Letter to the Honourable President of Peru Regarding to the Situation of IPs in Peru

Letter to the Honourable President of Peru Regarding to the Situation of IPs in Peru

Berikut ini surat AMAN kepada Presiden Peru, Alan Garcia, terkait dengan kritis di Peru antara Masyarakat Adat dan Pemerintah, yang hingga kemarin telah menewaskan 84 orang, ratusan luka parah, puluhan hilang dan ditangkap dalam serangan bersenjata besar-besaran, (M16, helicopter, bomb dan gas air mata) dari Pasukan Khusus Pemerintah Peru Jumat kemarin dan beberapa waktu sebelumnya.

Kurang lebih 30 ribu orang gabungan Masyarakat Adat dari berbagai wilayah di Peru melakukan aksi demonstrasi dan pemblokiran jalan selama 50 hari, menentang Peraturan Pemerintah Mengenai Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas antara Peru dan Amerika Serikat yang memberikan ijin kepada perusahaan-perusahaan multinasional untuk mengambil alih kurang lebih 70% wilayah-wilayah Masyarakat Adat untuk industri ekstraksi minyak, gas dan logging.

Pemerintah Peru pada tanggal 8 Mei 2009, memberlakukan 60 hari Keadaan Darurat di wilayah Amazon, hingga hari ini, yang menyebabkan hilangnya nyawa banyak saudara-saudara kita, Masyarakat Adat di Peru.

Mencermati situasi ini, maka AMAN sebagai bagian dari gerakan Masyarakat Adat di dunia, mengirimkan surat protest kepada Presiden Peru, meminta agar kekerasan segera dihentikan, Pemerintah Peru agar mentaati peraturan dan hukum internasional mengenai HAM dan Deklarasi PBB tentang Hak-Hak Masyarakat Adat, Mencabut peraturan-peraturan yang terkait dengan Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas dengan Amerika Serikat, dan memulai dialog dengan pemimpin-pemimpin Masyarakat Adat untuk mengatasi konflik.

Semoga surat ini dapat membantu perjuangan saudara-saudara kita, Masyarakat Adat di Peru.


Isi Surat:
Jakarta, 6 June 2009



Mr. Presidente Alan García
Despacho Presidencial
Jirón de la Unión S/N 1 cda
Lima 1, PERU




To the Honourable Mr. President Alan García,

On behalf of the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN – Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara)* of Indonesia, I am writing to express our shock and deep concern about the situation of Indigenous Peoples in Peru where as reported; the Peruvian Government's Special Forces are suppressing peaceful Indigenous Peoples’ demonstrations in the Amazon region, resulting in the loss of lives of 84 people (update 5 June 2009), disappearances and grave injuries.

In September 2007, the Peruvian government demonstrated true leadership in introducing and supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the floor of the UN General Assembly. Today, we regret that your administration is acting in contrary to its stated commitment, leading to the violation to this Declaration as well as international laws and conventions ratified by Peru, that guarantee the rights of indigenous peoples. We concerned that this happen as the result of and triggered by the Free Trade Agreement with the US Government that giving permits to oil and mineral extraction by multinational corporations within the Indigenous Peoples’ territories in the Amazon Rainforest.

As part of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we fully support and joined solidarity to our indigenous brothers and sisters in Peru. Therefore, we urge your administration to show immediate restraint and refrain from using force on indigenous demonstrators. More, we respectfully urge your administration and the Peruvian Congress to :

1. Immediately cease all violence against indigenous communities and organizations,

2. Uphold the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and constitutionally guaranteed rights of indigenous peoples especially to their rights of self determination to their land, territories and natural resources and to free, prior and informed consent, over any policies and activities that affect them.

3. Repeal the series of contested Decrees associated with the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.

4. Enter into good faith meaningful process of dialogue with indigenous leaders to resolve this conflict.


We believe that your leadership as the President of Peru is now in an important phase to ensure the security of each indigenous persons and communities and to fulfill the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Peru.

Respectfully,



Abdon Nababan
Secretary General AMAN




CC :

• Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia
• Javier Velásquez-Quesquén, President of the Congress of Peru
• Yehude Simon Munaro, President of the Council of Ministers
• Rafael Vásquez Rodríguez, President of Congress
• Public Ombudsman Office of Peru
• Juan Alvarez Vita, Peruvian Ambassador to Indonesia
• Victoria Tauli Corpuz, Chairperson United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
• James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the Fundamental Freedom and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIPs)
• UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
• UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom expression
• IACHR Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• IACHR Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Expression

* The Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN-Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara) is an independent social organisation comprised of Indigenous communities and organisations from various parts of the Indonesian Archipelago. AMAN is a forum for the struggle of Indigenous Peoples in matters relating to upholding the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in politics, social, economy, cultural and natural resources through just and sustainable ways.

AMAN was founded in 1999 as a result of the March 1999 Congress of the Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago and was declared on March 17 1999 in Jakarta. Since then, AMAN has held a second Congress in Lombok, September 2003 and a third Congress in Pontianak, March 2007. As of the third Congress, the number of Indigenous communities that had registered and become AMAN members totalled 1016 communities. From this number, a total of 695 indigenous communities are verified members.


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Berikut ini surat AMAN kepada Presiden Peru, Alan Garcia, terkait dengan kritis di Peru antara Masyarakat Adat dan Pemerintah, yang hingga kemarin telah menewaskan 84 orang, ratusan luka parah, puluhan hilang dan ditangkap dalam serangan bersenjata besar-besaran, (M16, helicopter, bomb dan gas air mata) dari Pasukan Khusus Pemerintah Peru Jumat kemarin dan beberapa waktu sebelumnya.

Kurang lebih 30 ribu orang gabungan Masyarakat Adat dari berbagai wilayah di Peru melakukan aksi demonstrasi dan pemblokiran jalan selama 50 hari, menentang Peraturan Pemerintah Mengenai Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas antara Peru dan Amerika Serikat yang memberikan ijin kepada perusahaan-perusahaan multinasional untuk mengambil alih kurang lebih 70% wilayah-wilayah Masyarakat Adat untuk industri ekstraksi minyak, gas dan logging.

Pemerintah Peru pada tanggal 8 Mei 2009, memberlakukan 60 hari Keadaan Darurat di wilayah Amazon, hingga hari ini, yang menyebabkan hilangnya nyawa banyak saudara-saudara kita, Masyarakat Adat di Peru.

Mencermati situasi ini, maka AMAN sebagai bagian dari gerakan Masyarakat Adat di dunia, mengirimkan surat protest kepada Presiden Peru, meminta agar kekerasan segera dihentikan, Pemerintah Peru agar mentaati peraturan dan hukum internasional mengenai HAM dan Deklarasi PBB tentang Hak-Hak Masyarakat Adat, Mencabut peraturan-peraturan yang terkait dengan Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas dengan Amerika Serikat, dan memulai dialog dengan pemimpin-pemimpin Masyarakat Adat untuk mengatasi konflik.

Semoga surat ini dapat membantu perjuangan saudara-saudara kita, Masyarakat Adat di Peru.


Isi Surat:
Jakarta, 6 June 2009



Mr. Presidente Alan García
Despacho Presidencial
Jirón de la Unión S/N 1 cda
Lima 1, PERU




To the Honourable Mr. President Alan García,

On behalf of the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN – Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara)* of Indonesia, I am writing to express our shock and deep concern about the situation of Indigenous Peoples in Peru where as reported; the Peruvian Government's Special Forces are suppressing peaceful Indigenous Peoples’ demonstrations in the Amazon region, resulting in the loss of lives of 84 people (update 5 June 2009), disappearances and grave injuries.

In September 2007, the Peruvian government demonstrated true leadership in introducing and supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the floor of the UN General Assembly. Today, we regret that your administration is acting in contrary to its stated commitment, leading to the violation to this Declaration as well as international laws and conventions ratified by Peru, that guarantee the rights of indigenous peoples. We concerned that this happen as the result of and triggered by the Free Trade Agreement with the US Government that giving permits to oil and mineral extraction by multinational corporations within the Indigenous Peoples’ territories in the Amazon Rainforest.

As part of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we fully support and joined solidarity to our indigenous brothers and sisters in Peru. Therefore, we urge your administration to show immediate restraint and refrain from using force on indigenous demonstrators. More, we respectfully urge your administration and the Peruvian Congress to :

1. Immediately cease all violence against indigenous communities and organizations,

2. Uphold the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and constitutionally guaranteed rights of indigenous peoples especially to their rights of self determination to their land, territories and natural resources and to free, prior and informed consent, over any policies and activities that affect them.

3. Repeal the series of contested Decrees associated with the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.

4. Enter into good faith meaningful process of dialogue with indigenous leaders to resolve this conflict.


We believe that your leadership as the President of Peru is now in an important phase to ensure the security of each indigenous persons and communities and to fulfill the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Peru.

Respectfully,



Abdon Nababan
Secretary General AMAN




CC :

• Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia
• Javier Velásquez-Quesquén, President of the Congress of Peru
• Yehude Simon Munaro, President of the Council of Ministers
• Rafael Vásquez Rodríguez, President of Congress
• Public Ombudsman Office of Peru
• Juan Alvarez Vita, Peruvian Ambassador to Indonesia
• Victoria Tauli Corpuz, Chairperson United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
• James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the Fundamental Freedom and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIPs)
• UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
• UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom expression
• IACHR Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• IACHR Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Expression

* The Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN-Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara) is an independent social organisation comprised of Indigenous communities and organisations from various parts of the Indonesian Archipelago. AMAN is a forum for the struggle of Indigenous Peoples in matters relating to upholding the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in politics, social, economy, cultural and natural resources through just and sustainable ways.

AMAN was founded in 1999 as a result of the March 1999 Congress of the Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago and was declared on March 17 1999 in Jakarta. Since then, AMAN has held a second Congress in Lombok, September 2003 and a third Congress in Pontianak, March 2007. As of the third Congress, the number of Indigenous communities that had registered and become AMAN members totalled 1016 communities. From this number, a total of 695 indigenous communities are verified members.


Download PDF:
AMAN_662009_Letter to the President of Peru.pdf