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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Popular Solidarity Team Papua has returned the scholarship money received by human rights activists (HAM), Veronica koman for a value of 773 million IDR for the Institute of Management of Education Funds (LPDP) of the Ministry of Finance. The solidarity team took an action to symbolically hand over the Veronica Koman scholarship compensation money to the LPDP office in central Jakarta.
During the action, they brought Rp3 million in cash along with a red and white flag and a copy of the transfer receipt. However, the plan to symbolically return the money to LPDP employees failed.
In the press release received CNNIndonesia.comAfter being unable to meet with LPDP employees, their representatives moved to the Ministry of Finance. However, the apparatus guarded by the Ministry of Finance refused to provide them, alleging that there were no staff in the office.
Finally, the symbolic delivery of the cash was made to the Office of the Coordinating Ministry of Political, Legal and Security Affairs, to then be delivered to the Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD, who wanted to ask about the Veronica Koman scholarship .
“Finally we delivered the return of the scholarship, the flag, the special autonomy status and the special autonomy funds to the Coordinating Ministry of Political, Legal and Security Affairs to be entrusted to Dr. Pak Mahfud because he had asked about the Veronica Koman scholarship since last year.”Said the contribution statement from the solidarity team.
Up to this point, CNNIndonesia.com still trying to obtain confirmation from the Coordinating Ministry of Political, Legal and Security Affairs on the symbolic deposit of the Veronica Koman scholarship fund by the representative of Popular Solidarity of Papua.
Papua human rights lawyer Michael Himan admitted that the LPDP office disappointed him when his party wanted to symbolically return the money. He admitted that he had submitted a request for a hearing a few days earlier.
“I am disappointed in the LPDP office, for which we sent a letter on September 15, they did not respond when we arrived with the excuse that the office was closed,” Michael told reporters at the LPDP office on Wednesday (16 / 9).
 Representatives of Solidarity of the People of Papua went to the LPDP office of the Ministry of Finance, Central Jakarta, to symbolically deliver the compensation money for the scholarships that the Human Rights activist (HAM) Veronica Koman had received, on Wednesday, September 16. 2020 (CNN Indonesia / Bisma Septalisma). |
Although the token handover did not take place, Michael said that the 773,876,918 rupees that the LPDP billed Veronica had been paid.
Meanwhile, one of the LPDP security officials stated that the closure of the Office was a policy in line with the implementation of Large Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) in Jakarta.
“Now the current condition, Jakarta is in a PSBB. Do you understand the PSBB? So the point is that our office is WFH, a total holiday. So today there are no workers, only security guards,” he said upon receiving a representative of the Solidarity Team.
With the return of the money, Veronica assessed that her studies had not been funded by the Indonesian government, but by the Papuan people who had been raising funds for some time.
“With this I want to emphasize that it means that I am funded by the university not by the Indonesian government but by the people of Papua,” Veronica told CNNIndonesia.com via written message, Wednesday (16/9).
The return of the Veronica Koman Scholarship was in the wake of Veronica’s recognition last August. At the time, she admitted that she was asked by the Indonesian government through the LPDP to return her scholarship money worth more than IDR 773,876,918 when she was pursuing postgraduate studies in Australia. She stated that the economic sanction was aimed at preventing her from speaking out in defense of human rights issues in Papua.
(yoa / fra)
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