Please Become One of us to Disseminate News and Stories from the Jungles of West Papua to the Global Village  

 We, the young and student tribal-webmasters (Collective Editorial Boards – CEB) of The Diary of OPM (Online Papua Mouthpiece – Bridging Papua to the Global Village) from the Papua Counter Information Centre, in the jungles of West Papua would like to invite support and contributions from students, youths and women in Australia to help us:

1.      Edit our articles to become more natural English

2.      Edit our grammatical errors in English

3.      Edit the contents of our articles.

4.      Collect articles from foreign news services and submitting to our CEB Members in the jungles of West Papua

5.      Becoming one of us (member of the CEB) or webmaster to manage our two websites: http://www.westpapua.net or http://www.geocities.com/westpapua_net & http://www.westpapua.org.uk

6.      Contribute what you have to (1) pay the web hosting, (2) Purchase a Sony Digital Photo Camera with Floppy (1.4”) Disk; (3) Purchase a reliable laptop for use in the jungles; (4) Purchase a satellite Telephone to access, upload and send messages or websites from the jungles of West Papua, and (5) Solar Panel Batteries for the computer to use in the jungles or  (6) Come and visit us in groups or individuals.

Background Information

West Papua was previously called the Papoea Island, then New Guinea Island. In 1880s, the Dutch and British government divided the Island into East and West Papua. To divide us more, they called these two parts with two different names. West Papua has many names: The Netherlands Nieuw Guinea, West Irian, Irian Jaya and now Papua with less than 50 years only. East Papua has a few names: New Guinea, Papoea, Papoea and New Guinea, and now Papua Nugini.

Eastern part was given independence by the Queen Mother via Australia in September 15, 1975, but Western half has not yet experienced the meaning of “freedom”, “human rights”, and “democracy.” Thomas Beanal, the Deputy Chair for the Papua Presidium Council and Amungme Tribal Leader as the Chair for International Diplomacy told Reuters in Jakarta: “We are killed on daily basis: in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening and at midnight! 

Indonesians, under the Command of the first President, Mr. Ir. Soekarno militarily commenced invasion of West Papua since January 1, 1963 when she was being prepared to become an independent country by July 1, 1970 under the Leadership of the Nieuw Guinea Raad or New Guinea Council, guided legally and formally by the Dutch from December 1, 1961.

Since West Papua was announced as the Military Operation Zone (DOM) after 1963, hundreds of thousands of people, plants, animals and natural resources here have lost our lives. Not many women have been raped brutally, many Papuans arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned without trial, many disappeared and many more massacred, many of the dead bodies are sill mysteries until this minute. Students are shot to death at their dormitories and campuses by the Indonesian army and police forces. Some of them are chased to the jungles, never return home to die, of course not to live.

Our staple foods are deliberately chopped down, poisoned and systematically destroyed. The biggest social-engineering programme in the 20^th and now 21^st centuries is underway here in West Papua, amazingly under the support from the World Bank and Western Governments, including Australian Government and indirectly their citizens who pay taxes to their governments.

Australian-British Giant Mining Company, Rio Tinto and American Giant Copper and Gold Company Freeport McMoRan exploit most of the mineral resources in West Papua, without any concern to the natural environment, tribal people, ecosystem, and ecology of the natural beings here. They have lawyers, politicians and military to justify and protect their destructive work to our Global Village. Multinational Timber companies have destroyed our homes, forests of West Papua, now the world has no hope of leaving Tropical Rainforests  for our future generations and to the future of our planet.

The right of the people, plants, animals and resources to exist and live in West Papua is not respected anymore, laws does not exist here, if there were, Indonesians never learn to enforce it, even their Mr. Presidents cannot obey them themselves. 

The stories from the jungles and remote villages are more disturbing than our ability to put them down in any words and languages we know. Unfortunately, sadly, these true stories based on truth and justice have never come to your eyes, ears and minds anywhere (campuses, churches, speeches, papers, televisions and radios) in Australia in any way, from anyone.

Osborne, an Australian author termed the struggle of the Papuans in West Papua against the Western-backed military and government of Indonesia correctly as “Irian Jaya: Indonesia’s secret war!” But, can there be any secret in this globalisation of information and information technology? The answer is: “Yes, it can, and it does happen, even successfully here,  in West Papua!”

The Diary of OPM (Online Papua Mouthpiece) directly reports uncensored and first-hand news and stories of Western-backed madness and humanitarian catastrophe and  Indonesia’s secrets in West Papua Jungles to the Global Village. We want you to be part/s of this crucial and humanitarian work! This generation and civilisation should now act to protect our nature and native people before we are too late to do anything. We are inviting you in the names of humanity and our global village.

© 2002 The Diary of Online Papua Mouthpiece