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Written By I Neles Tebay ince 2000, the leaders of all religions, natural resources, stigmatization, the Sincluding Christianity (Catholic and imposition of government policy, military Protestant Churches), Islam, Hinduism, operations, extrajudicial killings, torture, and Buddhism, in West Papua have been arbitrary detention, sexual harassment, united to work together for peace. Their as well as the denial of their rights to peace campaign is now conducted under participation, freedom of expression the motto 'Papua, Land of Peace.' and of assembly, and cultural identity and expression. The Papuans' support The interfaith for the declaration peace campaign of West Papua as 'a Telepare Isl and; Rangering in the was initiated zone of peace' reflects So uth Pacific ...... 2 by indigenous their deepest desire Papuans. In June to live in dignity on News and Views ...... 3 1999,young their own land, where Papuans and they are not treated as separatists but West Papu a; Many Forms Of students brought up the idea of 'a as human beings. Re sisitance ...... 4 zone of peace' at ameeting Supporting the Message from the Executive held in Serui, Papuans' peace . Director ...... 5 the capital of initiative, the Yapen Waropen Lembaga Study Foreign Pol icy in West Papu a ...... 6 district. After obtaining support dan Advokasi Hak-hak Asasi Manusia from the Papua Presidium Council (ELSHAM), a -based human Ind igenous Journeys ...... 8 (Presidium Dewan Papua/PDP), rights GO, was joined by the provincial Marthen Tanawane, the Papuan government, the Provincial Legislative tribal leader in Serui, declared Yapen Council and the police in holding a Waropen district as 'a zone of peace'. conference to discuss the concept of Papua as 'a zone of peace'. The religious The idea of a peace zone was then leaders also support the idea of West discussed in more detail by the leaders Papua as a peace zone for all peoples of some 252 tribes who are united in the without discrimination, not only a Papuan Customary Council (Dewan Adat territory without violence, but "a region Papua/DAP). West Papua, for the tribal in which people uphold brotherhood, leaders, should be "a territory free from rej ect violence, and refrain from all violence, oppression, and grief' because conflict." 'Papua, Land of Peace' has it has become a land of oppression now been adopted as a shared vision, since the beginning of Indonesian meaning that West Papua should be a Pacific Peoples' Partnership occupation over the territory in 1963. territory, where all people can enjoy 407- 620 View Street hannonious relationships with God, Victoria BC. Cana da, VSW 1J6 The Papuans have been victimized themselves, others, and the whole of Phone250 · 38 1 ·4131 by Indonesian oppression through creation, and can grow and realize www.pacificpeoplespartnership.org psychological repression, social their potential as full human beings. domination, unfair exploitation of Continued on Page 7

Established in 1975, Pacific Peoples' Partnership is a unique non-governmental, non-profit organization working with communities and organizations in the South and North Pacific to support shared aspirations for peace, cultural integrity, social justice, human dignity, and environmental su stainability by: ·Promoting increased understanding among Canadians on issues of importance to the people of the Pa cific islands. • Advocating for social, political, and economic policy change at all levels . ·Fostering the development of sustainable communities in the Pacific. · Facilitating links between indigenous peoples of the Pacific islands and Aboriginal peoples of Canada. ·Stren gthening relations between Canadian and Pacific island communities and civil society organizations.

TOK BLONG PASIFIK [1] FALL 2006 Tetepare Island - Rangering in the South Pacific CUSO Cooperants at Wo rk

Written By I Jeanine and Mike D'Antonio of western style organizations with the On land, hunting parties find wild pig unique qualities of Solomon Island and coconut crab. The forest has al­ resources and culture. We are challenged ways provided building materials from ost rangers that I know wear and often frustrated by this task. But it canoe trees and house poles to leaves Mshoes when they patrol the back­ takes just one trip into the bush with a lo­ and vines for making and securing wall country or pick up a chainsaw to clear cal guide telling us the names of birds we and roof panels. Harvesting is closely out some deadfall. Most rangers that I can only hear and the many uses of plants monitored and the number compari­ know use a myriad of compasses, maps we can't distinguish one from another sons provide a compelling argument for and GPS units to navigate through for us to realize how worth it the frus­ the conservation of these resources. unfamiliar territory. Most rangers tration is. We have a lot to learn about Every month on the new moon, TDA that I know do up their shirts .... how we look at the natural world, and it rangers sample the islands' population o would be hard to find better teachers. Not the rangers we work with these coconut crabs, the world's largest ter­ days. Their toes are splayed and grip the restrial invertebrate. This data is gathere muddy trail, their shirt tails flap and they in order to compare the population level never become "temporarily disoriented". of this highly sought after food source I follow slowly, picking my way through inside and outside the Marine Protected the quagmire, the treads of my boots Area. Then for four months, between gummed up like platform shoes with November and February, they camp out clay. These are the rangers of Tetepare on the island's black sand beaches to Island, and there's no one I am happier monitor and protect the yearly nesting to follow into the Solomon Islands bush. of the endangered leatherback turtles. My husband and I are funded by CUSO, There are striking similarities between a Canadian volunteer organization. Our TDA and ranger organizations in North fami ly has taken up residence for the America. The US Forest Service has next two years on the largest uninhab­ a similar multiple use mandate. Parks ited island in the South Pacific. Tetepare Canada has seasonal closures on ma­ Island, at 120 square kilometers is a rine and freshwater catches and allows pristine jungly place with aquamarine subsistence hunting by native groups in lagoons and fringing reefs, where popula­ some parks. Everywhere, research and tions of dugong, leatherback turtles and monitoring programs are the standard estuarine crocodiles reside. The only to evaluate our management effective­ structures on the island, our leaf house, a ness and population changes over time. field station and eco-lodge are located on Amongst all our fellow rangers, warder the western tip in an abandoned coconut Photo Courtesy Jeanine D'Antonio and managers, there's a commitment plantation. They are the only evidence to the land, water and its resources that of human activity for the last 150 years. Tetepare rangers are a hardy and dedi­ is mirrored in the rangers of Tetepare cated lot. They have easily made the Island. For more about Tetepare Island No one is sure what happened 150 years transition from logging and plantation and conservation in the Pacific, please ago to the villagers of Tete pare. Ma­ work to conservation now that TDA has check their website at www.tetepare.or: levolent spirits are blamed for letting provided that opportunity. They hap­ disease and headhunting devastate the pily work week long shifts that take Mike and Jeanine D 'Antonio are local populous. A handful of survivors them away from family and their coco­ currently on a two year contract as made it off the island and their geneal­ nut groves to protect the resources and CUSO cooperants, now making their ogy has been traced back eight or nine way of life they love and hope for their home with their three year old son, generations. Under customary land children. They all come from traditional Camas, on Tetepare Island. They have tenure that follows matrilineal lines, villages on the neighboring island of worked in protected areas through­ these descendants have come together to Rendova where they survive by sub­ out Canada, the US and Africa. fonn the Tetepare Descendants' Associa­ sistence farming with only a hint of a tion (TDA). With over 2,000 financial cash economy starting. Though they members, it is today the largest land have little fonnal education, they speak holding group in the Solomon Islands. proudly and well about their jobs and TDA is a community conservation group, conservation. They have risen to the tasks of mist netting and banding birds, cu working to protect the resources of WE STAND FOR PEOP~E Tetepare and their traditional way of life. catching and tagging sea turtles and TOA has already established a Marine becoming research assistants to visiting Protected Area, permanently closed to bat, butterfly and freshwater biologists. For mor information on excit­ harvest and is working towards legisla­ Tetepare Island is used by descendants ing opp rtu "ti l\;th CUSO tion that would protect the entire island. as the area's supermarket and hard­ · it ·r ite at: Our jobs are to help TDA develop a ware store. The marine resources are .ci-so.org system of resource management which plentiful with fish and invertebrates combines the structure and experience for food and shells and lobster to sell.

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UN News Centre, 20 September 2006 environment issues. Indeed, we deplore tively short, with no need to evacuate the notion that economic growth should his country's nationals. New Zealand's South Pacific countries sound take precedence over environmental Helen Clark noted that Tonga's riots alarm at UN debate on im- issues when the quest for that growth follow similar unrest in Solomon Is­ pact ofglobal warming - will threaten the very survival of some lands and the threat of a coup in Fiji. members of this Organization," she said. he South Pacific nations of Papua "Everyone is aware of what fragile and TNew Guinea and Kiribati have used failed states mean in today's world," she their addresses to the annual debate of said. "It can mean penetration of finan­ the General Assembly to voice concern Australia, NZ Respond to Tonga Riots cial systems, lax borders, drug trade, about rising sea levels in the region and financing terrorism or other activities. to urge United Nations Member States to No-one wants that in the Pacific." do much more to reduce global warming. ollowing riots in Tonga's capital that claimed eight lives, troops and Prime Minister Howard reinforced her Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister F police from Australia and New Zea- comments, "It's too important to the Michael Somare warned the Assem- land are now on short term assignment stability of the whole region for us to be bly that small islands and low-lying in the island kingdom at the request less than willing to respond to a request... atolls across the Pacific are already to a country that looks to Australia and being submerged by rising sea levels. of the Tonga government. Australia has sent about 50 troops and 35 police New Zealand in its hour of need." "For us, this is not academic, it is real­ officers, including forensic experts, to Compiled from Australian Broad­ ity! " he said, adding scientific studies help restore security on the island and casting Corp and TVNZ re- indicate that climate change is also investigate the deaths caused by the ports, November 18, 2006. responsible for the increasing frequency riots. New Zealand has sent about 60 of natural disasters, such as hurricanes, troops, mostly to provide security for tsunamis, flash floods and landslides. the airport in the capital, Nuku'alofa. PPP GRATEFULLY Mr. Somare called on industrialized na­ According to the Australian Broadcast­ ACKNOWLEDGES THE tions to slash their greenhouse gas emis­ ing Corporation, three Australian navy FOLLOWING SUPPORTERS sions and on those countries which have ships are already in the southwest Pacific, not ratified the Kyoto Protocol to do so. having been deployed to the region last Hui ' gumi' num month because of fears of a coup in TREATY GROUP He said Papua New Guinea would Fiji. The ships will remain in interna­ play its part to stabilize the Earth'.s tional waters and the crews are ready t4pf>e climate by doing more to protect its to be deployed to Tonga if required. CAF® D reserves of tropical rainforest. just one world Damage done in the central business In an address, Kiribati's Vice-Presi­ district was quite massive, with reports dent Teima Onorio explained that her of up to 80% of buildings torched and country is especially vulnerable to the looted. Soldiers and police cordoned off impact of global warming because it streets in the centre of the capital as the consists of low-lying coral atolls. Ministry of Public Safety government enacted emergency powers and Sollcff0< Genotal "For countries such as Kiribati, global to secure government offices, oil depots, ClmlngPCOlcy...,!rlotc..,enteranc• COWICHAN TRIBES warming and sea level rise are criti­ shops and the hospital. Among the build­ cal security issues," she said. ings damaged were the prime minister's tiThe Anglican Church of Canada office, the financial department, of- Although Ms. Onorio welcomed the sup­ fices of power company Shoreline, port her country has received in adjust­ which is partly owned by King George The United Church of Canada ~(If: ing to the changes wrought by global Tupou V, the town's only ba~ , and warming, she added "there is a limit to Chinese-owned shops and businesses. L'Eglise Unie du Canada ~ how far we can adapt." Rising sea levels will affect Kiribati's groundwater sup­ The rioting in Tonga began after par­ ply and gradually erode whatever land liament went into recess for the year oeveloppement et is available on its 33 islands, she noted. without voting on proposals for sweeping ti p~t.::: democratic reforms to Tonga's semi­ ~ Development and Peace "Yes, we could always move in- feudal system. Late on November 16, land to avoid the rising sea levels. the government bowed to the protest- But with our narrow islands if we ers and agreed to new elections in 2008 move inland, too far we risk falling in which a majority of the parliament Droits et Democratie ~it''-& Rights &Democracy into either the lagoon or the ocean." would be directly elected by popular ~ ~ ~ The Vice-President reiterated Kiribati's vote. At present, nobles and appointed long-standing call for a unified in~er­ MPs outnumber elected representatives. IDRC X CRDI national response to global warming. Australian Prime Minister John How- " "'"''" RtsOUl"Ot1 • nd Rnsourc.M hum1lnn •t "We have been disappointed with the ard expects the deployment to be rela ••• 8kik 0 t¥•lo pm ent C1111de C>tvelop111ment dn c:gmp, 1nc: n C1nedt lack of consensus on these critical :l, .. ~ t & ), l\, , ,,., if'" . -

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TOK BLONG PASIFIK [3] FALL 2006 WEST PAPUA: MANY FORMS OF RESISTANCE

Written By I Carmel Budiardjo Martin Luther King. The assassination were often asked to perform for visiting struck fear into members ofMambesak rom the mid-1960s when dignitaries. The band bore the name and the group disbanded. Fbecame a military dictatorship under Mambesak, for the Cendrawasih bird, Suharto until May 1998 when he was a bird symbolising Papua's rich natural Dr Thomas Wanggai was a lecturer at forced to resign, military operations heritage. Their programs also included Cendrawasih University. On 14 December in West Papua and resistance to them popular jokes and stories known as mop. 1988, he led a group of Papuans in a flag­ were a regular occurrence. Both have raising ceremony at the Mandala stadium continued to the present. In the early In November 1983, Ap was asked, in Jayapura. This has long been a peaceful days, the Free Papua Organisation, during a performance for local military way for Papuans to express opposition OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdeka) first officers, to hand over the Cendrawasih to the Indonesian occupation. Among the formed to wage resistance to the one hundred or so supporters takeover in 1963, had scattered were several Protestant units throughout the vast territory ministers. Before hoisting of West Papua and were armed only the Kejora (Morning Star) with traditional, makeshift weapons. flag, they pulled down They were hard-pressed to mount the Indonesian flag and any operations of their own. Yet proclaimed the establishment according to Catholic priest, Neles of a West Melanesian State. Tebay, who has written extensively Troops charged in and about the plight of his people, there beat up many taking part. have been no fewer than twelve Along with Wanggai and major operations by the Indonesian his Japanese wife Teruka, military, starting with Operasi dozens were rounded up. Sadar (Operation Consciousness) He and his wife, whom he in 1965 that lasted two years. had met while studying in According to Eliezer Bonay, who Japan, went on trial. He served as the first Indonesia­ got twenty years, while his appointed governor of West Papua wife was sentenced to eight in 1963 until he was dismissed and Demonstration against Freeport years for sewing the flag. detained for his anti-Indonesian views (Timika, W.Papua) two years later, some 30,000 Papuans www.melanesiannews.org · Two years later, the couple were moved were murdered by the Indonesian to prisons in , because the military between 1963 and 1969. plumes he was wearing on his head authorities realised that their presence but he refused. Very soon after, he and in Jayapura was a constant source Yet, in spite of tremendous odds stacked several others were arrested and held of unrest. Teruka was released after against it, OPM conducted a number for several months at the interrogation serving half her sentence, but Wanggai of strikes. The best known was an headquarters of Kopassandha, the army's remained in Cipinang Prison. In March action in 1977 when they blew up the elite force now known as . 1996, he complained of stomach pains. pipeline transporting copper from the They were later moved to a police post Believing that food he was being given Freeport copper-and-gold mine and where a Papuan police officer told had been poisoned, he stopped eating. destroyed several oil storage tanks. them that, if they wanted to escape, a When his condition deteriorated, a The company sustained millions of boat would be waiting to take them to request to be examined at a Christian dollars in losses. A counter attack by neighbouring Papua New Guinea. Arnold hospital was refused. As his condition the Indonesian military resulted in a Ap and three others were driven to the worsened, he was taken to a police massacre which, according to a leading coast and told to wait for the boat. hospital but was dead on arrival. An Indonesian human rights organisation autopsy request by the International Red ELSHAM, killed 12,397 Papuans. Another in their group, Eddie Mofu, who Cross was refused; the prison doctor became separated, was later found dead alleged that he died of a heart attack. West Papuan resistance has taken many from drowning. After waiting several other forms for which courageous days, Ap and his colleagues were accosted Wanggai 's body was returned to West Papuans have usually paid with their by heavily-armed soldiers, supposedly Papua for burial despite army fears this delivering food. Realising that they had would provoke unrest. When the coffin lives. In 1978, some Papuans formed a been trapped, Ap fled to a nearby hill and arrived at Sentani Airport, hundreds music group to popularise Papuan music was shot in the back. Fatally wounded, were waiting to carry it to Cendrawasih and dance. Members travelled far and he was taken by boat to a nearby hospital University for a lying-in-state, but it wide to collect local songs which became where he died, three bullets lodged in was driven away at high speed by a a feature of their performances. The his abdomen and one in his right arm. military truck. The burial a few days leader of the band was an anthropologist later was attended by thousands. Many hundreds attended his funeral on and musician, Arnold Ap, director of the 27 April 1984, with heavily-armed troops Museum of Cendrawasih University in lining the way to the cemetery. The event Jayapura. Weekly performances on the has been compared by one Indonesian Cont'd on next page.... radio were hugely popular, and they writer who was present to the funeral of

FALL ?006 Thomas Wanggai 's name has lived on. on deaf ears but some His son David organised the flight of will have to come to c forty-three Papuans who left West Papua that the Papuan cau by sea to seek asylum in Australia in January 2006, and his nephew Herman In 1973 Carmel Budiardjo i(J WHO'S who had served two years in jail for flying TAPOL, the Indonesia Hum j

TOK BLONG PASIFIK [5] FALL2006 US Foreign Policy In West Papua Mid-Term Elections Bring Hope For Change Written By I Edmund McWilliams

erhaps no government has greater on the worst excesses of the Indone- gunmen fired on U.S. contact employees Pcapacity to influence the course of sian military. While those restrictions and Indonesian citizens near the Free­ events in West Papua than does the U.S. were based largely on the Indonesian port McMoRan copper and gold mine Government. This troubling reality de­ military's extraordinary brutality in between Timika and Tembagapura. rives from the still preeminent US mili­ East Timor, especially their savagery tary power in the region, as well as Wash­ there in 1999, over the last ten years the The killing of two U.S. citizens and ington's largely unparalleled diplomatic military's excesses in West Papua have wounding of eight others (one Indonesian and economic power regionally and also drawn U.S. Congressional attention. citizen was also killed) and subsequent globally. On occasion, over the last few reporting by the police, human rights decades, that power has been used in the Beginning in 2001, human rights advo­ organizations and the media pointing region for good. Very belatedly, the U.S. cates have succeeded in raising the pro­ to Indonesian military involvement in pressed Jakarta to accept UN intervention file of West Papua among members of the the attack came to dominate Congres­ in East Timor in 1999. Moreover, restric­ U.S. House of Representatives and the sional focus on West Papua. Broad tions on U.S. assistance to the Indonesian U.S. Senate. The Indonesian military's suspicion within Congress of Indonesian military through the l 990's and the first murderous Mapenduma campaign in the military involvement in the "Timika Bush Administration was an appropriate 1996-98 period, the slaughter of Papuan case" and subsequent Indonesian refusal policy given the Indonesian military's civilians in Biak in 1998, the police as­ to cooperate with U.S. authorities in unreformed, rogue behavior and utter sault on students in Abepura in 2000, and the investigation of the killings led to unaccountability before Indonesian law. the torture-murder of leading Papuan po­ strong new language conditioning any litical figure in 2001 roused assistance to the Indonesian military. Beginning with the US intervention in significant concern in the U.S. Congress. the l 960's, US Administrations " Welcome and appropriate as have conspired with brutal and Republican members generally have followed the Congressional attention to this incident has been, the intense corrupt Indonesian individuals Bush Administration's lead on Indonesia .. " and institutions, and with rapa- focus on this matter has had cious U.S. corporate interests to the effect of blurring Congres­ the great detriment of the people of West This educational effort by human rights sional focus on the plight of Papuans Papua. Dispute between Indonesia and advocates has not only focused on and has led to replacement of Papuan the Netherlands over West Papua's future Indonesian military brutalization of the human rights focus language which had have extended through to the 2005 re­ Papuan people. After several years of previously conditioned U.S. military-to­ sumption of US assistance to the Indone­ campaigning to build awareness in the military relations with Indonesia. This sian military. Without exception, policies Congress about the fraudulent "Act of reality played a part in the resumption and intervention of the U.S. Administra­ Free Choice" through which Jakarta of U.S. military cooperation with the tions in West Papua have been antitheti­ seized West Papua in 1969, 37 U.S. Con­ Indonesian military in 2005. Admin­ cal to the rights & welfare of Papuans. gressman, in 2005, signed a letter to UN istration assurances of progress on the Secretary General Kofi Annan calling for "Timika case" and its contentions that Throughout this period, extending a UN review of the "Act of Free Choice." the "war on terror" necessitated coopera­ back more than four decades, the role tion with the Indonesian military enabled In 2005, U.S. Congressman Eni Faleo­ and influence of the U.S. Congress in the Administration to waive congres­ mavaega, long an advocate of human and shaping U.S. policy toward Indonesia sional constraints on resumption of U.S. civil/political rights for Papuans, suc­ and West Papua specifically has been support for the Indonesian military. more positive. Congressional initia­ ceeded in attaching language to key State tives over the years have offered some Department authorization legislation The election on November 7 of a Demo­ basis for hope that human rights and that described extensively the abroga­ cratic controlled U.S. House of Represen­ humanitarian concerns might broaden tion of Papuan rights in the context of the tatives Senate has significant implications U.S. goals beyond their historic geo­ fraudulent "Act of Free Choice." The for U.S. Congressional action relating to political, military and mercenary language also drew upon 2004 research West Papua. While a number of Re­ foci as advanced by both Democratic by the Allard K. Lowenstein Center publican members of the U.S. House of and Republican administrations. at Yale University which asserted that Representatives and Senate have been Jakarta agents had perpetrated crimes staunch supporters of Papuan human Following the Indonesian military against humanity in West Papua and rights, Republican members generally massacre in Dili 15 years ago, the U.S. possibly genocide. While that language have followed the Bush Administration's Congress imposed strict limitations on has not had tangible impact on U.S. lead on Indonesia which has included U.S. military assistance to and coopera­ policy, associated language requiring reluctance to raise human rights prob­ tion with the Indonesian military. Over the State Department to report to Con­ lems in West Papua (and elsewhere) with the years, a bi-partisan, bi-camera! gress on developments in West Papua Jakarta, and a rapid expansion of U.S.­ U.S. Congressional consensus annu­ has forced the Bush Administration to Indonesian military-to-military ties. ally reinstated those limitations. These acknowledge ongoing problems there. restrictions arguably constituted one of the few explicit sanctions against the In August 2002, an incident involv- Indonesian military and, in the view of ing U.S. citizens tended to eclipse the some observers, constituted a constraint growing Congressional attention on the Cont'd on page 8 ... plight of Papuans. On August 31, 2002,

TAI/ DI /""\~II"' nA C"IC'IV "" FAI I ?OOR Papua, Land of Peace Campaig • • age 7

Eight Principles of Peace

The concept of 'Papua, Land of Peace' consists of In order o eight fundamental values, namely, awareness and its ignifi respect for plurality, justice, unity, harmony, solidarity, lead peop e togetherness, sincere fraternity, and welfare. They are and the lm1:1~"1u\JILOi::.;i the guiding principles and the criteria for judgment. These values detennine which plan and activity should The local go - called to be supported or rejected by people in West Papua. support the i.no the quality of education · ~ . addressing Given the existence of a Papuan resistance movement the spread of HIY . problem of (internationally known as the /OPM) that malnutrition_ an orruption. has been resisting Indonesian occupation, any peace initiative could be mistakenly interpreted as advocating an independent state of West Papua. The Indonesian authorities are therefore suspicious of all peace-building initiatives in West Papua.

Addressing this suspicion, the religious leaders have made it clear that the peace campaign has nothing to do with the campaign for the independent state of West Papua launched by the OPM. The main aim of the peace campaign is to ensure that peace prevails in West Papua, irrespective of whether West Papua remains an Indonesian province or becomes an independent state. The concept of ' Papua, Land of Peace' includes all aspects of human life from physical health, social relationships and prosperity, mutual trust and respect, justice, fair opportunities for development, socio­ PPP File Photo €c6fi6fflic tievel6fJffletU, eulturnl rights, and human security.

Based on the above understanding, the religious leaders have Ne/es Tebay is a priest in the diocese ofJa yapura, West been jointly speaking out on injustice, collaborating with others Papua. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a journalist for for the respect of human rights, preventing violent conflict, The Jakarta Post (English-language daily published in rejecting militias such as jihad fighters (laskar jihad), defending the Indonesian capital, Jakarta). He was educated at the the right to life, supporting the Indigenous Papuans to become Catholic Institute for Philosophy and Theology in Jayapura agents of development, and promoting 'Papua, Land of and obtained his PhD in Missiology from the Pontifical Peace' as a platfonn for development. They jointly call for the Urban University in Rome in March 2006. He is author government to engage in dialogue with the Papuans, address of "West Papua: The Struggle For Peace With Justice " the unsettled rights abuses, and implement consistently Law and "Interfaith Endeavours for Peace in West Papua ". No.21/2001 on the Special Autonomy for Papua Province.

The International Community Can Help

The international community can contribute to the creation of West Papua as a rr=====I Land ofPeace by continuously encouraging the Indonesian Government to:

1. Open the territory of West Papua to 5. Eradicate the culture of impunity by addressing visiting foreign journalists, researchers, and the alleged human rights violations committed international humanitarian workers; against the Papuans since 1 May, 1963;

2. Implement, effectively and consistently, the Papuan 6. Invite to West Papua the UN special rapporteur Autonomy Law and dismiss the West lrian Jaya Province on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary execution that has been established by violating the Law; and the special rapporteur on torture;

3. Settle the West Papua case through dialogue 7. Stop increasing the number of troops in West Papua facilitated by a third party as that of Aceh's; (there are over 12,000 troops, excluding thousands of troops annually rotated , and 2,000 to 2,500 police); 4. Address the crimes against humanity committed by the security forces in Manokwari (2001) and Wamena 8. Invite the United Nations, the US, and the Dutch (2003), which have already been investigated by government to review their respective conduct in the National Commission on Human Rights but the run-up to, during, and after the exercise of the ignored by the Attorney General's Office; Act of Free Choice in West Papua in 1969.

TOK BLONG PASIFIK [7] FALL 2006 Indigenous Journeys A Modern Exploration of I ndigenous Culture from Wines to First Nations Fash ions US Foreign Policy cont'd from page 6 Written By I Jessica Stephens PPP Staff Democratic party control of key MC for the night was the ever-elegant n October 24, Pacific People's House and Senate committees and Ron Rice who thanked the First Nations Partnership (PPP) held a fundrais­ subcommittees will inevitably O people whose land the event was held on ing Wine and Fashion Show at the lead to much tighter scrutiny and introduced the President of the Board, University of Victoria to rave reviews. of Bush Administration policy Margaret Argue, who gave a fascinat- Focusing on information-sharing, a initiatives and analyses related to ing history of PPP to the audience. compelling power point presentation of Indonesia and West Papua. Over the South Pacific Is lands assembled by Alan King Jones, Sommelier and coming weeks and months, those Kelly Kerr played as a reminder to the chef of IQ Bistro at the University organizations and individuals injustices to Indigenous peoples of these of Victoria, poured wines from Tohu engaged in "educating" the U.S. Islands. It also gave participants ideas Wines (New Zealand), Nk'mip Cel- Congress regarding the plight of on how to volunteer and get involved. lars (Osoyoos First Nations) and Papuans under Indonesian rule Cherry Point Vineyards (Cowichan will need to re-double their efforts Tribes). He also supplied delicious plat­ so as to restore Congressional ters of seafood and deli favourites. influence and oversight of U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis Indonesia Tse-shaht First Nations designer Jo and especially, West Papua. Little (Mahima) of Ethnic Elegance, Port Alberni demonstrated her flashy Edmund Mc Williams is a retired trademark on the fashion industry while senior U.S. Foreign Service Officer models displayed her vibrant and sassy who served as Political Counselor clothes bearing animal imprints. Vic­ in the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta toria-based Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations (1996-99) . Since retirement in designer Denise Williams of House of 2001 he has been a pro bona Win-Chii ended the evening with el ­ human rights advocate engaged in egant styles of affordable clothing. lobbying to advance human rights The evening saw everyone a win- concerns in the U.S. Congress and ner with 50150 draws, a silent with the U.S. Administration. auction and door prizes.

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