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| The Diary of Online
Papua Mouthpiece (Do-OPM)
is run by The Collective Editorial Board
(CEB) Based all over the world, and coordinated from the Jungles of West Papua New Guinea Island. |
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MISSION STATEMENT:
The Diary of OPM (Online Papua Mouthpiece) is unique in its name because it focuses on writing "Diary" of West Papua rather than news and articles. The CEB always try our best to write every single events that occurs in West Papua (past, present and even expected ones). Secondly, the diary are presented online. Why? Because West Papua is till under colony of Indonesia, not only because Indonesia wants to keep it, but also the world, particularly the West backs it up by supplying financial, military equipment (arms, jet fighters, etc.) and training funds. In many occasions Indonesia claims that the International Community supports Indonesia to colonise West Papua, therefore Indonesia cannot give independence to West Papua. This is the reason why we believe the International Community will change their perspectives on West Papua when they know more about West Papua. And this site serves this purpose. The Third feature of this site is that we provide "Editorial Notes" for any articles that we find do not reflect the reality of the Papuans and in West Papua. In other words, the editorial boards counter the information from the mainstream media to put the issue and cause to the proper proportion. To do this, we have what we call "The Collective Editorial Board" (CEB) that consists of some people around the world who contribute their notes to the site. Core members are in the jungles of West Papua and others are in the UK, in Australia, in Indonesia, and America. We work together collectively. We do not recognise the personal ownership of this site because this is a people's site, not an individual's site. Another feature is that this site is presented in many different languages, it is a multilingual site even though English is used as the main language according to its purpose to change the view of the International community of West Papua/ns. The last feature is that this site is not only for information sharing, but it clearly stands for the efforts of Independence Movement of West Papua. We always try putting the issues on the right proportion, but all we do aims at supporting the independence movement via various organisations such as the OPM (Free Papua Movement), TPN (Liberation Army of the OPM), PDP (Papua Presidium Council) and Demmak (The Alliance of Penis Gourds Community). You are reading news and articles, coming out directly from the tribal peoples in West Papua. The news comes from and produced by the Papua Counter Information Centre , based in the jungles of West Papua under the name of Online Papua Mouthpiece (OPM) . In Daily Operation, the site is managed by the Tribal Webmasters, supported by Members of the Collective Editorial Boards (CEB). Particularly foreign members help us in editing our English and collecting news on West Papua from foreign news media such as BBC, Tempo, Kompas, ABC, and Sydney Morning Herald. The site is currently being managed by the following:
Our
Aim
The aim of this Online Diary is to balance the
mainstream media propaganda that tend to serve the capitalists and
politicians who are experts in manipulation of news and articles in
their deceitful ways. They play their games behind wooden-curtains of
Indonesia politics. They always ignore that we, tribal people of West
Papua also have an absolute right to live as tribal people in Tribal
Country of West Papua in this civilisation. Our goal is to become an Internet Service Provide (ISP), particularly to bridge the Papuans to the global village. We believe in a philosophy that this is the time for us not to humiliate and disregard each other, particularly the Papuans. It is time now for all of us to acknowledge, respect and accept the existence of other people in the world as they are. Borrowing the song from John Lennon, we proclaim that the world should let everything and everyone as they are, "LET IT BE!" Let the primitives be primitives, let the cannibals be cannibals, let the Penis Gourds People as they are, let the Papuans as Papuans. Do not try to change everything and everyone that do not conform to the Western or Modern Standards. This means, we want to fight in our way until West Papua is independent politically, economically, culturally and socially. To achieve the goal, we are striving to provide services and facilities for the website as reliable as possible. We want to develop the site with targets as follows:
Our Plan
An Information provision without any censorship and editing by so
called "mainstream media" had been our dream in order to
avoid telling lies to and about ourselves to the world due to the
rules, laws and regulations imposed on journalism in general.
We are planning to improve this online news service to provide
various news and information that can help West Papua people to tell
the world about what is actually going on in the jungles and
remote-mountainous and swampy villages in West Papua.
In long term, we would like to establish:
If you are genuinely willing to help this kind of service for the people of West Papua, please contact us. We need your support for the following needs and activities:
As we always say, "This struggle is not only for the Papuans, not only a struggle of the Papuans against Indonesia! It is a global struggle, as struggle that is backed very well and strongly by the Western Powers and citizens (including you, the person reading this page by paying taxes to your government/s. A struggle that will end only until the International Community supports and backs it. Without you, we are useless, just another rumour and voice from the jungles of stone-aged and cannibals land.
Here are the details of addresses you can send your help:
To know more people in the Struggle, Click Here
Let us Tell You Briefly How this Online News Came into Its Existence
The Online Papua Mouthpiece that you are reading now is not a result of an easy work as it may appear to you. The founder and the webmaster is a West Papuan highlander (which means more primitive in the international eyes) , born in the jungles, in his home village. His memory of war and military brutality, i.e., rape, aerial bombardment, torture, disappearance, and murder during the civil unrest in the Baliem Valleys is till fresh until now (October 3, 2000, 15:21:30 GMT). The trauma of being treated badly by the Indonesian army and police is still strong. This may cause him a great problem in his life. He still remembers some names that he knew when he was a child but he could not find out their cemeteries or stories about where and how they were killed. The question: "Where are they?" is still with him now. When he came to Port Numbay for a secondary school, he found himself too scared to attend classes taught by the Javanese or straight-haired teachers. He was thinking, "Maybe they will kill me. Why did my parents send me to these killers? When will they kill me? What should I do to keep me alive? What will happen if I give wrong answers to these teachers? etc. etc." Until he came to a university degree, he still had the fresh memories of Indonesian brutality. During his stay in Port Numbay, he found it "funny" that many Papuans do not know more about what had actually happened in Baliem Valleys during 1976-1980. He was asking, "What is wrong with them? What about people far beyond the sky in Java, and abroad, i.e., USA and England, etc.? Are they also ignorant? If so, what should I do?" After a lot of efforts to tell the people about his memories, event until the time he managed to go abroad, he found out that the Internet is the answer, not only for the sake of other Papuans but also everybody in the world, about what is actually happening in West Papua. He found it out that the Internet is the only tool in the world that he can use. He managed to make friends with foreigners in a foreign country and explained to them what he needs badly,i.e., the Internet. Many people were surprised to hear that this tribesman wanted the latest technology of communication? One of them is the person who bought him two domain names, i.e., www.westpapua.net and www.westpapua.org.uk This person also helped him to host these two pages. Thank to gods, thank to God and thank to my people, thank to the spirits of those who have died and those who are still alive. The dream of telling the news from West Papua jungles to the world has come into reality. You can read this online news and information, as the first first hand online stories, news and information from West Papua Forests. The most tragic event in the history of West Papua News Online was on 15 November 2001, that is to say, 4 days after Theys Eluay was kidnapped and found dead (11.11.01). The www.westpapua.net' s document were all gone, attacked by the enemies of Papuans. This website was reporting direct and complete information on daily basis on what were happening after the assassination of Theys Eluay. On the 15 November 2001, the Tribal Webmaster announced the "sad day" in West Papua News Online history. Then, suddenly, the one of the staff members of www.MySpinach.org emailed the webmaster with an offer to host in its server. Then, with many thanks, the Tribal Webmaster started to re-build the whole website. Thus, what you can see now is the website that was build since the end of November 2001. Soon after that, the News Updates part was automated, leaving the rest to be done manually as before. You can go anywhere, surf anything and contact anyone to know more about West Papua, especially the political situation, but this page is simple, informative and presented without any censorship by capitalists, multinationals, killers, rappers, you name it, in this world. We invite you to join these of our Revolutionary Tribespersons:
to Free West Papua from all forms of colonialism by foreigners. |