WPCC Tentang KOMNAS HAM NKRI DAN DIALOGUE

POSISI DEWAN GEREJA PAPUA (WPCC) TENTANG PENYELESAIAN KONFLIK VERTIKAL INDONESIA-PAPUA SEBAGAI BERIKUT: 

1. KOMNAS HAM RI harus Mendukung penyelesaian 4 akar persoalan Papua yang sudah dirumuskan Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI). 

2. KOMNAS HAM RI harus mendukung pernyataan Presiden RI, Ir. Joko Widodo pada 30 September 2019 untuk bertemu dengan kelompok pro-Referendum. 

3. KOMNAS HAM RI harus mendukung kunjungan Komisi HAM PBB ke Papua sesuai dengan desakan 84 Negara, Uni Eropa dan Pakar HAM PBB. 

4. Dewan Gereja Papua (WPCC) dalam Seruan Moral, 20 Maret 2022 dapat menilai langkah-langkah KOMNAS HAM imi ditempuh dalam rangka politik PENCITRAAN Negara Indonesia." Maka Dewan Gereja Papua mendesak KOMNAS HAM RI harus mendukung sikap resmi Dewan Gereja Papua (WPCC), dalam Seruan Moral 20 Maret 2022, sebagai berikut: 

"Untuk menyelesaikan konflik berkepanjangan di Tanah Papua, kami tetap KONSISTEN mendesak dilakukannya Dialog antara Pemerintah Indonesia dengan ULMWP (United Liberation Movement for West Papua), seperti yang telah dilakukan pemerintah Indonesia dengan Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) dalam penyelesaian konflik Aceh. 

5. Surat Gembala Dewan Gereja Papua (WPCC) pada 5 Februari 2021, sebagai berikut: 

"Presiden Jokowi, pada tanggal 30 September 2019, sudah berjanji di depan media masa di Jakarta bahwa pihaknya ingin bertemu dengan 'kelompok pro referendum Papua'. Sehingga kami percaya bahwa Indonesia/Jakarta pada akhirnya akan berunding dengan ULMWP. Melalui surat ini kami menagih janji tersebut." 

6. Pada 26 Agustus 2019, Dewan Gereja Papua (WPCC) juga meminta untuk KEADILAN dari Pemerintah Republik Indonesia atas masalah Papua seperti yang ditunjukkan kepada GAM di Aceh. Wakil Presidem Yusuf Kalla secara aktif mendorong dialog dengan GAM yang dimediasi pihak internasional, sementara ULMWP diberikan stigma KKB yang diperhadapkan dengan pendekatan militer. Oleh karena itu, kami menuntut Pemerintah Indonesia berdialog dengan ULMWP yang dimediasi pihak ketiga yang netral." 

7. Dewan Gereja Papua (WPCC) dalam Surat Gembala pada tanggal 13 September 2019, sebagai berikut: 

"Mendesak Pemerintah Indonesia segera membuka diri berunding dengan ULMWP sebagaimana Pemerintah Indonesia telah menjadikan GAM di ACEH sebagai Mitra Perundingan yang dimediasi pihak ketiga; sebagai satu-satunya solusi terbaik untuk menghadirkan perdamaian yang permanen di Tanah Papua, sesuai dengan Seruan Surat Gembala yang pada tanggal 26 Agustus yang telah dibacakan dan diserahkan langsung kepada Panglima TNI dan KAPOLRI di Swiss-Bell Hotel Jayapura. 

KOMNAS HAM RI harus mendukung Perundingan antara Pemerintah Republik Indonesia dengan ULMWP yang dimediasi pihak ketiga yang netral seperti GAM Aceh-RI di Helsinki pada 15 Agustus 2005. 

Posisi Dewan Gereja Papua (WPCC) jelas, maka atas dasar arahan dan petunjuk Moderator Dewan Gereja Papua, Pdt. DR. Benny Giay, maka Dewan Gereja Papua tidak akan ada pertemuan dengan KOMNAS GAM RI. 

Terima kasih 

Jayapura, 1 April 2022 

Gembala DR. Socratez Yoman 

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1. Presiden Persekutuan Gereja-gereja Baptis West Papua. 

2. Anggota: Dewan Gereja Papua (WPCC).

3. Anggota: Konferensi Gereja-Gereja⁰ Pasifik (PCC).

3. Anggota Baptist World Alliance (BWA).

The West Papuan Council of Churches have released a statement today

The West Papuan Council of Churches have released a statement today demanding that the Indonesian government listen to the voices of the West Papuan people and stop plans for expansion of provinces in Papua which they believe will only lead to further marginalisation of Indigenous Papuans and more conflict. They also condemned the recent response of the Indonesian government to the letter from UN Special Rapporteurs who expressed their concern on the urgent humanitarian situation in West Papua. Their statement expressed condolences for victims of violence of the Security forces and from the TPNPB and recommended that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights should visit West Papua as soon as possible.

On the issue of dialogue currently proposed by the National Human Rights Commission between the government and the TPN-PB the WPCC recommended that before any steps are taken towards Dialogue the Government needs to ensure that: 1. All military are withdrawn from Papua; 2. Over 60,000 people who have been displaced due to conflict can return to their homes; 3. A stop to all legal process against Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti and the criminalization of other human rights activists in Indonesia who are fighting for human rights in Papua; 4. Any dialogue should have the support of Papuan civil society.

Finally the WPCC propose that the government of Indonesia should start steps towards holding dialogue with the ULMWP.

Any talks with Jakarta must feature referendum - Papuan group

Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific Journalist

johnny.blades@rnz.co.nz

Victor Yeimo of the West Papua National Committee 

Photo: Info West Papua

President Joko Widodo and his chief of staff have both told Indonesian media in recent days that they were prepared to meet anyone to discuss problems in Papua.The West Papuan pro-independence movement is insisting that genuine talks with Indonesia's government must address self-determination.

The president, known as Jokowi, was responding to a question from the press about whether he would hold a dialogue with pro-independence Papuan leaders.

Jokowi has appealed for calm in West Papua which has been gripped by weeks of large protests, a security forces crackdown and violent unrest that have left dozens of people dead.

While Indonesia has deployed over six thousand extra military and police to Papua, tensions in the region, as well as pro-independence sentiment, remain high.

It has added to pressure on a government also struggling to contain public discontent in Jakarta over several new laws which critics say undermine democracy.

In the interests of forging a way forward in Papua, the president's office was urged by representatives of the Papua and West Papua regional legislatures to have talks with the leading pro-independence groups, the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) and the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).

The KNPB's international spokesman, Victor Yeimo, said they had been seeking meaningful talks with Jakarta for years without getting a response. He was cautious over the prospect, expecting Jokowi's usual emphasis on economic development in Papua to continue to be the focus.

After the widespread protests kicked off in late August, Jokowi invited a number of community and religious leaders from Papua to his palace. The meeting was billed as a way to discuss accelerating prosperity in Papua and West Papua provinces.

Mr Yeimo noted a discrepancy between the president's words and the actions of his government in employing a security approach to the peaceful expression of Papuan independence aspirations.

According to the KNPB, while Jakarta sees Papua as strictly an internal issue, in reality it's an international issue. Mr Yeimo said West Papuans seek intervention for a legitimate self-determination process under international law which they were denied in the 1960s when Indonesian took control of the former Dutch New Guinea.

"For us, we will not stop to demand the right of self-determination in West Papua," Mr Yeimo said.

"So, if Jokowi wants to dialogue, the main point for the dialogue is a referendum for the self-determination in West Papua, under the United Nations' supervision, mediated by a neutral or third party."

Mr Yeimo's comments echo those of the ULMWP's UK-based chairman Benny Wenda, who said at the United Nations last week that a deepening humanitarian crisis in his homeland underlined the urgent need for UN intervention.

While Jakarta has repeatedly stated that the incorporation of Papua into the republic is final, demonstrations by Papuans are becoming harder to ignore, even when the government resorts to cutting the internet in Papua as a response.

West Papuans protest against racism in
Wamena, August 2019. Photo: Supplied

Indonesian authorities have fingered the KNPB and the ULMWP as being provocateurs, alleging that the groups stirred the recent unrest in an attempt to disrupt the unitary republic by seeking independence.

Mr Yeimo denied this, saying the Papuan independence struggle belonged to neither group, but rather the people.

"The leaders, even KNPB and ULMWP, cannot determine the future of the people of West Papua. The only way is to give the people democratic space - hold a referendum so they can choose what they want for their future."

While Jokowi's response to the press question did not single out any particular group who he might meet for talks, mistrust between Jakarta and Papuan leaders remains the main stumbling block.

A senior government source told RNZ Pacific that the president's primary objective was to restore "full normalcy, stability and security" in Papua.