Kami dari Jaringan Kesehatan Perempuan Indonesia Timur sangat mendukung dan solider dengan perjuangan JATAM melawan tambang Freeport di Timika. Salam Rika Tadu Hungu Divisi Advokasi JKPIT -----Original Message----- From: Djuni Pristiyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:24 AM Subject: [perempuan] Joint statement on JATAM CASE From: "JKPP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Joint statement on JATAM CASE Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:26:35 +0700 Teman-teman yang baik, Dibawah ini adalah suatu pernyataan bersama yang dibuat sehubungan dengan adanya intervensi Kedutaan Besar Amerika terhadap hak JATAM (Jaringan Tambang) untuk berkampanye melawan Tambang Besar di Indonesia. Pada intinya surat pernyataan ini lebih dari sekedar dukungan solidaritas, tapi juga suatu panggilan untuk menjunjung tinggi nilai keadilan ekologi. Dukungan silahkan disampaikan kepada Ganden, melalui e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sampai dengan tanggal 7 Mei 2000 untuk kemudian dimasukkan dalam list penanda tangan yang akan termuat nanti dalam naskah aslinya yang diperbanyak dan disebarluaskan. Salam, Restu "Ganden" Achmaliadi ======= CALLING FOR A POLICY CHANGE TO REPLACE WORKING CONTRACT AND MINING CONCESSION SCHEMES WHICH ARE ENVIRONTMENTALLY LOUSY AND SOCIALLY IRRESPONSIBLE Joint Statement of Indonesia NGOs On Intimidating Intervention towards the Mining Advocacy Network at the mission level as Displayed by the US Embassy in Indonesia The fall of the Soeharto regime in 1998 and its eventual outcome in the establishment of the new Government of Abdurrahman Wahid have brought some key political change towards a democratic social and economic life for the archipelago. After one generation of the declining ecological services of the resource-rich ecosystems, concomittant to the continuing onslaughts on the peoples� life-space, we realize that without an adequate precautionary protective and preventative policy framework, the all-fragile island and marine ecosystems and the majority of the population dependent upon them are not going to be able to withstand another round of the resource-based industrial expansion in the region. Already we have seen the tragic social conflicts not totally unrelated to the past resource-grab regime. The urgent social policy agenda for the coming decades is how to nurture both a sturdy social base for an effective, decentralized and community based environmental management, and well defined, historically-rooted defensible life spaces for the people. The latter should be the basis for the region�s sustainable economic and social development. We are taking direct and active roles in the immediate realization of such a reform agenda through the various institutional and policy initiatives as well as the direct, community based initiatives throughout the archipelago. The extreme complexity in dealing with the diversity of the region-specific social-economic-ecological matrix notwithstanding, the surmounting challenge for us in pursuing the strategic agenda comes from the interplay of the international and mondial interests in tandem with their domestic counterparts in the region�s mammoth wealth and market size. In responding to such a tall order, we acknowledge and welcome the long-standing solidarity and supports of the international community from both the state and non-state sectors in making it more bearable for us to pursue the strategic agenda. In this light, we are very deeply concerned with the case of the JATAM--the Mining Advocacy Network, of which it is not only dismissed of its legitimate right to protect the life-space of the communities in the mining areas, but also is treated as wrongly attacking or damaging the business of PT Newmont Minahasa Raya, a subsidiary of Newmont Corp., a US based, tax-paying company, without a due process of verification and investigation into the case. Committed to building an ecologically and socially appropriate industrial policy framework for the region, of which mining is currently one of the most harmful to the environment and the local peoples in the mining areas, the Mining Advocacy Network has called for a moratorium for the mining sector until an umbrella Act for natural resources utilisation and management and a mining sector policy framework for the whole industry to comply with are formulated and stipulated. We realize that this is a highly sensitive policy issue for there have always been the presence of foreign mining companies in the region. For balance, however, it is also sensitive because such a moratorium will also hit the ubiquitous, small-scale people mining practices. We consider the JATAM�s strong stance a necessary step to call for a policy change at the highest level to replace the current Working Contract and Mining Concession Schemes, which are environmentally lousy and socially irresponsible. In the long run, the presence of such an alternative policy will also protect the interests of the wider international actors. Intimidating intervention towards the Mining Advocacy Network at the mission level as displayed by the US Embassy in Indonesia is the last thing we expected in the perspectives of the long-standing friendships between the democratic American society and its Indonesian counterparts. We therefore urge a broader, multi-stakeholder inquiry into the practices of the US mining companies in the country. It is ironical that whereas in the USA the mining companies are now mandated to file a report to the community of their mining operations, a similar initiative in Indonesia at developing the same compliance mechanism for the mining companies is subject to such a harsh and inappropriate response. We also call upon a wider and stronger solidarity of the international community in defending the well-being of the Earth and its Peoples. Jakarta, April 26, 2000 For Ecological Justice!!! 1. Restu Amaliadi, Secretariat Coordinator of Community Mapping Network - Indonesia 2. Noer Fauzi, Chair Person of Executive Body � Consortium for Agrarian Reform - Indonesia 3. Djuni Pristiyanto, HAMIM, Jember, Indonesia. 4. Rika Tadu Hungu, East Indonesian Women's Health Network 5. 6. etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jaringan Advokasi Tambang (JATAM) Mining Advocacy Network Jl. Mampang Prapatan II No.30 RT 015 RW 04 Jakarta 12790 INDONESIA Tel/fax: +62-(021)-794 1559, e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHOPPING for DEALS? The merchants at BuyItOnline.com are offering up to 30% OFF great gear, wear, gadgets and more, now through April 15, 2000. Real stores. Real Deals. Real Easy. 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