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Secret Indonesia Report on Papua Rebel 'Threat'
August 14, 2011

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dadeu
12:11pm Aug 15, 2011

@Roland, we all knows who are the western mob in Irian. Dont you ?? This western mob intoxicating Papuan People that they are not treated well but at the same time robing Irian wealth and will rob them again once this Island separated from Indonesia. For Example Freeport and all the mining coy which operated in Irian. on Prosperity, indeed you can blame the government both in Jakarta and in irian itself.But they are no second calss citizen unlike the fourth class citizen of Aborigin and Indian...Double Standard of the western country is always blaming other but never been themself..

Devinitely
8:25pm Aug 14, 2011

The government and the other prosperous fellow Indonesians are treating Papuans like second class citizens. But the ones who stole their assets (like Freeport) are mostly the foreigners and some rich men from Jakarta.

The real marginalized Papuans never had any chance and most of them are against destroying their home.

But I disagree to support any kind of separatist activities in Papua and want the Indonesian's government start to build Papua.

Darwinista
8:18pm Aug 14, 2011

Australians did not do a good job in PNG either, the were lenient about alcohol which caused that papuans there got big problems with alcohol. At one stage PNG got the qualification of failed state. Indonesia equally had big difficulties. Transmigration schemes were introduced, a papua council was set up, to no avail. My suggestion always has been to step up efforts in education and health care and start building roads.

Roland
5:26pm Aug 14, 2011

@dadeu - "western mob"? I don't really think that Papua is overcrowded with Westerners, poisoning the mindset of Papuans into the (of course utterly nonsensical belief)that they are not treated well.

I wonder just then, why are they not as prosperous as their "fellow Indonesians" in Java and Sumatra, or why the development is so very backwards compared to these two other islands, while they are one of the richest islands in Indonesia in regards of natural resources. Might it just be that their "fellow Indonesians" are taking much more than they are giving back?


Darwinista
1:02pm Aug 14, 2011

The problem is really that the rest of Indoneisa didnot make very succesful attempts to develop this province. Indonesian teachers do not want to work in schools and health centres in the interior, so all the papuans remain primitive

Sydney. A confidential report on Papuan separatists prepared by Indonesia's elite Kopassus military unit claimed armed groups stood ready for guerrilla war but had proof of just one weapon for every 10 men.  

The report "Anatomy of Papuan Separatists" was published by Australia's Fairfax newspapers on Saturday, and claimed the people of the resource-rich eastern province were "easily influenced by separatist ideas."  

"Irrational demands for customary rights to land and limited transportation infrastructure [have] hampered economic growth," the report said.  

"Obedience and loyalty of Papuans toward their customary/religious leaders is very high, to the point that it has primacy over law and creates opportunities for horizontal conflict."  

Based on extensive surveillance operations in the special autonomous region, home to some 2.7 million people, the report contains dossiers on key figures in the Papuan independence movement, and lists its international sympathizers.  

US democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, British Labor member of parliament Andrew Smith and ex-Papua New Guinea leader Michael Somare are among the large group of alleged "Free Papua" allies.  

The list includes politicians, academics, journalists, aid workers and religious leaders.  

Kopassus, an elite special unit accused of widespread abuse mostly under the rule of the late Indonesian dictator Suharto, said there were armed agitators "experienced and able to conduct a guerrilla war/survive in the forest, spread throughout almost every regency in Papua."  

But they numbered just 1,129 and had 131 weapons and four grenades between them, the report said.  

The Kopassus report maps the main resistance groups, their past actions and their alleged ringleaders, and is among hundreds of intelligence briefs obtained by Fairfax showing significant surveillance of the restive region on the western half of the island of New Guinea.  

About 10,000 Papuans protested for independence from Indonesia earlier this month in the provincial capital Jayapura, calling for a referendum before a heavily armed police presence.  

Indigenous Melanesian rebels often armed with little more than bows and arrows are fighting a low-intensity insurgency against Indonesian rule to end what they say is the oppression and exploitation of the Papuan people.  

The Indonesian military has long been accused of serious human rights abuses against Papuan civilians, as well as massive corruption in the form of protection rackets for mining operations and illegal logging.

Agence France-Presse