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--- In [email protected], "suryana" <gsuryana@...> wrote: > > Aku menulis dengan subject Irian. > Istilah Irian adalah bentukan dari Bung Karno, utk membedakan dengan PNG, > dan berubah menjadi Papua di era GD, kemudian Mbak Mega membentuk propinsi > Irian Jaya Barat, karena khawatir seluruh Irian mendapat fasilitas > kemerdekaan di era SBY, biarpun sudah diusahakan dengan nama Irian Jaya > Barat, pada akhirnya tetap dirubah menjadi Papua Barat. > > Masyarakat Irian pada dasarnya tetap dibuat bodoh oleh missionaris, mirip > dengan yg dialami oleh Tim Tim, sehingga pada akhirnya tetap saja miskin. > > Dan sebagian suku di Irian di provokasi merdeka, bagi pemerhati Irian, maka > kemakmuran Irian dibandingkan dengan PNG bagai langit dan bumi, dimana PNG > selain negara carut marut tidak karuan, juga korupsinya gila gila an, dan > tidak ada negara maju yg peduli, selain hasil tambang dan lautnya terus > menerus di habis i. > > Irian Barat berbeda kasus dengan PNG, dimana korupsi memang ada, dilain sisi > masyarakat tetap diperhatikan oleh pusat, dan asing yg melakukan provokasi, > padahal jumlah suku di Irian puluhan suku, jadi bila ingin merdeka maka bisa > terjadi banjir darah perang antar saudara sedang hasil tambang Freeport > semakin terlupakan, demikian juga hasil laut menjadi tambah tidak > terkontrol, karena perairan di sekitar Irian merupakan gudang ikan laut > dalam. > > Amerika berkepentingan dengan Irian karena freeport sangat menguntungkan, > sampai sampai utk menjaga rahasia, maka kota di sekitar lokasi penambangan, > dibuat mirip minatur kota modern, dan hanya orang tertentu yg bisa masuk > kewilayah kota tersebut, bila ada penduduk asli berani mati mendekati, maka > tembakan senjata menjadi solusinya. > > Akhir ² ini pasukan asing lumayan banyak, ketika diprotes maka dijawab yg > menjadi pasukan hanyalah pensiunan tentara, dilain sisi tembakan terarah yg > ditujukan ke Polisi Indonesia terjadi beberapa kali, biarpun tidak sampai > merenggut nyawa tetap saja membuat lumpuh seumur hidup korban tembakan > gelap. > > Dan SBY memang oportunis plus brutus sejati. > > Dengan dibukanya kantor di Inggris, maka langkah awal sudah bergerak, dan > sekali bergerak bisa berlanjut seperti minimal yg dialami oleh Aceh, dimana > warga negara swedia bisa melakukan rapat utk wilayah Aceh dengan hasil > membuat propinsi Aceh menjadi propinsi aneh. > > Perang agama hanyalah bentukan kemauan politisi dengan kepentingan jangka > panjang, Umat Islam di Irian terbanyak menempati daerah pesisir, dan sedikit > sekali yg masuk ke pedalam an, bisa dibilang tidak ada, karena masuk ke > pedalaman membutuhkan tambahan pengetahuan terutama utk penyakit yg hanya > bisa diobati oleh dokter yg memang tinggal di pedalaman, bila diobati oleh > dokter yg baru lulus, umumnya malah menjadi meninggal karena dosisnya > terlalu kecil. ( malaria ) > > Adalah keliru bila anak anak diajarkan utk men syiar kan Islam kepedalaman, > umumnya setelah keluar Irian ogah balik kandang. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Teddy S." <teddyr@...> > > > Bisa dikatakan saya hampir 100% berkonsentrasi pada berita-berita ekonomi > dunia hingga kaget juga mendapati URL yang diberikan seorang komentator > Kompas dalam artikel > http://internasional.kompas.com/read/2013/05/04/21322255/Indonesia.Protes.Keras.Inggris.Buka.Kantor.Free.West.Papua > > They're taking our kids > > West Papua's youth are being removed to Islamic religious schools in Java > for "re-education", writes Michael Bachelard. > > Captive audience . Papuan boys at the Daarur Rasul Islamic boarding school, > outside Jakarta, behind locked gates. Photo: Michael Bachelard > > Johanes Lokobal sits on the grass that cushions the wooden floor of his > little, one-room house. He warms his hands at a fire set in the centre. From > time to time a pig, out of sight in an annex, squeals and slams itself > thunderously against the adjoining wall. > > The village of Megapura in the central highlands of Indonesia's far-eastern > province of West Papua is so remote that supplies arrive by air or by foot > only. Johanes Lokobal has lived here all his life. He does not know his > exact age: "Just old," he croaks. He's also poor. "I help in the fields. I > earn about 20,000 rupiah [$2] per day. I clean the school garden." But in a > hard life, one hardship particularly offends him. In 2005, his only son, > Yope, was taken to faraway Jakarta. Lokobal did not want Yope to go. The boy > was perhaps 14, but big and strong, a good worker. The men responsible took > him anyway. A few years later, Yope died. Nobody can tell Lokobal how, nor > exactly when, and he has no idea where his son is buried. All he knows, > fiercely, is that this was not supposed to happen. > > "If he was still alive, he would be the one to look after the family," > Lokobal says. "He would go to the forest to collect the firewood for the > family. So I am sad." > > > Heavy learning . boys and girls at Daarur Rasul. Photo: Michael Bachelard > > The men who took Yope were part of an organised traffic in West Papuan > youth. A six-month Good Weekend investigation has confirmed that children, > possibly in their thousands, have been enticed away over the past decade or > more with the promise of a free education. In a province where the schools > are poor and the families poorer still, no-cost schooling can be an > irresistible offer. > > But for some of these children, who may be as young as five, it's only when > they arrive that they find out they have been recruited by "pesantren", > Islamic boarding schools, where time to study maths, science or language is > dwarfed by the hours spent in the mosque. There, in the words of one > pesantren leader, "They learn to honour God, which is the main thing." These > schools have one aim: to send their graduates back to Christian-majority > Papua to spread their muscular form of Islam. > > Ask the 100 Papuan boys and girls at the Daarur Rasul school outside Jakarta > what they want to be when they grow up and they shout, "Ustad! Ustad! > [religious teacher]." > > Watch and learn . students watch a performance of singing, dancing and > wrestling. Photo: Michael Bachelard > > In Papua, particularly in the Highlands, the issues of religious and > cultural identity are red-hot. Census data from over the past four decades > shows that the indigenous population is now matched in number by recent > migrants, largely Muslims, from other parts of Indonesia. The newcomers' > domination of the economy, particularly in the western half of the province, > effectively marginalises the original inhabitants. This immigration means > that indigenous Papuans have a real - and realistic - fear of becoming an > ethnic and religious minority in their own country. Stories of people taking > away their children adds an emotive edge and has the potential to inflame > tensions in an already volatile region. > > For about 50 years, a separatist insurgency has been active in Papua and > hundreds of thousands have died in their efforts to gain independence for > the province. Christianity, brought by Dutch and German missionaries, is > both the faith of a vast majority of the indigenous population, and a key > part of their identity. Islam actually has an even longer history in Papua > than Christianity, but it's of a gentler kind than what's preached in Java's > increasingly hardline mosques and it's still, for the moment at least, the > minority religion. But when the pesantren children return from Java, their > faith has changed. "They become different persons," Papuan Christian leader > Benny Giay, tells me. "They have been brainwashed". > > The schools insist they recruit only students who are already Muslims, but > it's clear they are not too fussy. At Daarur Rasul, I quickly found two > little boys, Filipus and Aldi, who were mualaf - brand new converts from > Christianity. One radical Islamic organisation, Al Fatih Kafah Nusantara > (AFKN), makes no bones about its intention to convert, and to use religion > for political ends. Leader Fadzlan Garamatan says AFKN has brought 2200 > children out of Papua as part of his program of nationalistic > "Islamicisation". "When [Papuans] convert to Islam, their desire to be > independent reduces," says Fadzlan on AFKN's internet page. > > Johanes Lokobal says his son died after being taken to an Islamic school. > Photo: Michael Bachelard > > In restive West Papua, the movement and conversion of young children is > politically explosive. We were warned a number of times not to chase the > story. It's never reported in the Indonesian press. The chief of the > Indonesia government's Jakarta-based Unit for the Acceleration of > Development in Papua and West Papua, Bambang Darmono, downplays it as just > one of "many issues in Papua", and the Religious Affairs Ministry's director > of pesantrens, Saefudin, says he has never heard of it. But my efforts to > trace the life and death of one Papuan boy has revealed that the trade goes > on. And, in the service of grand religious and political aims, sometimes > young lives are broken. > > Elias Lokobal smiles to himself when he talks about the feisty little > stepbrother he lost, but when talk turns to Amir Lani, his expression > darkens. Lani is a local cleric in Megapura and the other villages > surrounding the highland capital, Wamena. It was in about 2005 when he and > Aloysius Kowenip, the police chief from the nearby town of Yahukimo, began > approaching families to recruit their children. The pair worked to take five > boys from vulnerable families in each of five villages and transport them to > Java for education. Kowenip, a Christian, says it was his idea to "help" the > children, and that the funding came from "the local government and an > Islamic organisation" whose name he could not remember. He says he sought > out children with only one living parent because "nobody guided them". > > Young Yope was one such boy. Although he had a stepmother, his natural > mother had died. Neither Lani nor Kowenip ever visited Yope's father, > Johanes Lokobal, to explain their scheme. It still rankles. "These people > should ask permission from the parents," Lokobal says. Instead, they asked > young Yope himself, who was enthusiastic about this adventure. Some friends > had gone the previous year and he was keen to join them. > > School spirit . students at Daarur Rasul perform chants in praise of prophet > Muhammed. Photo: Michael Bachelard > > When it came time for Yope to depart, it happened in a flash, stepbrother > Elias recalls. "I went to school, and when I came back there was no one > home." > > Andreas Asso was part of the same group. Now a shy young man scrabbling a > living in Jayapura, the capital of West Papua, he was perhaps 15 at the > time. Like Yope, Andreas had only one parent. His father was dead and, > though his mother was alive, he was living with his stepmother. Like Yope, > he was approached directly. "They asked if I wanted to pursue my study in > Jakarta for free," Andreas says. "The police chief never spoke to my stepmum > but he spoke to my uncle, the brother of my father, and he agreed. I was > born Christian and I'll always be Christian. The police chief just said we'd > be put in a boarding house ... If he had told us it would be a pesantren, > none of us would have wanted to go." > > When the day came to leave, Andreas says a group of 19 boys were loaded into > an Indonesian air force Hercules C-130 aircraft in Wamena. By some accounts, > the youngest of them was just five. The plane was crewed by men in uniform. > It has been difficult to verify whether the military was officially > involved, but a former Papuan army chief says civilians are permitted to buy > cheap tickets to fly on military aircraft as part of the military's > "corporate social responsibility". "We didn't speak to the soldiers," > Andreas recalls. "We were afraid." > > It took two days for the plane to reach Jakarta and, "we were not fed or > offered drinks. A few, especially the little ones, got sick ... a few > vomited," Andreas says. "When they came to my village, I thought I wanted to > go. But when I was in the aeroplane, all I was thinking was, 'I want to go > back to my village.' " When they landed in Jakarta, the boys were > driven about three hours to their new home - the Jamiyyah Al-Wafa > Al-Islamiyah pesantren, high on the slopes of the volcano, Mount Salak, > behind the regional city of Bogor. The head of the Al-Wafa school's > foundation, Harun Al Rasyid, remembers Andreas Asso and the boys from > Wamena, and the men who brought them, Amir Lani and Aloysius Kowenip, whom > he knows as "Aloy". The two men had come and "offered the students" in 2005, > he recalls. "Aloy was ambitious in politics, and bringing children to my > pesantren was a way to improve his standing or image in society," Al Rasyid > says. > > Andreas Asso's account and his differ on many points but they concur on one: > the boys from the village in the wild highlands of Papua simply did not fit > in. "It wasn't like a real school because in school they have classes," > Andreas says. "In this one, we just went to a big mosque and all we learnt > about was Islam, just reading the Koran. Sometimes they slapped us on the > face, beat us with a wooden stick. They just told us we Papuans were black, > we have dark skin." > > The food and education at Al-Wafa were free but the religion was strict. It > has Yemeni teachers and Saudi funding and its website describes it as Salafi > sholeh, or "pious Salafi". Its purpose: "Setting up a cadre of preachers and > people who can call others to Islam." Andreas insists that, like him, some > of the other boys were Christians, and that the head of the school changed > five of their names to make them sound more Islamic - allegations Al Rasyid > denies. For his part, Al Rasyid says the Papuans were an unruly rabble who > exhausted the teachers "because their cultural background was different". > > He says the boys urinated and defecated on the school grounds and stole the > crops of neighbouring farmers. He admits punishing them by "scolding" and > hitting them "with rattan on the foot". About two or three months after they > arrived, one sickly boy, Nison Asso, died. > > "He was 10 years old," says Andreas. "He was already sick in Wamena but ... > he passed away. The body is still there in Bogor because the boarding school > didn't have the money to send the body back, though his parents wanted the > body sent back." Al Rasyid will not comment on Nison's fate. After less than > a year, it was clear to both the boys and the school that the experiment was > failing, so Amir Lani was summoned. Andreas says he pleaded with Lani to > take him home, but was refused. Instead, Lani took them to Jakarta to > another Papuan man, Ismail Asso, who himself had been an imported student > whose name was changed. Ismail told the boys there was not enough money to > return them to Papua. Their parents, it seems, were never consulted. > > Some of the students were found a new pesantren in Tangerang, near Jakarta. > Later they were to be expelled from there, too, because, according to Ismail > Asso, "These children were already bad children in Papua." But Andreas > stayed out of school and instead teamed up with another boy, Muslim Lokobal, > "who was also a Christian but was given the name 'Muslim' ". The pair > went to make their own way in the big city. > > A persistent problem in researching this story has been pinning down > details - names, times and ages. Names have been changed, roots erased, and > village children rarely know their own age. The tragic end to Yope Lokobal's > story suggests, however, that he may be the same boy whom Andreas Asso knew > as Muslim Lokobal. > > Andreas says that one night Muslim got drunk. There is no eyewitness to what > happened next, and it's the subject of five or more differing, second-hand > accounts. Andreas's is the most gruesome. "On the way back to the boarding > house, Muslim made trouble with the local people, so they beat him up and > killed him. They put his body inside the boarding house. And because they > hated him, they took out one of his eyes and put a bottle in the eye > socket." Does this awful scene describe Yope's death? Or was Muslim a > different boy? > > Back in the village of Megapura, they can shed little light. "There was a > call from Jakarta to the mosque at Megapura, and the people from the mosque > gave us the news," Johanes Lokobal recalls. "There was no explanation about > how Yope died." Says stepbrother Elias: "It was 2009 or 2010. We just held a > mourning ceremony at home, praying." Nobody knows where Yope's body is > buried. > > The rest of the boys from that Hercules would be in their early 20s by now. > Last time Andreas Asso heard from them, they were in Jakarta as little > better than beggars - "street singers or working in public transport - the > drivers' assistant, collecting the passengers," he says. It's not known how > many groups of children Amir Lani and Aloysius Kowenip organised to take > away. Teronce Sorasi, a mother from Wamena, says she was approached in 2007 > or 2008 by "the police chief", who asked her to send her daughter, Yanti, > who was then five, and her son, Yance 11, to Jakarta, even though "we are a > Christian family". "I said, 'no' because my husband had just passed away and > we were still mourning," Sorasi says. > > Amir Lani still lives in a villa in the hills near Megapura. According to > Elias, whenever people ask him about the lost boys of Wamena, "he just > avoids them". When I reach Aloysius Kowenip by telephone, he boasts of his > scheme. "If any one of them has become somebody, then, as a Papuan, I am > proud of that." But when asked about those who died or failed, Kowenip > abruptly ends the call. A few days later, his friend Ismail Asso phones in a > fury, then issues two threats via SMS. "I remind you ... not to dig out > information about the Muslims of Wamena," he writes, otherwise the > "provocative foreign journalist" will be "deported from Indonesia", or > "axed, killed by the [people of] Wamena". > > Internal transportation of children has a long and dishonourable history in > Indonesia. Around 4500 children were removed from East Timor over the > 24-year Indonesian occupation to serve, in the words of author Helene Van > Klinken in her book Making Them Indonesians, a "proselytising Islamic > faith", and to bind the region closer to Jakarta. Children, she wrote, were > chosen because they were "impressionable and easily manipulated to serve > political, racial, ideological and religious aims". > > Papua has been a target in the past, too. In 1969, former president Suharto > proposed transferring 200,000 children of the "backward and primitive > Papuans, still living in the stone age" to Java for education. Another > Saudi-backed group, DDII, used to bring children from both East Timor and > Papua. And today, AFKN, which is linked to the thuggish, hardline Islamic > Defenders Front (FPI), is actively seeking children to recruit. > > Daarur Rasul is half pesantren, half building site in a satellite city of > Jakarta called Cibinong. Here, 100 boys from the lowlands in Papua's western > half crowd up to the heavy bars of a gate to greet us. The gate is locked > because, according to one member of staff, "they like to escape". Forty or > so girls live downstairs with more freedom of movement. School principal > Ahmad Baihaqi insists he teaches moderate Islam, and the children are at > least seven, but some look younger. He doesn't deny they are locked up, but > says it is only during study hours "to put discipline on them". > > In 2011, four boys did escape and claimed not only that they'd been forced > to work on the construction site, but that at the school, they had been left > hungry, given unboiled water to drink and were taught only Islam, Indonesian > language and maths. Baihaqi insists the boys exaggerate, saying they had > been "naughty" from before they arrived. He agrees that sometimes his > students do work on the construction site, but says they enjoy it. The boys' > lessons begin at 4am with prayers. School continues, with breaks and an > afternoon nap, until 9pm, during which there are seven hours of prayer and > Koran reading and only 3 1/2 hours for "natural sciences, social sciences, > reading and writing". > > Baihaqi says he recruits new students in Papua every year and swears parents > give their consent. But the children only travel home every three years. > They don't miss their parents, he says, and the parents knowingly agree to > the arrangement. > > Arist Merdeka Sirait, the head of Indonesia's non-government child > protection group Komnas PA, says separating children for that long "means > erasing their cultural roots", particularly if their names and religion are > also changed. "It is very dangerous," he adds. But Indonesia's powerful > Religious Affairs Ministry has no problem with it. It's encouraged, in fact, > says pesantren division director Saefudin, because, "The longer you stay [in > a pesantren], the more blessing you'll get." > > The Indonesian government's Child Protection Commission, KPAI, is also > sanguine. Deputy chairman Asrorun Ni'am, who is also a senior member of the > Fatwa Council of the MUI, the government's Islamic advisory body, was more > worried about the "religious sentiment" we might stir up by writing the > story. "It's against all efforts to build harmonious atmosphere," he warned > us. > > The law is clear. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which > Indonesia is a party, says children should not be separated from their > families for whatever reason, even poverty. And Indonesia's Child Protection > Act includes a five-year jail penalty for those who convert a child to > religion different from their family's. In West Papua, religious leaders > have little doubt that removing children is part of a broader effort to > overwhelm the indigenous population; "It is Indonesia's long-term project to > make Papua an Islamic place," says the head of the province's Baptist > church, Socratez Yoman. "If Jakarta wants to educate Papuan children," says > Christian leader Benny Giay, "why don't they build schools in Papua?" > > We could not confirm if the government of Indonesia or its agencies were > active in the movement of children. But some organisations have high level > support. AFKN is funded by zakat (Islamic alms) delivered through the > charitable arm of state-owned Indonesian bank BRI; Aloysius Kowenip talked > of "local government" funding; Daarur Rasul's donors include "some police > officers and military officers" acting personally, and at least one group > was moved by a military plane. > > Perhaps, like the well-documented movement of children in East Timor, the > Papuan operation has no government endorsement but enjoys quiet consent at > high levels of Indonesian society. Andreas Asso survived to tell his tale, > but remains furious at how he was duped into leaving his highland home, then > abandoned to his fate. > > "I could have had an education there in Wamena. Some of my friends who > stayed have graduated from school ... My dream job is to become a policeman. > But I look back, and I've achieved nothing." > > > > Read more: > http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/theyre-taking-our-kids-20130429-2inhf.html#ixzz2SMJbWkfv > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
