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Dibawah ini adalah Pidato Benny Wenda dalam Bahasa Indonesia dan Bahasa Inggris. ============================================================ VERSI BAHASA INDONESIA ============================================================ Satu dari pemimpin Papua Barat yang terlibat dalam Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat yang diwawancarai oleh Prof Drooglever untuk penelitiannya adalah Bapak Wenda ayah dari Benny Wenda yang berasal dari suku Lani di Pegunungan Tengah Papua. Dia melakukan perjalanan ke Belanda bersama pemimpin Papua lainnya pada tahun 2003 untuk memberikan bukti tentang pengalamannya selama Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat. Ketika Bapak Wenda bertemu Prof Drooglever pada tahun 2003, dia secara resmi menyerahkan sebuah YUM (Noken Lani) disertai sebuah permintaan bahwa ketika laporannya tentang Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat diselesaikan, Prof Drooglever dapat memasukkan laporan tersebut kedalam YUM yang sama untuk dikembalikan ke Papua Barat. Bapak Wenda dan pemimpin Papua lainnya yang diwawancarai oleh Prof Drooglever telah memberikan Benny Wenda tugas suci dan kehormatan untuk mengambil/menerima YUM yang berisi laporan penelitian tersebut secara langsung dari Prof Drooglever atas nama rakyatnya di Papua Barat. Permintaan dan janji yang dibuat diantara orang tua-tua Papua dan Prof Drooglever dipenuhi pada tanggal 15 November 2005. Prof Drooglever menyerahkan YUM yang berisi laporan penelitian Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat 1969 kepada Benny Wenda dalam sebuah resepsi resmi setelah peluncuran hasil studinya itu. *************************************************************************************** Profesor Drooglever, Tuan-tuan dan Nyonya-nyonya Selamat Malam Saya berdiri disini karena permintaan ayah saya dan orang tua-tua yang lain yang disampaikan kepada Profesor Drooglever pada tahun 2003. Permintaannya adalah bahwa pada saat professor menyelesaikan laporannya, dia akan memasukkan sebuah kopi (dari laporan tersebut) kedalam YUM ini dan mengembalikannya ke Papua. YUM adalah sebuah lambang yang sangat kuat dari rakyat Papua. Dia digunakan sejak kami dilahirkan. Ibu-ibu kami membawa kami didalam YUM ini, membawa makanan didalam YUM ini TETAPI SEKARANG YUM ini membawa tulang belulang rakyat kami, karena laporan ini menggambarkan apa yang telah Indonesia lakukan terhadap negeri kami selama 40 tahun. Permintaan itu sekarang telah dipenuhi, TETAPI sebagai ANAK ADAT saya percaya bahwa YUM ini HANYA SETENGAH PENUH. SAYA TIDAK MAU menipu para orang tua saya dengan membawa sebuah YUM yang hanya berisi SETENGAH PENUH. YUM ini perlu untuk diisi penuh sebelum dikembalikan ke Papua. Kita semua yang hadir disini tahu apa yang orang tua-tua kita dan rakyat kita harapkan dari kita, dan saya percaya bahwa kita semua memainkan peran yang penting dalam mengisi YUM perjuangan ini. Daripada membawa YUM yang setengah penuh ini ke Papua, mulai hari ini saya akan membawanya bersama saya kemana saja saya pergi sebagai sebuah symbol kepada dunia tentang ribuan rakyat Papua yang telah dibunuh dalam perjuangan untuk kemerdekaan di Papua. Marilah kita semua bekerja sama untuk mengisi YUM ini. Dan ketika tiba waktunya dan YUM ini berisi penuh, maka BERSAMA-SAMA kita akan mengembalikannya kepada masyarakat kita ---- ke sebuah Negara Papua Merdeka. Terima Kasih ================= Benny Wenda Chair of DeMMaK (The Koteka Tribal Assembly) International Lobbyist in the UK for a Free West Papua PO Box 1409 Oxford OX4 1UN England UK Mobile: +44 (0) 7791629782 Email: bwenda@infopapua.org Web: http://www.infopapua.org/ ============================================================ ENGLISH VERSION ============================================================ Benny Wenda receives the "YUM of STRUGGLE" containing the Report into the 1969 "Act of Free Choice" from Professor Pieter Drooglever 15 November 2005 Benny Wenda's father, Kulog Wenda from the Lani Tribe in the Central Highlands, was one of the West Papuan leaders who was forced by the Indonesian military at gun-point to vote for Indonesia in the so-called "Act of Free Choice" in 1969. In 2003 Kulog Wenda travelled to the Netherlands to be interviewed by Professor Pieter Drooglever and give evidence of his experiences during the "Act of Free Choice", together with one other Papuan leader, Rev'd Obed Komba. On 15th Novemeber 2005, after five years of careful research, Professor Drooglever launched his Report entitled "An Act of Free Choice" at a seminar in the Royal Library in the Hague. The Professor was commissioned to prepare the Report by the Dutch Government in 2000. Professor Drooglever's findings were clear and to the point: "The Act of Free Choice ended up as a sham," he wrote in a summary of the Report. "A press-ganged electorate acting under a great deal of pressure appeared to have unanimously declared itself in favour of Indonesia." When Kulog Wenda met Prof Drooglever in 2003, he formally presented him with a traditional Lani string bag (a YUM) together with a solemn request that when his Report on the "Act of Free Choice" was completed, he would place the Report in this same YUM (bag) so that it could be returned to West Papua. Recently, Kulog Wenda and Rev'd Komba gave Benny Wenda the sacred duty and honour of collecting the YUM containing the Report directly from Professor Drooglever, on behalf of all his People back home in West Papua. The request and the promise made between the Papuan elders and Professor Drooglever were fulfilled on 15th November 2005. Professor Drooglever handed over the YUM containing his Report of the 1969 Act of Free Choice to Benny Wenda at a formal reception after the launch of his Report. Below is the speech (in English and in Bahasa) delivered by Benny Wenda after receiving the YUM from Professor Drooglever at the reception following the launch. ======================================================= Benny Wenda Chair of DeMMaK (The Koteka Tribal Assembly) International Lobbyist in the UK for a Free West Papua PO Box 1409 Oxford OX4 1UN England UK Mobile: +44 (0) 7791629782 Email: bwenda@infopapua.org Web: http://www.infopapua.org/ ======================================================= Professor Drooglever, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good evening. Im standing here because of a request my father and other elders made to Professor Drooglever in 2003. The request was that when the professor completed his report, he would put a copy in this YUM and return it to West Papua. The YUM is a powerful symbol of the West Papuan people. It is used from the time we are born. Our mothers carry us in the YUM, carry food in the YUM BUT NOW this YUM is carrying the bones of our people, because this report describes what Indonesia has done to our country over the last forty years. This request has now been fulfilled, BUT, as a son of Customary Tribal Law, I believe that this YUM is ONLY HALF-FILLED. I do not want to deny my elders by bringing home a YUM that is only half-filled. This YUM needs to be FULL before it is returned to West Papua. All of us here know what our elders and all our people expect from us. I believe that all of us have an important role to play in filling this YUM of struggle. Instead of taking this half-filled YUM back to West Papua immediately, from this day I will carry it with me wherever I go as a symbol to the world of the thousands of people from West Papua who have been killed struggling for freedom in West Papua. Please, please let us ALL work together to fill this YUM. And when the time comes and the YUM is full, TOGETHER we can return it to our people --- to an independent West Papua. Thank you very much. __________________ © Copyright 2003-2005 by WatchPAPUA |
