly children and aging villagers, have died from the extreme
weather and other illnesses since late December.
Besides the cold, the victims were suffering from various illnesses, such
as acute pneumonia, tuberculosis, dysentery and diarrhea, said Hendrik
Bilanglabi, head of infromation and communications office in Puncak Jaya,
about 3,870 kilometres northeast of Jakarta.
Limited food stocks, malnutrition and deterioriating health conditions
have increased the high number of fatalities, Bilanglabi said.
Bilanglabi said in order to help villagers from freezing, the local
government administration is currently building 'cold-proof' traditional
houses, called 'honay'. He added that the decision to build such houses
came after local residents living on the slopes of Cartenz Mountain,
refused to be relocated.
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The Jakarta Post.com
National News
February 17, 2006
Health team responds to Papua deaths
Nethy Dharma Somba, The Jakarta Post, Jayapura
Dysentery, pneumonia and malaria are to blame for close to 100 deaths in
the districts of Ilaga and Gome in Papua, an official said Thursday.
"Because the deaths were not caused by one illness, and the deaths took
place over a long period of time, the occurrence was not classified as an
extraordinary event," Bagus Sukaswara, deputy head of the Papua Health
Office, told The Jakarta Post.
At least 95 people have died of the three diseases in the two districts in
Puncak Jaya regency since November last year, according to data from a
health team working in the two districts.
Team head Merry MH Languju said the dysentery outbreak was caused by the
consumption of contaminated water.
"It is common for local residents to drink unboiled water even during the
rainy season, when it is brownish in color. Also, the water can be
contaminated by pig droppings because the pigs are allowed to roam free,"
Merry said.
She said the pneumonia was caused by a respiratory infection, while the
malaria cases originated outside the regency. "Those people who died of
malaria were already ill before they came to Ilaga. There has been no
malaria found in Ilaga because the cold weather has prevented mosquitoes
from hatching," she said.
Merry said the health team had found that respiratory infections were the
most common health complaint in the 22 villages in the two districts,
followed by scabies and worms.
Puncak Jaya Regent Elieser Renmaur said that every year from December to
February, temperatures in Ilaga and Gome dropped to five degrees Celsius,
increasing the number of cases of pneumonia and dysentery.
The drop in temperature is caused mainly by the melting of snow on nearby
Cartenz mountain, he said in a report to Papua's acting governor,
Soadjuangon Situmorang.
Merry said the health situation in Ilaga and Gome had improved after her
team dispensed medicines in the districts, and with temperatures rising to
between 12 and 20 degrees Celsius.
Medicine and food has also been sent to the districts by the central and
regional governments.
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Pacific Beat/Radio Australia
16 Feb 06
Last Updated 16/02/2006
Vanuatu: Political fallout from failed deportation attempt
The unsuccessful attempt by a Vanuatu minister to deport a Papuan
independence activist now appears likely to have some domestic
repercussions. Earlier this week, Internal Affairs Minister George Wells
ordered the deportation of campaigner Andy Ayamiseba from the
Vanuatu-based Free West Papua office. The deportation was ultimately
unsuccessful, with Mr Ayamiseba returned to Vanuatu from Australia, after
it was found he didn't have travel documentation with him. Now, Mr
Ayamiseba is demanding answers.
Presenter/Interviewer: Sean Dorney
Speakers: Andy Ayamiseba, Papuan independence activist
DORNEY: Andy Ayamiseba once had a diplomatic passport issued to him by a
previous Government in Vanuatu, which had agreed to allow the movement
advocating independence for Indonesia's province of Papua to set up an
office in Port Vila.
In Vanuatu, that office is known as the Free West Papuan office.
Mr Ayamiseba was woken a few nights ago to find out that Vanuatu's current
Minister for Internal Affairs, George Wells, had signed orders for his
deportation.
AYAMISEBA: I was actually already asleep when people knocked on the door.
My son woke me up and there was an immigration officer serving me with the
order to be deported.
No explanation, they forced me to hurry because the plane was waiting, so
within five minutes I was put in the car and driven to the airport and
there I went. Not knowing where I would go and no passport, no nothing, I
didn't even have a travel document with me.
So, I was worried whether I was going to Indonesia.
DORNEY: Mr Ayamiseba says he landed in Honiara but the Solomon Islands
Government refused to accept him.
He was then flown to Australia where he was not even allowed to set foot
on the tarmac at Brisbane airport.
AYAMISEBA: No, in Australia I didn't even leave the plane, I sat in the
plane, there's already a warning from Freeline, a double-warning from
Honiara that I'm coming down to Australia. So I was not allowed to leave
the plane, I stayed in the plane for about five hours before they flew to
Vila again.
DORNEY: Mr Ayamiseba fled from Papua, which was then called Irian Jaya,
more than 20 years ago with the Irian Jayan rock band, Black Brothers.
He's established a business in Vanuatu and has a child, a four year old
boy by his Ni-Vanuatu partner.
Marc Neil-Jones, the publisher of the Vanuatu Daily Post, says Mr
Ayamiseba has been accused of involving himself in local politics.
Mr Neil-Jones was deported himself by an angry Minister several years ago.
He's since taken out citizenship but says that while he won his way back
into Vanuatu by court order, Mr Ayamiseba only got back into Port Vila
because Australia refused to take him.
NEIL-JONES: I and a few others were deported and we got back in because
the government hadn't followed the law to give 14 days notice, in which
you can challenge a deportation in court.
However, in 2004 under the Vohor government, the Act was changed and
basically a foreigner has no recourse now. He can be picked up without
warning...
DORNEY: The Vanuatu Daily Post publisher says the Internal Affairs
Minister may have destabilised the government by trying to deport Mr
Ayamiseba.
NEIL-JONES: Over the years, the chiefs, right throughout the islands, have
come into support the West Papuan cause. So, the deportation of the main
person behind the office is not going to be taken lightly.
DORNEY: For now, Mr Ayamiseba is back in Port Vila reunited with his
four-year-old son.
AYAMISEBA: He was looking for me in the morning as I normally drop him at
kindy, so he was looking for me, asked the mother and the mother was
crying. He's a Ni-Vanuatu citizen, by the way.
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The Jakarta Post.com
National News
February 16, 2006
Govt races to establish legal basis for W. Irian
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The central government is racing against time to provide a legal basis for
the establishment of the controversial West Irian Jaya province.
The government must have started deliberating a government regulation in
lieu of a law no later than Feb. 20, Home Affairs Minister M. Ma'ruf said
Wednesday.
Ma'ruf spoke after meeting with the West Irian Jaya legislative council
head, West Irian Jaya caretaker governor, and the mayor and regents for
the new province.
The new date is five days past the deadline set earlier by the West Irian
Jaya legislative council. The legislature had warned central government it
would go ahead with its own vote on the issue if by Feb. 15 no plans were
in place to hold a gubernatorial election in the province.
Minister Ma'ruf said plans to hold a gubernatorial election in West Irian
Jaya would be deliberated after the legal basis for the new province had
been established.
The debate to provide a legal framework had been delayed because the Papua
People's Council (MRP) opposes Jakarta's policy of splitting Papua.
The MRP cited a recent survey that found most people in the region
objected to the plan.
Under the 2001 Special Autonomy Law for Papua, any division of the
territory requires the approval of the MRP, the provincial legislature and
the governor.
Ma'ruf said that the central government was now waiting for a decision
from the MRP.
"The government expects to receive the recommendations today," he said
Wednesday.
Ma'ruf said the MRP was meeting to determine its stance on West Irian
Jaya's establishment.
He said splitting up the province into two was necessary to better manage
the large territory. "We need to quickly improve the welfare of the people
there, which is the purpose of splitting the territory," he said.
Its critics say the policy goes against the special autonomy law and is
unconstitutional.
In November 2004, the Constitutional Court ruled that the plan to divide
Papua was unconstitutional. However, it also said the creation of West
Irian Jaya province should proceed because the process was already
underway.
The central government has named acting government officials to head the
province.
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EIU Viewswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge - Country Briefing
February 17, 2006
Indonesia politics: Toothless, ruthless and hard to reform
Source: The Economist
-- The new chief of the armed forces inherits a multitude of troubles
The installation this week of Marshal Djoko Suyanto, previously chief of
the air force, as head of Indonesia's armed forces made front-page news.
The armed forces formally withdrew from politics only in 2004, when they
gave up their reserved seats in parliament, bringing to an end dwi fungsi,
their dual political and military function. In parliament or out, their
commander remains one of the most powerful people in the country.
But the marshal faces tough challenges. Blighted by prolonged western arms
embargoes and poor financial management, the 380,000-strong armed forces
have "no deterrent capability", in the opinion of the country's own
defence minister, Juwono Sudarsono. Only 65 of the navy's 121 ships and
half of the air force's 114 aircraft are operational, while most of the
army's 100-odd battalions are under-strength, under-equipped and
under-trained.
The good news is that the military's workload is decreasing. Indonesia's
two main security threats, terrorism and crime, are steadily becoming the
police's domain, and now that Aceh is on the road to peace the only
separatist movement, in Papua, poses no significant challenge. Communal
conflict in Sulawesi is still a problem, but does not tie up sizeable
resources.
One consequence of the armed forces' weakness, say government ministers,
is that the state loses some $22 billion a year through smuggling, illegal
logging, piracy and other crimes. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has
said that he wants to reduce these losses by strengthening the navy and
air force. But Marshal Suyanto will have to tread carefully. The army is
unlikely to be happy at an air-force man plundering its resources.
Other sensitive missions lie ahead. Widespread doubts about civilian
competence mean there will probably be strong opposition to plans to bring
the armed forces wholly under the control of the defence ministry's
politicians. For the present, the generals still enjoy independence over
operational matters.
Then there is the armed forces' penchant for extra-curricular activity.
Driven by a combination of tempting opportunities and dire pay--even a
major-general's monthly salary is just $260--some servicemen engage in
crime, moonlight in business or demand payment from companies in return
for protecting their assets. This latter practice is currently under
scrutiny following allegations that an American firm, Freeport-McMoRan,
paid millions of dollars to individual officers to protect its copper and
gold mine in separatist-ravaged Papua. Freeport denies the claims.
Regulating the businesses that provide a sizeable chunk of the armed
forces' budget will be another headache for Marshal Suyanto. Of the 219
companies, foundations and co-operatives the armed forces admit to owning,
only six have been assessed as commercially viable. By law, the military
must cede control of all of them by 2009. But what is a business? Marshal
Suyanto, for instance, is opposed to dissolving the co-operatives, which
he claims do much for troop welfare. There are no clear procedures for
selling the businesses, or about who keeps the proceeds. Hard pounding
indeed for the marshal.
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Oil & Gas Journal
Indonesia renegotiating Fujian LNG price
Eric Watkins, Senior Correspondent
Los Angeles, Feb. 15 -- Indonesia is renegotiating the price of LNG under
a contract it signed with China's Fujian LNG Project in 2002, according to
Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro.
He said the rate for supplies of LNG from BP PLC's Tangguh LNG project in
Papua New Guinea, to Fujian, mainland China, needed to be renegotiated
since oil prices have risen sharply since the contract was agreed.
Under the 2002 contract, Yusgiantoro said, the LNG price was set at
$2.60/MMbtu if world oil prices exceeded $25/bbl. "The price [of oil] has
risen far above that, so we're renegotiating it," he said.
The Fujian contract covers LNG supply of 2.6 million tonnes/year over a
25-year period beginning with the first shipment at yearend 2008.
The Tangguh LNG plant has secured long-term LNG sales with three other
groups in addition to the Fujian LNG project: K-Power Co. Ltd. and POSCO,
both of South Korea, and Sempra Energy LNG Marketing Corp., Mexico.
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