Any information and investigation involving the August 31, 2002 murders of two American schoolteachers in West Papua, Indonesia
Dear Minister for Foreign Affairs,
This is an application for all documents issued between August 30, 2002, and August 30, 2018, relating in whole or in part to the August 31st, 2002 killing of two American citizens, Rickey Lynn Spier and Leon Edwin Burgeon who worked at a school for the employees of PT Freeport Indonesia in an ambush in Timika, Indonesia.
Please include, but do not limit your search to the following:
-Any communication, intercepted or otherwise, of Sutarto and the other military leaders discuss discrediting a Papuan separatist group, the Free Papua Movement (OPM).
-Any discussions or conversations by the high-level Indonesian military as well as communications intercepts by the Australian government discussing or targeting the Freeport company.
Please treat this as a request for administrative access. If for
some reason the request cannot be dealt with in this way, please
treat it as a formal application under the Freedom of Information
Act.
Yours faithfully,
Jonathan Jones
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Jones
Searches of the Minister’s Office are being conducted. However, given the
recent change in Ministerial responsibilities and that the Foreign
Minister and Chief of Staff are currently overseas attending the United
Nations General Assembly, I would be grateful if you would agree to a 30
day extension of the statutory deadline for your request (in accordance
with section 15AA of the Freedom of Information Act). This would allow
the Office additional time to conduct appropriate searches and progress to
a decision on this matter. Should you agree, the new deadline would be 2
November, and we will inform the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) of the new timeframe.
Kind regards
Stephanie
Dear Hunt, Stephanie,
I agree to a 30-day extension of the statutory deadline for my request and look forward to your response by November 2. Please also include my personal email address: [email address] in your response.
Yours sincerely,
Jonathan Jones
UNCLASSIFIED
Sent on behalf of the Foreign Minister's Office
Dear Mr Jones
Re. Freedom of Information Request
The purpose of this e-mail is to give you a decision about access to documents that you requested under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act).
On 2 October you requested:
This is an application for all documents issued between August 30, 2002, and August 30, 2018, relating in whole or in part to the August 31st, 2002 killing of two American citizens, Rickey Lynn Spier and Leon Edwin Burgeon who worked at a school for the employees of PT Freeport Indonesia in an ambush in Timika, Indonesia.
Searches conducted by the Foreign Minister's Office have found no documents relevant to your request. I am therefore unable to meet your request in accordance with the provisions of section 24A(1)(b)(ii) of the FOI Act as the Office holds no documents relevant to it.
Your review rights are attached for your reference.
Should you have any queries regarding this matter please contact the FOI and Privacy Law Section by email [Minister for Foreign Affairs request email].
Your review rights
Australian Information Commissioner
You may apply within 60 days of the date of this notice to the Australian Information Commissioner to review my decision (section 54L of the FOI Act). You may also make a complaint to the Australian Information Commissioner about the Department’s actions in relation to this decision (section 70 of the FOI Act).
Making such a complaint about the way your FOI request has been handled is a separate process to seeking review of my decision.
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Dear Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Minister for Foreign Affairs's handling of my FOI request 'Any information and investigation involving the August 31, 2002 murders of two American schoolteachers in West Papua, Indonesia'.
I am aware of internal communications among various parties with the Australian government from the US embassy cables. The victims were flown to a hospital in Australia. Rio Tinto, an Australian firm, is a stakeholder in the mine.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/a...
Yours faithfully,
Jonathan Jones