Indonesian Police use guns to Threaten West Papuan activist, who toured Aotearoa last year

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Human rights advocates in Australia have received reports that last Sunday (29th July), the president of the Baptist churches in West Papua, the Rev Socretez Sofian Yoman, was threatened by Indonesian Police, Brimob (paramiliary police) and Indonesian Military intelligence, outside the Baptist church in Papua's capital, Jayapura. Police approached him outside the church and threatened with a gun at point blank range.

Reverend Yoman has been an outspoken critic of the Indonesian military's human rights abuses in West Papua and the training of pro-Indonesian Military militias. He claims that "Military intelligence has infiltrated the Baptist church and are trying to subvert the work of the church in relation to protecting the Human Rights of the West Papuan people." Institute for Papuan Advocacy press release

In August last year Reverend Yoman visited New Zealand to be the keynote speaker at the Indonesian Human Rights Committee's conference "West Papua: the Hidden Pacific Conflict". Report from Te Waha Nui Online

Following the conference he travelled around New Zealand on a speaking tour. Transcript of Reverend Yoman's Wellington talk 28th August 2006

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It looks like the party poopers are out in force again. Most disappointing!

Now....these are funny!!!!

A radio station in Australia ran a phone-in competition to find the Most
embarrassing moment in listener's lives. The final four were:

4th Place
While in line at the bank one afternoon, my toddler decided to release
some pent-up energy and started to run amuck. I was finally able to grab
hold of her after receiving looks of disgust and annoyance from other
patrons. I told her that if she didn't start behaving herself, right
now, she would be punished. To my horror, she looked me in the eye and
said in a voice just as threatening, 'If you don't let me go right now,
I will tell Grandma I saw you kissing Daddy's willie last night.' After
this enlightening exchange, the silence was deafening. Even the tellers
stopped what they were doing. I mustered the last of my dignity and
walked out of the bank, with my daughter in tow. The last thing I heard
as the door closed behind me were screams of laughter.

3rd Place
It was the day before my 18th birthday. I was living at home, but my
parents had gone out for the evening, so I invited my girlfriend over
for a romantic night alone. As we lay in bed after making love, we heard
the telephone ringing downstairs. I suggested to my girlfriend that I
give her a piggyback ride down to the phone. Since we didn't want to
miss the call, we didn't have time to get dressed. When we got to the
bottom of the stairs, the lights suddenly came on as a whole crowd of
people yelled 'SURPRISE'. My entire family parents, grand parents,
aunts, uncles, cousins as well as my friends, were standing there. My
girlfriend and I were frozen on the spot in a state of shock and
embarrassment for what seemed like an eternity. Since then, no one in
my family has planned any surprise parties.

2nd Place
A lady picked up several items at a discount store. When she finally Got
up to the checkout, she learned that one of the items had no price tag.
The checkout girl got on the public address system, which boomed out
across the store for everyone to hear, "Price check for Tampax
supersize."
But it got worse. Someone at the rear of the store apparently
misunderstood word 'Tampax' for 'Thumbtacks' , and replied in a business
like tone, his voice booming over the same public address system: 'Do
you want the kind you push in with your thumb or the kind one you belt
in with a hammer.

1st Place.
And the winner is . . ..

This happened at a major Australian University, during a biology
lecture. A professor was discussing the high glucose levels found in
semen. A young woman raised her hand and asked, "If I understand you
correctly, you are saying there is as much glucose in male semen as in
sugar?" The professor responded, yes, that's correct adding some
statistical data. Raising her hand again, the girl asked, "Then why
doesn't it taste sweet?" After a stunned silence, the whole class burst
out laughing. The poor girl turned bright red, and as she realised
exactly what she had inadvertently said, she picked up her books, and
without another word, walked out of the class. However, as she was
heading for the door, the professor's reply was a classic. Totally
straight faced, he answered her question. "It doesn't taste sweet
because the taste-buds for sweetness are on the tip of your tongue and
not in the back of your throat".

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