In this five-thousand word paper for the 2001 Festival of Ideas in Adelaide, Jacob Rumbiak examines three international agreements and three Indonesian regulations, via which over-rode Dutch-funded self-determination policies and projects, and the West Papuans right to be consulted, and independence, were consciously ignored.
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West Papua Independence Policies; Tensions in the Transition
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This paper sets out the infrastructural priorities adopted by the West Papua National Authority (WPNA) in the transition from Special Autonomy (2001—2010) to an independent nation-state on the western border of Melanesia Pacific. Published February 2011
Melanesian Spearhead Group briefing May 2013
Outlining the institutions, strategies, political priorities and social objectives of the Federal Republic of West Papua before the meeting of the MSG secretariat meeting in Kanaky.
Solving West Papua’s political problem by peaceful means, 2005
'Solving the Political problem of West Papua by Peaceful means' (5,000 word essay) was prepared by Jacob Rumbiak for the Act of Free Choice Seminar, at the Institute for Dutch History in the Royal Library in The Hague on 15 November 2005. Jacob was then Senior Research Associate as a leading scholar on Indonesia and West Papua at the Globalism Institute, RMIT University in Melbourne, and attended the seminar with another West Papuan leader Benny Wenda who lives in exile in Oxford (England). The paper explores whether the long-standing conflict between the Indonesian Republic and the indigenous people of West Papua has roots in the ‘social’ arena, as Indonesia maintains, or in the politico-legal domain as West Papuans have always asserted. It details strategies for combatting the human rights abuses and genocidal practices of the Indonesian government. The post contains the full essay, as well as a downloadable PDF.
Submission to Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade, 2002
Jacob Rumbiak's “Building a relationship between Australia and Indonesia (that includes West Papua) based on the classic principles of Justice, Peace and Love" was prepared for the Federal Joint Standing Committee's 2002 inquiry of Australia's relationship with the Republic of Indonesia. It consists of well-considered advice from a West Papuan activist who is also an Indonesian-educated academic who escaped from years in prison in 1999. It includes an alarming Papuan Intelligence Service (PIS) report of a meeting between Indonesian President Sukarnoputri, government ministers and military commanders. It discusses fixing government maps to include West Papua as a bona fide nation, giving material aid not financial assistance to Indonesia, education scholarships for West Papuans, and re-consideration of West Papua in terms of security and defence against extremist Islamic organisation. The post contains the 3,400-word essay, and a PDF copy that can be printed/download.
Knowing and understanding how West Papuans were robbed of their independence, April 2000
Paper (6,000 words) by Jacob Rumbiak for 'West Papua at the Crossroads: A conference on the prospects for peace and conflict resolution in West Papua' at the University of Sydney on 19th April 2000. This was the first paper written by Jacob since his escape from jail in Indonesia and flight to Australia, via East Timor (where he was an observer of the referendum) on 7 September 1999. The paper was instrumental in shifting the focus of academic and activists' from the Act of Free Choice in 1969 to the New York Agreement of 1962 (a real politik driven 'peace treaty' that established the infamous 'act-of-no-choice'). The paper was also instrumental in alerting scholars to Indonesia's opportunistic creation and use of election regulations in 1966 (after the coup in Jakarta and the worst massacre in the twentieth century) and political party regulations (PAKET 1-5) drawn up in 1985 to hoodwink the international community into supporting the integration of West Papua into Indonesia.
Indonesia has proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that it has no place in Papua, 15 June 2012
Edison Waromi, Prime Minister of the West Papua resistance government, in a letter form Abepura Prison in Jayapura, criticises Australia in particular for riding on the rhetoric generated by President Yudhoyono and Foreign Minister Natalegawa about Indonesia’s ‘normative’ commitment to dialogue and effort to ‘wage peace aggressively’.
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