Guest Speaker Raki Ap, ULMWP Representative for Europe
The West Papua Transitional Government launched its Green State during the 2021 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, and in his presentation to the FRWP Open Day in Docklands, Raki Ap contextualised the project within his peoples’ history of Dutch and Indonesian colonialism, and the indigenous Melanesian values and practices that buttress this far-sighted policy framework. Raki was born in the Blackwater Refugee Camp in Papua New Guinea (a few miles from the West Papua border) soon after Indonesian commandoes assassinated his famous father Arnold Ap in 1984. Activists helped his family to escape to The Netherlands where they have lived ever since.
Raki’s presentation (42min video) https://youtu.be/1zpyS_soiVI
West Papua’s Green State Vision (PDF) Green-State-Vision, October 2021
Jacob Rumbiak, Minister for Foreign Affairs, West Papua Transitional Government
Jacob outlined the philosophical basis of West Papua’s green-state policy framework, as “built on our belief in God, who created the skies and land and water and all life within those realms, and who commissioned us, as humans made in his image, to care for it; on our trust in Jesus who commanded us to love God and all creation, and one another including our enemies; and on our empowerment by the Holy Spirit to use universal law and modern science to develop out of our abused polluted homeland—in the face of adversaries with enormous determination, power and capacity—a disciplined well-governed state for us to live in abundance, and so become a blessing upon the people of the world including our Melanesian kin in the Pacific“.
Jacob’s presentation (8-min video) https://youtu.be/_EjKB0vIMfE
Jacob’s Q&A session (1xA4 PDF) Jacob Rumbiak, Q&A (1xA4, PDF, 5 December 2021
Jacob’s powerpoint presentation (10 x A4 slides)
Launch of WP Green State, UN Climate Summit, 4 November 2021 (start at time-code 22:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_wocZfge3E
Transcript of speech by Ecocide Foundation’s Jojo Mehta
Jojo Mehta, Ecocide, Launch of West Papua’s Green State, 4 Nov 2021
Letter to Climate 200 candidates, 3 January 2022 (PDF)
Climate 200, Simon Homes a Court
What does it take to live and thrive in West Papua?
The West Papua Womens Office Green-Cell Project encourages volunteers to choose an animal, or a plant, or a bird (or even an element like air or water) and research what it takes for it to live and to thrive in West Papua. The office understands this grass-roots project as developing cells of information for the Green State launched by the West Papua Transitional Government at the 2021 UN Climate Summit. Today we look at the beginnings of the first two projects, the first on Amphipods, and the second on the Blue-Eyed Spotted Cuscus of Biak Island.
Barbara Hall: The essential Amphipods (8 min video)
https://youtu.be/Z9fvn6Qa_40
Babuan Mirino: Blue-eyed Spotted Cuscus of Biak Island (3 slides)
Babuan, Biography (Photo Essay, 20 pages, PDF) Babuan Mirino, Biography
Prayer Memorial for West Papua’s Heroes and Martyrs led by Rev. Dr Robert Stringer
Pastor Wally Roem, EL Shaddai Church in Wamena, West Papua
Simon Mosso, Attorney-General, West Papua Transitional Government
Arnold Ap, West Papuan konor, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, musician, assassinated by Indonesian Intelligence in 1984
Dr Joe Toscano, The West Papua Rent Collective
The WP Rent Collective is a voluntary assembly of enlightened Australians who pay the rent on the West Papuans’ inspiring five-star-energy office in Docklands. Every Open Day he conducts his World Famous Auction to boost the account.
Four glorious furniture pieces crafted from recycled timber by David McKenzie
12″ x 18″ foam-backed photograph of Abraham Kareni in Vanuatu in 2014 after the formation of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (Tom Latupeirissa)
More on the West Papua Rent Collective at:
i) https://dfait.federalrepublicofwestpapua.net/join-the-west-papua-rent-collective/
ii) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbaCwlO-_Zc
