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June 13-16 2006
KABAR IRIAN NEWS
TOPICS
* Revenue From Tangguh's Gas Increases
* Indonesia driving asylum changes, Burke says
* Australia-Indonesian treaty - Editorial
* Restraining a fanatic
* Watchdog reveals suspicious transactions by Papua police
* Human rights should not take a back seat to appeasement
* Politicians cross party lines to oppose detention
* Jakarta's man returns in time for migration vote
* Jakarta offers olive branch
* Push to scuttle asylum laws strengthens
* Indons hold hope of visa review
* Senate revolt over asylum laws grows
* Papua and Bashir 'not linked'
* Process asylum seekers in Australia: PNG
* Australia to deport three Papuan asylum seekers to PNG
* Indonesia watching Papua visa review
* Indonesian MPs brush off Papuan snub
* Freeport names new president director
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http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/ekbis/2006/06/13/brk,20060613-78797,uk.ht
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Revenue From Tangguh's Gas Increases
Tuesday, 13 June, 2006 | 14:49 WIB
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The government will obtain additional revenue
of US$2.2 billion
from the sale of gas from the Tangguh Field, Papua, to Fujian, China in a
20 year period.
The revenue will be obtained after the revision of the gas price has been
approved by the
Chinese and Indonesian governments.
The Head of the Oil and Gas Upstream Executive Body (BP Migas) Kardaya
Warnika said the
additional revenue is derived from the change of the oil price ceiling from
US$25 per barrel
to US$38 per barrel. "There are extra revenue due to the revision," he said
yesterday
(12/6).
In the contract signed in 2002, the sale price of gas from Tangguh is
US$2.4 per mile mile
british thermal unit (mmbtu) on condition that the world's oil price is
under US$25 per
barrel, and US$2.6 per mmbtu if the situation in the world is above that.
Determination of
liquid natural gas (LNG) is based on a certain formula related to the oil
price by setting
the ceiling price at US$25 per barrel.
In the beginning, it is estimated the project would contribute to the
State's revenue of
US$6.2 billion for 20 years. The change of ceiling price made the gas price
heading to
Fujian also change from US$2.6 per mmbtu to US$3.5 per mmbtu. "That is the
free-on-board
(FOB) price," said Kardaya.
M. Fasabeni
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http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1663246.htm
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1663246.htm
Broadcast: 14/06/2006
Indonesia driving asylum changes, Burke says
Reporter: Quentin Dempster
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Returning now to our top story and the Government is
tonight trying to
calm dissident MPs who've rejected proposed tough, new immigration laws. At
the heart of the
dissatisfaction is the plan for all asylum seekers, including children, to
be processed
offshore. The Opposition claims the Government's changes are being driven
by pressure from
Indonesia and should never have been put forward. Well, Tony Burke is the
Opposition's
Immigration spokesman and he joins us now from our Canberra studio.
Tony Burke, welcome to Lateline.
TONY BURKE, OPPOSITION IMMIGRATION SPOKESMAN: Good evening, Quentin.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: It appears tonight that the Prime Minister, whatever else
has been
discussed, neither the Prime Minister nor Senator Vanstone, the Immigration
Minister, will
budge on the clear Cabinet objective offshore processing of all asylum
seekers arriving on
Australian soil, be it mainland or outlying islands? This will send a clear
signal to the
region that Australia will have a substantial barrier to entry from West
Papua in
particular. Given the potential for hundreds, if not thousands of West
Papuans to flee
Indonesia, isn't that an appropriate signal to send?
TONY BURKE: No, it is not. The only signal it will send to the region is
kick up a big
enough fuss and you'll be able to get Australia to change its laws and that
simply results
in new claims, new levels of ambit. What we've sent as a message to
Indonesia is, if you
object to our laws, we won't treat you the way you treat us. We won't
simply explain our
laws and say, well, we have our own legal system. Instead, if you complain
enough, withdraw
your ambassador, complain, we'll actually offer to change our domestic
legislation to try to
win your favour back. Now, the message that that sends to the region is a
really disturbing
one and I don't know of any other country around that's willing to change
its domestic law
to try to fix what essentially is a foreign policy issue.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Do you acknowledge there's a potential for hundreds, if
not thousands, of
West Papuans to seek asylum in Australia?
TONY BURKE: I really would be surprised if that were to happen. For the
problems and human
rights concerns that have been there in West Papua for such a long time,
we've seen a total
of 43 people arrive in one canoe. All the evidence is --
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: With the potential for more to come.
TONY BURKE: But all the evidence is that the situation in West Papua has
been improving and
certainly the Indonesian President has been adamant, and he hasn't been
there long, but has
been adamant they will move as they want to move towards a situation of
autonomy, similar to
that that's been proposed for Aceh. So I think the writing is on the wall
that things will
improve and I would be deeply, deeply surprised if we saw anything like
that. The record so
far says that that wasn't something that was on the cards. What was on the
cards, though,
was a small group of people were found independently by Australian
officials to have a
well-founded fear of persecution and at that point Australia, and the
Australian Government,
I'm the first to say, did the right thing - gave the first 42 of them they
processed
protection.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Their Government has tried to point that out in
establishing its bona
fides in the current dispute with yourself and its dissident backbenchers,
but the Legal and
Constitutional Legislation Committee have recommended the bill be
withdrawn, but isn't
Amanda Vanstone correct when she says it is a lawful bill in terms of
international law and
in keeping with Australia's obligations under UNHCR human rights and asylum
seeker
conventions?
TONY BURKE: One of the premises of the convention is that a nation has
borders. Fair enough,
the convention when it was put together, they never for a moment considered
the possibility
in 1951 that a nation would pretend it no longer had any boundaries at all.
So, the
Government is right to the extent you won't find a specific clause of the
convention that
this is in breach of because it undermines all of the preconditions on
which the convention
was based. The convention presumes that you are able the to cross into
borders and seek
asylum. What the Government is saying with this bill is you might think
you've arrived in
Australia, but really you've arrived in Nauru, even if you make it all the
way to the
mainland. This goes a step further than the old concept of the Brisbane
line. Essentially
they excise everything and we now have an Antarctica line.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: But it's really only a tactic by the Government to send a
signal. That's
what they say. Isn't that an honest motivation for them to send a signal.
It helped, they
argue, in stopping the people-smuggling industry.
TONY BURKE: Oh, Quentin, I've got to say if you're a child that's dumped in
Nauru and lives
- - you go there when you are two and by the time you're eight years of age,
after six years
if detention before they find a country that will take you, I think it
would be a bit rich
to tell that child, "Look, we might have wrecked your childhood, but we
sent a signal. "
People will be hurt by these laws. Let's not pretend it's just a signal. It
may not be huge
numbers of people, but that's no consolation to them. People will have
their lives wrecked.
People will pay the price with their sanity. We've seen that with the
mental health
implications of long-term detention, particularly when it involved
children, but not only
when it involves children.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: OK. Why have you, after making those strong points, why
have you ruled out
accepting any amendments or compassionate concessions distracted by the
dissident government
backbenchers, Georgiou, Moylan, Baird and Troeth?
TONY BURKE: If they want to move amendments for particular concessions,
we'll look at those
concession on their merits, but whether they've been carried or not,
whatever form this bill
is in, we will still oppose the bill in its final form because the
concessions you need to
make would actually apply not to the laws of Australia, but to the laws of
Nauru.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: But these are negotiable with Nauru or in the event that
Manus Island is
used again, brought out of mothballs, with Papua New Guinea.
TONY BURKE: Then you are involving all of your future trusts on the law
you've put forward
on the word of the government of Nauru. At the moment we're having enough
trouble taking the
word of the Government of Australia, given that 12 months ago they said
none of this would
ever happen again.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: With appropriate external oversights to see that the
human rights of the
asylum seekers are maintained while they are in that transitional process.
TONY BURKE: There's no chance of us as the Labor Party supporting legal
changes in Australia
that are completely contingent for any standard of decency on subsequent
legislative changes
in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. As legislators, you've got to take
responsibility. You get
one chance and that's when you sit in the Parliament to vote for
legislation because you
agree with it or you don't. There is no way you can make this legislation
anything other
than legislation that dumps people in other countries.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Let's see where this bill goes. What's your understanding
of the dissident
backbenchers' non-negotiable demands? We know they won concessions on
compassionate grounds
about children in detention, external scrutiny of extended detention and an
Immigration
Ombudsman last year. I take it they are seeking something similar?
TONY BURKE: That's right. Those three issues with critical last year and
not just, as we
described the dissident Coalition MPs, every member of the Australian
Parliament voted a
year ago that those were important changes. But the other thing that's
happened with almost
every major concern and story that we've heard of immigration, detention in
particular, is
problems with mental health and a really significant thing that was
introduced 12 months ago
was the introduction of case-managed mental health care for detainees. Now,
I don't believe
for a minute you can deliver the sort of standards we were talking about a
year ago for
people that have been dumped in Manus Island or Nauru.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: So it's a resourcing problem for you to some extent?
TONY BURKE: To the extent of the mental health concerns, to the extent of
indefinite
detention. There's no way to amend Australian law that will compel the
governments of
Indonesia or Papua New Guinea to review and send people back to Australia
within certain
time periods. That's within their gift. The Parliament of the Commonwealth
of Australia has
jurisdiction over it own land. We don't have jurisdiction over Papua New
Guinea and Nauru.
We don't have jurisdiction over Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: It only takes one senator to cross the floor for this
bill to be defeated.
Is that your reading of it tonight, given the negotiations that are under
way?
TONY BURKE: Senator Fielding hasn't categorically said he would oppose it,
but I would find
it extraordinary if he chose to support this legislation. That means it
takes one more
coalition senator to oppose the changes and it can be stopped or two to
abstain. Quentin,
given what we had two months ago with the bipartisanship and people saying,
including the
Prime Minister, saying we will have a softer edge to mandatory detention, I
find it
extraordinary that any Member of Parliament who thought all of that 12
months ago can now
support a bill like this. How can locking up children be wrong if you do it
in Australia,
but ok if you do it in Nauru?
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: It is Australian Labor Party policy, is it not, to
recognise Indonesian
sovereignty over West Papua. The Opposition does not support separatist
movements anywhere
in the Indonesian islands. That being the case, you must be seen to back
your party's
foreign policy by also sending a clear signal to West Papuans that you will
be doing nothing
to encourage their mass defection, their mass departure to Australia?
TONY BURKE: That's right. And we've made that patently clear on every
occasion that we do
regard the people who've come from Papua, from the Papuan province of
Indonesia, to be
citizens of Indonesia. That doesn't change -
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: So you are saying to them don't attempt to come? Do not
attempt to come.
TONY BURKE: No. We are saying they are citizens of Indonesia. If somebody
has a well-founded
fear of persecution and they flee, whether or not they've been sent a
message over the
international news program isn't really the issue. If you are fleeing
persecution, there's
bigger issues at stake than messages that have been sent from the
Australian Parliament. You
are actually trying to avoid persecution.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: I take it that that message also extends to East Timor?
TONY BURKE: In terms of -
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Don't come. Whatever your domestic problems, whatever the
human rights
problem you've got, try to resolve them with international community
support within your own
country?
TONY BURKE: If people are fleeing persecution, it's a different situation
to - I don't
understand the connection in terms of the separatist issue, when East Timor
bipartisanship
is recognised as being an independent nation.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Well, East Timorese would come and they'd be shipped off
to Nauru, too.
TONY BURKE: That would happen from the Government and, yes, we're 100%
opposed to that
happening. We also hope that we're able to be involved in creating a
situation in Timor
where people will not have a well-founded fear of persecution. That's the
best way to fix
these issues, is to make sure people don't have a well-founded fear of
persecution. But if
they are - if they do have a well-founded fear of persecution, the last
thing you should do
is make it worse by adding to the levels of torture and sending them off to
other countries
and dumping them in situations where we know from experience what the
mental health outcomes
will be.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Tony Burke, thanks very much for talking to Lateline.
TONY BURKE: Pleasure.
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http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve06/1277edit.html
The Guardian 14 June, 2006
Editorial
Australia-Indonesian treaty
It has been confirmed that negotiations for a new treaty between Indonesia
and Australia are
taking place. The former Labor Keating Government had negotiated a treaty
with Indonesia.
While the details have not been made public, some media outlets have been
able to indicate
the likely contents of the treaty.
There appears to be a commitment by Australia to resume training of the
Indonesian forces
despite the recent history of those forces in East Timor and the atrocities
they are still
committing in West Papua. Many in Australia will find this commitment
highly objectionable.
There was and still is widespread sympathy and support for the East
Timorese struggle in
Australia. Such training had been taking place for many years before
official relations
cooled following the successful independence struggle waged by the people
of East Timor. The
long struggle of the East Timorese for independence was met by savage
oppression, even after
they had overwhelmingly voted for independence. Some of these Indonesian
forces had been
trained by Australia.
A Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) (8/6/06) report of the treaty now being
negotiated said it was
expected to include "significant" military cooperation, intelligence
sharing and joint naval
and surveillance patrols. Australia will pledge support for Indonesia’s
territorial
integrity said the SMH report.
The proposed "joint naval and surveillance patrols" are aimed against the
West Papuans and
will result in them being imprisoned in their own homeland by the powerful
navy patrols of
both countries. There will be little chance for West Papuans to escape the
persecutions and
killings that have been going on inside West Papua for many years. Even if
refugees succeed
in reaching the Australian mainland they will be shipped off to Christmas
Island or Nauru
where they will be beyond help by Australian legal supporters and will,
almost certainly, be
secretly returned to West Papua and the vengeance of the Indonesians. That
is the purpose of
the refugee legislation now before parliament (see report opposite).
The Australian Government will also commit itself to provide the
Indonesians with whatever
"intelligence" may be collected from within West Papua by Australian
intelligence
organisations concerning the Free Papua Movement (OPM). And no doubt
Indonesia along with
Australia will continue their attempts to destabilise the progressive
Government of Mari
Alkatiri.
A policy document on East Timor published in 2002 by the Australian
Strategic Policy
Institute (ASPI) makes this position clear. (The ASPI was set up by the
Howard Government to
"provide fresh ideas on Australia’s defence and strategic policy
choices".) It says that
"Australia’s relations with Indonesia are greater than our interests in
East Timor". It also
claims that "Australia will have an interest in making sure that Indonesia
fully respects
East Timor’s sovereignty". The report notes that "Indonesia shares our
concern that East
Timor should not fall under the influence of external powers that could
destabilise our
neighbourhood" and, "East Timor’s security from external subversion or
aggression is an
enduring strategic interest for Australia — and it is an interest we
share with Indonesia".
It does not take much imagination to conclude that the "external powers"
being alluded to
include the People’s Republic of China but not Taiwan or Japan which are
also active in the
region.
Earlier this year China’s Premier attended a heads-of-state conference
with most South
Pacific island nations at which China indicated its willingness to extend
"mutually
beneficial" trade relations with these nations without strings attached.
Although East Timor
was not among those attending, an agreement to prospect for oil and gas in
East Timor by a
consortium which includes China may be a factor in the strenuous campaign
being waged in
Australia calling for the removal of the Mari Alkatiri Government. (see CPA
East Timor
resolution)
That the Australian Government wants Indonesia to be party to this campaign
by talking about
the "common interest" of the two countries to preserve the "stability of
the neighbourhood"
is a major thought behind the treaty now being negotiated. It will
inevitably be directed
against any progressive government arising in the South Pacific that adopts
policies not in
the interests of the Howard Government and its corporate backers.
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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19471741%255E2421
8,00.html
Restraining a fanatic
15jun06
THE Howard Government is facing difficulties with its attempt to use
legislation as foreign
policy.
Its move to mollify Indonesia's sensitivity over West Papua by having all
illegal immigrants
processed offshore has been roundly criticised by an all-party Senate
committee as
incompatible with the rule of law.
The new law follows Indonesia's anger over Canberra's decision to grant
protection visas to
42 West Papuan asylum seekers.
But why should Australia be concerned about Indonesian sensitivity over its
de facto colony,
West Papua?
Yesterday Jakarta released from jail Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir,
spiritual head of the
terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiah, after a ludicrously lenient jail
term of 25 months.
In Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister John Howard expressed extreme
disappointment at this
outcome.
JI, in a series of bombings, is accused of killing more than 260 people --
including 88
Australians among the 202 victims of the first Bali bombing.
Bashir has whiled away his time in jail by writing a book in which he
denounces Mr Howard as
an infidel and an enemy of Allah.
Outside the jail he vowed to continue the struggle to bring sharia law to
Indonesia.
Instead of rewriting our own laws to keep the Indonesians happy, the Howard
Government
should be putting extreme pressure on Jakarta to restrain this dangerous
fanatic and his
murderous flock.
Kinder politics
OPPOSITION leader Ted Baillieu's alternative to the Bracks Government's
$300 cash bonus for
parents of prep and year 7 students is backed in unlikely quarters.
Instead of subsidising individual parents (without control over how the
money is spent), a
Baillieu government would directly hand the state's 1700 kindergartens $730
for each
four-year-old.
This would effectively make kinder free for most children.
Australian Education Union Victorian Branch President Mary Bluett is quoted
as favouring the
Liberal policy. The Brotherhood of St Laurence also backs it.
A Baillieu government would also transfer preschools from the Department of
Human Services
to the Education Department -- a move already called for by the Australian
Education Union
and the Victorian Principals Association.
The Liberal initiative will force the Bracks Government to concentrate on
offering credible
policies rather than personalising the contest by attacking Mr Baillieu's
wealthy
background.
Playing the politics of envy will not get them over the line. Credible
policies might.
Just vandals
UNLIKE Melbourne City Council which plans to spend ratepayers' money
"mentoring" graffiti
vandals, police in Melbourne's south east are unequivocal.
They are treating them as criminals -- which is what they are.
Investigators from Moorabbin's police regional response unit have arrested
four members of a
gang alleged to have caused more than $100,000 damage.
Sen-Sgt Vic Kostiuk introduced a welcome reality when he told the Herald
Sun: "There's no
thought behind it. It's just mindless vandalism".
And so it is.
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http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=24717
Radio New Zealand International
The Voice of New Zealand, Broadcasting to the Pacific
Te Reo Irirangi O Aotearoa, O Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa
Watchdog reveals suspicious transactions by Papua police
Posted at 08:04 on 13 June, 2006 UTC
Little headway has been made in investigations into suspicious transactions
involving the
bank accounts of a number of police officers in the Papua regional police
in Indonesia.
The Jakarta Post reports that the transactions were uncovered over the past
two years by
Indonesian financial Watchdog The Financial Transaction Reports Analysis
Centre, or PPATK.
The money involved is believed to be the proceeds of illegal logging.
PPATK says the uncovering last year of suspicious financial transactions
involving 15 police
officers throughout Indonesia is believed to be only the tip of a
corruption iceberg.
Sources at the PPATK say police are slow in investigating the cases,
apparently due to the
influence some of the high-ranking officers wield within the force.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/editorial/human-rights-should-not-take-a-back
- -seat-to-appeasem
ent/2006/06/13/1149964533280.html
Human rights should not take a back seat to appeasement
Editorial
The Age June 14, 2006
Decisions about immigration policy must be made independently from
concerns about our
relationship with Indonesia.
SHOULD any doubt remain about the Howard Government's mastery of the art of
realpolitik, the
valuing of the practical over the moral, it will be erased by events this
week in Canberra.
It is surely no coincidence that, as the Senate considered its response to
tough new
immigration legislation, Indonesia not only reinstated its ambassador —
recalled in March in
protest at Australia's decision to grant protection visas to 42 Papuans —
but dispatched a
five-person Government delegation to ensure that this country would not
provide support for
separatists in Papua.
The trip appears to have served its purpose. A day after Coalition senators
expressed
concern about the morality of the proposed legislation, Immigration
Minister Amanda Vanstone
met the delegation led by former Wahid government minister Dr Muhammad
Hikam and assured
them that Australia did not support Papua's separatist movement, although
stopped short of
acceding to their wishes that the visa decision be reviewed.
Senator Vanstone's defiant defence of the new laws, saying they "balanced"
the priorities of
meeting Australia's international obligations, protecting borders and
keeping "good and
stable" relations with Indonesia, is a clear demonstration of that
realpolitik.
In January she pledged that her department would not be swayed by foreign
policy
considerations in deciding refugee claims. "Australia has always made
decisions in relation
to protection claims on the basis of the merit of the claim," she said.
"And that has to be
the case, rather than taking into account whether we'll upset one or other
of Australia's
friends and allies."
What a difference a few months and a great deal of political leverage
makes. It is difficult
to credit that the legislation under consideration can be drawn up in a
country whose leader
regularly expresses pride in its democratic traditions. Australia is a
signatory to
international human rights agreements; it long ago overturned the infamous
White Australia
Policy and, in the 1970s, led the world in welcoming Vietnamese "boat
people", the first
major influx of refugees to reach our shores.
The new law is an abomination of this tradition. It will force future
asylum seekers
arriving by boat to be processed offshore in places such as Nauru, in
effect excising the
entire Australian coastline from our migration zone. Children will once
again be detained,
genuine refugees (and most who have reached our shores have been found to
be genuine) will
be denied the protection of the Australian legal system and successful
applicants may be
detained indefinitely until they are accepted by a third country.
The changes are an indication that much- vaunted moves to improve
immigration practices,
notably the decision last year to revoke the mandatory detention of
children and to allow
the release of long-term detainees into the community, were an aberration.
The criticism has been loud and clear. Opposition Leader Kim Beazley called
the move to
offshore processing unnecessary appeasement; Liberal senator Judith Troeth
said the bill
appeared to be intended to stop even genuine asylum seekers coming to
Australia; and
Queensland Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce said decisions about asylum
should not be based
on political expediency.
Despite the internal rumblings, the Prime Minister is confident the
legislation will pass.
John Howard seems to have paid greater attention to the Indonesian
Government than to
Australia's human rights obligations or the views of his own backbench. But
he should not be
too complacent. Coalition politicians have previously shown an admirable
commitment to human
rights. They are well aware that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
accords people
the right "to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution"
and does not
make exceptions for political pragmatism.
As The Age has previously acknowledged, this is a sensitive issue with no
easy answers. But
if Australia's relationship with Indonesia has indeed matured, our northern
neighbour should
be able to accept this country's honouring of its international obligations
on human rights.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/politicians-cross-party-lines-to-opp
ose-detention/200
6/06/13/1149964534742.html
The Age
Politicians cross party lines to oppose detention
Illustration: Ron Tandberg
Michael Gordon
June 14, 2006
AN ALL-PARTY Senate committee has urged the Howard Government to ditch its
tough new laws on
asylum seekers after being told they are unworkable, in breach of
Australia's international
obligations and an "inappropriate response" to pressure from Indonesia.
The scathing report will strengthen the resolve of several Government MPs
who are prepared
to cross the floor to defeat the laws, which Prime Minister John Howard
wants passed before
Parliament breaks for the winter recess next week.
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone will meet the dissidents today, after
the Senate
committee detailed a host of concerns, including the lack of protection of
human rights,
inadequate scrutiny and the cost of implementing the new laws.
The committee also savaged the Immigration Department for failing to make
available "crucial
information" on key aspects of the laws, saying it was impossible to
conclude how the new
system would work, how women and children would be treated and whether
legal assistance
would be guaranteed.
But Senator Vanstone defended the laws yesterday, saying they "balanced"
the priorities of
meeting Australia's international obligations, protecting borders and
keeping stable
relations with Indonesia.
In other developments yesterday:
?West Australian moderate Judi Moylan challenged the laws at the meeting of
Government MPs,
reserving her right to cross the floor. Other Government MPs who oppose the
laws include
Victorians Petro Georgiou, Russell Broadbent and Senator Judith Troeth and
NSW MP Bruce
Baird.
?Concerns about the mental health of the two remaining asylum seekers on
Nauru has prompted
Senator Vanstone to dispatch independent experts to assess them. A similar
mission late last
year led to 25 Nauru asylum seekers being accepted.
?Mr Howard met a delegation of Indonesian MPs who said they "appreciated"
the Government's
moves to change its asylum seekers laws. Indonesian anger at the decision
this year to issue
protection visas to 42 Papuans led to the decision to toughen the laws.
The Senate's legal and constitutional committee, chaired by prominent
Liberal Marise Payne,
examined the new laws and recommended they not proceed. If the laws were to
go ahead, the
committee recommended a number of changes, including setting time limits on
processing
applications for refugee status, independent scrutiny by the Commonwealth
Ombudsman, special
measures for women and children and an independent review process when
refugee claims were
rejected.
Most of these changes were accepted by the Government for asylum seekers in
mainland
detention facilities last year after backbenchers led by Mr Georgiou
threatened to introduce
their own legislation.
Australian Democrats senator Andrew Bartlett said the plight of the two
remaining asylum
seekers on Nauru provided the most telling example of the dangers of the
new laws.
"Their future is one of indefinite limbo, marooned on an isolated island
remote from any
meaningful support," Senator Bartlett said.
A 32,000-signature petition against processing asylum seekers offshore is
to be presented
today. The Greens will table the petition in Parliament.
With ANDRA JACKSON
THE SENATE COMMITTEE
Marise Payne, Lib
Patricia Crossin, ALP
Andrew Bartlett, Dems
Linda Kirk, ALP
Brett Mason, Lib
Nigel Scullion, CLP
Bob Brown, Greens
Joe Ludwig, ALP
Kerry Nettle, Greens
Russell Trood, Lib
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19453151-2702,00.html
The Australian
Jakarta's man returns in time for migration vote
Cath Hart and Dennis Shanahan
June 13, 2006
OFFICIALS from Jakarta and Canberra will meet today for the first time in
three months, in a
sign the diplomatic rift between the neighbours is mending.
The meetings between the Indonesian ambassador, a parliamentary delegation
and government
MPs come before a vote on a migration bill that has been widely seen as an
effort to appease
Jakarta.
Ambassador Hamzah Thayeb was recalled to Indonesia in March because Jakarta
was angry that
42 Papuans had been given protection visas by Australia.
Today's meetings are his first since returning to Australia on Sunday.
"Our geographical proximity dictates us to work together and we will try to
work together
with the executive, the legislative. Together we'll both move forward," Mr
Thayeb told the
ABC. "We will try whatever we can to have these relations back on track."
Although the diplomatic tension appears to be decreasing, there were signs
yesterday that
voters disagree with the policy change.
A Newspoll commissioned by Melbourne businessman Ian Melrose showed 74 per
cent of
respondents did not want the Government to change its immigration policies
in an attempt to
improve the relationship with Jakarta.
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley said yesterday Australia's migration policy
needed to be
explained, rather than changed. "I'm sorry that John Howard went down the
road of changing
the boundaries of Australia and giving Australians the impression that our
migration laws
are in someone else's hands," Mr Beazley said. "What Howard really needed
to do was to sit
down and talk sensibly through with the Indonesians the state of our laws
and how our laws
were not aimed at them."
MPs will decide tomorrow on the future of the bill, which proposes
processing all boat
arrivals - including women and children - in offshore detention centres
such as Nauru.
The vote on expanding the offshore regime comes just days after serious
questions were
raised about the onshore regime.
DIMA confirmed last week that another 26 Australian citizens had been
unlawfully detained
but also faced claims that sexual abuse was "endemic" in the onshore regime
after The
Weekend Australian revealed details of an investigation into drug use and
sexual assaults in
the Villawood detention centre.
A report on the scandal, which includes claims by a Chinese woman that she
was raped
repeatedly over six months in 2004 in front of her toddler by a male
detainee because she
couldn't lock the door to her room, is duetoday.
John Dowd, from the International Commission of Jurists, said yesterday
that increasing
Australia's offshore processing could lead to an increase in similar
problems.
"That's the problem - they're away from counsellors, lawyers, and real
support so we're not
going to find out about abuses because people abuse when they're not
subject to
supervision," Mr Dowd said.
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9964535563.html
Jakarta offers olive branch
Cynthia Banham Foreign Affairs Reporter
SMH June 14, 2006
RELATIONS between Australia and Indonesia are improving, but Canberra must
prove its
commitment to Indonesia's sovereignty through its actions, a delegation of
Indonesian MPs
said yesterday.
The visiting MPs met the Prime Minister, John Howard, the Foreign Affairs
Minister,
Alexander Downer, and the Immigration Minister, Amanda Vanstone, in
Canberra to discuss
Australia's decision to grant protection visas to 42 West Papuan asylum
seekers. That
decision led to Jakarta withdrawing its ambassador, Hamzah Thayeb, but he
returned to
Australia at the weekend and attended the meetings yesterday.
The head of the delegation, Dr Muhammad A.S. Hikam, said Australia still
had to prove its
commitment to respect his country's sovereignty. "You have to prove it in
action, and
political action and legal action and cultural relation action," he said.
Dr Hikam said the talks with Mr Howard were "very constructive and very
warm". He added:
"But also we agree there is also some political sensitivity to be addressed
because our
relations [are] going to be for ever - we are neighbours."
Both Dr Hikam and Mr Thayeb refused to comment on internal Government
dissent over Mr
Howard's proposed new asylum seeker laws, which were designed to assuage
Jakarta's concerns
over the West Papua issue.
Dr Hakim said he would take home the message that "we have an agreement
that
Australia-Indonesia relations [are] paramount in the 21st century".
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/joyce-joins-fray-over-asylum-laws/20
06/06/13/11499645
08162.html
Push to scuttle asylum laws strengthens
June 13, 2006 - 2:24PM
Related coverage
Coalition senators are demanding changes to the Howard Government's tough
new laws on asylum
seekers, to ensure genuine refugees can come to Australia.
Concerned Coalition MPs yesterday claimed to have the numbers in the Senate
to force through
changes to the controversial legislation.
Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce says he will not hesitate to cross the
floor if he doesn't
approve of the changes. He is looking for fairness and speed of processing.
Under the government's legislation, all asylum seekers who come to
Australia will be
processed offshore.
In the past, if an asylum seeker landed on the mainland, they were deemed
to be in Australia
and, therefore, subject to Australia's refugee review process.
But Mr Joyce said the processing arrangements were not his primary concern.
"My primary concern is what happens after the processing arrangement," he
told reporters.
Bid to scuttle bill
Four Coalition senators are believed to have major concerns about the
Government's proposed
changes to the migration law. This is three more than would be needed to
scuttle the bill
if, as expected, senators from Labor and the minor parties vote against it.
"It looks like there is a majority in the Senate to make the case for
change," Mr Joyce
said.
But Prime Minister John Howard yesterday was unmoved by the dissent, saying
the bill would
go ahead "and I believe it will pass".
The proposed legislation was introduced following a diplomatic row with
Indonesia over
Australia's decision to grant asylum to 42 Papuans in March.
Liberal senator Judith Troeth said the major concern with the bill was that
it appeared to
be intended to stop even genuine asylum seekers coming to Australia.
"If they go to Nauru ... and they're declared an asylum seeker they may be
encouraged to
seek asylum in another country," she said. "It is unclear whether they can
come to Australia
or if Australia is on the list of places they can go to."
Public disquiet
Relations with Jakarta have recently begun to recover from the row over
Papua, with
Indonesia's ambassador, Hamzah Thayeb, returning to Canberra last weekend
after being
recalled at the height of the row.
Mr Howard, speaking before an expected meeting with Indonesian President
Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono later this month, yesterday reiterated Australia's support for
Indonesia's
sovereignty over Papua, but stood by the Government's decision to grant
asylum to the
Papuans in March.
Mr Howard's push to strengthen the relationship with Indonesia could be
made more difficult
by the release today of a parliamentary committee report that is expected
to be highly
critical of the proposed migration law.
And apart from increasingly vocal opposition to the law within Government
ranks, he could
also face growing public disquiet on the issue, with an opinion poll
released yesterday
showing 74 per cent of 1200 Australians surveyed believe the Government
should not change
the law to improve relations with Indonesia.
The findings of the poll — funded by businessman and Papuan champion Ian
Melrose — were
echoed by Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, who called the move towards
offshore processing
unnecessary appeasement.
AAP
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19456882-1702,00.html
The Australian —
This story is from our news.com.au network
Source: AAP
Indons hold hope of visa review
June 13, 2006
AN Indonesian political delegation to Australia hopes a review of the
decision to grant
asylum to 42 West Papuans will strip them of their visas.
The delegation, led by former Wahid government minister Dr Muhammad Hikam,
met Immigration
Minister Amanda Vanstone in Canberra today.
Following the meeting, Dr Hikam said Senator Vanstone had told the group
Australia did not
support West Papua's separatist movement and that a review of the visa
decision was
underway.
"Obviously there's a feeling there's a lot of questions that must be
answered regarding the
inconsistency of the position by the immigration office and (minister)
Vanstone tried to
explain that to us," Dr Hikam said.
"We should proceed with that and we also requested that there is some kind
of evaluation of
that in the process.
"We try to understand (the decision) but still need more clarification.
"What is most important is the follow up of this evaluation."
Asked whether Indonesia would like the visas revoked, he said: "In that
direction, but of
course in Indonesia we have to understand that we respect the due process
of law in
Australia also."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/senate-revolt-over-asylum-laws/2006/
06/12/11499644694
98.html
The Age
June 13, 2006
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Senate revolt over asylum laws grows
Annabel Stafford and Sarah Smiles, Canberra
June 13, 2006
A BACKBENCH revolt against the Howard Government's tough new laws on asylum
seekers is
gaining momentum, with Coalition senators demanding the bill be changed to
ensure genuine
refugees can come to Australia.
Concerned Coalition MPs yesterday claimed to have the numbers in the Senate
to force through
changes to the controversial legislation.
Prime Minister John Howard has also been urged not to bow to Indonesian
pressure over Papuan
asylum seekers when he and Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone meet a
delegation from the
Indonesian Government today.
Four Coalition senators are believed to have major concerns about the
Government's proposed
changes to the migration law. This is three more than would be needed to
scuttle the bill
if, as expected, senators from Labor and the minor parties vote against it.
"It looks like there is a majority in the Senate to make the case for
change," Nationals
senator Barnaby Joyce said.
But Mr Howard yesterday was unmoved by the dissent, saying the bill would
go ahead "and I
believe it will pass".
The proposed legislation — which will force future asylum seekers
arriving by boat to be
processed offshore in places such as Nauru — was introduced following a
diplomatic row with
Indonesia over Australia's decision to grant asylum to 42 Papuans in March.
Liberal senator Judith Troeth said the major concern with the bill was that
it appeared to
be intended to stop even genuine asylum seekers coming to Australia.
"If they go to Nauru … and they're declared an asylum seeker they may be
encouraged to seek
asylum in another country," she said. "It is unclear whether they can come
to Australia or
if Australia is on the list of places they can go to."
Senator Troeth said she was also concerned that the bill put women and
children back into
effective detention — which she viewed as a contravention of the
Government's concessions on
the issue last year — and apparently provided no prospect of review or
appeal against
decisions made to grant or deny people asylum.
The public revolt is untimely for Mr Howard as he prepares to meet today
with the Indonesian
delegation, which has already signalled its intention to raise the issue of
Papua.
Relations with Jakarta have recently begun to recover from the row over
Papua, with
Indonesia's ambassador, Hamzah Thayeb, returning to Canberra last weekend
after being
recalled at the height of the row.
Mr Howard, speaking before an expected meeting with Indonesian President
Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono later this month, yesterday reiterated Australia's support for
Indonesia's
sovereignty over Papua, but stood by the Government's decision to grant
asylum to the
Papuans in March.
Mr Howard's push to strengthen the relationship with Indonesia could be
made more difficult
by the release today of a parliamentary committee report that is expected
to be highly
critical of the proposed migration law.
And apart from increasingly vocal opposition to the law within Government
ranks, he could
also face growing public disquiet on the issue, with an opinion poll
released yesterday
showing 74 per cent of 1200 Australians surveyed believe the Government
should not change
the law to improve relations with Indonesia.
The findings of the poll — funded by businessman and Papuan champion Ian
Melrose — were
echoed by Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, who called the move towards
offshore processing
unnecessary appeasement.
Senator Joyce also said asylum decisions should not be made on the basis of
political
expediency. He urged the Prime Minister to stand firm against pressure from
Indonesia to
deny asylum to Papuans.
"If the West Papuans can prove they've been persecuted, then we can't
sacrifice our role as
a just nation for the sake of not offending somebody."
Senator Joyce also backed Senator Troeth's concerns that the new laws would
prevent genuine
refugees who arrive by boat from settling in Australia.
"If they can reasonably prove they're being persecuted in their country and
that coming to
Australia was the only alternative because they wouldn't change their
religion or political
beliefs … we must act justly towards them," he said.
A spokesman for the Indonesian embassy in Canberra said yesterday that the
parliamentary
delegation from Jakarta would raise outstanding questions about Australia's
decision to
grant 42 Papuans asylum when it meets Mr Howard and Senator Vanstone today.
"There are still certain questions that need to be answered and
communicated from the
Indonesian perspective and the Australian perspective," the embassy
spokesman said.
The five-member delegation will also meet Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
and academics
from the Australian National University and the Lowy Institute.
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Papua and Bashir 'not linked'
June 16, 2006
INDONESIA'S concerns over Papuan independence cannot be compared with
Australian outrage
about the release of a militant cleric, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
has said.
A visiting Indonesian parliamentary delegation has drawn links between the
issues, with one
MP urging Australia not to be a "silent enemy" of Jakarta.
The head of the delegation, Muhammad Hikam, has said he would like Canberra
to revoke the
protection visas granted to 42 Papuan asylum seekers to ease tension
between the countries,
but said Jakarta would not get involved in the process.
The delegation has compared Indonesian anger over the visa decision with
Australian anger
over the release from jail of firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who was
imprisoned for
giving his blessing to the 2002 Bali bombings.
But Mr Downer today rejected any links between the issues.
"That wouldn't be our perspective," he told ABC radio.
"We think there are completely different issues at stake here.
"I wouldn't draw any comparisons between the two except to say ... that
there would be, and
there has been, an expression of outrage in the Australian community about
the brevity of
Abu Bakar Bashir's sentence, and we, of course, know that in Indonesia
there's a lot of
sensitivity about this whole issue of Papua.
"I told them that on the one hand we understood that and on the other we
supported
Indonesian sovereignty over Papua, but it was very important they move
forward with their
special autonomy status for Papua and put in place the reforms that the
president has
promised."
Bashir, the alleged spiritual leader of terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah
(JI), was released
from jail this week after serving 25 months for endorsing the 2002 Bali
attacks which killed
202 people, including 88 Australians.
Prime Minister John Howard has said Australia is disgusted with Bashir's
release and he has
written to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, reminding him of
Jakarta's duty to
keep a close watch on the cleric and to freeze his assets.
Labor has called for Bashir to be placed under 24-hour surveillance.
Mr Downer would not reveal whether Indonesia had made any commitments about
monitoring
Bashir but said he was happy with meetings on the issue so far.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Process-asylum-seekers-in-Australia-PNG/20
06/06/16/11499647
28594.html
Process asylum seekers in Australia: PNG
June 16, 2006 - 5:00PM
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare says Australia should
process asylum seekers
on Australian soil and hinted that he may not allow PNG's Manus island to
be used again as a
detention centre.
The Australian government is trying to push through changes to immigration
laws to ensure
all future boat arrivals of asylum seekers would be processed offshore.
Australia has previously sent asylum seekers to detention centres on Nauru
and the PNG
island of Manus under what became known as the "Pacific Solution".
But Somare on Friday cast doubt on a revived arrangement to use Manus,
which currently has
no detainees but is still on standby under an agreement with Australia.
"When they go to Australian soil, it's Australia's responsibility to deal
with them, we
don't set up places where we process refugees who come to our country,"
Somare told
reporters.
"The last arrangement we made was when Australia asked us to do so. I'm not
going to allow
Papua New Guinea to become a testing ground to overcome other people's
problem."
The Australian government is having trouble getting its immigration reforms
through
parliament with some of its own backbenchers opposed to the new rules.
The opposition says the changes are a bid to heal a diplomatic rift with
Indonesia, which
was angered by Australia's granting of refugee protection to 42 Papuans who
landed on Cape
York Peninsula in January.
Meanwhile, three Indonesian Papuan men detained by Australian authorities
on May 6 after
they arrived in the Torres Strait by boat will be sent to PNG.
The men were detained on Boigu Island after crossing from the PNG mainland,
having travelled
there from Indonesia's Papua province.
Australia has excised the entire Torres Strait from its migration zone,
meaning the three
men could not apply for refugee status there.
Australian and PNG officials are finalising plans to fly them to Port
Moresby under a 2003
accord in which PNG agreed to re-admit from Australia any third-country
nationals who had
been in PNG for more than seven days but had failed to seek asylum there.
© 2006 AAP
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PNG to take West Papuan trio
- From correspondents in Port Moresby
June 16, 2006
THREE Indonesian Papuan men detained by Australian authorities after they
arrived in the
Torres Strait by boat will be sent to Papua New Guinea (PNG).
The men were detained on May 6 on Boigu Island after crossing from the PNG
mainland after
journeying there from Indonesia's West Papua province.
PNG Foreign Minister Rabbie Namaliu said Australian and PNG officials were
finalising plans
to fly the men to Port Moresby under a 2003 agreement signed between the
two countries.
Under that accord, PNG agreed to re-admit from Australia any third-country
nationals who had
been in PNG for more than seven days but had failed to seek asylum there.
The granting of refugee protection to 42 Papuans who landed on Cape York
Peninsula in
January angered Indonesia, which suspected Australia of tacit support for
the province's
independence.
In a bid to heal the diplomatic rift, Australia agreed to review its
immigration procedures
to ensure all future boat arrivals would be processed offshore.
But a number of Liberal MPs oppose the Howard Government's proposed law
changes, which could
fail to pass unless their concerns are addressed.
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http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=24805
Radio New Zealand International
The Voice of New Zealand, Broadcasting to the Pacific
Te Reo Irirangi O Aotearoa, O Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa
Australia to deport three Papuan asylum seekers to PNG
Posted at 03:26 on 16 June, 2006 UTC
Australia will send three asylum seekers from the Indonesian province of
Papua to Papua New
Guinea.
The three men had been detained by Australian authorities just over a month
ago when they
arrived from PNG by boat.
Their deportation to PNG is in line with a 2003 agreement between the two
countries on the
processing of illegal migrants.
Under that accord, PNG agreed to re-admit from Australia any third-country
nationals who had
been in PNG for more than seven days but had failed to seek asylum there.
Australia is reportedly also holding three Afghan asylum seekers in
Queensland who had also
crossed Torres Strait.
Indonesia reacted angrily in March when Australia granted protection visas
to 42 Papuans who
claimed to flee persecution.
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E421,00.html
Indonesia watching Papua visa review
13jun06
AN Indonesian political delegation to Australia hopes a review of the
decision to grant asylum to 42 West Papuans will strip them of their visas.
The delegation, led by former Wahid government minister Dr Muhammad Hikam,
met Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone in Canberra today.
Following the meeting, Dr Hikam said Senator Vanstone had told the group
Australia did not support West Papua's separatist movement and that a
review of the visa decision was underway.
"Obviously there's a feeling there's a lot of questions that must be
answered regarding the inconsistency of the position by the immigration
office and (minister) Vanstone tried to explain that to us," Dr Hikam said.
"We should proceed with that and we also requested that there is some kind
of evaluation of that in the process.
"We try to understand (the decision) but still need more clarification.
"What is most important is the follow up of this evaluation."
Asked whether Indonesia would like the visas revoked, he said: "In that
direction, but of course in Indonesia we have to understand that we respect
the due process of law in Australia also."
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Indonesian MPs brush off Papuan snub
Thursday Jun 15 21:03 AESTA group of visiting Indonesian MPs say they are
not concerned that Papuan refugees recently granted asylum in Australia
don't want to meet them.The 42 refugees had been frightened by a request to
meet the Indonesian parliamentary delegation accompanying Indonesia's
ambassador to Australia, Hamzah Thayeb, and had refused, their lawyer said
on Thursday.Mr Thayeb returned to Australia last weekend after being
recalled to Indonesia in protest against the Australian government's
decision to grant protection visas to the refugees.Delegation head Muhammad
Hikam said the MPs were not concerned by the refusal, as a meeting with the
refugees was not the focus of their visit.
However, he revealed members of the delegation met on Thursday with
representatives of the refugees."No (it's not a concern) because we are not
actually (coming here with) the intention to meet them," Dr Hikam told AAP
after a seminar in Melbourne on the state of relations between Australia
and Indonesia."We welcome (it) if they want to see us, if they want to
express their aspirations, something like that.
"But our intention here is not limited to that case, but to broader
aspects."So it's up to them - we don't really have a special agenda."David
Manne, from the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, earlier on Thursday
said an intermediary had approached him requesting a meeting between the
Indonesian parliamentary delegation and the refugees, who are now living in
Melbourne.Mr Manne said the refugees were frightened by the request and had
sent a statement to both Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Immigration
Minister Amanda Vanstone saying they did not want to meet the MPs.
"They're shocked and scared by the suggestion of meeting with Indonesian
officials," Mr Manne said."They've just been found recently by Australian
immigration officials to have a well-founded fear of being persecuted by
Indonesian authorities if returned.
"They are really wanting to be left alone to live a life in the Australian
community in safety and security without approaches from the Indonesian
officials."Dr Hikam earlier on Thursday said it would be impolite of the
Papuans to refuse to meet him and his fellow Indon politicians."Usually, in
Indonesia if you got an invitation like that, you cannot explain why (you
refuse it) ... you reject a good friendship," he told ABC radio.©AAP 2006
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20060613.M06
Freeport names new president director
Business and Investment - June 13, 2006
JAKARTA: Copper and gold mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia announced
Monday the appointment of mining engineer Armando Mahler as president
director and general manager, replacing Adrianto Machribie.
Concurrent with Mahler's appointment, Freeport also appointed the former
rector of Cendrawasih University and former member of the House of
Representatives, August Kafiar, and a former senior staffer with the World
Bank, Rusdian Lubis, as deputy presidents to oversee the functions of
community relations, and safety health and environment, respectively.
Mahler, who has for 23 years played a leading role in Freeport's mining
operations, succeeds Machribie, who has served as PTFI's president director
for over 10 years.
Machribie will retire as president director but will continue to serve as
the key senior advisor to the office of the chairman of the parent company
of PTFI, Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc. JP
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