Papua Police Urges Members of Armed Group to Turn in Themselves
19 November 2017 11:40 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Papua Police urged 21 members of an armed group in Mimika, Papua to turn themselves in. They have been listed as wanted fugitives (DPO) since November 12, 2017.
"Papua Police chief has urged the armed criminals to turn themselves in. We ask them to follow suit in order to avoid any casualties," Papua Police spokesperson Com. Sr. Ahmad Musthofa Kamal stated in Timika on Saturday (18/11).
Kamal confirmed that that the 21 wanted criminals have launched an attack to an officer in Tembagapura and sieged a number of villages around PT Freeport Indonesia. "They are still there since there are a number of locations," he said.
To this moment, Kamal continued, none of them have been caught or turned themselves in. "We hope we can arrest all of them alive or they turn themselves in. Once they are apprehended, we can find out clearly the root of these attacks," he explained.
Kamal said that National Military and the Police working together in Tembagapura Joint Operation Task Force are convinced that the armed separatist group committed a number of attacks with help from their supporters. They used traditional weapons including arrows, machetes, and other sharp weapons.
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