Up to ten BIN (Indonesian Intelligence) Indonesian Agents were either killed or captured operating inside Papua New Guinea. Sources have advised the WPNGNC that this Hit Squad was operating on direct instructions from the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and BIN. It is believed that documents verifying the paper trail have been captured.
The WPNGNC believes the incident occurred in May, 2006 close to the PNG border area with West Papua.
The Death Squad Agents were sent to PNG to murder Siti Pandera Wanggai, the wife of one of the 42 West Papuan refugees given temporary refugee protection in Australia.
Siti Pandera Wanggai was coerced by Indonesian Intelligence, acting upon direct orders from the Indonesian President, into making a statement that her four year old daughter had been kidnapped by her husband, Yunus Wainggai, and forcibly taken to Australia.
Below is an article from Melbourne Age which details Mrs Wanggai's plight.
Refugee child ignites Indonesia tensions
Melbourne Age - By Michael Gordon
April 18, 2006
Explosive new claims surrounding a four-year old Papuan girl granted refugee status in Australia are set to further strain relations between Canberra and Jakarta, and to test the Howard Government's new, harder-line border protection policy.
The girl's mother, who is in hiding in Papua New Guinea, claims she was coerced by Indonesia into making a false appeal for the return of her daughter to West Papua.
Papuans Yunus Wainggai and daughter Anike, 4, in Melbourne.
Photo: Michael RaynerThe girl, Anike Wanggai, and her father were among 42 Papuans recently granted refugee status in Australia.
The mother, Siti Pandera Wanggai, claims she was pressured into appealing to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to help secure her daughter's return.
In a written statement, Ms Wanggai alleged that an Indonesian army intelligence officer and two members of her own family had pushed her into falsely claiming that her daughter was taken without her permission. "I was taken away by them and told to agree to the entire contents of the statement that was made by the three of them," she said.
Ms Wanggai says she fears for her own safety if she is forced to return to West Papua from PNG. "Don't leave me here too long because I'm afraid," she told The Age yesterday by telephone.
Ms Wanggai's initial statements seeking the return of her daughter were widely reported in the Indonesian and Australian media, and seized on by the Indonesia Government.
Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda stated that, as signatories to a convention on child protection, Australia and Indonesia were obliged to secure the girl's return.
He also warned that Indonesia could institute court proceedings. "It is the mother who has the natural right to take care of her child," he said.
But David Manne, the lawyer representing the woman's husband and daughter, and the 40 other Papuans who were also found to have well-founded fears of persecution, said it was now clear there was involvement "at a high political level" to discredit, intimidate and harass those who had successfully lodged claims for protection in Australia.
"It's difficult to imagine anything more pernicious," he told The Age.
Mr Manne said he was concerned for the woman's safety and would ask the United Nations and other organisations to give her protection.
The allegations coincide with signs that Indonesia is not satisfied with tough new measures aimed at deterring Papuans from seeking asylum in Australia. "Our stance is very clear that we have to review our co-operation and relations with Australia until we clearly have fair ground," Dr Yudhoyono said yesterday.
The new measures, which could mean future Papuan asylum seekers being processed on Nauru, denied access to lawyers and refused resettlement in Australia if they are found to be in need of protection, will be outlined to Mr Wirayuda this week by Foreign Affairs and Trade Department head Michael L'Estrange.
The woman's husband, Yunus Wanggai, has appealed to the Australian Government to grant his wife asylum, saying he had not had the opportunity to let her know that the boat was leaving West Papua in January "because I was being chased".
Under the Howard Government's policy, it is unlikely Mr Wanggai could seek to sponsor his wife to Australia until after he is granted permanent protection - which could be three years away.
Moreover, any move to reunite the family in Australia would further antagonise Indonesia, which is still seething over the granting of temporary protection to the 42 Papuans.
The couple had not lived together for two years, with Mr Wanggai caring for Anike while his wife lived with her mother. Ms Wanggai, 40, has two children from an earlier marriage.
Both insisted yesterday that, despite the two-year estrangement, they wanted to live together with Anike. "Because I love her and she loves me, if I'd had the opportunity, I would have taken her (on the boat to Australia)," he told The Age.
A fisherman and mechanic, Mr Wanggai, 36, has admitted to participating in peaceful demonstrations supporting independence for West Papua since 1987 and to helping people flee to PNG when they were being pur sued by Indonesian authorities. He insists he would be arrested and killed if he tried to return to West Papua.
He was present yesterday when The Age heardMsWanggai recant her earlier statements and plead for asylum in Australia as she described her own escape from Papua, saying her overwhelming reason for fleeing was that she feared for her safety.
Ms Wanggai disappeared in Jayapura on Tuesday, just before she says she was due to fly to Jakarta to meet President Yudhoyono.
She spent two days in hiding before leaving with two others in a small boat for PNG. Speaking through an interpreter, Ms Wanggai said she had only the clothes she was wearing and a photograph of her daughter with her when she f led her home.
Asked why her grandmother and others described as her friends had corroborated her initial remarks, she said they, too, had been put under pressure and were now concerned for their own safety.
She also described how the approach from the intelligence officer and two family members was followed by a meal with seven other intelligence officers in which she was pressured to make the statements seeking her daughter’s return and to sign letters to the local governor, as well as Dr Yudhoyono and the Australian Government.
While she had been angry with her husband at the time for not telling her he was leaving with Anike, she said she had since understood and agreed with his actions. She was pleased they were safe in Australia and did not want Anike to return to West Papua.
Mr Wanggai said he had felt responsible for his wife but had no chance to tell her the boat was leaving. "I’ve been given protection. She also needs to be given protection," he said. Attempting to reassure her over the phone, he said: "Don’t worry about anything. We’ll figure it out."
HOW IT UNFOLDED
Jan 13: 43 asylum seekers, including four children, leave Indonesian province of West Papua in small boat.
Jan 18: Boat found on Cape York, making its passengers eligible to apply for refugee status.
Jan 19: RAAF Hercules flies group to Christmas Island to be processed.
Mar 23: Immigration Department grants refugee status to 42 of the asylum seekers (ruling on 43rd pending). Indonesia protests; recalls its ambassador from Canberra.
April 3: The 42 arrive in Melbourne.
April 10: Siti Pandera Wanggai tells Indonesian media she wants Indonesian Government to secure return of her daughter, one of the 42.
April 14: Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone announces border protection improvements.
April 15: Jakarta Post reports Siti Pandera Wanggai has disappeared.
April 17: Siti Pandera Wanggai accuses Indonesia of forcing her to make false claims.
Radio New Zealand International
The Voice of New Zealand, Broadcasting to the Pacific
Papuan refugee in fear in PNG as family is safe in Australia
Posted at 22:58 on 16 July, 2006 UTCAn Australian opposition senator says a Papuan woman, Siti Pandera Wanggai, whose husband and daughter have been given protection visas stills fears for her safety in Papua New Guinea.
Yunus Wanggai and his four year old daughter Anike fled from Indonesia to Queensland in January, claiming they suffered persecution at the hands of Indonesian authorities.
They were given refugee protection in Australia along with 40 other Papuans.
Ms Wanggai became embroiled in a controversy after she was reported saying her daughter was taken from her without permission but she later said she was forced to make the statement.
Mrs Wanggai then fled to Papua New Guinea where Greens senator Kerry Nettle met her twice last week.
“She is currently in hiding in Papua New Guinea because there have been three separate instances where individuals have been sent by the Indonesian government to make contact with her in order, as we understand, to bring her back to West Papua in Indonesia.”
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Below is an example of how far these Indonesian SCUM will go in order to intimidate West Papuan Refugees.
They are SO STUPID, that they don't realize that their crude efforts to intimidate refugees, only provide support for the refugees case for asylum.
Indonesia struggles to get Papuan child back
Indonesia vowed Friday to take legal actions for the return of a four-year-old girl who, along with 41 other asylum seekers from Papua, was granted protection visa by the Australian government.Jakarta also warned Australia against politicking the issue, saying the return of Anike Wanggai was a pure legal matter.
"We have been collecting related legal documents and a court order for Anike's return," Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Yuri Thamrin said in a regular news conference here.
Yuri said that Anike's mother Siti Pandera Wanggai, 40, was still in the Papuan capital of Jayapura amid reports that she was hiding in Papua New Guinea, which shares the eastern part of Papuaisland.
"The police are still searching Siti Pandera with support from her family. There is a strong indication that she is still in Jayapura," he said without elaborating.
The Papuan girl case was a pure legal matter of custodian right,he said.
"We have conveyed a message to Australia to avoid politicking the issue," he said.
Anike's relatives, including her grandfather and uncles, have officially asked government's support for her return.
The girl was taken to Australia by Siti's estranged husband, Junus, who arrived in northern Australia in January.
Source:Xinhua
Papuan woman makes claims against Indonesian military PRINT FRIENDLY EMAIL STORY
The World Today - Tuesday, 18 April , 2006 12:14:00
Reporter: Daniel Hoare
ELEANOR HALL: In claims that are likely to further damage the relationship between Australia and Indonesia, the lawyer for a Papuan woman is today alleging that his client was coerced by the Indonesian military into making a false appeal for her daughter to be returned from Australia.And he says this woman, Siti Wanggai, is now in grave danger.
The lawyer, David Manne, from Melbourne's Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, has contacted the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, seeking assistance.
And he's been speaking about the case to our reporter Daniel Hoare.
DAVID MANNE: This is further, clear-cut, concrete proof of the way in which the Indonesian Military and Intelligence services systematically threaten, harass and intimidate West Papuan people, including innocent children and their families.
There is a long history to this kind of persecution of West Papuan people. And here we have again a situation really where it's hard to imagine something more pernicious than this.
DANIEL HOARE: Does the Australian Government have an obligation to, having taken these asylum seekers on Temporary Protection Visas, of giving the opportunity to this woman to be with her family now?
DAVID MANNE: Well, certainly, in accordance with the fundamental human rights of family unity, and also of course the clear desire, and indeed obligation, to ensure that not only are a family together but they be able to be together in safety, that there would clearly be a compelling case for the Australian Government to consider reuniting Siti with her family, who have already been found to be genuine refugees in Australia.
DANIEL HOARE: What's the situation currently with your client, who's in Papua New Guinea as we speak?
DAVID MANNE: Look, it's an extremely grave situation. We have grave fears for her safety.
DANIEL HOARE: Who do you fear might harm her?
DAVID MANNE: Well, she's in an extremely precarious situation in hiding, in Papua New Guinea at the moment, and has expressed grave fear herself that she may well be captured or sent back to West Papua.
DANIEL HOARE: Where are you looking for assistance on this as we speak?
DAVID MANNE: We've approached, made urgent communications and are now in close contact with the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, based in Canberra, and we have made a request that there be urgent intervention in Papua New Guinea.
There is a United Nations Office in Papua New Guinea and we're in close contact and communication at the moment, requesting that intervention.
DANIEL HOARE: Are you optimistic they will be able to help you?
DAVID MANNE: Well, we've certainly had very productive discussions thus far, and the seriousness of the situation seems to have been understood very clearly.
And what we're requesting is that as soon as possible, that is of course urgently, that the UNHCR use their jurisdiction to make an objective assessment of the protection needs which Siti Pandera Wanggai clearly has, and then to come up with the best solution for her protection needs.
DANIEL HOARE: Have you had any discussion with the Federal Government over this?
DAVID MANNE: At this stage we are currently dealing with the appropriate body, which is the United Nations, in relation to this matter. They're the appropriate international body to deal with in relation to the protection needs.
DANIEL HOARE: What do you see as being the best possible outcome here?
DAVID MANNE: Look, both Siti, the mother, and Yunus, the father, have both expressed a desire to be reunited with their four-year-old daughter. And it's a fundamental human rights principle that families, wherever possible, should be reunited so that the family can be together and rebuild their lives in safety.
DANIEL HOARE: Where do you go from here? What's your next step in this process?
DAVID MANNE: Look, the urgent and compelling matter at the moment is to procure Siti's safety.
ELEANOR HALL: That's immigration lawyer David Manne, speaking to Daniel Hoare in Melbourne
Australian officials should ensure West Papuan mother's safety
Senator Nettle, 18th April 2006Australian Greens
Senator Kerry Nettle today called on the federal government to ensure that Australian officials in Papuan New Guinea work with local authorities and the UNHCR to ensure the safety of Siti Pandera Wanggai, mother of 4 year old West Papuan refugee Anike Wanggai.
"Australian officials should do all they can to ensure the safety of Siti Wanggai," said Senator Nettle
"The Greens are greatly concerned that this family has been caught up and exploited in the row between Australia and Indonesia over West Papua.
"I call on the government to do all it can to ensure Ms Wanggai safety and facilitate her being reunited with her four year old daughter in Australia.
"Clearly she has come under pressure from the Indonesian military and now needs protection. The best result would for her to be reunited with her child in Australia.
"Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State."
Contact: Jon Edwards 0428 213 146
PNG mum 'not back in Indonesia'
21-04-2006
From: AAP
AN Australian refugee lawyer has denied Indonesian claims that a Papuan woman who fled across the border to Papua New Guinea seeking asylum has returned to her homeland.The woman, Siti Pandera Wanggai, said last week that her four-year-old daughter Anike had been taken to Australia without her consent and called on Indonesian authorities for help in getting her back.
The little girl and her father, Ms Wanggai's estranged husband Yunus, are among 42 Papuans granted protection visas to stay in Australia.Late last week Ms Wanggai fled to PNG where she recanted her allegation saying she had been pressured into making it by Indonesian security forces.
In the latest development, Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Desra Percaya said today Ms Wanggai still wants her child returned and is now back on Indonesian soil.
"She asked ... to facilitate the return of her daughter as soon as possible," he told ABC Radio today.
"Of course I cannot reveal where she (the mother) is, but she is safe. She is secure and she is in Papua."
But lawyer David Manne, from the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, who represents the Papuan refugees, said Mr Percaya's comments were "completely false" and that Ms Wanggai remained in hiding in PNG.
"She is in fact still in Papua New Guinea," he said.
Mr Manne, who is currently on an overseas holiday, said refugee advocates in Australia had made "direct contact" with Ms Wanggai in PNG today.
Previously Mr Manne had detailed claims by Ms Wanggai that she was coerced into making the claims about her daughter by Indonesia security.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda has said court action may be taken to have Anike returned to her mother.
Mr Manne rejected the remarks by the Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman today as "further evidence of a concerted and malicious campaign of coercion in relation to an innocent four-year-old child and her parents".
As well, Mr Manne said Mr Percaya's comments amounted to a denial of what the findings of an "independent umpire" - immigration authorities who have accepted the Papuan refugee claims - that "Indonesian authorities have been engaged in persecuting their own West Papuan people".
Refugee advocates have appealed to UN High Commissioner for Refugees to intervene in the case. Mr Manne said Ms Wanggai remained in hiding and in serious danger until she could be given refugee protection.
"We remain extremely concerned about a number of factors including the possibility of Indonesian operatives attempting to contact her and also the serious risk she faces of being forcibly returned to West Papua.
"We would put her situation as one of urgency and emergency."
A spokeswoman the UNHCR regional office in Canberra said the organisation would not comment on individual cases.
Police To Look For Siti Pandera
By: ANTARAApril 21 2006 Jakarta (ANTARA News)
National Police Chief General Sutanto said here on Thursday that the police would continue to find Siti Pandera, the mother of Annike Wanggai who is one of the Papuan asylum seekers recently granted visas by the Australian government.
"I will continue to check developments in the case with the regional police chief. We will continue to find her," he said at the office of the coordinating minister for political , security and legal affairs.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday received Siti Pandera`s family members at the palace namely her father Nicolas Wanggai, brothers Jemy Wanggai and Marfin Wanggai and Jack Muabay, Annike`s grandfather.
They asked the government to find Siti Pandera who had gone missing after meeting with the Papua governor on Friday. They had also demanded the return of Annike Wanggai who had been taken by Yunus Wanggai, Siti Pandera`s husband, to Australia to seek asylum.
General Sutanto had ordered the Papua regional police chief to find Siti.
"If she is still in Papua we will protect her," he said.
The Indonesian government meanwhile will forward Siti Pandera`s request for the return of her daughter to Indonesia. The Indonesian foreign affairs ministry however would only extend her request after it was clear that Siti really demanded her right for custody of her daughter.
"If it is true (that Siti wants the custody right) conveyed orally by herself not by any other person and proven by a document, we will convey it to the Australian government," Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said in Gianyar, Bali, on Thursday.(*)
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