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Meeting of Papuan Women Rights Network
11-13 April 2012 – Venued in P3W Building of GKI Padang Bulan, Jayapura, Beatrix Gebze, Coordinator of eL-AdPPer (Lembaga Advokasi Peduli Perempuan Merauke, Center for Advocacy of Merauke Women Rights) have attended the First Meeting of TIKI (Papuan Women Rights Network) with the National Commission of Women Rights (KOMNAS Perempuan). The meeting was facilitated by Coordinator of TIKI, Fientje Yarangga. The meeting have appointed Beatrix Gebze as Coordinator for Southern Papua Area in documenting economic, social, and cultural (ECOSOC) rights of indigenous Papuan women. Other results of the meeting is a revised structure, aims and basic values of the network, and a program plan focusing on three main programmes: (1) Education for women; (2) Advocacy, and (3) Victims Recovery***BG
Monitoring Visit to Bupul, Muting and Selil
SKP & SAINS Team with some of Selil villagers (Photo: Muntaza Erwas)
2 – 6 April 2012 – Seven days, a team of SKP-KAME, altogether with 3 researchers of Sayogyo Institute (SAINS) of Bogor, have visited villages of Bupul, Muting, and Selil. The visit is part of periodical monitoring to observe recent development on social, cultural, and economic life of local communities and its relation with the hot issues of investment plan in the area. In Bupul, the team have discussed with the villagers about an investment plan by PT. CCM (Central Cipta Murdaya) for a palm-oil estate. The company have started to approach and negotiate with local communities but the people still doubt and worried, even some confusing on whether receive or reject the plan. They said that they are certainly want to improve their livelihood but, at the same time, not want to release their rights on their own ancestral land and forest.
Days after, the team continued the monitoring trip to Muting and spent one night there did similar discussion with the villagers. Then, continued the trip to Selil where the team met with the Head of Village, local elders of customary council and church committee. The villagers informed the team that a company namely PT BIA (Bio Inti Agrindo) have started their operation in the area, inside ancestral land of local communities.***KH
Visitation of Netherland Embassy and WWF
13 March 2012 – SKP KAME was visited by an officials of Royal Netherland Embassy in Jakarta and WWF Indonesia. The visitation is to get information on recent development of civil-political rights as well as economic, social, and cultural rights of local communities in Merauke area, particularly in its relation with influx of investment schemes in the last years. They have met and discussed with Acting Director of SKP-KAME, Harry Woersok, and Director of Sayogyo Institute (SAINS) of Bogor, Dr. Laksmi Savitri, who is in Merauke to conduct a collaborative research with SKP-KAME.
Acting Director of SKP-KAME, Harry Woersok (left) and Director of SAINS, Dr. Laksmi Savitri (second from left) when met and discussed with officials of Netherland Embassy and WWF Indonesia. (Photo: KIZITO HERU)
According to Mr. Adi Susilo Kuncoro of Economic Department of the Netherland Embassy, the Dutch government would formulate a concept of cooperation with provincial government of Papua focusing on spatial plan and land-use issues based on actual hidrologic as well as socio-political, economic, and cultural context of Merauke area. In this scheme, the Dutch government would like to fill the gap in data system and regional planning documents of Merauke Regency. They would also provide an opportunity to other regencies in southern Papua to develop their low carbon development policies and to increase local management and organizational capacities. The visitation is actually a follow-up of previous visit in 2010.***HW
Monthly Regular Meeting of SKP-KAME
9 March 2012 — All of staff an volunteers of SKP-KAME have attended monthly regular meeting led directly by Harry Woersok, Acting Director of SKP-KAME. The focus of the meeting is to review activites during February 2012, especially the collaborative research in cooperation with Samdhana Institute, and draw out working plan of March 2012. ***KMH
Training for Village Council of Nasem
10 March 2012 — SKP KAME have assigned a local lawyer, Guntur Ohoiwutun, to facilitate a training for local Village Council (Badan Musyawarah Kampung, BAMUSKAM –Ed) of Nasem Village. The focus of training is how to organize an effective meeting and deliberating process to proceed village regulations (Peraturan Kampung, PERKAM –Ed) which is prepared and drafted before. The One Day Training was attended by representatives of local elders, village administration officers, church committee members, women, and youth.
Rather than just verbal lecture, Mr. Ohoiwutun have facilitated all participants to simulate the real legislation process at village level. All of the participants said that they are satisfied with that kind of method and hope that SKP-KAME can continously facilitate them in similar ways. ***SYN
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