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Fear grips Wamena after deadly riots
Ivany Atina Arbi, Benny Mawel and Syofiardi Bachyul
The Jakarta Post (30 Sept. 2019)
Tension remains in Wamena, the capital of Jayawijaya regency in Papua, following deadly riots that paralyzed a part of the city and left more than 30 people dead.
Thousands of residents have fled the affected area, and thousands more are ready to leave amid fear of further violence.
Roughly 6,700 residents are currently put up at a number of evacuation sites in Wamena, including at the Indonesian Military (TNI) headquarters, while some 2,670 others have fled the city with the help of the Air Force.
The commander of the Silas Papare Air Base in Jayapura, Air Cdre. Tri Bowo Budi Santoso, said another 10,000 people had signed to be airlifted out.
“We expect to finish [the mission] in the next three or four days,” Bowo said as quoted by kompas.com, adding that the Air Force operated two Hercules planes to transfer the people to Jayapura.
The commander of the Jayawijaya Military District Command, Lt. Col. Candra Dianto, said separately that the evacuees urgently needed supplies, including staple food, clothes, sanitary pads and diapers.
“Please help us spread the info to get as much help as possible for the evacuees,” Candra said on Saturday, as reported by news agency Antara.
Wamena descended into chaos last Monday as a mob, reportedly native Papuans, ran amok, setting buildings on fire, destroying vehicles and attacking people with weapons. At least 33 people have been killed, mostly non-native Papuans, according to authorities.
Authorities have not stated what may have triggered the riot, which followed a mass protest triggered by an alleged racist slur by a non-native Papuan teacher against a Papuan student at senior high school SMA PGRI in Wamena days earlier. The offended students are believed to have assembled with other Papuans.
Whether that protest is connected to the riots remains unclear. Residents said they had witnessed people from outside Wamena among the rioters.
Papuans living in Wamena told the Post they had not recognized the faces of the rioters, saying they might have come from other districts. “We don’t know where they come from,” said a local, Obet Mabel, who helped at least 58 families fleeing their homes and seeking protection.
It is difficult to independently verify information as the government restricts access for journalists to Papua.
Obet, along with other natives of Wamena, said he blocked the way of the rioters as they chased the fleeing residents. “[After the situation had calmed down], we transferred them to the center of the city, which was considered safer,” he said.
A witness whose home was attacked with rocks, Ami, told The Jakarta Post on Sunday that the mob had assaulted everything they encountered along the way, including people. “They became more aggressive once they met non-Papuans,” said the man resident from the area of Hom Hom, Wamena.
The 34-year old added that the assault seemed to be targeting non-native Papuans, as the majority of residents living in Hom-Hom region were non-natives. Ami himself is of Javanese descent, although he was born and raised in Papua’s capital city of Jayapura.
The father of one has moved to another part of the city, which he considered safer, along with his family. Other residents of Hom Hom, he added, had sought shelter at the police and military headquarters.
Some native Papuans also fled the region out of fear of more violence. “The mob blindly attacked properties in my neighborhood. They don’t care whether they’re owned by non-natives or not,” Ami added.
Meanwhile, Azhari, the head of state-run broadcaster Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) in Wamena, told the Post separately that the atmosphere in Wamena was “tense”, as a number of destroyed and burned buildings had yet to be cleaned up by the authorities.
It was possible that more bodies were buried in the properties, given the fact that the majority of bodies found so far were found under debris, he further said.
“Those victims run into their houses to escape from the riots. Unluckily, the buildings were set ablaze by the angry mob, meaning the settlers were burned alive,” Azhari said, citing info he gathered in the field.
At least four native Papuans were also killed in the violence, according to authorities.
The 33 fatalities confirmed so far include nine people from West Sumatra, causing outrage among West Sumatrans outside Papua.
West Sumatra Deputy Governor Nasrul Abit visited Papua on Sunday to check on the condition of hundreds of West Sumatrans in the country’s easternmost region, particularly those staying at evacuation sites.
Nasrul revealed that around 1,300 West Sumatrans currently live in Wamena. More than 80 shops owned by people from the province were reportedly burned to ashes in Monday’s riots.
West Sumatra authorities are currently raising funds for the affected residents to help them either recover their livelihoods in Wamena or go back to West Sumatra.
Various NGOs and mass organizations have conveyed their condolences regarding the violence.
The chairman of Muhammadiyah, the country’s second-largest Muslim organization, Haedar Nasir, urged the government to immediately address the problem, saying the state should protect all Indonesian people without exception.
Rights group Amnesty International Indonesia said Monday’s incident was one of the bloodiest Papua had seen in the past 20 years, with at least 24 lives lost within 24 hours.
“Indonesian authorities must initiate a prompt, impartial, independent and effective investigation into the incident,” the group’s executive director, Usman Hamid, said in a statement, adding that those responsible for human rights violations should be held accountable in a fair trial.
Amnesty International noted in a past report how unlawful killings by security forces in Papua often occurred under the pretext of enforcing law and order. Transparency, in this case, was an essential part of preventing potential abuse of power by officials, it said.
== Masalah satwa Sumatra ==
Disoriented wild elephants in Jambi to be returned to ‘original habitat’
Jon Afrizal
The Jakarta Post (30 Sept. 2019)
Authorities in Jambi have been trying to catch three wild elephants that have reportedly been disturbing residents of Batanghari regency for three months, in an effort to return the animals to their habitat of origin in Tebo regency.
The elephants had become disoriented because of land clearing and illegal logging and were feeding on rice plants and oil palm shoots, said Jambi Natural Resource Conservation Agency (BKSDA) head Rahmad Saleh.
A team of 20 conservationists from the BKSDA Jambi and the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) as well as two veterinarians had been dispatched to the location in Sengkati Baru village, Mersam district, over the weekend.
Veterinarian Anhar Lubis of the Leuser Conservation Forum (FKL) said the wild animals would be anesthetized once they were transferred to trucks with the help of three trained elephants from the Elephant Training Center (PLG) Minas in Riau.
"The anesthetic injection uses a combination of sedative and analgesics," Anhar said on Saturday.
He said each of the wild elephants would be escorted by three tamed elephants to get into the truck to be transported to their habitat of origin in the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park (TNBT), some 80 kilometers from their present location.
"Theoretically, that is what is supposed to happen. We estimate we will need three days to return them to their habitat," he said, adding that each of the wild elephants would also need three animal handlers in the process.
The three wild mammals are predicted to be over 18 years of age and weigh between 2 and 4 tons each. They are at the present site because they lost their orientation while looking for food. “They are eating rice plants and oil palm shoots,” he said.
The translocation was aimed at returning the three elephants to their original habitat, thus preventing their life cycle from being disrupted.
“This is an effort to save Sumatran elephants,” BKSDA Jambi head Rahmad Saleh said, adding that, unless it was done, the animals were at danger of falling victim to poaching, especially because they were males and already had tusks.
Rahmad also expressed hope that the translocation would avoid possible conflict between the elephants and humans or damage to plantations.
He added that the word “pest” was often attached to elephants in reference to the destruction of crops, noting, however, that the elephants had become disorientated because of damage to their habitat due to land clearing and illegal logging.
Data show that there are some 150 elephants in Jambi, living mainly in the TNBT and the Hutan Harapan area
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