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WEST PAPUA, Wednesday March 12 2008: As West Papuan Youth and students prepare for another series of demonstrations across West Papua tomorrow, key leaders and human rights workers are being terrorised and intimidated by the Indonesian military and police, and threatened with arrest on charges of Subversion.

Information received from sources in Manokwari report that Indonesian government and security forces are increasing repression on West Papuan people ahead of continued peaceful assemblies to draw international attention to the human rights and dysfunctional political situation currently inside West Papua.

On 11 March 2008, 16:58:28 PM, five Indonesian intelligence agents arrived with black Taff Car to surveille a meeting of eighty Papuan students and youths. The five Indonesian spies are:

1. Yoris May, intelligence from Manokwari Regional Military Commando (INTEL KODIM Manokwari).
2. Mikael Marisan, specialist hunting and attacking from Manokwari Regional Police (BUSER Polisi Manokwari).
3. Pak Jefri, specialist hunting and attacking forces from Manokwari Regional Police (BUSER Polisi Manokwari).
4. Pak Sul, specialist hunting and attacking forces from Manokwari Regional Police (BUSER Polisi Manokwari).
5. Pak Arif, specialist hunting and attacking forces from Manokwari Regional Police (BUSER Polisi Manokwari).

The first target of the operation now is to hunt and attack Jack Wanggai, Coordinator of peaceful demonstrations in Manokwari and spokesperson of the West Papua National Authority in West Papua. Wanggai's family in Manokwari had received an official letter from Indonesian police for the arrest of Mr Wanggai.  Mr Wanggai and his family in Manokwari were intimidated and terrorised by 7 members of TNI and Police, when they came to Wanggai's house with automatic weapons, causing family to believe TNI wanted to shoot Wanggai if he was at home. However Jack was elsewhere organising large Papua wide protest on 13 March unaware of the intimidation of his family.

The Indonesian government and military are doing extra work to stop Jack Wanggai and other peaceful protesters in Manokwari through terror, intimidation and the threat of violence.  Previous arrests and interrogations of student leaders indicate that the TNI and POLRI are
escalating operations against civilians and the guaranteed right to peaceful political expression. These threats are currently ongoing and escalating.

Today Wednesday 12 March 2008 POLRI in Manokwari published the letter delivered to Wanggai’s family quoting the following:

1. Police justification under Law: SP.gl/147/III/2008/Reskrim base Dasar paragraph 7, Article (1) sub-paragraph G, sub-paragraph 11112 Articles (1) and  (2) and paragraph 113 KUHP (Indonesian Criminal Code). This is the Indonesian law that classifies the peaceful rally coordinated by Jack Wanggai as “Subversion, terrorism and related crimes”.
2. Indonesian government regulation No.2/2002 (UU No. 2/ 2002) About Indonesian National Police.
3. Indonesian Police report No. Pol:LP/13/III/2008/SPK.III, Dated 3 March 2008

These Interrogations have been conducted by the following personnel:
• First interrogator is Captain police Nyoman Sudama, NRP:78061319.
Captain Nyoman Sudama is a head of the Criminal intelligent Unit of National police of Manokwari Regency.
• Assistant interrogator is Sergeant POLRI Aris Patandung, NRP: 72110227
These charges, or even threat of these charges against Papuan exercising their rights to peaceful expression of aspirations guaranteed under Indonesian law, are a throwback to the days of the Suharto New Order (Orde Baru).  It is proof that the Indonesian government is nothing but a military dictatorship: New Order Chapter 2 (Orde Baru bagian Dua).
The same threats and intimidation as in Manokwari are also being endured by:
• Mr. Zakarias Horota, Head of National FNMPP and another democracy activist in Jayapura;
• Mr. Michael Mandobayan, Coordinator FNMPP and ather democrat actist in Sorong Regency;
• Mr. Wilson Uruwaya, Youth Chief of Papua National Council based in Serui, the Regency Capital of Yapen Waropen;
• and is also including other Papuan democracy activists in Serui.
The Indonesian personnel responsible for giving orders to BUSER ( BU = Buru-  hunting; and SER - attack. BUSER is part of the “anti terrorist” Detasmen 88). POLICE and BIN (Badan Inteljien Nasional) in both provinces in Papua is KAPOLDA (Head of Police Province Level) and PANGDAM (Supreme Commander Province Level). The distribution order operating by KAPOLRES (Head of Police Regency Level) and KODIM (Commando Military Regency Level).  Please contact the numbers in Manokwari below to ask respectfully why West Papuan leaders are being threatened with Suharto era charges.
• Police Papua province hp:967 531 014
• Indonesian Criminal Intelligence Unit Manokwari: + (62 986) 211363
• Indonesian TNI Commander of Manokwari regency/DANDIM phone Number: +62 (986) 211703
• Head of Police Manokwari Regency (KAPOLRES) phone No. +62 (986) 211359
• Deputy Police Manokwari Regency level (WAKAPOLRES) phone NO. +62 (986)
211826
• rmh dins kapolres tlp.0986 211355;
•  Waka (Deputi Commander) Polres.tlp.0986 211826.

Tomorrow, Thursday 13 March 2008, West Papuan people, more than 500 Papuan youth and students and the Executive president of West Papua National Authority will continue to hold simultaneous peaceful rallies calling for Referendum in Sorong, Manokwari, Serui, Nabire and Jayapura.

Melanesian people of Papua are calling to the international community to continue monitoring of the situation inside Papua, calling to Jakarta to allow international observers to go inside Papua as soon as possible, especially from the Australian, New Zealand and Pacific community. West Papuans are calling on the International community make immediate protests on the brutal and systemic repression of people’s legitimate right to peaceful expression by the Indonesian military, intelligence, police, and state sponsored jihadists and militias..

Rallies will continue until Indonesian and the international community hear and implementing referendum to the people of West Papua. West Papua needs a referendum on its future as a political solution to the ongoing genocide.


Ongoing information, please contact:


Dr Jacob Rumbiak
Australia, Mobile +61 (0)4313 88 976 or +61 (0)3 9510 2193   
Co-ordinator, Foreign Affairs, West Papua National Authority

SORONG:
Michael Mandobayan, West Papua National Youth Chief of Council/
Coordinator WPNA Sorong + (62) 85254517800
Topan Baho, Spokesperson of WPNA Sorong +62 85254559143

MANOKWARI
Jack Wanggai, Spokesperson of WPNA Manokwari,: +62 85244340479
Abner Aisoki, HP: +62 85282919155

SERUI
Wilson Uruway, Coordinator WPNA Yapen/Waropen , HP: +62 81240009398
Simon Dom (spokesperson) +62 85254934740

NABIRE
MS Yetty Yoweni, Coordinator Ground Action of WPNA Nabire, +62 81344463429

JAYAPURA
Terrianus Yoku, Head of National Congress, WPNA, HP: +62 85244357673
Markus Yenu, Coordinator Ground Action of WPNA, HP: +62 81344531793


MEDIA CONSIDERATIONS. The situation is being monitored closely, and update will be available from people on the ground.  Photographs will be provided as soon as we have them. Please visit www.manukoreri.net to accessphotographs.

This Alert and Media co-ordination has been prepared by Nick Chesterfield, Independent Human Security and Media Consultant to West Papua Movement.www.manukoreri.net +61(0)409 268 978 manukoreri@riseup.net GPG Key available on request.

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In December 2007, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed Army General Djoko Santoso as his new commander-in- chief. His appointment was part of significant organizational changes initiated by TNI headquarters since September 2007. These changes have major implications, RSIS writes.

By Leonard C Sebastian and Andi Widjajanto for RSIS (07/03/080

The appointment of Army Chief of Staff Djoko Santoso as TNI Commander-in-Chief has both political and military implications. The political implication is that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono intends to promote certain military officers to exert his influence over the military as he prepares his re-election strategy for the 2009 presidential election. The military implications indicate the start of a process of regeneration within the military as well as the need to keep up the momentum of military reform.

The new top brass

The promotion of Lieutenant General Erwin Sujono as the new chief of general staff (Kasum TNI), Lieutenant General Cornel Simbolon as the new deputy army chief of staff, Major General Suryo Prabowo as the Jakarta regional military commander, Major General Suroyo Gino as the West Java regional military commander, and Brigadier General Pramono Edhi Wibowo as the chief of staff of Central Java regional military command is seen as part of Dr Yudhoyono's maneuver to strengthen his personal influence within the military. All these generals are known to have close personal relationships with him. Erwin Sujono, Suryo Prabowo, and Edhi Wibowo are part of Dr Yudhoyono’s extended family; Cornel Simbolon was his classmate in the military academy; and Suroyo Gino in 2006-2007 commanded the presidential guard, solely responsible for the president’s security arrangements.

The reorganization of the army as part of Dr Yudhoyono’s strategy to win the 2009 national elections started in September 2007 with the promotion of Lt-Gen Simbolon (as deputy army chief of staff), Lieutenant General George Toisutta (Commander of the Army Strategic Command), Brigadier General Soenarko (Commander of Army Special Forces), and promotion of several officers to become army regional commanders such as Suryo Prabowo (Jakarta), Suroyo Gino (West Java), Pramono Edhi Wibowo (Central Java), Bambang Suranto (East Java), Djoko S. Utomo (Sulawesi), and Haryadi Soetanto (Papua).

This process culminated in January 2008 when Dr Yudhoyono, surprisingly, appointed his close aide Lieutenant General Agustadi Sasongko Purnomo to become the new army chief of staff. Under normal circumstances, such a strategic position would be given to a three-star general who had previously served as commander of the Army Strategic Command, better known as Kostrad, or as deputy army chief staff. By appointing Agustadi Sasongko Purnomo - secretary of the Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs - to become his new army chief of staff, the President continues to extend his personal influence within the Army.

TNI's strategic transformation

Besides the political ramifications, changes to the military hierarchy from September 2007 to January 2008 should be seen as part of the TNI's strategic transformation aimed at designing a professional armed forces configured for dealing with 21st century contingencies.

The promotion of General Djoko Santoso as the new commander-in-chief is part of a regeneration process particularly necessary due the passing of Law of TNI 2004 extending an officer’s retirement age from 55 to 58 years old. Without the law, former commander-in-chief Air Marshall Djoko Suyanto would have retired in December 2005. Similarly, former Air Force and Navy Chief of Staff Air Marshall Herman Prayitno and Admiral Slamet Subijanto would have retired in January and June 2006.

The extension of the retirement age has created a backlog in promotions affecting a significant number of high ranking military officers, especially officers those who graduated from the military academy from 1973 to 1978. From 2004 to 2009, there will be approximately 120-150 army generals from 1973-1978 classes and another 50-70 generals from 1979-1981 classes. These 170-220 army generals will have to compete with each other to fill approximately 130 positions in the Army.

The available positions for army generals has reduced significantly into only 44 strategic positions in the army regional commands, army special forces, and army strategic command, and another 80-90 positions in army headquarters. This reduction is due to cutbacks of the number of army regional commands in the late 1980s and as a consequence of the elimination of its dual-function role.

Military academy's role

As part of the regeneration process, a high-ranking officer from the military academy's graduating classes from 1977-1979 will be promoted as the next commander-in-chief just before the 2009 national elections. In order to do so, at some point from December 2008 to June 2009, Dr Yudhoyono will have to replace the current chiefs of staff. The appointment of General Djoko Santoso from the class of 1975 as the commander-in-chief is a first step in this transition. In fact, General Santoso is younger in age compared to the current army, navy, and air force chiefs of staff and all the current three star officers (with the exception of Commander of the Army Strategic Command, Lieutenant General Toisutta).

General Santoso is conservative and represents continuity. He supports the principle of political neutrality of the military; he guarantees that serving army personnel would not get involved in local and national elections; he accepts the separation of military justice system from the criminal justice system in principle; he has stated the need for a reserve force; and he favors the elimination of military businesses.

In 2006, General Santoso created a new Total Defence College in Bandung to initiate a series of discussions on doctrinal reforms. He wants an open debate on the basic concepts of Indonesia's defense doctrine. Foremost in these discussions is whether Indonesia should maintain its People's War doctrine or have it modified to become a new doctrine of total war or total defense.

Another issue for discussion is whether a doctrine of asymmetric warfare relying on military capacity to maintain a war of attrition against a much stronger adversary would become a more appropriate strategy for Indonesia.

Leonard C Sebastian is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), and Andi Widjajanto is a PhD candidate at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University. Reprinted with permission from RSIS. Copyright (c) 2007 S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Blk S4, Level B4, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798.

Nethy Dharma Somba, The Jakarta Post, Jayapura
 
18 February 2008
 
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Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Saturday asked Papua to use local wisdom to accelerate development and achieve the true potential of the resource-rich province.
 
Addressing high-ranking Papuan officials during a work meeting here to evaluate development programs in the province, Kalla said governors, regents and mayors in Papua needed to be more creative in crafting policies and carrying out development programs to achieve significant advances in all sectors.
 
"When constructing a building in a remote area, for instance, a regional administration should call on local wisdom and use wood which is affordable and easy to get, instead of stones and cement which could cost some Rp 1 million per pack because of the costly transportation fees," he said.
 
The Vice President said this fiscal year, Papua province would receive Rp 21 trillion (US$2.2 billion) in development funds and West Papua Rp 7 trillion. He said these were significant amounts, especially considering the total population was only about 2.8 million.
 
"If these huge amounts of funds were distributed equally to the population, everyone would receive Rp 11 million. The funds will have significance for the people if the development programs change their lives. Therefore, the government must be efficient and the funds should not wholly be absorbed for bureaucracy expenditures," he said.
 
Under the 2001 special autonomy law for Papua, the province received about Rp 3 trillion in 2002, Rp 5 trillion in 2005 and Rp 6 trillion in 2006 from the government as its share of revenue from the exploitation of natural resources in the province. This includes the copper and gold mined by PT Freeport McMoran Indonesia in Timika.
 
Jakarta has been criticized for its handling of Papua, with the latest outcry coming after the government introduced a bill that would split Papua into four new provinces and allow the central government to send more security personnel into the country's easternmost province.
 
Most Papuans oppose the bill, and have called on Jakarta to settle unresolved human rights abuses in the region and fight corruption in the
provincial bureaucracy.
 
Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu said in a report at Saturday's meeting that 80 percent of Papuans were officially defined as living in absolute poverty.
 
According to unofficial data from local NGOs and churches, some 60 percent  of Papuans are illiterate. Papua has also seen the fastest spread of HIV/AIDS in the country.
 
"They are poor and cannot survive despite their natural wealth. This condition has been worsened by the corrupt governance and poor infrastructure and the low quality of human resources," Suebu said.  The three-day work meeting will last until Monday. It is being held so officials can discuss the problems facing Papua and how to improve the welfare of Papuans.
 
The meeting is also expected to seek a legal solution and basis for the controversial formation of West Papua province following the annulment bythe Constitutional Court of Law No. 45/1999 on the province's formation. 

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