PRESS RELEASE ::PROPOSAL FOR OFFERING HIGH-LEVEL NEGOTIATION BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA AND
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF WEST PAPUA TO MEDIATE BY THE UN
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18 February 2025
Sovereignty over West Irian was not fully clarified at the time of the independence of Indonesia in 1949. Referring to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2504 above from 19 November 1969 until the present date Indonesia has never been involved the Netherlands and the United Nations in the implementation of that Resolution, and Indonesia also spent money from the Asian Development Bank and Institutions of the United Nations to the allocation of its transmigration, Immigration, and Military in West Papua to control West Papua.
The United Nations New York on 23 March 1972 recognized that where Indonesia, West Irian distinguished.
The historical momentum of West Papua continues, and the executive government of the Federal Republic of West Papua will proceed according to the International Procedures namely the United Nations Pacific Settlement Dispute, Chapter VI, Article 33, Paragraph 1.
The Federal Republic of West Papua has no connection with the New York Agreement in 1962 or the Act of Free Choice in 1969. These international arrangements were bilateral agreements between the United Kingdom of Netherlands and the Indonesian government without the involvement of the Papuan people or the Papuan nation.
The United Nations involvement in West Papua extends back to 1962. The UN was charged with helping implement the 1962 “New York Agreement” which guaranteed the Papuans right to participate in an “act of self determination” to decide whether they wish to remain or sever ties with Indonesia. A referendum that clearly presented this choice never took place.
The nation of Papua and the ancestral land of the tribes of Papuan indigenous people became the focus of this New York Agreement. As a result up until now the rights of the Papuan peoples have been overridden by the Indonesian state, military and police in many and various forms.
The executive government of the Federal Republic of West Papua is not focussing on a lawsuit to dispute the New York Agreement in 1962 and the Act of Free Choice in 1969 for three reasons:
- No individual West Papuans or the nation of Papua did not participate directly in the planning, the process of discussion, the determination and the signing of the New York Agreement August 15, 1962. All objective history notes the people of Papua did not participate freely and without coercion in the Act of Free Choice of 1969 and has been deemed a patently defective ‘vote’, even by the UN.
- The New York Agreement and its implementation through the Act of Free Choice in 1969 resulted in the annexation of West Papua.
- With the October 19, 2011 Declaration of the Restoration of Independence of West Papua Nation as the legal basis for the birth of the Federal Republic of West Papua, the New York Agreement is therefore disqualified and the outcome of the Act of Free Choice is no longer valid throughout the entire land of West Papua.
This is in accordance with the Laws of the Republic of Indonesia Number 24 Year 2000 on International Treaties Chapter VI (TERMINATION INTERNATIONAL TREATY), Article 18 letter g (International Agreement Ends), if the object of the treaty is void.
The Federal Republic of West Papua through the October 19, 2011 unilateral Declaration of Restoration of West Papuan Independence has received the predicated legal status of SUBJECT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW known as Belligerent, subsequently the nation State of West Papua is no longer an entity of International treaty law between Indonesia and Netherlands. Consequently, the New York Agreement, signed on August 15, 1962 and the results of its execution in 1969 is now terminated and eliminated by International Custom Law or General International law, as well as the Republic of Indonesia Law No. 24 of 2000, Chapter VI Article 18 Letter g. This is also allied to the Vienna Conventions on Law of Treaties 1969, Chapter 64:, “If a new peremptory norm of general International law emerges, any existing treaty which is a conflict with the norm becomes void and terminates.”.
From now on the Federal Republic of West Papua will focus on the legal dispute of the annexation of West Papua through appropriate International procedures in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
The People of West Papua are of Pacific race and have closer affinity and share common customs and traditions with the people of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia, Australia, Cook Islands, Federal States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu.
10. Bring West Papua Back to the United Nations Agenda
Indonesia always claimed that West Papua was a domestic issue while ignoring the involvement of the United Nations, the United States, and the Kingdom of Netherlands in West Papua occupied by Indonesia on General Assembly Resolution: 2504 on December 19, 1969, through the Act of Free Choice. It was not absolute that West Papua would not be independent from Indonesia. The reality is West Papua had established its state the Federal Republic of West Papua on 19 October 2011 at the Third Papua People Congress and De jure ran it Executive Government of the Federal Republic of West Papua and sought and pursued international political recognition.
Collectively West Papua was put on the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) agenda in 2015 and the Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) States group in 1019 and it got many supporters So the Indonesia government has to understand it and is willing to negotiate with officials of the Federal Republic of West Papua that are mediated by a UN Security Council representative.
West Papua wish the United Nations Security Council to mediate high level negotiation between the Republic of Indonesia and the Federal Republic of West Papua.
Former Indonesian Minister for Foreign Affairs Mrs. Retno Marsudi dated 31 June 2020 that Indonesia was overwhelmed by West Papua in international fora like the Pacific, Europe, USA, Canada, Africa, and Latin America.
Based on the provisions and procedures regarding the independence of new countries, including the Federal Republic of West Papua, namely:
- Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, 26 December 1933;
- The United Nations Charter, 1 January 1942;
- General Assembly of the United Nations’ Rules and Procedures ;
- The first paragraph of the Preamble to the 1945 Indonesian Constitution: That independence is the right of all nations and therefore, colonialism in the world must be abolished, because it is not conformity with humanity and Justice
- West Papua has no problem with the 5 UN Members with Veto Power, therefore Indonesia does NOT have the right to clash West Papua with the 5 countries. West Papua is independent and will build diplomatic relations with them. If Indonesia has a problem with the 5 countries, namely America, England, France, Russia and China, please just deal with them and do not make West Papua a bargaining chip for Indonesia's politics with them.
The UN will grant West Papua Membership and an orderly and Peaceful transition and transfer of power from the state of Indonesia to the State of West Papua which shall be carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.
- Officials of the Federal Republic of West Papua offering high level negotiation between Indonesia and West Papua that mediate by a UN representative.
- Please bring West Papua back to the United Nations agenda and orderly and Peaceful transition and transfer of the power from the state of Indonesia to the State of West Papua which shall be carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.
- The Indonesian government and its people as soon as possible leave West Papua unconditional
Yoab Syatfle
Prime Minister of the State and Islands of, and Executive Government of the Federal Republic of West Papua, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the WEST PAPUAN Liberation Organization