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Terakhir: Dec 3rd, 2005 - 08:40:21
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 LNG BP Bintuni
15 November 2005. Meeting Participants: 1. Lord Hannay (Tangguh Independent Advisory Panel [TIAP]) 2. Revd Herman Saud (TIAP) 3. Gary Dirks (BP President for Asia Pacific) 4. David Clarkson (Project Director, Tangguh) 5. Emma Delaney (Vice President, Tangguh Social Integrated Program) 6. Tino Ardyanto (Manager, Government and External Affairs) 7. Allysius Renwarin (ELSHAM Director - West Papua) 8. Yosef Rumaseb (BP NGOs and Adat Institutions-Liaison Officer) 9. Revd Socratez Sofyan Yoman (President, Fellowship of the West Papua Baptist Churches). Revd Socratez Sofyan Yoman's STATEMENT (1) At this very important meeting with BP officers and TIAP, I showed them the pictures that showed the torture and the killing of Papuans. The pictures were from the report of the process of ethnic cleansing in West Papua by John Wing and Peter King from Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Sydney. I said to the BP Executive Managers that the ethnic cleansing in West Papua has been carried out systematically by the Indonesian Government through its military, police and all its legal systems since the time West Papua was forcefully integrated into Indonesia by a fully manipulated Act of Free Choice in 1969. BP came to be present in West Papua when the process of the ethnic cleansing is still continuing. So my questions are: a. Is the presence of BP in the middle of the West Papuans aimed at protecting, keeping and defending the human rights, human dignity and position of the West Papuans in order for them to survive in their own land and their own country? Can BP guarantee the future survival of the indigenous West Papuans? b. Is the presence of BP aimed at supporting the Indonesian Government and together with the government kill and annihilate the West Papuans from their ancestral land, seize their natural resources and destroy the future of the West Papuans and make their survival impossible? c. Is the presence of BP similar to the case of PT Freeport which exists in West Papua only to take its natural resources without caring for their fate and their future as the owners of the Land of Papua? (2) BP is present in West Papua at the time when all Papuans from Sorong to Merauke are struggling for their self-determination and for their independence on their own land. So my question is; Why is BP present in West Papua? a. Is BP present in West Papua to support the struggle of the West Papuan people for their self-determination and independence? OR b. Is BP present in West Papua to support Indonesia by stating that BP is supporting the territorial integrity of the NKRI (NEGARA KESATUAN REPUBLIK INDONESIA / THE UNITARY STATE OF INDONESIA) with the definite goal of obtaining the Papuans' natural resources? OR c. Is BP just saying that it is not involved in political affairs? Past experience and history has given evidence, however, that the United States supported the Indonesian occupation of West Papua because of American interests in Freeport. So now is the United Kingdom supporting Indonesia because BP is in the Land of Papua in Bintuni? (3) Actually, BP and the Government of Indonesia do not have any right to speak about the natural resources contained inside the Land of Papua. This is because the West Papuan people did not invite Indonesia and BP to come to West Papua to seize and steal the natural resources from our Land. BP should have talked about its presence directly with the Papuans, not with Indonesia because the Land of Papua belongs to the Papuan people. The agreement made between BP and the Government of Indonesia was a great mistake which simply repeated the same mistake that the Freeport company has committed in Tembagapura. (4) BP must tell the government of UK that all West Papuan people want to be independent on their own Land and in their own Nation. (5) On behalf of my People, I will never compromise with BP and will continuously oppose BP because the presence of BP has by itself brought misfortune for the Papuans. i.e. bringing in workers from outside Papua (migrants) and bringing in Indonesian military and police personnel to secure and guard the BP company and NOT to guard or secure the indigenous Papuans as the owners of their own Land. (6) I will always be with the people whom the Indonesian government with their armed force have oppressed and killed , branding them as separatists, subversives and OPM. (7) I will not and never want to accept millions or billions of rupiahs from BP because the self-respect and dignity of the Papuans cannot be measured by the value of money. (8) As a matter of fact, BP has already cooperated with a lying-nation and the killers of the Papuans. (9) As a matter of justice, BP should have a contract with the Papuans who own the land and not with Indonesians who are not the landowners. 10. Alloysius Renwarin (Director of ELSHAM (Human Rights Advocacy Institution) - West Papua) stated that (a) The Papuans have been struggling for self-determination and the Indonesian police and military have killed most of them. It is part of the Indonesian Government's systematic process of ethnic cleansing. (b) If BP wants to operate in this region, it should consider the impact to the regional environment that will be caused by the environmental destruction within a long-term period. 11. I [Revd Yoman] concluded my statement by saying "I am sorry for my tough statements". 12. Lord Hannay responded to my apology by saying "We came here to listen to you. We cannot respond to you today because we came to hear you speak". ------------------------------------------------------------ This was the statement I made in the meeting with BP. Reported by Socratez Sofyan Yoman 2 December 2005 *********************************************************** BP & Indonesia are lying to the West Papuan People and are oppressing them on their own Land and in their own Nation Statement by Rev. Socratez Sofyan Yoman, President of The Fellowship of West Papuan Baptist Churches, Jayapura, 2 December 2005 Before BP and Indonesia arrived in the Land of Papua, we Papuans made some presumptions and predictions that they would not care about our right to life and human dignity and would not respect us Papuans as the owners of the Land of Papua. We predicted that BP and Indonesia would not even care about the very survival of the Papuans on their Land and their Nation. We expected that BP and Indonesia would continuously destroy our forests and our trees and pollute the rivers and seas. And we feared that BP and Indonesia would bring misfortune for the Papuans by employing skilled workers from outside West Papua, claiming that we Papuans are not "skilled workers". With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that our worst predictions and fears have come true. One specific example is BP's staff recruitment at the Social Integrated Program department which manages all the social programs in the Tangguh project. The vacancies for the position were 34, but BP recruited only 4 (four) Papuans. The other 30 newly recruited staff are migrants who are not indigenous Papuans. BP has given no clear reason why only four Papuans were recruited for these jobs. BP's behaviour towards the indigenous Papuans shows that BP has been directly involved and has supported the genocide of the ethnic Papuans from our Land and our Nation. BP, Freeport Corp. and Indonesia together have occupied West Papua and robbed her rich natural resources. This is done through systematic ethnic cleansing. I have promised my People that I will oppose BP and Indonesia who are exploiting the natural resources of West Papua and disregarding our human rights and human dignity and who have also threatened the future survival of the Lord's people who live in and whose right it is to inherit the Land of Papua. I believe that I am not alone because my friends in other parts of the world who have loving souls are listening to and support me. I feel that I am not alone but I am with you and you are with me. This is the cry of my People: "Please, please help us. We are being annihilated and wiped out from our own Land and our own Nation. Our forests, our mountains our seas and clean rivers are being destroyed by Indonesia, by America with its Freeport, by Australia with its Rio Tinto and by the UK with its BP." Let this cry of the Papuans echo across the lands of Europe, Africa, America, Asia the Pacific and Australia. ************************************************************ Revd Socratez Sofyan Yoman (President of the Fellowship of West Papuan Baptist Churches). © Copyright 2003-2005 by watchPAPUA
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