Benny Giay: Indonesia Should Reflect on Papua Human Rights Issue
19 September 2016 17:48 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jayapura - Rev. Benny Giay, head of the Kingmi Church in Papua said Sunday, September 18, that Indonesian Government should reflect on the fact that human rights issue in Papua has now been put on a tribunal at the United Nations.
“It justifies the perspective that it is time to change history," said Benny.
“What happens in the Pacific is a moment of awakening... But it is more than that actually," he said, referring to the Papuan movement awakening and added that the movement was occurred due to the fear on the extinction of Papuan ethnic.
Ferry Marisan, Director of ElsHAM Papua, said that advocacy will reside on the nation in the end. "It was done in Geneva, Switzerland. Now the people in Vanuatu, Solomon, Tonga, and even New York have done the same," he said.
He added that if the issue of Human Rights in Papua has been put on UN agenda, it will result in further talks on a more global scale - not only in Pacific. But he reminded that the process can take up to years.
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