ABC REPORTS ON ANIKE AND YUNUS.......

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Papuan asylum seekers pursuing Indonesia repatriation

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Updated November 26, 2008 14:15:00

Members of a group of over 40 Papuans who were granted temporary protection visas after landing on Cape York in Northern Australia in 2006 are seeking to return to Indonesia.

Yunus Wanggai and his daughter Anike have been negotiating their repatriation with the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra.

In January 2006, 43 Papuans landed a boat in Cape York and promptly claimed asylum - all were eventually granted temporary protection visas.

The incident sparked an intense diplomatic stoush, peaking with Indonesia's recall of its ambassador to Canberra.

In late September two of the asylum seekers, Hana Gobay and Yubel Kareni suddenly returned to Papua.

Indonesia claimed this as evidence of the improving situation in Papua.

Others close to the couple claim their return had more to do with their avoiding legal issues arising from domestic violence while in Australia.

Now another two of the 43, Yunus Wanggai and his seven-year old daughter, Anike, are also understood to be negotiating repatriation with the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra.

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Papuan-Australian community seek missing refugees

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Updated November 24, 2008 22:45:24

Police in the Australian state of Victoria say they are investigating the disappearance of two refugees from the Indonesian state of Papua.

Australia Network correspondent Jeff Waters reports that Yunus Wainggai and his seven-year-old daughter, Anike, went missing from their Melbourne home six days ago.

They were two of 42 people who were granted asylum after arriving in Australia by open boat in 2006.

Members of the Papuan refugee community in Melbourne say they are gravely concerned for the little girl and her father, who is due to have surgery for tuberculosis.

Victorian Police are asking anyone who knows their whereabouts to contact them immediately.

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JAKARTA LEAK

JAKARTA LEAK/2 West Papuans returning to Indonesia

According to a radio report this morning from ABC's Geoff Thompson in Jakarta, after his meeting late last night with the Indonesian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Anike and Yunus Wainggai are returning to Indonesia 'to see Yunus' sick daughter in West Papua' but are still in the hands of Australian authorities.
The Australia West Papua Association believes that Yunus only has one daughter Anika. (However, his wife Siti has a 24-year old daughter in West Papua who has been sick for six or seven months).
Yunus and Anike disappeared from Melbourne on Saturday 115 November, and have not been seen since. Yunus has still not seen his lawyer David Manne, with whom he filed a permanent residency application two days before he and Anike disappeared. Yunus sent a message from his location last Friday that he would like to see his lawyer.
Concerns have increased that his and Anike's imminent departure from Australia has been coerced by Indonesian intelligence agents who are still operating with impunity in Melbourne and other parts of Australia. Both the Department of Foreign Affairs and Immigraiton are denying they know where the two are located.
Below is a letter of concern sent this morning to Stephen Smith (Minister for Foreign Affairs) from Louise Byrne (Australia West Papua Association-Melbourne)

6 November 2008

Hon. Stephen Smith MP

Minister for Foreign Affairs


Dear Sir,

You are, I believe, aware of widespread concerns about Yunus Wainggai and his seven year-old daughter Anike, two of the forty-three West Papuan asylum seekers. I attach my diary of events, which demonstrates their disappearance from Melbourne ten days ago, with the detention in Port Moresby, by PNG National Intelligence, of a delegation of the West Papua National Authority led by Drs. Jacob Rumbiak enroute to Vanuatu. Both operations, you will note, were instigated by Andy Ayamiseba in Vanuatu, a well known 'operator' in Port Vila, with Joanna Yumeri (from Canberra) and Paula Makabory (from Melbourne). That these three are West Papuans does not mask the imprimateur of Indonesian intelligence, and in fact the Indonesian government as well which has long been funding diplomatic and intelligence operations in Australia for the return of the asylum seekers (Please see my Statement of facts concerning Indonesian intelligence agencies campaign to discredit and harass Dr Jacob Rumbiak within Australia and overseas 2000-2007 which I wrote and distributed to Labor and Liberal politicians, all the justice agencies, and the most recent foreign affairs sub-committee into relations between Indonesia and Australia).

Yunus has most certainly been coerced into his and Anike's removal from their community in Melbourne. He is a simple fisherman, very sick and in pain most of the time, and has at times found it difficult to look after a lively seven-year-old while waiting for his wife Siti to arrive (via UNHCR family re-unification). However, he is an honest man, and I was first alerted to the possibility of Indonesia intelligence involvement by the web of lies and deceit around their disappearance on 15 November 2008, and the obsfucation of their whereabouts ever since.

Mr Smith, I fully appreciate the difficulties being experienced by the Department of Foreign Affairs in dealing with this case (viz a viz the Lombok Treaty). However, I do believe DFAT has the capacity, and perhaps also a moral obligation, to facilitate a meeting between Yunus and his lawyer, David Manne, and the West Papuan leader in Australia, Dr Jacob Rumbiak. As you will note in my diary, Yunus phoned Yohana Rumeri last Friday, asking to see his lawyer, and she relayed his message through an SMS which I have a copy of. Yohana refused, however, to reveal Yunus and Anike's location to the lawyer. Consequently this meeting has not taken place, and we have no assurances that Yunus is not free of pressures that Indonesian intelligence agents would be able to exert.

I believe that such a meeting would remove all suspicions that the Australian government is not fulfilling its duty to protect these high-profile asylum seekers (who two days before they disappeared met their lawyer and filled in their permanent residency applications!). We ourselves are unable to organise such a meeting, because we do not know where Yunus and Anike are. Yesterday an Indonesian intelligence officer at the Embassy in Canberra said “they are not in our embassy, they are with the Australian authorities”. However, numerous officials we contacted in our Department of Immigration deny any knowledge of their whereabouts, and more surprisingly are not offering us any assistance in finding them.

I am particularly driven to bring about this meeting, and the assurances it may (or may not) provide to an increasing number of concerned Australians and interested media, because I feel somewhat indebted to little Anike, whose infamous high-five with Steve Fielding brought about Prime Minister Howard's first defeat (the withdrawal of the Migration Amendment legislation from the Senate in 2006).


Yours sincerely,

Louise Byrne

Australia West Papua Assoc—Melbourne

Tel 04329 24 212

kita semua mencinta mu

dear yunus, anike

who i love with my whole heart
both of you who welcomed me when i come to work with the papuan community like no one else, anike so outgoing and daring and fun, yunus shy but so much gentle and loving.

we love you and and just need to know that you are safe and free and happy..........

still i don't know if you have left by force or choice, but if its your choice, i must tell you this:

if you have chosen to leave, i can't understand why. but neither can i understand what it is to leave your home, to choose to take to the trechourous seas in an outrigger canoo in order to find safety, to end up living in a high rise in a city of 3million people far across the ocean from your wife and your mother. to have your freedom tied up with international politics and the whole entire world when all that you want is a good life for your family.

i can't understand, why our small community in melbourne is getting broken up by all these politics, when we work in politics simply because we love our community and want everyone to be free. please, please know that we want you to come back not because you are betraying one persons politics or another, but because we care for you, want you to be free, and miss you too much.

no, it is not possible for you to betray me politically. i just want you to be free. but it is possible that for you to betray your communities love. please, please if you are free to do so, please call to us, talk to us allow us to wish you luck if you do choose to leave.

i really mean it, we are all just real people, please all you businessmen and politicians and police and intelligence, please don't turn us into pawns

yunus, please just think for anike, and for all her big sisters and brothers who are crying for her too much. call us.
x reuben

major development

major development

HI folks,
there has been a major development in the situation with Anike and Yunus. The AFP have located them, but they are still being held incommunicado which is highly suspicious. We are maintaining that until they have access to their lawyer and he is satisfied that they are not being coerced, that they are under threat still.

At this stage we cannot divulge publicly where we believe they are being held, but we have them under surveillance. There is proof of life.

Please stand by for more info today as it happens. However, the threat of imminent removal is still present, so people still need to be on their guard at airports and ports, especially with Garuda flights.

Nick

WATCH ABC TONIGHT FOR STORY ON ANIKE!!

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i just recieved this email.....

Hey Kati,

I contacted Louise Byrne this morning (after receiving your email) to let her know that I have video footage of Anike that may assist. She then cpntacted the ABC, who contacted me and the footage has now been sent off the Jeff Waters from the ABC for a possible story tonight. Watch ABC news from 7pm tonight!

monday update

updates - Monday

Hi folks,
we are desperately still trying to locate Anike and Yunus. Many leads have been ruled out now, but we are no closer to finding them.

We now have secured Victoria and NSW police assistance on this, and things are in play, but the reality is is they are legally constrained by what they can do. We aren't, as concerned citizens (so long as we don't break the law.)

The MUA, Volunteer coast guard, boaties, and some truck drivers have joined the search, and we have more than a few cabbies out there. And a very positive develpment with the wider Indonesian community.

SO once again, we really need people in Sydney to offer physical assistance for keeping an eye on things. Obviously we need cars, communications, and people wiling to roster on watching. PLease contact me directly on 0409 268 978 if you can help

cheers
Nick

MISSING AT RISK OF IMMINENT FORCIBLE REMOVAL FROM AUSTRALIA

The West Papuan community and their supporters in Australia are holding grave fears for the safety of Yunus and Anike Wainggai. We have reasonable suspicion that their disappearance is linked to an ongoing and high-level Indonesian intelligence operation involving the disappearance of other refugees. Anike and Yunus, went missing from their public housing flat in Collingwood Melbourne on Saturday 15 November 2008. Yunus, 39, and Anike, 7, are two of the 43 asylum seekers who landed at Mappoon on the Cape York Peninsula on 18 January 2006. After the media interest their arrival in Australia generated, the Indonesian government withdrew its ambassador, and a major diplomatic and military rift grew between Australia and Indonesia. Ongoing Indonesian intelligence operations within Australia against the 43 asylum seekers and their key supporters have been documented extensively. They are currently believed to be held in Sydney. IF you see either of these people, please inform them of the immediate need to, or assist them to, contact their community in Melbourne; and immediately notify your nearest police officer, and also call 0409 268 978. If you see them at an airport or port, please immediately contact your security supervisor or AFP. If they are with Indonesian nationals please immediately call 000 and 0409 268 978.
THIS MATTER IS URGENT AND LIFE THREATENING

photos of anike and yunus

HELP FIND ANIKE AND YUNUS!!!!

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*AT RISK OF IMMINENT FORCIBLE REMOVAL FROM AUSTRALIA*
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The West Papuan community and their supporters in Australia are holding
grave fears for the safety of *Yunus* and *Anike Wainggai.* We have
reasonable suspicion that their disappearance is linked to an ongoing
and high-level Indonesian intelligence operation involving the
disappearance of other refugees. Anike and Yunus, went missing from
their public housing flat in Collingwood Melbourne on Saturday 15
November 2008.


Yunus, 39, and Anike, 7, are two of the 43 asylum seekers who landed at
Mappoon on the Cape York Peninsula on 18 January 2006. After the media
interest their arrival in Australia generated, the Indonesian government
withdrew its ambassador, and a major diplomatic and military rift grew
between Australia and Indonesia. Ongoing Indonesian intelligence
operations within Australia against the 43 asylum seekers and their key
supporters have been documented extensively. They are currently believed
to be held in Sydney.

*IF you see either of these people, please inform them of the immediate
need to, or assist them to, contact their community in Melbourne; and
immediately notify your nearest police officer, and also call 0409 268
978. If you see them at an airport or port, please immediately contact
your security supervisor or AFP. If they are with Indonesian nationals
please immediately call 000 and 0409 268 978.*

*THIS MATTER IS URGENT AND LIFE THREATENING
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A FACEBOOK GROUP HAS BEEN STARTED AT
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/156343?m=b6c92252&recruiter_id=6935222*

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urgent assistance is also required in Sydney : **If you are in in
Sydney, you can help practically. We need people to be on the ground, to
help look, to help with fuel, cash, cars, radios, etc.
Please contact ONLY 0409 268 978 if you can help (and please forward
this widely).*


Two West Papuans of the 43 asylum-seeking group have been missing from Melbourne since last Saturday, and cannot be contacted.

Yunus Wainggai and his seven-year old daughter Anike are believed to be held in Sydney by an Australian woman they call 'Lisa Hobby'. Yesterday they telephoned a West Papuan woman who has been based in Canberra for twenty years, and asked to speak to their lawyer in Melbourne. However the woman has refused to reveal their telephone number or their whereabouts.

AWPA (Melb) informed ASIO a week ago of the disappearance of the high- profile refugees who are believed to be under the control of Indonesian intelligence agents in Australia. Members believe the disappearance is closely linked to Indonesian operations against the Wainggai family and independence supporters in West Papua, PNG, Vanuatu, and Australia.

AWPA (Melb) has been regularly updating Victoria Police and Australian Federal Police. "While our security agencies are probably working hard, we have put up a thousand posters in Sydney, and have opened a facebook group, so that people can report any sitings of Yunus and Anike" said Louise Byrne from the Australia West Papua Association.

Hannah Gobel and Yubel Kareni, two asylum-seekers who returned to Indonesia recently, have been paraded before television cameras across Indonesia. They have been used for propaganda purposes through the time of the Bali executions, saying they were treated very badly in Australia, and are believed to be under guard in West Papua. West Papuans were involuntarily and unwillingly incorporated into the Indonesian Republic in 1962 as part of an agreement between Holland and Indonesia under the auspices of the United Nations.

Anike Wainggai is an engaging intelligent little girl who famously 'high-fived' with Family First Senator Steve Fielding in 2006, bringing about the withdrawal of the Migration Amendment legislation and Prime Minister Howard's first defeat in parliament. She has a wide friendship group, and recently topped her class for 'computer studies'. She and her father have said they don't want to go back to Indonesia. Anike's mother who had to escape Indonesian intelligence after her husband and daughter landed in Australia, has been hoping for reunification with her family.

Further inquiries/photos: Louise Byrne (61 03) 9510 2193; 04329 24 212
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Help Find Missing Papuan Asylum Seekers Anike and Yunus Wainggai

Positions:

1. to stop Yunus and Anike Wainggai from being forcibly returned to Indonesia
2. to locate Yunus and Anike immediately, and enable them to make contact with their community
3. To ensure Indonesian intelligence cease opertations against refugees on Australian soil