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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD declared the formation of the interim government for West Papua, which was declared by the leader of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) Benny Wenda as an act of treason against the state.
“He has committed treason. Even the president of the MPR (Bambang Soesatyo) said that he already had the intention and had taken steps to commit treason,” Mahfud told a virtual press conference on Thursday (03/12/2020).
He considered that Benny Wenda was engineering an illusory state when starting the provisional government of West Papua.
Because Benny Wenda has no conditions to establish a country. The condition is the existence of the community, the region and the government.
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Of the three conditions, according to Mahfud, Benny Wenda did not have a strong reason to establish a temporary government for West Papua.
“He is not there. Who are the people? He rebelled. We control his territory. The government of those who recognize that he is the government, the Papuans themselves do not admit it,” he said.
Apart from these three conditions, Mahfud continued, the government also did not have the requirements for recognition from other countries, including participation in international organizations.
“Nobody admits it. In fact, it has the support of a small Pacific country called Vanuatu. But, smaller than hundreds of large countries. Vanuatu is small and does not belong to international organizations, it only expresses itself politically,” Mahfud continued. .
As an additional step, Mahfud ordered the National Police to arrest Benny Wenda for violating state security.
“Arrest, use the articles on crimes against state security. Then it is enough (law enforcement). This is not too big,” he said.
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The head of the Public Information Office of the Public Relations Division of the National Police, Brigadier General (Pol) Awi Setiyono, said earlier that the police could not carry out any further legal proceedings because Benny was a British citizen and found in the country.
It is known that Benny was arrested by the police because he was suspected of leading several illegal meetings to attack TNI-Polri posts in 2002.
That same year, he escaped from the detention room and allegedly went to Papua New Guinea. Still in 2002, Benny received asylum from England.
“He’s abroad, how?” Awi said at the Criminal Investigation Building of the National Police, Wednesday (02/12/2020).
Reported BBC, the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) group announced the interim government of West Papua.
ULMWP leader Benny Wenda declared himself acting president of West Papua effective December 1, 2020, while rejecting all rules and policies of the Indonesian government.
“This announcement marks intense resistance to the Indonesian colony in West Papua since 1963,” Benny Wenda said in a press release on Tuesday (12/1/2020).
