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5 West Papuans shot dead in Indonesian military rampage

Five West Papuan people were shot dead and 12 others injured when Indonesian troops and police fired into a crowd of civilians in the highlands region of Paniai on Monday.

Local sources quoted by newspaper Suara Papua say the crowd had gathered in Karel Gobay Square in Paniai to protest against a group of Indonesian soldiers, who they say had beaten a 12-year-old boy the previous night.

A group of boys aged 12 and 13 stopped a military vehicle on Sunday night to complain that it was being driven without headlights.

Newspaper editor Victor Mambor, from Tabloid Jubi, also quoting local sources, said the boys were living in a small house they had built by the side of the road — a common feature of Christmas celebrations across Papua.

After the boys had stopped them, the driver and passenger of the military vehicle returned to their base in the village of Madi, and then returned to where the boys were, bringing with them a group of fellow soldiers in trucks. The soldiers then beat at least one of the boys, the local sources said.
Mr Mambor said that, on Monday morning, a crowd gathered to protest, and attacked a military vehicle, at which point the police and military fired into the crowd, killing five.

http://www.kobogaunews.com/2014/12/foto-peluruh-panas-militer-indonesia.html
http://suarawiyaimana.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ketika-korban-dibariskan-di-lapangan.html

Report from the Age, in Australia.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/indonesian-military-and-police-fire-into-crowd-of-west-papuan-civilians-killing-5-20141208-122wf0.html

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West Papuans unite under a new umbrella group

Port Vila, Vanuatu

In a historic gathering of West Papuan leaders in Vanuatu, different factions of the independence movement have united to form a new body called the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).

This new organisation unites the three main organisations who have long struggled for independence in their own way. By coming together to present a united front, this allows us to re-submit a fresh application for membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) as well as countering Indonesian claims that the West Papuan groups are divided. The negotiations and kastom ceremonies attended by leaders of all the major groups and observed by the chiefs, churches and the government of Vanuatu demonstrates that now we West Papuans are united in one group and one struggle.
The key groups who have united include the Federal Republic of West Papua (NRFPB); National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL) and National Parliament of West Papua (NPWP). An external secretariat consisting of five elected members from the various groups will now co-ordinate the ULMWP activities. Octovianus Mote has been elected as General Secretary of the ULMWP while Benny Wenda is the spokesperson and the other three elected members are Rex Rumakiek, Leone Tangahma and Jacob Rumbiak.

General Secretary Mote said at the close of the unification meeting “I am honoured to be elected and very happy we are now all united. The ULMWP is now the only recognised co-ordinating body to lead the campaign for MSG membership and continue the campaign for independence from Indonesia.”

The ULMWP wishes to express its profound gratitude to the government of Vanuatu, the Malvatuamuri Council of Chiefs, the Vanuatu Christian Council of Churches and the Pacific Council of Churches who have facilitated the week-long meeting of delegates, who have come from inside West Papua and around the world, to unite after 52 years of struggle.
Papua Merdeka!

For more information please contact spokesman Benny Wenda on office@bennywenda.org

Video: Kekuatan Penuh Memblokade Jalan Oleh AMP Jawa Barat

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Video: Kekuatan Penuh Memblokade Jalan Oleh Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua (AMP) Se-Jawa Barat

Foto: Korlap, Abbi D, AMP Turun jalan karena sejarah. AMP memperingati proklamasi Kemerdekaan Papua Barat/Dok. AMP

Dari berita yang diturunkan, AMP KK Malang Raya mencoba untuk membagikan videonya, silahkan [ NONTON VIDEO: K L I K ].

Berita terkait [ F O T O ].

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Papua New Guinea takes a regional lead in supporting a free West Papua

News Alert, Opinion, West Papua Media, benny wenda, civil resistance, International Parliamentarians for West Papua, Kanaky, Melanesian solidarity, Melanesian Spearhead Group, New Caledonia, ol i wantok bilong yumi, Pacific solidarity, Papua New Guinea, Powes Parkop, Solomon Islands, Wantok Blong Yumi Bill

by Airileke Ingram and Jason MacLeod
Melanesian support for a free West Papua has always been high. Travel throughout Papua New Guinea you will often hear people say that West Papua and Papua New Guinea is ‘wanpela graun’ – one land – and that West Papuans on the other side of the border are family and kin. In the Solomon Islands, Kanaky, Fiji and especially Vanuatu, people will tell you that “Melanesia is not free until West Papua is free”. This was the promise that the late Father Walter Lini, Vanuatu’s first prime minister made.

Above: Papua New Guinea National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop with Independence leader, Benny Wenda at the concert for a free West Papua, Jack Pidik Park, Port Moresby 6 March 2013.

Ordinary people in this part of the Pacific are painfully aware that the West Papuan people continue to live under the gun. It is the politicians in Melanesia who have been slow to take up the cause.
But that may be changing.

Last Wednesday 6 March 2013, the Right Honorary Powes Parkop, Governor of National Capital District, Papua New Guinea nailed his colours firmly to the mast. In front of a crowd of 3000 people Governor Parkop insisted that “there is no historical, legal, religious, or moral justification for Indonesia’s occupation of West Papua”. Turning to welcome West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda, who was in Papua New Guinea as part of a global tour, the Governor told Wenda that while he was in Papua New Guinea “no one will arrest him, no one will stop him, and he can feel free to say what he wanted to say.” These are basic rights denied to West Papuans who continue to be arrested, tortured and killed simply because of the colour of their skin. Governor Parkop, who is a member of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua, which now has representatives in 56 countries, then went on to formerly launch the free West Papua campaign. He promised to open an office, fly the Morning Star flag from City Hall and pledged his support for a Melanesian tour of musicians for a free West Papua.

Governor Parkop is no longer a lone voice in Melanesia calling for change.
Last year Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill broke with tradition and publicly admonished the Indonesian Government’s response to ongoing state violence, human rights violations and failure of governance in West Papua. Moved by 4000 women from the Lutheran Church O’Neill said he will raise human rights concerns in the troubled territory with the Indonesian government. Now Governor Parkop wants to accompany the Prime Minister on his visits to Indonesia “to present his idea to Indonesia on how to solve West Papuan conflict once and for all.” Well known PNG commentator Emmanuel Narakobi remarked on his blog that Parkop’s multi-pronged proposal for how to mobilise public opinion in PNG around West Papua “is perhaps the first time I’ve heard an actual plan on how to tackle this issue (of West Papua)”. On talk back radio Governor Parkop accused Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr of not taking the issue of West Papua seriously, of “sweeping it under the carpet.”

In Vanuatu, opposition parties, the Malvatumari National Council of Chiefs and the Anglican bishop of Vanuatu, Rev. James Ligo are all urging the current Vanuatu government to change their position on West Papua. Rev. Ligo was at the recent Pacific Council of Churches in Honiara, Solomon Islands, which passed a resolution urging the World Council of Churches to pressure the United Nations to send a monitoring team to Indonesia’s Papua region. “We know that Vanuatu has taken a side-step on that (the west Papua issue) and we know that our government supported Indonesia’s observer status on the MSG, we know that. But again, we also believe that as churches we have the right to advocate and continue to remind our countries and our leaders to be concerned about our West Papuan brothers and sisters who are suffering every day.”

In Kanaky (New Caledonia) and the Solomon Islands West Papua solidarity groups have been set up. Some local parliamentarians have joined the ranks of International Parliamentarians for West Papua. In Fiji church leaders and NGO activists are quietly placing their support behind the cause even while Frank Bainimarama and Fiji’s military government open their arms to closer ties with the Indonesian military. This internationalisation of the West Papua issue is Indonesia’s worst nightmare; it follows the same trajectory as East Timor.

The West Papuans themselves are also organising, not just inside the country where moral outrage against ongoing Indonesian state violence continues to boil, but regionally as well. Prior to Benny Wenda’s visit to Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu based representatives from the West Papua National Coalition for Independence formerly applied for observer status at this year’s Melanesian Spearhead Group meeting due to be held in Noumea, New Caledonia in June, home to another long running Melanesian self-determination struggle. While in Vanuatu Benny Wenda added his support to that move, calling on Papuans from different resistance organisations to back a “shared agenda for freedom”. A decision about whether West Papua will be granted observer status at this year’ MSG meeting will be made soon.

In Australia Bob Carr may be trying to pour cold water on growing public support for a free West Papua but in Melanesia the tide is moving in the opposite direction.

the Solomon Islands, Kanaky, Fiji and especially Vanuatu, people will tell you that “Melanesia is not free until West Papua is free

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Papua New Guinea takes regional lead in supporting free West Papua campaign

The free West Papua concert in Port Moresby marking Benny Wenda’s global tour. Image: Masalai blog

Pacific Scoop:
Commentary – By Airi Ingram and Jason MacLeod in Port Moresby

Melanesian support for a free West Papua has always been high. Travel throughout Papua New Guinea and you will often hear people say that West Papua and Papua New Guinea is ‘wanpela graun’ – one land – and that West Papuans on the other side of the border are family and kin.
In the Solomon Islands, Kanaky, Fiji and especially Vanuatu, people will tell you that “Melanesia is not free until West Papua is free”. This was the promise that the late Father Walter Lini, Vanuatu’s first prime minister made.

Ordinary people in this part of the Pacific are painfully aware that the West Papuan people continue to live under the gun. It is the politicians in Melanesia who have been slow to take up the cause.
But that may be changing. Earlier this month, Powes Parkop, Governor of the Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District, nailed his colours firmly to the mast.

In front of a crowd of 3000 people, Governor Parkop insisted that “there is no historical, legal, religious, or moral justification for Indonesia’s occupation of West Papua”. Turning to welcome West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda, who was in Papua New Guinea as part of a global tour, the governor told Wenda that while he was in Papua New Guinea “no one will arrest you, no one will stop you, and you can feel free to say what you want to say”. These are basic rights denied to West Papuans who continue to be arrested, tortured and killed simply because of the colour of their skin.

Governor Parkop, who is a member of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua, which now has representatives in 56 countries, then went on to formerly launch the free West Papua campaign.
He promised to open an office, fly the Morning Star flag from City Hall and pledged his support for a Melanesian tour of musicians for a free West Papua.

National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop (left), long a staunch supporter of the West Papuan cause, and Benny Wenda. Image: Jason MacLeod

Governor Parkop is no longer a lone voice in Melanesia calling for change.
Last year, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill broke with tradition and publicly admonished the Indonesian government’s response to ongoing state violence, human rights violations and failure of governance in West Papua.

Moved by 4000 women from the Lutheran Church. O’Neill said he would raise human rights concerns in the troubled territory with the Indonesian government.
Now Governor Parkop wants to accompany the Prime Minister on his visits to Indonesia “to present his idea to Indonesia on how to solve West Papuan conflict once and for all.”
Well known PNG commentator Emmanuel Narakobi remarked on his blog that Parkop’s multi-pronged proposal for how to mobilise public opinion in PNG around West Papua “is perhaps the first time I’ve heard an actual plan on how to tackle this issue (of West Papua)”.

On talk back radio, Governor Parkop accused Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr of not taking the issue of West Papua seriously, of “sweeping it under the carpet.”
In Vanuatu, opposition parties, the Malvatumari National Council of Chiefs and the Anglican bishop of Vanuatu, Rev James Ligo are all urging the current Vanuatu government to change their position on West Papua.

Rev Ligo was at the recent Pacific Council of Churches in Honiara, Solomon Islands, which passed a resolution urging the World Council of Churches to pressure the United Nations to send a monitoring team to Indonesia’s Papua region.

“We know that Vanuatu has taken a side-step on that (the West Papua issue) and we know that our government supported Indonesia’s observer status on the MSG, we know that.
“But again, we also believe that as churches we have the right to advocate and continue to remind our countries and our leaders to be concerned about our West Papuan brothers and sisters who are suffering every day.”
In Kanaky (New Caledonia) and the Solomon Islands, West Papua solidarity groups have been set up. Some local parliamentarians have joined the ranks of International Parliamentarians for West Papua.
In Fiji, church leaders and NGO activists are quietly placing their support behind the cause even while Frank Bainimarama and Fiji’s military government open their arms to closer ties with the Indonesian military. This internationalisation of the West Papua issue is Indonesia’s worst nightmare; it follows the same trajectory as East Timor.

The West Papuans themselves are also organising, not just inside the country where moral outrage against ongoing Indonesian state violence continues to boil, but regionally as well.
Prior to Benny Wenda’s visit to Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu-based representatives from the West Papua National Coalition for Independence formerly applied for observer status at this year’s Melanesian Spearhead Group meeting due to be held in Noumea, New Caledonia in June, home to another long running Melanesian self-determination struggle.

While in Vanuatu Benny Wenda added his support to that move, calling on Papuans from different resistance organisations to back a “shared agenda for freedom”. A decision about whether West Papua will be granted observer status at this year’s MSG meeting will be made soon.

In Australia, Bob Carr may be trying to pour cold water on growing public support for a free West Papua but in Melanesia the tide is moving in the opposite direction.

Jason MacLeod teaches and researches at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Airi Ingram is a Papuan musician and activist.
Masalai blog on the free West Papua concert
Benny Wenda visits the Pacific Media Centre

Untuk Apa RI Ancam Putus Hubungan Diplomatik dengan Vanuatu ?

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Ngapain RI Ancam Putus Hubungan Diplomatik dengan Vanuatu ?

Hai....Indonenesia Kami Bangsa Melanesia (Negara Republik Vanuatu) sudah tidak butuh dan tidak mau pusing dengan Hubungan Diplomatik dengan Vanuatu dan Seluruh Negara-Neraga Melanesia. Tidak ada gunananya menjalin Hubungan Diplomatik dengan Indonesia sementara rakyat melanesia bagian barat (West Papua) sedang kamu tindas harga diri bangsa papua barat adalah bangsa kami juga, karena kami satu melanesia "one people one soul". Kami tidak akan diam saudara-saudara kami di West Papua maupun Maluku. 

Indonesia Stop mengajak Hubungan Diplomatik kepada negara-negara melanesia seperti Vanuatu, Fiji, PNG, Kaledonia Baru, Kepulauan Solomon, dan lainnya. Kami negara-negara se rumpun melanesia tolak segala macam tawaran apapun dan juga hubungan diplomasi dengan dengan indonesia. 

Lebih baik membela ras dan membantu gerakan west papua merdeka dan Maluku Selatan dari pada menjalin hubungan diplomatik dengan indonesia karena kami mau membela ras melanesia adalah bagian dari kami, KAPAN LAGI KALAU BUKAN SEKARANG ???

!!! FREEDOM FOR MALUKU, PAPUA AND KANAKY !!!

Peringati HUT Proklamasi Papua Barat, AMP Kota Bogor Turun Jalan

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 Peringati HUT Proklamasi Papua Barat, AMP Kota Bogor Turun Jalan

Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua Komite Kota Bogor demo perngat HUT Proklamasi Papua Barat (Foto: Dok AMP)

PAPUAN, Jayapura ---Puluhan pemuda dan mahasiswa yang tergabung dalam Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua (AMP) Komite Kota Bogor, Selasa (1/7/2014) siang tadi, melakukan aksi demonstrasi damai peringati hari lahirnya proklamasi kemerdekaan Papua Barat, 1 Julli 1971 silam.

"Kami menuntut Indonesia, Amerika, Belanda dan PBB untuk mengakui kedaulatan negara Papua Barat yang pernah merdeka pada tanggal 1 Desember 1961 di Holandia, dan diproklamasikan pada tanggal 1 Juli 1971  yang dikumandangkan oleh Brigjend Zeth Jafet Rumkorem di Desa Waris, Victoria Papua Barat,”

Koordinator aksi, Yosias Iyai menjelaskan, pukul 09.00 WIB massa berkumpul di depan pintu III Kebun Raya Bogor untuk long march menuju Tugu Kujang yang terletak di jantung Kota Bogor.

Dalam seruan aksi, kata Yosias, telah disepakati bentuk aksi berupa long march. Mengambil rute dan titik aksi akan keliling kebun raya Bogor dan tugu kujang, dengan tema aksi hak menentukan nasib sendiri solusi demokratis bagi Rakyat Papua Barat.

“Saya mewakili kawan-kawan seperjuangan AMP Komite Kota Bogor menegaskan segera berikan kebebasan dan hak menentukan nasip sendiri sebagai solusi bagi demokratis bagi masalah status politik Papua Barat.”

“Segera menutup dan menghentikan aktivitas eksploitasi dari semua perusahaan yang ada di tanah Papua, terutama PT. Freeport Indonesia dan segera menarik militer Indonesia dari bumi Papua,” tegas Yosias.

Adolphina Tekege, mewakili perempuan Papua menegaskan, “Kami perempuan Papua tidak merasa diri kami rendah, tetapi kami terlibat dalam perjuangan Bangsa Papua ini karena kami tahu bahwa demi tanah Papua kaum perempuan dibunuh, diperkosa dengan seenaknya.”

“Kita juga tahu bahwa setiap generasi anak Bangsa Papua yang lahir dari kandungan mama-mama Papua sudah mengetahui bahwa NKRI harus dilawan, dan perjuangan bangsa Papua harus diperjuangkan hingga titik darah penghabisan,” tegas mahasiswa salah satu perguruan tinggi di Bogor ini.

Ketua AMP Komite Kota Bogor, Samuel Nawipa menuturukan, bertepatan dengan HUT Proklamasi Kemerdekaan Papua Barat ke-43, AMP tetap pada posisi, bahwa NKRI adalah musuh abadi dan akan terus dilawan.

“Kami tetap akan melawan, menuntut NKRI, Amerika, Belanda dan PBB untuk segera mengembalikan kedaulatan bangsa Papua Barat yang telah dicapolok.”

“Kehadiran NKRI di tanah Papua adalah Ilegal. Manipulasi sejarah Bangsa Papua barat melalui Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat (PEPERA) tahun 1969 oleh Indonesia, Belanda, Amerika dan PBB adalah ilegal,” tegas Samuel.

Usai puas berorasi sekitar tiga jam, koordinator aksi kemudia membacakan pernyataan sikap. Aksi ditutup dengan doa oleh seorang  mahasiswa, kemudian massa membubarkan diri dengan tenang.

AMP Malang Raya Menyampaiakn Selamat HUT West Papua Ke 53. 1 Desember 1961-1 desember 2014

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AMP Malang Raya Menyampaiakn Selamat HUT West Papua Ke 53. 1 Desember 1961-1 desember 2014 

Berhasil melahirkan Manifesto Politik yang isinya:

1. Menetukan nama Negara        : Papua Barat
2. Menentukan lagu kebangsaan : Hai Tanahku Papua
3. Menentukan bendera Negara  : Bintang Kejora
4. Lambang Negara Papua Barat adalah: Burung Mambruk dengan semboyan “One People One Soul”.
5. Menentukan bahwa bendera Bintang Kejora akan dikibarkan pada 1 November 1961.

Rencana pengibaran bendera Bintang Kejora tanggal 1 November 1961 tidak jadi dilaksanakan karena belum mendapat persetujuan dari Pemerintah Belanda. Tetapi setelah persetujuan dari Komite Nasional, maka Bendera Bintang Kejora dikibarkan pada 1 Desember 1961 di Hollandia, sekaligus “Deklarasi Kemerdekaan Papua Barat”.

Bendera Bintang Kejora dikibarkan di samping bendera Belanda, dan lagu kebangsaan “Hai Tanahku Papua”dinyanyikan setelah lagu kebangsaan Belanda “Wilhelmus”. Deklarasi kemerdekaan Papua Barat ini disiarkan oleh Radio Belanda dan Australia.

Momen inilah yang menjadi Deklarasi Kemerdekaan Papua Barat secara de facto dan de jure sebagai sebuah negara yang merdeka dan berdaulat.

By : Natoh Pigai 

Editor : Wandikbonak

1 Desember 2014 bendera West Papua dikibarkan di Kanaky ( New Caledonia)

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1 Desember 2014 bendera West Papua dikibarkan di Kanaky ( New Caledonia)

Ketika kita mendekati Global pengibaran bendera dan Demonstrasi untuk Free West Papua pada 1 Desember, mengapa tidak mengatur pengumpulan lokal Anda sendiri, mengibarkan bendera Papua Barat dengan teman-teman Anda?

 

Harap beritahu kami jika Anda ingin kami untuk mempublikasikan setiap pengibaran bendera direncanakan sehingga kita dapat mendorong sebagaimana orang mungkin hadir!

 

Seperti ini orang di Kanaky / Kaledonia Baru, kelompok di seluruh dunia akan berkumpul bersama pada tanggal 1 Desember untuk menunjukkan dukungan mereka untuk Free West Papua di HUT ke-53 hari kemerdekaan Papua Barat dari Belanda (sebelum Papua Barat diserbu oleh Indonesia) .

Jika mungkin, jangan mengatur sendiri pertemuan Papua Merdeka Barat Anda pada hari ini dan mengirimkan foto-foto pengibaran bendera. Ingat, orang atau kelompok kita merasa telah mengambil foto terbaik akan menerima poster bebas dari Kampanye, tangan ditandatangani oleh pendiri Kampanye Benny Wenda.

 

Silakan ambil bagian dalam pengibaran bendera global yang bersejarah ini, mengangkat bukan hanya bendera tapi kesadaran penting dan ROH rakyat Papua Barat untuk KEBEBASAN dan KEADILAN

Free West Papua!

Terima kasih banyak

Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua (AMP) Jawa Timur Deklarasi Negara Papua Barat 1 Desember 1961 di depan Grahadi Surabaya

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1 of 2 photos

2 of 2 photos

Pengunjuk rasa dari Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua (AMP) menggelar peringatan Deklarasi Negara Papua Barat 1 Desember 1961 di depan Grahadi Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Senin (2/12). Mereka menuntut diberikannya kebebasan dan hak menentukan nasib sendiri sebagai solusi demokratis bagi rakyat Papua. Doc.AMP-GP3PB

SAMPAI KAPANPUN KAMI AKAN TERUS BERJUANG SAMPAI PAPUA MERDEKA !!!

1 December, AWPA Wrote an open letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Australia

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1 December, AWPA Wrote an open letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Australia

AWPA-News Australia

An open letter from the Australia West Papua Association to Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, asking her to call upon the Indonesian government to allow West Papuans to celebrate their national day on 1st December without any crackdown.

"Dear Foreign Minister,

I am writing to you concerning the issue of West Papua and the planned celebrations of West Papuan National Day or National flag day which is on the 1st December.

Fifty three years ago on the 1st of December in 1961, in the then Dutch colony of West New Guinea, the West Papuan flag, called the Morning Star was flown for the first time officially beside the Dutch Tricolor. The Dutch were finally about to give the West Papuan people their freedom. However it is one of the great tragedies that at their moment of freedom it was cruelly crushed and West Papua was basically handed over to Indonesia in 1963.

Every year the West Papuan people celebrate the 1st of December risking jail terms for raising their banned national flag. Filep Karma is serving a 15-year jail term because he was at a rally where the flag was raised on 1st December in 2004. Amnesty International recognizes him as a prisoner of conscience.

We are concerned that at the planned rallies to take place this year the security forces will again crackdown on peaceful demonstrators. The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) has called on the West Papuan people to celebrate their national day.

It was reported that the Police Chief has said that they will deal firmly with anybody raising the Morning Star flag and anybody doing so could be charged under the article on treason.

On Wednesday 19 November the security forces broke up peaceful rallies that had been called to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the KNPB. One demonstrator was shot in the leg and a total of 22 activists, 10 from Nabire and 12 from Dogiyai were arrested.

The Indonesian President Joko Widodo is reported to be keen to improve the situation in West Papua and will visit West Papua in December to spend Christmas with the Papuan people. The West Papuan people are hoping he will make significant policies in relation to West Papua including allowing the West Papuan flag to fly freely as it did under former President Abdurrahman Wahid. The importance of the 1st December can be seen by the fact that the Vanuatu Government has declared the 1st December this year as a National Holiday in Vanuatu in support of the West Papuan people.

We urge you to use your good offices with the Indonesian Government asking that the Indonesian Government allow all peaceful rallies to take place on the 1st December without interference by the security forces so as to avoid the bloodshed and arrests that occurred on the 19 November and at other peaceful throughout the past year.

We urge you to also ask the Indonesian President to release Filep Karma and all West Papuan political prisoners.

Yours sincerely

Joe Collins

AWPA (Sydney)"