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Papuan Human Rights

West Papua: No progress in human rights in Papua
By WP List News
Sep 2, 2008, 18:40

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A two-day workshop in Jayapura at the end of August which was attended by victims of abuses and relatives of victims said in a statement that there had been no significant improvement in the human rights situation, which remained unchanged despite enactment of Law 39/1999 on Human
Rights, Law 26/2000 in Human Rights Courts, Law 13/2006 on Protection for Witnesses and Victims and Law 21/2001 on special Autonomy for the Province of Papua.

The workshop was attended by among others Yonas Masoka, the father of Aritoteles, the chauffeur of Theys Eluay - murdered in November 2001 - who disappeared after he was seen entering the local unit of Kopassus, apparently to inform them of what had happened to Theys, Penias Lokbere,
a victim of the Abepura 2000 incident, and Gayus Yomaki, the father of Herman Yomaki, who disappeared in Bonggo in 2000.

All these cases had not been followed up by legal proceedings, as well as such cases as the Mapunduma 1998 case, the Bloody Biak incident in 1998, the 2001 Wasior case and the 2003 Wamena case.

The workshop came to the conclusion that the central government was not interested or was not capable of resolving these cases, nor had it ratified the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court. It called
on the government to set up an inquiry - KPP-HAM - into these disappearances.It also said the local government, DPRP should draw up local regulations - perdasus and perdasi - to restore people's rights in relation to gross human rights perpetrated in West Papua.

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