West Papua - Evangelische Kirche von Westfalen

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Das Motto des P3W´s: Nun gehen/arbeiten Frauen
und Männer zusammen.
and Research (Section 2), Pastoral Counselling
(Section 3), and Fund Raising (Section 4).
In order to serve the women in GKI P3W-GKI
now has two branches. One in Polimo-Wamena
(this branch most of the time has got finance support
from Waldbrol, a circuit in Germany) and the
other one is serving the women in Southern part
of Papua, Teminabuan-Sorong.
P3W-GKI is not particular focusing on women of
GKI, it also contributes to women in general. Our
major tasks are education, health and nutrition,
social economic, environment, even some skills
of modern technology, etc. We try to be open to
approach various topics and to include the spiritual
aspect. Nowadays we can say that we can
face many changes in women lives. Facilities
and infrastructure are getting better but yet other
problems have come up. In Papua, while we are
struggling with social and politic issues in this
country, we are also struggling with HIV&AIDS
(Papua is number one in Indonesia), global trade,
illegal logging, even human trafficking. We can
say that in all these striking problems we can easily
find women and children, even men who are
suffering for sure.
These situations are deeply touching our hearts.
But also it helps us to build new perspectives that
we are no longer focusing only to empower women
but men, too. Because we always believe
that with the hands of educated women we can
change Papua, but we don’t want to waste the
time. We need to be wiser everywhere. That is
why we have chosen to involve and work together
with men. At the celebration of P3W´s 45th
anniversary in 2007 our theme was “It is now
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women and men are walking together”. It shows
how we try to practice our gender perspective
as best as our founding fathers, who never learned
about gender or feminist studies anything at
all.
We come from different backgrounds of education.
But we cannot say that the program can be
fully supported by ourselves. We are happy and
thankful that our partners from other churches
in Indonesia and especially in the Netherlands
and Germany are always supporting us. While
many other women institutions present in Papua
are gone as fast as the wind, we stand firm. We
always have said that we could appreciate they
who only can walk, we can guide them surely.
But we also would love to run to them who love
to catch the future that changes fast. This is important
for P3W women in the villages as well as
in the city.
You are focussing on Human Rights Day
2010. What were the main issues around the
Human Rights Day and what, concerning
your experience, are the fields where Human
Rights issues are neglected in specific in regard
of women in Papua?
I would like to say that in situations where people
in Papua are suffering, most of the time women
become victims. They suffer not only because of
people from Papua (government or Indonesian
Military), but also due to the culture which means
they suffer from their own fathers, husbands,
brothers even sons. In many cases we can easily
find the inhuman stories of our men regarding the
land, the body, even the spiritual life of women.
On Human Rights Day in 2010, we solemnize
since 1962, we recognized that since the integration
of Papua to Indonesia, life of Papuan women
have become more complicated. In many places
stories about killing, rape, violence toward women
are visible and life is like terror.
The position of Papuan women has to be described
as oppression and being thorn among many
conflicts of interest and so they become a target
of violence. In that day Papuan Women Human
Right Networking releases a book name “Please
Stop” and there are five main inventions, such as:
a.
The state security approach by nation is always
used to legitimate violence. Therefore
no serious sanction to those who brake the
Human Rights, especially they who make the
violence against women is discussed.
gerechte gemeinschaft von männern und frauen