Greetings! My name is Nick Chesterfield. I am a grassroots security analyst and citizen media activist and trainer who stands up for the rights of Indigenous Peoples across the Asia-Pacific Region, specifically focusing on Melanesian issues.
Manukoreri.net is here to showcase some of my past and present work in the region; connect people with some of the worthy crew I work with; and for regular updates on issues I am involved in. It is also to allow me to demonstrate some of my experience and skills that may be attractive for your organisation or network on a reasonable consultancy basis. (more in the “What I can do for your Organisation” section below).
If you need to know anything at all about me in the public domain, please just google me, and you should get a rough idea of what I get up to.
This site is dynamic.
So what is Manukoreri?
Manukoreri is an amalgam name that symbolises the connection of my heritage and way of life to the struggle for indigenous liberation and respect, especially in the Melanesian region. Manu comes from a highly honoured name given to me in ceremony by Elders of the Guugu-Yalanji Baama of the jungle of Far North “Queensland”. The full name - Bubumanu - means “the neck of the land”. As in messenger, the pathway of nourishment and conduit between head and heart. It is a name I wear with pride.
Koreri, of course, is a Biak name for the law belonging to the Morning Star. The Morning Star is the most sacred symbol for all Melanesians, one that unites us all in a common identity, our ancestors. It is a story that unites our Land as it was before the waters rose only 8000 years ago, a very sacred story. It tells the stories of our songlines and helps us navigate. It guides our messengers and our travellers. It allowed our fishermen to come home from hundreds of kilometres out to sea. It enabled our ancestors to populate the ocean of peace - The Pacific.
The image above shows the connection clearly. It is of our land before the waters separated us, and shows the key sacred dreaming of our one land. One People, One Land, One Soul.
Manukoreri is about bringing that all back together, to enjoy peace and prosperity with sustainability and respect for the Land from which we come.
—————–
“….Nick Chesterfield, among the most energetic activists for the West Papua cause and a regular commentator on Papua in Australia’s mainstream media.”
September 2006, Rodd McGibbon, Deputy Director, Office of National Assessments
WHAT I DO
I have been a regional human rights activist in the Asia-Pacific region since 1996, and have been closely involved with Human rights and human security issues directly involving Australia’s nearest neighbour, the island of New Guinea, since 1999.
I have gained extensive experience since this time in active human rights service, and in the process I have formed and maintained a large network of useful allies and sympathisers in all areas of human rights, refugee protection, peacekeeping, environmental protection, fisheries, aid monitoring, national parliaments, government, military, security, and intelligence. More to the point, I have an unparalleled grassroots base within my areas of interest and operation. These contacts, and friends, span the entire Pacific region, and globally.
I currently am coordinator for West Papua Media Alerts which reports the latest independently verifiable news from West Papua. News reports are posted by journalists, both on the ground in West Papua, and around the world. We are also involved in providing citizen media training and capacity building for witness broadcasting.
A new initiative which I founded is Project Cockatoo, which is an exciting new project to deliver safe
source secure mobile broadcasting and communication technologies for activists and citizen media operating in repressive contexts. Please watch this site closely for more details on this groundbreaking project.
Past Work
In 2005 I was involved in setting up a national activist network on West Papua, and was formerly involved with liaising with the West Papua National Authority, a forerunner to the current West Papuan National Consensus.
During this time, I conducted numerous support campaigns and grew my network considerably around the region. At the end of 2005, I conducted a mission to investigate allegations of security disturbances and human rights abuses by Indonesian military linked logging companies. The reality was far more disturbing, and the findings were published as “Terror-razing the Forest”. This created quite a stir around the Pacific, and it opened up a lot of further opportunities for research, and information networks.
Of course during this time, I was also co-ordinating the Australian and Torres Strait response to the arrival of 43 key West Papuan activists hunted by the Indonesian government to safety in Australia, with a major naval and military search. My role was as a senior adviser, and also I was responsible for identifying key allies within government(s) that enabled the asylum seekers to safely land in Australia. I was personally responsible for key government, military, search and rescue, and media liaison, and was able to make the situation play out exactly according to our obligations under international law. I still keep a good rapport with the many useful contacts that were made during this time, especially in the media.
In the months subsequent to this, I was approached by many media organisations to enable them access to otherwise closed places, and to get material on issues that were regionally significant and of high media interest. I was working as a fixer and contact co-ordinator on these projects, and provided support and monitoring until the job was done.
A full list of prior appointments (where appropriate) is available to those that require my services.
May 2006 saw me undertake an Emergency protection and monitoring mission, and was involved in securing a large group of extreme at-risk refugees from kidnapping. I was responsible for some unprecedented security action within PNG against Indonesian agents, and many other quite daunting tasks that were completed with full safety and security. This included taking the crew for the film Strange Birds in Paradise into refugee and guerrilla camps in the PNG border. For full details, please check out the Reports section.
Due to these missions, and my prior work, my networks are able to complete similar tasks in areas that are ignored by almost every other international NGO, with the honourable exception of those I already work with.
Please browse the site, my reports and my links to see how you can help the region or how I can help you help the region.
WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOUR ORGANISATION
Due to the experience I can provide the following services on a consultancy or full term basis:
Utilisation of existing networks: Large global network of useful allies and sympathisers in all areas of human rights, refugee protection, peacekeeping, environmental protection, fisheries, aid monitoring, national parliaments, government, military, security, and intelligence.
Media, Human Rights, Human Security and Strategic Consultancy.
Campaign co-ordination and communications;
Mission Command, research, field work, video, human rights documentary evidence collection and training.
Video training for human rights defence.
Activist Security Training and Communications Security Training
Situational Briefings on full Human Security issues in Areas of Operation;
Trend Analysis and use (and development) of key Investigative software for Human Rights Security Intelligence;
Command of high security human rights operations teams, Highly proficient in conflict zone & operational human rights & NGO security, VIP Protection; asset security. Trained in Advanced Defensive and CT Driving (Urban, Desert, Bush and Tropical), and Tactical Pursuit and Evasion for car and 4wd; Battlefield and Bush Medicine experience.
Confidently and effectively liaise and speedily effect action with representatives from international and national governments, NGO, military, law enforcement, media, underground and corporate organisations of all sizes;
Heavy utilisation of all targeted media including organisation of all facets of a story.
Able to conduct interviews on TV, Radio and print, press conferences etc.
With the benefit of many past missions, and my prior work, my networks are able to complete similar tasks in ignored or unreported areas across Melanesia
For full details, please check out the Reports section of my site.
For a detailed resume please contact me directly at manukoreri(at)riseup.net.
For those who require it for more secure work, where appropriate, a confidential cleared active history profile is available too. Please contact via Hushmail for this, and I will have to establish bona fides before this is supplied. Extensive references for prior work in this field are available to appropriate organisations.
TO SEND A SECURE EMAIL TO ME, PLEASE VISIT https://forms.hush.com/manukoreri / UNTUK mengirim EMAIL AMAN kepada SAYA, SILAHKAN BERKUNJUNG https://forms.hush.com/manukoreri
I am currently attempting to locate suitable donors to assist me in my work throughout 2010 and beyond. Projected humanitarian and research operations this year will necessitate finding over A$100,000 minimum, and I am additionally looking for some very modest income support to enable me do this work most effectively.
You can help me in this. Critically, you can support the sustainability of my work by funding a regular commitment, whatever you can afford, by subscribing to my work via Paypal, simply by clicking here.
Help support my regional security work by making a one off donation through PayPal - it is fast, free and secure.
Posted on August 8th, 2010 by Nick. Categories: Human Security.
/ Saksi AMAN Penyiaran Tips versi bahasa Indonesia di bawah ini
untuk men-download versi bahasa Indonesia, silakan klik pada link ini: Saksi AMAN penyiaran tips
With solidarity for your upcoming actions, I have put together a guide on how to get information effectively during mobilisations, and in situations where you need to get out critical information. This is a rough guide - it is in no way definitive, nor does it override any local solutions. Nor do any suggestions reflect on any perceived or actual mistakes by anyone. This is just a way forward for what we in West Papua Media Alerts need to get media disseminated outside of Papua.
We would like to invite people to contribute, but safely. Please distribute this to your trusted networks.
Tips for successful uptake of your media on your struggle!
There are many barriers at the moment to getting the international media covering West Papua, and your struggle for peace and dignity. With Indonesia’s ban on allowing international monitors and journalists on the ground in West Papua, West Papuan people must provide a professional, credible, factual, and highly disciplined objective reporting mechanism to the world’s press. Instead of despairing the absence of international media, BE THAT MEDIA. But in doing so, you must make sure that you are able to do it credibly and deliver high quality reporting. Consider this an exercise in your self determination, and the continuing pathway you have already demonstrated to professional media development.
The reporting we need must be purely factual. We are happy to distribute and air your press releases, opinion and analysis (it is still news of course), but we must separate this from reporting events and evidence of violations by the security forces and government. We are trying to encourage international journalists to pay close attention to Papua and they are often dissuaded by not having reliable and
Most important of all: get into the practice of brevity - short sharp, on message with no hyperbole. Make key points under ten seconds, and key messages must be clear with no confusion over meaning. We also need to ensure that folks get into professional and disciplined practice in getting out verifiable and credible critical information in real time, or international media will not be able to cover you. SMS is very useful, but media cannot report on any story, based on a forwarded SMS
This is annoying, but it must be said and done. English is the primary language of communication on Earth, much as us anti-colonialists dislike it. But almost all media must be translated into English. We get inundated with requests for translations, and our hard working translators cannot always deal with the workload. If you can send out already translated information in good English this would save us a lot of time, and may mean the difference between life and death in critical situations. Please help us to help you.
In any report, for ease of understanding and quick action, it must be structured in the following order:
1. Headline
2. Opening Sentence
3. Key Facts/points (dot point) and most illustrative images
4. Summary in one paragraph
5. confirmation details (who can verify this report is fully true?),
6. Full report
7. references
What information do you need to give us?
1. Reliable and credible EVIDENCE!!!
2. Video
3. Photos
4. Who Did What to Whom, When, Where, How and Why? All must be answered with just the facts, no padding and no spin.
5. Witness Statements from at least 3 INDEPENDENT sources;
Without these as a minimum, MEDIA CANNOT UTILISE YOUR INFORMATION ETHICALLY OR LEGITIMATELY. SMS reporting just is not good enough. HELP THEM TO HELP YOU.
So how do you get the info out in critical situations?
Set yourself up a communications bureau: a team of people who trust each other from each group who are:
* at or very close to the site
* highly mobile and not wearing any clothing or markings that differentiate from any other member of the crowd (look as uniform as possible to everyone else - your media team must blend in to the background.
* experienced with concealing equipment
* who can easily communicate with the protest leaders and co-ordinators;
* who are able to communicate effectively with outside (foreign) support networks
* who are not known to security forces;
* have access to broadband mobile internet;
* who can delegate uploads to trusted and safe runners for copying and upload at other internet access points;
* Have experience in communicating verbatim information and not changing the information they hear.
* Have laptops set up with ONLY essential communication and encryption tools;
* Be prepared to have those laptops seized so DO NOT PUT ANY INCRIMINATING DATA ON THESE LAPTOPS
* keep all photos and videos on USB - and HAVE SEVERAL COPIES OF EVERYTHING THAT IS CRITICAL, just in case one source gets lost or seized. A good idea is to have every single person at a demo to have two or three BLANK USB sticks to:
- have many spares for runners;
- confuse security forces
* Have spare memory cards and adapters for cameras and video.
* Everything must have fully charged batteries and at LEAST two spares, in full operational capacity
* Each have several options per person for accessing internet, radio and phone services; The key here is redundancy, and having alternative and fluid sources of communication. Use a combination of modern adaptations and indigenous techniques. Remember THIS IS YOUR LAND and you have a lot of secret weapons from the land itself.
* have separate phones for receiving and making calls and sms
* who have anonymously registered mobile phones
* Who can access landlines and land based internet access - PREFERABLY NOTHING RESIDENTIAL OR CONNECTED TO A SINGLE IDENTIFIABLE PERSON.
* Have backup plans for the physical couriering of information, tapes, evidence, digital media and files to networks outside the country. Taking two to three weeks for critical data is neither acceptable or useful. Speed is the essence.
* For the communications bureau, they need to only use social media under an alias - never under their real name if they are on the ground.
* Set yourself up an anonymous email address. Make sure all you address book data is pre-loaded into this account.
* Keep all your photos and videos on USB - do not store them on any laptops
A good tip is to have a lot of landscape or cultural festivity shots (mainly of the occupying colonist community) on your USB or laptop so that you can use them as cover if suddenly and intelligence officer or security forces show up, and start talking random soap opera gossip over the phone.
This team will be a key target for security forces and may also have assistance from international intelligence agencies and signals interception, particularly from Australian and US military aid to Kopassus, so all people in this team need to fully aware that anything that is exposed of personal identity with will be used against them by the security forces, with all the risks that entails. You all need to accept that risk, or make significant steps to remaining anonymous. For a communications team to work effectively, it is highly advisable to maintain anonymity across the board and all sectors of activity. This can even (especially) extend to mannerisms or slang words, or phrases in speech and written language that are known to be attributable to certain people.
CRITICAL SOCIAL MEDIA NOTE:
You folks use social media extensively, but remember it is a tool for intelligence agencies, and very effective at that. If you must post do it with anonymity in mind.
Video tips: How do you create a video that will be broadcast? To work better, it is best to do a couple of hours work now, so we have a slick package of grabs, showing a range of shots.
* No files/grabs more than two minutes - makes it easier to edit and to send via internet.
* Make sure you only get the dramatic highlights of visual action and KEY POINTS in the video.
* Not interested in speeches unless the quote is less than 10 seconds -
* Visual shots required:
o Shots of Police;
o shots of security forces
o shots of arrests, violence, threatening behaviour by security forces
o shots of large amounts of people;
o shots of occupations;
o iconic shots of powerful nonviolent resistance (like tribal people standing naked against Indonesian security forces in all their gear!
o shots of handing back autonomy package
o a couple of vox pops (vox populi or Voices of the people - very short interviews with grassroots, less than 10 seconds, of how people on the street feel (with transcripts);
o shots that show size of crowds, singing, dancing, colour, banners, theatre, positive vibrant moments
o A really good way of creating media is to film grabs of a day in the life of a protest movement organiser…
File Transport
We are assuming that you know how to capture the video onto your computer, or have someone nearby that can. It is critical that the files are saved in either avi or mov format, but you will need to compress it significantly to send it quickly and upload to the internet.
Using your standard video editing program (the one you usually use), Export the captured video file as a mpeg2. IF you can save to h264 format please do as this is THE best option. Please DO NOT convert to FLV. Alternatively use MediaCoder http://www.mediacoderhq.com/ to convert your avi file to a h264 format file. You can download a free open source video compressor at (make sure you copy and paste this link into your browser, please do not just click on this link). http://www.mediacoderhq.com/mirrors.htm?file=MediaCoder-0.7.5.4702.exe
Once you have compressed the file, please upload to a ftp server. You can upload for free to several sites, such as Sendspace.com, megaupload.com, badongo, or rapidshare.com. The free uploads will only last a short time (up to 48 hours) so immediately then send the upload link to West Papua Media at either video_upload < @> westpapuamedia.info or to manukoreri at riseup.net .
THIS IS VERY CRITICAL - YOUTUBE IS NOT THE IDEAL OPTION as the video quality is extremely poor. We would prefer that you send high quality video only. And we can then have the original to disseminate to media, AND then put on YouTube also. IF you want to have credit then let us know, and of course if any money is made then we can either give it back to you, or you can agree to put it into the West Papua Media project. (Please note - it is very rare that we ever get money for video, because if we charged money, international media would rarely use it. We have had to make that sacrifice in order to get your story out).
I hope this is useful for you. If you do not understand anything, please do not hesitate to clarify this with us.
Nick Chesterfield
@ West Papua Media Alerts
manukoreri @ riseup.net
+61409268978
www.westpapuamedia.info
—————– Saksi AMAN Penyiaran Tips
Kepada bapak-bapak, ibu-ibu, teman-teman, saudara-saudari yang memperjuangkan perdamaian dan kemartabatan insani
Dengan hormat, dan sebagai tanda solidaritas teguh terhadap Anda dan aksi-aksi yang akan Anda selenggarakan, kami baru menyusun panduan tentang caranya terbaik mendapat informasi ketika ada aksi protes serta caranya menyalurkan berita penting ke dunia luar. Panduan tersebut belum sempurna dan tetap, berarti kalau ada solusi lokal yang sudah lama dipakai jangan sampai dibuang. Isinya panduan ini tidak berfokus pada kesalahan yang pernah dilakukan atau dikirakan dilakukan oleh seorang tertentu. Intinya hanya sekadar saran supaya kami di West Papua Media Alerts mendapat berita untuk disebarluaskan di luar Papua.
Silakan beri masukan Anda, namun tetap waspadalah akan keamanan Anda masing-masing. Tolong sebarkan panduan ini ke jejaring dan komunitas Anda masing-masing yang terpercaya.
Beberapa nasehat untuk sukses dalam menggunakan media demi perjuangan Anda!
Sekarang hambatannya banyak sekali untuk peliputan keadaan di Papua Barat dan perjuangan Anda untuk perdamaian dan kemartabatan oleh media internasional. Oleh karena pemerintah Republik Indonesia tidak lagi mengizinkan pengawas dan wartawan asing bekerja di lapangan di Papua Barat, makanya orang Papua Baratlah yang harus memberikan masukannya yang profesional, kredibel, tepat dengan fakta, berdisiplin tinggi dan obyektif kepada pers dunia internasional. Jangan keluh lagi atas ketiadaan media internasional di Papua Barat, JADILAH MEDIA ITU. Tetapi dalam kegiatan itu, pastikanlah Anda benar-benar mampu menulis laporan yang kredibel dan bermutu tinggi.
Anggaplah bahwa ini sesuatu latihan saja dalam rangka upaya yang terus-menerus mengembangkan media yang profesional demi mencapai cita-cita Anda.
Pada dasarnya, laporan yang kami perlukan harus merupakan fakta murni saja. Jika Anda menyampaikan seruan, pendapat/tajuk rencana ataupun analisa, tetap akan kami publikasikan karena itu tetap merupakan berita. Namun seharusnya pemberitaan ini dipisahkan dengan laporan tentang peristiwa tertentu dan bukti pelanggaran HAM oleh aparat keamanan dan pemerintah. Kami tetap berusaha mengalih perhatian wartawan-wartawan internasional ke keadaan di Papua, tetapi mereka seringkali tidak jadi meliput dikarenakan minimnya berita yang dapat langsung terpercaya dan di-crosscheck dengan secepat-cepatnya.
Adapun hal yang lebih penting: mestinya laporan Anda dibikin singkat, tepat, tanpa memakai banyak hiperbole. Garis besar harus ditulis dalam kurun waktu sepuluh detik dan ide-ide penting harus jelas, yaitu tidak bisa disalahpahami atau disalahartikan. Kami juga menyarankan agar Anda berdisiplin dan bersikap professional dengan mendapat dengan cepat berita yang terpercaya dan bisa di-crosscheck sehingga dapat masuk media internasional. SMS memang sangat berguna tetapi media internasional tidak pernah memberitakan peristiwa yang hanya dilapor melalui SMS yang diterimanya.
Seperti Anda sudah ketahui dan walaupun kami sebagai antikolonialis menyayangkan keadaan itu, bahasa Inggris adalah bahasa komunikasi di seluruh dunia. Makanya semua berita harus diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggris. Kami sudah dibanjiri dengan permohonan terjemahan sehingga penerjemah kami yang rajin terkadang tidak dapat menghadapi tugas yang begitu berat. Oleh karena itu sebaiknya berita yang Anda sampaikan sudah diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggris yang baik dan benar sehingga kami bisa menghemat waktu dan menanggapi dengan lebih cepat ketika ada keadaan yang gawat. Ini membantu kami sekaligus Anda.
Agar dapat dimengerti dengan lebih baik dan ditanggapi dengan cepat, semua laporan harus disusun seperti berikut:
1. Judul
2. Kalimat pembuka
3. Titik-titik penting serta gambar yang paling menonjol
4. Ringkasan dalam bentuk satu paragraf
5. Detil-detil konfirmasi (siapakah yang bisa membenarkan laporan itu?)
6. Laporan lengkap
7. Sumber
Berita apakah perlu kami diberikan?
1. BUKTI yang kredibel dan terpercaya!!!
2. Video
3. Foto
4. Siapakah yang berbuat? Kepada siapa? Kapan? Di mana? Bagaimana? Kenapa? Semua pertanyaan ini harus dijawab dengan hanya fakta, tanpa penjelasan yang terulang-ulang dan kalimat yang bertele-tele.
5. Pernyataan setidaknya tiga saksi yand berbeda dan TIDAK BERKAITAN satu sama lain.
Andaikan syarat-syarat minimal ini tidak dipenuhi, MEDIA INTERNASIONAL TIDAK BISA MEGGUNAKAN BERITA ANDA SECARA ETIS DAN SAH. Laporan melalui SMS kurang cukup. MARI BANTU MEREKA MEMBANTU ANDA.
Bagaimana mengeluarkan informasi ke dunia luar ketika keadaan sedang gawat?
Pertama-tama, dirikanlah sebuah kantor komunikasi dengan tim orang dari segala lapisan masyarakat yang saling mempercayai. Syarat-syarat untuk bergabung dalam tim media ialah:
* Tinggal dekat atau di tempatnya kantor komunikasi;
* Siap berpindah-pindah dan tidak memakai atribut tertentu, mengenakan pakaian yang khas ataupun yang beda dengan pakaian masyarakat setempat (tampilannya tim media harus serasi dengan tampilannya orang lain supaya jangan muncul dugaan);
* Berpengalaman dengan tugas menyembunyikan peralatan;
* Berkomunikasi dengan mudah dengan pemimpin aksi protes atau koordinator aksi tersebut;
* Bisa berkomunikasi langsung dan cepat dengan jaringan yang mendukung dari luar negeri;
* Belum pernah diawasi atau diinterogasi aparat keamanan;
* Punya akses yang cepat ke mobile internet (melalui hp);
* Siap memberikan file yang mau di-upload kepada orang yang terpercaya agar file-nya dikopi dan di-upload dari akses internet yang lain dan lebih aman;
* Berpengalaman dengan menyampaikan informasi lisan tanpa mengubah yang didengar;
* Laptop milik Anda dibekali dengan HANYA program-program dasar komunikasi dan encoding;
* Kemungkinannya besar laptop Anda dirazia, oleh karena itu, JANGAN SIMPAN DATA YANG BISA DITUJUKAN KEPADA ANDA OLEH POLRI/TNI DI DALAM MEMORINYA LAPTOP;
* Semua foto dan video harus disimpan di dalam flashdisk. SEMUA DATA YANG PENTING MESTI DISIMPAN DI DALAM BEBERAPA ALAT PENYIMPANAN DATA YANG BEDA. Seandainya salah satu alat tersebut hilang atau dirazia aparat keamanan tetap tinggal satu. Kami bersaran agar semua orang yang ikut berdemo dalam suatu aksi protes dibagikan masing-masing dua atau tiga FLASHDISK YANG KOSONG karena:
o Bisa dimanfaatkan nanti;
o Aparat keamanan jadi bingung
* Disediakan kartu memori cadangan serta alat cas untuk kamera foto dan video.
* Semua alat elektronik mesti dalam kondisi bisa dipakai dan dilengkapi dengan baterai dalam kondisi penuh serta SETIDAKNYA dua baterai cadangan.
* Setiap orang seharusnya bisa mengakses internet, radio atau pelayanan telpon di beberapa tempat. Pada dasarnya seharusnya kemungkinannya akses banyak sehingga ada alat komunikasi alternatif yang lancer dan mudah dijangkau. Berkombinasilah teknologi modern serta teknologi tradisional yang tak kalah canggih. INI TANAH ANDA dan kami pasti Anda bisa memanfaatkan banyak trik khas Tanah Papua.
* Memakai sebuah telpon genggam untuk menerima pesan dan sebuah ponsel yang lain untuk menelpon dan mengetik SMS.
* Telpon genggamnya yang dipakai semestinya tidak didaftar dengan pakai nama seorang nyata.
* Apabila Anda bisa mengakses internet melalui jaringan tetap, JANGAN SAMPAI DIPAKAI DI RUMAH PENDUDUK ATAU PRIBADI.
* Sebaiknya dari awal dipikirkan jalur alternatif untuk penyampaian informasi, kaset, bukti, media digital dan file ke jaringan-jaringan di luar negeri. Waktu 2-3 minggu untuk menyampaikan berita penting tidak bisa diterima dan tidak berguna. Filsafat ala “alon-alon asal ke lakon” sangat merugikan untuk perjuangan Anda.
* Khususnya untuk kantor komunikasi: jangan buka situs jejaring sosial dengan nama Anda yang benar, selalu pakai nama samaran, apalagi kalau Anda berada di lapangan.
* Mendaftar dengan tanpa nama untuk membuka alamat email dan pastikanlah semua alamat email yang disimpan di konto email yang lain dipindahkan ke konto ini.
* Semua foto dan video disimpan di dalam memori flashdisk – janganlah sampai disimpan di dalam memori laptop.
Beberapa saran lain: Ambil banyak foto lanskap atau pesta tradisional (tradisional untuk orang pendatang) untuk disimpan di dalam flashdisk atau di dalam memori laptop Anda sehingga tidak dicurigai jika seorang intel atau seorang anggota aparat keamanan tiba-tiba muncul. Kalau terjadi pada saat sedang memakai telpon, mulailah mengobrol tentang gosip-gosip selebriti, bola atau sinetron saja.
Tim komunikasinya akan menjadi target penting untuk aparat keamanan yang mungkin diperbantukan badan intel internasional dan alat penangkap sinyal, seperti Kopassus yang diperbantukan tentara Australia dan AS. Oleh karena itu, anggota tim harus sadar bahwa segala-galanya dari identitas pribadinya yang diekspos dapat dimanfaatkan aparat keamanan dalam melawan mereka. Semua anggota tim mestinya sadar adanya resiko itu atau tetap berusaha menjaga anonimitas masing-masing. Supaya bertugas dengan efisien disarankan agar tim komunikasi waspada menjaga anonimitas baik di tempat kerja maupun di kehidupan sehari-hari, terutama dengan menahan diri memakai kata-kata, peribahasa, nama panggilan atau bahasa slang yang ciri khas sebuah kelompok tertentu.
WASPADALAH TERHADAP MEDIA SOSIAL:
Anda memang pengemar berat media sosial, namun ingatlah itu juga sering digunakan oleh badan intel. Kalau mau membuka situs itu, tetap coba jaga anonimitas.
Nasehat tentang video: Bagaimana diciptakan video yang akan disebarkan?
Untuk bekerja dengan lebih baik, disarankan agar berlatih selama satu-dua jam sekarang sehingga didapat banyak rekaman dari bermacam-macam sudut.
* Jangan pakai rekaman yang berdurasi lebih dari dua menit karena di bawah itu lebih mudah disunting dan dikirim melalui internet.
* Pastikanlah hanya SAAT-SAAT PENTING aksi direkam dalam video.
* Maaf, kami kurang tertarik pada pidato kecuali rekamanya tidak melebihi sepuluh detik.
* Gambar yang penting direkam:
o Polisi;
o Aparat keamanan
o Penangkapan, kekerasan, aparat keamanan yang bersikap mengancam
o Massa
o Pendudukan tempat oleh massa
o Aksi perlawanan damai yang penuh daya tarik (misalnya orang Papua yang hanya berpakai koteka berdiri mennghadap aparat keamanan Republik Indonesia yang bersenjata lengkap)
o Aksi protes terhadap otsus
o Satu-dua wawancara orang biasa (vox populi – suara rakyat dalam bahasa Latin), yaitu wawancara singkat (tidak lebih dari sepuluh detik) orang desa/kota tentang perasaan mereka (dengan transkripsi)
o Gambar yang menunjukkan banyaknya massa yang sedang menyanyi/menari, berwarna-warni, bersandiwara, mengibarkan bendera dan spanduk, singkatnya saat-saat yang penuh emosi
o Salah satu cara terbaik untuk menciptakan media video yang menarik misalnya meliput saat-saat penting satu hari dalam kehidupan seorang pemimpin aksi protes.
Penyaluran file
Kami menduga bahwa Anda sudah tahu bagaimana rekaman video bisa disimpan di dalam memori computer atau bisa dibantu seorang teman dalam tugas itu. Seharusnya file video disimpan dengan format .avi atau .mov, namun file-nya tetap mesti dikompresi untuk dikirim dan di-upload di internet dengan cepat.
Kalau Anda memakai program penyuntingan yang standar, eksporlah file video pilihan Anda sebagai mpeg2. Sekalipun solusinya yang terbaik penyimpanan dalam format .h264. JANGAN dikonversi ke dalam format FLV. Program Media Coder http://www.mediacoderhq.com/ sangat berbantu untuk konversi dari format .avi ke format .h264. Program kompresi video yang open source (gratis) bisa di-download di situs berikut ini (jangan klik saja, copy-paste ke browser): http://www.mediacoderhq.com/mirrors.htm?file=MediaCoder-0.7.5.4702.exe
Setelah file videonya dikompresi, harap di-upload ke ftp server. Banyak situs yang bisa dimanfaatkan untuk upload gratis: Sendspace.com, megaupload.com, badongo ataupun rapidshare.com. Biasanya upload gratis hanya terbuka selama kurun waktu yang agak singkat (paling lama 48 jam), jadi harap link upload-nya segera dikirim ke West Papua Media (video_upload < @> westpapuamedia.info atau manukoreri < @> riseup.net).
PERHATIAN KHUSUS – YOUTUBE BUKAN SOLUSI YANG TERBAIK dikarenakan kwalitas videonya buruk sekali. Kami harap hanya video dengan kwalitas tinggi yang dikirim untuk disalurkan ke media internasional dulu, selanjutnya ke YouTube. Jika Anda ingin nama Anda muncul sebagai kamerawan/wartawan, silakan beritahukan kami. Apabila rekaman bisa dijual, wajarlah kalau uang dikirim ke rekening Anda atau, kalau Anda setuju, disumbang ke proyek West Papua Media (Penting: Mendapat uang untuk video memang sangat jarang, karena media internasional tidak mau memakai video itu kalau wajib dibayar. Itulah pengorbanan kita semua demi menyebarluaskan cerita-cerita penderitaan rakyat Papua).
Mudah-mudahan panduan itu dapat berguna untuk Anda. Seandainya Anda kurang mengerti sesuatu, jangan ragu-ragu kirim email kepada kami untuk keterangan lebih lanjut.
Nick Chesterfield
@ West Papua Media Alerts
manukoreri@riseup.net
+61409268978
www.westpapuamedia.info
The material on this website is copyright unless otherwise indicated as
Copyleft with attribution.
You may download, display, print and
reproduce material on this site in unaltered form only for your
personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation.
Apart from
any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, all other rights are
reserved.
BlogMarks
Furl
Newsvine
Rojo
Email
If you like this then please subscribe to the