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West Papua: Secret operation launched to undermine and destroy all pro-independence activities
A summary prepared by TAPOL
12 October 2001
It can now be revealed that top-ranking Indonesian government officials and military and police intelligence agencies were so disturbed by the stunning success and political impact of the Grand Congress held in Jayapura last year that led to the creation of the Papuan Presidium Council, that they conspired to launch a counter-intelligence operation to undermine and destroy all pro-independence activities in West Papua.
The plans are set forth in a collection of documents marked 'Sangat Rahasia' - Top Secret - that was leaked to human rights activists in Jayapura and have been passed on to TAPOL. Careful examination of the 23 pages of documents and diagrams confirm that they are authentic.
The documents reveal that on 8 June 2000, just days after the Papuan Grand Congress end, a meeting was convened by head of the Directorate for 'Kesbang dan Linmas' (which probably stands for 'Development and Protection of Society of the Ministry of the Interior 'to discuss ways of handling the problem of Irian Jaya (Papua) following the Papuan People's Congress'.
The meeting was attended by the Second Deputy Head of BAKIN (the government's intelligence agency), two officers from Directorate A of BAIS (army intelligence), an official of Paban C-1 of BAIS, commander of Kopassus Second Battalion, the intelligence chief of KOSTRAD (the army's strategic reserve corps), Paban-IV from armed forces hearquarters, a top official from another Interior Ministry department, a senior officer representing the TNI's territorial chief of staff, the intelligence chief and another official of the Police Force, and an official from the Foreign Ministry.
[NB. Some of the acronyms/designations of the persons attending have been difficult to decipher.]
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