Indonesia acceded to UN Ratifications or Declarations on the issue of indigenous people or the Fourth World Nations

Indonesia acceded to UN Ratifications or Declarations on the issue of indigenous people or the Fourth World Nations through the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2002 and the UN Charter on Political and Civil Rights 2006. Now the U - turn. In 1945, Indonesia joined the international society as an independent sovereign entity, but for most of that time vegetated when it came to meeting the bar on international best practice. West Papua's farcical Act of Free Choice or No Choice is a case in point.This is the empirical evidence, but there is also a theoretical lens to understand Indonesia. Perhaps. It is natural for Indonesia to vegetate and demise after every 700 years, and every 70 years….it is the 'unfinished nation' (Max Lane, 2010) with 60 years of human rights abuses still not revisited with a view to allocating culpability, and an escalating humanitarian crisis unfolding today. This history. The world knows it. Indonesia fears it. The indigenous people will win. This is a photo of the daily preoccupation of mothers of West Papua, who are living an indigenous pattern of life not touched much by the ‘gloss and spin’ of yellow civilization under the Indonesian military occupation since 1961. It shows two Papuan grass roots mothers selling their garden goods at the Yoka Market, Sentani…on the ground. The indigenous of West Papua are forgotten and made to look stupid on their own land…Indonesia says they do not have such rights to be empowered under Indonesian law.

The government of Indonesia has responded to UN recommendations to recognize the rights of its indigenous peoples by claiming that none live in Indonesia. In fact, Indonesia is home to an estimated 50-70 million indigenous and tribal people. If so, it must be one of the world’s mysteries as to why according to predictions Indonesia will disintegrate in 2015 into 17 different sovereign states. This follows a cycle of every 700 years, and 70 years, in which the different regions of the Indonesian archipelago reached such point of the cycle…but managed to re – organize a state structure. The last 700 year cycle ended with the demise of the Kingdom of Madjafahit, and the 70 years ended and began with the rise of another state under President Sukarno. He had the oratory skills to carve a path for the Indonesian state, while President Suharto, imposed and superimposed his iron grip with the able assistance of the military. In the New Order Indonesia, and the intention to ‘democratize’, if to please the western world, the exercise in democratic reform has failed…Indonesia drowns in the ‘unfinished nation’ stigma before the eyes of the international community. Democratic reform comes with a democratic republic, and is a complete package which includes a democratic republic and the baggage that goes with it associated with notions of self – determination and equality guaranteed under the constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.

The indigenous people inhabit the 17 different ethnic areas, and they will seek self – determination and equality which the Republic of Indonesia may be failing to provide comprehensively consistent with the proposition to ‘democratize’ in the reformasi or New Order Indonesia. Indonesia fears a conspiracy, among five other factors, by the Western countries to cause the disintegration of the Indonesian state. Wrong. It is natural for Indonesia to vegetate and demise after every 700 years, and every 70 years….it is the unfinished nation with 60 years of human rights abuses still not revisited with a view to allocating culpability, and an escalating humanitarian crisis unfolding today. The world knows it. Indonesia fears it. The indigenous people will win. Read on:

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