Moluccas International Campaign for Human Rights
  • THESE ARE THE MOLUCCAN ISLANDS: FACTS & OPINIONS
  • MELANESIA VERSUS INDONESIA
  • ABOUT MOLUCCAS INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
  • REPRESSION OF A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT IN MALUKU: FREEDOM OF POLITICAL EXPRESSION
  • TOP STORIES
  • SOUTH MOLUCCAS ISLANDS’ ILLEGAL OCCUPATION BY JAKARTA
  • MOLUCCAS SOVEREIGNTY FRONT - FRONT KEDAULATAN MALUKU (FKM)
  • PESTA DEMOKRASI: FRONT KEDAULATAN MALUKU MENUNTUT PENGEMBALIAN KEDAULATAN RMS 25 APRIL 1950 – 25 APRIL 2014
  • PHOTOS FKM-RMS DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA ON OCTOBER 26, 2010 & SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
  • PROKLAMASI NEGARA REPUBLIK MALUKU SELATAN (RMS)
  • MAFIA HUKUM INDONESIA - JUDICIAL MAFIA
  • INDONESIAN PRESIDENT JOKO “JOKOWI” WIDODO SURROUNDED BY KILLERS & RENT-SEEKERS
  • GOLPUT & KORUPSI POLITIK di INDONESIA dan PEMILIHAN 2014 - NON VOTERS / THE WHITE GROUP & POLITICAL CORRUPTION in INDONESIA and the 2014 ELECTIONS
  • INDONESIA = REPUBLIK MALING & KEBOHONGAN REZIM SBY
  • CORRUPTION - POVERTY & UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN THE MOLUCCAS – KORUPSI - KEMISKINAN DAN KETERBELAKANGAN DI MALUKU
  • PALM OIL PLANTATION CRIME IN INDONESIA AND ITS CORRUPT POLITICAL MACHINE
  • MASELA - OIL AND GAS BLOCKS CAN LIBERATE MALUKU FROM POVERTY
  • ILLEGAL GOLD RUSH ON BURU ISLAND IN THE MOLUCCAS
  • SAVE ARU ISLANDS
  • SAVE ROMANG
  • SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO AND HIS GENERALS
  • INDONESIAN MILITARY INVOLVEMENT WITH AGGRESSIVE MINING, ILLEGAL LOGGING AND ILLEGAL FISHING IN THE MOLUCCAS
  • LASKAR JIHAD - SUHARTO COMPANIONS AND THE MOLUCCAN CIVIL WAR - JUSTICE DEMAND
  • MOLUCCAS: GENOCIDE ON THE SLY – INDONESIA’S TRANSMIGRATION AND ISLAMISATION PROGRAM
  • OUR CAMPAIGN & CONTACT MICHR
  • ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE MOLUCCAS
  • DISPLACED PEOPLE IN THE MOLUCCAS - PENGUNGSI DI MALUKU
  • INSIDE INDONESIA’S WAR ON TERROR
  • TNI, BRIMOB AND STATE TERROR IN THE MOLUCCAS
  • IMPUNITY AND THE INDONESIAN MASTERS OF TERROR
  • STOP KILLING - ASSAULTING and KIDNAPPING JOURNALISTS IN INDONESIA
  • 8 March - International Women's Day
  • 26-june---un-international-day-in-support-of-victims-of-torture
  • 9 August - UN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
  • RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES - HAK ASASI MASYARAKAT ADAT
  • GUESTBOOK - FEEDBACK
  • THE DUTCH - INDONESIA CORPORATE CONNECTION
  • LIBERATING OUR COLONIAL MINDSET
  • UNPO: IN PURSUIT OF THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
  • NKRI DIDIRIKAN DI ATAS KONSEP YANG SALAH
  • GAJAH DENGAN GAJAH BERLAGA, ORANG MALUKU MATI DI TENGAH - TENGAH
  • THE PLAYERS BEHIND THE MALUKU MADNESS
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THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH MOLUCCAS

The Republic of the South Moluccas warrants international recognition because:

· The people of the South Moluccan islands, who have continuously sought independent statehood, comprise a separate and distinct population, occupying a separate and distinct geographical area;

· Under the doctrine of self-dtermination, a doctrine guaranteed by the United Nations Charter and the Round Table Conference, the people of the South Moluccas have the right to declare their preference for nationhood;

. The citizens of the Republic of the South Moluccas had exercised their right of self-determination by electing civilian leaders; they have never supported the constituted government of Indonesia;

· The Republic of Indonesia violated the provisions of the Round Table Conference and the 1947 Linggadjati Agreement when it invaded the South Moluccas in 1950, arrested and assassinated democratically-elected members of the South Moluccan Assembly and occupied the islands by force of arms;

. Historical precedent for independence can be found from the era of Dutch rule when the South Moluccas were administered separately from the West Indonesian Islands (i.e. Java, Sumatra, etc.);

· The republic of the South Moluccas was declared an independent state on April 25, 1950, three months before Indonesia became independent on August 17, 1950;

· Two judicial tribunals have upheld the Republic’s claim to international recognition. In the Netherlands: the Amsterdam Appeals Court (Republic of the South Moluccas v. N.V. Koninklijke Paketvaart maatschappij, 1951), and in Irian: Supreme Court of Justice for New Guinea, 1952). The Amsterdam Appeals Court, in the 1951 case, held:

     (1) That the people of the South Moluccas are a people of a territory, which , under the      provisions of the agreements of Linggadjati and Renville could qualify for the exercise of the right to try to realize this right of self-determination in the manner there laid down.

     (2) That the possibility of realizing this right of self-determination in this manner was in effect taken away from the people of the said territory by the creation of thr republic of Indonesia as a unitarian state for the whole of Indonesia under its own leadership and supreme authority, contrary to what was agreed to in the above-mentioned pacts and the Round Table Conference.

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The Republic of Indonesia itself is judicially acknowledged that its control of the South Moluccas is less than complete: for example, the land tribunal at Makassar on March 8, 1955, condemned a South Moluccan partisan for “ supporting the enemy during a state of war.”
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  • HISTORY BEFORE INDEPENDENCE 
  • FORMING THE REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH MOLUCCAS 

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HIRA I NI ENTUB FO I NI, IT DID ENTUB FO IT DID. – A PERSON’S PROPERTY SHALL REMAIN THAT PERSON’S PROPERTY, OUR PROPERTY REMAINS OUR OWN.
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