52. In recent months, attacks on Indonesian security forces by pro-Papuan independence armed
groups have spread to areas outside Papua's Pegunungan Tengah region. In early September
2021, a pro-independence Papuan armed group claimed that they were responsible for an
attack on a military post in Maybrat Regency, West Papua Province that resulted in the death of
four soldiers and the wounding of several others. In the following days, local military personnel
sent at least a hundred soldiers to hunt down the attackers in the area. Fearing military
reprisals, more than 2,000 villagers, mostly women and children in the surrounding area, fled to
the forest. 42 Local government heads and regional military commanders have asked the
refugees to return to their villages, but most still have not dared to return.
53. In mid-September 2021, an armed confict between military personnel (TNI) and a local proindependence Papuan armed group (TPNPB) occured in Kiwirok District, Gunung Bintang
Regency, Papua Province. The TPNPB member carried out an attack on health facilities in the
Kiwirok District. A medical worker at the Kiwirok Health Center was killed, three other medical
personnel, and one military personnel were injured. A number of public facilities caught fire.
Around more than two hundred locals had to flee to Oksibil, the capital of the Star Mountains
County.
54. An unbroken chain of violence in Papua requires an approach based on human rights, namely
through an equal and dignified dialogue between components of the Papuan community and
the government. The security approach through non-organic troops (troops drawn from outside
Papua) and security management is considered inappropriate in dealing with problems in
Papua. One example is the existence of stigmatization which creates a sense of fear and distrust.
For this reason, the state needs to withdraw non-organic troops in Papua, especially Intan Jaya
and take a cultural approach to the Papuan people.
B. Internally Displaced People from Religious Minority in Lombok
55. In Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara Province, about 150 people, including women and children,
members of the Ahmadiyah community have been living in temporary shelters for nearly 16
years. In February 2006 they were forced to flee their homes in Ketapang, West Lombok District
after their houses were destroyed by mobs who attacked the community because of their
religious beliefs. Following the attack, the police launched an investigation in an attempt to
identify the perpetrators, but no perpetrators were brought to justice. Families who were
forcibly evicted cannot return to their homes and rebuild their lives because local authorities
cannot guarantee their safety and protection.43 They are only allowed to return to their
hometowns if they revert to Islam, which is embraced by the local Muslim majority.
56. Komnas HAM is aware that there is an ongoing initiative made by the central government and
West Nusa Tenggara authority to provide new housing facilities and relocate the Ahmadiyah
community.
42
Komnas HAM, Press Release No. 043/HM.00/XII/2021, End of Year Human Rights Release (2021), 28
December
2021,
di
Indonesia,
p.
9,
available
at
https://www.komnasham.go.id/files/20211228-keterangan-pers-nomor- 043-hm-00-$62CTBW.pdf.
43
Komnas HAM, Peaceful Solution for the Ahmadiyah People in West Nusa Tenggara, 27 October 2021, can be
accessed at https://www.komnasham.go.id/index.php/news/2021/10/27/1959/langkah-damai-bagi-jamaahahmadiyah-indonesia-di-ntb.html.