{"id":253,"date":"2006-05-12T15:13:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T05:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2008-11-26T06:43:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T19:43:03","slug":"asylum-for-siti-wainggai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Asylum for Siti Wainggai"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image:<\/a>Among the group of 42 Papuans recently granted asylum in Australia after landing on the Australian mainland was a 6-year-old girl, Anike Wainggai. Anike (pictured with father, Yanus Wainggai) is the daughter of Siti Wainggai.<\/p>\n

The Indonesian government recently released a statement<\/a> where it was claimed that Siti Wainggai had met SBY on 8 April to petition him for the return of her daughter from Australia. In the statement, Wainggai denied being pressured by the Indonesian government to make the demand for the child’s return:<\/p>\n

Menanggapi isu tentang adanya tekanan terhadap Siti Pandera dari aparat untuk membawa pulang anaknya kembali ke Indonesia, Gubernur Papua menjelaskan bahwa pada hari Sabtu tanggal 8 April 2006, Siti Pandera secara langsung bertemu dengan dirinya dan menyampaikan keinginannya untuk bertemu Presiden SBY. Ibu Siti ingin mengupayakan agar anaknya Anike dikembalikan. Saya melihat dan merasakan kalau Ibu Siti secara spontan, sebagai seorang ibu menangis, dan secara tulus tanpa paksaan dari pihak manapun minta tolong agar anaknya bisa dikembalikan, kata Sodjuangon Situmorang, yang berada di Jakarta sebenarnya untuk mengikuti Rakerbangnas. Kesan bahwa ada suatu tekanan terhadap dia tidak ada, tambahnya. Dan hal tersebut juga dibantah tegas oleh Panglima TNI dan Kapolri.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rough machine translation from Bahasa to English by Toggletext\/Kataku<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Responded to rumours about the existence of the pressure against Siti Pandera from apparatus to bring came home his child returned to Indonesia, Governor Papua explained that on the Saturday on April 8 2006, Siti Pandera directly met itself and sent his wish to meet President SBY. Ms Siti wanted to make sure his child of Anike was returned. I saw and felt if Ms Siti spontaneously, as a mother cried, and sincerely without the force from any side asked for help so that his child could be returned, said Sodjuangon Situmorang, that was in Jakarta in fact to follow Rakerbangnas.The impression that there is a pressure against him was not available, he added. And this matter was also denied firm by the TNI Commander and Chief Police of Republic of Indonesia.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, I have complete faith in ‘firm denials’ of coercion from those good old blokes, the commander of the TNI<\/a> and the Chief of Police of Indonesia<\/a>– don’t you?<\/p>\n

Siti Wainggai has suddenly turned up in Papua New Guinea<\/a>, having fled West Papua by boat. Wainggai has gone on record with the ABC<\/a> indicating that she not only was pressured to make the statement demanding the return of her daughter to West Papua, but was threatened with death<\/a> if she did not do so. No wonder she was in tears when she met SBY. Fearing for her life, Siti Wainggai remains in hiding in PNG.<\/p>\n

Dear Ministers Vanstone and Downer- now would be a very good time to dispatch a few folks and an airplane to go collect Siti Wainggai… before the TNI<\/a> does.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the group of 42 Papuans recently granted asylum in Australia after landing on the Australian mainland was a 6-year-old girl, Anike Wainggai. Anike (pictured with father, Yanus Wainggai) is the daughter of Siti Wainggai. The Indonesian government recently released a statement where it was claimed that Siti Wainggai had met SBY on 8 April […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}