Jakarta – The government is not serious enough in settling human right violations in the country in general, in Papua in particular, a human rights observer said.

"The government has yet to show a sincere intention to settle a number of human right violation cases in Papua," human rights observer Jayadi Damanik said here Thursday.

He said the human right violation cases in the country's most eastern province did need to remain unsettled if only the government, the law enforcement agencies in particular, seriously intended to refer them to courts of law.

"The cases in Papua can actually be solved but the question is whether the investigators are prepared to pass them on to the courts," he said.

So far, investigators had refused to present the cases to courts of law on the excuse that the dossiers drawn up by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas Ham) were not complete. However, the investigators had never explicitly asked the Commission to complete the dossiers and had just shelved the dossiers.

Since Papua integrated into Indonesia on May 1,1962, human right violation cases in the province had been pilig up with none of them having been settled until the present, according to Damanik.

Among the cases were the murders and shootings in Wasior, Teluk Wondama Gulf, Papua Barat province, on June 13, 2001, the murder of a policeman in Abepura, Jayapura, on Dedemeber 7, 2001 which led to the shootng to death of three students and the maltreatment of hundreds of other students, one of whom died in police custody, the shooting in Waghete that caused the death of a junior high-school student and maltreatment of civilian residents by security officers as well as rights violations in the economic, social and cultural fields.