House Hearing on West Papua - Wednesday, September 22, 2010

On Wednesday, September 22, at 3 p.m. (room 2172, Rayburn House Office Bldg), the Asia, the Pacific and the Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing on West Papua. Come support those testifying. A number of Papuans are coming to DC for the hearing and, in addition to the hearing, will be going to meeting on Capitol Hill. If you can help with these meetings. please let us know.

SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING NOTICE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515-0128

SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA, THE PACIFIC AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (D-AS), Chairman

You are respectfully requested to attend an OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building (and available live, via the WEBCAST link on the Committee website at http://www.hcfa.house.gov):

DATE:  Wednesday, September 22, 2010

TIME: 3:00 p.m.

SUBJECT: Crimes Against Humanity: When Will Indonesia's Military Be Held Accountable for  Deliberate and Systematic Abuses in West Papua

WITNESSES:

Panel I

Mr. Joseph Y. Yun

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary

Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

U.S. Department of State

Mr. Robert Scher

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia

Asian and Pacific Security Affairs

U.S. Department of Defense

Panel II

Pieter Drooglever, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Institute of Netherlands History

Mr. Octovianus Mote

Founder, West Papua Action Network

President, Papua Resource Center

Mr. Henkie Rumbewas

International Advocate

Australia West Papua Association (AWPA)

Mr. Nicholas Simeone Messet

West Papua

Mr. Salamon Maurits Yumame

Head of FORDEM (The Democratic Forum)

S. Eben Kirksey, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

The Graduate Center

The City University of New York

Sophie Richardson, Ph.D.

Asia Advocacy Director

Human Rights Watch

NOTE: Witnesses may be added

Kampanye Nonkekerasan

War Resisters International's Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns is now available online in Indonesian. Download it as a PDF or read it online chapter by chapter.

DAFTAR ISI

- Pengenalan

• Kata Pengantar Direktur WMC
• Kata Pengantar -Demokrasi, Civil Society Dan Nonkekerasan
• Tentang Buku Panduan Ini Dan Cara Menggunakannya
• Apa Nonkekerasan itu dan Mengapa Menggunakan Istilah Tersebut?
• Bagaimana Aksi Nonkekerasan Bekerja?
• Pelatihan Aksi Nonkekerasan
• Anda dan Kelompok Anda
• Sejarah Penggunaan Aksi Nonkekerasan
• Studi Kasus: Pelatihan Aksi Nonkekerasan Selama Gerakan-gerakan Hak Sipil di Amerika
• Studi Kasus: Otpor: Kekuasaan Masyarakat di Serbia

- Jender Dan Nonkekerasan

• Apakah jender itu
• Sebuah Contoh yang Mengaitkan Perdamaian dan Isu Jender: New Profile (Profil Baru) di Israel

 - Tugas Dan Alat Untuk Mengatur Dan Memfasilitasi Pelatihan

• Bekerja Bersama
• Check list untuk Mengatur Sebuah Pelatihan
• Check list untuk Memfasilitasi Pelatihan

 - Kampanye/Aksi Nonkekerasan

• Apa yang Membuat Sebuah Kampanye itu "Nonkekerasan"
• Merencanakan Aksi Nonkekerasan
• Program konstruktif
• Rencana Aksi Gerakan Bill Moyer/ Bill Moyer's Movement Action Plan (MAP)
• Bentuk-bentuk Aksi Nonkekerasan
• Langkah-langkah Eskalasi dalam Sebuah Kampanye Nonkekerasan
• Peran Media
• Pentunjuk Studi Kasus Kampanye

 - Mengorganisir Aksi-Aksi Nonkekerasan Yang Efektif

• Menyampaikan Pesan Protes-Membuat Sebuah Aksi Yang Efektif
• Menangani Stres dan Beratnya Mengambil Posisi
• Humor dan Aksi Nonkekerasan
• Bekerja dalam Kelompok
• Check list Untuk Merencanakan Aksi
• Peran Selama, Sebelum dan Setelah Aksi
• Dukungan Hukum
• Dukungan Penjara: Pengalaman MOC Spanyol
• Evaluasi Aksi

- Cerita Dan Strategi

• Pengenalan
• Kampanye Solidaritas Internasional di Afrika Selatan
• Seabrook Wyhl Marckolsheim: Link Jaringan Kampanye Transnasional
• Barisan Antimiliter Internasional
• Chili: Pandangan Gandhi Membuat Orang Berani Menentang Diktator Chili
• Israel: New Profile (Profil Baru) Belajar dari Pengalaman Orang Lain
• Turki: Membangun Budaya Nonkekerasan
• Aplikasi Teater Kaum Tertindas Augusto Boal
• Tantangan dan Kesuksesan Kerja Aksi Nonkekerasan di Korea Selatan
• Komunitas Perdamaian San Jose de Apartado, Kolumbia: Pelajaran tentang Perlawanan, Kehormatan, dan Keberanian
• Bombspotting: Menuju Sebuah Kampanye Masyarakat Eropa

- Latihan-latihan Untuk Aksi Nonkekerasan

• Garis Konflik
• Curah Pendapat
• Angkat Bicara
• Dialog Jender bagi Para Pembangun Damai
• Why do what teacher says? (new)
• Who Has Power in a School? (new)
• Strategi 10/10
• Pohon
• Pilar-pilar Kekusaan
• Specktrum Sekutu
• Konsekuensi-konsekuensi Ketakutan
• Permainan Kapercayaan Pohon dan Angin
• Membuat Keputusan
• Spektrum Silang
• Permainan Peran
• Teater Forum
• Alat-alat Penghentian, Perlindugan dan Blokade
• Spektrum atau barometer

 - Kerjakan Sendri: Membuat Buku Panduan

- Pengertian Istilah-Istilah Penting

- Sumber-Sumber Pustaka

- A.J. Muste Memorial Institute International Nonviolence Training Fund

- Link ke WRI jaringan

West Papua Report - September 2010

West Papua Report - September 2010

This is the 77th in a series of monthly reports that focus on developments affecting Papuans. This series is produced by the non-profit West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) drawing on media accounts, other NGO assessments, and analysis and reporting from sources within West Papua. This report is co-published with the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) Back issues are posted online at http://etan.org/issues/wpapua/default.htm Questions regarding this report can be addressed to Edmund McWilliams at edmcw@msn.com.

Summary: 

More than a score of international non-governmental organizations called on President Yudhoyono to release Papuan Political Prisoners in commemoration of Indonesia's August 17 Independence Day. Although the President did release and reduce sentences for convicted terrorists and common criminals on the national day, he did not respond to the appeal regarding political prisoners. The Indonesian Government has banned activities by Cordaid, a Dutch humanitarian organization that has aided poor Papuans for over three decades. The action is reminiscent of the Indonesian Government's banning of International Committee of The Red Cross in West Papua in 2009. The Indonesian Commission on Human Rights and Papuan churches have urged the Indonesian government to reconsider  its security approach in the Puncak Jaya region and address the growing violence there, including attacks on churches. The Indonesian government is under growing pressure to investigate the mysterious murder of a journalist in Merauke. Local police claim he committed suicide. The murdered journalist had built a reputation on investigation of illegal military businesses. The murder comes at a time of growing tension in the area as corporate interests seek to develop a massive food plantation. A video circulating widely on YouTube reveals the final moments of a Papuan bayoneted while in custody as he is taunted by the police.

Read the complete issue here

Groups call on SBY to release Papua political prisoners

An international collection of groups have written to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urging the release of Papuan political prisoners and amending the laws under which they and others are imprisoned. 

Among the groups signing are ETAN, Human Rights Watch, West Papua Advocacy Team, Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal, Tapol, and Foundation Pro Papua. The complete list is here.

The key demands of the letter are  

 * releasing all Papuan political prisoners, including those already convicted and those waiting trial;

* securing the deletion of Articles 106 and 110 of the Criminal Code;

* ordering an immediate investigation into conditions in the prisons where the prisoners are being held and ensure the punishment of all prison personnel held responsible for maltreatment.




 

US-Jakarta ties 'threat to Papua,' threat to rights

"No military aid without justice!!!" says the banner at a protest opposing renewed assistance to Kopassus at the U.S. Embassy. Mugiyanto, who was kidnapped in 1998, tells Al Jazeera that by training Kopassus the "U.S. is legitimizing impunity in Indonesia, that the U.S. is accepting the fact that impuniy prevails, that the perpetrators of human rights violations are not yet held accountable..."


Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma tells Al Jazeera, that renewing military co-operation between the US and Indonesia will only leave the Indonesian military "better equipped to commit their murders."