JUBI on deplorable human rights situation in West Papua

JUBI on deplorable human rights situation in West Papua

JUBI, 8 February 2011

The National Human Rights Commission [Komnas HAM] in Papua has called on the Indonesian government to take responsibility for a number of human rights violations that have occurred in West Papua.

'It is for the government to resolve these problems,' said Matius Murib,' who insisted that the government must take responsibility for this situation. He said that if the government fails to do anything, the number of violations will continue to increase. 'There is no other way out of the problem,' he said. It was, he said a matter for the central and also the provincial governments.

He said he has the impression that the state has simply washed its hands of the issue. Nothing is being done about it. The evidence is, he said, that the provincial government has issued no special regulation to strengthen the hands of the local Komnas HAM. There was a need for a regulation that would strengthen the legal position of Komnas HAM.

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JUBI 8 February 2011

KontraS, the Commission for the Disappeared and the Victims of Violence, has raised the issue of the formation of a Commission on Truth and Reconciliation and a Human Rights Court in Papua.

Speaking on behalf of the Commission, Harry Maturbongs said that these two bodies should be set up in accordance with the Special Autonomy Law for Papua, 21/2001.

He also said that people were still waiting for the solution to a number of past serious human rights violations, such as the Wasior case and the case of the assault on an ammunitions dump several years ago.

[Apologies for the brevity of these translations, but the printouts are almost illegible.]

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