Papuan Socialist Not a "Freedom Dream" Group

There is a failure to understand Papuan Socialists when likening it to the kids, messianic, and the like. Free Papua warriors who are educated with socialist philosophy will answer, even more completely and thoroughly to the roots.

When criticizing the ins and outs of the socialist movement (whatever its kind), must look at the base of philosophy. Criticize the philosophy of dialectical materialism as a method used by socialists to understand and subdivide the ins and outs of life. Does he live a resistance movement or not?
Why should it be, because Karl Marx for the philosophy of Dialectical Materialism is not to be used for philosophical intellectuals (academics). However, his philosophy is intended for the oppressed who want to fight in praxis ways.

A socialist is not blind, utopian, or delusional about the liberation of Papua. For all areas of the West Papua problem can be studied fully, deeply with dialectical materialism.
So it is wrong for Papuan socialists to be seen as a group of Freedom Dreams. Why is it wrong, because the philosophy used by socialists does not struggle in dreams or dreams. It fights objectively in reality progressively and revolutionarily. While the imaginary, the dreams, etc. are the groups in which philosophical theory is called idealism. The philosophy of idealism is strongly opposed by the philosophy of Marxism.

Koreri, Zion Kids, Messianic, etc., are movements that fall within the category of idealism, because they see the reality of Papua (the world) as a reflection of the idea, thought, or soul of a human being or an all-powerful creature.
For a long time, people were imprisoned in colonial and capitalist idealism. This disease, which in the language of Antonio Gramski is called Hegemony. Many clergy, academics, politicians, rulers, also who called themselves freedom fighters of Papua Merdeka have long been victims of hegemony. Their characteristics are not hard to know.
Many Church Organizations devolve and perpetuate the system and all colonial and capitalist policies. That we can see from the sermons, prayers, and all the statements before the people of God in West Papua.

Many teachers, campus academics, who are proud of intellectuality and then become conduits of hegemonic ideas of colonial and capitalist systems and policies. In addition, there is a more dangerous disease is a group that sees a struggle with a metaphysical approach. This is more dangerous and deeply found in Karel Marx's socialist philosophy.
This group uses metaphysical ideas, superstitions, dreams, to mobilize the people fighting for the Free Papua. They like to cult something or someone as a prophet, a savior. Socialism strongly rejects this.

This utopian awareness has hindered the Papuan people from moving in an objective way of seeing reality and moving with revolutionary methods. Such an awareness will never make a move forward. It is stagnant (inhabits) in dogmatic, ceremonial, formalities, bureaucratic, egoistic, tribal, apathetic, prathetic, and other diseases.

Papuan socialists view such consciousness as the result of the existence (reality of life) of Papuans who are colonized and oppressed by the colonial and capitalist (imperialist). In addition to hegemony, such consciousness is an escape from fear against oppressors (colonial and capitalist).
Socialists with the philosophy of dialectical materialism provide an objective awareness of seeing the reality of oppression not as something eternal and eternal. Immortality colonized and colonized is the philosophy of colonial and capitalist. We will rise up to destroy the eternal paradise with the philosophy of change, socialism.

Is the Papuan Socialist a Western adobe?

Socialist philosophy - dialectical materialism - does not recognize, and is strongly discouraged for adobs. Socialist philosophy contains the theories of material consciousness (object) as well as the dialectical (change) laws that form the basis for formulating revolutionary methods of resistance.

That is, if the methods of revolutionary resistance are incompatible with, from and for the objective condition (reality) then it is not a socialist based on dialectical materialism. Mao's socialist is different from Lenin. The socialists of Tan Malaka, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chaves, Walter Lini in Vanuatu, Xanana in Timor Leste, Tanzania, etc. vary according to the nation's objective conditions against imperialism and their colonial children.
Therefore, Papuan socialists are a way of discovering and re-formulating the theory with the objective basis of Papuans in Melanesia, as a weapon against and destroying the socialist enemy that is, imperialism-capitalism that has arisen and preserved the immortality of colonialism in West Papua.
Socialist theory is important, because the enemy that we are fighting is not down from heaven, but colonialism which is the child of imperialism. The history and reality of colonialism in Papua does not come that way. The system and all those policies belong to an old demon called Imperialism that has been resisted and continues to be resisted by the socialists of the world.

Is the Papuan Socialist Anti-Culture and the Church in Papua?

There should be a separation in rejecting and supporting the Culture and Church in Papua. There is something to be rejected (and what is rejected is certainly related to the roots and habits that gave rise to oppression in the culture and church in West Papua). There are things that must be supported (which is certainly related to how the Papuan people escape the persecution).

The Papuan Socialists are anti-cultural and church-perpetuating (perpetuating) oppression in West Papua. Papuan socialists reject cultural exploitation (identity) and the Church to support the activities of colonialism and capitalism in West Papua. The Papuan socialists rejected socio-cultural classes that would (even) be agents and bourgeois capitalists who supported the colonial Indonesia.

Papuan socialists reject cultural traditions that undermine the spirit of West Papua's revolutionary struggle. Papuan socialists reject social classes in organizational hierarchy as well as in ministry. The Papuan Socialist rejects the Church that keeps its people sitting asleep in the church room mourning the suffering of the nation, but not sending its people out to fight, move, fight in reality (reality).
Papuan socialists are not anti-cultural identities with their traditions, as long as they do not conflict with the values ​​of equality, justice, togetherness (cooperation / collectivism). Papuan socialists refuse to cultivate material people. Papuan socialists appreciate and participate in the diversity of tribes and cultures in West Papua, but reject the ethnicity in building Papuan nationalities.

Papuan socialists appreciate and even promote the culture and values ​​of Melanesian life in West Papua, as long as it is useful to form West Papuan peoples that are equal, just and collectively in the nation and state of West Papua. Papuan socialists reject patriarchy and sexism.
In essence, the Papuan Socialists do not contradict the culture and church in Papua as long as both become social groups that push the entire West Papuan people to fight in the reality of oppression with revolutionary consciousness, not in dreams, dreams, and utopian movements.

Written by Victor Yeimo, Chairman of West Papua National Committee [KNPB]