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View all search resultsPapuans refund Veronica Koman's scholarship money to government
“I want everyone to remember that it means that my education is not financed by the Indonesian government but by the Papuan people,” Veronica told the Post.
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apua residents have raised more than Rp 773.8 million (US$51,900) to pay for the government-sponsored scholarship funding received by Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman, who was recently asked to return the funds amid her advocacy for Papuans.
Ambrosius Mulait, a former political prisoner and a member of a group of Papuan people called the Ebamukai Solidarity Team, symbolically returned the money to the Finance Ministry’s Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) on Wednesday afternoon.
Along with the money, the group symbolically returned an Indonesian flag, a copy of the West Papuan Special Autonomy Law, and a sum of Rp 1 million in small notes.
He visited the LPDP's office in Central Jakarta with another former political prisoner, Dano Tabuni, while wearing traditional Papuan attire. The office, however, closed the doors to them.
“The funds collected through voluntary donations from the Papuan people and from outside Papua since August have met the demand of the government,” Ambrosius told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
The solidarity team had previously sent a letter to the Finance Ministry, he said.
“We will hand over [the funds] symbolically in the form of around Rp 3 million. The remaining funds will be transferred,” he said.
