{"id":345624,"date":"2021-10-12T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T09:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=64647"},"modified":"2021-10-12T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T09:29:24","slug":"its-our-identity-declare-papuas-defiant-mamas-over-morning-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/12\/its-our-identity-declare-papuas-defiant-mamas-over-morning-star\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s our identity\u2019, declare Papua\u2019s defiant mamas over Morning Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Yance Wenda in Jayapura<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Papuan woman politician has warned Indonesian security forces against restricting women from selling <em>noken<\/em> &#8212; traditional string bags &#8212; and other accessories displaying the banned <em>Morning Star<\/em> flag design at the Papuan National Games (PON XX) venue in Jayapura.<\/p>\n<p>Orpa Nari, a Papuan People&#8217;s Assembly (MRP) member of the Women Workgroup, said the police should not be afraid of &#8220;a pattern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a pattern,\u201d she said. \u201cNone of these <em>mamas<\/em> [Papuan women] weave the pattern as a way to go against the state.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/10\/07\/police-arrest-spectator-at-papua-games-for-wearing-morning-star-t-shirt\/\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Police arrest spectator at Papua Games for wearing <em>Morning Star<\/em> T-shirt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/10\/04\/papua-region-hosts-indonesias-national-games-amid-rise-in-independence-struggle\/\">Papua region hosts Indonesia\u2019s national games amid rise in independence struggle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?s=Papuan+Games\">Other Papuan Games reports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;If anything, it\u2019s our identity as Papuans,\u201d Nari told the Papuan newspaper <em>Tabloid Jubi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously, the security forces reportedly forbade Papuan women from selling any <em>Morning Star<\/em>-patterned accessories during the Games as they were considered a resistance symbol against the Indonesian state.<\/p>\n<p>Nari said that Papuan women had been making <em>noken<\/em> with various patterns &#8212; including the <em>Morning Star<\/em> &#8212; for a long time, even before the National Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has nothing to do with the Games event. It\u2019s common to find accessories with the <em>Morning Star<\/em> design made by Papuan women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s simply a part of their identity that cannot be forgotten and let go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supported their families<\/strong><br \/>\nNari added that these women had supported their families through knitting and making accessories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s their livelihood. We Papuans know it by heart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>MRP chair Timotius Murib said he had received information that residents and supporters wearing clothes and accessories with the <em>Morning Star<\/em> pattern <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/10\/07\/police-arrest-spectator-at-papua-games-for-wearing-morning-star-t-shirt\/\">were not allowed to enter<\/a> the National Games venue<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people who wore bracelets or clothes with the <em>Morning Star<\/em> pattern were forbidden from watching the Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These accessories are common and not just worn by native Papuans,\u201d said Murib.<\/p>\n<p>Murib hoped that the security forces would not overreact to the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t overdo it, it\u2019s just an accessory. Let\u2019s create a good atmosphere during the PON XX and make it a successful event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The two-week-long Games end on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Yance Wenda is a Tabloid Jubi reporter. Republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/10\/12\/its-our-identity-declare-papuas-defiant-mamas-over-morning-star\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yance Wenda in Jayapura A Papuan woman politician has warned Indonesian security forces against restricting women from selling noken \u2014 traditional string bags \u2014 and other accessories displaying the banned Morning Star flag design at the Papuan National Games (PON XX) venue in Jayapura. Orpa Nari, a Papuan People\u2019s Assembly (MRP) member of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3351,250,432,433,5,975,6,3353,7,207,36275,297,36277,12,32900,32357,14,215,36793,19,22209,36794],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345674,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345624\/revisions\/345674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}