Marlon Arthur Huwae
University of Papua (UNIPA), Manokwari, Indonesia
Jaap Timmer
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Keywords: West Papua conflict, Indonesian military, memoria passionis (collective memory of suffering), fear, chameleon politics
DOI: 10.5509/2024973-art5
In this response we critique Cahyo Pamungkas and Yogi Setya Permana’s proposal to see military repression in West Papua as a result of two equal factors: fear of Papuan independence and Papuan fear of military repression. They argue this in the article titled “The Role of Fear and Memory in West Papua’s Ethnonationalist Conflict,” published in this journal in volume 97 (1) in March 2024. While we applaud their effort at investigating the emotional aspects of the West Papua conflict, juxtaposing these two forms of fear to explain the cycle of violence in Indonesia’s easternmost region fails to reflect the reality of the situation. In this article we suggest several other paths to develop a deeper comprehension of fear in Papua. Such investigations will also show the need for a shift in the general perspective on the resolution of the Papua conflict.
印度尼西亚巴布亚的恐惧和变色龙政治
关键词: 西巴布亚冲突、印度尼西亚军队、苦难记忆（对痛苦的集体记忆）、恐惧、变色龙政治。
本文回应并批评了Cahyo Pamungkas 和 Yogi Setya Permana’s的观点，他们将西巴布亚的军事镇压视为两个同等因素作用的结果：对巴布亚独立的恐惧和巴布亚对军事镇压的恐惧。他们在本杂志2024年3月第97（1）卷中发表的文章中提出此论点，题为“西巴布亚种族-民族主义冲突中恐惧和记忆的作用”。尽管我们赞赏他们在研究西巴布亚冲突中的情感性方面所做的努力，将这两种形式的恐惧并置来解释印度尼西亚最东部地区的暴力循环却并不能反映现实情况。在本文中我们建议了几种其它路径来加深对巴布亚存在的恐惧的理解。这些路径的研究也会表明需要转变解决巴布亚冲突的普遍视角。