(JAKARTA-MAMBRUKS) Rasisme Terhadap Natalius Pigai akibat kritik atas Kebijakan Vaksin mendapat perhatian dunia internasional. Bukan hanya itu serangan serius terhadap rasisme terhadap Bangsa Melanesia juga dimuat dalam laporan Hak Asasi Manusia Pemerintahan Joe Biden USA.
Natalius dalam keterangannya merespon laporan tersebut menganggap bahwa laporan itu menjadi bukti bahwa pemerintahan Jokowi tidak berhasil memberikan perlindungan HAM bagi masyarakat Indonesia khususnya Rakyat Papua. “Kebijakan Jakarta untuk Papua didominasi oleh Papua Phobia tidak hanya di level Pemerintah Jokowi tapi juga telah masif di kalangan rakyat Indonesia,” tulis Pigai, Sabtu (16/4).
Laporan yang dimuat melalui laman https://id.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/official-reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices-indonesia/ itu membedah khusus terkait Rasisme Sistemik atau Kekerasan dan Diskriminasi Etnik.
Selengkapnya ini narasi yang dikeluarkan Amerika Serikat dalam laporannya :
The law contains provisions specifically aimed at eliminating racial and ethnic discrimination, providing criminal penalties for individuals who discriminate on ethnic/racial grounds, as well as sentencing enhancements for violent actions that include a racial or ethnic motivation. The law defines hate speech as spreading hate against a race, tribe, religion, or group. The government generally applied hate speech law in cases related to race.
NGOs reported that persons of Melanesian descent, predominantly from Papua and West Papua, faced widespread discrimination throughout the country. Persons of Melanesian descent often faced police abuse (see sections 1.c., 1.g., and 2.b.)
In a January interview, former National Intelligence Agency chief General Hendropriyono suggested that two million Papuans should be resettled away from their homeland so that they would be “racially separate from the Papuans in Papua New Guinea” and feel more Indonesian.
In January Ambroncius Nababan, chairman of the pro-president Widodo Projamin Volunteer Organization, used racist language and images of a gorilla to attack Natalius Pigai, former human rights commissioner and an ethnic Papuan, over Pigai’s criticism of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine.
