Penulis dan Pengacara HAM Kirim Surat Terbuka kepada PM Australia tentang Pelanggaran di Papua Barat

Of course, you can continue to be advised by DFAT’s morally and ethically bankrupt Indonesia desk, or you can straighten your spine and cross the Rubicon with the following meaningful measures:

• Call upon the United Nations to rectify the many breaches of the UN Charter in regard to West Papua’s decolonisation process. This includes tabling whatever is required at the United Nations General Assembly to implement this process. There are several distinguished West Papuans and other distinguished academics who can advise you on this.
• Reject out-of-hand any Indonesian claim to the western half of the island of New Guinea.
• Declare Indonesia’s military occupation and annexation of West Papua unlawful.
• Recognise West Papua’s nation-state sovereignty as declared by declaration of independence on 1st July, 1971, at the Victoria Headquarters in Jayapura where the OPM raised the Morning Star flag and unilaterally proclaimed West Papua as an independent democratic republic.
• Suspend all bilateral defence and trade agreements with Indonesia until Indonesia has left West Papua and has coughed up a financial compensation package for the victims of its six decades of crimes against humanity and its unlawful military occupation and annexation of West Papua, and for the destruction and devastation of West Papua’s once pristine environment, and for the theft of the mineral and forestry and agricultural resources. (NOTE: A similar financial compensation package should be forthcoming from the Australian Government, and every armaments exporter to Indonesia, and every multinational corporation that put plunder before principle.)
  Send a letter to your Indonesian counterpart stating that unless all the above measures are accepted by Indonesia, you will expel the Indonesian ambassador and close all Indonesian embassies and consulates within the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Initiate a Royal Commission to investigate the roles of consecutive Australian governments as accessories to Indonesia’s unlawful military occupation and annexation of West Papua and as accessories to Indonesia’s six decades of crimes against humanity in West Papua.
  Initiate a Royal Commission to investigate measures to complete the constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia i.e., by providing chapters on governance of transparency and accountability and judicial measures where the expectations of honesty and integrity are befouled with deliberate acts of geopolitical convenience and economic exploitation while a slaughterhouse of decades of crimes against humanity in both West Papua and East Timor were international public knowledge. (I am happy to act in an advisory capacity for these “missing chapters” to the constitution.) (NOTE: The federal government workplace should have the same workplace standards of employment that exists across every other workplace in our so-called democracy. It should be remembered that you are employed by the Australian people and that the Australian people, as your employers, want transparency and accountability in governance.
  Clean sweep all positions within DFAT that have contributed to the legally challengeable advice of protecting Indonesia’s criminal military occupation and annexation of West Papua.
• Establish parliamentary governance based on constitutional accountability i.e., a constitution that will never allow the protection of crimes against humanity for geopolitical convenience and economic exploitation.
• Prime Minister, I am sure I have missed some of the prerequisite mechanics for democratic and ethical governance, and for all matters on West Papua. Please don’t kid yourself that you can sidestep your political party’s perpetual failure on West Papua.

Innocent civilians, including children, are victims of Indonesia’s air and ground combat operations, systemic racism and apartheid, every week. Six decades of infanticide!

West Papua’s war of liberation is one of the longest ongoing wars of liberation since the end of the Second World War, a war where the Papuan people were our reliable and courageous allies. It is also, without any exaggeration, a miscarriage of justice unlike any other. High time to set things right and to be on the side of truth and justice.

Yours sincerely,
Jim Aubrey

Jim Aubrey is the editor-author of Free East Timor: Australia’s Culpability in East Timor’s Genocide (Random House, 1998). He campaigned in person on East Timor, West Papua, and Tibet in Washington, DC, in 1998 and 2003, as well as touring with an international photographic exhibition displaying the atrocities in East Timor in 1998. This exhibition was endorsed by the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.

(davidrobie.nz)

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