John Lokobal sitting on a grass base of his home wood flooring consists of only one room. He warmed his hands at the fireplace located in the center of the room. Meanwhile, from time to time a pig, does not appear as being in the room next door, screaming and banging her hard into the wall of the house.
Megapura village located in the middle of the mountains in the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua is the most remote villages so that the provision of goods can only be done through air travel or by foot. John Lokobal has lived there all his life. He does not know exactly how old he is, "just old" he said hoarsely. He also poor. "I work in the garden. My income is approximately Rp. 20,000 per day. I also clean the school yard. "But life is tough, something goes wrong most hurt him. In 2005, his only son, of Joppa, was taken away to Jakarta. Joppa Lokobal do not want to go. The boy was aged about 14 years, but he was big and strong, a good worker. But these people still carry him away. Several years later, Joppa died. No one can tell how or when exactly Lokobal his son died, and he also does not know where her son is buried. All he knows for certain is, that this is not supposed to happen.
"If my child was still alive, he would take care of the family," said Lokobal. "He would go into the forest and collect firewood for the family. It makes me sad.
"People who carry Joppa go is part of the trade group of West Papuan children are organized. Investigations were carried out for six months by the Good Weekend have confirmed that the children, who may number in the thousands, have been taken away in the last ten years or so with the promise of getting a free education. In provinces where schools are minimal and many families can not afford, free schools can be an irresistible offer.
But for some children, who were aged about five years, when they arrived did they realize that they had been recruited by "boarding", Islamic boarding schools, where only a small fraction of time used to study math, science or language due to be replaced by learned in the mosque for hours. There, as said by one of the Islamic leaders, "They learn to respect God, that is the main thing." Pesantrans has one purpose: to send the graduates returned to Papua predominantly Christian to spread the teachings of Islam they are hard.
Ask the 100 boys and girls who are in boarding school Papuan Daarur Apostles on the outskirts of Jakarta what their ideals when they will grow up and shout "Ustad! Ustad! "
In Papua, especially in the mountainous region, religion and cultural identity issues are a hot issue. Census data for more than forty years shows that the original inhabitants now equal the number of migrants who are largely Muslim, who comes from a number of regions in Indonesia. Mastery of new entrants to the field of economics, is quite effective in marginalizing the natives. This migration means that indigenous people have a real fear and realistic that they would be the ethnic and religious minorities in their own land. A number of stories about people who take away their children and increase the emotional strain has the potential to inflame tensions in an already volatile region.
In a period of fifty years, the separatist rebellion has been active in Papua and hundreds of thousands of people died in their efforts to achieve the independence of Papua. Christianity, brought by missionaries from the Netherlands and Germany, is the belief of the majority indigenous population and also an important part of their identity. Islamic religion actually has a longer history in Papua compared with Christianity, but that is taught is the doctrine (Islam) that is more friendly than the dikothbahkan in mosques in Java that is increasingly more likely to show the impression of hardline, and at least for up to this time, Islam is still a minority religion in Papua. But when the children returned from the Javanese pesantren, their beliefs have changed. "They've become a different person," said the Christian leaders of Papua, Benny Giay, to me. "Their brains have been washed."
The schools insist that they only recruit students who are already Moslem, but obviously if they are not too careful. In Daarur Apostle, I quickly found the two little boys, Philip and Aldi, which has become converts - a new convert from Christianity to Islam. One of the radical Islamic organization, Al Fatih Kafah Nusantara (AFKN) did not hesitate to conceal its purpose is to change one's beliefs and the use of religion for political ends. AFKN leader, Fadzlan AFKN Garamatan said that 2200 had brought the children out of Papua as part of their national program "Islamize". "When [the Papuans] convert to Islam, their desire for independence is reduced," said Fadzlan in AFKN internet account.
In the restive Papua, the movement of the children and their beliefs displacement is an issue that is politically explosive. We have been warned many times not to continue the investigation into this story. This was never reported in the Indonesian press. Head of Unit for the Acceleration of Development in Papua and West Papua, Bambang Darmono, which is headquartered in Jakarta just say that this is one of the "many problems in Papua", and director of the boarding school at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Saefudin, said that he had never heard of it . But my attempts to menelurusuri life and death of one child Papua has revealed that the trade continues. And, in an effort to serve the interests of religion and politics that sometimes life sublime young children aged thrown out.
Elias Lokobal smiled to himself when he talks about his half brother who was always eager, but who has now passed away, but when the conversation turns to Amir Lani, his expression turned into a huff. Lani is a local cleric in Megapura and several other villages around Wamena. It was around 2005 when he and Aloysius Kowenip, Yahukimo police chief, a neighboring district, began to approach the family to recruit some of their children. Both work to bring five boys each of the five villages, who come from disadvantaged families, and sending them to Java for pemperoleh education. Kowenip, a Christian, said that it was his idea to "help" children's charter, and that the funds came from "the local government and an Islamic oranganisasi" whose name he can not remember. He said that he was looking for children who only have one parent because "no one guiding them"
Joppa is still small in the category of such children. Although she has a stepmother, his biological mother had died. Her family is Muslim families, although Joppa sometimes go to church with his uncle. Lani or Kowenip either never come to Joppa father, John Lokobal, to explain their plans. It is still bothering him.
"Those people should ask permission from the parents," said Lokobal. Instead they just ask young Joppa course, very excited for this adventure. Some of his friends had gone the year before and he was keen to join them.
When it comes time to Joppa to go, everything happens very quickly, recalls Elias, his stepbrother. "I went to school and when I come back there is no one at home."
Andreas Asso also part of the same group. He now is a shy young man who struggles to make a living in Jayapura, capital of Papua, he's probably 15 years old at the time. Just like Joppa, Andreas only have one parent. His father had died and, although the birth mother was still alive, living with her stepmother Andreas. Just like Joppa, he was approached directly. "They asked me if I wanted my education in Jakarta melanjudkan for free," said Andreas. "The police chief has never talked with my stepmother but she was talking to my uncle, my father's brother, and he (uncle) agrees. I was born a Christian and I will continue to be Christians. The police chief just said that we would be placed in a dorm ... If he says that it is meant boarding schools, none of us would want to go "
When it arrived the next to depart, Andreas said that a group of boys numbered 19 is inserted into the Indonesian Air Force Hercules C-130 in Wamena. By some accounts, the youngest of their five-year-old. The aircraft was manned by men in uniform. Difficult to prove whether there is involvement of the military, but a former military commander in Papua said that civilians are allowed to buy a cheap ticket to fly military aircraft as part of the "Social Responsibility" military. "We do not talk to the soldiers," recalls Andrew. "We are afraid."
It took two days for the plane to arrive in Jakarta and, "we were not given food or drink offered. Some of us, especially the young, falling sick ... there are some who throw up, "said Andreas. "When they came to my hometown, at the time I thought I wanted to go. But when I've been on a plane, all I could think was, 'I want to go back to my hometown.' "When they landed in Jakarta, the kids are taken with the vehicle and during a three-hour journey to their new home - boarding Jamiyyah Al-Wafa Al Islamiyah in the slopes of the volcano, Gunung Salak, Bogor city on the back side. The school principal foundations of Al-Wafa, Harun Al Rashid, Andreas Asso will remember and kids from Wamena, and the people who take them, and Aloysius Kowenip Amir Lani, whom he knew as "Aloy". Two people come and "offer students" in 2005, he recalls. "Aloy very ambitious in politics, and by bringing the kids to my boarding school is one way to improve the position or image in the community," said Al Rashid.
In some ways different from the testimony Andreas Asso other testimonies but they agree on one thing: the children of the villages in the interior mountains of Papua is not fit to be in that place. "It's not like the school because at school they have classes." Said Andreas. "For this one, we just went to a big mosque and we just learned about the religion of Islam, just reading the Quran. Sometimes they slapped our faces and beat us with wooden sticks. They say the black Papuans, our skin dark. "
Food and education at Al Wafa is free but very strict religious matters. They have teachers from Yemen and financed by Saudi Arabia and on their internet accounts portray the Salafi Al Wafa as pious. The goal is: Creating a cadre of preachers and people who can bring others to Islam. "Andrew insisted that as he was a few other children are Christians and that the principal change the name of five children to make their sounds more Islamic - a charge denied by the Al Rashid in. In this regard, Al-Rashid said that the Papuan people is disadvantaged communities unruly and exhausting their teachers "because of their different cultural backgrounds".
He said that the children were urinating and defecating on school grounds as well as stealing results from nearby farmers field schools. He admits to punish them with "scold" and hit "with rattan legs". About two or three months after their arrival, Nison Asso, sickly child, died.
"He's 10 years old," said Andreas. "He was already sick of in Wamena but ... he died. His body was still in Bogor as schools do not have enough money to send the bodies back Nison, despite her parents wanted her son's body sent back to Papua. "Al Rashid did not want to comment about what happened to Nison. After less than a year, it became clear to the kids and also schools that the experiment was a failure, so Amir Lani on the call. Andrew said that he pleaded with Lani to take him home, but his request was denied. Instead, Lani even bring them to Jakarta and submit them to the Asso Ismail, a Papuan who had also been a student submissions (from Papua to Java) and that the name had been changed. Ismail told the boys that there was not enough money to send them back to Papua. The parents of these children, seemingly never to talk (about the plan to study for free in Java).
Some students are placed at a new boarding school in Tangerang, near Jakarta. Then they removed also from the boarding school, because, as the narrative Asso Ismail, "These children had been naughty since in Papua." But Andrew still did not like school, and instead work together with another boy, Lokobal Muslim, "which also a Christian but was given the name 'Muslim' ". Both are trying to live with sediri way in the big city.
Persistent problems faced when I was doing research for writing this report is to obtain accurate information - name, time, and age. The names have been changed, the background is removed, and the children who come from villages rarely know their own age. However, experienced a tragic end by Joppa Lokobal suggests that perhaps it is the same child as it is known by the Muslim Asso Andreas Lokobal.
Andreas tells, that on one evening drinking Minman Muslim hard to get drunk. No witnesses about what happened after that, danada five different stories that come from sources that are not witnessed directly. Presented by Andreas is the most terrible. "On the way back to boarding school, Muslims create problems with the locals, so they hit and kill dia.Mereka Her body was brought to pesantren.Dan because they hate it, they gouged out one of his eyes, and put the bottle into the cavity of the eye." Is This image shows sadistic death Joppa? Or, if the Muslim is another young kid?
Back in the village Megapura, they get a little information. "There's a call from Jakarta to the Mosque in Megapura, and the people of the mosque was delivering the news to us," recalls John Lokobal. "There is no explanation of how the Joppa died." Stepsister Joppa, Elias said, "about the incident in 2009 or 2010. We can only hold a mourning ceremony at home, pray. "Nobody knows where the bodies were buried Joppa.
Other children who fly the Hercules will 20s now. Andreas last time asso hear them, they were in Jakarta, little better than a beggar - "street buskers, or work on public transport - the conductor, who called the passengers," he said. Unknown group of children organized by Amir Lani and Aloysius Kowenip to be taken away. Teronce Sorasi, a mother of Wamena, said that he had been approached by the "chief of police" in 2007 or 2008, who asked him to send his daughter, Jackie, who at the time was only five years old, and his son, Yance 11, to Jakarta, though "my family is a Christian family". "I said 'no' because my husband had just died and we are still grieving," said Sorasi.
Amir Lani still living in a house on a hill near Megapura. According to Elias, when people ask about the children missing from Wamena, "he avoid them". When I contacted Aloysius Kowenip by phone, he felt proud of his plans. "If one of them manages to be a person, then, as the people of Papua me feel proud." But when asked about those who died or who have failed, Kowenip abruptly hung up. A few days later, a friend Kowenip, Asso Ismail calling angrily, then send two sms ancamam. "I'm warning you ... do not try to dig up information on Muslims in Wamena." It read, if not "provocative foreign journalists" will be in the "deportation of Indoneisa" or "murdered with an ax by (people) Wamena."
Removal of children internally has a long and shameful history in Indonesia. Approximately 4500 children have been moved out of East Timor during the 24 years of Indonesian occupation there for - like the words of author Helene van Klinken in his book Making Them Indonesians (Making them Indonesian people) - serving "call to Islam", and to bind the region to closer to Jakarta. Children, he wrote, was chosen because of their "impressionable and easily manipulated to serve political ends, race, ideology and religion".
Papua has been the target of long ago. In 1969, former president Suharto propose to remove 200,000 children from the "backward and primitive areas of Papua are still living in the stone age" to Java to get an education. Other groups funded by Saudi Arabia, DDII, used to bring the children of East Timor and Papua. And this time, AFKN, associated with thuggery, font hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is actively seeking to recruit children.
Daarur Apostle was half school, half of the schools are located in suburban Jakarta, Cibinong. Here, 100 boys from low-lying parts of West Papua, crammed into a large gate to greet us. The gate was locked because, according to one of the staff who work there, "they are often blurred". Approximately 40 girls living at the bottom with a little more freedom. Principals Ahmad Bayhaqi, insisted that he teach a moderate Islamic teachings. He does not deny that children are locked, but he said it was only during the hours of study "to discipline them".
In 2011, four boys ran away and they said that not only are they forced to work as a construction worker, but also in school, let them starve, given raw water for drinking water and only taught Islamic religious instruction, Indonesian and Math. Bayhaqi insisted that the children were exaggerating, he said the charter kids are "rogue" since before they get to school. He admitted that sometimes her students work on the building site, but they enjoy it. Lessons for boys begins with prayer at 04.00 am. Dilanjudkan with school breaks and naps until 21:00 the night, of which there are seven hours of prayer and recite the Qur'an and only three and a half hours for "natural science, social science, reading and writing".
Bayhaqi said that he was recruiting new students each year in Papua and vowed that the parents have given their consent. But the children could only go home once in three years. They do not miss their parents, he said, and the parents agree with this arrangement.
Arist Merdeka Sirait, chairman of Indonesia's Child Protection Commission, said that separating the child from parents for it "means to remove the roots of their culture", especially if the name of their religion and also in locker. "It's very dangerous" he added. But the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia with all his might not make it. In fact this is recommended, the director of schools, Saefudin, because, "the longer you stay (in schools) the more blessings you will be."
Indonesian Child Protection Commission, KPAI, the organization is also optimistic. Vice chairman, Asrorun Ni'am, who is also a senior fellow at the Council of Ulama Indoneisa, MUI, more worried about the "Religious Feelings" that we may awaken to write this story. "It is contrary to all that efforts to build a harmonious atmosphere." Said warned us.
Regulation is clear. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Indonesia is a member, said that children should not be separated from their families for any reason, even kemiskinan.Dan Indonesian Child Protection Law provides a five-year prison sentence for anyone who change the religion of the child being different from the religion of their family. In the Papua, religious leaders have little concern that moving the children are part of a larger effort to drown the natives, "this is a long-term project to make Papua Indonesia as a place of Islam," said the chairman of the Baptist Church of Papua, Socratez Yoman. "If Jakarta wants to educate the children of Papua," said a Christian leader, Benny Giay, "why they do not build schools in Papua?"
We could not confirm if the Indonesian government or agency-lembanganya active role in the movement of the children. But some organizations have a high level of support. AFKN funded by the Zakat (alms) which is transmitted through donor agencies of the Government bank, BRI; Aloysius Kowenip talk about funding by the "local government"; donors Daarur Apostles including "police and army" as an individual, and at least one group that was taken by a military aircraft.
Perhaps, like the movement of children in Timor Leste which has been well documented, the organization in Papua do not have government support but enjoy quiet approval from upper class society of Indonesia. Andreas Asso survived to tell his story, but he still felt angry because he felt duped into leaving his home in the mountains, and his fate is ignored.
"I can get an education in Wamena. Some of my friends who stay have graduated from school ... My dream job is to become a police officer. But I look back and I did not achieve anything "
source:http://suarapapua.com
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