"Tersesat" di West Papua? (class review 10)

        Papua. Topik ini berangsur-angsur menemaniku melewati beberapa minggu ini. Bukan hanya itu saja. Bahkan tema ini telah terpajang di status facebookku beberapa kali. Istimewakah Papua sampai tema tersebut dipilih untuk dikupas dalam argumentative essay kali ini? Apa yang membuat Mr. Lala begitu tertarik dengan masalah ini? Banyak kemungkinan jawaban di kepalaku mengenai hal itu dan tak pernah lelah mengorganisir informasi untuk menulis class review setiap minggunya. Namun, dari kegiatan ini saya menyadari banyak hal yang tak pernah terpikirkan sebelumnya. Saya tercengang dengan banyaknya hal-hal yang tak pernah ku ketahui sebelumnya dan semuanya itu penting untuk dibahas. Banyak kata “Ternyata” yang muncul dari pikiranku setelah membaca hal-hal yang berhubungan dengan Papua, khususnya Papua Barat.

      Dalam class review minggu ini, saya akan membahas mengenai argumentative essay. Argumentative essay sendiri memiliki kemiripan dengan expository essay. Namun, tentu keduanya itu berbeda. Perbedaannya terletak pada sifatnya.

Expository essay : Author tidak mempunyai cukup ruang untuk memasukkan pendapat dan keyakinannya. Fokusnya lebih kepada factual statements daripada klaim yang bisa dibantah.

Argumentative essay : dalam argumentative essay, meskipun menurut pendapat author dan dapat dibantah, akan tetapi harus didukung dengan bukti-bukti, pendapat para ahli dan analisis serta pemahaman pribadi yang dapat diterima.

Berikut ini merupakan outline argumentative essay mengenai Papua :

DO NOT CUT THE HEAD OF HEAVEN BIRD!

INTRODUCTION

                This paper offers the argumentative perspective on an article entitled “Don’t Use Your Data as a Pillow” whose was written by S. Eben Kirksey and the reason why West Papua should be remaining as a part of Indonesia. West Papua itself integrated to NKRI was based on the result of Papuan own choice. This article is consists about the complex problems that exist in West Papua. Its complexity involves many parties who responsible toward that problems. Here, the problem in Kirksey’s article involves West Papua, NKRI and BP Company that consist of OPM, Indonesian military and Indonesian security forces. West Papua itself is the western region from New Guinea Island that was separated with Papua New Guinea. West Papua is part of Indonesia. Its region is divided into two part, those are West Papua Province and Papua Province. The Capital of West Papua Province is Manokwari and the Capital in Papua province is Jayapura. West Papua integrated to NKRI on 19^th November 1969 through the act of free choice or PEPERA that was done by all Papuan assembly.

            NKRI is formed by the nation of Indonesia that was born and Independent earlier. Nation of Indonesia itself was born on 28^th October 1928 through the Sumpah Pemuda. Sumpah Pemuda is a promise or the youth commitment that was innovated by youths from island and archipelago in Indonesia. So, West Papua is the latest region that integrated to NKRI. So, this paper will be about the argumentation to against the independence of West Papua and the reason of it.

BODY 

            In the article that was written by S. Eben Kirksey, there are some points that can be taken as the issue of this writing. Those aspects can be seen as a persuasion from Kirksey to persuade the readers. The first problem is about the violence that was done by Indonesian military against the Papuan demonstrators. That incident is considered as genocide. Besides that, that incident made the independence movement more sustained and caused sympathize from International organization. Here, Indonesian party is seen as if the responsible one for that incident.

            The second aspect, Kirksey mention the role of the British company, British Petroleum that was changed into Beyond Petroleum.  BP was expected involved with the violence case that involved Indonesian security forces. Its speculation is supported by the testimony from the Papuan double-agents that was involved with that case and his life may be in danger. He explains that BP gave the financial contribution to that operation.

            From the basic points that were mentioned by Kirksey in his article, there is some aspect that is not balance. In the Kirksey’s article, Indonesian party is defined as a colonist that made Papuan suffered. Compared with his testimony writing entitled “Crimes against Humanity: When Will Indonesia’s Military be Held Accountable for Deliberate and Systematic Abuses in West Papua” (2010), it is obvious that Kirksey has edited his data that will be published and read by the reader. In his article, he points Indonesian party as a traitor that did a crime against the people by mention the violence case that was done by Indonesia’s military. But, if we look closely in his testimony writing, Kirksey mention that Indonesia’s military received money from U.S. Congress up to $ 20 Million. He also hopes that US will stop to give contribution for Indonesia’s military in order to stop the violence action. However, if U.S Congress stop their contribution to Indonesia’s military, it will make the security is weaken. From that case, the independence movement organization probably will take the advantages to their affairs. Here, it seems that Kirksey is in OPM side.

            West Papua should be remaining as part of Indonesia is not the matter that unreasonable. Independence is not the right answer from the violence case in West Papua, because West Papua is not independent enough to be an independence country. It can be looked by the condition of West Papua itself. Papua may have the overflowing wealth, but those all is controlled by foreign company. Indonesia itself almost does not taste the yield of the wealth of West Papua. Even, the Indonesian military in West Papua receive the contribution from foreign party. Because of that, it can be imaged that West Papua will be controlled by foreign party after the independence.

            As historical reason, West Papua integrated to Indonesia is based on their own choice. If we look back in the past, the struggle of Indonesian party in order to seize West Papua from colonialism of Nederland was not easy. Indonesian party persists to defend that region because of Fraternity emotion as the region that was colonized by Dutch. Besides that, in order to defend West Papua, there were so many efforts that were done by Indonesian. For example, the formatting of Trikora or People’s Triple Command, Battle of Arafura Sea, and so many congress that was take a long time and cost. That is the thing that cannot be compared with the violence case that happened in West Papua nowadays. Even more, this case is not pure caused by Indonesian party. From the article that was written by Kirksey, we can see that exist the party that called Papuan double-agent who confess that was receive contribution from BP in that violence case. So, that is unfair if all responsibilities is pointed to Indonesia.

CONCLUSION

            In conclusion, it can be concluded that the article that was written by S. Eben Kirksey is not balance. It is proved by the inclination of Kirksey who takes side of Papuan Movements Independence. The problem that exists in West Papua can be considered as miscommunication between Papuan party and Indonesian party that is controlled by foreign party that pretend to be a hero. But, on the contrary, foreign party is pointed as a savior for Papuan because of the money that is contributed to their necessity.

            So, Indonesian party should have a solution for this problem if they will defend the West Papua region to remain as a part of Indonesia. There are some aspects that can be repaired in that case. First, Indonesia should be fair in order to behave towards West Papua that included in Indonesia’s territory. For example, Indonesia should handle the developing of economic, education, construction, and facilities aspects. Besides that, a good relationship and communication between those two parties is very important. According to Alwasilah in this book entitled “Rekayasa Literasi”, he mentions that “Literacy is dealing with language usage, and nowadays is interdisciplinary studies which have seven purposes that related each other : Geographic dimension, Domain dimension, Skill dimension, Function dimension, Media dimension, Amount dimension and Language dimension.”

           

Sebenarnya, masih banyak lagi sumber-sumber yang belum sempat saya masukkan dalam outline di atas. Namun, saya masih perlu memikirkan bagaimana menyusunnya agar pas dan tepat dengan pembahasan ini. Yang ingin saya masukkan yaitu gambaran atas perjuangan bangsa Indonesia dalam mempertahankan Papua barat dari tangan Belanda, modus Amerika dari dulu sampai sekarang yang seolah-olah menjadi penolong bagi papua barat. Aspek-aspek tersebut belum mempunyai cukup bukti untuk dimasukkan dalam argumentative essay saya. Selain itu, banyak buku yang kutemukan di internet mengenai Papua barat, namun buku-buku tersebut menunjuk Indonesia sebagai tersangka. Jadi, saya masih perlu mencari banyak sumber lagi. Yang terakhir yakni kerugian yang akan dialami jika Papua merdeka. Hal itu juga patut menjadi sorotan dalam argumentative essay.

Kesimpulan dari penulisan class review kesepuluh ini yakni persiapan untuk mengejakan argumentative essay. Dalam penulisan argumentative essay ini haruslah memiliki cukup senjata untuk menyerang tulisan S. Eben Kirksey. Hal itu melibatkan banyak aspek dan banyak tersangka untuk dikupas. Selain itu, kita juga perlu memahami masalah tersebut secara lebih dalam. Maka dari itu, pengumpulan data-data merupakan langkah yang wajib di minggu ini.